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The BC tradition of fighting back against unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC's first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it's been a wild ride ever since.

The unlikely and riveting story of how a left-wing activist became one of BC's most accomplished business leaders and philanthropists, championing projects in the visual arts and innovation in Canadian wildlife protection and sustainability. Freedom rider. Student radical. Academic. Social activist. Residential developer. Museum builder. Grizzly bear protector. Michael Audain has been all of these things and more in a colourful life spanning eight decades, three continents and five careers.

For fans of Bad Blood and Too Big to Fail—an explosive, page-turning account of one of the largest financial frauds in US history, chronicling the utopian promises, human collateral, and incineration of billions of dollars in the 2022 crypto crash, by Time magazine's technology correspondent. As cryptocurrency rose in popularity during the pandemic, new converts bought into the idea that crypto would not only make them rich, but would usher in imminent revolutions across art, finance, politics, and gaming.

Un petit traité de sagesse qui nous met sur la voie d'une authentique réussite. Et si nous changions de regard sur l'échec ? En France, échouer est mal perçu. Nous y voyons une faiblesse, une faute, et non un gage d'audace et d'expérience. Pourtant, les succès viennent rarement sans accroc. Charles de Gaulle, Rafael Nadal, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, J.K. Rowling ou Barbara ont tous essuyé des revers cuisants avant de s'accomplir.

Moscou, 2009. Sergueï Magnitski est arrêté et torturé à mort dans une geôle moscovite après avoir dévoilé une escroquerie fiscale de 230 millions de dollars. Depuis, son ami et collaborateur Bill Browder dénonce avec ferveur les machinations financières de Poutine et consorts—se retrouvant ainsi dans le viseur du Kremlin. En 2012, aux côtés de Barack Obama, Browder a fait adopter la « loi Magnitski »—permettant aux gouvernements étrangers de geler les biens des oligarques russes visés par la justice.

A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope. Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line? Fraud is everywhere, from Nigerian "princes," embezzlers, and Ponzi schemers to corporate giants like Enron and Volkswagen. And fraud is costly.

Ce livre peut changer des vies. Pour les lecteurs qui ont aimé Essaye encore d'Estelle Boutan, Imparfaits, libres, et heureux de Christophe André, et Les 7 habitudes de ceux qui réalisent tout ce qu'ils entreprennent de Stephen Covey: La Vitesse de la confiance est une trouvaille extraordinaire. Un livre pour trouver l'ingrédient essentiel de l'épanouissement et de la performance.

One of TIME Magazine's Must-Read Books of the Year – "The joys of Sun's memoir lie in the absurdity of her tasks: coaxing a famous athlete to a company party, sourcing Mitt Romney's phone number on a deadline, coordinating private-jet departures... It's [Sun's] personal revelations that elevate the book above a typical tell-all." – TIME Magazine. A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture.

The "rollicking" (The Economist), "masterfully written" (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars — hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as one of the "Books That Explain Where We Are." Finalist — the Edgar Award (Fact Crime), the Macavity Award (Nonfiction), the Porchlight Business Book Award, the SABEW Best in Business Book Award.

The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers—until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. —The basis for the major motion picture Pain Hustlers starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans. "Unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film...A tour de force."—Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing. John Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics.