The Creative Business Handbook - Follow Your Passions and Be Your Own Boss by Alicia Puig; Ekaterina Popova; Leila Simon Hayes (Illustrator)
Category: Business / Politics
Offering veteran insight and friendly, actionable advice from two self-made women who manage three six-figure businesses, this practical handbook acts as a roadmap to guide anyone wanting to build a profitable venture out of their creative passion. Figuring out how to make a living from your creative wo ...Show more
The Spoils of War - Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn
Category: Business / Politics
Why does the United States go to war?--a leading Harper's commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine--for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tra ...Show more
50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management, and strategy by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Category: Business / Politics
50 Business Classics presents the key ideas from classic texts such as My Years with General Motors and Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited to contemporary business lessons from the rise of tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon. It contains revealing biographies of luminaries like Steve Jobs and W ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
Category: Business / Politics
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it by Liam Byrne
Category: Business / Politics
The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can't afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will be worse. Much worse. Yet, it doesn't have to be like this. In this bold new book, former Treasury Minister, Liam Byrne, explains the fast-accele ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
Category: Business / Politics
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
Category: Business / Politics
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
Category: Business / Politics
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment syste ...Show more
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
Category: Business / Politics
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times). ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
Category: Business / Politics
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
Category: Business / Politics
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
The Art of Risk: What we can learn from the world's leading risk-takers by Richard Harris
Category: Business / Politics
Diving doctor on the Thai Cave Rescue (now a Netflix series) and former joint Australian of the Year explores the stories of other people who regularly risk their lives and what we can learn from their expertise. ‘Harry’ Harris – Thai Cave Rescuer, joint Australian of the Year – does something for fun t ...Show more