Economics in Minutes by Niall Kishtainy
$12.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance | Series: in Minutes
Economics in Minutes condenses key economics concepts into 200 short and easily digested essays. Featuring not only fundamental ideas, such as the role of money and how the stock market works, but also subjects that are increasingly important to us today - unemployment, government debt and corporate tax ...Show more
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy by Tim Harford
$29.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really w ...Show more
Bean Counters - The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
$36.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
'A devastating exposé.' Mail on Sunday The world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - have become a gilded elite. Up in the high six figures, an average partner salary rivals that of a Premier League footballer. But how has the seemingly humdrum profession of ac ...Show more
Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
'A devastating exposé.' Mail on SundayThe world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - have become a gilded elite. Up in the high six figures, an average partner salary rivals that of a Premier League footballer. But how has the seemingly humdrum profession of acco ...Show more
Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty by Michele Fitoussi
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Long before SKII, La Prairie, or the coveted Creme de la Mer, there was Helena Rubinstein. Your mother or grandmother probably used Helena Rubinstein creams or cosmetics once upon a time. But not that many people know about Helena's Australian connections. She was little known and has been virtually for ...Show more
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
$32.00 NZD
Category: Business & Finance | Reading Level: very good
This book was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010. They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. Andrew Ross Sorkin, the news-breaking "New York Times" journal ...Show more
Generation Rent - Rethinking New Zealand's Priorities (BWB Texts) by Shamubeel Eaqub; Selena Eaqub
$14.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. 'Generation Rent' calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand's identity.In this BWB Text ...Show more
Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D
$19.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion and a positive attitude to the job every day. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager has the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Seattle's Pike Place Fish is a ...Show more
Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You: Five Simple Steps to Thrive after Redundancy by Eleanor Tweddell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
'This book reminded me why an ending - especially an unexpected one - can be the best kind of beginning' Viv Groskop, author of Lift As You Climb 'This book will help you escape the valleys of rejection bound for the peaks of opportunity' Bruce Daisley, bestselling author of The Joy of Work 'So much mor ...Show more
The Antisocial Network - The Gamestop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Investors the brought Wall Street to its Knees by Ben Mezrich
$36.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance | Reading Level: very good
THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK is the wild, true story ofthe subreddit WallStreetBets, a loosely affiliated group of private investors and internet trolls who took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, and in so doing, fired the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the financial esta ...Show more
Jerks at Work by Tessa West
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
A fun guide to understanding and dealing with a universal workplace problem - difficult colleagues - based on original research by Tessa West, Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University.Want to get those difficult colleagues off your back and restore your sanity? NYU psychology professor T ...Show more
Sold Out!: How Severed Supply & Surging Inflation Will End Consumer Choice by James Rickards
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages- crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality for many as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing the cost of consume ...Show more