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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings; Erin Meyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: economics politics business
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies. There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it ge ...Show more
Oil Under Troubled Waters by Bernard Collaery
$39.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged with conspiracy to breach the Intelligence Services Act 2001. He was forbidden from talking about the charges against him, but under parlia ...Show more
Top Stocks 2021 by Martin Roth
$29.95 AUD
Category: economics politics business
Put your money to work--bigtime "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest," said Benjamin Franklin--and this goes double for making investment decisions. In the 27th edition of his definitive bestseller, market expert Martin Roth gives you the essential knowledge and tried-and-tested techniques ...Show more
Fire Flood and Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: australian stories people & history
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
The Spymasters by Chris Whipple
$32.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only 14 men a ...Show more
The New Despotism by John Keane
$47.95 AUD
Category: economics politics business
A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world.One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into someth ...Show more
Creating Cities by Marcus Westbury
$27.50 AUD
Category: economics politics business
In 2008, Marcus Westbury returned to his hometown of Newcastle, Australia and found more than 150 empty buildings lining its two main streets. Three years later the world’s largest travel publisher, Lonely Planet, named it one of the Top Ten cities to visit in the world. Creating Cities is about th ...Show more
The Independent Effect - Parliamentary Contributions from the Crossbenches in Australia by Andréa Cullen
$30.00 AUD
Category: economics politics business
Democracy without political parties would not be possible. Do independent politicians have relevance and influence in a political system as well? What do independents have to offer a parliamentary democracy?This is a book about independent politicians and why they matter in a parliamentary democracy-wit ...Show more
A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
Arab Winter A Tragedy by Noah Feldman
$29.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist te ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$27.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
$34.99 AUD
Category: economics politics business
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