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The Chicken Coop CEO
Lessons in Life and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Chicken Coop CEO offers a unique blend of autobiography and an instructor’s manual for succeeding as a leader. Readers will trace the life of Roy Seidler and learn how he was able to overcome extreme poverty and a broken home in his youth to being selected for important formal leadership positions...
How We Got Here
The Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Have you ever wondered how the universe was created and just what the space around you is made up of? Do you ponder about time—about what it is and how it works? Do the effects of Einstein’s theory of relativity intrigue you? Would you like to better understand the properties of light—what it’s...
by Paul Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Eleven billion people will crowd this marvelous planet by century’s end. If the global economy were to grow five-fold during this period as predicted, humanity’s ecological footprint would exceed Earth’s biocapacity by 400%. We need to chart a new course to the future. The sweeping changes that...
Inner Peace Made Easy
A Simple, Practical Guide to Living a Happier Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Every day we’re bombarded with information on world events that are almost too much to process. Add marketing that’s designed to make us want more — more and better — and you have a recipe for free-floating stress, anxiety and debt. But, if you’re like author Aaron Soltys, you realize one day...
Wake Up and Eat the Kale
How I Healed Myself Naturally from Advanced Cancer Using Body, Mind and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In 2010, Wendy Banting was diagnosed with advanced aggressive breast cancer. In that life-defining moment, she felt strongly that she needed to leave the traditional medical model of treating cancer in favour of a more natural approach. In the pioneering spirit of her famous relative Sir Frederick Banting,...
A Year of Intentional Parenting
52 weekly vignettes gleaned from our work guiding parents in finding their right way to parent
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
What do you do on those days when you love – but don't like – your kids? As educators, parenting coaches and parents themselves, authors Julie Freedman-Smith and Gail Bell deeply understand the day to day challenges of parenting. In 2002 they founded Parenting Power in Calgary to provide empathetic,...
Five Ages of Canada
A History From Our First Peoples to Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Five Ages of Canada tells the comprehensive tale of the nation’s origins and formation. Graham’s First Age introduces Canada’s First Inhabitants: the Palaeo-Indians from Northern Asia, their descendants, and the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of today. The Second Age began in the early...
Being Bertha
How a Wayward Woman Became a Local Legend
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The Ekelund family moved to Canada in 1903 and settled in what is now Southern Alberta when Bertha, their sixth child was only five years old. Growing up in a family that was torn apart by the tragedy of their mother’s death, Bertha developed an independent and unpredictable approach to life. “This...
A Funny Thing Happened on my way Through the Bible
The Humor, Uniqueness, or Absurdity of Scriptures, as I see It
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
In this collection of nearly four thousand Bible verses, author James Larson highlights the humor—and sometimes tragedy—of Scripture through his original and eye-opening interpretation. Respectfully presented with unique commentary and thought-provoking questions, this compilation will be sure to...
by Peter Richards
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Whether you are new to things Indian or have particular interests in India, this book is your decoding manual for the most complex country on earth. India: Future Tense is about forces shaping today’s India and the opportunities Indians have to influence their world at home and abroad. Accessible,...
by Donald B. Owen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book has over 650 limericks, best described this way...Perchance, might you find time to peruse / my book of lim-ricks while on your cruise? / Most are clean…none obscene. / Most are gentle…none mean… / and all are intended to amuse. The word “limerick” is purposely spelled incorrectly...
Basic to Brilliant
The definitive guide to transforming your people practices; A playbook for small to mid-size enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
There’s a lot of talk about business innovation today. Everyone is seeking new or better ways to compete by reaching goals faster, more efficiently, at lower cost. In the race to win, owners and leaders of small to mid-market businesses often miss out on the one area where innovation can be a game...
The Heart Logs
An Engineer’s Trip Through the Medical System
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This memoir chronicles a tumultuous six month period in the life of the author, beginning with his sudden hospitalization due to endocarditis, an infection of the heart, and ending with his return to a normal life. The events and the people that connect the start to the finish are many and varied, sometimes...
Life at the End of Us Versus Them
Cross Culture Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Our present moment can no longer sustain a stable “us” defined against an alien “them.” So say René Girard and Ivan Illich, radical critics of both Christianity and culture. If they are right, this makes our time an endtime. The end of us against them can deteriorate into the chaos of each...