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Tropic of hockey: my search for the game in unlikely places
Par Dave Bidini. 2000
Author, musician, and hockey fan Bidini decided to seek out Canada's export sport in the far corners of the world.…
His quest led him to a rink on the eighth floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, the gritty city of Harbin in northern China, to Dubai and even Transylvania. He discovers that hockey is a powerful connector around the world, and glories in its exhilaration and moments of grace. Some strong language. 2000.Trois leçons sur la société post-industrielle (République des idées)
Par Daniel Cohen. 2006
La société industrielle liait un mode de production et un mode de protection. Elle scellait ainsi l'unité de la question…
économique et de la question sociale. La " société post-industrielle ", elle, consacre leur séparation et marque l'aube d'une ère nouvelle. Daniel Cohen analyse ici les ruptures qui ont conduit le capitalisme du XXIe siècle à la destruction méthodique de cet héritage : innovations technologiques, révolution financière, transformations des modes d'organisation du travail, mondialisation des échanges. En examinant les logiques à l'oeuvre dans ces bouleversements, ces " trois leçons " aident à comprendre les défis du monde à venir. 2006.Tough calls: NHL referees and linesmen tell their story
Par Dick Irvin. 1997
Too big to fail: inside the battle to save Wall Street
Par Andrew Ross Sorkin. 2010
From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, Russia and the corridors of Washington,…
Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego, greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy. Includes strong language. 2010.Tiger: a hockey story
Par James Lawton, Tiger Williams. 1984
Williams, raised in small-town Saskatchewan, has played professional hockey in Toronto, Vancouver and Detroit. In this book, he describes the…
realities of life for a hockey player who literally had to fight to get to the top of his profession. c1984.This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly (Your coach in a box)
Par Kenneth S Rogoff, Carmen M Reinhart. 2009
This work examines financial crises of the past and discusses similarities between these events and the current crisis, presenting and…
comparing historical patterns in bank failures, inflation, debt, currency, housing, employment, and government spending. 2009.They call me Gump
Par Gump Worsley, Tim Moriarty. 1975
The wealth and poverty of nations: why some are so rich and some so poor
Par David S Landes. 1998
Explores causes of the disparities in wealth and health that exist among societies, "the greatest single problem and danger facing…
the world." Argues that a nation's prosperity derives from industrial technology, nurtured by supportive cultural values and institutions. Avers that world peace depends on the well-being of all people. 1998.The value of nothing: why everything costs so much more than we think
Par Raj Patel. 2009
Why do things cost what they do? Patel tracks down the reasons through history, philosophy, neuroscience and sociology, showing why…
prices are always at odds with the true value of the things that matter most to us. Also examines everything from Google to TV and from love to thoughts, to see the gap between price and value by looking at things that are so-called free. Bestseller. c2009.Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everything from supermarkets to insurance companies to airlines in this entertaining and informative book.…
To protect both our wallets and our bank accounts, we must better understand why companies do what they do. 2006.Pietra Rivoli is an economics professor at Georgetown University, where the question "Who made your T-shirt?" set her on a…
quest. On her journey she found that globalization is just as much about history and politics as it is about economics. 2007.The trouble with billionaires
Par Neil Brooks, Linda McQuaig. 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem like a harmless source of entertainment, but such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout…
society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. And while we tend to regard large fortunes as evidence of great talent or accomplishment, the vast new wealth isn't due to an increase in talent or effort at the top, but rather to changing social attitudes legitimizing greed and government policy changes that favour the new elite. Strong language. 2010.The stick: a history, a celebration, an elegy
Par Bruce Dowbiggin. 2001
Consider the London schoolteacher whose basement is a treasure trove of old sticks, the Calgary handyman who turns broken ones…
into children's furniture, or the NHL owner whose rec room floor is made of hockey sticks. The hockey stick, from the earliest ones carved from tree-roots by the Mi'kmaqs of Nova Scotia to today's scientifically precise models, is an iconic symbol of the place that gave it birth, a tangible bit of Canadian culture, a link to Canada's past. Dowbiggin introduces us to the people and legends of the distinctly Canadian stick. 2001.The roaring '80s
Par Adam Smith. 1988
The rational optimist: [how prosperity evolves]
Par Matt Ridley. 2010
The habit of exchange and specialization - which started more than 100,000 years ago - has created a collective brain…
that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair. Thanks to the ceaseless capacity of humanity for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. 2010.The physics of hockey
Par Alain Haché. 2002
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play hockey, but consider this: the same universal principles that sent…
men to the moon also go into launching a slapshot, crashing into the boards, accelerating across the blue line, or cutting down a shooter's angle. The author, a physicist, explores and explains the science behind the game, including how a sharpened blade glides on ice, or why Bobby Hull's slapshot zipped through the atmosphere so much faster than his modern counterparts' did. Haché even includes explanations on how a Zamboni works. 2002.The other side of the coin: the emerging vision of economics and our place in the world
Par David Orrell. 2008
Current economic theory has resulted in social injustice, huge disparities between the rich and the poor, and the degradation of…
our ecology and environment. There is now an alternative, inspired by new sciences such as complexity and network theory, science-related movements like environmentalism, and social movements like feminism. c2008.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.