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  • The Truth About Markets

    Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor

    by John Kay ...
    Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model – unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax – faced a storm of protest. But what are the alternatives to the mantras of market fundamentalism?Leading economist John Kay unravels the truth about markets, from Wall Street to Switzerland, from ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Obliquity

    Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

    by John Kay ...
    Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 49 min

    A leading economist charts the indirect road to happiness and wealth.Using dozens of practical examples from the worlds of business, politics, science, sports, literature, even parenting, esteemed economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: The best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal-from happiness to wealth to profit to preventing ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Uncertainty

    Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

    by John Kay, Mervyn King ...
    Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we need instead robust narratives that give us the confidence to manage uncertainty.“An elegant and careful guide to thinking about personal and social economics, especially in a time of uncertainty. The timing is ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century

    Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong

    by John Kay ...
    A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business—what it is for and how it works**“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”—Andrew Hill, Financial Times, “Best Books of 2024: Business”Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dead Circus

    A Novel

    by John Kaye ...
    From the acclaimed author of Stars Screaming, "a fine new novel . . . [that] pulls some of the dregs of Manson's dark legacy into the light" ( The Oregonian).It's 1986. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, private eye Gene Burk becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. While attempting to reconstruct the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Other People's Money

    The Real Business of Finance

    by John Kay ...
    The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Long and the Short of It (International edition)

    A guide to finance and investment for normally intelligent people who aren’t in the industry

    by John Kay ...
    The follies of finance have threatened the stability of the global economy, and the world of finance has become increasingly complex and sophisticated, but also greedy, cynical and self-interested. The Long and the Short of It provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance and explains how to put your finances in the only hands you can confidently trust - your own.In this new, wholly ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • A Richness of Martens

    Wildlife Tales from the Highlands

    by Polly Pullar ...
    Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019When Les and Chris Humphreys moved to Ardnamurchan 15 years ago, little did they realise they would be sharing their home with some of Britain's most elusive and misunderstood mustelids. Amongst all the animals and birds that visit their garden, they have formed a special bond with numerous pine martens, and have studied them and a cast of other creatures ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stars Screaming

    by John Kaye ...
    "A cross between The Player, The Day of the Locust, and Sunset Boulevard . . . A gritty, bizarre, yet all-too-believable Tinseltown epic." — DetourRay Burk is a disillusioned network censor struggling to break into the business as a screenwriter. But it's the drama of his personal life that occupies him most—as his unbalanced wife Sandra and neglected son grow more and more detached from the real ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long and the Short of It

    A guide to finance and investment

    by John Kay ...
    This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance. It describes the basics of investment and the sophisticated innovations of the modern financial system. It explains how the follies of finance have threatened the stability of the world economy, and describes an environment that is complex and sophisticated, but greedy, cynical and self-interested. This book explains how to put your ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Heaven Is a Breath Away

    An Unexpected Journey to Heaven and Back

    by Valerie Paters, Cheryl Schuelke, Kay Farish ...
    A story of a near-death experience and miraculous survival. "An eye-opening look into the heavenly realm. It will inspire you and build your faith!" (Doug Addison author of Understand Your Dreams Now).When a massive pileup on an Arizona highway caused Valerie Paters and her Jeep to be entombed beneath a semi truck in a blinding snowstorm, it seemed certain that her life would soon end. Once ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Corporation in the 21st Century

    Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong

    by John Kay ...
    Narrated by Peter Wicks ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 19 min

    In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus