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  • Challenges in Central Banking

    The Current Institutional Environment and Forces Affecting Monetary Policy

    Changes in the field of central banking over the past two decades have been nothing short of dramatic. They include the importance of central bank autonomy, the desirability of low and stable inflation, and the vital role played by how central banks communicate their views and intentions to the markets and the public more generally. There remains considerable diversity nevertheless in the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Principles of Psychotherapy

    From Sacred Rituals to Scientific Psychotherapy A Masterwork on the Forces That Shape, Exhaust, and Restore the Human Spirit

    Principles of Psychotherapy by Dr. Pierre Janet is a groundbreaking work that lays the foundation for modern psychotherapy practices. Dr. Janet, a pioneer in the field of psychology, presents insightful techniques and theories that have influenced the way we approach mental health and treatment today. In this comprehensive guide, he delves into the core principles of psychotherapy, offering ... Read more

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  • Wealth and Disaster

    Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    by Pierre Force ...
    How two French families made—and lost—their fortunes in the brutal plantation culture of pre-revolutionary Haiti.In 1729, Marc-Antoine Lamerenx, a minor French nobleman, set sail for Saint-Domingue. Twenty years later, peasant Jean Mouscardy also made the long and difficult journey to Saint-Domingue. Although the men were not related and had little in common, they hailed from the same Pyrenean ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • Ancient Mariner

    The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean

    by Ken McGoogan ...
    Published to great reviews in Canada, the US and the UK, Ancient Mariner tells the riveting story of how Samuel Hearne—a sailor at 12, a northern explorer at 24, an admirer of Native peoples—became the first European to reach the Arctic coast of North America. Yet, as Ken McGoogan reveals, Samuel Hearne’s place in the history books has been a subject hotly disputed over the past two centuries. ... Read more

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  • George Washington: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This is the essential chronicle of Washington’s life – his rise from middle class Virginian upbringing to ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

    by B. W. Higman ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great ... Read more

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  • How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It

    The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500–1800

    Who were the world's most successful pirates, and why? "Interesting and very readable . . . Little clearly knows his subject well." — International Journal of Naval HistoryMore than just simple retellings of tried-and-true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through the 1800s to give an in-depth view of how pirates functioned through history. ... Read more

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  • Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions By Decoding CEO Communications

    The essential guide to making smarter decisions by decoding CEO CommunicationsRecommended reading in Warren Buffet’s 2013 Shareholder LetterInvesting Between the Lines introduces a revolutionary method for evaluating the financial integrity of a company. You don’t need special access to “insider” information or a degree in accounting to figure it out. In fact, the secret is right in front of you ... Read more

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  • Corporate Governance

    In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders.In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to ... Read more

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  • At the Point of a Cutlass

    The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton

    A handful of sea stories define the American maritime narrative. Stories of whaling, fishing, exploration, naval adventure, and piracy have always captured our imaginations, and the most colorful of these are the tales of piracy. Called America’s real-life Robinson Crusoe, the true story of Philip Ashton—a nineteen-year-old fisherman captured by pirates, impressed as a crewman, subjected to ... Read more

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  • Mean Business

    How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great

    Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb–“to dunlap”–when describing a fast company turnaround. In April 1994 he became CEO and chairman of Scott Paper, which had lost $277 million in 1993, was on credit watch for excessive debt, and whose stock had been comatose ... Read more

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