Economists at War - How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars by Alan Bollard
$48.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War tells a different story - about a group of remarkable economists who used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the Chinese-Japanese War, Second World War, and the Cold War.1935-55 was a time of conflict, confrontati ...Show more
The Velvet Rope Economy - How Inequality Became Big Business by Nelson D. Schwartz
$33.00 NZD
Category: Business
A new and gripping investigation into the rise of the virtual velvet rope economy.
Dark Horse - Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment by Todd Rose; Ogi Ogas
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business
For generations, we've been stuck with a cookie-cutter mold for success that requires us to be the same as everyone else, only better. This standard formula works for some people but leaves most of us feeling disengaged and frustrated. As much as we might dislike the standard formula, it seems like ther ...Show more
The Barefoot Investor for Families: How to teach your kids the value of a buck by Scott Pape
$35.00 NZD
Category: Finance
The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need is a phenomenon, sprinting through one million copies to become one of the best selling Australian books ever. Why is it so successful? It's simple, funny and practical. And it has changed people's lives. The eagerly anticipated follow-up, The ...Show more
Legacy by James Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business
Go inside the notoriously secretive world of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business that helped to build one of the most successful sporting clubs in history, now the subject of the Amazon Prime documentary series All or Nothing. In ...Show more
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Take Control and Master the Odds by Konnikova, Maria
$38.00 NZD
Category: Business
Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel - Poker Hall of Fame inductee, winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings - and asked him to be her mentor. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on th ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
$30.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALEis "an e ...Show more
The New Case for Gold by James Rickards
$26.00 NZD
Category: Business
They say John Maynard Keynes called gold a 'barbarous relic'.They say there isn't enough gold to support finance and commerce.They say the gold supply can't increase fast enough to support world growth. They're wrong. In The New Case for Gold, James Rickards explains why gold is one of the safest asse ...Show more
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical question ...Show more
Company of One - Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
$26.00 NZD
Category: Business
Company of One is a refreshing approach to success centered on staying small and questioning growth. Not as a freelancer who only gets paid per project, or as a startup that wants to scale up as soon as possible, but as a small business deliberately committed to better instead of bigger. Paul Jarvis sho ...Show more
Let My People Go Surfing - The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual by Yvon Chouinard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
"Brillient" - Daphne (Staff) In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.-shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. Fro ...Show more
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team by Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Simon Sinek's recent video on 'The Millennial Question' went viral with over 150 million views.Find Your Why is the follow up to Start with Why, the global bestseller and the subject of the third most watched TED Talk of all time.With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in w ...Show more