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Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life by James Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics | 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 Political Years by Marilyn Waring
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!" In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament a ...Show more
This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
$33.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerants ...Show more
America: the Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
Is America in a state of irrevocable decline? In this provocative and disturbing examination of our country, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges argues that the United States shows unmistakable signs of a dying culture. America's social fabric is unraveling, while at the same time we face glo ...Show more
The Space Barons - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Brans ...Show more
We Need to Talk about Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right by Mark Galeotti
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
Meet the world's most dangerous man.Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose netwo ...Show more
The 4 Day Week - How the Flexible Work Revolution Can Increase Productivity, Profitability and Wellbeing, and Help Create a Sustainable Future by Andrew Barnes
$38.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to des ...Show more
Winners Take All - The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a 'win-win' logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten their p ...Show more
A World Without Work - Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind
$50.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
From mechanical looms to combustion engines to early computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows wh ...Show more
Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders; Huck Gutman (Contribution by); John Nichols (Afterword by); Nina Turner (Foreword by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
UPDATED NEW EDITION Bernie Sanders's political autobiography With an afterword that brings his story up to the 2020 presidential campaign In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, Sanders helped ...Show more
Tech Titans of China - How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder and Going Global by Rebecca Fannin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
Featuring detailed profiles of the Chinese tech companies making waves, the tech sectors that matter most in China's grab for super power status, and predictions for China's tech dominance in just 10 years. The rise of China's tech companies and intense competition from the sector is just beginning. Thi ...Show more
The American Trap by édéric Pierucci
$38.00 NZD
Category: Business / Politics
In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very heart of a $12 billion thriller that illustrates the secret ...Show more
