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  • The Ten Commandments of Risk Leadership

    A Behavioral Guide on Strategic Risk Management

    by Annette Hofmann ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    We as humans are prone to a variety of wired-in cognitive mistakes in the way we interpret and react to risk-related information. This is highly consequential since the cognitive biases managers are exposed to in their day-to-day business erode the objectivity of their risk-related decisions, which ultimately hurts the financial well-being of their firms. This book seeks to develop risk literacy ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Sport in Europe

    Edited by Annette Hofmann ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    This book presents an overview on sport history research in Europe by giving insights into various topics between Europe´s south and north. Examples are physical activities in the middle ages in Córdoba, bullfighting in Spain, aspects of football in various countries to winter sports in France. Football is mainly looked at in the period of the late 1930s to the 1940s, a period of dictatorship in ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Esports

    Edited by Annette R. Hofmann, Pascal Mamudou Camara ...
    Series series ICSSPE Perspectives
    This book offers new, multidisciplinary perspectives on esports, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the sports and leisure industries.Drawing on sociology, philosophy, education, business, economics, and sports science, this book considers the rise of esports, its impact on sports and society more widely, and the direction of travel for esports in the future. Featuring cutting-edge work ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Games and Sporting Events in History

    Organisations, Performances and Impact

    Edited by Maureen Smith, Annette Hofmann, Gerald R. Gems ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse set of topics covers education, medicine, therapy, body culture, gender, race, cross cultural flow, and political issues from the late nineteenth century throughout the twentieth century, offering new insights into previously little researched areas of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Global Perspectives on Sport and Physical Cultures

    Edited by Maureen Smith, Annette Hofmann, Gerald R. Gems ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars that address significant international issues relative to sporting practices from a historical perspective. A variety of movement cultures are examined and analysed, such as various aspects of the turner and gymnastic movements, the transnational ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Turnen around the World

    by Gerald Gems, Karl Graf, Wendy Gray, Rob Hess, Alec Hurley, Toshiyuki Ichibai, Michael Krüger, Gertrud Pfister, Josef Ulfkotte, Lothar Wieser0, Annette R. Hofmann2, Evelise Amgarten Quitzau3, Robert K. Barney4 ...
    Series series Sport, Identity, and Culture
    Turnen around the World represents an international effort by an assemblage of prominent sport historians to detail and assess the worldwide scope, effects, and residual influences of the German Turnen movement over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A male nationalistic movement based on gymnastics and other physical activities established in response to the Napoleonic wars ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • May God Remember

    Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor

    by Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler, Rabbi Edward Feinstein, Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander, DHL, Dr. Annette M. Boeckler ...
    Series Book 4 - Prayers of Awe
    An engaging and sobering look at memorializing in Judaism and why memory—ours and God's—is so central to people.Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history and ideas behind Yizkor, the Jewish memorial service, and this fascinating chapter in ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All These Vows

    by Dr. Annette M. Boeckler, Catherine Madsen, Dr. Ellen M. Umansky ...
    Series Book 2 - Prayers of Awe
    The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year—what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal.Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and poets, spanning three continents and all major Jewish denominations—examine Kol Nidre's theology, usage, and deeply personal impact. They trace the actual history of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The People We Are

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    The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians.What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the same region, use the same money, read the same books, ... Read more

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  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    by Daniel Kahneman ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARMULTIMILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEIn this mega-bestseller, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.**Two systems drive the way we think and make choices: System 1 is fast, intuitive, ... Read more

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  • The Little Book of Behavioral Investing

    How not to be your own worst enemy

    by James Montier ...
    Series series Little Books, Big Profits (UK)
    A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered psychological pitfalls of investingBias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioral finance, which recognizes that there is a psychological element to all investor decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle.In The Little ... Read more

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  • 50 Canadians Who Changed The World

    by Ken McGoogan ...
    Using the successful format of How the Scots Invented Canada, Ken McGoogan takes the reader on a compelling journey through the lives of 50 accomplished Canadians born in the 20th century who have changed—and often continue to change—the great wide world.McGoogan profiles an astonishing array of activists, humanitarians, musicians, writers, comedians, visionaries, scientists and inventors, all of ... Read more

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