Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in the Indian state of Maharashtra spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? In this book, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show why the p ...Show more
The Future of Us: Demography Gets a Makeover by Liz Allen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Demography is far more important than destiny. By tracing connections between a population’s past and present, demographers can foresee its future. The true wonder of demography, though, is not its ability to predict the future but to shape it. With energy and passion, demographer Liz Allen sets out the ...Show more
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg
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Category: Current Affairs
THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were un ...Show more
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics, a daring new vision of the universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that will illuminate our future. Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of our world--atoms, radiation, elementa ...Show more
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History by Liam Vaughan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'The UK's pre-eminent chronicler of financial crime' New Yorker For fans of Bad Blood and Flash Boys, the story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom-until the US government accused him of helping trigger an unprecedented market collapse. On May 6, 2010, financial marke ...Show more
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (PB) by Anne Case; Angus Deaton
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
New York Times BestsellerWall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working classLife expectancy in the United States has recently ...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
Not for Greens: He Who Sups with the Devil Should Have a Long Spoon by Ian Plimer
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Ian Plimer
The processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end result is that we ...Show more
The Money Hackers - How a Group of Misfits Took on Wall Street and Changed Finance Forever by Dan Simon
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Every day, businesses, investors, and consumers are grappling with the seismic changes technology has brought to the banking and finance industry. The Money Hackers is the dramatic story of fintech's major players and explores how these disruptions are transforming even money itself.Whether you've heard ...Show more
Shadow State - Murder, Mayhem and How Russia's Remaking of the West by Luke Harding
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Category: Current Affairs
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist comes Shadow State, a timely and shocking analysis which connects Putin, Trump, and Brexit with the dark web. Based on years of investigations, Luke Harding reveals how Russian spies helped to sway the 2016 US presidential electi ...Show more
CONFESSIONS OF A GREENPEACE DROPOUT by MOORE PATRICK ALBERT
$69.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist is Dr. Patrick Moore's engaging firsthand account of his many years spent as the ultimate Greenpeace insider, a co-founder and leader in the organization's top committee. Moore explains why, 15 years after co-founding it, he ...Show more