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The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller "Liar's Poker" exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened- ...Show more
The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
$20.95 AUD
Category: Science
An investigation of how new technology affects our lives. This book explores how digital technology and the Internet has changed the way we live. It argues that not only do we have the easiest access to more information than ever before, but that this has changed our attitudes to life.
The Money Culture by Michael Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
While Michael Lewis worked as a bond dealer at Salomon Brothers he began his second career as a journalist and helped to record a real-life 'bonfire of the vanities'. Not afraid of interviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealing the treachery and deception behind some of the biggest f ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry - Unravelling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove; Michael Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The definitive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry and its legacy, exploring the rich narrative behind its stitches and the turbulent times in which it was created.Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat - all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of ...Show more
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more
Walking with the Wind - A Memoir of the Movement by Michael D'Orso; John Lewis
$34.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a "national treasure," this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change ...Show more