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  • Fire in the Belly

    How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business

    by Gordon Pitts ...
    Purdy Crawford's name is synonymous with Canadian business and law. But even after education at Mount Allison and Harvard, Purdy arrived on Toronto's Bay Street as an outsider, the son of a coal miner from tiny Five Islands, Nova Scotia. So how did young Purdy ascend so quickly and so far to become one of Canada's top lawyers and best-known business mentors? In this biography of Purdy, bestselling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unicorn in the Woods

    How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers Are Changing the Game

    by Gordon Pitts ...
    As tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion), acclaimed business journalist Gordon Pitts asks whether there can be a place for high-tech innovation and unicorn-like value creation outside of major urban centres, whether in Atlantic Canada, rust-belt New York, or Northern Ontario.Journeying back to the origins of Radian6 and Q1 Labs — two New ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Last Canadian Knight

    The Unintended Business Adventures of Sir Graham Day

    by Gordon Pitts ...
    From a small-town law office in Nova Scotia to the pressure-cooker boardrooms of London, England, where he was Margaret Thatcher's "privatization ace," lawyer and businessman Sir Graham Day has earned an international reputation as a tough-minded but charming negotiator.After a rocky educational start in Halifax, Day found his motivation at Dalhousie Law School and established the contacts and ... Read more

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  • Nuclear-Free Zones

    Edited by David Pitt, Gordon Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security
    There is growing interest world wide in nuclear-free zones. Originally published in 1987, this book explores the question of what constitutes a nuclear-free zone and charts the progress of the movement to establish them. The book shows how definitions of nuclear-free zones vary from those intended to exclude everything nuclear (including nuclear power installations and the dumping of nuclear waste ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health

    A Guide for the Primary Care Provider

    Edited by Sarah Pitts, Catherine M. Gordon ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This comprehensive book thoroughly covers bone health in the adolescent, offering evidence-based guidance for clinical care in the primary care setting, and includes aspects of endocrinology, nutrition, radiology, sports medicine, and rehabilitation.A Practical Approach to Adolescent Bone Health begins with an in-depth review of normal bone physiology, and explains how to optimize bone mass ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Heidegger For Beginners

    by Eric Charles Lemay, Jennifer A. Pitts ...
    The ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger have been described as an intellectual time bomb as some of the most revolutionary thought in Western history. Despite the enormous amount of secondary scholarships available on Heidegger it is – due to the complexity of his thought and the density of his writing – difficult for the curious beginner to gain an insight into Heidegger's philosophy ... Read more

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    The Battle for Control of Canada's Telecom Empire

    by Alexandra Posadzki ...
    A riveting, deeply reported account that takes us inside the dramatic battle for control of Canada’s largest wireless carrier, and paints a broader picture of the cutthroat telecom industry, the labyrinth of regulatory and political systems that govern it, and the high-stakes corporate games played by the Canadian establishment.Alexandra Posadzki’s ground-breaking coverage in the Globe and Mail ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The European Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Usherwood, John Pinder ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states, going far beyond that found anywhere else in the world. On the other, it is currently in the throes of a phase of profound uncertainty about its viability and future. Showing how and why the EU has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Heidegger's Being and Time

    Critical Essays

    by Karin de Boer, Charles Guignon, William McNeill, Günter Figal, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Jeffrey Andrew Bara, Jean Grondin, Graeme Nicholson, Theodore Kisiel, Steven Crowell, Dieter Thomä ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues in Heidegger's text, and the relation between Being and Time and Heidegger's later thought. All of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Gadamer

    A Philosophical Portrait

    by Donatella Di Cesare ...
    Translated by Niall Keane ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics," a programmatic way to get to what we do when we engage in interpretation. Donatella Di Cesare highlights the central place of Greek philosophy, particularly Plato, in Gadamer's work, brings out ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Kill a City

    Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

    by PE Moskowitz ...
    “An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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