Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in 21 months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in 11 months.

How Big Things Get Done identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. It starts with a maxim: “think slow, act fast.”

People think that being a founder is glamorous, that it means posting Instagram photos at a coffee shop all day or spending hours creating cool logos. Enter Marc Lafleur, who tells his story in all its glamour-less glory, from creating two failed startups to selling his company truLOCAL for $16.8 million after only five years.

Complete with all of Lafleur’s hard-earned learnings and humiliating mistakes made along the way, this book is full of unconventional tips for first-time founders.

When Chris Bailey, productivity expert, discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that he had no right to be giving advice on productivity without learning when and how to rein things in and take a break. Productivity advice works—and we need it now more than ever—but it’s just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm.

How to Calm Your Mind is a toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies that reveal that the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, runs directly through calm.

Finding calm and overcoming anxiety ultimately leads us to become more engaged, focused, and deliberate—while making us more productive and satisfied with our lives overall. In an anxious world, achieving calm is the best life hack around.

Disruption for disruption’s sake isn’t a smart strategy when you’re seeking ways to accelerate your career and become truly indispensable. In The Bold Ones, you’ll discover it’s more about being “dangerous” than disruptive; being simultaneously bold enough to challenge industries, yet practical enough to recreate them.

Internationally celebrated disruption strategist Shawn Kanungo offers a playbook for individuals who know they need to become bolder to push their careers and companies forward — but don’t know how to innovate. Readers will learn where to start, what to do, and how to break through with your ideas.

In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around us…if only we take a moment to see them:

• Carrying the ice cube tray from the sink to the freezer without spilling
• Seeing your parents dance
• Adding a gift note to yourself on your online order
• Sending a private message during the video conference and then seeing your coworker look down and silently smirk
• When your kids don’t hear you opening a bag of potato chips
• When the hand sanitizer isn’t that extra slippery kind that never dries
• When the cake plops flawlessly out of the pan

Our Book of Awesome is an injection of joy, a heartfelt gift, and a smacking high five for humanity. Read it to be reminded of the endless AWESOME things that give laughter and happiness to our beautiful and brief lives.

There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation?

True Reconciliation is broken down into three core practices — Learn, Understand, and Act — that can be applied by individuals, communities, organizations, and governments. They are based on the historical and contemporary experience of Indigenous peoples in their relentless efforts to effect transformative change and decolonization; and deep understanding and expertise about what has been effective in the past, what we are doing right, and wrong, today, and what our collective future requires. True Reconciliation, ultimately, is about building transformed patterns of just and harmonious relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples at all levels of society.

Christine Sinclair is one of the world’s most respected and admired athletes. Not only is she the player who has scored the most goals on the international soccer stage, male or female, but more than two decades into her career, she is the heart of any team she plays on, the captain of both Canada’s national team and the top-ranked Portland Thorns FC in the National Women’s Soccer League.

Working with the brilliant and bestselling sportswriter Stephen Brunt, who has followed her career for decades, the intensely private Sinclair will share her reflections on the significant moments and turning points in her life and career, the big wins and losses survived, not only on the pitch. Her extraordinary journey, combined with her candor, commitment and decency, will inspire and empower her fans and admirers, and girls and women everywhere.

The world is experiencing unprecedented levels of burnout, stress, and mental health challenges. This comes with the inevitable fallout: poorer health, chronic exhaustion, strained relationships, and decreased satisfaction and performance at work. You’re so tired of being stressed and tired, but how can you tell the difference between run-of-the-mill stress, burnout, and serious mental health issues like depression or anxiety? And what can you do about it? How can you stay standing and live with resilience and strength, in a world filled with stress, fear, and endless demands?

Filled with easy-to-apply tips, straight-talking advice, practical wisdom, and stories, this deeply empowering book can help you break the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion by using simple, science-based shifts that restore joy, health, and meaning to your work and life.

From the incredible highs of winning the Super Bowl to the burnout of working as an orderly, Red Zone takes readers inside Laurent’s life as he grapples with his roles of medical professional and NFL football player during a global pandemic. This captivating memoir reveals Laurent’s remarkable personal story, detailing how his insatiable curiosity and solid work ethic led him from his family’s bakery in Montreal to his role as one of the most fascinating and accomplished people in professional sports.

From one of Canada’s most successful business leaders, the founder of the BlackNorth Initiative and the newest and first Black Dragon on Dragons’ Den, comes a rags-to-riches story that also carries a profound message of hope and change.

With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution.

In all these essays, written with the passion, lived-experience and intelligence of someone who wants to improve our world, the concept of revolution, however big or small, is ever-present.

In this book, Bob McDonald turns his focus to global energy sources, and shows how the global shutdowns may have been exactly what we needed to show us that a greener future is achievable.

This is not another “wake-up call,” and not another plea to heed the climate science. This is an exploration of the incredible technologies that our species can use to get out of the mess we’ve made for ourselves. It is a work of immense optimism, to counteract the sense of doom that hangs over most discussions of the environment.

As Canadian Conservatives prepare to choose a new leader, their party — and conservatism itself — stands at a crossroads. A political movement inspired by the 18th-century overthrow of French kings struggles to integrate its basic principles in a world of AI, the gig economy, social media, and declining democracy. This challenge is compounded by age-old regional, economic, and cultural divides for Canadian Conservatives.

This provocative new book by conservative author Tasha Kheiriddin examines how the Conservative party got here, where it is now, and how it can move forward to retake the government.

For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days – even hours – of when you decided you wanted it.

America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.

In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.

Packed with practical and realistic advice, The Young Entrepreneur cuts through the noise surrounding business innovation and makes a clear case for starting your own company while you’re young. Featuring inspiring examples and invaluable resources to give you the tools you need, this book is your one-stop guide to jump-start your entrepreneurial journey.