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Helena Rubinstein: la femme qui inventa la beauté
Par Michèle Fitoussi. 2010
Il était une fois les Schneider 1871-1942
Par Elvire De Brissac. 2007
Après l’achat du Creusot en 1836 par les frères Schneider, quatre générations se succèdent à la tête de cet empire…
devenu au fil des ans un mythe. Ce livre retrace l’histoire de la deuxième et de la troisième génération. Henri Schneider (1840-1898) tient épatamment la route : il réarme la France à la demande du gouvernement, le canon de 75, c’est lui, pas une seule grève durant son règne, sept enfants de deux mariages. Eugène II (1898-1942), lui, se voit traiter d’être « atrabilaire » et « odieux » par François de Wendel. Cet industriel est pourtant passionné des arbres, ce Creusotin dans l’âme se marie à Paris – pis, il fait un mariage d’amour – ce père passionné se brouille avec ses fils. Dès le début du siècle, l’électricité bouscule la vapeur, le syndicalisme s’affirme face aux patrons ; après la première guerre mondiale, les jeunes générations repoussent sur un grand tas de morts. Comment transmettre et que transmettre dans ces conditions ? Une femme conteste à Eugène Schneider son autorité : sa propre belle-mère ! Après O dix-neuvième ! (Prix Femina de l’essai 2001), Elvire de Brissac a décidé de ne pas s’endormir. Eugène Schneider est son grand-père.Un banquier jeune et riche, devenu peu à peu indifférent à tout, et peut-être à sa propre mort. La rencontre…
de deux dynasties des affaires. La succession ratée d'une des banques les plus prestigieuses du monde: Lazard. Cette histoire inouïe ne contient pas seulement les ingrédients d'un roman policier. C'est aussi celle d'un homme perdu, écrasé par un secret d'enfance. En jetant pour la première fois une lumière crue sur les coulisses de l'establishment des affaires, ses moeurs et ses secrets de famille, Airy Routier raconte ici la vie et la mort d'un homme haï par beaucoup, adoré par quelques-uns. Un homme véritablement extraordinaire. 2005.Last Canadian beer: the Moosehead story
Par Harvey Sawler. 2008
From the moment in 1867 when family matriarch Susannah Oland began brewing beer in her Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, backyard, the…
Oland name has been synonymous with Maritime beer and successful family business. Reveals who the Olands are and what has made them successful, and how the Olands will continue to keep Moosehead as an independently owned family business. 2008.Guérisons remarquables: nous avons tous en nous un "système guérisseur"
Par Caryle Hirshberg, Marc Barasch, Claude-Christine Farny. 1996
La santé totalitaire: essai sur la médicalisation de l'existence (L'espace analytique)
Par Roland Gori, Marie-José Del Volgo. 2005
Comment peut-on être malade aujourd'hui dans une médecine qui transforme le patient en consommateur, sans souci authentique pour sa souffrance…
psychique ? L'oubli du malade dans la médecine contemporaine semble être le prix à payer pour des soins toujours plus rationnels et scientifiques. L'exploration du corps humain, le diagnostic précoce des maladies, l'acharnement à les combattre par des traitements douloureux et invasifs, exproprient "pour son bien" le patient de son corps. Comment concilier les exigences de la médecine scientifique et sa nécessaire vocation "thérapeutique", c'est-à-dire humaniste? 2005.K.C: the biography of K.C. Irving
Par Douglas How, Ralph Costello. 1993
In this biography of the New Brunswick business magnate, the authors portray a brilliant and determined individual who took great…
risks on his way to making himself rich and bringing wealth to New Brunswick. 1993.Kings of convergence: the fight for control of Canada's media
Par Gordon Pitts. 2002
In Canada, five media corporations dominate everything from newspapers to cable to Internet access: Rogers, CanWest, Shaw Communications, BCE, and…
Quebecor. Here is a look at the men who have directed these corporations, as well as speculation on the future of these multimedia empires. Some strong language. 2002.Kill or cure?: how Canadians can remake their health care system (Phyllis Bruce book)
Par Rick Archbold, Carolyn Bennett. 2000
Dr. Bennett compares the health care system in Canada with other countries and analyzes where the money is being spent…
or misspent. She offers a plan for creating a new health care team that will bring together doctors and patients more productively, reduce overlapping and waste, and move health care technologically into the twenty-first century. She also suggests ways to choose a good family doctor and to become a health care advocate. 2000.Jack of all trades: memories of a busy life
Par J. V Clyne. 1985
Clyne, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge for 17 years, left to become the chairman of MacMillan Bloedel, a lumber…
company. In this autobiography, he tells of his friends in high places and of his extensive travels through Brazil, China and Russia. c1985.Jack: straight from the gut
Par Jack Welch, John A Byrne. 2001
Autobiography by the CEO of General Electric for almost twenty years describes his life and his moves up the company…
ladder. Explains his management system, which led to his company's phenomenal stock growth. Bestseller. 2001.Jack, a life with writers: the story of Jack McClelland
Par James King. 1999
Though officially a biography of the head of publishing house McClelland & Stewart, this book is equally about business and…
the Canadian literary scene. Jack McClelland was credited with introducing many well-known authors to Canada and the rest of the world, including Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler and Margaret Laurence. The book reveals him to also be a fervent nationalist, devoted family man and perpetrator of often wild stunts that brought attention to his company's books. Some strong language.Irving vs. Irving: Canada's feuding billionaires and the stories they won't tell
Par Jacques Poitras. 2014
They are Canada’s third wealthiest family, the fifth-largest private landowner in the U.S.A. They have a monopoly on New Brunswick’s…
English-language print media and billions of dollars in offshore accounts. They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on discretion and family unity. They built their empire by remaining private. Here is the story of how these ambitious entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada. c2014.Into the blast furnace: the forging of a CEO's conscience
Par Courtney Pratt, Larry Gaudet. 2008
When steel manufacturer Stelco Inc. went into bankruptcy protection in early 2004, there was a lot at stake during the…
company's restructuring: 6,000 jobs, 10,000 pensions; the egos and pocketbooks of lawyers, investors, union leaders, politicians and hedge fund managers, each with a special interest to flog and no interest in compromise. CEO Courtney Pratt, hired to clean up the mess, believed in keeping the company alive while ethically reconciling the competing interests - and trying to stay human in a bottom-line world. Some strong language. c2008.In the name of Gucci: a memoir
Par Wendy Holden, Patrizia Gucci. 2016
Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the love child whose birth could have spelled ruination for her father, Aldo Gucci.…
It was 1963, and the halcyon days for the "must-have" brand of Hollywood and European royalty. Patricia's mother gave birth in secret in London before she was smuggled back to Vatican City and hidden from the fashion world, the media, and the rest of the Gucci family. Aldo couldn't afford a public scandal, but he could not resist his feelings for Patricia's mother, Bruna, the paramour he first met when she worked for him as a shopgirl in Rome. Patricia Gucci charts her parents' untold love story, relying on her own childhood memories as well as an archive of love letters and interviews with her mother. She interweaves her parents' story with that of her own relationship with her father--from a little girl who remained a secret for eighteen months and wasn't publicly acknowledged for her first decade, through her rise to become Gucci's ambassador and Aldo's protégé, to the moment when his three sons, who betrayed him in a famous palace coup, were disinherited and Patricia--once considered the shame of Gucci--was made sole universal heir. 2016. Uniform title: Gucci.In the blood: battles to succeed in Canada's family business
Par Gordon Pitts. 2000
Dramatic stories of twelve business families and the trials and triumphs each has faced in trying to maintain their dynasty.…
Some of Canada's most prominent business families describe the successes and failures of their empires at the hands of family members. 2000.I hear she's a real bitch
Par Jen Agg. 2017
Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg, the woman behind the popular The Black Hoof, Cocktail Bar, Rhum Corner, and Agrikol restaurants, is…
known for her frank, crystal-sharp and often hilarious observations and ideas on the restaurant industry and the world around her. Her first book is caustic yet intimate, and wryly observant; an unforgettable glimpse into the life of one of the most interesting, smart, trail-blazing voices of this moment. 2017.Digging for Troy: from Homer to Hisarlik
Par Jill Rubalcaba, Eric H Cline, Sarah S Brannen. 2011
After retelling a legend of the Trojan War based on Homer's Iliad the authors profile the archaeologists who have sought…
to excavate the remains of the city of Troy, beginning with amateur Heinrich Schliemann. For grades 5-8 and older readers. Some descriptions of violence. c2011.Encyclopedia of natural medicine
Par Michael T Murray, Joseph E Pizzorno. 1991
Two naturopathic doctors describe "natural medicine" that includes therapy areas of nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, physical medicine; and…
counseling and lifestyle modification. They discuss how combinations of these therapies are used for more than sixty specific health problems including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and rheumatoid arthritis. 1991.Healing our world: Inside Doctors Without Borders
Par David Morley. 2008
General information about the organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders. Also includes journal entries giving personal and detailed accounts of…
the group's work, including efforts to recover victims of an El Salvador earthquake, medical care in war-torn Congo, and treatment of the AIDS epidemic in Zambia. An introduction to a dedicated organization that gives people who live in forgotten places evidence that someone actually cares. For grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007.