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Big top boss: John Ringling North and the circus
By David Lewis Hammarstrom. 1992
Biography of the showman-entrepreneur who folded the tents and moved the circus indoors in 1956. Describes North's flamboyant career and…
his management style in the context of labour and social issues of the mid-twentieth century. Incorporates several decades of American circus history. 1992.Anita Roddick, knowing nothing about business, opened her first Body Shop in 1976. Today The Body Shop is an international…
company. In this book, Anita describes those intervening years as well as the driving force in her business and life. 1991.Jimmy, an autobiography
By Paul Grescoe, Jimmy Pattison. 1987
Although best-known for his role in British Columbia's Expo '86, Pattison is an international businessman, "the richest man west of…
Toronto". He owns one third of BC's supermarkets, an array of car dealerships and a communications network. 1987.Iacocca: an autobiography
By William Novak, Lee A Iacocca. 1984
La vie de château: [splendeurs et misères de deux Québécois en France] ((Dossiers et documents))
By Caroline Bouchard, Jacques Bouchard. 2003
Samuel Cunard ((Célébrités canadiennes))
By John M Bassett, Albert Ledoux. 1978
Sous les arches de McDonald's
By Françoise Gramet, John F Love. 1987
L'aventure de ceux qui ont bâti une des multinationales les plus puissantes du monde. 1948: Dick et Mac McDonald servent…
leur premier hamburger à San Bernardino, en Californie. 1986: 55 milliards de hamburgers ont été vendus. John F. Love réalise ici, à partir de documents exclusifs et d'entrevues avec des représentants de chaque maillon du système, une analyse approfondie et captivante du système McDonald's. 1987. Titre uniforme: McDonald's.Work in progress
By Michael Eisner. 1998
Eisner provides an account of how a Jewish boy from an affluent Manhattan family rose through the ranks to become…
Disney's CEO. Discusses his family life, his jobs at ABC and Paramount Pictures, the role he played in getting the position at Disney, and his part in expanding the company. Bestseller. 1998.The last empire: De Beers, diamonds, and the world
By Stefan Kanfer. 1993
Kanfer, a journalist, discusses De Beers Consolidated Mines Inc. and describes how it sometimes uses a show of power to…
maintain its hold on the world's diamond industry and much of the gold industry. He focuses on the exploitation of blacks in South Africa and on the three men who have controlled the company since its founding in 1880, Cecil Rhodes, Ernest Oppenheimer, and "King" Harry Oppenheimer. Some descriptions of violence. 1995, c1993.Timothy Eaton: Prevenir, Vaincre Et Traiter La Maladie ((Célébrités canadiennes).)
By John M Bassett, Patrick Kelly, Monique Auger. 1976
The worldly philosophers: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
By Robert L Heilbroner. 1967
The master builders: how the Reichmanns reached for an empire
By Peter Foster. 1986
The Reichmann family of Toronto are now the world's biggest property developers. In 1985-86, they executed two large and dramatic…
takeovers--Gulf Canada and Hiram Walker Resources. The author gives a detailed account of the boardroom battles. Bestseller 1986.The law of success
By Napoleon Hill. 1979
Roughnecks and wildcatters
By Allan Anderson. 1981
Hundreds of first-hand exciting stories by Canadian rigbuilders, drillers, mudmen, jughounds, scouts, landmen, geologists, and many others - an informal…
popular history of "the oil patch." By the author of "Remembering the farm" (DC13128). 1981.Paul Desmarais, un homme et son empire
By Dave Greber, Normand Paiement. 1987
Pensez grand vous deviendrez grand: l'autobiographie du fondateur de la chaîne McDonald
By Ray Kroc, Edouard Barsamian. 1985
Péladeau ((Psychologie ; 867).)
By Colette Chabot. 1986
Histoire de Casavant frères: Facteurs d'orgues, 1880-1980
By Jeanne Daigle. 1989
A two tiered existence
By Samantha Kane. 1998
A Two Tiered Existence relates the life of Sam Hashimi - who hit the headlines in 1990 with his notorious…
take-over bid for Sheffield United football club - and the successful transformation of Sam into Samantha. Spanning two broken marriages, the traumatic loss of children, hospitalization and imprisonment, it is the story of a search for identity that would finally come into conflict with the conventional life of husband, father and businessman.Lavalin: les ficelles du pouvoir
By Carole-Marie Allard. 1990