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The 11th element: the key to unlocking your master blueprint for wealth and success (Recorded Books development)
Par Robert Scheinfeld. 2004
This program goes one step further than the typical 10-step plan for achieving success. As Scheinfld demonstrates, the 11th and…
most vital step for each of us is learning to tap the invisible network and connect with our Inner CEOs. 2004.Tenderfoot trail: greenhorns in the Cariboo
Par Olive Spencer Loggins. 1983
Terry Fox: his story
Par Leslie Scrivener. 1981
The age of uncertainty
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1977
Traces the history of ideas held by economists and social philosophers that have influenced the world in the last two…
hundred years. Based on the BBC series released in 1977. 1977.The 59-second employee: how to stay one second ahead of your one-minute manager
Par Rae André, Peter D Ward. 1984
The 59-Second Employee is an employee's response to formula management, an antidote to the quick-fix corporation. It speaks volumes about…
cooperation in management and brings more control to those at the bottom of the corporate ladder. c1984.The $12 million stuffed shark: the curious economics of contemporary art
Par Donald N Thompson. 2008
Delves into the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world - artists, dealers, auction houses, and wealthy collectors. If…
it's true that 85 percent of new contemporary art is bad, why were record prices achieved at auction in 2006 and 2007? Explores money, lust, and the self-aggrandizement of possession in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work of art valuable while others are ignored. 2008.The Acadians: in search of a homeland
Par James Laxer. 2006
In 1604, a small group of migrants fled political turmoil and famine in France to start a new colony on…
Canada's east coast. Their roughly demarcated territory included what are now Canada's Maritime provinces, land that was fought over by the British and French empires until the Acadians were finally expelled in 1755. In the absence of a state, what defines an Acadian today is elusive, and while their community, centred in New Brunswick, is more confident than ever, it is entering a contentious debate about its future. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.The 4-hour work week: escape the 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich
Par Timothy Ferriss. 2008
This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: how Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours…
per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week; how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want; how blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs; how to eliminate 50 per cent of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist; and, how to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent 'mini-retirements'. 2008.Son of a gun: récit
Par Justin St. Germain, Santiago Artozqui. 2014
" Septembre 2001. Alors que les Twin Towers viennent d'être attaquées à New York, un autre drame, plus intime, se…
joue à Tombstone, en Arizona. Debbie, la mère de Justin St. Germain, est retrouvée morte dans sa caravane, le corps criblé de balles. Son cinquième mari, Ray, est introuvable. Dix ans plus tard, Justin revient sur ce tragique événement, redécouvrant les paysages désolés de son enfance et ceux qui les ont peuplés, fouillant le passé pour tenter de comprendre l'insondable : la descente aux enfers d'une femme instable, fragile malgré les apparences, et aimante. Sa mère. "Que Debbie ait été tuée à Tombstone ville qui fut le théâtre de la fameuse fusillade d'O.K. Corral prend alors une autre dimension... Sans complaisance ni apitoiement, Justin St. Germain brosse le portrait d'une société qui n'est pas prête à rendre les armes. Une voix juste et percutante, tout en finesse et émotion. Un récit saisissant. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Son of a gun.Sur la route du papier (Petit précis de mondialisation. #3.)
Par Erik Orsenna. 2012
Tall in the saddle: ranch life in the Cariboo
Par Eldon Lee, Todd Lee. 1995
A 1930s Cariboo Ranch with its isolation, indifferent summers and sub-zero winters that could last six months was a startling…
contrast to sunny California. But to the two young Lee boys, their new home promised to be a huge adventure. This is the story of their early years in B.C.'s ranch country. 1995.Switchers: how smart professionals change careers--and seize success
Par Dawn Graham. 2018
Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? In the wrong profession? An industry that just isn't a fit? This book…
provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to go. 2018.Yoon takes us into the minds of superconsumers of all kinds of brands. He reveals what makes these fanatics tick…
and why they spend so much more than other consumers. And, most important, he teaches readers how to use readily available data to identify their own superconsumers and then use this newfound knowledge to transform ordinary consumers into more profitable superconsumers. 2017.Taxing the rich: a history of fiscal fairness in the United States and Europe
Par David Stasavage, Kenneth F Scheve. 2016
Draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history…
of progressive taxation available. Explores the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made. 2016.Taking people with you: the only way to make big things happen (Your coach in a box)
Par David Novak. 2012
Tales from under the rim: the marketing of Tim Hortons
Par Ron Buist. 2003
The original Tim Horton's founders - Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Tim Horton, doughnut entrepreneur Jim Charade, and Nova Scotia born…
franchise wizard Ron Joyce - are all profiled in this examination of the marketing strategies behind Canada's most popular coffee-and-doughnuts chain. Look behind the invention of the apple fritter and the raisin dutchie, how timbits are made, or the origins of "Roll Up the Rim to Win". 2003.Systems of survival: a dialogue on the moral foundations of commerce and politics
Par Jane Jacobs. 1994
In the form of a Platonic dialogue, Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes - one governing commerce, the other, politics…
- and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She investigates such examples as business fraud, government subsidies to agriculture and criminal enterprise. She provides a new way of seeing our public transactions and encourages us towards the best use of our natural inclinations. 1994.Strength of conviction
Par Tom Mulcair. 2015
The inside story of Thomas Mulcair's rise from modest beginnings to the threshold of power. Discover the man behind the…
headlines, who he is, how he thinks, and the struggles he faced - from fighting sexual misconduct, to protecting our environment, to his work alongside Jack Layton leading the NDP to a historic breakthrough in Quebec. Bestseller. 2015.Susanna Moodie: letters of a lifetime
Par Susanna Moodie, Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, Michael A Peterman. 1985
Follows Susanna, author of "Roughing it in the bush" (DC00892), from her Suffolk childhood and her experiences as an aspiring…
young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. c1985.