21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke
$57.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions of dollars of government s ...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
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and two ways to stop themThe truth is, warfare shouldn't happen - and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries at any given moment and yet only a tiny fraction erupt into prolonged fighting. Most books ...Show more
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin's elusiv ...Show more
Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone by Lynda Gratton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century. So, how do we make the most of this unique opportunity and radically redesign the way we work, forever?Professor Lynda Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future of work. Based on thirty years of research into the ...Show more
Disorder Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson
$43.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new mone ...Show more
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has ha ...Show more
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more
The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame? by Elizabeth Lowry
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Does art enhance life, or negate it? The painful question runs through Lowry's portrait of Thomas Hardy, and produces a sombre, delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' - Hilary Mantel One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingl ...Show more
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or ...Show more
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An effervescent, punchy, piercingly funny novel exploring the fall of Robert Mugabe from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and ...Show more
Reality+ - Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J Chalmers
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'Reading it will change the way you think about the universe' Sean Carroll In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impos ...Show more