Dundurn: 2215 books
All Together Now
Vision, Leadership, and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Achieving outstanding personal and organizational success in our busy, competitive, chaotic — yet very exciting — world requires a unique, leading-edge set of skills for 21st-century executives and leaders. It is critical for them to have the knowledge and ability to align the three key areas...
Everyday Entrepreneur
Making it Happen
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Not a "Dummies" guide on the practical steps of starting a business, Everyday Entrepreneur focuses on the real problems, decisions, and personal qualities of budding entrepreneurs, in the form of an easy-to-read and interesting story.
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"The most important...
Leading in an Upside-Down World
New Canadian Perspectives on Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
The world as we know it has been turned upside down by recent events but it’s still a place where leadership is needed more than ever.
Fifteen Canadians with highly diverse perspectives and richly different experience explore this timely question in Leading in an Upside-Down World.
Chapter...
Art Smart
The Intelligent Guide to Investing in the Canadian Art Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Art Smart is a comprehensive guide to the Canadian art market for both novice and experienced collectors. It is full of advice that can give anyone the tools to determine the value of a piece of art and to not be intimidated by the often mystifying world of art. This informative and helpful volume...
Police
Current Issues in Canadian Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Not a day goes by in which the police do not figure prominently in the news. Whether it be as investigators of a rural homicide, or as the subjects of a debate on police chases, the police are ever-present. They are news.
The public's fear of crime and the "law and order" agenda prominently...
Lake Erie Stories
Struggle and Survival on a Freshwater Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat. But it is so much more; mysterious, unpredictable, and known by mariners for its sudden violent weather and dangerous shoals, Lake Erie has been the stage for some of...
In Your Best Interest
The Ultimate Guide to the Canadian Bond Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
In Your Best Interest will put you ahead of the average investor or financial advisor by giving you the tools to demystify the fixed income market and meet your income and retirement needs.
A Time Such as There Never Was Before
Canada After the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted
Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|
The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change,...
A Crucible of Fire
The Battle of Lundy's Lane, July 25, 1814
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy’s Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814.
Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of Chippawa, an American army of over 5,000 men seemed...
The Actor's Survival Kit
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
The Actor's Survival Kit is required reading in Canadian theatre schools and is a constant resource for its many readers across the country. This fifth edition gives actors fresh research from today's experience, new lists of Canada-wide contacts, and input from success stories. It speaks to a new...
Bill Davis
Nation Builder, and Not So Bland After All
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
2016 Ontario Historical Society Donald Grant Creighton Award — Winner
A National Post Bestseller, The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016, 2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted
The first authorized biography of Bill Davis, the enigmatic Ontario premier who carried on a Tory dynasty, but was...
by Cheryl A. Picard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
This is a guide to the theory and practice of mediation. It sets out a systematic approach to the use of mediation and to assuming the role of mediator. This book will be one of value to individuals interested in becoming mediators, to parties in conflict considering recourse to mediation to resolve...
Comparative Issues in Party and Election Finance
Volume 4 of the Research Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
This book is one of 23 volumes of research commissioned by the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing, and one of five volumes within this series dealing specifically with party and election finance.
Because the issue of money in elections is as old as democracy, the experience...
Boom Town Blues: Elliot Lake
Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community tells of the Northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake, once the uranium capital of the world, which was devastated by the closing of the uranium mines operated by Denison and Rio Algom. The closures and mass layoffs were first announced...