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  • An Economist Goes to the Game

    How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports

    by Paul Oyer ...
    An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the fieldAre ticket scalpers good for teams? Should parents push their kids to excel at sports? Why do Koreans dominate women's golf, while Kenyans and Ethiopians dominate marathon racing? Why would Michael Jordan, the greatest player in basketball, pass to Steve Kerr for the game-winning shot ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating

    by Paul Oyer ...
    Conquering the dating market-from an economist’s point of viewAfter more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scene-but what a difference a few years made. Dating was now dominated by sites like Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid. But Oyer had a secret weapon: economics.It turns out that dating sites are no different than the markets Oyer had spent a lifetime ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roadside MBA

    Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives and Small Business Owners

    In this "refreshingly different" high-toned business book, three leading business school professors take to America's back roads in search of offbeat small businesses—enterprises that hold valuable lessons for executives and entrepreneurs everywhere (Bloomberg Businessweek).While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Roadside MBA

    Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives and Small Business Owners

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    In this "refreshingly different" high-toned business book, three leading business school professors take to America's back roads in search of offbeat small businesses—enterprises that hold valuable lessons for executives and entrepreneurs everywhere (Bloomberg Businessweek).While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

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    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDestined to become a modern classic in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens is a lively, groundbreaking history of humankind told from a unique perspective.**100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.Us.Homo Sapiens.How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Effective Executive

    The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

    A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins.What makes an effective executive?For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant guide to managing oneself, he looks to the most ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Lean Startup

    How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

    by Eric Ries ...
    Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Selling the Dream

    How Hockey Parents And Their Kids Are Paying The Price For Our N

    by Ken Campbell ...
    Drawing on decades of combined experience in hockey at all levels, Ken Campbell and Jim Parcels pull back the curtain on hockey to show just how far our national game has strayed from its roots.What they reveal is a system driven by unrealistic expectations of a financial windfall, where minor-hockey fees and new sticks for kids are deemed “investments”— and where there is no shortage of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Nudge

    The Final Edition

    **An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein* More than 2 million copies sold* New York Times bestseller**Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens ... Read more

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  • The Instigator

    How Gary Bettman Remade The League And Changed The Game Forever

    With a labour fight looming, and the NHL's participation in the Olympics hanging in the balance, The Instigator looks at how two decades of lockouts, soaring ticket prices, and on-ice tinkering have convinced many hard-core fans that the NHL's long-time commissioner Gary Bettman is the devil in disguise. In 1992, the gross revenue of the National Hockey League was US$400 million. This season, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • All the Money in the World

    What the Happiest People Know About Wealth

    How happy would you be if you had all the money in the world? The universal lament about money is that there is never enough. We spend endless hours obsessing over our budgets and investments, trying to figure out ways to stretch every dollar. We try to follow the advice of money gurus and financial planners, then kick ourselves whenever we spend too much or save too little. For all of the stress ... Read more

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  • Over the Line

    Wrist Shots, Slap Shots, and Five-Minute Majors

    by Al Strachan ...
    Bestselling author and Toronto Sun sportswriter Al Strachan shares more insider stories from his more-than-forty-year career covering pro hockey.Bestselling author and Toronto Sun sportswriter Al Strachan is a permanent fixture in the illustrious world of professional ice hockey. His opinion, backed by an extensive knowledge of the game and his sharp sense of humour, is read and enjoyed by ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD