Business & Economics
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Crisis and Calm
Canada’s Central Bank From Dot-Com 2000 Through 2020 Covid Lockdown by Greg Quinn
This book documents a remarkable yet little-examined time for Canada’s economy and the people who manage it, from the Y2K bug and dot-com boom through the “Great Moderation” of inflation, to the global recession of 2008 and the Covid recession of ...
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The Capitalist Society
A Critique of Marx's Economic and Political Theory by Xing Yu
This book describes the formation of civilized society from the perspective of the analysis of the role played by language and media and hence explains the formation and evolution of the capitalist society from the perspective of language and media. ...
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Mining is the Future
Three-Step Process to Achieve Sustainability in Mining by Alp Bora
Metals and minerals are all around us in our everyday lives. They’re used in everything from cars and kitchen appliances to smartphones and complex medical equipment. These natural resources are also integral to many forms of renewable energy. ...
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The Decline Effect
The Hidden Probability Law Controlling Markets, Politics, Culture, Religion, Epidemics and War by Dean Brooks
A crisis is coming for everyone who uses math and science. For decades now, the classical model of probability (the indifference principle and the Gaussian distribution) has been breaking down and revealing its limitations in fields from economics ...
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Hard Open
The Cost of Mistakes by Jeff Lewis
Do you have an idea for a business, but don’t know how to get started? Have you started a business, but have sort of lost your way? Has your business run into financial trouble? Are your business finances bleeding into your personal life? Hard Open ...
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A Place for T
Giving Voice to the Tortoise in Our Hare-Brained World by Robert H. Lengel
Dr. Lengel offers a thought provoking twist on Aesop’s Hare-Tortoise fable reframing it as a Human Race pitting our Hare-brained heads against our Tortoise-inspired hearts. As we run faster and faster in our Hare-like pursuits of wealth, power and ...
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Do Not Ignore Your Mortality
Practical Advice From a Funeral & Financial Insider by Greg Barnsdale
You will be hard pressed to find another book like this one. Greg has delicately pulled together a gripping message that so many adults need to hear. Only about half the adult population of Canada and the U.S. have a current and valid will. The ...
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Take Charge of the Future
Using the Power of Scenarios to Drive Strategy and Performance by Arden Brummell
Strategic planner and consultant Arden Brummell shares his wealth of experience about the scenarios-to-strategy planning process, weaving in his personal career journey with practical examples and insights. The process of creating scenarios and ...
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Is This All There Is?
5 changes to rejuvenate your company by Kerry Tucker, Teresa Siles and Blake Tucker Nelson
You’re a leader in the company you work for and it’s doing relatively well—you’ve earned a nice house, a new car, maybe even a boat—but is this all there is? Is financial gain the only measure of success? With the accumulated knowledge of over a ...
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Dying to be Seen
The Race to Save Medicare in Canada by Cathy MacNeil
Canada’s public health care system is under attack. Defunding, deregulating, defrauding, and deliberate disintegration have manipulated Canadians into despising their once-beloved system as unsustainable, unfixable, and cost-prohibitive. There is a ...
