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Review: The Power Broker
By Robert A. Caro Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century. The Power Broker is a huge and galvanising biography revealing not only the saga of one man’s […]
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Rupert Murdoch and the rise and fall of the press barons: how much power do newspapers still have?
Simon Potter, Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol Rupert Murdoch has been demonised as a puppet master who would pull the strings of politicians behind the scenes, as a man with too much power. But what influence did he and his fellow media moguls really wield? The day after […]
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
This is a book about where believers in Effective Altruism (EA), a philosophy for maximising the utility a person has, are coming from. If you can earn substantial money by working in finance, runs the argument, then rather than (for example) training as a doctor and benefitting society directly, you […]
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Power Up: An Engineer’s Adventures into Sustainable Energy
We rarely think about the energy systems that prop up our existence. With hot water, lighting and digital entertainment all available at the flick of a switch, it’s easy to underestimate the vast global network that makes these things possible. Growing up in Iraq, Yasmin Ali regularly experienced power cuts […]
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Review: Burn Book – A Tech Love Story
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story about […]
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International Womens Day Profile: Mollie Eckersley, Head of Operations at BrightHR ANZ
What is your role at BrightHR and what does it involve? I’m the Head of Operations at BrightHR ANZ, where I am responsible for improving usage, uplifting engagement, and ultimately, looking at ways to continuously improve our software and service. It’s a dynamic and exciting role that includes a lot […]
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International Womens Day: Amy Read, Singapore, Serial Entrepreneur
What is your role at Sabre and what does it involve? My role at Sabre Hospitality is to set the innovation strategy for future product roll outs. To keep up to date with the latest market changes, innovations, and technologies including AI. I also look at innovative ways we can […]
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International Women’s Day Profile: Janine Grainger, Co-Founder and CEO, Easy Crypto
Janine is a kiwi-born entrepreneur and a highly respected Leader in tech. She’s the Co-Founder and CEO of Easy Crypto, New Zealand’s leading cryptocurrency trading platform. Janine and her brother, Alan, established Easy Crypto in 2017 to offer a secure, simple and easy-to-understand way for everyone to get involved in […]
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International Women’s Day Profile: Keren Cook, NatureBee CEO
Could you share with us a bit about what your role entails at NatureBee? As CEO, I steer NatureBee’s vision toward innovative natural health solutions, manage our dedicated team, and engage in strategic decisions, from product development to market expansion. It’s a role that keeps me on my toes! How […]
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Remember a couple of years ago, the ABC released a series on the Murdoch dynasty? Are you currently watching Nemesis, another ABC series, this time on political leaders from 2014 in Australia? The compilation of both is similar; bits and pieces, reflections from foes and friends that, overall, don’t do […]
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
A major reappraisal, by Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom. Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism […]
The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
-by Simon Shuster A monumental account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the forging of a leader, The Showman provides an insider’s perspective on the war reshaping our world, based on unprecedented access to Volodymyr Zelensky and the high command in Kyiv. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and leadership of Volodymyr […]
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Review: The Power Broker
By Robert A. Caro Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century. The Power Broker is a huge and galvanising biography revealing not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the twentieth century. Robert Caro’s monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens-the way things really get done in America’s City Halls and Statehouses.- But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches-and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear-his dossiers could […]