A Canadian's Guide to Money-Smart Living will help the reader to understand how to live money-smart, providing step-by-step instructions on how to take control of his or her financial future. Many of us feel that managing our money and...
Business and economics
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Author:Keehn, KelleySummary: - Author:Briggle, AdamSummary:
From the front lines of the fracking debate, a "field philosopher" explores one of our most divisive technologies. When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he...
- Author:Klein, SethSummary:
"This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for." - Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine One of Canada's top policy...
- Author:Ryan, SidSummary:
Sid Ryan, one of Canada's most courageous and progressive union leaders, draws on the experience of his varied and colourful life to show what is right with the labour movement, what is wrong, and what has to change if it is to...
- Author:McQueen, RodSummary:
How does a venerable institution adapt quickly to sometimes volatile global markets and shifting domestic demands of the late twentieth century? In A History of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Volume 5 1973–1999, the story of CIBC...
- Author:Hosanagar, KartikSummary:
A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives, and how we can shape the way they impact us Through the technology embedded in almost every...
- Author:Kouzes, James M., Posner, Barry Z.Summary:
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explore the important notion of legacy and the critical questions any leader must ask him or herself in order to leave a lasting impact. In a series of 22 short essays, grouped into four parts: significance,...
- Author:D'Arcy, Stephen, Black, Toban, Weis, Tony, Kahn Russell, JoshuaSummary:
Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents (who are fighting a powerful international industry) are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are...
- Author:Kishtainy, NiallSummary:
This clearly written and lively account covers the progress of economics from the invention of money through the economic giants to the economic forces that shape our world today.
- Author:Tucker, RebeccaSummary:
How did farmers' markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with 'good food'? And are these practices really producing food that is morally, environmentally, or...
- Author:Malkiel, Burton G.Summary:
In a time of market volatility and economic uncertainty, when high-frequency traders and hedge fund managers seem to tower over the average investor, Burton G. Malkiel's classic and gimmick-free investment guide is now more necessary...
- Author:MacNabb, MattSummary:
We live our lives immersed in name brand products. It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealerships, branded clothing they're all around us. What most of us don't know is...
- Author:Aaker, DavidSummary:
Aaker on Branding presents in a compact form the twenty essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands. Culled from the six David Aaker brand books and related publications, these principles provide the...
- Author:Snider, LaureenSummary:
When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account....
- Author:Whiteside, HeatherSummary:
In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in Canada since the early 1990s,...
- Author:Pannozzo, LindaSummary:
In About Canada: The Environment, award-winning author Linda Pannozzo examines the philosophical, economic and ideological landscape of our current environmental worldview. She connects our faith in the free market and our adherence to...
- Author:Parman, Larry V., Levinson, Jay ConradSummary:
The premise of Above the Fray is that the Information Age is creating a turbulence most business owners fail to acknowledge or take steps to profitably manage. "Above the Fray" offers a method of creating a vision that produces clarity...
- Author:Meyer, UrbanSummary:
Remarkable lessons in leadership and teambuilding from one of the greatest college football coaches of our timeIn only thirteen years as a head football coach, first at Bowling Green and then at Utah, Florida, and Ohio State, Urban...
- Author:Brownlee, JamieSummary:
Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to...
- Author:Lebow, Robert, Spitzer, RandySummary:
Using a wealth of real-world examples, this breakthrough book offers a new freedom-based management paradigm that radically improves every aspect of business-from how we hire, compensate and motivate people to how we address quality...
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