Title search results
Showing 81 - 100 of 2745 items
Leo: a life
By L. Ian MacDonald, Leo Kolber. 2003
For thirty years, Leo Kolber was head of the Bronfman family trust and their real estate firm, as well as…
being a personal friend of Bronfman sons Charles and Edgar. Senator, senior bagman for the Liberals, company director, and philanthropist, he tells his story of a man of influence at the centres of power in business and politics in Canada. 2003.Legacy: a biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg
By Chris Ogden. 1999
A double biography of the father and son who built up a publishing empire and a vast family fortune. Covers…
Moses' arrival at Ellis Island in 1885; his rags-to-riches tale; the family's marriages, divorces, scandals, success, and failures; and Walter's expansion of the business, political interventions, and philanthropic undertakings. 1999.La revanche d'un solitaire: la véritable histoire du fondateur de Facebook
By Ben Mezrich, Lucie Delplanque. 2010
L'histoire de Facebook, de la création d'une base de données répertoriant les filles de l'université Harvard par les deux étudiants,…
Eduardo Saverin et Mark Zuckerberg, au succès du site web d'aujourd'hui qui réunit 200 millions de personnes. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier et quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 2009, c2010. Titre uniforme: The accidental billionaires.Helena Rubinstein: la femme qui inventa la beauté
By Michèle Fitoussi. 2010
Il était une fois les Schneider 1871-1942
By Elvire De Brissac. 2007
Après l’achat du Creusot en 1836 par les frères Schneider, quatre générations se succèdent à la tête de cet empire…
devenu au fil des ans un mythe. Ce livre retrace l’histoire de la deuxième et de la troisième génération. Henri Schneider (1840-1898) tient épatamment la route : il réarme la France à la demande du gouvernement, le canon de 75, c’est lui, pas une seule grève durant son règne, sept enfants de deux mariages. Eugène II (1898-1942), lui, se voit traiter d’être « atrabilaire » et « odieux » par François de Wendel. Cet industriel est pourtant passionné des arbres, ce Creusotin dans l’âme se marie à Paris – pis, il fait un mariage d’amour – ce père passionné se brouille avec ses fils. Dès le début du siècle, l’électricité bouscule la vapeur, le syndicalisme s’affirme face aux patrons ; après la première guerre mondiale, les jeunes générations repoussent sur un grand tas de morts. Comment transmettre et que transmettre dans ces conditions ? Une femme conteste à Eugène Schneider son autorité : sa propre belle-mère ! Après O dix-neuvième ! (Prix Femina de l’essai 2001), Elvire de Brissac a décidé de ne pas s’endormir. Eugène Schneider est son grand-père.Un banquier jeune et riche, devenu peu à peu indifférent à tout, et peut-être à sa propre mort. La rencontre…
de deux dynasties des affaires. La succession ratée d'une des banques les plus prestigieuses du monde: Lazard. Cette histoire inouïe ne contient pas seulement les ingrédients d'un roman policier. C'est aussi celle d'un homme perdu, écrasé par un secret d'enfance. En jetant pour la première fois une lumière crue sur les coulisses de l'establishment des affaires, ses moeurs et ses secrets de famille, Airy Routier raconte ici la vie et la mort d'un homme haï par beaucoup, adoré par quelques-uns. Un homme véritablement extraordinaire. 2005.Last Canadian beer: the Moosehead story
By Harvey Sawler. 2008
From the moment in 1867 when family matriarch Susannah Oland began brewing beer in her Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, backyard, the…
Oland name has been synonymous with Maritime beer and successful family business. Reveals who the Olands are and what has made them successful, and how the Olands will continue to keep Moosehead as an independently owned family business. 2008.Back to the red road: a story of survival, redemption and love
By Florence Kaefer, Edward Gamblin. 2014
In 1954, at the age of nineteen, Florence Kaefer accepted a job as a teacher at Norway House. In 1967,…
Norway House Indian Residential School of Manitoba closed its doors after a questionable past. Many years later, Florence unexpectedly reconnected with one of her Norway House students, Edward Gamblin. He told her of the abuse he had suffered at the residential school and how the government had erased his cultural identity. This is the story of their personal reconciliation. c2014.Environmentalists from our First Nations (A First Nations book for young readers #5)
By Vincent Schilling. 2011
Ten biographies of First Nations/Native activists who advocate not only for the environment but for Native rights. Their stories are…
full of highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. Environmental trailblazers, these men and women are role models for children everywhere. Grades 4-7. 2011. (First Nations Series for Young Readers)K.C: the biography of K.C. Irving
By Douglas How, Ralph Costello. 1993
In this biography of the New Brunswick business magnate, the authors portray a brilliant and determined individual who took great…
risks on his way to making himself rich and bringing wealth to New Brunswick. 1993.Kings of convergence: the fight for control of Canada's media
By Gordon Pitts. 2002
In Canada, five media corporations dominate everything from newspapers to cable to Internet access: Rogers, CanWest, Shaw Communications, BCE, and…
Quebecor. Here is a look at the men who have directed these corporations, as well as speculation on the future of these multimedia empires. Some strong language. 2002.Joseph Brant (The Canadians)
By Auldham Roy Petrie. 1978
Joseph Brant followed his father as an Iroquois chief, and, like his father, swore loyalty to the British in North…
America and was received by British royalty in London. Petrie chronicles the life of Brant, from his childhood and youth, to his first battles as an Iroquois warrior and his crucial aid to the British during the American War of Independence. Grades 5-8. 1978.Jack of all trades: memories of a busy life
By J. V Clyne. 1985
Clyne, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge for 17 years, left to become the chairman of MacMillan Bloedel, a lumber…
company. In this autobiography, he tells of his friends in high places and of his extensive travels through Brazil, China and Russia. c1985.Jack: straight from the gut
By Jack Welch, John A Byrne. 2001
Autobiography by the CEO of General Electric for almost twenty years describes his life and his moves up the company…
ladder. Explains his management system, which led to his company's phenomenal stock growth. Bestseller. 2001.Jack, a life with writers: the story of Jack McClelland
By James King. 1999
Though officially a biography of the head of publishing house McClelland & Stewart, this book is equally about business and…
the Canadian literary scene. Jack McClelland was credited with introducing many well-known authors to Canada and the rest of the world, including Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler and Margaret Laurence. The book reveals him to also be a fervent nationalist, devoted family man and perpetrator of often wild stunts that brought attention to his company's books. Some strong language.Irving vs. Irving: Canada's feuding billionaires and the stories they won't tell
By Jacques Poitras. 2014
They are Canada’s third wealthiest family, the fifth-largest private landowner in the U.S.A. They have a monopoly on New Brunswick’s…
English-language print media and billions of dollars in offshore accounts. They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on discretion and family unity. They built their empire by remaining private. Here is the story of how these ambitious entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada. c2014.Into the blast furnace: the forging of a CEO's conscience
By Courtney Pratt, Larry Gaudet. 2008
When steel manufacturer Stelco Inc. went into bankruptcy protection in early 2004, there was a lot at stake during the…
company's restructuring: 6,000 jobs, 10,000 pensions; the egos and pocketbooks of lawyers, investors, union leaders, politicians and hedge fund managers, each with a special interest to flog and no interest in compromise. CEO Courtney Pratt, hired to clean up the mess, believed in keeping the company alive while ethically reconciling the competing interests - and trying to stay human in a bottom-line world. Some strong language. c2008.Inside out: the autobiography of a Native Canadian
By James Tyman. 1989
James Tyman is a young Native man who grew up with racism, turned to crime and drugs, and repeatedly ended…
up in jail. At age 24, while serving a 2 year prison sentence, James wrote this record of his own journey to self-discovery. Strong language. 1989.In the name of Gucci: a memoir
By Wendy Holden, Patrizia Gucci. 2016
Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the love child whose birth could have spelled ruination for her father, Aldo Gucci.…
It was 1963, and the halcyon days for the "must-have" brand of Hollywood and European royalty. Patricia's mother gave birth in secret in London before she was smuggled back to Vatican City and hidden from the fashion world, the media, and the rest of the Gucci family. Aldo couldn't afford a public scandal, but he could not resist his feelings for Patricia's mother, Bruna, the paramour he first met when she worked for him as a shopgirl in Rome. Patricia Gucci charts her parents' untold love story, relying on her own childhood memories as well as an archive of love letters and interviews with her mother. She interweaves her parents' story with that of her own relationship with her father--from a little girl who remained a secret for eighteen months and wasn't publicly acknowledged for her first decade, through her rise to become Gucci's ambassador and Aldo's protégé, to the moment when his three sons, who betrayed him in a famous palace coup, were disinherited and Patricia--once considered the shame of Gucci--was made sole universal heir. 2016. Uniform title: Gucci.