The Storm Before the Calm - America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond by George Friedman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years. George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Companies Are Learning from It by Brian Dumaine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Amazon is the business story of the decade. Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history. Like a giant squid, Amazon's tentacles are squeezing industry after industry and, in the process, upsetting the state of technology, the economy ...Show more
Women Are the Future of Islam by Sherin Khankan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The future of Islam is female Named one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2016 Sherin Khankan is one of the very few female imams in the Western World. In addition she has founded the first mosque for women in Europe. In this urgent manifesto this remarkable woman challenges the idea that Islam should be defin ...Show more
Rogue Nation by Royce Kurmelovs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism. The ...Show more
China's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk. Once dominated by four state-owned banks, the nation's financial system is a tangle of shadow banking entities, informal financ ...Show more
Viking Economics by George Lakey
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Scandinavians work less than we do, they have free childcare and healthcare, and they're just generally happier. We're told that we can't have what they have...but what if we can? In Viking Economics, George Lakey explains how the Nordic system works and shows us that if we put in the hard work Scandina ...Show more
House of Trump, House of Putin - How Vladimir Putin and the Russian Mafia Helped Put Donald Trump in the White House by Craig Unger
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A bombshell.' Daily Mail 'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator 'The story Unger weaves with his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.' The Washington Post House of Trump, ...Show more
Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Measure What Matters is a revolutionary approach to business that has been adopted by some of Silicon Valley's most successful startups. It is a movement that is behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber and many more.Measure What Mattersis about using Objectives and Key Results (or ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The "extraordinary" (Financial Times) instant New York Times bestseller exposing how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others--a "must read" (Booklist) tale of finance run amok and "the heist of the century" (Axios). In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the ...Show more
Game Changers: What Extraordinary People and World Class Thinkers Can Teach Us about Being Smarter, Happier and More Successful by Dave Asprey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of Head Strong and The Bulletproof Diet answers the question "How do I kick more ass?"--providing proven techniques for becoming happier, healthier, and smarter, culled from the wisdom and insight of world-class thought leaders and mavericks of science and business. When Dave Aspr ...Show more
Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline by Richard Cooke
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Polarised, unequal, enraged and spiritually bereft, the American experiment, under Donald Trump, looks to be on the brink of failure. In this award-winning series of dispatches and essays, Richard Cooke explores US society before, during and after one of the most high-stakes midterm elections in history ...Show more