Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
$18.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The question isn't who's going to let me: it's who is going to stop me."A powerful argument for reducing inequality and revolutionizing how we use the web for the benefit of the many rather than the few." Kirkus"Jonathan Taplin, more than anyone I know, can articulate the paralyzing complexities that ha ...Show more
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Tony Fadell has spent the last three decades making things and founding companies that have profoundly changed millions of lives. After leading the team that created the iPod and iPhone, products that saved a struggling Apple, Tony founded Nest Labs and revolutionised household electronics. He has work ...Show more
The Price of Money: How to Prosper in a Financial World That's Rigged Against You by Rob Dix
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Learn how to make better financial decisions, by understanding how the world of money really works.Why is everything from cars to coffee suddenly getting more expensive?How can the government produce billions out of thin air while your savings are shrinking?And what can you do to get ahead in a time of ...Show more
A World Without Work - Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind
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Category: Business & Economics
From mechanical looms to combustion engines to early computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows wh ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a ...Show more
More. Numbers. Every. Day. by Micael Dahlen; Helge Thorbjørnsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
"How many steps have you done today? How many emails answered? How much money have you spent this week And how many hours have you slept? Welcome to the numberdemic, where a deluge of figures, stats and data manipulate your every move. From the way you work, date and exercise to the products you buy and ...Show more
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons (PB) by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Julia Gillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. As a result of their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...Show more
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
'One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope' Slavoj Zizek Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist, Yanis Varoufakis, shows ...Show more
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
$36.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materiall ...Show more
Adults In The Room - My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
*** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) ***What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famouseconomist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.Varoufak ...Show more
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have mor ...Show more
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office by Gideon Haigh
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Category: Business & Economics
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to t ...Show more