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  • Polished

    How Nail Salons Saved Vietnamese-Americans

    by Bi Ayers ...
    After the fall of Saigon in 1975, during a campaign for the repatriation of 130,000 refugees in the United States, actress Tippi Hedren, known best for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), connected Vietnamese immigrants to the art of the manicure. Her long, decorated nails made an impression on a visit to Hope Village, so Hedren had her personal stylist flown in to teach a class to ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Contagious

    Why Things Catch On

    by Jonah Berger ...
    The New York Times bestseller that explains why certain products and ideas become popular.“Jonah Berger knows more about what makes information ‘go viral’ than anyone in the world.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on HappinessWhat makes things popular? If you said advertising, think again. People don’t listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Finding My Virginity

    The New Autobiography

    Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the world’s ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story.Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history. No challenge was too daunting, no opportunity too outlandish to pursue. And each new adventure started with five ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Full Upright and Locked Position: Not-So-Comfortable Truths about Air Travel Today

    The Insider's Guide to Air Travel

    by Mark Gerchick ...
    "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight," our pilots still intone. But who are they kidding?In Full Upright and Locked Position, former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our air travel experience since September 11, 2001.With wry humor and unique insight, Gerchick takes us past the jargon, ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD

  • Boeing Versus Airbus

    by John Newhouse ...
    The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe’s Airbus overtook America’s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained its precarious place on top. Now, after years of heated battle and mismanagement, both companies ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Attention All Passengers

    The Airlines' Dangerous Descent—and How to Reclaim Our Skies

    "A damning indictment of the airline industry, and the lax oversight and economic and political pressures that are jeopardizing the safety of everyone." —Capt. Chesley "Sully" SullenbergerA Fast Food Nation for the airline industry, Attention All Passengers is a shocking and important exposé revealing the real state of the "friendly skies" in which we fly. Award-winning Consumer Reports travel ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil Never Sleeps

    Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

    An indispensable guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management, now updated with a new afterword.“In a world marred by preventable miscalculation, Juliette Kayyem’s The Devil Never Sleeps **provides a playbook for making it out alive.” —**The New YorkerThe future may be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of consist... ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Simply Brilliant

    How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways

    Cofounder of Fast Company magazine and bestselling author of Mavericks at Work and Practically Radical shows how true business innovation can spring from the unlikeliest places.Far away from Silicon Valley, in familiar, traditional, even unglamorous fields, ordinary people are unleashing extraordinary advances that amaze customers, energize employees, and create huge economic value. Their secret? ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • I Have a Strategy (No, You Don't)

    The Illustrated Guide to Strategy

    A smart and witty take on strategy . . . an essential business topicEvery day, millions of professionals around the world discuss strategy, and they assume that everyone else in the room defines "strategy" the same way. But they don't. Howell J. Malham Jr. has created a simply designed and illustrated book that goes straight to the heart of the issue. Through the largely facetious dialog of two ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Canadian Failures

    Stories of Building Toward Success

    by Alex Benay ...
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017Successful Canadians write about failure, and how it got them where they are today.What does it mean to fail? To some of the most successful Canadians, it was a rite of passage, a stepping stone to greater things, or even a brilliant source of inspiration. Olympic golds, successful businesses, pioneering medical advances — all came about after a series of missteps ... Read more

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  • BECOME A FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Your flight to success

    People asked me: “can you tell me the questions and answers for the interview?” or “what should I do to join your airline?”. They all wanted to know how to become a flight attendant.I wish I could give them the right answer. But I was not allowed. I was in the recruitment team and I couldn’t say a word.Today I have decided to call them back, one by one. I will help them to pass the interview. I ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surrounded by Geniuses

    Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues and Your Organization

    Winner of the Axiom Award for best leadership bookHow many times have you arrived at work, exchanged greetings with your colleagues, attended a meeting or two, and then sat down at your desk overcome by the incredible feeling that you were surrounded by geniuses?If you're like most people, caught up in the stress of work and everyday life, the answer is a resounding "never!" But that's all about ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD