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The uncrowned king: the sensational rise of William Randolph Hearst
By Kenneth Whyte. 2008
More than a century ago, William Randolph Hearst stormed the Manhattan publishing establishment and usurped Joseph Pulitzer as the dominant…
force in the most hotly contested newspaper market the world has ever seen. In three years, Hearst built the foundation of one of America's greatest media empires, yet his reputation as a journalist has always been haunted by allegations of sensationalism, self-promotion, warmongering, and outright fakery. Some descriptions of violence. c2008.The reason you walk: a memoir
By Wab Kinew. 2015
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a…
year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. “The Reason You Walk” spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. 2015.Éloge du carburateur: essai sur le sens et la valeur du travail
By Marc Saint-Upéry, Matthew B Crawford. 2010
Matthew B. Crawford était un brillant universitaire, bien payé pour travailler dans un think tank à Washington. Au bout de…
quelques mois, déprimé par son emploi, il démissionne pour ouvrir un atelier de réparation de motos. À partir du récit de son étonnante reconversion professionnelle, il livre dans cet ouvrage intelligent et drôle l'une des réflexions les plus fines qu'il ait été donné de lire sur le sens et la valeur du travail dans les sociétés occidentales. Mêlant anecdotes, récits et réflexions philosophiques et sociologiques, il montre que ce travail intellectuel , dont on nous rebat les oreilles depuis que nous sommes entrés dans l' économie du savoir , se révèle pauvre et déresponsabilisant. Il démontre que le travail manuel peut même se révéler beaucoup plus captivant d'un point de vue intellectuel que tous les nouveaux emplois de cette économie du savoir -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Shop class as soul craft. An inquiry into the value of work.De Kebec à Québec: cinq siècles d'échanges entre nous
By Denis Bouchard, Éric Cardinal, Ghislain Picard. 2008
"Alors que notre société se questionne fortement sur les relations que nous entretenons avec les diverses ethnies qui vivent au…
Québec, nous oublions souvent de réfléchir sur nos rapports avec les Autochtones. Depuis le début de la Nouvelle-France, les Blancs et les Autochtones se sont côtoyés et ils ont appris à vivre ensemble au fil du temps. De nos jours, nous semblons ne plus nous souvenir des rapports amicaux d'échange et d'entraide que nous avons établis avec les Premières Nations du Québec. Il est donc impératif de rétablir les ponts et de s'interroger sur l'avenir de nos relations. Éric Cardinal a rédigé cet ouvrage en collaboration avec Denis Bouchard et Ghislain Picard, qui ont cette passion commune de la Nouvelle-France et des Premières Nations. À travers leurs discussions à bâtons rompus, l'idée de ce livre est venue." -- 4e de couv.Le temps des turbulences
By Alan Greenspan, Thierry Piélat, Georges Nicolas. 2007
De 1987 à 2006, sous Reagan, Bush, Clinton et George W.Bush, Alan Greenspan, en tant que patron de la Federal…
Reserve Board - la FED - a été sans contexte l'homme le plus puissant du monde économique. Un mot de sa part, et les bourses plongeaient ou se redressaient. Il a été l'analyste le plus écouté, jusqu'à devenir une sorte d'oracle. Aujourd'hui encore son influence demeure incontestable.Voici les mémoires d'un homme qui a suivi comme nul autre les soubresauts, les crises majeures, les retournements de la vie économique de ces vingt dernières années. De la panique boursière de 1987 au choc du 11 septembre, de la défaillance sud-américaine à celle du Japon, de l'optimisme de Reagan aux turbulences de Bush, Alan Greenspan nous restitue les coulisses et nous livre ses analyses. Avec comme credo que le monde économique actuel est infiniment plus changeant mais aussi plus résilient que celui d'hier. Il nous livre région par région ses prévisions, ses convictions sur les grands changements à venir ainsi que sur les effets de la globalisation. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The age of turbulence.Bernard Madoff: l'escroc du siècle : biographie
By Peter Sander, Carole Gilet. 2009
[... ]Le 11 décembre 2008, alors que la crise financière fait rage aux États-Unis comme partout dans le monde, Bernard…
Bernie Madoff, éminent personnage de Wall Street et ancien patron du NASDAQ, est arrêté par le FBI et mis en examen pour fraude. La confiance qu'il inspirait lui a permis de construire ce qui semble être la plus grande escroquerie de tous les temps, avec plus de 50 milliards de dollars détournés. [...] Dans ce livre, Peter Sander retrace l'ascension extraordinaire de Bernard Madoff, celle d'un petit écolier juif ordinaire qui devint teneur de marché, puis gestionnaire d'un portefeuille de 17 milliards de dollars. Son récit passionnant analyse la façon dont Bernard Madoff a créé sa stratégie frauduleuse chaîne de Ponzi et infiltré les cercles d'influence. Sander pose de vraies questions sur ce scandale financier : comment Madoff a-t-il réussi à convaincre autant d'investisseurs chevronnés de se séparer de leur fortune sans poser de questions ? Comment a-t-il pu échapper aux organismes de réglementation pendant toutes ces années ? Quel impact ce scandale aura-t-il sur Wall Street ? Et comment pouvons-nous, en tant que citoyens prudents, éviter à l'avenir une telle débâcle ? -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Madoff.1491: nouvelles révélations sur les Amériques avant Christophe Colomb
By Charles C Mann, Marina Boraso. 2007
Synthèse des découvertes les plus récentes, fruit du travail colossal d'archéologues, d'anthropologues, de scientifiques et d'historiens, le livre de Charles…
C. Mann nous montre pour la première fois le vrai visage des mondes précolombiens. Une mosaïque de peuples, de langues, de cultures, d'empires, de cités puissantes, souvent plus riches et plus vastes que celles d'Europe ; un creuset de civilisations brillantes et évoluées, soucieuses de leur environnement. Et non pas le continent vierge et sous-exploité que l'Histoire officielle a voulu nous présenter. De la forêt amazonienne aux plateaux andins des Incas, du Mexique maya, olmèque ou aztèque aux villages des Iroquois, 1491 rétablit une vérité historique longtemps niée et nous entraîne au coeur d'un voyage fantastique à travers des Amériques que nous découvrons peut-être pour la première fois sous leur véritable jour. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus.Walking in the woods: a Métis journey
By Herb Belcourt. 2006
Belcourt traces his ancestry directly to a French-Canadian voyageur and his Cree-Métis wife who lived in Ruperts Land after 1800.…
The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. When Belcourt left home at 15 to become a labourer in coal mines and sawmills, his father told him to save his money so he could work for himself, and over the next three decades, Belcourt began a number of small Alberta businesses that prospered and eventually enabled him to make significant contributions to the Métis community. 2006.These tales of bravery, courage, and decisive action in times of terrible conflict are the stories of heroes. Although the…
lives of the Native chiefs and famous Métis were often tinged with sadness and loss, they were also an inspiration. Jam-packed with adventures and battles, these tales ultimately tell of the negotiations, broken promises, and harsh realities of the changing face of the West. 2003.I know that name!: the people behind Canada's best known brand names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller
By Mark Kearney, Randy Ray. 2002
Every day Canadians buy groceries at Loblaws or Sobeys, develop film at Black's, or grab a coffee at Tim Hortons…
without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We're familiar with the names, but what do we really know about the people behind them? 2002.Timothy Eaton and the rise of his department store
By Joy L Santink. 1990
This business biography of Timothy Eaton, who opened his first dry goods store in Toronto in 1869, is also a…
history of the retail trade in Canada. An Irish immigrant with little formal education, this visionary man had a major impact on Canada's culture.The author of "Bringing Down the House" chronicles the invention of the Facebook social-networking computer web site by Harvard students…
Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Describes Zuckerberg's use of the university's database and legal problems with a rival site. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.Heart berries: a memoir
By Terese Marie Mailhot. 2018
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in…
the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist--who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts us to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. Bestseller. 2018.The Icarus factor: the rise and fall of Edgar Bronfman Jr
By Rod McQueen. 2004
Between 2000 and 2002, the value of the Bronfman family holdings in Seagram - swapped for shares in French media…
giant Vivendi SA - plummeted from US$8.2 billion to $2.2 billion. Edgar Bronfman Jr., heir to the family business, was spoiled as a child but given little guidance, and saddled with responsibilities not befitting his experience or years. Not surprisingly, his speedy rise to the top of the Bronfman empire was followed by his stunning crack-up as he blundered his way to failure. Some strong language. 2004.Wings over the West: Russ Baker & the rise of Pacific Western Airlines
By John Condit. 1984
This history of Pacific Western Airlines reveals many fascinating details about the bush pilots, notably Russ Baker, who founded the…
airline. Baker helped advance the company's fortunes by his daring airplane rescues. 1984.Who killed Confederation Life?: the inside story
By Rod McQueen. 1996
When Confederation Life Insurance Co. was seized by regulators in August, 1994, it became the largest single bankruptcy ever in…
the North American insurance industry. Rod McQueen looks at what happened to one of Canada's biggest insurance companies, and how executives, regulators, auditors, and politicians all missed the signs of its impending failure. c1996.When all you have is hope
By John Lawrence Reynolds, Frank O'Dea. 2007
Born in Montreal to an upper-middle-class family, Frank O'Dea's life took a downturn as a young man when he was…
sexually assaulted by a priest - he began drinking, smashing up cars, and soon was living on the streets of Toronto. By way of a sympathetic employer and the Salvation Army, O'Dea quit drinking and started a small business that developed into the Second Cup coffee chain. Over the years, his philanthropic activities extended to AIDS fundraising, child literacy in the Third World, and landmine removal. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances--Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Poland, Elizabeth…
Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were the rulers of rival international beauty empires. 2017.Warren Buffett speaks: wit and wisdom from the world's greatest investor (Your coach in a box)
By Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett. 2009
A wise and winning collection of quotes, writings and favourite sayings, "Warren Buffett speaks" collects wisdom on diverse subjects such…
as investing, the Internet economy, running a business, teaching, and more. This unprecedented peek into the financial genius' wildly profitable philosophy is often surprising, always intriguing, and sparked throughout by Buffett's unique combination of savvy business smarts and wry wit. 2009.Up Ghost River: a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history
By Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo. 2014
A powerful, raw memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s.…
Even as Metatawabin built the trappings of a successful life, he was tormented by horrific memories. In seeking healing, Metatawabin travelled to southern Alberta. There he learned from elders, participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic approach to personhood, and finally faced his alcoholism and PTSD. Now his mission is to help the next generation of residential school survivors. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Speaker's Book Award. c2014.