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Decoding the World by Po Bronson; Arvind Gupta
$38.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta, venture capitalists from Silicon Valley, take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their unique and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapte ...Show more
Fake Law: The Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches e ...Show more
Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life by James Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law | Reading Level: very good
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 Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of ...Show more
The Classical School - The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Callum Williams
$37.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
A fresh and irreverent look at the founders of economics, showing how they lived and what they thought, why they thought it, and why they still matter.
Rich Enough? A Laid-Back Guide for Every Kiwi by Mary Holm
$37.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law | Reading Level: very good
Read this one book, set up your money, and get on with your life! Find out what many in the financial world don't want you to know. Laid-back investing is not only easier, it can actually make you richer. Learn how to kill off debt, curb spending, find your best KiwiSaver fund, save painlessly, buy a ho ...Show more
Rottenomics: The Story of New Zealand's Leaky Buildings Disaster by Peter Dyer
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
For over 25 years our building industry, economy and Government have failed to provide this basic guarantee: new buildings will not rot. Leaky buildings are the result of an unfortunate confluence of industrial, legislative, historical and cultural factors. Collectively, these elements stubbornly contin ...Show more
Bear Markets and Beyond - A Bestiary of Business Terms by Dhruti Shah; Dominic Bailey (Illustrator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
Unicorns, narwhals, yaks, cows and civets - what have all these creatures got to do with your hard-earned cash? Well, far more than you would think at first glance. They are all beasts that appear in the global economic ecosystem. They pop up as warnings, messages, signals and useful analogies in order ...Show more
Late Love: Sometimes Doctors Need Saving as Much as Their Patients (BWB Texts) by Glenn Colquhoun
$15.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'Most of the time I have no idea what to do with them or what to say in response to them.' Award-winning New Zealand poet Glenn Colquhoun is also a doctor who works with struggling young people at the margins, painfully aware of the limits of his role. In this BWB Text he offers penetrating insight int ...Show more
Uncharted: How to Map the Future by Margaret Heffernan
$38.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
'An urgent read...Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, former CEO, Edelman EMEA and author of Trust me, PR is Dead How can we think about the future? What do we need to do - and who do we need to be? In her bold and invigorating new book, distinguished businesswoman and author Margaret ...Show more
The Little Book of Economics by DK
$21.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
This book is the perfect introduction to the subject of economics and economic ideas through history. From the earliest forms of currency to the Industrial Revolution, and from the birth of the stock market to free-market capitalism and globalized trade, The Little Book of Economics brings economic the ...Show more
The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn
$15.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law | Series: BWB Texts Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
Only sustained public pressure can prevent the complicit submission and cultural amnesia that seems to follow every new revelation about surveillance in everyday life. Recent revelations about the nature and extent of global surveillance programmes have shocked many. But what are their implications in t ...Show more