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The entrepreneur Time magazine called "the Bad Boy of banking" is back with crucial insights about the importance of business culture in a dizzyingly complex global marketplace.In business, breaking rules is easy. What's really hard is what comes next: leaning how to create, identify, and sustain a culture. It's the lifeblood of effective leadership. And we aren't using it the way we should. The world is complex.Everyone and everything is movi...

When the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past define who we are, who we become? In April 1942, Suzanne's mother was an eight-month-old baby when her family was torn from their home in Victoria, B.C. Arriving at Vancouver's Hastings Park, her family bunked in horse stalls for months before being removed to an incarceration camp in the Slocan Valley. After the Second World War, forced re...

The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart.It begins with an act of betrayal that destroys the tenuous bonds of Celestina Errantes's family. For years after, Celestina longs for an escape from her unhappy home. Then an unexpected gift from her wealthy Lolo offers that chance: a long-forsaken property in Manila's bohemian district, close to where ladies of the evening ply their trade. It is no place for a proper young woman, but this...

Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve." -- STEPHEN FRY From England's working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren charts his encounters with people of faith, fame, and fortune.Michael Coren writes of his life leading up to entering the seminary and being ordained. Growing up in a working-class mixed-religion family, then entering a career in media, Coren...

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus -- a radical Native rights crusader, who is widely regarded to be one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years.For decades, Georges Henry Erasmus led the fight for Indigenous rights. From the Berger Inquiry to the Canadian constitutional talks to the Oka Crisis, Georges was a significant figure in Canada's political landscape. In the 1990s, he led the Royal Commission on...

Born just two weeks apart in 1874, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King took different paths to achieve their objective of a parliamentary career, Churchill through military exploits and King through academic excellence. The Second World War brought the two leaders closer together, and this book traces the story of their relationship.

In the Background gives advice on courses and casting, and how to prepare before shooting begins. It describes the joy and the fear, the pleasures and the pain, the challenge and the boredom of life on set. Wardrobe, taxes, files, resumes, the myriad details of the performer's life.

In a series of beautifully crafted letters, former Hudson's Bay Company "servant" Leonard Budgell describes life in the Canadian North from the 1920s to the 1980s, as could only be done by someone who lived and worked there.

Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in Canada. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary interests.

A series of essays on Canadian authors profiling the writers work, providing insight into themes, and giving a chronology of the authors life.

Death of a Hero", published in 1929 was the author's literary response to the war. He went on to publish several works of fiction. In 1942, having moved to the United States, he began to write biographies. This last work was very controversial, as it was highly critical of the man still regarded as a war hero.

A popular history of the UFO phenomenon in Canada, which has captured the imaginations of young and old alike.

To honour the Queen Mother and mark the occasion of her 100th birthday, Dundurn is publishing a biography of this remarkable woman in words and pictures.

In Alice Munro, Brenda Pfaus provides a unique and intriguing look at one of Canada's greatest living writers.

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In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, Merna Forster brings together another 100 engaging stories of great characters and wonderful images. Meet famous and forgotten women in many different fields, including the Degrassi kids, Captain Kool, and the woman dubbed "the atomic mosquito.

In a conversational style, Doreen Pendgracs shares valuable information from her 25 years of experience sitting on various boards. Pendgracs leads the reader through the intricacies of management style, board etiquette, and financial obligations, creating a full picture of what you need to know before agreeing to serve on any kind of board.

A changing economy has made it harder to get your financial act together. Personal finance reporter Erica Alini delivers a groundbreaking guide to money basics updated for today's reality.

After learning she is at the centre of a pair of prophecies, Sesha is left holding the fate of her brother's life and her homeland in one hand and those of her friends and any chance at a future in the other.

A riveting story of a boy whose courage, perseverance, wit, and occasional burst of good luck guided him to the safety of his adopted home, Canada.