Supercommunicator - Explaining the Complicated So Anyone Can Understand by Frank J. Pietrucha
$12.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical 21st-century skill. ...Show more
Stop Fixing Women - Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business by Catherine Fox
$12.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: near fine
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables o ...Show more
An Institution Reborn - The story of the stormy start to the second century of the Southlan Building Society by Peter Muller
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Dancing with Elephants - A Little Bank That Thrives Because It Cares - SBS Bank by Clive Lind
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Against the Gods - The remarkable story of risk by Peter L. Bernstein
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable ...an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times "An extraordinarily entert ...Show more
Krupp - A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and an ...Show more
The ASB - A Bank and Its Community by Gordon McLauchlan
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Jones on Management by Bob Jones
$10.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: new
Secondhand. For three decades Bob Jones has entertained and informed with his books, both fiction and non-fiction. Given his commercial success, Bob is well-placed to write on management, but this is no dry exposition as one might anticipate with such a subject. Rather, an eclectic range of topics, ind ...Show more
Connections - A Century of Commerce and Industry in the Waikato 1906-2006 by Peter Gibbons
$50.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good
It Must Be Watties - From Kiwi Icon to Global Player by David Irving; Kerr Inkson
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Rise of the Creative Class - And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
$14.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
Many writers have commented on the massive social changes of the past few decades, but most of them have treated these shifts as something imposed on us, by technology or the marketplace. This is wrong, says Richard Florida: we've chosen to alter our values, work, and lifestyle, and for good economic re ...Show more
A Bakery Grows in Southland - The Story of the Millar Family
$15.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good