The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman

$15.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman, bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever, tells the untold story of the tycoons behind the US fracking controversy. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the na tion's already tenuous relations with the Middle East. China was rapidly industrializing and competing for resources. Major oil companies had just about given up on new discoveries on US soil, and a new energy crisis loomed. But a handful of men believed everything was about to change. By experimenting with hydraulic fracturing through extremely dense shale - a process now known as fracking - these 'wildcatters' started a revolution. In just a few years, they solved America's dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy - and made and lost astonishing fortunes. The frackers have already transformed the eco - nomic, environmental, and geopolitical course of history, and like the Rockefellers and the Gettys before them, they're using their wealth and power to influence politics, education, entertainment, sports, and many other fields. Activists argue that the same methods that are creating so much new energy are also harming our water supply and threatening environmental chaos. Award-winning reporter Gregory Zuckerman gained exclusive access to the frackers, chronicling the untold story of how they transformed the nation and the world. The result is a dramatic narrative that stretches from the barren fields of North Dakota to the tense Wall Street boardrooms. The Frackers also tells the story of the angry opposition unleashed by this revolution, and explores just how dangerous fracking really is. Gregory Zuckerman is a special writer at The Wall Street Journal and the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever. He is a two-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award and a winner of the New York Press Club Journalism Award. ...Show more

Softwar - An intimate portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle by Matthew Symonds

$20.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

The Man Who Sold America - The amazing but true story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the advertising century by Cruikshank and Schultz

$25.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar

$12.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Amazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017 'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell 'Black Edge has the grip of a thriller a Everyone should read this book' - David Grann, New Yor k Timesbestselling author of THE LOST CITY OF Z How do super-rich bankers get away with it? There is a powerful new class of billionaire financiers in the world, who use their phenomenal wealth to write their own rules and laws. Chief among them is Steven Cohen, a Wall Street legend, and the basis for Damian Lewis's character in BILLIONS, who built his hedge fund into a $15 billion empire on the basis of wizard-like stock trading, and who flies to work by helicopter and owns one of the largest private art collections in the world. But his iconic status was shattered when his fund became the target of a sprawling FBI investigation into insider trading, charged with using illegal inside information - or 'black edge' - to beat the market. His firm, SAC Capital, was ultimately indicted and pled guilty to charges of securities and wire fraud, and paid record criminal and civil fines of nearly $2 billion. But even as the company bearing his name pled guilty, Cohen himself was never charged, and is free to start trading publicly again from January 2018. Black Edgeoffers a revelatory look at the grey zone in which so much of Wall Street functions, and a window into the transformation of the worldwide economy. With meticulous reporting and powerful storytelling, this is a riveting, true-life legal thriller that takes readers inside the US government's pursuit of Cohen and his employees, and raises urgent questions about the power and wealth of those who sit at the pinnacle of the financial world. ...Show more

Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand by Catherine Bishop

$18.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good

From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealands nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and t heir families, sometimes in productive partnership with husbands, but in other cases compensating for a spouses incompetence, intemperance, absence or all three. The pages of this book overflow with the stories of hard-working milliners and dressmakers, teachers, boarding-house keepers and laundresses, colourful publicans, brothelkeepers and travelling performers, along with the odd taxidermist, bootmaker and butcher and Australasias first woman chemist. Then, as now, there was no typical businesswoman. They were middle and working class; young and old; Māori and Pākehā; single, married, widowed and sometimes bigamists. Their businesses could be wild successes or dismal failures, lasting just a few months or a lifetime. In this fascinating and entertaining book, award-winning historian Dr Catherine Bishop showcases many of the individual businesswomen whose efforts, collectively, contributed so much to the making of urban life in New Zealand. ...Show more

Think and Grow Rich: The Master Mind Volume by Napoleon Hill

$20.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: near fine

The ultimate edition of the all-time prosperity bestseller! "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill has become the must-have bible of prosperity and success for millions of readers since its initial publication in 1937. Now-from the number-one publisher of Napoleon Hill's books-comes the most complete an d essential edition of "Think and Grow Rich" yet. For the first time in one volume, this classic book will include these powerful tools: - the original 1937 text of Hill's classic book; - an all-new Introduction; - pull-out quotes for memorization and inspiration; - additional quotes on success from history's greatest lives; - Success Questions at the end of each chapter; - Success Action-Steps that tie in to each of Hill's Thirteen Steps to Riches; - articles on success, prosperity, and Napoleon Hill by such people as Andrew Carnegie and others; - a biography of Napoleon Hill; - a Statement of Desire Contract with Life that each reader can sign; - a Success Notes section for insights, ideas, and action items; - instructions on how to form a Master Mind Group and/or a Master Mind Partnership; - special lay-flat binding; - French flaps; - and more! Published in the easy-to-use large format-the same trim as "The Think and Grow Rich Workbook" and "The Think and Grow Rich Success Journal"-this is the only edition that serious students of "Think and Grow Rich" will want to use to understand the original text fully and put it into action in their lives. ...Show more

Chinese Rules: Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons for Understanding China by Tim Clissold

$12.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

From the author of the acclaimed 'Mr. China' comes another rollicking adventure story - part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio - that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China. In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the West seems mired in doubt. Having lived and worked in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold explains the secrets that Westerners can use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. Picking up where he left off in the international bestseller 'Mr. China', 'Chinese Rules' chronicles his most recent exploits, with assorted Chinese bureaucrats, factory owners, and local characters building a climate change business in China. Of course, all does not go as planned as he finds himself caught between the world's largest carbon emitter and the world's richest man. Clissold offers entertaining and enlightening anecdotes of the absurdities, gaffes, and mysteries he encountered along the way. Sprinkled amid surreal scenes of cultural confusion and near misses are smart myth-busting insights and practical lessons Westerns can use to succeed in China. Exploring key episodes in that nation's long political, military, and cultural history, Clissold outlines five Chinese rules, which anyone can deploy in on-the-ground situations with modern Chinese counterparts. These Chinese rules will enable foreigners not only to co-operate with China but also to compete with it on its own terms. ...Show more

Innovation - How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World by Kim Chandler McDonald

$16.00 NZD

Category: Science | Reading Level: very good

Any organisation looking to succeed in the global digital economy of today - and tomorrow - must innovate. Innovation introduces the global pioneers whose ideas and products have driven the changes that have revolutionised our world in every field. It showcases the pioneers who have broken the mould and led the pack in every field from business and technology to food, fashion, culture and healthcare. Drawing on exclusive interviews with more than 100 leading innovators from around the world, Innovation highlights the common denominators linking these highly creative people. It presents the inside track on who's done what, how they did it, what drives them on, and why innovation is so critical to individuals, businesses and to society as a whole. This book is a fascinating, fast-paced read and more importantly, it will empower you and your business to be more innovative too. Online supporting resources for this book include a bonus chapter on the key to innovation. ...Show more

The BMW Story by Horst Mönnich

$25.00 NZD

Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H Diamandis, M.D.

$14.00 NZD

Category: Business | Series: Exponential Technology Ser. | Reading Level: very good

A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it. President Bill Clinton A radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools, "Bold" unfol ds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting today s Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from I ve got an idea to I run a billion-dollar company far faster than ever before. The authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Part Two draws on insights from billionaires such as Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos and reveals their entrepreneurial secrets. Finally, "Bold" closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today s hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, the authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and finally how to build communities armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today s entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true." ...Show more

Shares - 7 Secrets of making money on the sharemarket by Martin Hawes

$15.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good

This revised and updated edition of Martin Hawes' bestselling book on shares has been written to help both novice and experienced investors. Anyone can make money from the sharemarket and Martin shows us how by starting with first principles and then explaining the 7 secrets to becoming a successful inv estor. Recent upheavals in the investment landscape mean that it is now more important than ever to understand the sharemarket and to include shares as part of a balanced investment portfolio. ...Show more

Leadership and The Whirlpool Effect - Why New Zealand managers are failing to deliver to their poterntial - and what can be done about it by Lester Levy

$14.00 NZD

Category: Business | Reading Level: very good