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Hockey dreams: memories of a man who couldn't play
Par David Adams Richards. 1996
Gretzky's tears: hockey, Canada, and the day everything changed
Par Stephen Brunt. 2009
Sportswriter Brunt reveals how "the Great One," who was bought and sold more than once, decided that the comfortable Canadian…
city where hockey ruled couldn't compete with the slushy ice of a California franchise. Captures the feelings of shock and betrayal set off by 'The Trade'. 2009.From free trade to forced trade: Canada in the global economy
Par Peter Urmetzer. 2003
In 1988, the federal election effectively served as a plebiscite for a free trade agreement with the United States. Since…
then, free trade has become an increasingly divisive issue in Canada as well as around the world. The author attempts to show both sides of the issue, including that the evidence shows neither great advantages nor disadvantages to free trade. 2003.Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Par Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner. 2005
The author offers his view of how the economy really works; examining issues from cheating and crime, to sports and…
child-rearing. He offers a very different view on what drives the economy. 2005.Free to choose: a personal statement
Par Milton Friedman, Rose D Friedman. 1980
The Nobel laureate economist and his wife discuss the relationship of government and the economy. They describe how freedom has…
been eroded and prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. Bestseller. 1980.Fences and windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate
Par Naomi Klein, Debra Ann Levy. 2002
FairTax, the truth: answering the critics
Par Neal Boortz, John Linder, Rob Woodall. 2008
In 2005, radio show host Boortz and Georgia congressman Linder wrote "The FairTax Book", presenting a plan designed to eliminate…
federal taxes and the IRS and jump-start the U.S. economy. This follow-up offers new insights, and debunks the negative myths and misrepresentations of their idea. The plan enables Americans to keep all the money in their paychecks; eliminates the fraud, hassle, and waste of the current system; and revolutionizes the way America pays for itself. 2008.Drôles d'histoires de hockey
Par Helaine Becker, Dominique Chichera-Mangione. 2010
Quelles sont les origines du hockey et de son équipement? Où fut créée la première ligue canadienne? Qui se cache…
derrière la Coupe Stanley? Qu'est-ce que le tour du chapeau? Qui est Tim Horton? Une histoire fouillée du hockey, de ses origines jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Les statistiques y côtoient des anecdotes loufoques ou embarrassantes, mais toujours véridiques en filigrane desquelles renaissent de leurs cendres les moments mémorables et les vedettes ayant marqué l'évolution du sport national canadien. Des questionnaires pour tester ses connaissances et des vignettes humoristiques émaillent le tout. Années 3-6 et plus. 2010. Titre uniforme: The hilarious history of hockey.Eat the rich: A Treatise On Economics
Par P. J O'Rourke. 1998
In a treatise on economics by a conservative humourist, the author visits Wall Street to learn how the stock market…
works. He then ventures to different countries with diverse economic systems to see which succeed. Concludes with the observation that the free market equals economic truth and wealth. 1998.Economics explained: everything you need to know about how the economy works and where it's going
Par Robert L Heilbroner, Lester C Thurow. 1998
Economics in perspective: a critical history
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1987
Don Cherry's hockey stories and stuff
Par Don Cherry, Al Strachan. 2008
Former hockey player and coach Don Cherry's comments on Hockey Night in Canada's "Coach's Corner" routinely make headlines as they…
entertain, educate, and often upset some fans throughout North America. Now he presents his favourite stories from his career in hockey. And you can imagine the stories he has to tell. c2008.Crunch: why do I feel so squeezed? (and other unsolved economic mysteries) (Your coach in a box)
Par Jared Bernstein. 2008
Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I…
hurting a native-born worker? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? What's a "living wage"? Why do I feel so squeezed? 2008.Blue ocean strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant (Your coach in a box)
Par W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne. 2006
In a book that challenges the typical entrepreneurial strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies…
will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans": untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. 2006.Boom, bust & echo: how to profit from the coming demographic shift
Par David K Foot, Daniel Stoffman. 1996
Foot uses demography as a tool to understand the past and foretell the future. He explains how demographics play a…
critical role in Canada's economy and social life, and how they affect every one of us as individuals. He argues that by understanding demographic realities, we will be better prepared to cope with them and to turn them to our advantage. 1996.Closed chambers: the first eyewitness account of the epic struggles inside the Supreme Court
Par Edward Lazarus. 1998
The author, a Supreme Court law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun in 1988-89, recounts the methods and procedures the justices…
use in arriving at a decision. Now a federal prosecutor, Lazarus contends that politics has taken the place of debate and compromise. He analyzes court cases to illustrate his concerns. 1998.Cities and the wealth of nations: principles of economic life
Par Jane Jacobs. 1984
All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism
Par Linda McQuaig. 2001
Explains the mired history of social and economic thinking that has culminated in the new capitalism. McQuaig argues that instead…
of shaping our society to fit the economy, we must shape the economy to fit the society we want. 2001.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.Against all odds: the untold story of Canada's unlikely hockey heroes
Par P. J Naworynsk. 2017
The announcement was shocking - Canada would not be sending a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics in Switzerland. Outraged,…
a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader, Sandy Watson, quickly assembled a team of air force hockey players who were "amateur enough" to complete under the Olympic guidelines. This is the inspiring untold story of a group of determined men, fresh from the battlefields of WWII, who surprised a nation and the world. 2017.