Financial crises & disasters

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Book Cover:  Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis's brilliant tragi-comic romp across Europe shows how the financial crisis is about to hit everyone in the face.
Michael Lewis's brilliant tragi-comic romp across Europe shows how the financial crisis is about to hit everyone in the face.
Published: 10/10/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846144844
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
By Joseph Stiglitz

'Bang on the money . . . both welcome and important . . . the economist unafraid to ask tough questions . . . we need more of his ilk'  Will Hutton, Observer

When the world economy went into freefall, so too did our unquestioning faith in markets. But what happens now? Are bailouts and stern lectures enough, or do we need a rethink of our entire financial system?

'Bang on the money . . . both welcome and important . . . the economist unafraid to ask tough questions . . . we need more of his ilk'  Will Hutton, Observer

When the world economy went...

Published: 31/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141045122
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Greatest Trade Ever: How One Man Bet Against the Markets and Made   $20 Billion
By Gregory Zuckerman

'Something remarkable was about to happen to the markets, an upheaval that would change the course of financial history and transform John Paulson from a mere spectator to the biggest player in the game' Autumn 2008. As the world's financial markets collapse, one man is left standing tall. That man is John Paulson, the softly spoken hedge-fund legend who predicted the crash. By betting against the...

'Something remarkable was about to happen to the markets, an upheaval that would change the course of financial history and transform John Paulson from a mere spectator to the biggest player in the game'...

Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141043159
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Keynes: The Return of the Master
By Robert Skidelsky

'Keynes's economic policies helped lift Britain from its 1930s slump. This accessible, timely study argues he could do the same again' 
DOMINIC LAWSON, SUNDAY TIMES

'One would expect brokers to be wrong. If, in addition to their other inside advantages, they were capable of good advice, clearly they would have retired long ago with a large fortune'  JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES


'Keynes's economic policies helped lift Britain from its 1930s slump. This accessible, timely study argues he could do the same again' 
DOMINIC LAWSON, SUNDAY TIMES

'One would expect brokers to be...

Published: 29/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141043609
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
By John Cassidy

'Highly readable'   THE TIMES

'Essential … compelling'  EVENING STANDARD

'Highly readable'   THE TIMES

'Essential … compelling'  EVENING STANDARD

Published: 15/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141036519
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan

The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was ... nothing. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the efforts of the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan.

The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was ... nothing. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the...

Published: 01/04/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141029917
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers 1844-2008
By Peter Chapman

The humble rise and notorious fall of one of the world's most influential investment banks.

On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a ship from Germany.  Soon after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his brother Emanuel established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers.



The humble rise and notorious fall of one of the world's most influential investment banks.

On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a ship from Germany.  Soon after, he moved...

Published: 07/10/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781591843092
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By Niall Ferguson

'Beautifully written . . . Breathtakingly clever'  Sunday Telegraph

'A lucid and racy account of financial history'  New Statesman
 
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history.

From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance...


'Beautifully written . . . Breathtakingly clever'  Sunday Telegraph

'A lucid and racy account of financial history'  New Statesman
 
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you...

Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718194000
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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