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  • Becoming the Change: Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare

    by John Toussaint, Kim Barnas ...
    Two renowned experts in healthcare transformation show how leaders are implementing behavior-driven strategies to ensure quality care and create lasting change.Healthcare is in the midst of a massive disruption. With financial structures in tatters and the future uncertain, this is the moment to begin the revolution. But first, leaders need to learn how to support staff at all levels as they make ... Read more

    $34.69 CAD

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    Becoming the Change

    Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare

    by John Toussaint, Kim Barnas ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 37 min

    Healthcare is in the midst of a massive disruption. With financial structures in tatters and the future uncertain, this is the moment to begin the revolution. But first, leaders need to learn how to support staff at all levels as they make transformational improvements in care. This book demonstrates that real change is very personal and has to start at the top—whether you're an executive, ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reticence

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by John Lambert ...
    "A little thing happened to me. Which could have just as easily happened to you. You're on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and you're about to go see some friends, but something holds you back, a mysterious reticence that prevents you from going to find them. Here is the novel of this reticence, small and specific, and of the fears that it instigates, little by little. Because ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Self-Portrait Abroad

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by John Lambert ...
    Series series Netherlandic and Belgian Literature
    In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan's historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Hunters in the Dark

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    by Lawrence Osborne ...
    From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspenseAdrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future.And on that first night, a small ... Read more

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  • The Fruit Thief

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    A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke—one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original worksOn a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee. "The sting signaled that the time had come to set out, to hit the road. Off with you. The hour of departure has arrived." The man boards a train to Paris, crosses the city by Métro, then boards another, disembarking in a ... Read more

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  • Paris Vagabond

    by Jean-Paul Clebert ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    An NYRB Classic OriginalJean-Paul Clébert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French Resistance, and never looked back. Making his way to Paris at the end of World War II, Clébert took to living on the streets, and in Paris Vagabond, a so-called “aleatory novel” assembled out of sketches he jotted down at the time, he tells what it was like. His ... Read more

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  • Aller Retour New York

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    by Henry Miller ...
    Series series New Directions Revived Modern Classics
    Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939).Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Miller always said that his best writing was in his letters, and this unbuttoned ... Read more

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  • Neither Here Nor There

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    Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz—also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods—he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. As he makes his way round this incredibly varied continent, he retraces his travels as a student ... Read more

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  • The Lover

    by Marguerite Duras ...
    An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous ... Read more

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  • The Masked Rider

    Cycling in West Africa

    by Neil Peart ...
    Neil Peart’s travel memoir of thoughts, observations, and experiences as he cycles through West Africa reveals the subtle, yet powerful writing style that has made him one of rock’s greatest lyricists. As he describes his extraordinary journey and his experiences — from the pains of dysentery, to a confrontation with an armed soldier, to navigating dirt roads off the beaten path — he reveals his ... Read more

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