Bookshelf

GWYNNE DYER
Fighting Decline

Gwynne Dyer's provocative argument in Fighting Decline is that, since 2001, American foreign and defence policies have been run by people whose entire approach is shaped by an idea of the United States now being the world's sole superpower. India and China are now both on the brink of rivalling American economic clout and political influence. It remains to be seen just how the United States will respond to this competition, but history, as Dyer shows, provides us with vivid lessons of how empires act when in decline. Fighting Decline brings insight, intelligence, and Dyer's trademark humour to bear on this, one of the biggest issues facing the world.

NIALL FERGUSON
High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siegmund Warburg

In this pathbreaking biography, author Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of Siegmund Warburg, an extraordinary man whose austere philosophy of finance offers much insight today. A refugee from Hitler's Germany, Warburg rose to become the dominant figure in postwar City of London and one of the architects of European financial integration. An obsessive perfectionist with an aversion to excessive risk, Warburg came to embody the ideals of the haute banquet-high finance- always eschewing the fast buck in favor of gilt-edged advice. In High Financier, Ferguson shares the examination of a man whose life and work suggest an alternative to the troubled business principles that helped shape our current financial landscape.

CHUCK MARTIN
Work Your Strengths: A Scientific Process to Identify Your Skills and Match Them to the Best Career for You

Ever feel like you’re in the wrong job, maybe even the wrong career? Before you make another move, consider this: Your brain is hardwired with a unique combination of 12 different Executive Skills-the cognitive strengths that determine how well you will perform in a particular role. Work Your Strengths helps you avoid "trial-and-error" career moves by matching your strengths to the jobs that call on those skills specifically. So whether you're planning a jump to the career of your dreams or just wondering how to make your current job easier and more rewarding, Work Your Strengths gives you the science and the system to find your success.

CARLA COLLINS
Angels, Vampires and Douchebags

What do Mexican millionaires, nudist colonies, armed robberies, horny jockeys and lesbian erotica have in common? They all figure prominently in the hilarious and inspiring "Angels, Vampires, and Douche Bags", a motivational book like no other. In this candid confessional, comedian Carla Collins divides the world into three categories: the angels who guide us, inspire us and often save our proverbial butts; the sexy and trendy vampires who, although seductive, may ultimately suck the life out of us; and the douche bags who constantly annoy, disgust and taunt. Collins' hard-earned life lessons will make it easy for you to attract more angels into your life, control your vampires and keep all of the douche bags at bay.

TOMMY SPAULDING
It's Not Just Who You Know

It's impossible to build a successful organization or career in a silo. You need authentic relationships — human connections built on trust, generosity, and the authentic desire to put others first. Most managers don't know how to translate relationship values into on-the-job actions and behaviors that generate measurable results. As a consequence, their organizations suffer from an undercurrent of cynicism, unhappiness, distrust, and underperformance. In It's Not Just Who You Know, Tommy Spaulding provides a roadmap for addressing these challenges. He shows how investing in the lives of others benefits not only the recipient but also the giver—enriching leaders' lives as well as their companies' bottom lines.

MADDY DYCHTWALD
Power Shift: The Startling Truth About Women's Soaring Economic Influence - and How It Is Changing the World

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, women are on the verge of attaining economic parity with men�something our great-grandmothers and grandfathers would never have imagined. With this new economic fortitude, women have the opportunity to take previously untapped power into their hands to influence the direction of the marketplace, the workplace and worldwide leadership. In Power Shift, Dychtwald paints a captivating picture of women coming into power in America (and worldwide), which no woman or man can afford to ignore.

EDWARD de BONO
Think! Before It’s Too Late

The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem. And this is getting worse: we are so accustomed to readily available information online that we search immediately for the answers rather than thinking about them. De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques combined with new ideas to show us how to change the way we think.

RICHARD FLORIDA
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

The Great Reset will be more than descriptive and instructional economics; it will provide a new framework for understanding how we can power a revolutionary new round of growth akin to those that powered North America out of massive depressions in the 1870s and 1930s. Florida reminds us of the importance of geography and place, so long neglected; details the core actions needed to spur recovery; and paints a picture of what our economy, society and geography could look like - how we would work and live - after the Great Reset.

PATRICK LENCIONI
Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty

Patrick Lencioni illustrates the principles of inspiring client loyalty through a fascinating business fable. He explains the theory of vulnerability in depth and presents concrete steps for putting it to work in any organization. The story follows a small consulting firm, Lighthouse Partners, which often beats out big-name competitors for top clients. One such competitor buys out Lighthouse and learns important lessons about what it means to provide value to its clients. This new book in the popular Lencioni series shows what it takes to gain a real and lasting competitive edge.

JOHN WARRILLOW
Built to Sell

You may want to retire, travel, cash out, or just sleep well at night knowing you could sell your business. Regardless of your reasons, you need to ensure you have a sellable business. Unfortunately, just 1 out of every 100 business owners are successful in selling their company each year. If you ever want to sell your business, you need to read John Warrillow's Built to Sell.

SALLY HOGSHEAD
Fascinate

Why are you captivated by some people but not by others? Why do you recall some brands yet forget the rest? In a distracted, overcrowded world, how do certain leaders, friends, and family members convince you to change your behavior? Fascination: the most powerful way to influence decision making. It's more persuasive than marketing, advertising, or any other form of communication. And it all starts with seven universal triggers: lust, mystique, alarm, prestige, power, vice, and trust. Whether you realize it or not, you're already using the seven triggers. The question is, are you using the right triggers, in the right way, to get your desired result? This book will show you.

JEREMY RIFKIN
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

No matter how much we put our minds to the task of meeting the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world, the human race seems to continually come up short, unable to muster the collective mental resources to truly "think globally and act locally." In his most ambitious book to date, Rifkin shows that this disconnect between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness.

LARRY HOCHMAN
Relationship Revolution

How building relationships is the answer to economic recovery? Customers are obviously at the core of any business. However, most customers' trust in business is at an historic low, and many customers feel let down by businesses they formerly trusted.

DENIS CAUVIER
Hired 2.0

Recruiters have always sought the fastest, cheapest methods to increase both the quantity and quality of applicants. The growth of the Internet is revolutionizing the recruitment landscape, with the proliferation of sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and industry Blogs plus podcasts, recruiters are faced with much broader outreach channels when searching for talent. The interactive makeup of these sites not only allow for organizations to promote opportunities, but also gives them immediate access to much more in-depth information about prospect hires than would be available through the use of more traditional recruitment methods. Tapping into the global community via social media recruiting is the perfect combination of "word of mouth" coupled with "speed of light, global advertising"!

MOSHE A. MILEVSKY
Your Money Milestones: A Guide to Making the 9 Most Important Financial Decisions of Your Life

Drawing on the newest research into psychology and personal finance, Milevsky helps you identify the true value all of your resources; budget for hidden liabilities in your future; plan to spend your total resources smoothly over time; and prepare for unexpected events that could upend even the most careful planning. The insights are fascinating and useful throughout your life whether you’re deciding what to study; contemplating your first home purchase; deciding whether to keep contributing to your 401(k); or considering when and whether to retire.

SAUL MILLER
Praise for Performing Under Pressure: Gaining the Mental Edge in Business and Sport

Pressure. It keeps us focused, drives athletes to Olympic greatness, businesspeople to produce record value in their companies and artists to the stellar heights of their craft. But too much pressure is unhealthy and counterproductive. Miller shares a wealth of practical tools and exercises that allow anyone - in any situation - to manage the pressure they feel, and to channel it into peak performance. This book is an essential toolbox for anyone who wants to ensure that when it comes time to face intense, high-pressure situations, you'll be prepared to succeed.

GRANT McCRACKEN
Chief Culture Officer

Between them, Levi-Strauss, Quaker and Best Buy managed to lose $3.1 billion because they failed to read what was happening in the culture around them. Like many corporations, they outsourced their understanding of culture to others. The lesson? The American corporation needs a new profession and a new professional. It needs a Chief Culture Officer, someone in the C-suite who reads culture for its opportunities and its dangers. Grant McCracken argues that the CCO would keep a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends while developing a real understanding of the waves, shallow and deep, that move culture through contemporary culture. Delightfully authoritative, trenchantly on point, bursting with insight and character, Chief Culture Officer is sure to expand your horizons-and your business.

WENDEL CLARK
My Life in Hockey

The inspiring story of the farm boy from Saskatchewan who became one of the NHL's greatest hockey heroes.

LARRY WINGET
The Idiot Factor: The 10 Ways We Sabotage Our Life, Money, and Business

What do people really want? They want what they've got. It's a simple formula. You have what you want because your actions produced your results. Larry Winget dishes out straight talk on what he calls "life's messes", and offers sound, simple solutions. Taking on business, family, health, being fat, being stupid, success, money, and more, Winget points out exactly which changes have to take place in order for people to turn their lives around. A little bit of business, a little bit of personal development, a little finance, a little parenting, a little health and wellness, The Idiot Factor will help anyone identify his or her own "areas of stupidity" and take action to finally achieve real success.

LESLIE BECK
The Complete Nutrition Guide For Women

The Complete Nutrition Guide for Women provides in-depth information that is easy to understand, lifestyle-relevant, and based on current scientific evidence. This comprehensive reference is written for all women: healthy women who want to stay well, and women who have a specific health concern and want to manage it through diet and supplements. Designed with all ages in mind, Leslie Beck's Nutrition Guide for Women should be on every woman's bookshelf.

LESLIE BECK
The Complete A-Z Nutrition Encyclopedia: A Guide To Natural Health

In this comprehensive guide, registered dietician Leslie Beck gives you the tools you need to manage common health concerns with diet, vitamins, minerals, and herbs.

MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get it Back When You Need It.

Mojo is that much-desired sweet spot in an organization's year, a sports team's season, or an individual's career where everything is going the right way-and success builds upon success. In Mojo, Marshall Goldsmith explains that having mojo means controlling three elements: - Identity, Achievement & Reputation (Who do other people think you are? Knowing how to acquire, maintain, or even recapture it is what really counts, and Mojo will show that momentum in business-organizations as well as individual lives and careers-is easy to define and quantify; there's a clear cause-and-effect relationship between mojo and success.

DAN SENOR
Start-Up Nation – The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK? With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality-- all backed up by government policies focused on innovation. As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.

SIMON WHITFIELD
Simon Says Gold

From the moment Simon Whitfield burst onto the world stage at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games as triathlon's first Olympic champion, his winning personality and stellar athletic abilities have inspired young people around the globe. In Simon Says Gold, Simon describes his personal journey to Olympic glory as he recounts not only that glorious day in Sydney, but also the anguish of failing to repeat as Olympic champion in Athens in 2004, and his dramatic comeback at the 2008 Beijing Games, when his exhilarating race to a silver medal enthralled millions of fans around the world. Simon's stories of the highs and lows of his running career will captivate readers young and old, but his real message�that the simple pursuit of excellence is its own reward�will also inspire and motivate.

DEEPAK CHOPRA
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You

Deepak Chopra revisits "the forgotten miracle"–the body's infinite capacity for change and renewal. You cannot take advantage of this miracle, Chopra says, unless you are willing to completely reinvent your body, transforming it from a material object to a dynamic, flowing process. Using Chopra's ten steps to wholeness, you can harness those basic elements to change the distorted energy patterns that are the root cause of aging, infirmity, and disease. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul delivers ten breakthroughs–five for the body, five for the soul–that lead to self-transformation.

BUZZ HARGROVE
Laying It On The Line

Buzz Hargrove, the former head of the Canadian Autoworkers (CAW), retired right before the collapse, but not before witnessing the decades of bad decision making--by federal governments and CEOs--that set the stage for the sudden crisis. In Laying It on the Line, Hargrove explains the crisis from his side of the table, what it means for Canada and how the manufacturing sector can again become this country's foremost economic driver. Along the way, he shares the behind-the-door dealings with GM, Ford, Air Canada and others, explaining the controversial agreements he reached over his decades as Canada's chief labour leader. Laying It on the Line is a timely call to arms for industry, governments and indeed all Canadians.

JEANNE BLISS
I Love You More Than My Dog: Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad

What makes the difference between having customers who like you and customers who love you? Jeanne Bliss is an expert on what it takes to earn that kind of customer. The bad news, she says, is that there's no shortcut; the world's biggest marketing budget can't make people love you. But the good news is that a company can become beloved-if you commit to five essential decisions about how to run your business. The common denominator, explains Bliss, is that beloved companies consistently find ways to weave their humanity into their business decisions. If you're ready to join this elite group, Bliss's advice and case studies can help you drive growth and profit in any economy.

SHELLE ROSE CHARVET
The Customer is Bothering Me

Customers today are hard to deal with. They are impatient, demanding, won't do what you ask them to do, want special deals and something for nothing. And they're volatile! Sales and service professionals are often hard-pressed to know what to do while the client vents his or her fury. When issues remain unresolved, you stand to lose present and future business, not to mention the damage to your organization’s reputation that dissatisfied customers create in their wake. This is the first book that reveals the hidden motivations to understand, predict and influence your customers' behavior. If you want to know about designing customer processes, managing teams who communicate with customers, or if you deal directly with customers, this book is for you.

SANJAY GUPTA
Cheating Death

Twenty years ago all of them would have been given up for dead, with no realistic hope for survival. But today, thanks to incredible new medical advances, each of these individuals is alive and well . . .Cheating Death. In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible. Extended cardiac arrest, "brain death," not breathing for over an hour-all these conditions used to be considered inevitably fatal, but they no longer are. Today, revolutionary advances are blurring the traditional line between life and death in fascinating ways

GARY VAYNERCHUK
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed here, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, readers will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, Crush It! is the ultimate driver's manual for modern business.

LARRY DOWNES
The Laws of Disruption

Larry Downes’ book, The Law of Disruption is based on a simple but devastating principle explaining the resistance to change. It explores - ten years into the Internet revolution - what has happened to social, political, and legal systems that now lag dangerously far behind. In particular, the book describes nine emerging principles for a new legal foundation, built on the unique economic properties of information. These nine principles, representing the most contentious areas of transformation today, form the laws of disruption.

GENERAL RICK HILLIER
A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War

In Afghanistan, Canada faced its first combat losses since the Korean War, with every casualty becoming front-page news. A country formerly ambivalent, or even angry, about its role in the conflict suddenly became gripped by the drama unfolding not only in a war zone halfway around the world but in unfriendly conference rooms in Ottawa. There, as everywhere, Gen. Rick Hillier pulled no punches, demanding more funding, more troops and more appreciation for the women and men fighting a war on foreign soil. This hard-hitting, honest account of Hillier's role -- told in his own words -- will be one of the most important books published in Canada this decade.

SIMON SINEK
Start With Why

Start With Why offers an unconventional perspective that explains WHY some people and organizations are more innovative, more profitable, command greater loyalties from customers and employees alike and, most importantly, are able to repeat their success over and over. Because it’s all based on how people think and act, this unique view of the world has application in big business and small business, in politics and non-profit. Though some people have a natural ability to start with WHY, Simon Sinek’s book offers compelling evidence that, with a little discipline, anyone can learn how to do it.

WADE DAVIS
The Wayfinders

In The Wayfinders, celebrated author and anthropologist Wade Davis offers readers an engaging and insightful firsthand account of the environmental crises threatening indigenous cultures around the globe. An ardent defence of cultural preservation, the book celebrates the rich diversity of indigenous cultures and traditions while serving as a timely reminder of the dangers modernization and globalization pose to traditional ways of life.

SERENA WILLIAMS
On The Line

One of the biggest stars in tennis, Serena Williams has captured every major title. As a young girl, Serena began training with an adult-sized racquet that was almost as big as her. Rather than dropping the racquet, Serena saw it as a challenge to overcome, and she has proven to be an inspiration to her legions of fans both young and old. In this compelling and poignant memoir, Serena takes an empowering look at her extraordinary life and what is still to come.

DAVID IRVINE
Bridges of Trust: Making Accountability Authentic

Trust, the most important issue facing the world today, lies at the foundation of every relationship. Trust is the keystone of success in work and in life. It's the new global currency. It crosses cultures and generations. Building and restoring trust is our number one challenge today. In order to inspire trust, you have to be a trustworthy person. As you will learn in this book, authenticity takes accountability to a whole new level. This book will help readers understand accountability and how to inspire and achieve it in your personal and professional life -- by making accountability authentic.

STUART McLEAN
Extreme Vinyl Cafe

If you ask them, Dave and Morley's friends will tell you that no matter how long you've known people, they can still surprise you. After all, no one expects to see a grown man dive into the trunk of his car to chase a rat. And despite what they may claim, few people are actually prepared to have their backyard, never mind their twelve-year-old son, shoot to stardom on YouTube's Most Watched Videos. In Extreme Vinyl Cafe bestselling author Stuart McLean regales us with the wild impulses, and extreme behaviours of Canada's favourite characters at the Vinyl Cafe.

JIM CLEMMER
Growing at the Speed of Change

Growing @ the Speed of Change builds upon many of the personal growth and self-leadership concepts Jim Clemmer introduced in Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. As with Growing the Distance, he's added inspirational stories, personal and Client examples, fables, and humor to enliven and simplify what can be dry research or complex concepts. But what's especially exciting and different about Growing @ the Speed of Change are the hundreds of practical action ideas that make this book "inspir-actional."

RAY ANDERSON
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist

His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest”: the founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 82%, and the goal is to reach zero environmental footprint by 2020. Thoughtful and winning, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, shows how Anderson revolutionized his company, in the process bringing costs down, improving quality, making it one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” — and driving up profits.

MICHAEL WEX
How to Be a Mentsh

Wise and hilarious, this is a book about happiness, your own and that of others. Drawing on the “wisdom of the ages,” Michael Wex shows readers how to figure out the right thing to do in any situation. First he describes the two words “mentsh” and “shmuck.” The former refers most often to an adult who has learned to think of others first; the latter refers to someone who thinks he or she is someone special. In this book, you will learn how to keep yourself from believing you are someone special. You will learn how not to be a shmuck.

MITCH JOEL
Six Pixels of Separation

The world of how business communicates with their consumers has changed dramatically and forever. Is it important to be connected? Well, consider this: if Facebook were a country, it would have the sixth largest population in the world.
The truth is, we no longer live in a world of six degrees of separation. In fact, we’re now down to only six pixels of separation. It’s not a question of whether or not you are connected: we’re all connected, and this changes everything we know about business and how to increase our sales and visibility in the marketplace. SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION is the first book that speaks to business executives on the powerful concepts of digital marketing, social media, personal branding, and entrepreneurship in a clear, real, and instructive manner that business people can understand and apply.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM
Find Your Strongest Life

In Find Your Strongest Life, Marcus Buckingham reveals the powerful key to bring fulfillment, peace, and control into a woman's life. In today's world, can a woman truly 'have it all'? A fulfilling career full of passion and performance? A belief that she is truly becoming the best, authentic version of herself? And a happy, healthy life outside of work? Countless women would roll their eyes at the possibility. It all feels disconnected, out of control, and relentless. Buckingham reveals the powerful key to help women draw enough strength from life to feel fulfilled, loved, successful, and in control.

LORETTA LAROCHE
Lighten Up!: The Authentic and Fun Way to Lose Your Weight and Your Worries

Loretta LaRoche is sick to death of diets and diet books. Not a day goes by without an article appearing in the media that reveals some food that could be harmful or helpful to our health. Food has become either demonic or divine. We’ve forgotten how to be in “right relationship� with one of the greatest pleasures we have in life: eating. As a result, we’re fatter than ever and more stressed out about being fat! In this humorous and informative book, Loretta cuts through the nonsense, disclosing the wisdom she has accumulated from� having gained and lost a tribe of people.� She also shares her expertise as an international stress consultant, former aerobics instructor, and owner of a wellness center.

LORETTA LAROCHE
Juicy Living, Juicy Aging: Kick Up Your Heels Before You're Too Short to Wear Them

Our parents, our schools, and the media should all be teaching us that aging is a process that begins at birth... not something to be feared and avoided. Those who continue to be hardy and live long and healthy lives understand that the real path to vitality requires connection, playfulness, flexibility, grace, tenacity, resiliency, curiosity, learning, and good humor. With her trademark humor and practical wisdom, Loretta tackles how to live a long, healthy, juicy life�using herself and many of her friends and mentors as metaphors. Filled with practical advice, lifestyle skills, wisdom, and spirituality, Kick Up Your Heels... is a mental health spa that will inspire you and your family to live with joy, harmony, and peace while you still have the time!

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis of business and American-style capitalism. Based on an extraordinary three-year investigation, Kanter provides encouraging and astounding evidence that this assumption is completely outdated. The businesses that are agile, keeping ahead of the curve in terms of market changes and customer needs, are the businesses that are also progressive, socially responsible human communities. SuperCorp captures the zeitgeist of the emerging twenty-first-century business. SuperCorp is a remarkable look at the business of the future and the management skills required to get there.

LARRY WINGET
No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget

In these uncertain times, why mince words? America needs a straight- talk dose of Larry Winget reality more than ever. No Time for Tact is the ultimate wake-up call for anyone who's looking for a lifeline and true empowerment. He is truly one of the most unique and outrageous professional speakers and business authors out there today. No Time for Tact is a daily kick in the pants, 365 days of Larry Winget wisdom, full of advice harvested from his past books on career, personal finance, leadership, family, and customer service.

LESRA MARTIN
The Power of a Promise

Have you ever discovered an inspiring story of someone who has made a real difference in the world and asked yourself how they accomplished that? Lesra Martin's secret is that he believes that neither your intellect nor your circumstances will ultimately determine your success in life; that the real key to success lies in our ability to make a commitment to ourselves and then to fulfill that promise, whatever it is! Filled with thought-provoking insights and practical guidance for tackling the everyday challenges we all face, The Power of a Promise takes us on a journey to uncover our hidden strengths, to discover the gifts that we have to share and to reveal the life that we were meant to live.

MARK VICTOR HANSEN
Cash in a Flash

Right now, everyone needs trusted, proven, practical advice and techniques for making money fast. In Cash in a Flash, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen show readers how to use the skills and resources they already have to generate permanent and recurring streams of income—all in 90 days or less. Using their bestselling “two-books-in-one” formula, Hansen and Allen combine prescriptive information for developing the millionaire mindset and building wealth. In this much-anticipated and timely sequel, Hansen and Allen provide a revolutionary approach to financial freedom—now.

CRAIG & MARC KIELBURGER
The World Needs Your Kid

Inside this guide to parenting is a profound philosophy that encourages children to become global citizens. Drawing on life lessons and success stories Marc and Craig Kielburger demonstrate how small actions make a difference in the life of a child and ultimately change the world.

JOEL MAKOWER
Woodstock: The Oral History

Woodstock is the definitive, electrifying account of the rock festival that shook the world and defined a generation. In 1969 four young men--two budding entrepreneurs who really wanted to write sitcoms, a former head shop proprietor turned rock band manager, and a record company executive who smoked hash in his office--had a dream: to produce the greatest rock concert ever held. Little did they know how enormous a reality their dream would become. Makower describes how it all came together--and almost fell apart--told exclusively in the voices of the men and women who made it happen.

WILLIAM MELOCHE
Not Another Business Book!

There have been many systemized approaches to business, and a few have actually been useful. It’s tempting to believe that as the challenges get more complicated, so should the solutions. But in Not Another Business Book!, author William Meloche takes the exact opposite tack. Abandoning the world of methodologies and metrics, Meloche takes off in search of something more straightforward—common sense. Often fantastical, and occasionally tongue-in-cheek, Not Another Business Book! is a reminder that in a work environment knee-deep in complex events, the best answers may still be found in keeping things simple.

PETER TERTZAKIAN
The End of Energy Obesity

Nearly everything that defines our way of life requires energy-consuming devices, from cars, planes, trains, and air conditioning to lights and computers. Over the years, we've made our devices more efficient, only to find, ironically, that it's made us consume even more energy. We've periodically cut back our energy use only to revert back to bad habits. Now we are energy obese. How can the world reduce its energy appetite and change its diet of fuels for a prosperous and secure tomorrow? In The End of Energy Obesity, Peter Tertzakian explores solutions to this question by analyzing the role of technology and circumstance on our energy use.

ADAM WERBACH
Strategy for Sustainability

Layoffs. Failing companies. Collapsing economies. Tainted products. Scarce resources. These are but a few of the seemingly intractable problems that plague the world we live in today. And these problems will only get worse—unless we change how we do business. Strategy for Sustainability calls for the relentless pursuit of long-term sustainability—and that doesn’t mean “green.” Leading business strategist Adam Werbach pushes sustainability well beyond quaint notions of saving the planet. Werbach redefines the movement to address not just environmental and economic trends, but also social and cultural ones.

DENISE MAREK
The Keys:  Open the Door to True Empowerment and Infinite Possibilities

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could find the keys to open the door to your full potential and free yourself from the negative chatter in your mind? What if you could find the keys that would release you from your past pain, fears, and feelings of failure? Could you imagine what your life would be like if these keys existed? They do! These keys already exist; and they exist within you. With them you’re able to open the door to true empowerment and infinite possibilities.

PHILIP KOTLER
Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of Turbulence

We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the constant threat of chaos. Complete with metrics and measurements, Chaotics outlines a powerful new system for managing waves of uncertainty affecting customers, employees, and other stakeholders. In this climate of increased turbulence, no organization can survive with less.

MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD
Shop Class as Soulcraft

A philosopher / mechanic destroys the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one’s hands. For anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honor of the manual trades as a life worth choosing. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker,” based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand from that of the mind. Based on his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford makes a case for the intrinsic satisfactions and cognitive challenges of manual work. Shop Class as Soulcraft offers a passionate call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.

BRUCE LOURIE
Slow Death By Rubber Duck

Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us. Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes – now, it’s personal. The most dangerous pollution has always come from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us all the time, exposing us to truth about what is poisoning us every day of our lives. Ultimately hopeful, the book empowers readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families, and changing things for the better.

JEFF RUBIN
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American–a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book that explores what the new global economy will look like and what it will mean for all of us. Jeff Rubin reveals that despite the recent recessionary dip, oil prices will skyrocket again once the economy recovers. Consequently, the amount of food and other goods we get from abroad will be curtailed; long-distance driving will become a luxury and international travel rare. Globalization as we know it will reverse.

JAMES MASKALYK
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village

In 2007 James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan, as a doctor newly recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières. Equipped with his experience as an emergency physician in a downtown hospital and drawn to the hardest parts of the world, Maskalyk spent his days treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic and watching for war. Six Months in Sudan began as a blog that Maskalyk wrote from his hut in Sudan in an attempt to bring his family and friends closer to his hot, hot days. It is the story of the doctors, nurses and countless volunteers who leave their homes behind to ease the suffering of others, and it is the story of the people of Abyei who suffer its hardship because it is the only home they have. With great hope and insight, Maskalyk illuminates a distant place and chronicles the toll of war on one community, one man, and the cost of it to all of us.

MAX LENDERMAN
Brand New World: How Paupers, Pirates and Oligarchs are Reshaping Business

We live in a brand new world, where marketing is taking on incredible new forms, especially in the hyper-developing “BRIC” countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. The almost unimaginable economic growth in these nations is revolutionizing marketing across the planet. Drawing from over two years of extensive travel and research, Max Lenderman shares groundbreaking marketing strategies and business models that every savvy marketer and corporate visionary needs to understand. Brisk, fascinating and a little shocking, Brand New World is both a window and a mirror into the future of global marketing.

DR. NATASHA TURNER
The Hormone Diet

With hormonal imbalance, the risk of conditions associated with aging – cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis or heart disease – is magnified. If our hormones are in balance, we have the potential to age gracefully and remain youthful. What’s the secret? It’s in your hormones! In The Hormone Diet, Natasha Turner lays out a fool-proof plan to balance your life, one hormone at a time. Along with advice for weight loss, Turner provides recommendations for an anti-inflammatory detox, nutritional supplements, exercise, sleep, stress management, toxin-free skin care and natural hormone replacement, along with a personalized diet plan–all incorporated into a complete 3-step wellness program focused on the essentials of hormonal balance for lasting health and fat loss.

JIM ROGERS
A Gift to My Children

In A Gift to My Children, Jim Rogers offers advice with his trademark candor and confidence, but this time around he adds paternal compassion, protectiveness, and love. Rogers reveals how to learn from his triumphs and mistakes in order to achieve a prosperous, well-lived life. Wise and warm, accessible and inspiring, A Gift to My Children is a great gift for all those just starting to invest in their futures.

KELLEY KEEHN
She Inc.

Experts estimate that you will change not only your job, but your career an average of four to five times in you life. Stability and job security are things of the past. Corporate downsizing, whirlwind swings in the markets, job outsourcing—there has never been a more important time for women to take a proactive approach to their career tracks. Author Kelley Keehn meticulously guides the reader through the paradigm shift of seeing oneself as a corporation. With real case studies, you’ll learn how becoming the CEO of your own personal corporation will revolutionize your personal and professional life.

DR. BARBARA MOSES
What Next

This new edition of Dr. Barbara Moses' bestselling What Next? has been revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in the Canadian career marketplace. This user-friendly guide is for anyone searching for work satisfaction, balance, and career success in today's demanding workplace. Combining in-depth self-assessment tools with insightful and caring advice, "What Next?" is a comprehensive, practical handbook with information on resume writing, networking techniques, and searching and applying for jobs from "Canada's Career Guru".

RAM CHARAN
Owning Up

In Owning Up, Ram Charan describes the best practices emerging in boardrooms that he has observed firsthand. He provides practical recommendations on a range of issues, from compensation to dealing with external constituencies. Wisely attuned to the human side, he confronts the need for some boards to refresh their composition and for others to rebalance their board dynamics. Directors, CEOs, general counsels, and operating executives will find here the guidance they need to meet the new and rising standards for corporate governance in this demanding business environment.

THOMAS HOMER-DIXON
Carbon Shift

The twin crises of climate change and peaking oil production are converging on us. If they are not to cook the planet and topple our civilization, we will need informed and decisive policies, clear-sighted innovation, and a lucid understanding of what is at stake. We will need to know where we stand, and which direction we should start out in. These are the questions that Carbon Shift addresses.

Edited by Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, the book is a collection of writings by six of Canada’s experts on climate change and oil production.

CONNIE PODESTA
Make a Fortune Selling to Women

In Make a Fortune Selling to Women, Connie Podesta combines psychology and sales tactics to create a how-to guide for closing sales with women. With a lively voice and no-nonsense tone that both men and women will appreciate, Podesta offers specific tips for overcoming the big five Deal Breakers. Riddled with revealing anecdotes, Podesta describes the male and female approach to the buying experience--without being condescending to either gender. And both salesmen and saleswomen will rely on this book to help them secure more sales with women.

SAUL MILLER
Why Teams Win

Today there is a greater than ever need for people to work together effectively in teams. Dr. Saul Miller’s, Why Teams Win, identifies the 9 key characteristics of successful teams - describes how to improve personal, organizational and team performance in each of these 9 areas. The book features advice, quotes, and interviews from high-profile athletes and coaches, as well as from business leaders - includes self-evaluation and team-building exercises. Why Teams Win offers anyone wanting to improve their personal and team performance a proven and accessible formula for success.

ROBERT SAWYER
Wake

Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math—and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin’s brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes. While exploring this amazing realm, she discovers something—some other—lurking in the background. And it’s getting more and more intelligent with each passing day…

TODD BUCHHOLZ
Lasting Lessons From the Corner Office

Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office uncovers the secrets behind the success of the great CEOs through their lives and personal stories. The book not only fascinates with the personal lives of these CEOs, it shows how we can transfer their ideas today to the triumphs and struggles of Sony, Dell, Costco, Carnival Cruises, Time Warner, and numerous other companies trying to figure out how to stay on top, or climb back up. Extraordinarily fresh and deeply thoughtful, Buchholz's Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office is a truly enjoyable and fun—yet serious and realistic—look at what we still have to learn and absorb from these former CEOs.

YOSSI GHINSBERG
Lost in the Jungle

Four travellers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive. Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won't be able to put down.

JENNY MCCARTHY
Mother Warriors

No two autistic children heal in exactly the same way. And in her new book, Jenny expands her message to share recovery stories from parents across the country. Mother Warriors, shows how each parent fought to find her own child’s perfect “remedy of interventions� and teaches parents how to navigate safely through the many autism therapies. Emotional and genuinely practical, Mother Warriors will inspire a generation of parents with hope.

JENNY MCCARTHY
Healing and Preventing Autism: A Complete Guide

In 2006, autism became the leading disorder affecting children in the United States. While diagnoses skyrocket and parents struggle to find help, a group of innovative doctors has been pioneering therapies and treatments that are remarkably effective in healing conditions associated with autism. Since early intervention is key to a successful recovery, McCarthy has teamed up with Dr. Jerry Kartzinel, the doctor who successfully treated her son, to write the first book to give parents all the necessary information about biomedical treatment. He shows parents how to make simple changes to their child's environment and diet that can result in marked improvements and are safe and easy to try at home.

DAMBISA MOYODAMBISA MOYO
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty. Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world’s poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance.

DAVID MEERMAN SCOTT
World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories

A World Wide Rave is when people around the world are talking about you, your company, and your products. It's when communities eagerly link to your stuff on the Web. It's when online buzz drives buyers to your virtual doorstep. It's when tons of fans visit your Web site and your blog because they genuinely want to be there. You can trigger a World Wide Rave: Just create something valuable that people want to share and make it easy for them to do so. In World Wide Rave, David Meerman Scott, reveals the most exciting and powerful ways to build a giant audience from scratch. 

DAVID NOUR
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Raising Capital

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Capital, designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the money-raising maze, shows how to attract financing to fund the start-up and growth phases any business moves through. It answers the most common questions entrepreneurs have about financing a business. This book provides real-life, pragmatic advice from entrepreneurs who have raised money from friends, family, angel investors, and banks, as well as institutional investors such as venture capitalists and private equity firms.

HENDRIE WEISINGER
The Genius of Instinct

Why are we sometimes so unhappy and unfulfilled? Why do we sometimes get into the wrong relationships, take the wrong jobs, and make the wrong choices? Evolutionary psychologists have discovered stunning new lessons about the power of instincts and their capacity to transform lives positively. Dr. Hendrie Weisinger shows how to reconnect with the instincts Mother Nature gave you. You'll rediscover the six most indispensable human instincts that have evolved over millions and millions of years. Then, you'll learn how to use them to thrive in every part of your life...

EZRA LEVANT
Shakedown

Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canada’s human rights commissions. In the wake of Levant’s 2008 showdown with Alberta’s ‘human rights commission’, he began investigating other instances in which innocent people have had their freedoms compromised by bureaucrats presuming to protect Canadians’ human rights. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases. Human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things. Shakedown is a convincing plea to Canadians to reclaim their basic liberties.

BRUCE TULGAN
Not Everyone Gets A Trophy

There are few bright sides to the likely prospect of a prolonged economic downturn. Here's one: This might be the perfect time for business leaders, managers, and other "grown-ups" to give a much needed reality check to Generation Y employees. What is the reality check today's young workers need to hear? "Not everyone gets a trophy!" That is the title of Bruce Tulgan’s new book, NOT EVERYONE GETS A TROPHY: How to Manage Generation Y. Based on more than a decade of research, Tulgan's message is simple: " Generation Y calls for strong leadership, not weak."

ADRIENNE CLARKSON
Norman Bethune

Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious energy included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese Canadian, has always been fascinated by the dynamic man who married his social conscience to his medical mission.

JASON JENNINGS
Hit the Ground Running

One of the toughest jobs in business is taking over as a new leader. You have to hit the ground running- diagnose the situation, pull together a strong team, decide on a strategy, and inspire everyone to execute it.
Jason Jennings searched for the new CEOs who had pulled off the most impressive transformations of this decade. He interviewed ten who, on average, had doubled revenues, doubled profit margins, and more than tripled earnings per share. The result: ten new "golden rules" that can help leaders balance the short term and the long term.

RUDYARD GRIFFITHS
Who We Are

Canadians have been persuaded that theirs is a post national state—a country that downplays its history, makes few demands of its citizens, and places Canadian identity second to linguistic, ethnic or regional loyalties. A society free of strongly reinforced values or sense of national purpose is touted as an asset in a world of fluid economies and global migration. In this timely and provocative work, Rudyard Griffiths argues that the “Canada lite” model leads to a dead end: irrelevancy on the world stage and divisive strife at home. Without the robust civic values that drove Canada’s successes in the past and the social solidarity that allows diverse groups and individuals to forge common goals, we may falter as a nation.

STEVE FARBER
Greater Than Yourself

Too many people assume the timeless principles of true leadership—of helping others achieve their full potential—don’t apply Monday through Friday during work hours or in any circumstance where a paycheck is involved.

In Greater Than Yourself, Steve Farber proves them wrong: in this powerful and inspiring story, Farber shows that the goal of a genuine leader is to help others—teammates, employees, and colleagues—become more capable, confident, and accomplished than they are themselves. Through the actions of a forward-thinking and extraordinarily successful CEO, Farber reveals the three keys to achieving this: Expand Yourself, Give Yourself, and Replicate Yourself.

KEN DYCHTWALD
With Purpose

Success can be looked at from different perspectives at different points in our lives. As a working adult, success is often represented by the challenge of simultaneously creating a blossoming family and burgeoning career. But what about in the decades after life’s initial goals have been pursued? Is it too late to have new dreams, go back to school, start a new and gratifying career, fall in love again, become a philanthropreneur, reinvent yourself, or change the world?

EVAN SOLOMON
Food and Fuel

The twenty-first century has been dominated by two major global crises: a scarcity of food and fuel. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy. Combining the best of the critically acclaimed Fueling the Future and Feeding the Future, this timely and provocative collection of essays from leading thinkers offers valuable strategies to combat global famine and fast-food fat; business models for sustainable food production and power sources; and descriptions of emerging technologies and sciences.

MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
Succession – Are You Ready?

A leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. Most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process. How do you start preparing yourself--and your successor--for your inevitable leadership transition?

In this concise book, Marshall Goldsmith offers candid advice on succession from the outgoing executive's perspective. From choosing and grooming a successor while sidestepping political minefields, to finally handing over responsibility, Goldsmith walks you through each step in the succession process.

HARRY DENT
The Great Depression Ahead

The market is headed down and talk of a recession is on everyone's lips. But noted forecaster and investment advisor Harry S. Dent Jr. warns that the worst is yet to come. In his new book, THE GREAT DEPRESSION AHEAD: How to Prosper in the Crash that Follows the Greatest Boom in History, Dent predicts that our economy is on course toward a major depression, not unlike the one that struck Japan a decade ago. The showdown, he says, will continue for at least a decade. The book also offers practical advice that investors can take today to inoculate themselves against tomorrow's worst and to position themselves to take advantage of changing conditions.

GORDON PAPE
Tax-Free Savings Account

This may be of the most important little investment book you'll ever read! Financial expert Gordon Pape explains the new Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)--the powerful new personal savings vehicle for Canadians - and provides a range of strategies that you can use to add thousands of tax-exempt dollars to your personal wealth.

CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
The Innovator’s Prescription

Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.

Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen presents The Innovator’s Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable.

This is real innovation at work: an eye-opening manifesto that’s sure to spark international debate—and much-needed change for a healthier future.

NICK MORGAN
Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma

Nick Morgan shows how anyone can be an effective speaker by presenting an image of authenticity and respect for their audience, whether in a group presentation or a one-on-one conversation. He presents a four-step process, perfected in his teaching at Harvard, that enables the reader to use their own personal speaking style while becoming a more persuasive and charismatic communicator and leader. The key to success is to train your body language to unconsciously align with your message.

ALI VELSHI
Gimme My Money Back: The Financial Crisis and What You Can Do About It

Written by CNN Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi using his trademark user-friendly voice, GIMME MY MONEY BACK is a simple to understand guide to getting back the money you might have lost as a result of the economic turmoil of the past several months. With actionable advice from Ali and several highly respected financial professionals, GIMME MY MONEY BACK puts the power of your financial future firmly back in your control.

DAVID ALLEN
Making It All Work

David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing with our daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overload that threatens to drown us. Making It All Work provides an instantly usable, success-building tool kit for staying ahead of the game. Making It All Work addresses: how to figure out where you are in life and what you need; how to be your own consultant and a CEO of your life; moving from hope to trust in decision-making; when not to set goals; harnessing intuition, spontaneity, and serendipity; and why life is like business and business is like life.

JOEL MAKOWER
Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business

Business leaders searching for a green strategy encounter few roadmaps and established rules and plenty of hidden twists and turns. Strategies for the New Green Economy describes how companies can succeed in the green marketplace, keeping pace with customer and societal demands to reduce their environmental impact. In this book, Joel Makower provides clear guidance for this challenge. He offers insights and inspiration gleaned from his 20 years' experience helping Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike formulate strategies that align environmental and business goals.

LARRY WINGET
People Are Idiots and I Can Prove It!: The 10 Ways You Are Sabotaging Yourself and How You Can Overcome Them

We talk a lot about the things we want. But do you know what people really want? They want what they’ve got. It’s a simple formula: You have what you want because your actions produced your results. Larry Winget dishes out straight talk on what he calls “life’s messes” and offers up his advice topped with a dollop of common sense. Larry proposal: Recognize where you are being an idiot and then take action to stop being an idiot. He takes on business, family, health, being fat, being stupid, success, money, and more, and tells us step by step what we need to change.

LARRY WINGET
You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

More than 40 percent of families today are feeling financial pressure: spending more than they earn, and worrying about retiring and being dependent on the government, family, or charity. Larry Winget knows. He grew up poor, then made and lost a fortune when a business in which he’d invested went bankrupt. But he worked his way back from rock bottom to become a multimillionaire. In You’re Broke Because You Want to Be, Winget expands on the ideas that have made his popular television show Big Spender a hit and offers straightforward talk about coming to grips with your finances.

RICHARD BOOKSTABER
A Demon of Our Own Design

Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street - Rick Bookstaber has seen the ghost inside the machine and vividly shows us a world that is even riskier than we think. Bookstaber gives readers a front row seat to the management decisions made by some of the most powerful financial figures in the world that led to catastrophe, and describes the impact of his own activities on markets and market crashes. A Demon of Our Own Design tells the story of man’s attempt to manage market risk and what it has wrought. In the process of showing what we have done, Bookstaber shines a light on what the future holds for a world where capital and power have moved from Wall Street institutions to elite and highly leveraged hedge funds.

RAM CHARAN
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty

In Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty, Ram Charan helps you steer your business through the minefield of contracting markets, cash shortages, and ongoing uncertainty. No matter what your leadership role, Charan's insight will help ensure that your business emerges leaner, stronger, and well in front of the competition. With examples and case studies, Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty illustrates how leaders at DuPont, Hanesbrands, Wipro, and other companies used Charan's techniques to get results.

DAVID ROCCO
David Rocco?s Dolce Vita

After three seasons of the popular television series David Rocco's Dolce Vita, its eponymous host David Rocco has become one of Canada's most popular celebrity cooks. Eagerly anticipated, this book is full of everything that makes the TV show such a favourite: beautiful food photography and locales, and, of course, David's sense of la dolce vita, the sweet life. His cookbook is all about taking a relaxed, enjoyable approach to the everyday, and the foundation of this lifestyle is simple, elegant food. From antipasti to mains to desserts to brilliant and delicious uses for leftovers, David Rocco shows you how to bring la dolce vita into your life.

JOANNE THOMAS YACCATO
The Gender Intelligent Retailer

With the economy in distress, retailers need to pay more attention than ever before to the mechanics of their business. Women are incredibly discerning consumers who control 80 percent of the consumer dollar spent in the industrialized world, yet the retail sector ranks poorly in its ability to serve this major market. Research reveals that women feel they are not taken as seriously as men by the companies they do business with. The way to reach women effectively is to put their consumer needs at the epicenter of your business strategy, and this is the book that explains why, and how to do it. The holistic or “organic” approach outlined in The Gender Intelligent Retailer shows that if you focus on what women want in a retail experience, you raise the bar for everyone.

DAVID MEERMAN SCOTT
Tuned In

A proven strategy for dominating markets developed over fifteen years, Tuned In reveals the secrets that separate market leaders from followers and failures. It shows you how to stop wasting time and money trying to be innovative and start creating "resonators"— great products or services that people buy because they solve the problems they have and make their lives better. Read Tuned In and discover how to connect to what people really want, and—most importantly—how you can become an organization they trust.

DAVID MEERMAN SCOTT
The New Rules of Marketing and PR

The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers large and small companies, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, political organizations, consultants, even rock bands and churches. Finally, you can speak directly to customers and buyers, establishing a personal link with those who make your business work. Rather than bombard them with advertising they'll likely ignore, you can focus on getting the right message to the right people. This book will show you how to stay ahead of the curve—and your competitors—by using the Internet to its full PR, marketing, and customer-communications potential.

LES STROUD
Survive!

From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth. Now, the creator, producer, and host of the hit television program Survivorman transfers his decades of knowledge and experience to the pages of Survive!, a practical guide that gives everyday readers a no-nonsense look at the real world of survival.

PETER JENSEN
Igniting the Third Factor

In Igniting the Third Factor, Dr. Peter Jensen distills 20 years of work with one foot in the boardroom and the other in the locker room. Over 90 minutes, managers learn how to use the five core practices of exceptional Olympic coaches to motivate, engage and develop their employees. As Peter moves from the dressing room to the corner office and back again, he discovers leadership lessons in some unique places - but always reinforces them with examples that everyone can relate to in their day-to-day.

SALLY ARMSTRONG
Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan's Women

In Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots, journalist Sally Armstrong revisits Afghanistan to compare women's lives pre- and post-Taliban, interviewing Afghan and Western women who are dedicated to improving health, education, culture, religion, and human rights. Armstrong connects these stories with the analysis of experts and considers the grassroots efforts of Canadians and the dedicated tax dollars being spent by the Canadian government.

DEEPAK CHOPRA
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment

As he did in his novel, Buddha, Deepak Chopra brings history to life as he captures the untold transformation of a teenage rebel to a leader of men, and ultimately to the Son of God. In JESUS: A Story of Enlightenment, Chopra, one of the preeminent teachers of spirituality and personal development, has imagined Jesus’s path to enlightenment moving from obscurity to revolutionary, from doubt to miracles, and then beyond as the role of the long-awaited Messiah.

NIALL FERGUSON
The Ascent Of Money

Historian Niall Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of finance. He tells the financial stories behind the Renaissance, the rise of the Dutch republic, and the French Revolution. The central lesson of financial history is that sooner or later every financial bubble bursts – a valuable lesson that we are learning today. What better way to understand what is going on today than to look back at the financial past? Whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.

JOHN DALLA COSTA
In Trust: Ethics in Advertising

Recognized around the world as an authoritative and practical tool for developing corporate reputation, marketing and branding approaches, IN TRUST offers a new way of seeing what is possible from an ethics perspective, not as a constraint but as a catalyst to strategy. Teaching with exercises and modules, the book enables individuals and companies to find practical ways to perform ethically to meet the expectations of customers, clients and stakeholders.

PETER C. NEWMAN
Izzy

Izzy tells the epic, unauthorized life story of a Canadian media giant Izzy Asper was a true visionary and a self-made billionaire. In the kind of intimate detail that made his other books mega bestsellers, Peter C. Newman profiles one of the most charismatic and powerful Canadian tycoons of the past quarter century. A serial risk-taker with a fever in his blood, the always-controversial Asper grew a tiny television station, operated out of a converted supermarket, into the CanWest Empire.

GWYNNE DYER
Climate Wars

Gwynne Dyer's columns on international affairs appear in a dozen languages in nearly 200 newspapers published in 45 countries around the world. His latest book, Climate Wars, is a ground-breaking investigation of how nations will behave when global warming really strikes home. Badly, of course, but HOW badly depends on how hot, how soon -- and the game is not yet lost. There are opportunities as well as dangers, and despair is just self-indulgence.

LINDA EDGECOMBE
Shift… or Get Off the Pot

Are you shaking your head that another year is rolling along and you haven’t done what you really want to do with your life? Does the word spontaneous in your life only apply to the latest hot flash or hair loss? If this is hitting home for you, Shift Or Get Off The Pot is the book for you! Throughout this book Linda Edgecombe encourages and humours you while she has you reflecting on yourself and your life.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM
The Truth About You: Your Secret To Success

Marcus Buckingham - the World's Leading Expert on Career Success - urges you to discover the "The Truth About You". This revolutionary toolkit will create higher satisfaction and performance in life and work. Perfect for students and people wanting to revitalize their career, The Truth About You helps you develop the kind of clarity and passion that drives a successful and satisfying future.

MARTIN LINDSTROM
Buyology: Truth And Lies About Why We Buy

BUYOLOGY is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today’s consumer. Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking, three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study, a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what seduces our interest and drives us to buy.

DR. JIM LOEHR
The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Business and in Life

Dr. Jim Loehr helps you create deeply engaging stories that will give you the tools to wield the power of storytelling and forever change your business and personal life. Far too many of our stories are dysfunctional. Loehr shows you how to create new, reality-based stories that inspire you to action, and take you where you want to go both in your work and personal life.

MOSHE A. MILEVSKY
Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future

In an era when traditional corporate pensions are disappearing, Social Security' s sustainability is in question, healthcare costs are skyrocketing, and society is dumping more and more financial risk squarely onto your shoulders, Moshe Milevsky helps you comprehensively integrate all the opportunities and risks in your life: your career risks, your portfolio risks, your housing risks, and even your personal inflation and longevity risks that could lead you to financial regret and a ruined retirement. Then, he introduces a powerful, new framework for thinking about and managing your financial future that you can use to systematically reduce your vulnerability to each of these risks and, thus, generate long-term financial security.

COLIN McALLISTAR AND JUSTN RYAN
Colin and Justin’s Home Heist Style Guide

HGTV's smash hit TV show Colin and Justin's Home Heist launched in 2007, unleashing the outrageous wit of sassy Scottish designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan on an unsuspecting and style-deprived Canadian public. Now the hilarious hosts use their expertise (and sharp tongues) to teach us how to renovate our own dismal dwellings, room by room. Colin and Justin's Home Heist Style Guide takes the reader through every stage, from planning to perfection, with in-depth advice about everything from choosing colour schemes to shopping for your home on a tight budget.

DAVID NOUR
Relationship Economics

Relationship Economics takes a unique and strategic view of business relationships as a platform for long-term business growth and success. This goes far beyond simplistic "networking" or the exchange of business cards. The book introduces new concepts in relationship management, including the exchange of Relationship Currency, the accumulation of Reputation Capital, and the building of Professional Net Worth. These are the fundamental qualities and measures of busi-ness relationships, and once you understand them, you'll be able to turn your contacts into better execution, performance, and results.

STEVEN SPEAR
Chasing the Rabbit

How can companies perform so well that their industry counterparts are competitors in name only? Although they operate in the same industry, serve the same market, and even use the same suppliers, these “rabbits” lead the race and, more importantly, continually widen their lead. In Chasing the Rabbit, Steven J. Spear describes what sets high-velocity, market-leading organizations apart and explains how you can lead the pack in your industry.

JAY INGRAM
Daily Planet Book Of Cool Ideas

Jay Ingram’s new book is adapted from Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet special series on global warming. In the book he explains what global warming is and possible solutions—even extreme solutions—for dealing with our warming planet. How does the average person make a difference in the fight to stop climate change and global warming? Ingram explains how people are making a difference, from using solar-powered ovens to living off the grid.

DON THOMPSON
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics Of Contemporary Art

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark delves into the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world–artists, dealers, auction houses, and wealthy collectors. If it’s true that 85 percent of new contemporary art is bad, why have record prices been achieved at auction for these works? The book explores money, lust, and the self-aggrandizement of possession in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work of art valuable while others are ignored.

JOHN RALSTON SAUL
A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada

In A Fair Country, Saul argues that it is critical to recognize the following aspects of Canada in order to rethink its future: that the famous "peace, order, and good government" that supposedly defines Canada is a distortion of the country's true nature, that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by aboriginal ideas, and that Canada has an increasingly ineffective elite that doesn't identify with Canada.

TIM SANDERS
Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference

Today’s customers, employees, and investors are demanding that companies focus on social responsibility. In Saving the World at Work, Tim Sanders discusses this “Responsibility Revolution” and reveals why companies must go beyond making a profit and start making a difference. He offers concrete suggestions on how individuals and companies can make the world a better place.

NEIL Z. STERN
Greentailing and Other Revolutions in Retail: Hot Ideas That Are Grabbing Customers' Attention and Raising Profits

In his new book Greentailing and Other Revolutions in Retail, co-author Stern examines the trends occurring in the retail marketplace – including the influential green trend, or Greentailing. Using case studies from successful greentailers like Whole Foods and Wal*Mart, the authors present unbeatable advice on responding to changes in customer demographics and competition.

ERIC ALPER
Conversational Capital: How to Create Stuff People Love to Talk About

For all the books that speak of the value of consumer advocacy, few indicate how to create it to begin with. Armed with a compelling set of examples from their own work in fostering leading brands, the authors reveal the triggers of word-of-mouth and a process to embedding them in your own products, helping you create stuff people love to talk about.

JENNY MCCARTHY
Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism

One morning Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evan's room and found him having a seizure. Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed Evan until�after many harrowing, life-threatening episodes-one good doctor discovered that Evan is autistic. Louder Than Words follows Jenny as she discovered an intense combination of behavioral therapy, diet, and supplements that became the key to saving Evan from autism. Her story sheds much-needed light on autism through her own heartbreak, struggle, and ultimately hopeful example of how a parent can shape a child's life and happiness.

TERRY FALLIS
The Best Laid Plans

Here’s the set up: A burnt-out political aide quits just before an election — but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with Angus McLintock — an engineering professor who will do anything to avoid teaching English to engineers — to let his name stand in the election. No need to campaign, certain to lose, and so on. Then a great scandal blows away his opponent, and to their horror, Angus is elected. He decides to see what good an honest M.P. who doesn’t care about being re-elected can do in Parliament. The results are hilarious…

DEEPAK CHOPRA
Why Is God Laughing?

In WHY IS GOD LAUGHING? Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenment – with a lot of laughter along the way. This refreshing take on spirituality gives us ten reasons to be optimistic, even in our challenging world, and shows us why laughter from the heart is the healthiest response to life.

JONAS RIDDERSTRÄLE
Re-energizing The Corporation

Re-energizing The Corporation is built on the groundbreaking 3e leadership model which makes sense of the three Es of Envisioning, Engaging and Executing. By understanding and following the model, you will be able to create compelling pictures of the future of your organization; build a following of individuals committed to getting the vision into reality; and maximize team performance to deliver on your dream.

CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
Disrupting Class

According to recent studies in neuroscience, the way we learn doesn't always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive-academically, economically, and technologically-we need to rethink our understanding of intelligence, re-evaluate our educational system, and reinvigorate our commitment to learning. Applying Christensen's now-famous theories of “disruptive innovation” to the educational system, you will discover surprising new ideas, outside-the-box strategies, and straight-A success stories.

DR. JILL BOLTE TAYLOR
My Stroke Of Insight

A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities. Taylor observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Ultimately, she repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insights gained from her right brain that morning of her stroke. 

DAVID WEINBERGER
Everything is Miscellaneous

Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by "going miscellaneous," anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life.

CHARLENE LI
Groundswell

Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now. When consumers you’ve never met are rating your company s products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc. explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity.

ROGER MARTIN
The Future of the MBA

The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings--every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. The Future of the MBA provides a sorely needed detailed and systematic review of the major contemporary debates on management education. At the same time, it makes a striking new proposal that will certainly have an impact in business schools: that managers need to develop a series of qualitative tacit skills which could be appropriately developed by integrative curricula brought from different disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, and other social sciences.

KAREN SOBEL LOJESKI
Uniting the Virtual Workforce

As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new pheno-menon, Virtual Distance, comprised of three major axes: physical distance, operational distance and technical difficulties. Uniting the Virtual Workforce introduces the concept of Virtual Distance to show businesses the definite costs to doing work in a virtual environment. It then goes a step further and offers proven methods for measuring these costs and guidance on managing them.

PETER SHEAHAN
Fl!P

Emphasizing flexible, counterintuitive decision-making, Flip calls for a new way of doing business in an economy where conventional wisdom won't get you anywhere, Peter Sheahan reveals how the world's most effective organizations and individuals distinguish themselves from the competition, instead of running with the pack. In Flip he uncovers what the superstars of modern business have in common: an ability to "flip"—to think counter intuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for "business as usual" conventions. Sheahan teaches today's decision makers how to embrace change and successfully operate in an economy that runs on new ideas.

DAN GARDNER
Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear

We are the safest and healthiest human beings who ever lived, and yet irrational fear is growing, with deadly consequences. We learn that the brain has not one but two systems to analyze risk. One is primitive, unconscious, and intuitive. The other is conscious and rational. The two systems often agree, but occasionally they come to very different conclusions. Gardner takes us inside, helping us to understand how to deconstruct the information we’re bombarded with and respond more logically and adaptively to our world.

CARL HONORÉ 
Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood From The Culture Of Hyper-parenting

Under Pressure offers a fascinating and urgent look at childhood today and how we are raising a generation of over-programmed, overachieving, exhausted children. Carl Honoré explains how our modern approach to children is backfiring, and in using children as a way to relive our own lives, or as a way to make up for our personal shortcomings, we have destroyed the magic and innocence of childhood.

RAM CHARAN
The Game-changer: How You Can Drive Revenue And Profit Growth With Innovation

We live in a world of unprecedented change, increasing global competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization. Innovation in this world is the best way to win—arguably the only way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral, central driving force for any business that wants to grow organically and succeed on a sustained basis. This is a game-changing book that helps you redefine your leadership and improve your management game.

MARK JEFFRIES 
What's Up with Your Handshake?

Welcome to a toolbox of communication ideas designed to give you an advantage over everyone else in the business and social world. Unlock the secrets to: controlling perceptions, influencing decisions, leading meetings, manipulating opinion, winning sales and shining as a communicator. From the secrets of networking and conveying the right message to presenting the best image and gaining the boardroom advantage, this book examines in an entertaining and informal style how to fine-tune all aspects of your strategic communication and soft-skills.

SAM GEIST 
Execute...or Be Executed: Twenty One Ways to Move Talk Into Action

Strategy alone does not determine business success. It’s how well you implement that strategy, how well you execute those ideas and plans. Effective execution requires looking at your entire business and finding ways to improve each part of the process—your leadership, your people, your business process, your partners, your technological skill. Execute will help you, your organization, and your people to use the organizational tools you already own to close the gap between your dreams and reality.

RICHARD FLORIDA
Who's Your City?: How The Creative Economy Is Making Where To Live The Most Important Decision Of Your Life

In Who’s Your City, Richard Florida, argues that place matters more than ever to the global economy and to our individual lives. Where we live determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the people we meet, and the "mating markets" in which we participate. Where we live determines where the good ideas come from – and even whether they come at all.  

DANIEL LAK
India Express: The Future Of A New Superpower>

In this panoramic view of the new India, Daniel Lak uses vivid narrative to show that the world’s largest democracy is well on its way to becoming not only one of the world’s dominant economies but perhaps the next liberal superpower. Combining anecdote, travel writing, factual reportage, and expert commentary, Lak takes his readers on a heady tour of this rapidly changing land.

MICHELLE SHEPHARD
Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story Of Omar Khadr

Shephard tells the troubling story of Canadian Omar Khadr, who was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002 at the age of 15. Accused by the Pentagon of throwing a grenade that killed U.S. soldier Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, Khadr faces charges of conspiracy and murder. Guantanamo's Child traces Khadr's roots in Canada, Pakistan and Afghanistan, growing up surrounded by al Qaeda's elite. His story explains how the lack of due process can create victims and lead to retribution, and instead of justice, fuel terrorism.

JIM CLEMMER 
Moose on the Table: A Novel Approach to Communications @ Work

Moose on the Table is one manager's story of finding and overcoming fear -- one tiny step at a time. Come along as troubled character Pete Leonard learns to face the moose threatening the communications and effectiveness of his department, organization -- and even his life. In this "edutaining" business fable, Clemmer provides realistic scenarios and solutions, showing how individuals and organizations can apply fundamental leadership principles to identify and resolve the challenges all of us face each and every day.

TOM DEANS
Every Family?s Business

Every Family's Business chronicles the journey of two people who meet on a flight to Barbados. Both discover that they work in family businesses and proceed to share their successes and failures. One character reveals 12 questions that have been passed down through four generations of his family --questions that have shaped their approach to succession planning. Entertaining and informative, Every Family's Business helps families break the ice and get them thinking and talking about the future if their family firm. A book that gives families a method for coming together to plan using sound business principles, love and mutual respect.

DEEPAK CHOPRA
Buddha

Deepak Chopra offers his remarkable insights on the inspiring life of one of the world's most important figures - the Buddha. This re-imagining of the Buddha's life presents a new form of teaching from the beloved Chopra, who shows how the iconic journey of the prince who became the Buddha has changed the world forever, and how the lessons he taught continue to influence every corner of the world.

DEEPAK CHOPRA
The Third Jesus

In The Third Jesus, bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our religious background. Ultimately, Chopra argues, Christianity needs to overcome its tendency to be exclusionary and refocus on being a religion of personal insight and spiritual growth. In this way Jesus can be seen for the universal teacher he truly is–someone whose teachings of compassion, tolerance, and understanding can embrace and be embraced by all of us.

DAN ARIELY
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable—making us predictably irrational.  

GILL DEACON
Green For Life

With every new day’s headlines the world is shifting into a new reality. How do we do the things we do without making a mess of our world? Green for Life is a practical guide to living the life you want, but with the reduced impact the planet needs. Well known for her involvement in environmental issues, Gillian Deacon takes you through the stuff of everyday life and explains how to do it with minimal environmental impact.

DR. GABOR MATÉ
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction

In this timely and profoundly original new book, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours. Providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting edge scientific findings, Dr. Maté sheds light on this most puzzling of human frailties.

JONAS RIDDERSTRÄLE & KJELL NORDSTRÖM
Funky Business Forever

Funky Business: no business book is more stylish, or more funky. Now it’s back and it’s more funky than ever. Funky Business Forever casts a penetrating glance back over its shoulder to see how many of its predictions came true and turns a piercing gaze on the future to see where funky business is headed next. How will we be living, working, thinking tomorrow? Dip into this inimitable and exuberant gallop through the big issues of today and see what the original funksters, Nordström and Ridderstråle, have to say about capitalism, the economy, politics, technology, the environment, talent. Always provocative, always controversial, their ideas may make you laugh, shout, grind your teeth, nod your head, pull your hair out, but one thing’s for sure, they’ll make you think.

DON PEPPERS and MARTHA ROGERS 
Rules To Break And Laws To Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism

Rules to Break and Laws to Follow brings the unique Don Peppers and Martha Rogers perspective to the most important issues facing businesses today. Based on their decades of experience working with leading companies around the world, Peppers and Rogers are kicking the business model up yet one more notch. Written in their hallmark conversational style, Rules to Break will help you make better decisions a dozen times a day.

GORDON PAPE
Sleep Easy Investing

What is your number one investment priority? Finding the next "hot" stock? Making huge profits? Making 10 percent a year on your money? If you found yourself nodding at any of these suggestions, you need to rethink your whole approach to money management. The number one goal of every investor should actually be to sleep comfortably at night. Personal finance expert Gordon Pape explains that if you adopt the sleep-easy philosophy as your basic credo, both your health and wealth will benefit.  

JIM ROGERS
A Bull in China

If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.” In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most successful investors, Jim Rogers, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this huge and unruly land now being opened to the world and exploding in potential. A Bull in China also features fascinating profiles of “Red Chip” companies, such as Yantu Changyu, China’s largest winemaker, which sells a “Healthy Liquor” line mixed with herbal medicines. Plus, if you want to export something to China yourself–or even buy land there–Rogers tells you the steps you need to take.

RAM CHARAN
What The Customer Wants You To Know

More than ever these days, the sales process tends to be a war about price, a frustrating, unpleasant war that takes all the fun out of selling. What the customer wants you to know is how his or her business works, so you can help make it work better. It sounds simple, but there's a catch: you won't be able to do that with your traditional sales approach. What the Customer Wants defines a new approach to selling which Charan calls value creation selling that while radical is nonetheless practical.

DR. SHERRY COOPER 
The New Retirement

In The New Retirement, global economic strategist Sherry Cooper explains that the boomer generation will be reaching traditional retirement age very soon and the enormous wave of boomer retirees will crest in 2025. This phenomenon will profoundly affect the labour markets, the economy, and financial markets for decades.  Cooper tells us that boomers will redefine retirement with great energy and creativity. Learn how the new retirement is about living well while achieving both monetary security and your personal goals.

DR. JOHN IZZO 
The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

What are the secrets to finding happiness? Why do some people live well and die happy? John Izzo asked thousands of people to identify the wisest person they knew. The Five Secrets shares what he learned from over 200 people aged 60-106 whom others said had found the meaning in life. From town barbers to Holocaust survivors, from aboriginal chiefs to CEO's, these people had over 18,000 years of life experience. This book will make you laugh, bring you to tears, and inspire you to discover what matters long before you die.  

PATRICIA LOVETT-REID
Get Real: 26 Canadian Women Share the Secret to Authentic Success

Getting the life you want is about getting real. This book features 20 Canadian women who are ready to reveal the secret to authentic success! Do what you love and love what you do. In Get Real , Patricia Lovett-Reid offers valuable advice and real-life success stories from 20 successful Canadian women, from sports figures to CEOs, who have achieved personal and professional happiness. From finding your passion, to getting real about relationships, career, money, lifestyle, and life, Lovett-Reid has formulated a simple, easy-to-follow 6-step strategy that is the key to living a full, authentic life.

STEVE WOZNIAK
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

??The Woz? built the first [personal computer]?by hand, by himself.??USA Today. Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, with cryptic switches and pages of encoded output. But in 1977 Steve Wozniak revolutionized the computer industry with his invention of the first personal computer. As the sole inventor of the Apple I and II computers, Wozniak has enjoyed wealth, fame, and the most coveted awards an engineer can receive, and he tells his story here for the first time.

KEVIN & JACKIE FREIBERG 
Boom!: 7 Choices For Blowing The Doors Off Business-As-Usual

You are DESIGNED to choose and DEFINED by your choices. In front of you are seven choices waiting to be made. Whether you are the leader or those being lead, these choices will determine the quality of your life and the significance of your contribution to the world in which you work. These 7 choices are your wake-up call to freedom, and it's your invitation to create a community of like-minded people who will create unique organizations.

JOSEPH PINE & JAMES GILMORE 
Authenticity

Authors Pine and Gilmore have been studying how consumers determine the value of their paid-for experiences. One trait has risen to prominence: authenticity. How authentic is the experience? The authors introduce the concept of perceived authenticity, or how a consumer experiences a product, service, environment, communication, or person. Authenticity stresses that businesses must render authenticity and behave authentically. This book is arguably the first to provide some practical business advice and talking points for managers and marketers.

RICHARD ST. JOHN
8 to Be Great: The 8-Traits That Lead to Great Success 

St. John spent ten years interviewing over 500 successful individuals in many different fields, including Martha Stewart, Russell Crowe, and the Google founders. After analyzing all the data, St. John discovered the top eight factors that lead to greatness and shares them with readers.

JEFF WARREN
The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness 

Tied to the body and the brain, consciousness is nonetheless beyond our ability to measure or quantify. But that is not to say that we know nothing about consciousness. In fact, as gonzo science journalist Jeff Warren demonstrates in this provocative, often hilarious, and always fascinating synthesis of cutting-edge research and personal experience, just how much we do know is little short of astonishing. Part user’s manual and part travel guide, The Head Trip is an instant classic, a brilliant summation of consciousness studies that is also a practical guide to enhancing creativity, mental health, and the experience of what it means to be human.

MICHAEL WEX:
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do)

Michael Wex follows his witty and erudite Born to Kvetch with a colourful, uncensored guide to the idiomatic use of Yiddish in such areas as madness, fury, mob Yiddish, insults and thirteen designations for the human rear. While most of Wex's discussions of words and phrases are brief, he provides lengthier sections on five key, highly nuanced Yiddish words. The book could have given more attention to regional dialects and there are a few organizational quirks. Still, Wex offers both fun and instruction for the non-maven.

RONA MAYNARD
My Mother’s Daughter

Personal memories of the sort her Chatelaine readers adored — a remarkable life story seen through the window of her relationship with her mother. As a little girl, Maynard soon came to see that her family was not an ordinary one. This book takes us through her career, step by step, including the miseries of being accused by her son’s teachers — and her own mother — of being a bad mother, overly concerned with her own career. Rona’s strong, direct style will ring true for every working woman. Through the magic of her writing, she gives a clear-eyed and affectionate account of her relationship with a demanding, loving mother.

JOSEPH GRENNY
Influencer

We all want to be influencers. And yet, despite our routine attempts to help ourselves and others change behavior, few of us know what it takes to be one. Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, is a revolutionary book that combines the skills used by hundreds of successful change agents with five decades of the best social science research to deliver a proven model for changing behaviours—a model that nearly anyone can learn and apply. Influencer gives you powerful strategies to create rapid, dramatic, and permanent change in your business, your personal life, and your world.

JOHN RALSTON SAUL
The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

Globalization, like many great geopolitical ideologies before it, is now officially dead. Contrary to the hopes of those who supported the global ideal, the years since the end of the Cold War have seen the return of nationalism, often is quite vociferous forms.  In this groundbreaking, exhilarating book, the distinguished philosopher John Ralston Saul examines where we go from here.

MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
What Got You Here Wont Get You There: The Twenty Habits That Are Holding You Back From The Top & How To Stop Them

America's most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder the corporate world is filled with executives who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle. As an executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference.

TIM HURSON 
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

Think Better is about Productive Thinking — why it’s important, how it works, and how to use it at work, at home, and at play. Productive Thinking is a game changer — a practical, easy-to-learn, repeatable process that helps people understand more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively.  Tim Hurson presents Productive Thinking in a way that makes it easy for anyone to grasp and use — so you can think better, work better, and do better in every aspect of your life.

VINCE POSCENTE 
The Age Of Speed: Learning to thrive in a more-faster-now world

Is our 24/7, CrackBerry, more-faster-now culture eating us alive or setting us free? For everyone feeling trampled by the speed of life and business, author Vince Poscente reveals why harnessing the power of speed is the ultimate solution for our time-starved era.With smart personal revelations, addictively clever pop science, practical case studies, and a fresh voice, The Age of Speed is a fast, fun read.

CRAIG KIELBURGER & MARC KIELBURGER 
Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World

For everyone who has ever yearned for a better life and a better world, Craig and Marc Kielburger share a blueprint for personal and social change that has the power to transform lives, one act at a time. Me To We is an approach to life that leads us to recognize what is truly valuable, make new decisions about the way we want to live, and re-define the goals we set for ourselves and the legacy we want to leave.  

JEFFREY SIMPSON 
Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge

Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution. Most books on energy and climate change are: terrifying, academic or quirky. This book is different. Hot Air lays the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades. Hot Air shows why these are the only policies that will work — and why this is a matter of life and death for all of us. 

CHRISTINE COMAFORD
Rules for Renegades

Rules for Renegades distills what Christine Comaford has learned as she succeeded (and failed) in business, built strong relationships (and some disasters), and evolved spiritually and professionally. If you want to become financially independent, she'll show you how to do it. If you want to build your confidence and self-esteem, she'll give you a crash course. If you want a meaningful life full of rich connections, she'll share her secrets. Ultimately, she lets you in on the greatest secret of all-how to build a fulfilling life while rocking your career.

WATTS WACKER 
What's Your Story?: Storytelling To Move Markets, Audiences, People, And Brands

Storytelling is the universal human activity. Every society, at every stage of history, has told stories–and listened to them intently, passionately. Stories capture their memories of the past and their hopes for the future. Whether you know it or not, your business is already telling stories. What’s Your Story? will help you take control of those stories and make them work for you. Ryan Mathews and Watts Wacker demonstrate how to cuts through today’s relentless bombardment of consumer messages…and gets heard, remembered, and acted on.

STEVE PAIKIN 
The New Game: How Hockey Saved Itself

Scoring is up. Fan interest is up. Pinpoint passing is up. Goonery is down. The metamorphosis in hockey has been astonishing and promises to be even more so as changes continue to filter through the game. In The New Game, media commentator and lifelong hockey fan Steve Paikin examines the many aspects of Canada's favourite sport, addressing the major changes that have taken place in the game of hockey.

PATRICK LENCIONI 
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)

Bestselling author Patrick Lencioni tackles a topic that almost everyone can relate to: the causes of a miserable job. Millions of workers, even those who have carefully chosen careers, dread going to work, suffering each day as they trudge to jobs that make them cynical, weary, and frustrated.  Lencioni reveals the three elements that make work miserable -- irrelevance, immeasurability, and anonymity -- and gives managers and their employees the keys to make any job more fulfilling.

DEEPAK CHOPRA
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

Many of us grew up with the belief that achieving success requires relentless hard work, grim determination and intense ambition. Deepak Chopra observes in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, such desperate striving isn’t necessary or even desirable. In the natural world, creation comes forth with ease. The Seven Spiritual Laws are powerful principles you can use to fulfill your deepest desires with effortless joy.

FRANK O’DEA 
When All You Have Is Hope

Born in Montreal to an upper-middle class family, Frank O’Dea’s life took a downturn when he was sexually assaulted by a priest. He began drinking at an early age and was soon destitute, living in degradation on the streets of Toronto. By way of a sympathetic employer, the Salvation Army, and Alcoholics Anonymous, O’Dea quit drinking and started a small business that developed into the Second Cup coffee chain. Over the years, his philanthropic activities extended to AIDS fundraising, child literacy in the Third World, and landmine removal. His message is simple: HOPE, VISION, ACTION.

CAM MARSTON 
Motivating The What's In It For Me Workforce: Manage Across the Generational Divide and Increase Profits

All generations are not alike. While Baby Boomers base their vision of professional success on climbing hierarchical corporate ladders, Gen-X and New Millennial workers view success quite differently. In Motivating the "What's In It For Me?" Workforce, Cam Marston reveals how to diffuse the conflict between managers with one set of expectations and employees with another. He shows managers how to deal with differing generational expectations, bridging the gap between managers raised in one tradition and workers raised in another.

KEITH HARRELL 
Connect

Success is built on connections we make with people and ideas. Whether it's connecting with customers to improve their service experience, or connecting with the strategic business plan and objectives for the coming year, the foundation for success starts with CONNECT. In Connect, Keith Harrell and Hattie Hill reveal the seven core competencies needed to connect individuals and organizations in order to heighten productivity and to maximize personal and professional success.

ROBERT HORMATS 
The Price Of Liberty: Paying For America's Wars

In this provocative history, Robert D. Hormats, one of America's leading experts on international finance, shows how leaders from Madison and Lincoln to FDR and Reagan have followed Alexander Hamilton's ideals, from the greenback and a progressive income tax to the Victory Bond and Victory Garden campaigns and cost-sharing with allies. To meet the threats facing us, Hormats contends, we must significantly realign our economic policies on taxes, Social Security, Medicare, and oil dependency to safeguard our liberty and our future.

TODD BUCHHOLZ
New Ideas from Dead CEOs: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office

New Ideas from Dead CEOs uncovers the secrets of success of great CEOs by giving readers an intimate look at their professional and personal lives. We learn about these CEOs' greatest challenges and failures, and how they successfully rode the waves of demographic and technological change. Extraordinarily fresh and deeply thoughtful, Buchholz's New Ideas from Dead CEOs is a truly enjoyable and fun—yet serious and realistic—look at what we still have to learn and absorb from these decomposing CEOs.

GARY BRADT 
The Ring in the Rubble: Dig Through Change and Find Your Next Golden Opportunity

Change always creates hidden opportunities. A leader's job is unearthing them. In The Ring in the Rubble, change authority Gary Bradt reveals the secrets to moving beyond the rubble of disruption, fear, and uncertainty that change often creates, to finding the golden ring of opportunity that always lies beneath. Change itself doesn't dictate the eventual outcome of your situation; how you think about and handle change is what makes all the difference. You'll never find the ring if you don't start digging!

JENNY MCCARTHY
Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On

Jenny McCarthy's honesty has made her a bestseller. In Life Laughs, Jenny opens up about all of the things no one told you before you got married and had kids. Of course there's plenty of Jenny's outrageous humor, but she also writes openly and for the first time about doing your best when marriage falters and about her own divorce, which made headlines when it was announced in the summer of 2005. Jenny doesn’t pretend to be an expert in her books; she is instead something more valuable–a good girlfriend. Catch Jenny's take on growing older, finances, PMS, sex, dating... and again, mommyhood

Harry Beckwith
You, Inc.

As founder of Beckwith Advertising and Marketing, Harry Beckwith learned early on in his career that no matter what product is being sold, the most important component of the sale is you. Here Beckwith teams up with his wife, motivational speaker and former sales executive Christine Clifford Beckwith, to provide tips, anecdotes, and insights based on their 30 years of selling experience. Written in a traditional homespun style, the Beckwiths offer doses of humor and practical knowledge to anyone who wants to learn how to seal the deal and thrive in business.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM 
Go Put Your Strengths To Work: 6 Powerful Steps To Achieve Outstanding Performance

In It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan identifies and offers solutions to the biggest problem in corporate America—an undermanagement epidemic that is affecting managers at all levels in organizations. His clear, step-by-step guide challenges bosses in all industries to spell out expectations, tell employees exactly what to do and how to do it, monitor and measure performance constantly, and correct failure quickly and reward success even more quickly.

ANDREA MANDEL-CAMPBELL 
Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity

A scathing wake-up call castigating the timidity of Canadian companies in international markets, combining bracing analysis and compelling anecdotes with shrewd prescriptions for the future. Andrea Mandel-Campbell presents a lively and authoritative compendium of never-before-heard tales of Canadian companies abroad. Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson is also a hands-on guide for innovative competitiveness, helping readers to identify the nation’s previously underestimated assets and abilities.

BEN BARRY
Fashioning Reality: New Generation Entrepreneurship

Fashioning Reality is the fast-paced story of a young entrepreneur whose refreshing approach is changing the fashion industry and influencing the popular perceptions of beauty in the media. Ben Barry shares his challenges, his successes, and his struggles to run a business that remains consistent with his personal values. Barry outlines this new model of entrepreneurship and shares the stories of other young business people who are doing well by doing good.

SAHAR HASHEMI 
Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table 57- Real Life Laws on Entrepreneurship

Anyone Can Do It chronicles the start and evolution of a successful business dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings' first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day.  It is a very personal story of dreaming, acting and succeeding offering a myriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and blowing apart the myth that only 'special' people start successful businesses.

BRUCE TULGAN
Its Okay to Be the Boss: The Step-by-Step Plan to Becoming the Manager Your Team Needs You to Be

In It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan identifies and offers solutions to the biggest problem in corporate America—an undermanagement epidemic that is affecting managers at all levels in organizations. His clear, step-by-step guide challenges bosses in all industries to spell out expectations, tell employees exactly what to do and how to do it, monitor and measure performance constantly, and correct failure quickly and reward success even more quickly.

CHANTAL HÉBERT
French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec

Chantal Hébert’s first book is both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the last federal election, as well as a brilliant examination of our changing political future. French Kiss examines how the Conservative Party’s relationship with Quebec has and will continue to shape and influence Canadian politics.

DAVID IRVINE
Simple Living In A Complex World: A Guide to Balancing Life's Achievements

At its heart, this book is about rediscovering the joys of simple living in a world that has become complex, stressful and rushed. We react to the demands of a busy life, and not to our needs and imagination. A masterful storyteller, David Irvine uses illustrations from real life to offer us a blueprint for how we can be more fulfilled.

RAM CHARAN
Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't

This new grand theory of leadership by Ram Charan is a breakthrough that links ‘know-how’—the skills of people who know what they are doing— with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader. By showing how the eight ‘know-hows’ link to, interact with, and reinforce personal and psychological traits, Charan provides a holistic and innovative portrait of successful leaders of the twenty-first century.

CHUCK MARTIN
Smarts: Are We Hardwired for Success?

Supported by proprietary primary research and grounded in widely accepted principles of clinical and neuropsychology, Smarts is an eye-opening book that will change how we think about ourselves--and others. Smarts contains the groundbreaking powerful self-assessment tool that identifies a person's innate strengths and weaknesses. With this newfound clarity, readers will learn to play to their stronger skills, and avoid wasting time on lesser ones they can never improve upon. Most important, they will discover their own distinctive potential for excellence.

The Carrot Guys – Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
The Carrot Principle: How The Best Managers Use Recognition To Engage Their People, Retain Talent, And Accelerate Perform

The Carrot Principle reveals the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition. This exceptional book presents the simple steps to becoming a Carrot Principle manager and to building a recognition culture in your organization; it offers a wealth of specific examples, culled from real-life cases, of the ways to do recognition right.

CALVIN HELIN
Dances With Dependency

There should always be hope for a better future no matter who you are or what your station in life happens to be. No matter how complex and unsolvable a situation appears to be, there is always reason to hope. It is rare that something is written with the power to have a sweeping impact on such seemingly intractable problems. The author, Calvin Helin, paints an impassioned and insightful portrait of the poverty and conditions of indigenous people. At the same time, he provides real, focused, strategic turnaround solutions on how to move constructively forward.

LARRY WINGET
It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault

In It?s Called Work for a Reason, Larry Winget tells the unvarnished truth about what it takes to be successful. Are you frustrated with a lack of results at work? Have you hit a wall? Are you uninspired, stuck in a rut, feeling underappreciated? Well, good news: your success is not up to your boss, your manager, your employees, or the economy. It?s up to YOU. Business is never bad, people are just bad at being in business. If that makes you mad, this book is for you.

BRIAN THWAITS
The Big Learn: Smart Ways to Use Your Brain

In the past few years, the amount of research done on the brain has increased tremendously. These ongoing studies and phenomenal technological advances in the field have led to startling discoveries, turning conventional wisdom about how we use our heads upside down. The Big Learn demonstrates how we use our brains, and the happy discovery that your brain is capable of much more than you ever thought possible.

THOMAS HOMER_DIXON
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization

The Upside of Down provides a vivid picture of the immense pressures that are simultaneously converging on our societies and threatening a profound breakdown. Homer-Dixon argues that the great stresses we are experiencing – global warming, energy scarcity, population imbalances, and widening gaps between rich and poor – can’t be looked at independently. Homer-Dixon makes it clear that we can use our emerging understanding of the complex systems in which we live to avoid catastrophic collapse.

ROD BECKSTROM
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable    Power of Leaderless Organizations

If you cut off a spider's head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. Traditional top-down    organizations are like spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of business and the world. The Starfish and the Spider explores what happens when starfish take on spiders and reveals how established companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the U.S. government, are also learning how to incorporate starfish principles to achieve success.

STEPHEN M. R. COVEY 
The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents—is the essential ingredient for any successful organization. For business leaders and public figures, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship—from the most personal to the most indirect interaction.

JAY INGRAM
The Velocity Of Honey: And More Science Of Everyday Life               

Why does the journey to a new location always take longer than the trip home? What is the science behind the theory of "six degrees of separation?" Why doesn't honey flow out in all directions?  In this delightful and amusing text, Jay Ingram explores the extraordinary science behind ordinary happenings. The Velocity of Honey broadens our knowledge of the everyday world and deepens our appreciation for the mysteries of science.  

PAUL WELLS
Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism

The fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper’s New Conservatism is chronicled in Wells’ Right Side Up. In the space of three years, Martin went from his new role as the leader of an all-powerful party with a huge majority down to a retired also-ran. Harper reluctantly stepped in to salvage a dying party, linked it to another dying party, “united the right,” became its leader, and rose to become Prime Minister.  Wells takes us through all of the events that led up to the election campaign of January 2006.

MARTIN COLLIS
Walking, Weight and Wellness

Walking, Weight and Wellness is more than a book about walking, it's about living at the height of your powers and rediscovering the lifestyle our culture has stolen away. Walking is good for your mind, your muscles, your cardiovascular system and your life. This book offers expert guidance on total body health and builds to the final inspirational chapters to be your own hero and take on the unique mind/body program The Power of Fifteen.

BRIAN LITTLE
Personal Project Pursuit

Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little's highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology. The book examines both the internal and external dynamics of personal goals and projects and clearly demonstrates that human flourishing is enhanced when individuals are engaged in the pursuit of personal projects.

OREN HARARI
Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy

Everywhere, products are being commoditized, services are being imitated, and traditional barriers to market entry are collapsing. To sustain competitive advantage in today's Copycat Economy, companies must break from the pack. Oren Harari reveals new ways to take customers far beyond mere "satisfaction," and shows how to be innovative even the most prosaic areas of a business. Learn how to avoid destructive mergers, and buy what really matters: talent, imagination, foresight, speed, rebelliousness, and inspiration.

VINCE PAPALE
Invincible

In 1976, a 30-year-old bartender tries to become the NFL's most unlikely rookie. Vince Papale tells the story of how he makes it to the Philadelphia Eagles' team.

MARLA SHAPIRO
Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer

Life in the Balance is Dr. Marla Shapiro’s intimate, inspiring and often surprising account of her battle with breast cancer, from the shock of the initial diagnosis to multiple surgeries, chemotherapy and her agonizing decision to have both breasts removed, followed by reconstructive surgery and recovery.  A story infused with emotion, humour, family support and Dr. Shapiro’s unwavering passion to learn—and teach—this is a book for anyone whose life has been touched by cancer or who knows someone who has.

MICHAEL WEX
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture In All Its Moods    

As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution. In Born to Kvetch, Michael Wex looks at the ingredients that went into this buffet of disenchantment and examines how they were mixed together to produce an almost limitless supply of striking idioms and withering curses, as he gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile.

JOHN WOOD
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. That trip convinced Wood to divert the boundless energy he was devoting to Microsoft into the enormous problem of worldwide illiteracy. After discovering that a remote Nepalese village had few books in their library, Wood returned to that school with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak, and the rest is history. Leaving Microsoft is the story behind Wood’s decision to walk away from Microsoft to create Room to Read, and how he helped grant children the gift of an education.

ALAN PARISSE
Questions Great Financial Advisors Ask... and Investors Need to Know

In Questions Great Financial Advisors Ask…and Investors Need to Know, coauthors Alan Parisse and David Richman have compiled the questions great advisors ask that lead to the probing and personal conversations necessary to diagnose and understand clients''—and potential clients''—deep-seated feelings about money. That’s how great advisors help clients wring the emotion out of investing and set them on the rational road to achieving their financial goals. Throughout this book are questions, suggestions, and stories from some of the world’s top financial advisors.

ANDERSON COOPER
Dispatches From the Edge

Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing, Dispatches from the Edge is an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of America's most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters.

AL FRANKEN
The Truth (with Jokes)

Al Franken's new book picks up where "Lies" and "The Al Franken Show" leave off. Armed with an arsenal of facts and research (and comedy!), Al is ready to take the fight to the Bush administration and its right-wing cronies. Intelligent, insightful, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny, Al's hard-hitting work of political satire is poised to become the most talked-about book of the year.   

JENNY MCCARTHY
Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood

Jenny McCarthy's hilarious, no-holds-barred personality has made her an instantly recognizable TV personality and a bestselling author. In Baby Laughs she examines the full range of challenges that new parents face. Mothers and fathers will find much-needed relief and insight in this sometimes touching, sometimes gritty, but always perceptive and outrageously funny account of what it truly means to have your very own small bundle of joy.

STEVE FARBER
The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, And   Change The World

In his bestselling book The Radical Leap, Steve Farber introduced readers to Extreme Leadership, showing them how to renew their passion and excitement and become committed to changing the world for the better. Now, Farber takes readers to an even higher level of self-discovery in The Radical Edge. Farber is back, working with young Senior VP Cameron Summerfield, who has superstar sales skills but a severe and demoralizing leadership style. Along the way, both Steve and Cameron learn how taking responsibility for making the future markedly better than the present can improve the world.

BONNIE FULLER
The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted

In The Joys of Much Too Much, Bonnie Fuller shares an unthinkable secret: the key to happiness is not a balanced life but one that is maxed out with a career, romance, and family. Not only can you have it all, but you shouldn't settle for anything less. In The Joys of Much Too Much, she provides a blueprint for having everything you want personally and professionally -- even if you're afraid you don't have what it takes. 

ROBIN SHARMA
Greatness Guide: The 10 Best Lessons Life Has Taught Me

Robin Sharma has written a deeply personal guide that shares his own life journey, combined with ten high-impact lessons for success. Rich with proven wisdom and packed with real-world examples, The Greatness Guide is an extraordinary resource for all those searching for peace, meaning and authentic success in every facet of their lives. 

ROBERT GORDMAN
The Must-Have Customer: 7 Steps to Winning the Customer You Haven't Got

The Must-Have Customer offers an exciting new approach to a winning stance in today's ever-more competitive marketplace. This highly readable book is broken down into seven chapters that answer questions about customers, market position, employees, advertising and company success. Robert Gordman puts over thirty years of experience into this essential book on marketing today to the vast, new, ex-urban and suburban audience.

BILL JENSEN
What Is Your Lifes Work: Answer the BIG Question about What Really Matters...and Reawaken the Passion for What You Do

What Is Your Life's Work? captures a most extraordinary moment in each of our lives—the time when we sit down with loved ones and attempt to answer the big question about what really matters. Bill Jensen has created a wonderfully practical space for you to explore who you are, what you stand for, what you believe in, what's risky, what's not, what's worth it, what you're struggling with, and what you've accomplished.

MOSHE A. MILEVSKY
The Calculus of Retirement Income: Financial Models for Pension Annuities and Life Insurance

In an era when traditional corporate pensions are disappearing, Social Security' s sustainability is in question, healthcare costs are skyrocketing, and society is dumping more and more financial risk squarely onto your shoulders, Moshe Milevsky helps you comprehensively integrate all the opportunities and risks in your life: your career risks, your portfolio risks, your housing risks, and even your personal inflation and longevity risks that could lead you to financial regret and a ruined retirement. Then, he introduces a powerful, new framework for thinking about and managing your financial future that you can use to systematically reduce your vulnerability to each of these risks and, thus, generate long-term financial security.

DAVID SUZUKI
David Suzuki: The Autobiography

David Suzuki’s Autobiography begins with his life-changing encounters with racism while interned in a Canadian concentration camp and continues through his troubled teenage years and later successes as a scientist and host of  "The Nature of Things." With characteristic candor and passion, Suzuki demonstrates his growing consciousness of the natural world and humankind's precarious place in it; his travels throughout the world and his meetings with international leaders, and the abiding role of nature and family in his life.

JEFFREY PFEFFER
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense

The best organizations have the best talent.  Financial incentives drive company performance. Firms must change or die.

Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet much of the management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all and legions of managers are using dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health.  Hard Facts challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life – and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.

BARBARA MOSES
Dish: Midlife Women Tell the Truth about Work, Relationships, and the Rest of Life

Dish offers a deliciously frank and inspiring look at contemporary women and the life choices they make. What does this generation of women, the first to “have it all,” have to say for themselves today? Lots, it turns out. Through Dr. Barbara Moses, the voices of thousands of women are focused on the issues surrounding career, family, love and sex, friendship, and society. We see a brilliant snapshot of an entire generation, one that first tackled the glass ceiling and fought for equality at home and at work.

PATRICIA LOVETT-REID
Live Well, Retire Well

Retirement is a journey, not a destination. Get ready for life after work! Patricia Lovett-Reid challenges conventional views on retirement by offering a comprehensive, four-step plan that will enhance the financial and emotional quality of your retirement living. While recognizing the different stages of retirement from pre-retirement to at-retirement to in-retirement Live Well, Retire Well includes the investment knowledge, investment tools, insurance tools, and tax tools you need to move seamlessly and prosperously into your new life.

DEVON HARRIS
Yes I Can!

With personal and national pride on the line, the first Olympic Jamaican bobsled team competed fiercely at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. They have taught us that we can still succeed against seemingly insurmountable odds if we believe in ourselves and say "Yes, I Can!" Most children’s books will tell your child that a fairy tale figure will come and sweep her away from her difficulties and she will live happily ever after. Yes, I Can! tells her that she has the power within.

FRED REICHHELD
The Ultimate Question

CEOs regularly announce ambitious growth targets, and then fail to achieve them. The reason? Their growing addiction to bad profits. These corporate steroids boost short-term earnings but alienate customers. They undermine growth by creating legions of detractors—customers who complain loudly about the company and switch to competitors at the earliest opportunity. Based on extensive research, The Ultimate Question shows how companies can rigorously measure Net Promoter statistics, help managers improve them, and create communities of passionate advocates that stimulate innovation.  

CHESTER ELTON AND ADRIAN GOSTICK
The Invisible Employee: Realizing The Hidden Potential In Everyone

"There is magic in this book. It is the magic of a form of human engagement that allows you to see and your employees to be seen. Whether you are looking for a few good tips to keep a good thing going or need to recapture the very essence of a productive workplace, The Invisible Employee provides valuable lessons nestled among the pages of a clever and compelling story. A good read and a wise thesis."
- Stephen C. Lundin, bestselling coauthor of Fish!

MICHAEL LEGAULT
Think!

Outraged by the downward spiral of American intellect and culture, Michael R. LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of Americans. 

PETER TERTZAKIAN
A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World

In 2006, world oil consumption exceeded one thousand barrels per second. The news marked an important change that has had a far-reaching economic, social and environmental impact. In A Thousand Barrels a Second, Peter Tertzakian examines the future of oil and offers insights into what it will take to rebalance our energy needs and seize new opportunities. He offers a realistic, informed look into the future of our energy supply chains and how our consumption patterns may evolve, revealing how we can meet the coming challenges with better solutions and innovations.

PATRICK LENCIONI
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying The Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics. Silos devastate companies, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. Lencioni wrote Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars as a fictional story about Jude Cousins, an eager young management consultant struggling to launch his practice. Through trial and error, Cousins develops a simple yet groundbreaking approach for helping his clients transform confusion and infighting into clarity and alignment.

TED SARGENT
The Dance of Molecules

In this groundbreaking exploration of the future of nanotechnology, Ted Sargent reveals how all disciplines of science, from medicine to microchips, are converging to create materials using the tiniest scale possible—molecule-by-molecule. In an age when science often evokes more fear than faith, when the potential for superviruses and diabolical cloning looms in our consciousness, Sargent enthusiastically illuminates nanotech’s positive possibilities.

JIM FANNIN
S.C.O.R.E. for Life: The Secret Formula for Thinking like a Champion

We all dream of overcoming our challenges. We dream of the perfect job, wealth, of living harmoniously with others. For many of us, the dream stops there. We wonder what leads some extraordinary people to confront and exceed their goals and compete at the highest level, while others run in place, distracted by fears and a sense of intimidation. In S.C.O.R.E., Jim Fannin shares insights and exercises that will liberate us from anxiety and self-doubt and will help transform everyday performers into true champions.

GEOFFREY MOORE
Dealing With Darwin

The Darwinian struggle of business keeps getting more brutal as competitive advantage gaps get narrower and narrower. Anything you invent today will soon be copied by someone else probably better and cheaper. Many companies thrive during the early stages of their life cycle, only to fall slack during periods of inertia and die out while others surge ahead. Geoffrey Moore shows how some notable companies have figured out how to deal with Darwin in their mature years by making changes while fending off various challenges.

LARRY WINGET
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life

Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life is simply a self-help book like no other. It takes on every idea you hold sacred. It trashes the motivational platitudes we have all grown up with and learned to trust. Larry Winget attacks the importance of a positive attitude, the sanctity of marriage, sex, religion, fitness, friendship, money, stress, and happiness. This is anything but conventional wisdom, yet makes so much sense that his ideas are nearly impossible to argue with.

STEVE GILLILAND
Enjoy The Ride

Enjoy the Ride is based on the simple premise that true success is not a thing you acquire or achieve. Rather, it is a journey you take your whole life long. Gilliland enables readers to identify their dreams and puts genuine success within their reach. With humour and wisdom, Gilliland brings forth a book that truly motivates a reader to make changes and believe in the power of positive thinking. 

THE KINDNESS CREW
Call to Arms

This candid and inspirational account of the numerous acts of kindness performed by the Kindness Crew provides readers with ways to start their own kindness movement by showing them how to put the kindness philosophy into action. The crew explores cross-cultural, cross-generational, and corporate kindness as well as the power of one, kindness on the street, and extreme acts of kindness. The Extreme Kindness Tour shares heartwarming stories, testimonials, and photographs.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators

Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That’s what makes emerging high-growth industries so attractive. With no proven formula for making a profit, these industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast enough and smart enough to capture them first. Based on an in-depth, multiyear research study of innovative initiatives at ten large corporations, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble identify central challenges for companies facing profitability obstacles.

MICHAEL ALEXANDER
Competing Against America: Why Canada Has Fallen Behind in the Race for Talent and Wealth (And What To Do About It)

In this provocative and hard-hitting book, Michael Alexander has a direct and unflinching message for all Canadians: our standard of living is in free fall, and has been for decades. Alexander argues that some of our most cherished beliefs and values have turned out to be misguided and harmful to our well-being. Competing Against America a guide to a more prosperous future for Canada, and Alexander stresses the requirement to sweep away bad ideas and regressive policies.

STEPHEN LEWIS
Race Against Time

In 2000, the U.N. laid out a series of goals meant to guide humankind in the new century. Called the Millennium Development Goals, these targets are to be met by 2015 and will lay the foundation for a prosperous future. In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis advances solutions to help societies across the globe achieve the Millennium Goals. Lewis demonstrates shows how dreams such as universal primary education, a successful war against the AIDS pandemic, and environmental sustainability, are within the grasp of humanity. 

JEFFREY ROSENTHAL
Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities

Randomness, uncertainty and probability are everywhere, and while no one can predict uncertain events with certainty, we can at least understand uncertainty itself. In this entertaining look at the world of probabilities, Jeffrey Rosenthal explains the mechanics of randomness and teaches us how to develop an informed perspective on probability. From lotteries to casinos, insurance rates to crime rates, game shows to airline crashes, cancer to SARS, Struck by Lightning deconstructs the odds and oddities of chance in an understandable, relevant and irreverent exploration.

LEONARD BRODY
Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I Learned from a Canadian

In their new book, Leonard Brody and David Raffa craft insightful portraits of sixteen remarkable Canadian entrepreneurs. The stories of their roads to success and the setbacks each of them encountered will inspire the innovative risk-takers of tomorrow. The invaluable lessons learned and summarized in each chapter’s ‘five key points’ will be especially useful for the younger reader searching for ‘pearls of wisdom’ from outstanding Canadians who have succeeded in business and in life.

YOSSI GHINSBERG
Jungle: A Harrowing True Story Of Survival

What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable, if hastily met, muchileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. Jungle is the incredible true story of Yossi Ghinsberg's triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. It is a tale of survival and human fortitude against the wildest backdrop on the planet.

SALLY HOGSHEAD
Radical Careering

Hogshead's strategies teach readers how to drive their own success by having the fearlessness, daily courage, and curiosity to jump in the deep end and swim with real purpose.

DON PEPPERS AND MARTHA ROGERS
Return On Customer: Creating Maximum Value From Your Scarcest Resource

Don Peppers and Martha Rogers redefining the concept of what it means to be “profitable” as a business in Return On Customer. It’s the first book to focus on how firms create value, not just by driving current profits, but by preserving and increasing customer lifetime value. In a powerful blend of theory and practice, Peppers and Rogers demonstrate how to create shareholder value more efficiently by concentrating on Return on Customer, a revolutionary business metric focused on a company’s scarcest resource – customers.

JASON JENNINGS
Think Big Act Small

Management expert Jason Jennings screened 100,000 companies to identify nine little known firms that have delivered stellar performances. As revealed in Think Big Act Small, these superstars have a lot in common despite their wide range of industries. It turns out that the best long-term performers all combine the strengths of a big organization with the hunger of a start-up. Jennings reveals their unique approach to leadership and shows how any company, no matter what size or industry, can benefit from following their examples.

ROBIN SHARMA
Discover Your Destiny With The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Blueprint For Living Your Best Life

Meet Dar Sanderson, a highly ambitious executive who on the outside appears to have it all but who on the inside is lacking happiness, meaning, and peace. A serendipitous encounter with Julian Mantle, a hotshot lawyer turned monk who has discovered the secrets of lasting success, sets Dar upon an extraordinary odyssey to find his authentic self and claim the life of his dreams. Along the way, Dar learns seven potent, essential lessons for living one's best life.

MAX LENDERMAN
Experience the Message: How Experiential Marketing is Changing the Brand World

Experience the Message is an exciting guide to today's revolution in marketing that challenges long-held beliefs about how products are introduced and sustained on the consumer's highly cluttered radar screen. Author Max Lenderman reveals how today's companies can use credible voices and sensory experiences to bring the brand?its essence and its benefits?to life, how a company stimulates interaction between the brand and consumers in meaningful locations, creating a positive and memorable association in places and at times where the consumer is most receptive to learning or interacting with a product or brand.

JEREMY J. SIEGEL
The Future For Investors: Why The Tried And The True Triumph Over The Bold And The New

Jeremy Siegel, one of the world’s top investing experts, has taken a long, hard, and in-depth look at the market and the stocks that investors should acquire to build long-term wealth.  The Future for Investors shatters conventional wisdom and provides a framework for picking stocks that will be long-term winners. Siegel presents these strategies within the context of the coming shift in global economic power and the demographic age wave that will sweep the United States, Europe, and Japan.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM
The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success

In The One Thing You Need to Know, Marcus Buckingham offers a dramatically new way to understand the art of success. Buckingham offers readers an invaluable course in outstanding achievement -- a guide to capturing the essence of the three most fundamental areas of professional activity: great managing, leading, and career success.

MARTIN LINDSTROM
BRAND sense: Build Powerful Brands Through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, And Sound

In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on sensory branding ever written, international business legend Martin Lindstrom reveals what the world's most successful branding companies do differently - integrating touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound - with startling and measurable results. Based on the largest study ever conducted on how our five senses affect the creation of brands, BRAND sense explains Martin Lindstrom's innovative six-step program for bringing brand building into the twenty-first century.

ROBERT SPECTOR
Category Killers: The Retail Revolution And Its Impact On Consumer Culture

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world—and nobody has cannibalized market share more ruthlessly or influenced consumers, communities and competition around the world more profoundly than “category killers” like Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, and Costco. Category Killers explores how they did it, what other companies can glean from their killer strategies, and what’s next in retail’s future.