Economics

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Big Business and Hitler	For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were a welcome political development. Business was facing the Great Depression of in the 1930s, and for …		304		View
From NEW! Big Data and Untapped Insights From: Shifting the Balance View ECW Press	Readings in part 1 of this text explore how companies combine intuition with data and analytics to drive competitive wedges in their markets. Topics in this chapter include the application of …	Mark Schrutt	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Big Data’s Role in Industry Disruption From: Shifting the Balance View ECW Press	Readings in part 2 of this text explore what it takes to be a data-driven organization that relies on facts and doesn’t make decisions based on instinct. Case studies included in this …	Mark Schrutt	13	2021	$1.30 Add
Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes…Like We Do!	Bill Gates and other wealthy individuals around the world do pay taxes–but usually at rates far below what most taxpayers pay. As Warren Buffet says, his secretary pays a higher tax rate …		184		View
Billion Dollar Start-Up The True Story of how a Couple of 29-Year-Olds Turned $35,000 into a $1,000,000,000 Cannabis Company ECW Press	From early roadblocks and devastating personal and financial setbacks to explosive growth and some of the biggest cannabis deals in global history, Billion Dollar Start-Up not only recounts the …	Adam Miron; Julie Beun; Sébastien St-Louis	306	2021	View
From Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and Walleye Peace River Biodiversity From: Damming the Peace View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World James Lorimer and Company	B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to …	Brian Churchill	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From Black, White, Beige, Other? Memories of Growing Up Different From: Experiencing Difference View Fernwood Publishing		Leanne E. Taylor	12	2012	$1.32 Add
BlackBerry Town How high tech success has played out for Canada's Kitchener-Waterloo James Lorimer and Company	The smartphone was an incredibly successful Canadian invention created by a team of engineers and marketers led by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. But there was a third key player involved — …		264		View
From Blackwater From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	However, wastewater is also another water source; after all if you live inland along a large river, your water supply started upriver as someone else’s wastewater. So, wastewater is just …	Jerry Yudelson	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From Blue Water From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	With all the concern the past decade about reducing water consumption in both residential and non-residential uses, you’ll probably not find it surprising that the water field has begun to …	Jerry Yudelson	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Blueprint for Data-driven Organizations From: Shifting the Balance View ECW Press	Readings in part 4 of this text explore the ways in which data-driven decision making are applied to different industries	Mark Schrutt	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From Board Governance From: Five Good Ideas View Coach House Books	This chapter by Tom Williams focuses on the specific aspects of good governance that create success within an organization.	Tom Williams	5	2011	$0.50 Add
Bombardier Abroad Patterns of Dispossession Fernwood Publishing	In Bombardier Abroad, Thomas examines several cases of the Canadian aerospace giant’s work in the high-speed rail sector in South Africa, China/Tibet, and Israel/Palestine and argues that …	David P. Thomas	164	2018	View
From Bombardier, The Canadian State, And Dispossession From: Bombardier Abroad View Fernwood Publishing	Bombardier, the Canadian State, and Canadian Identity -Theoretical Framework of This Research	David P. Thomas	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From Bombs, Damage and Compensation From: Big Business and Hitler View James Lorimer and Company	Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the American companies who amassed profits during World War II with emphsis on the increase in profits for firms with German holdings (1942-1948).	Jacques R. Pauwels	10	2017	$1.00 Add
From Boom, Bust, and a Double-Sided Bohemian Renaissance From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter surveys some of the attempts to develop and revitalize Hamilton’s downtown core. Although the initial efforts were unsuccessful, a few optimists valiantly plotted …	Stephen Dale	48	2021	$4.80 Add