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No previous experience: a memoir of love and change
Par Elspeth Cameron. 1997
Elspeth Cameron, a literary biographer, shares her journey from an unhappy marriage to the realization that she is a lesbian.…
Along the way she must deal with her own confused feelings and the reactions of her friends and family to her decision. Some descriptions of sex. c1997.No compromise: the story of Harvey Milk (Civil Rights Leaders Ser.)
Par David Aretha. 2010
Only after his assassination did America truly begin to understand Milk's impact on the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and…
transgender people. Documents his life from his birth on Long Island, to his struggle for an identity, through his calling as a gay-rights activist and politician in San Francisco. For junior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2010.No angel: the secret life of Bernie Ecclestone
Par Tom Bower. 2011
Ecclestone has never before revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars in London's notorious Warren Street to become the…
major player he is today. He has finally decided to reveal his secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes on race tracks, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yachts and in the air. Includes strong language. 2011.Naked in the promised land: A Memoir
Par Lillian Faderman. 2003
Faderman is known as the foremother of gay and lesbian studies, yet few would suspect she was the illegitimate child…
of a guilt-obsessed single mother, that she tried to please her mom by becoming a movie star, or that she worked her way through college as a stripper. Faderman's mother and aunt left Latvia in 1923 to work in New York and send back money to their family, but neither could save their loved ones from Hitler's Holocaust, which tormented Faderman's mother endlessly. Trying to make her life meaningful and redeem her mother's suffering, Faderman eventually entered the University of California at Berkeley, ultimately achieving a Ph.D., a baby, a lover, and becoming a groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies. Some strong language and descriptions of violence, descriptions of sex. 2003.My father's business: the small-town values that built Dollar General into a billion-dollar company
Par Cal Turner, Rob Simbeck. 2018
Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father,…
Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse. 2018.My life in leadership: the journey and lessons learned along the way (Your coach in a box)
Par Frances Hesselbein. 2010
Frances Hesselbein has built a career in leadership, serving as a top executive in numerous charitable organizations. Here she recounts…
her own story, in her own words, while detailing the many leadership lessons she learned from people like Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush and Clinton, Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and more. 2010.Murdoch's World: the last of the old media empires
Par David Folkenflik. 2013
Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. In a stretch spanning six decades,…
he built News Corp from a small paper in Adelaide, Australia into a multimedia empire. Then, over two years, a series of scandals threatened to unravel his entire creation. In “Murdoch’s World”, Folkenflik tells the story of how News Corp survived this tumultuous chapter, and of the man. c2013.Mrs P's journey: the remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map
Par Sarah Hartley. 2001
The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the…
unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z. 2001.Morgan: American financier
Par Jean Strouse. 1999
After more than a decade's research in previously unexamined archives, award-winning biographer Jean Strouse offers a landmark profile of America's…
greatest financier - J.P. Morgan. This magisterial work, brilliantly crafted and epic in scope, gives a vivid portrait of our country's greatest banker. 1999.iSteve: Steve Jobs par lui-même
Par George Beahm, Steve Jobs. 2011
Ses idées novatrices ont séduit la planète. Sous son aile, la marque Apple a conquis le marché et atteint des…
sommets fulgurants partout dans le monde. Homme d'affaires aguerri, Steve Jobs fut avant tout une véritable icône du succès. Que peuvent nous révéler les pensées de celui que l'on a nommé « le PDG le plus performant du monde » ? A travers les propos les plus inspirants de l'homme qui en est venu à personnifier l'avant-garde des tendances, vous découvrirez un leader authentique qui a toujours trouvé les mots pour parler de compétition, de créativité, de motivation et de dépassement de soi. 2011. Titre uniforme: I, Steve.L'empire Thomson
Par Susan Goldenberg, Gérard Cuggia. 1985
En 1934, Roy Thomson acquiert pour $6000 (empruntes) le "Daily Press." Cinquante ans plus tard, son fils Kenneth est à…
la tête d'un empire qui fait de lui l'homme le plus riche du Canada. Voici l'histoire de l'unique milliardaire canadien. 1985. Titre uniforme: The Thomson empire.La saga des Molson, 1763-1983
Par Shirley E Woods, Marie-Catherine Laduré. 1983
Avec la saga des Molson, c'est deux cents ans de l'histoire publique et privée d'une des familles les plus anciennes…
et les plus influentes de Montréal qui nous est raconté. 1983.L'establishment canadien
Par Peter C Newman, Marie-Catherine Laduré. 1981
La dynastie des Bronfman
Par Peter C Newman, Claire Dupond, Ivan Steenhout. 1979
Li Ka-shing: Hong Kong's elusive billionaire
Par Anthony B Chan. 1996
Chan relates the rags-to-riches story of one of the wealthiest men in the world. Li left China in 1940 to…
escape the invading Japanese army, and found his way in the postwar economic boom in Hong Kong. Beginning in plastics, Li soon was involved in real estate, and later, foreign banking and telecommunications. Li has also been involved heavily in the Canadian economy. c1996.Denise Cléroux, la Canadienne de Madagascar: une biographie (Leaders d'ici et d'ailleurs ; #1)
Par Jacqueline Cardinal. 2016
En 1970, Denise Cléroux quitte Montréal avec son fils pour Madagascar. À la faveur d'une rencontre inopinée, elle se découvre…
une âme d'entrepreneure et ouvre un atelier d'artisanat. En fabriquant des ceintures en cuir de zébu, des cadres de papier antemoro et les élégants chapeaux Kaminski, vendus par millions à travers le monde, cette Canadienne de Madagascar exploita pendant 25 ans les Ateliers Denise Cléroux où plus de 4000 ouvrières démunies et, pour la plupart, analphabètes, y apprenaient un métier et y apprivoisaient l'autonomie financière. 2016.Lucky Jim
Par James Hart. 2017
This is Jim Hart's story: how he survived a violent childhood home, how he overcame obsessive dependencies, and how he…
finally found the strength to be his true self. A master at building relationships, Jim is charming, funny, and a great listener. His success in life and business was based on his ability to connect with others, from people recovering in 12-step groups in Upstate New York to those living in the rarefied air of Martha's Vineyard. But after more than twenty years of being sober, one slip-up triggered an active addiction that threatened his relationships with his then-wife, singer-songwriter Carly Simon, his recovery friends, his severely disabled son, and--as he began to confront his own sexuality--even with himself. With profound clarity and thoughtful language, Jim weaves together the beautiful and all-too-often heartbreaking events of his life into an inspiring tale of bravery, healing, and above all, love. 2017.Lord Beaverbrook (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par David Adams Richards. 2011
Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill's cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from…
a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick, he became a millionaire at age 25, earned the title of Lord Beaverbrook at 38, and by age 40 was the most influential newspaperman in the world. Fiercely loyal to the British Empire, he was nonetheless patronized by London's upper class, whose country he worked tirelessly to protect during World War II. Richards, one of Canada's preeminent novelists, celebrates Beaverbrook's heroic achievements in this perceptive interpretive biography. 2011.Longaberger: an American success story
Par Dave Longaberger. 2001
Longaberger (1934-1999), who did not graduate from high school until he was twenty-one because he stuttered, had epilepsy and a…
learning disorder, explains how he created a $700,000,000 business that began by selling his father's handmade baskets in 1973. Includes the eighteen management principles he practiced in his company. Bestseller. 1999.Entreprendre et savoir s'entourer: les histoires fascinantes de bâtisseurs québécois qui ont voulu changer le monde
Par Louis-Jacques Filion. 2017
L'entrepreneuriat intéresse de plus en plus les Québécois. Afin de mieux faire comprendre ce qu'est un entrepreneur, ses façons de…
penser et de faire, afin aussi de susciter l'esprit entrepreneurial et le goût d'entreprendre, ce livre relate les parcours fascinants de quelques bâtisseurs dont certains sont parmi les plus célèbres au Québec. Jean Coutu ; Lise Watier ; Luc Maurice ; Nicolas Duvernois ; Bernard Bélanger ; Jean Bélanger ; Julie Sansregret ; Nancy Neamtan ; Marie Michèle Del Balso ; Martin Hogue ; Pierre Ducros ; Jean-Yves Sarazin. Le métier d'entrepreneur est en pleine mutation. On nous présente souvent les entrepreneurs, ces personnes innovantes, comme des héros qui travaillent en solitaire. Pourtant, comme ce livre le démontre, celui qui réussit à faire croître son entreprise est un passionné qui a su bien s'entourer. Il impulse un mouvement à une équipe à laquelle il confère une énergie créatrice qui vient multiplier de façon exponentielle sa capacité à créer et à innover. 2017.