Figure 1 Publishing: 22 books

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Reengineering Retail

The Future of Selling in a Post-Digital World

by Doug Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017

Since the release of Doug Stephens’ first book, The Retail Revival, change in the global retail sector has accelerated beyond even the boldest forecasts. As predicted, online giants like Amazon and Alibaba.com are growing at a dizzying pace. Hundreds of well-known brick and mortar retailers have...
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Journey After Midnight

India, Canada and the Road Beyond

by Ujjal Dosanjh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

A midnight's child of poor rural India, Ujjal Dosanjh emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1964 at the age of eighteen, and spent nearly four years making crayons, car parts and shunting trains while he attended night school and learned English by listening to BBC Radio. He moved to Canada in 1968,...
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Leaving Home

The Remarkable Life of Peter Jacyk

by John Lawrence Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Petro (Peter) Jacyk survived two of the most horrendous events of the 20th century: the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, instigated by Stalin and responsible for the deaths of untold millions, and waves of invasion and slaughter from Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Fleeing postwar Europe in 1949, he...
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by Lawrence Scanlan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017

Twice a year, in summer and in winter, appointments to the Order of Canada are posted in newspapers across the country. The range of professions represented are often dizzying, but there are common themes in the choices: excellence, service to the nation, passion, innovation, commitment, dedication,...
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Apples, etc.

An Artist's Memoir

by Gathie Falk
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

Gathie Falk is one of Canada’s most heralded visual artists: she has won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize; she has been honoured with the Order of British Columbia and the Order of...
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Build Your Family Bank

A Winning Vision for Multigenerational Wealth

by Emily Griffiths-Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014

Why do 70 percent of wealth transition plans fail? This is the question that Emily Griffiths-Hamilton sets out to answer in Build Your Family Bank, a book that looks closely at the core causes of wealth erosion and failed transition plans and offers a set of strategies for building successful wealth transition plans that will benefit many generations.
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Reaching for a Star

The Extraordinary Life of Milan Kroupa

by Josef Cermák
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

After a turbulent childhood in Communist Czechoslovakia, Milan Kroupa turned his back on a promising career in soccer and fled the country of his birth. He arrived in Canada as a refugee in 1968 at the age of twenty-five, with a new wife, and a new baby. He had little more in his pocket than good advice...
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The Man Behind the Bow Tie

Arthur Porter on Business, Politics and Intrigue

by Arthur Porter
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

How does it feel to be deemed guilty before trial? To be held in a cutthroat Panamanian prison while suffering from terminal lung cancer? How does it feel to rise to the top of the medical and public arenas in your adopted country, only to crash miserably to earth under allegations of fraud and money...
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Flat Army

Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization

by Dan Pontefract
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018

Your people are your most valuable asset, and if you want them to excel (and your profits to soar), you'll need to abandon your traditional command-and-control management style and adopt a collaborative, open leadership approach—one that engages and empowers your people. While this isn't a particularly...
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Dividends of Decency

How Values-Based Leadership will Help Business Flourish in Trump's America

by Don Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018

When former executive and entrepreneur Don Sheppard awoke the morning after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he was horrified to learn that Donald Trump had become the 45th president of the United States. Committed to strong business principles and ethics throughout his varied career, Sheppard...
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Open to Think

Slow Down, Think Creatively and Make Better Decisions

by Dan Pontefract
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

While it may not occur to us on a daily basis, there is a widespread cultural tendency toward quick decisions and quick action. This pattern has resulted in many of our society's greatest successes, but even more of its failures. Though the root cause is by no means malicious, we have begun to reward...
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Higher

Awaken to a More Fulfilling Life

by Charles Hanna
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016

The world’s great philosophers and spiritual leaders teach us that happiness depends on how we look at life. In Higher, Charles Hanna explores why and how we can create the best possible outlook. By finding our Higher Perspective, Higher Power, and Higher Purpose, he demonstrates how we can challenge...
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Uncommon Sense

Shift Your Thinking. Take New Action. Boost Your Sales

by Jill Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

Winner of the Gold Medal, Top Sales & Marketing Book of 2017, Top Sales & Marketing Awards You’re a talented sales professional, but you face big hairy sales challenges every day and you just can’t seem to get anywhere. • Why can’t I get time with my prospects and clients? •...
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The Purpose Effect

Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

by Dan Pontefract
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018

Pontefract combines years of experience and research on employee engagement, behavior and culture to create a work about the three crucial areas of purpose: personal, organizational and workplace role. If all three can come to fruition--if there is a positive interconnection between the three distinct...
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