Below are some of our most recently released books.
Artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace, but it is also making one truth clearer than ever: the future belongs to leaders who excel at the skills that technology cannot replace. Leading Across Borders explores why Cultural Intelligence (CQ) has become one of the most important leadership competencies of our time. As organizations become increasingly global, multicultural, and interconnected, leaders must be able to communicate across cultures, build trust with diverse teams, navigate different perspectives, and create environments where people feel valued and empowered to contribute. Drawing on research, practical frameworks, and real-world leadership experiences, Nadine Niba demonstrates that Cultural Intelligence is far more than an inclusion initiative. It is a strategic leadership capability that strengthens decision-making, drives innovation, improves collaboration, enhances customer relationships, and enables organizations to compete in a global economy. Whether you lead a team, manage clients, work across borders, or aspire to greater leadership responsibility, this book provides practical tools to develop Cultural Intelligence as a core human skill. In the age of artificial intelligence, technical expertise will remain important, but the leaders who create trust, bridge differences, and unite people around a common purpose will define the future. Leading Across Borders is a practical guide to developing the human leadership capabilities that will remain indispensable in an AI-powered world.
Caught in a relentless pursuit, a Jewish boy leaps into the Ulai River to escape his bullies. Beneath the surface, as time dilates, he beholds a vision of a glowing talisman that speaks to him in beams of light, forever changing his destiny. As his homeland spirals into religious upheaval, his family flees abroad. Decades later, now a renowned astrophysicist haunted by vivid dreams, he encounters the talisman again. Joined by a close childhood friend and two experts in archaeology and ancient art, he sets out to unravel its mysteries. Their search leads to a coded message linked to the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Spanning continents and decades, Zagros: an Abyss of Effulgence explores faith and reason, suffering and meaning, the divine and the self. Guided by dreams and the whisper of ancient wisdom, the reader is drawn into a mysterious journey toward truth, transformation, and love.
If you listen closely, you might hear mischief jingling down the hallway. Not a bell, not a bounce, not even a marble dropped by mistake—it’s Martin Marble. Martin isn’t just any marble. Bright and yellow, he’s always rolling toward his next adventure. One moment he’s tucked away, the next he’s tumbling into laughter and excitement. In these pages, follow Martin through three merry misadventures: • Twirling through tinsel in It’s Christmas Time, spreading cheer (and a little chaos). • Bouncing into friendships in The Playdate. • Zipping across the field in The Football Game, where teamwork takes unexpected turns. So grab a cozy spot and get ready to giggle—because when Martin Marble rolls, fun is never far behind. This book came to life through love, laughter, and encouragement. To Austin, Tyson, and Lydian—thank you for showing me your way of learning. To the clowder who filled our home with joy—your “palm’s natural oils” live in these pages. To the children, the “J crew,” and my family and friends—your imagination and belief made this possible. Created across the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and Fort William First Nation, under the Dish With One Spoon Covenant and the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850. To Jesus Christ, my saviour, source of all gifts.. To fellow educators and readers—this is for you. And to you: may you always find adventure, mischief, and magic.
When Clair Brenner, an exhausted, overworked medical resident, must evaluate a suicidal woman in the emergency department, she is shocked to recognize her long-estranged mother. Shaken, she avoids telling her unpredictable half-sister Sibley, while quietly seeking her mother’s diagnosis, hoping to make sense of their fractured past and her mother’s sudden reappearance. But when a visitor arrives at the hospital claiming connections to their mother, Sibley’s hidden agenda surfaces, and Clair’s carefully compartmentalized worlds collide. As professional lines blur and family bonds fray, the sisters are forced to confront the limits of responsibility and forgiveness while relationships–and lives–hang in the balance.
Weaving through various themes, experiences and anecdotes, this debut collection dwells in both the abstract and the mundane, the ordinary and the divine, the universal and the personal. What does it mean to be human? What is the space beyond a mother’s love? And how far does memory run in either direction along the timelines we construct for ourselves? As with many such questions found within, the act of seeking is the point, rather than finding a conclusion. At first glance, circles aren’t flat and don’t have edges, yet nevertheless beauty persists, sharp as a papercut. Here we find ourselves again, vulnerable to the slashing repetition of our days, our habits, and the millennia that keep tumbling by on the rollercoaster of the universe. Pull up a chair and start throwing out some answers that deserve questions … Flat Circles, Sharp Edges is for the hopeless optimist living way down deep inside of you, for the romantic pessimist that keeps you alive, and for your neighbour. Like many things, it is best enjoyed with a sunset and a scotch.
Getting out on the links for a round of “Business Golf” provides the perfect opportunity to develop lasting trust with a potential customer or client in a way that meeting across a desk or boardroom table, networking at an industry function, or indulging in yet another tiresome power lunch just can’t do. So says author Allen W. Bonk in this intriguing book explaining just how uniquely valuable the game of golf can be in building and enhancing your relationships within your business community. In Zero to Trust in 18 Holes, Bonk draws upon his own history of success gleaned through trial and error during hundreds of rounds of business golf and shows you how you too can learn strategies for turning a fun, pleasurable game into a win-win business enterprise. As Bonk says, “If you don't understand the essential rules of business golf, you are destined to fail.”