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By Farley Mowat. 2004
Upon returning from European combat, Mowat met up with Charles Schweder, a trapper, son of a white man and Native…
woman. The two canoed and portaged around the lakes and rivers of Manitoba and the then Northwest Territories, and as Charles guided Mowat through the landmarks of the landscape, including spooky gravesites, foaming cataracts, caribou on the move, and a hawk named Windy, Mowat observed Charles' place between the white and native worlds. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2004.By Alfred W Purdy. 1977
The author takes a long, leisurely look at Canada and its people. He tells about racial tension in Aklavik, B.C.…
fishermen, men who rode the rails during the Depression, and many others. 1977.By Tom Bower. 2011
Ecclestone has never before revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars in London's notorious Warren Street to become the…
major player he is today. He has finally decided to reveal his secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes on race tracks, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yachts and in the air. Includes strong language. 2011.By Neil Hartling. 1993
The Nahanni River runs through the diverse landscape of Naanni National Park in the North West Territories. Declared as the…
first World Heritage Site by the United Nations, this river ranks as one of the most beautiful in the world. Outfitter, guide, and historian Neil Hartling, who runs an eco/adventure company in the North, describes the magnificence of the Nahanni. 1993.By Cal Turner, Rob Simbeck. 2018
Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father,…
Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse. 2018.By Frances Hesselbein. 2010
Frances Hesselbein has built a career in leadership, serving as a top executive in numerous charitable organizations. Here she recounts…
her own story, in her own words, while detailing the many leadership lessons she learned from people like Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush and Clinton, Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and more. 2010.By David Folkenflik. 2013
Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. In a stretch spanning six decades,…
he built News Corp from a small paper in Adelaide, Australia into a multimedia empire. Then, over two years, a series of scandals threatened to unravel his entire creation. In “Murdoch’s World”, Folkenflik tells the story of how News Corp survived this tumultuous chapter, and of the man. c2013.By Sarah Hartley. 2001
The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the…
unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z. 2001.By Jean-Pier Gravel. 2017
Ce livre, c'est le récit d'un voyage unique. Celui d'un homme fasciné par le bonheur - qu'il n'a lui-même jamais…
eu facile - et qui s'est donné comme mission d'en voir, d'en entendre et d'en créer. En tendant l'oreille à l'autre, Jean-Pier Gravel nous prouve que chacun a une histoire à raconter et que l'extraordinaire se trouve bien souvent... dans la célébration de l'ordinaire. 2017.By Jean Strouse. 1999
After more than a decade's research in previously unexamined archives, award-winning biographer Jean Strouse offers a landmark profile of America's…
greatest financier - J.P. Morgan. This magisterial work, brilliantly crafted and epic in scope, gives a vivid portrait of our country's greatest banker. 1999.By Nicolas Vanier. 2004
By Nicolas Vanier. 2007
By Richard C Bocking. 1997
This history of the Fraser River is written from a human and natural perspective. It also sounds an alarm for…
a mighty river that has been compromised by careless development, and by damage to adjoining ecosystems. 1997.By George Beahm, Steve Jobs. 2011
Ses idées novatrices ont séduit la planète. Sous son aile, la marque Apple a conquis le marché et atteint des…
sommets fulgurants partout dans le monde. Homme d'affaires aguerri, Steve Jobs fut avant tout une véritable icône du succès. Que peuvent nous révéler les pensées de celui que l'on a nommé « le PDG le plus performant du monde » ? A travers les propos les plus inspirants de l'homme qui en est venu à personnifier l'avant-garde des tendances, vous découvrirez un leader authentique qui a toujours trouvé les mots pour parler de compétition, de créativité, de motivation et de dépassement de soi. 2011. Titre uniforme: I, Steve.By Susan Goldenberg, Gérard Cuggia. 1985
En 1934, Roy Thomson acquiert pour $6000 (empruntes) le "Daily Press." Cinquante ans plus tard, son fils Kenneth est à…
la tête d'un empire qui fait de lui l'homme le plus riche du Canada. Voici l'histoire de l'unique milliardaire canadien. 1985. Titre uniforme: The Thomson empire.By Shirley E Woods, Marie-Catherine Laduré. 1983
Avec la saga des Molson, c'est deux cents ans de l'histoire publique et privée d'une des familles les plus anciennes…
et les plus influentes de Montréal qui nous est raconté. 1983.By Peter C Newman, Marie-Catherine Laduré. 1981
By Peter C Newman, Claire Dupond, Ivan Steenhout. 1979
By Nicolas Vanier. 1999
By Carol Martin. 1994