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The patch: the people, pipelines, and politics of the oil sands
Par Chris Turner. 2017
The story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world's second largest proven reserve of oil.…
But this is no conventional story about the oil business. Rather, it is a portrait of the life cycle of the Patch, showing how it continues to impact lives around the world. 2017.The next Canada: in search of our future nation
Par Myrna Kostash. 2000
Are young Canadians becoming increasingly disenfranchised by global corporations, and losing their sense of national identity? Myrna Kostash, in an…
attempt to validate or dismantle these claims, went across the country interviewing a diverse group of young professionals. She also attempted to see how the younger generation's ideals compared to those of her own, who had come of age in the 1960's and 70's. Talking to everyone from auto-workers and artists to investment brokers, union organizers and television producers, Kostash then interprets her findings and forecasts the prospects of a national identity for future Canadians. 2000.Fox introduces a new wave of economists and scholars who no longer teach that investors are rational or that the…
markets are always right. Many of them now agree that the efficient markets theory is wrong and that it's given way to counterintuitive hypotheses about human behaviour, psychological models of decision making, and the irrationality of the markets. In his treatment of the history of the world's markets, Fox uncovers the new ideas that may come to drive the market in the century ahead. 2009.The master spirit of the age: Canadian engineers and the politics of professionalism, 1887-1922
Par J. Rodney Millard. 1988
Explores the issues that shaped engineers' perception of their work and its place in society. Determined to raise their status,…
schools and societies were organized and, eventually, engineers obtained licensing and regulatory powers. c1988.The making of a country lawyer: An Autobiography
Par Gerry Spence. 1996
Chronicles Spence's first forty years, before he gained fame for winning a multimillion-dollar verdict on behalf of the dead plutonium…
worker Karen Silkwood. Tells of his mother's suicide when Spence was ten, his own alcoholism, and his affair with the woman who became his second wife. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996.The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more
Par Chris Anderson. 2006
The logic of life: uncovering the new economics of everything
Par Tim Harford. 2008
If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this…
really rational behaviour? And how come your boss is so overpaid? In fact, the behaviour of even the unlikeliest of individuals - prostitutes, drug addicts, racists and revolutionaries - complies with economic logic, taking into account future costs and benefits, even if we don't quite realise it. We are rational beings after all. 2008.The law of the land: a history of the Supreme Court (The modern scholar)
Par Kermit Hall. 2003
Utah State University professor, Kermit L. Hall delivers a course that explores the Supreme Court as a living, breathing institution.…
Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions. 2003.The implosion conspiracy
Par Louis Nizer. 1973
You can't do that in Canada!: crazy laws from coast to coast
Par Beverley Spencer. 2000
You may not think twice about giving someone a hug in Wawa in public on a Sunday afternoon - until…
an officer of the law gets involved! And we know you usually enjoy wearing your snake outdoors in New Brunswick, but it's illegal, as is carrying your pet lizard around on your shoulder. This book contains over 200 crazy Canadian laws from coast to coast. Grades 3-6. 2000.Les travailleurs face au pouvoir
Par Louis Favreau. 1972
Ce livre s'adresse d'abord et avant tout aux militants du mouvement ouvrier québécois. Il est un instrument de travail pour…
les militants préoccupés de relier les luttes immédiates qu'ils mènent à partir de leur syndicat, de leur coopérative, de leur comité de citoyens aux luttes à faire pour transformer en profondeur les structures économiques et politiques du Québec. 1972.An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Modern Library college editions)
Par Adam Smith, Edwin Cannan, Richard F Teichgraeber. 1965
The philosopher's theories of value, population and distribution had tremendous influence on such men as Thomas Malthus and Karl Marx.…
First published in 1776. 1965. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Judges
Par Jack Batten. 1986
In these first-hand accounts, the readers meet judges of every level, from Provincial Court where scrappy, street-level cases are heard,…
to the Supreme Court of Canada where lofty judgments and weighty reinterpretations of laws are made. 1986.Le travail noir et l'ébconomie de demain
Par Alfred Sauvy, Rosine Klatzmann, Anita Hirsch. 1984
Le nouvel état industriel: essai sur le système économique américain ((Bibliothèque des sciences humaines))
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1967
Le système du monde, du XVe siècle à nos jours
Par Immanuel Wallerstein. 1980
Le capitalisme mondial ((Économie en liberté, ISSN 0768-0988).)
Par Charles Albert Michalet. 1976
Appliquer à sa pratique les règles de l'éthique (Collection des habiletés)
Par Édition: École du Barreau du Québec, Québec Ministère de l'Éducation.. 1992
Simple, comme l'économie ((Champs, ISSN 0151-8084 ; 26. Champ historique))
Par Alain Dubuc. 1987
Un juge passe aux aveux
Par Jacques Batigne. 1976
Le président Batigne, qui fut successivement juge aux Tribunaux de Metz, de Marseille et de la Seine avant de devenir…
conseiller à la Cour de Sureté de l'État, livre aujourd'hui ses souvenirs. Il dénonce aussi les erreurs de la machine judiciaire, se prononce sur la peine de mort, les violences policières, la psychologie du milieu, sur le problème enfin qui domine tous les autres : l'indépendance de la Magistrature. 1976.