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Accepted: how the first gay superstar changed WWE
Par Bertrand Hébert, Pat Patterson. 2016
When Pat Patterson was 17 years old, he was asked to leave his home after telling his parents he was…
in love... with a man. Moving from Montreal to the United States in the 1960s, barely knowing a word of English, when homophobia was widespread, Pat lived in the super-macho world of pro wrestling. In this memoir, pioneer and creative savant Patterson recalls the trials and tribulations of climbing to the upper ranks of sports-entertainment - as a performer and, later, as a backstage creative force. 2016.Albertosaurus: death of a predator (Discoveries in palaeontology, #1)
Par Monique Keiran. 1999
Some 75 million years ago, one dinosaur ended its life. The dinosaur was an Albertosaurus -- distant cousin to the…
ferocious, meat-eating predator Tyrannosaurus Rex. But its death was also a beginning -- the start of its transformation into a fossil, which lay undiscovered for millennia until the forces of erosion brought the young dinosaur, once again, to light. Grades 4-7. 1999.A world of three zeros: the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emissions
Par Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber. 2017
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who invented microcredit, founded Grameen Bank, and earned a Nobel Prize for his work in…
alleviating poverty, declares that it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. 2017.A short history of financial euphoria (Whittle Ser.)
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1993
In an essay originally written for the financial community, Galbraith humorously discusses the major financial fiascos of the past three…
hundred years beginning with Tulipomania in Holland in 1636. He warns that history repeats itself and outlines the conditions necessary for another stock market crash while cautioning that human nature will never change. 1993.A line in the tar sands: struggle for environmental justice
Par Steve D'Arcy. 2014
Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents - fighting a powerful international…
industry - are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are muzzled; and public hearings are concealed and rushed. Despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. 2014.A first-class catastrophe: the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
Par Diana B Henriques. 2017
Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. For thirty years, investors, regulators, and…
bankers have failed to heed the lessons of 1987, even as the same patterns have resurfaced, most spectacularly in the financial crisis of 2008. This book offers a new way of looking not only at the past, but at our financial future as well. 2017.11 brefs essais contre l'austérité: pour stopper le saccage planifié de l'État
Par Ianik Marcil. 2015
Un ouvrage à la fois pédagogique et critique, qui montrera au lecteur que la vision des principaux partis politiques au…
Québec et au Canada sont tous contaminés par une idéologie ultralibérale et trempés de mesures dites d'austérité - et que ces politiques ont des effets néfastes sur tous les citoyens et ont en réalité comme objectif le démantèlement des institutions publiques, voire de l'État. Ce livre s'inscrira dans la réalité contemporaine du Québec et du Canada, sachant qu'en 2015, le gouvernement du Québec présentera un budget qui continuera de mettre à mal les missions de l'État, et qu'il y aura des élections au niveau fédéral qui opposeront essentiellement le PC et le PLC. 2015.The nature of economies
Par Jane Jacobs. 2000
Jacobs examines the similarities between the growth and change that occurs within an economy, and the growth and changes that…
occur within nature. She argues that through the study of systems found in nature we can better understand economic development.The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
Par Naomi Klein. 2007
Klein assails economist Milton Friedman's free-market precepts, as their exponents have applied them to a series of formerly state-dominated economies…
since 1975. She condemns reform programs of the last three decades that have aimed to separate the state from the economy; the process of market liberalization has created a "disaster capitalism complex," consisting of corporations that thrive on catastrophe. Some descriptions of sex and strong language, descriptions of violence. 2007.Mainmise sur les services: privatisation, déréglementation et autres stratagèmes
Par Claude Vaillancourt. 2006
Aujourdhui, tout se vend. Même les services. Mais jusquà quel point pouvons-nous abandonner aux entreprises des secteurs aussi vitaux que…
la santé, leau, léducation, la culture ? À lheure des grands accords de commerce internationaux et de la mode des PPP, Claude Vaillancourt nous éclaire sur la privatisation progressive de tout le bien public dans cet essai de vulgarisation. Nos dirigeants nous répètent quà lère de linévitable déréglementation, les services publics seront épargnés. Est-ce vrai? Comment savoir? -- 4e de couv.Les mensonges de l'économie: vérité pour notre temps : [essai]
Par John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Chemla. 2004
Cet essai du célèbre économiste américain se propose de montrer comment, en fonction des pressions financières et politiques ou des…
modes du moment, les systèmes économiques et politiques façonnent leur propre version de la vérité. Une interprétation qui nentretient aucune relation nécessaire avec le réel. Titre uniforme: The economics of innocent fraud.La prospérité du vice: une introduction (inquiète) à l'économie
Par Daniel Cohen. 2009
Ce livre étonnant est un voyage. Un voyage qui montre comment l'économie façonne la société au fil du temps. Une…
immense fresque aussi, qui fait passer de l'Empire romain à celui d'Hollywood, de la crise des années trente à celle des subprimes, de l'Allemagne du Kaiser à la Chine contemporaine. Un voyage inquiet, hanté par une question : comment l'Occident, qui a arraché l'humanité au règne de la faim et de la misère, a-t-il pu finir sa course dans le suicide collectif des deux guerres mondiales ? Quel est le poison, le vice caché qui a anéanti l'Europe ? La question n'est pas seulement rétrospective. Le monde s'occidentalise aujourd'hui à vive allure : les tragédies européennes pourraient-elles se répéter, en Asie ou ailleurs ? [...] -- 4e de couv.Intolerable: a memoir of extremes
Par Kamal Al-Solaylee. 2012
As a gay man living in an intolerant Middle East, Al-Solaylee escaped first to England and eventually to Canada, where…
he became a journalist and academic. While he was enjoying the cultural and personal freedoms of life in the West, his once-liberal family slowly fell into the hard-line interpretations of Islam that were sweeping large parts of the Arab-Muslim world in the 1980s and 1990s. The differences between his life and theirs were brought into sharp relief by the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Yemen. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. 2012.Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller: Oil And The End Of Globalization
Par Jeff Rubin. 2009
From the ageing oilfields of Saudi Arabia and the United States to the Canadian tar sands, from the shopping malls…
of Dubai to the shuttered auto plants of North America and Europe, from the made-in-China products on the shelves of the Wal-Mart down the road to the collapse of Wall Street giants, everything is connected to the price of oil. For generations we have built wealth by burning more and more oil, but there is no more cheap oil to burn. The auto industry will never recover from this oil-induced recession, distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon - so local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and neighbourhoods. 2009.The world we're in
Par Will Hutton. 2002
Will Hutton calls for Britain and Europe to offer alternatives to the American Way. Under President Bush America has been…
forthright in it's isolationism - until the attack on the World Trade Center - but whatever happens next, it is undoubtedly true that Bush will pursue a policy of America first. Hutton argues for a countervailing balance - economically and socially - to the American model. 2002.The rise and fall of the dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world
Par Stephen Brusatte. 2018
Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of…
our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field--discovering ten new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork--masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy. 2018.World 3.0: global prosperity and how to achieve it (Your coach in a box)
Par Pankaj Ghemawat. 2011
Reeling from the brutal impacts of the early 21st-century recession, governments and societies everywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for…
increased protectionism. Global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat details why, while this reaction is understandable, following a protectionist ideology to its fullest will only cause further irreparable harm to world economies. 2011.Wheel of fortune: work and life in the age of falling expectations
Par Jamie Swift. 1995
Swift analyzes the recent changes in the nature of employment and work in the 1990s. He examines the recent growth…
in the services sector and decline in the goods sector, and discusses the high unemployment of recent years and the "jobless recovery" from the recession of the early 1990s. 1995.Waking dragon: the emerging Chinese economy and its impact on the world (The modern scholar)
Par Peter Navarro. 2007
In this course, University of California at Irvine business professor Peter Navarro dissects the coming China wars and their implications…
for all mankind. China's rapid economic growth has serious implications for issues ranging from oil prices and energy security to global warming and environmental pollution, and from U.S. political independence and financial market stability to hot-war military conflict. 2007.Vos questions sur l'économie: 75 questions, 75 réponses
Par Gérald Fillion, François Delorme. 2014
Qu'on soit aux études, au travail ou à la retraite, l'économie est au coeur de notre vie quotidienne : peu…
de décision se prennent sans qu'il y ait un enjeu économique, et c'est pourquoi il est important d'en comprendre les rouages essentiels. C'est dans cette perspective que ce livre a été conçu. Vous y trouverez 75 questions et réponses qui vous concernent, allant du prix de l'essence à l'acquisition d'une maison en passant par l'achat ou la location d'une voiture, l'écart des prix entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis, les impôts, les taux d'intérêt, le système bancaire et la dette. Ce livre se veut un outil pratique et accessible écrit dans un langage clair et simple pour vous permettre de comprendre les enjeux socio-économiques de la vie d'aujourd'hui. 2014.