Level the Playing Field: Strategies for Women to Break Through Invisible Barriers in BusinessIn corporate Canada, ambitious women often find their career advancement blocked by unseen obstacles. The Invisible Rules exposes these hidden rules that favor men, revealing why women hold only 10% of top-paying jobs.Based on interviews with 50 senior female Canadian executives, this book provides actionable strategies for women to navigate biases and achi...

After more than 45 years of dedication and sacrifice, International Boxing Hall of Famer Russ Anber is one of boxing’s most respected figures: trainer of champions, legendary hand-wrapper, cornerman and cutman, and CEO of Rival Boxing Gear.Unrivaled is his definitive memoir—an unfiltered account of life inside the fight game. From meeting the heros of his youth like Angelo Dundee and Ray Arcel to unforgettable nights alongside champions including Otis Grant, Jean Pascal, Vasiliy Lo...

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect.Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington “Tiga” Francis, who survived crushing poverty and violence in Jamaica’s notorious ghettos and the insidious racism of 1980s Montreal to emerge as one of Canada’s most successful professional fighters.This riveting narrative is told in the twelve rounds of Barrington’s fi...

An inspiring story of hope and resiliencyOn April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen otherswere injured after a bus takingthe Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with atransport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people toleave hockey sticks by their front door to show sympathy and support for theBroncos. People from more than eighty countries pledged millions of dollars ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport.**Christine Sinclair is one of the wo...

An indispensable guide to parents of hockey hopefulsAt a time of great change in hockey, Justin Davis exposes the dark underbelly of the journey from the minors to the big leaguesHockey culture: it’s a commonly used phrase inside the game, glorifying sacrifice, toughness, loyalty, and a sense of identity. Justin Davis viewed this culture as something he was lucky enough to experience. After all, he’d won a Memorial Cup after leading the tou...

Frustrated watching English football? You know we can do better, but why don't we? This e-book provides a guide for all football coaches and managers to improve the way that their team plays.It is asking managers to be brave and embrace new methods and techniques, to step away from the kick and hope mentality seen in so many matches.

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to his sprint toward double Olympic gold for Canada in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But h...

Curling legend Colleen Jones opens up about her extraordinary career and lifeCurling is possibly the most beloved sport across Canada, and Colleen Jones has been one of its brightest stars. She was only nineteen years old when she won her first provincial championship, and she became the youngest skip, at age twenty-two, ever to win the Canadian women's curling championship: the Tournament of Hearts. She went on to win it a total of six times, with an unprecedented...

A companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+!What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives?Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on...

Tracing Canadian men’s soccer’s emergence from global obscurity to international powerhouse, featuring insight from star players like Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David and manager John Herdman.The last time Canada qualified for a men’s World Cup was in 1986. For a generation afterwards, the Canadian national men’s soccer team struggled in obscurity, an afterthought in a country that was not yet soccer-mad. The twenty-first century brought a wave of soccer passion ...

As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Vince Lombardi: Toughness discusses the struggles and triumphs of Pele's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself.What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding and appreciation of the virtues that these icons needed to get through life,...