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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:  Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
Joseph Stiglitz has crafted a tract which goes to the heart of economics and will be read long after the immediate impact of these mismanaged years has passed.
Joseph Stiglitz has crafted a tract which goes to the heart of economics and will be read long after the immediate impact of these mismanaged years has passed.
Published: 26/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846143212
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
By Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm

One man saw it coming.

As far back as 2005, Professor Nouriel Roubini aka Dr Doom warned that the US housing bubble was set to crash, and what would begin as a national disease would soon spread overseas resulting in a deep recession. Free market fundamentalism would fail and we'd be faced with the worst economic crisis in history, crippling our global economy and bringing the world's financial systems...

One man saw it coming.

As far back as 2005, Professor Nouriel Roubini aka Dr Doom warned that the US housing bubble was set to crash, and what would begin as a national disease would soon spread overseas...

Published: 27/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846143571
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
By Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm

'Nouriel Roubini was right'
Paul Krugman, Time

'This is a wake-up call'
Observer

'The only professional economist who really predicted the crisis, and perhaps the only independent thinker in that business' 
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 
In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong. Financial crises are not unpredictable 'black swans', but an...




'Nouriel Roubini was right'
Paul Krugman, Time

'This is a wake-up call'
Observer

'The only professional economist who really predicted the crisis, and perhaps the only independent thinker in that business' ...



Published: 04/07/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141045931
RRP: $24.95
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:  Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future
By Thomas L Friedman

'An important book . . . Tom Friedman . . . is a major interpreter of the confusing world we inhabit'
Joseph S. Nye Jr. Washington Post

Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today – our hot, flat and crowded world.



'An important book . . . Tom Friedman . . . is a major interpreter of the confusing world we inhabit'
Joseph S. Nye Jr. Washington Post

Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of...


Published: 18/12/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141036663
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
By Alan Beattie

Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine?
Does believing in God make your country richer?
How can a diamond mine be a bad business?

Alan Beattie wants to alter the way you think about the world. Filled with extraordinary stories of financial triumph and disaster, False Economy provides a counterintuitive look at how the world really works, and asks why it all too frequently doesn't. Provocative, witty and erudite...


Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine?
Does believing in God make your country richer?
How can a diamond mine be a bad business?

Alan Beattie wants to alter the way you think about the world. Filled with extraordinary...


Published: 28/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141033709
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Common Wealth: Economics for Crowded Planet

Essential reading . . . could easily end up serving as the manifesto for global affairs'  
ALLISTER HEATH, LITERARY REVIEW


Essential reading . . . could easily end up serving as the manifesto for global affairs'  
ALLISTER HEATH, LITERARY REVIEW


Published: 01/05/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141026152
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice
Why isn't globalization benefiting as many people as it should? Joe Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work.

Why isn't globalization benefiting as many people as it should? Joe Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work.

Published: 04/02/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141024967
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Trading Realities: The Truth, the Lies, and the Hype In-Between
By Jeff Augen

For the first time, a look at the universal market dynamics critical to any profitable investment strategy and relevant to all asset classes

For the first time, a look at the universal market dynamics critical to any profitable investment strategy and relevant to all asset classes

Published: 15/12/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137070091
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets
By Carley Garner

Only book to clearly introduce each leading venue for trading currencies, including Forex spot markets, currency futures, and currency ETFs.

Only book to clearly introduce each leading venue for trading currencies, including Forex spot markets, currency futures, and currency ETFs.

Published: 13/06/2012
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780132931373
RRP: $34.99
Book Cover:  Understanding China's Economic Indicators: Translating the Data into Investment Opportunities
By Thomas Orlik

First complete guide to China's economic statistics: how to find, interpret, and use them to invest more profitably.

First complete guide to China's economic statistics: how to find, interpret, and use them to invest more profitably.

Published: 18/08/2011
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780132620192
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action
By Peter Navarro & Greg Autry

CHINA is now the greatest threat to America.

CHINA is now the greatest threat to America.

Published: 06/07/2011
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780132180238
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Weekend That Changed Wall Street
By Maria Bartiromo

An insider's account of the three days that brought the financial world to its knees

An insider's account of the three days that brought the financial world to its knees

Published: 18/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781591844365
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
By James Rickards

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon.

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S...

Published: 24/01/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781591844495
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Rise of the State: Profitable Investing and Geopolitics in the 21st Century
By Yiannis G Mostrous & David F Dittman

The impact of emerging economies and sovereign wealth funds on capital markets: what investors must know to profit in the coming decade.

The impact of emerging economies and sovereign wealth funds on capital markets: what investors must know to profit in the coming decade.

Published: 13/08/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137153879
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Beyond the Keynesian Endpoint: Crushed by Credit and Deceived by Deb    t - How to Revive the Global Economy
By Tony Crescenzi

What happens when your government goes bust? How the sovereign debt crisis will impact you, your investments, the economy, and the world.

What happens when your government goes bust? How the sovereign debt crisis will impact you, your investments, the economy, and the world.

Published: 30/01/2012
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780132595216
RRP: $37.95
Book Cover:  Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
By Steve Coll

In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of the power wielded by a company whose annual revenues are larger than the total economic activity in most countries. In many of the countries where it operates, ExxonMobil has a greater sway than that of the US embassy and in Washington it spends more on lobbying than any other corporation...

In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of the power wielded by a company whose annual revenues are larger than the total...

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846146688
RRP: $29.99

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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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