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Book Cover: An Idea A Day
By Various

365 great ideas – one for each day of the year – to improve anyone's career and business performance .

365 great ideas – one for each day of the year – to improve anyone's career and business performance .

Published: 15/09/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789814328647
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  100 Great Leadership Ideas
By Jonathan Gifford

Ideas to inspire anyone to become an effective leader and manager in business today.

Ideas to inspire anyone to become an effective leader and manager in business today.

Published: 01/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789814276900
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Bank 2.0: How Customer Behaviour and Technology will Change the Future of Financial Services
By Brett King

BANK 2.0 identifies that the toughest challenges are yet to come and predicts the end of banking as we know it.

BANK 2.0 identifies that the toughest challenges are yet to come and predicts the end of banking as we know it.

Published: 07/07/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9789814302074
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover: The Unfair Trade: how our broken global financial system destroys the   middle class
Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781922070173
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844959
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Big Handout: how US subsidies and corporate welfare corrupt the world we live in and wreak havoc on our food bills
By Thomas Kostigen

Just reading the word 'subsidies' may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly, so we tune out. But it turns out that this complicated-sounding issue has an enormous impact on all of us. The Big Handout is about bad fiscal, environmental, agricultural, water, energy, health, and foreign policies. And it's a story about just one thing — subsidies.

Just reading the word 'subsidies' may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly, so we tune out. But it turns out that this complicated-sounding issue has an enormous...

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844737
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Bargaining with the Devil: when to negotiate, when to fight
By Robert Mnookin

In an age of terror, national leaders face this sort of question every day. Should we negotiate with the Taliban? Iran? North Korea? What about terrorist groups holding hostages? In private disputes, you may face devils of your own. A business partner has betrayed you and now wants to negotiate a better deal. Your marriage is ending and your spouse is making extortionist demands. A business competitor...

In an age of terror, national leaders face this sort of question every day. Should we negotiate with the Taliban? Iran? North Korea? What about terrorist groups holding hostages? In private disputes...

Published: 01/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844454
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the death of trust
By Diana B Henriques

THE INSIDE STORY OF BERNIE MADOFF AND HIS $65 BILLION PONZI SCHEME, WITH SURPRISING AND SHOCKING NEW DETAILS FROM MADOFF HIMSELF

Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?


THE INSIDE STORY OF BERNIE MADOFF AND HIS $65 BILLION PONZI SCHEME, WITH SURPRISING AND SHOCKING NEW DETAILS FROM MADOFF HIMSELF

Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in...


Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844485
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Who Repo'd My Jet: The manic millionaires and why they'll lead us to the next boom and bust
By Robert Frank

Though intimate portraits of people who are named and on the record, Who Repo'd My Jet? chronicles the decline of the newly-moneyed class: their mortgaged mansion, blown-up balance sheets, repossessed Bentleys and Gulfstreams, and wrecked lives and relationships.

Though intimate portraits of people who are named and on the record, Who Repo'd My Jet? chronicles the decline of the newly-moneyed class: their mortgaged mansion, blown-up balance sheets, repossessed...

Published: 28/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844522
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Power of Seven Frameworks: the keys to business success
By Kazuyo Katsuma

Truly great businesspeople become leaders in their industry because of the quality of their ideas. In The Power of Seven Frameworks , bestselling business writer Kazuyo Katsuma synthesises the strategies of the world's top business thinkers and distils them into techniques to help you hone your problem-solving ability and consistently produce exceptional ideas. Learn to use the power of frameworks...

Truly great businesspeople become leaders in their industry because of the quality of their ideas. In The Power of Seven Frameworks , bestselling business writer Kazuyo Katsuma synthesises the strategies...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844188
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
By William Poundstone

People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents.  Prada and other luxury stores stock a few obscenely expensive items - just to make the rest of their inventory seem like a bargain.  Why do text messages cost money, while e-mails are free? Why do jars of peanut butter keep getting smaller in order to keep the price the 'same'? The answer...

People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents.  Prada and other luxury stores stock a few obscenely expensive items - just to make the rest...

Published: 28/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640957
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Zeroes
By Randall Lane

An insider's memoir of the greed, excess, and demise of the high-flying hedge fund and trader lifestyle.

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self- contained world. Among his eye-popping true stories:

An insider's memoir of the greed, excess, and demise of the high-flying hedge fund and trader lifestyle.

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes...

Published: 27/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640810
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years
By Richard Watson

Prediction is a dangerous game - the future is never a straight, linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans - but it's better than not thinking about the future at all.

Future Files is filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century. It examines emerging patterns and developments in...

Prediction is a dangerous game - the future is never a straight, linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans - but it's better...

Published: 28/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921372957
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Under Corporate Skies
By Martin Brueckner & Dyann Ross

Under Corporate Skies is about what happens to communities when they stand in the way of corporate profits.  It is the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporate neighbour.

With the help of international campaigner, Erin Brockovich, the small town of Yarloop in Western Australia is preparing a civil class action against Alcoa World Alumina.  The struggle is over social, health...

Under Corporate Skies is about what happens to communities when they stand in the way of corporate profits.  It is the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporate neighbour.

With the help...

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921361760
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  100 Great Business Ideas: From leading companies around the world
By Jeremy Kourdi
Are you looking for a great idea or some inspiration to start a new venture or to help you grow your existing business? This book contains 100 great business ideas, extracted from the world's best companies.

Ideas provide the fuel for individuals and companies to create value and success. Indeed the power of ideas can even exceed the power of money. One simple idea can be the catalyst to move markets...

Are you looking for a great idea or some inspiration to start a new venture or to help you grow your existing business? This book contains 100 great business ideas, extracted from the world's best companies...
Published: 14/03/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781905736072
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  FAQs on Marketing
By Philip Kotler

FAQs on Marketing distills the essence of Philip Kotler's decades of experience into an eminently readable question-and-answer format. The author draws on the thousands of questions he has been asked over the years, such as: 

FAQs on Marketing distills the essence of Philip Kotler's decades of experience into an eminently readable question-and-answer format. The author draws on the thousands of questions he has been asked over...

Published: 17/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781905736492
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us
By John Quiggin

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.

Published: 07/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955690
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams
Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955751
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover: The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down
By Harry S Dent

Practical advice for navigating the tough financial times ahead.

In his most recent bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead , Harry S. Dent predicted the US debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of its government's failed stimulus plan. In The Great Crash Ahead , Dent forecasts that this economic collapse will become worldwide over the next few years.

Practical advice for navigating the tough financial times ahead.

In his most recent bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead , Harry S. Dent predicted the US debt crisis that would ensue in the wake...

Published: 03/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955454
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
By Keith R McFarland

In The Breakthrough Company , Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor.

In The Breakthrough Company , Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor.

Published: 04/01/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863954631
RRP: $24.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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