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Boom, bust & echo: how to profit from the coming demographic shift
By 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.Collins gem understanding sex (Collins Gem Ser.)
By David Lambert, Margaret Doyle. 1996
This is an up-to-date straightforward guide designed to help teenagers understand and cope responsibly with the physical and emotional changes…
of emerging adulthood. The book includes chapters on periods, sexual attraction, making love, safe sex, sex and the disabled and sex and the laws. Junior and Senior High . 1996.Cities and the wealth of nations: principles of economic life
By Jane Jacobs. 1984
Childbirth with insight
By Elizabeth Noble. 1983
All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism
By 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
By 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.A short history of financial euphoria (Whittle Ser.)
By John Kenneth Galbraith. 1993
In an essay originally written for the financial community, Galbraith humorously discusses the major financial fiascos of the past three…
hundred years beginning with Tulipomania in Holland in 1636. He warns that history repeats itself and outlines the conditions necessary for another stock market crash while cautioning that human nature will never change. 1993.A line in the tar sands: struggle for environmental justice
By Steve D'Arcy. 2014
Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents - fighting a powerful international…
industry - are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are muzzled; and public hearings are concealed and rushed. Despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. 2014.A first-class catastrophe: the road to Black Monday, the worst day in Wall Street history
By Diana B Henriques. 2017
Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. For thirty years, investors, regulators, and…
bankers have failed to heed the lessons of 1987, even as the same patterns have resurfaced, most spectacularly in the financial crisis of 2008. This book offers a new way of looking not only at the past, but at our financial future as well. 2017.11 brefs essais contre l'austérité: pour stopper le saccage planifié de l'État
By Ianik Marcil. 2015
Un ouvrage à la fois pédagogique et critique, qui montrera au lecteur que la vision des principaux partis politiques au…
Québec et au Canada sont tous contaminés par une idéologie ultralibérale et trempés de mesures dites d'austérité - et que ces politiques ont des effets néfastes sur tous les citoyens et ont en réalité comme objectif le démantèlement des institutions publiques, voire de l'État. Ce livre s'inscrira dans la réalité contemporaine du Québec et du Canada, sachant qu'en 2015, le gouvernement du Québec présentera un budget qui continuera de mettre à mal les missions de l'État, et qu'il y aura des élections au niveau fédéral qui opposeront essentiellement le PC et le PLC. 2015.The period book: everything you don't want to ask (but need to know) (Youth project)
By Karen Gravelle, Jennifer Gravelle. 1997
Karen Gravelle and her 15-year-old niece, Jennifer, look at physical, emotional and social changes, as well as other issues associated…
with menstruation. The book seeks to ease the confusion many teenage girls might feel, and celebrates the new sense of maturity their period can bring.The best friends' guide to pregnancy: or everything your doctor won't tell you
By Vicki Iovine. 1995
A guide for the expectant mother, containing practical tips and humorous tales on anything pregnant. Vicki Iovine discusses what really…
happens to your body, common fears and paranoia, the pregnancy experts, how to have sex during pregnancy, and looking and feeling your best. 1995.The nature of economies
By Jane Jacobs. 2000
Jacobs examines the similarities between the growth and change that occurs within an economy, and the growth and changes that…
occur within nature. She argues that through the study of systems found in nature we can better understand economic development.The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
By Naomi Klein. 2007
Klein assails economist Milton Friedman's free-market precepts, as their exponents have applied them to a series of formerly state-dominated economies…
since 1975. She condemns reform programs of the last three decades that have aimed to separate the state from the economy; the process of market liberalization has created a "disaster capitalism complex," consisting of corporations that thrive on catastrophe. Some descriptions of sex and strong language, descriptions of violence. 2007.Mainmise sur les services: privatisation, déréglementation et autres stratagèmes
By Claude Vaillancourt. 2006
Aujourdhui, tout se vend. Même les services. Mais jusquà quel point pouvons-nous abandonner aux entreprises des secteurs aussi vitaux que…
la santé, leau, léducation, la culture ? À lheure des grands accords de commerce internationaux et de la mode des PPP, Claude Vaillancourt nous éclaire sur la privatisation progressive de tout le bien public dans cet essai de vulgarisation. Nos dirigeants nous répètent quà lère de linévitable déréglementation, les services publics seront épargnés. Est-ce vrai? Comment savoir? -- 4e de couv.Les mensonges de l'économie: vérité pour notre temps : [essai]
By John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Chemla. 2004
Cet essai du célèbre économiste américain se propose de montrer comment, en fonction des pressions financières et politiques ou des…
modes du moment, les systèmes économiques et politiques façonnent leur propre version de la vérité. Une interprétation qui nentretient aucune relation nécessaire avec le réel. Titre uniforme: The economics of innocent fraud.La prospérité du vice: une introduction (inquiète) à l'économie
By Daniel Cohen. 2009
Ce livre étonnant est un voyage. Un voyage qui montre comment l'économie façonne la société au fil du temps. Une…
immense fresque aussi, qui fait passer de l'Empire romain à celui d'Hollywood, de la crise des années trente à celle des subprimes, de l'Allemagne du Kaiser à la Chine contemporaine. Un voyage inquiet, hanté par une question : comment l'Occident, qui a arraché l'humanité au règne de la faim et de la misère, a-t-il pu finir sa course dans le suicide collectif des deux guerres mondiales ? Quel est le poison, le vice caché qui a anéanti l'Europe ? La question n'est pas seulement rétrospective. Le monde s'occidentalise aujourd'hui à vive allure : les tragédies européennes pourraient-elles se répéter, en Asie ou ailleurs ? [...] -- 4e de couv.Having a baby (A quick and easy guide)
By Sharron Smith Humenick. 1997
What to expect when you're expecting
By Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff, Sandee Eisenberg Hathaway. 1991
The authors offer a month-by-month guide designed to take the worry out of pregnancy. Topics include planning for pregnancy, nutritional…
needs, lifestyle changes, and the emotional aspects of pregnancy. They also discuss medical terminology and procedures. 1991.From the ageing oilfields of Saudi Arabia and the United States to the Canadian tar sands, from the shopping malls…
of Dubai to the shuttered auto plants of North America and Europe, from the made-in-China products on the shelves of the Wal-Mart down the road to the collapse of Wall Street giants, everything is connected to the price of oil. For generations we have built wealth by burning more and more oil, but there is no more cheap oil to burn. The auto industry will never recover from this oil-induced recession, distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon - so local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and neighbourhoods. 2009.