Business & Economics
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Wealth Without Wall Street
Taking Back Control of Your Money in a Rigged Financial System by John W. McGuire
Financial freedom is a dream we all pursue. But what if the conventional path to wealth was a game rigged against investors and in favour of big banks and lending institutions? Drawing on his personal experience and expertise, John introduces you...
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The Storytelling Salesman
Enriching Tales for Better Business by James "Jimmy Van" VanderLinden
This story from the business world is for professionals looking to improve at work. Is your business failing to live up to expectations? Stuck in an unsatisfying job with seemingly nowhere to go? Do you manage people—or aspire to? Drawing on his...
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How to Win in Real Estate
The Ultimate Guide for Realtors by Cameron Van Klei
Are you a real estate agent looking to Elevate your career? In How to Win in Real Estate: The Ultimate Guide for Realtors, award-winning realtor, broker, and investor Cameron Van Klei offers up detailed, practical advice for all realtors no...
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A Project Controller's Handbook
Insights from Twenty Years of Accounting in Project Environments by Alana Reid
For those of us involved in financial reporting or project environments, the challenges we face are many. Whether we’re forecasting our labour requirements or performing a variance analysis, there is no shortage to the issues—both technical and...
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Rediscovering Muhammad Yunus
How the founder of the Grameen Bank lost his glow after the glitter by Mohammad Jabbar
In 2006, Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus made history by bringing the Nobel Peace Prize home to the micro-finance institution he had pioneered, the Grameen Bank, based on the idea that micro-credit model was such a meaningful tool for...
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From Baghdad to Toronto
A Journey of Values by Yahya Abbas
In our increasingly globalized, interconnected, and therefore volatile world, how can we expect to find success in business? Faced with the precarity of our current economic situation, what can we fall back on in our pursuit of a meaningful and...
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The Reesor Siding Tragedy
Canada's Bloodiest Labour Conflict by Charles A Beaudoin
Northern Ontario, January 1963. Weeks of violence and rising tension, mob mentality, and failures in leadership culminated in the Reesor Siding Tragedy: a shooting that took the lives of three strikers from the Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper Company...
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The Great Bake Take and Go Baking Book
Baking for Farmers Markets and Bake Sales by Katharine MacPherson
In The Great Bake Take and Go Baking Book, baker and author Katharine MacPherson shares her favourite recipes and strategies on how to start a successful bake table. Breads, cookies, muffins, scones, bars, and more—this book has it all. These...
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The Effective Communicator
The Keys to Turbocharging Your Performance in Important Conversations by Stephen P. Franklin
Learn to have greater Courage, Confidence, and Consideration in the many important conversations at work and in your personal life. In The Effective Communicator, a formative work on developing oral communication skills, Stephen Franklin outlines...
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The Robin Hood Method
Raiding and Poaching Strategies to Enrich Your Small Business by John L. Ugyan
This book contains a number of unique and unconventional business concepts, starting with the Robin Hood Method itself. The Method involves working collaboratively to “swipe the jewels” from elite competitors in order to create more sales and...