Editore: Brand: Dundurn Group, 2005
ISBN 10: 0887621767 ISBN 13: 9780887621765
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Why is television so awful? Why do drug companies hide unfavourable test results? Why do automakers market unsafe cars? Why is our environment poisoning us? Why is our food so unhealthy? Why are we working sixty-hour weeks? Greed, Inc. places the blame for much of what ails contemporary society at the doorstep of a single institution - the modern publicly traded business corporation. We have become an uncaring society because the corporate ethos that informs virtually everything in our culture is uniquely and implacably selfish. The corporation exists for one purpose only: to make a profit. And such an objective trumps all others. Nothing else matters. This book traces the rise of the corporation from the Rationalist social engineering of the 18th century -- as well as the parallel triumph of moral relativism, consumerism, enterprise culture, and other dominant value systems of our time. It shows how a series of psychological and philosophical misconceptions institutionalized greed and self-serving behaviour as a good thing for society. Indeed the origins of corporate culture seem in retrospect so preposterous as to defy belief -- and yet these misconceived values now dominate our lives. Because of these notions of selfishness, we have arrived at a time when we seem at odds with almost everything around us.Greed, Inc. is a groundbreaking book in that it reveals the roots of this social discontent for the first time through the lens of moral philosophy. Anybody who cares about our quality of life and the very survival of humanity will need to read this book.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn Pr Ltd, 1994
ISBN 10: 1550022202 ISBN 13: 9781550022209
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Poisoned Chalice chronicles the fateful end of the feredral Progressive Conservative government in Ottawa. In a day-by-day account of an election campaign seemingly doomed to disaster Poisoned Chalice covers the strategy, tactics and political machinations that drove the Conservative campaign from the point of view of someone on the bus.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 1997
ISBN 10: 155002244X ISBN 13: 9781550022445
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.The TTC Story:The First Seventy-five Years, by Mike Filey, features over one hundred magnificent black and white images selected to illustrate the principal "transit" event in each year of the TTCs existence. The photographs have been selected from the Commissions vast archival collection by its knowledgeable archivist, Ted Wickson. Each event is fully described and put into its local, national, and worldwide historical context through the use of entertaining and informative text.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2002
ISBN 10: 1896219039 ISBN 13: 9781896219035
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condizione: Good. 3rd Printing. Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer He was an ecologist before the term was invented A man of many parts including social critic he is known to have had an influence on such internationally recognized leaders as Gandhi and Martin Luther KingVictor Carl Friesen author of The Spirit of the Huckleberry an astute analysis of Henry David Thoreaus prose again demonstrates his affinity for the Walden sage with this unique volume of poems and photographs Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreaus sensuousness he writes a poem for each and then illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs The poems mostly written in the blank verse form have sturdy strength and remarkable insight into both Thoreau and nature Walter Harding Founding Secretary The Thoreau Society Inc State University of New York GenescoFriesen is particularly qualified as a Thoreau scholar for his personal interests extend well beyond literature to include natural history a subject very much at the centre of Thoreaus writings Canadian Book Review Annual.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2009
ISBN 10: 1554884381 ISBN 13: 9781554884384
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 2011 Red Maple Award ShortlistedFourteenyearold Sam McLean is less than thrilled with the prospect of moving to a collection of old mansions on the northern fringe of a small town called Ringwood A nobody at his old school Sam is desperate to be accepted by the cool kids and latches on to Cody Barns aka Maniac Codys claim to fame is performing wild stunts the crazier the better and posting them on his blogWhen Sam reluctantly joins Cody and his sidekick Javon on their midnight ghost riding a practice in which the driver and passenger climb onto the hood of their moving car and dance something goes terribly wrong Cody convinces Sam to flee the scene leaving Javon for dead But soon mysterious messages appear on Codys blog and anonymous notes are slid into Sams locker As Sam struggles with his conscience a haunting question remains Who else knows the truth.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2012
ISBN 10: 1459707958 ISBN 13: 9781459707955
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The story of what one daring entrepreneur with dreams and determination can achieve.Frank Hasenfratz grew up in Hungary learning to dodge bullets and avoid land mines during the Second World War. When the 1956 revolution erupted, he and his army unit joined the insurgents. After the revolution was crushed, he fled to Guelph, Ontario, where he gambled everything on a one-man operation making oil pumps for Ford. The company he founded, Linamar, today has 15,000 employees in eight countries and is the second-largest maker of auto parts in Canada. To create this global empire, Hasenfratz stayed ahead of competitors through hard work, visionary leadership, a cost-conscious regimen, and a skilled workforce.In 1990, Hasenfratz designated his daughter, Linda, to succeed him as chief executive officer but first put her through a prolonged apprenticeship that took her from the plant floor to head office. Driven to Succeed is the story of what one daring entrepreneur with dreams and determination can achieve.
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Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2003
ISBN 10: 1550024531 ISBN 13: 9781550024531
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announced to the House of Commons the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow. Its development costs to that time were $340 million. The Arrow was to be the worlds unsurpassed interceptor aircraft. Yet within two months of the Prime Ministers announcement, six completed aircraft were dismantled and all papers and documents associated with the project were destroyed.Here is the history and development of the Arrow - the plane that would make Canada the leader in supersonic flight technology. The Arrow was designed to fly at twice the speed of sound and carry the most advanced missile weapons system.Here are the stories of the men and women who were in the vanguard of the new technology - who had come from England, Poland, and the United States to make aviation history.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2006
ISBN 10: 1894852230 ISBN 13: 9781894852234
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: new. Winner of the 1927 AtlanticLittle Brown AwardFirst published in 1927 this international bestseller is now back in print Jalna is the first book in the popular series about a Canadian family named Whiteoak who live in southern Ontario in a redbrick house called Jalna In Jalna the unforgettable family makes its first appearance Two grandsons cause tumult when they bring their brides to live at Jalna and Grandmother Adeline celebrates her 100th birthday This is book 7 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles It is followed by Whiteoaks of Jalna.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 1996
ISBN 10: 1550021036 ISBN 13: 9781550021035
Da: Lakeside Books, Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.
Condizione: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 1996
ISBN 10: 1550022520 ISBN 13: 9781550022520
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Book by.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 1550022792 ISBN 13: 9781550022797
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction BookIn 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the worlds leading scholars. The essays analyze Stokers original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking.""Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible."from the Preface by Patrick McGrath.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2000
ISBN 10: 0888822200 ISBN 13: 9780888822208
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. 2nd. Martin, Sandra, Hall, Roger.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2004
ISBN 10: 1550025236 ISBN 13: 9781550025231
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
hardcover. Condizione: new. First Edition. The Shackleton of his day Leopold McClintock 18191907 from County Louth was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era He undertook four major voyages epic sledge journeys and was the first to bring definite information on the lost Franklin party He then rose to admiral and advised Robert Falcon Scott before the Discovery expedition in 1901 After his death a memorial plaque was unveiled at Westminister Abbey portraits were hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London and the McClintock Channel in the Arctic was named after him.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2010
ISBN 10: 1554887437 ISBN 13: 9781554887439
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condizione: Good. A Great Lakes Treasury of Old Postcards by Dr Lorenzo and CArol Marcolin takes you on a nostalgic and exciting journey along the Canadian shores of the Great Lakes Youll visit a world that was very different from todays hectic and turbulent place a world where people travelled the Great Lakes and shot the Lachine Rapids for the sheer fun of travelling on the water in steamers large and smallIn over 42 years of collecting Great Lakes Postcards Lorenzo and Carol Marcolin have accumulated an important visual history of the Canadian shores of the Great Lakes Lovingly restored without tampering their historical veracity the cards show you a world that is both appealing for its scenic beauty and sometimes repelling for its industrial uglinessThe book introduces novel features for a postcard book the most important being the Navigation Bar with its geographical coordinates that let you find distant and forgotten places like Jackfish Harbour and Depot H.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 1550028057 ISBN 13: 9781550028058
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 1996
ISBN 10: 1550022105 ISBN 13: 9781550022100
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 1988
ISBN 10: 088882100X ISBN 13: 9780888821003
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. This fifth printing of the best-selling Holy Grail Across the Atlantic offers some fascinating interpretations of early Canadian history that you may prefer to doubt - but will not be able to forget! When the fortress of MontsAgur, reputed sanctuary of the great religious treasure of the Templars was sacked by forces of the Inquisition in 1244, did the Templars manage to escape with the Holy Grail? Legends insist that the Holy Grail was taken to safety before the doomed citadel was stormed.Was a castle in Nova Scotia the new haven for the Holy Grail? Is the famous and mysterious "money pit" on Oak Island in Mahone Bay connected with a desperate and courageous attempt to save the Holy Grail? Was Samuel de Champlain a secret agent for the Grail Dynasty, and did his maps and journals purposely obscure the location of the Grail's secret refuge in Acadia? And later on, was the Holy Grail transported to a new haven in Montreal founded by a mysterious secret society?.
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Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2008
ISBN 10: 1550028391 ISBN 13: 9781550028393
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new. Bateman, Robert (illustratore).
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 1999
ISBN 10: 1550023322 ISBN 13: 9781550023329
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn Group (CA), 2006
ISBN 10: 1550026631 ISBN 13: 9781550026634
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 1998
ISBN 10: 1550023152 ISBN 13: 9781550023152
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2007
ISBN 10: 1550026666 ISBN 13: 9781550026665
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Dundurn, 2008
ISBN 10: 1550027638 ISBN 13: 9781550027631
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.