James Lorimer Company Ltd Publishers: 361 books
Pension Confidential
50 Things You Don't Know About Your Pension and Investments
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The media says you should be worried about your pension, the banks and financial advisors say Canadians aren't saving enough for their retirement, and Ottawa says drastic cuts to the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security lie ahead. Is the future sounding a little ominous? In the face of all this...
Canada and the Global Economy
Alternatives to the Corporate Strategy for Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Economic integration is one of the key issues of the 1990s. In this book, Bob Chodos, Rae Murphy, and Eric Hamovitch consider the implications of globalization for Canada. While they believe the move to integration is inevitable, they argue for building alliances that are alternatives to the models...
Police in Canada
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion. The dramatic death of Robert Dziekanski at the hands of the RCMP at Vancouver's airport, accusations of racial profiling, and the resistance...
Quiet No More
New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of the most important of these recent expressions of large-scale political engagement, mostly by young people....
Canada and the Reagan Challenge
Crisis and Adjustment, 1981-85
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Canada and Reagan Challenge, first published in 1982, has gained wide acclaim for its analysis of the crisis of 1981 - when Ottawa and Washington went head-to-head over the economic nationalism of the National Energy Program and the Foreign Investment Review Agency. Stephen Clarkson's study demonstrated...
Peacemakers
How people around the world are building a world free of war
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a senator, Roche has been in the thick of international affairs for more than forty years.
Though few...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
First published in 1983, this book reports from the middle of the nuclear arms race, when the world's two superpowers, the US and the USSR, were adding increasingly sophisticated weapons to their arsenals, reaching a point where they could effectively wipe each other out many times over. Some of Canada's...
by Jacques R. Pauwels
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were good news. Business was bad in the 1930s, and for multinational corporations Germany was a bright spot in a world suffering from the Great Depression. As Jacques R. Pauwels explains in this book, corporations...
by John Choi
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Emerson Yeung seems to have every reason to be happy-- he gets good marks, has some friends, and has a part time job at his parents' dry cleaning business. But Emerson has been hiding something. The pressure to be the perfect son put on him by his parents that sometimes escalates into abuse from his...
Real Justice: A Police Mr. Big Sting Goes Wrong
The Story of Kyle Unger
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
On the night of June 23, 1990, teenage friends Kyle Unger and John Beckett made a last-minute decision to attend a music festival near Roseisle, Manitoba. They were loners, not the popular kids at school. But on this night they seemed to finally fit in. They had fun, played games, drank, and hung...
Real Justice: Sentenced to Life at Seventeen
The story of David Milgaard
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
David Milgaard was a troubled kid, and he got into lots of trouble. Unfortunately, that made it easy for the Saskatoon police to brand him as a murderer. At seventeen, David Milgaard was arrested, jailed, and convicted for the rape and murder of a young nursing assistant, Gail Miller. He was sent...
by Jacqueline Guest
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Ryan Taber's father is about to deploy for his first tour of duty with the Canadian army in Afghanistan. Ryan lives his days on an army base in Alberta, and spends his evenings at the CyberKnights cafe, playing his favourite video game, Desert Death. At CyberKnights, Ryan meets the Desert Death ultimate...
by Mette Bach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Overweight and unhappy at home, Emmy gets sexually involved with a popular classmate so that people will think that she is worth liking. When she realizes that he is just using her, she decides to leave her home in Winnipeg to stay with her uncle's family in Vancouver. Emmy has always been intimidated...
by Kim Firmston
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Dan is a fairly normal fifteen-year-old -- he likes girls (obviously), hates school (ditto), and he lives to play bass guitar. But at home, things aren't normal at all. His mother is schizophrenic, and uses a system of numbers she's developed to determine if something is good or evil. She plasters...