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Alice ™: The biggest untold story in the history of money by Stuart Kells
35.00 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
Ashurst: The story of a progressive global law firm by Stuart Kells
59.99 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management
The definitive history of a leading, global law firm charting the evolution of legal practiceAshurst is one of the world's foremost commercial law firms, and one of the oldest. The firm's foundational moments span cities and continents. One of its first matters involved the estate of Melbourne's founder ...Show more
MUP: A Centenary History by Stuart Kells
60.00 AUD
Category: History
"Into Store Date 5/02/2023 Australia’s oldest university press is also one of our best known and most trusted publishers. Founded in 1921 as a bookshop for students at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press was soon publishing important works that contained the best of national scholars ...Show more
Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A ground-breaking counter-history of Penguin Books - both amusing and and with a strong new Australian aspect. How did the three Lane brothers enter publishing and build Penguin into a global powerhouse? As this new book shows, their innovation and the creative opposition among them would prove to be t ...Show more
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops ...Show more
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market by Scott Hamilton, Stuart Kells
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 ...Show more
The Art of Being Different by Stuart Kells
59.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
In 1895, armed with their faith and their wits, the enterprising Sisters of the Community of the Church opened a tiny Anglican school at Marlton Crescent in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. One hundred and twenty-five years later, St Michael's Grammar School is one of Australia's top educational instit ...Show more
The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly by Stuart Kells, Ian D. Gow
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively influential. Together, they earn more than US$100 billion annually and employ almost one million people. In many profound ways, they have changed how we wor ...Show more
The Convent: A City Finds Its Heart (Abbotsford) by Stuart Kells
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
What was behind the wall and the wire? The local people knew ... fine courtyards ... an old swimming pool ... dilapidated tennis courts and a remnant garden, now wild and sprawling. The Abbotsford Convent was this haunted place, left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters of the Good Sheph ...Show more
The Library : A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." --The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist to ...Show more
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