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  • Bull!

    A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982–2004

    by Maggie Mahar ...
    What today's investors need to know about financial cycles. "Well-reported and well-written, Bull! is a book investors can learn much from." —Warren BuffetIn 1982, the Dow hovered below 1000. Then, the market rose and rapidly gained speed until it peaked above 11,000. Noted journalist and financial reporter Maggie Mahar has written the first book on the remarkable bull market that began in 1982 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money-Driven Medicine

    The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much

    by Maggie Mahar ...
    Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan on health care—yet few would argue that our health care system is twice as good.Instead, startling new ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Business, Investment, and Management Implications

    THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING COMPANY GROWTH AND DECLINE —FROM THE UNDISPUTED EXPERT ON VALUATIONThroughout his storied career, Aswath Damodaran has searched for the universal key to demystify corporate finance and valuation. Now, at last, he offers the groundbreaking answer to readers everywhere.It turns out there is a corporate lifecycle very much like our own — with unique stages of growth and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Hiroshima

    The Last Witnesses

    Series Book 1 - Embers
    **One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Hidden Globe

    How Wealth Hacks the World

    **NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 5 BOOKS OF 2024 ON CBS SUNDAY MORNINGONE OF *THE WASHINGTON POST'*S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2024A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” *—*Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker"A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • How to Listen When Markets Speak

    Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy

    A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, outlining new rules of investing for the forward-thinking.“I can’t tell you how much I learned from How to Listen When Markets Speak. The historical perspectives and insights are something every investor needs to know. Buy ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Agent of Influence

    How to Use Spy Skills to Persuade Anyone, Sell Anything, and Build a Successful Business

    by Jason Hanson ...
    **A practical guide to bolstering your business strategies with proven spy techniques, from a New York Times–bestselling author."Entertaining. . . . There is serious information here that could be used beyond the business setting."— BooklistCommon wisdom has held that the most successful businesspeople in the world possess fancy degrees and unlimited access to wealth and connections. But the truth ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adrift

    America in 100 Charts

    From bestselling author, CNN+ host of No Mercy, No Malice, and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation – and how we got here.We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we’re faced ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • So Very Small

    How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

    “An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.“Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field.” ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

    by Martin Wolf ...
    **“The definitive account of what ails capitalism and democracy.” —Yascha mounk, author of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure“A necessary book—and a guide—for our times.” —Daniel Ziblatt, coauthor of How Democracies DieFrom the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a reckoning with how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism ... Read more

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  • Home Ec for Everyone: Practical Life Skills in 118 Projects

    Cooking · Sewing · Laundry & Clothing · Domestic Arts · Life Skills

    Did you remember your scissors?Discover the tremendous pleasure of learning how to do it yourself how to cook, sew, clean, and more, the way it used to be taught in Home Ec class. With illustrated step by step instructions, plus relevant charts, lists, and handy graphics, Home Ec for everyone offers a crash course in learning 118 practical life skills-everything from frosting the perfect birthday ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Invention and Innovation

    A Brief History of Hype and Failure

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Tour the history of human invention—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts—in this history book from the New York Times-bestselling author of How the World Really Works.A BILL GATES RECOMMENDED BOOK: “Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception.”The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil, author of ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD