The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics after the Fall by Jeffery D Sachs
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business
One of the world's most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of "The End of Poverty and Common Wealth", Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential reading for everyone. The "Price of Civilization" sets out a bold and provocative, yet responsible and achievable, plan; and reveals why w ...Show more
The Profitable Business Manager by Max Bowden
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
This book is crammed full of useful, down-to-earth advice for anyone who is or who wants to efficiently and effectively run a business of any size. It is a valuable companion and reference book, especially when you are looking for inspirational ideas and sound leadership principles.
The Quants by Scott Patterson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
How would you feel if you outperformed the market, year after year? Would you become convinced that the good times were here to stay, that nothing could possibly go wrong? And how would you then feel if everything suddenly collapsed around you? Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths geniuses le ...Show more
The Quants: The Maths Geniuses Who Brought Down Wall Street by Scott Patterson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths masterminds let loose on Wall Street in the belief that their brilliant, impregnable computer programs would always beat the market. This book charts their rise from obscurity to boom and then to bust, explaining why they were so confident - and how they g ...Show more
The Rascal's Guide to Real Estate (2 Rev Ed.) by Olly Newland
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business
Well-known property investor, author and TV personality Olly Newland lifts the lid on the teeming world of real estate - and shares secrets and tricks of the trade - in this no-holds-barred handbook for property investing in the real world. With more than 40 years experience, Olly pulls no punches. He a ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$41.00 NZD
Category: Business
Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, tha ...Show more
The Reality Test - Still Relying on Strategy? by Robert Rowland Smith
$29.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rationa ...Show more
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations by Jacob Soll
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest accounting has been a tool to build successful companies, states and empires. Yet when it is neglected or ...Show more
The Regenerative Business - Redesign Work, Cultivate Human Potential, Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes by Carol Sanford
$57.00 NZD
Category: Business
"The work that Carol Sanford describes in The Regenerative Business profoundly changed my life, and I'm confident it will change yours too." - Jeffrey Hollender, Founding CEO, Seventh Generation What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organization to g ...Show more
The Ripple Effect :The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud'homme
$45.00 NZD
Category: Business
Alex Prud'homme's remarkable work of investigative journalism shows how fresh water is the pressing global issue of the twenty-first century. As Alex Prud'homme and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French ob ...Show more