This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff,
Princeton University Press, $39.95

Presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults, banking panics and inflationary spikes. The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much – or how little – we have learned.

Crisis of Character: Building Corporate Reputation in the Age of Skepticism
Peter Firestein,
Union Square, $29.99

Firestein delves into case studies from the front lines of corporate struggles to illustrate how company strategy must shift to deal effectively with globalization and the new environmental and human rights standards that come with it.

Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices
Michael M. Pompian
Wiley, $102.00

The author provides a practical introduction to who the ultra-affluent actually are and reveals what it takes to build and maintain a solid relationship with them.

Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and our lives)
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Vintage Canada

Carbon Shift explores the economics, geology, politics and science of our predicament. Six of Canada’s world-renowned experts examine the most important facets of the complex problem before us.

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram G. Rajan, Princeton
University Press, $30.95

Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now as the world struggles to recover, it’s tempting to blame what happened on a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks. Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren’t fixed.

The Fog Index: Recognizing Extremes of Fear or Greed in the Financial Markets
Jeff Cheah & Russel D. Ogden, $17.50

The Fog Index is a tool to help market participants recognize extremes of fear or greed in the financial markets. It helps to spot the early signs of euphoria heading toward panic as well as the early signals that pessimism and complacency are turning toward rational optimism.

The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2nd revised and updated edition
Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Nanfred Pohl, Nick Tolhurst
Wiley, $60.00

This book provides an easy-to-use guide to CSR: from general concepts such as sustainability, stakeholder management, business ethics and human rights to more specific topics such as carbon trading, micro-finance, biodiversity and globalization.

The Great Reflation: How Investors Can Profit From the New World of Money
J. Anthony Boeckh
Wiley, $41.95

The Great Reflation provides investors with the knowledge, insights, background and tools for both building and protecting wealth and allows you to find financial opportunities in the economic challenges that lie ahead.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable second edition with a new section on “Robustness & Fragility”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House, $20.00

A black swan is an event (positive or negative) that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequence. In this second edition Taleb has added a new essay which offers tools to navigate a Black Swan world.