National Business Book Award
The National Business Book Award is an award presented to Canadian business authors. The award, presented every year since 1985, is sponsored by Bennett Jones , The Globe and Mail The Walrus ,[ 2]
Among the jury members is jury chairman Peter Mansbridge , former Chief Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 's CBC News . Also on the jury are David F. Denison , Chairman of Hydro One , business journalist Deirdre McMurdy, author and publisher Anna Porter , and Pamela Wallin , a Conservative sitting in the Senate of Canada .[ 3]
Winners
2019: Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It Allen Lane , imprint of Penguin Random House , 2018)[ 4]
2018: Chris Turner , The Patch: The People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oil Sands (Simon & Schuster , 2017)
2017: Daniel J. Levitin , A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age Allen Lane , imprint of Penguin Random House , 2016, ISBN 06700-6994-9 )
2016: Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Blackberry (HarperCollins Publishers , 2015, ISBN 14434-3618-6 )
2015: Alfred Hermida , Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why it Matters (Doubleday Canada , imprint of Penguin Random House , 2014, ISBN 03856-7956-4 )
2014: Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish, The Third Rail: Confronting Our Pension Failures (Signal, imprint of McLelland & Stewart , 2013, ISBN 07710-4735-5 )
2013: Chrystia Freeland , Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else ISBN 1-5942-0409-8 )[ 5]
2012 : Bruce Philp, Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World (McLelland & Stewart , 2011, ISBN 0-7710-7002-0 )[ 6]
2011 : Ezra Levant , Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands McLelland & Stewart , 2010, ISBN 0-7710-4641-3 )[ 1]
2010 : Jeff Rubin , Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization (Random House , 2009, ISBN 1-4000-6850-9 )
2009 : Gordon Pitts, Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada's New Power Elite (Key Porter Books , 2008, ISBN 1-55470-120-1 )[ 7]
2008 : William Marsden , Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) (Knopf Canada , 2007, ISBN 0-676-97913-0 )[ 8]
2007 : Thomas Homer-Dixon , The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization Island Press , 2006, ISBN 1-59726-064-9 )[ 9]
2006 : Matthew Bellamy , Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990 (McGill-Queen's University Press , 2004, ISBN 0-7735-2815-6 )[ 10]
2005 : Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart, Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black (Overlook Hardcover , 2004, ISBN 1-58567-636-5 )[ 11]
2004 : Kim Vicente , The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live With Technology (Routledge , 2004, ISBN 0-415-97891-2 )[ 12]
2003 : Douglas Hunter, The Bubble and The Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream (Doubleday Canada , 2002, ISBN 0-385-65918-0 )[ 13]
2002 : John Lawrence Reynolds , Free Rider (McArthur & Company Publishing , 2001, ISBN 1-55278-235-2 )[ 14]
2001 : Naomi Klein , No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies Knopf Canada , 2000, ISBN 0-312-20343-8 )[ 15]
2000 : Ingeborg Boyens, Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food (Doubleday Canada, 2000, ISBN 0-385-25789-9 )[ 16]
1999 : Jennifer Wells, Fever: The Dark Mystery of the Bre-X Gold Rush (Viking, 1998, ISBN 0-670-87815-4 )[ 17]
1998 : Anthony Bianco, The Reichmanns - Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia and York (Random House, 1998, ISBN 0-8129-3063-0 )[ 18]
1997 : Rod McQueen , Who Killed Confederation Life?: The Inside Story (McClelland & Stewart, 1996, ISBN 0-7710-5631-1 )[ 19]
1996 : Heather Robertson , Driving Force: The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car (McClelland & Stewart, 1995, ISBN 0-7710-7556-1 )[ 20]
1995 : Anne Kingston, The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President's Choice and the Making of Popular Taste (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1995, ISBN 0-921912-94-3 )[ 21]
1994 : Duncan McDowall, Quick to the Frontier: Canada's Royal Bank (McClelland & Stewart, 1993, ISBN 0-7710-5504-8 )[ 22]
1993 : Peter Foster, Self-Serve: How Petro-Canada Pumped Canadians Dry (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1992, ISBN 0-921912-38-2 )[ 23]
1992 : G. Bruce Doern and Brian W. Tomlin, Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story (Stoddart, 1991, ISBN 0-7737-2534-2 )[ 24]
1991 : Ann Gibbon and Peter Hadekel, Steinberg: The Breakup of a Family Empire (Macmillan of Canada, 1990, ISBN 0-7715-9102-0 )[ 25]
1990 : Ian Brown , Freewheeling: the Feuds, Broods, and Outrageous Fortunes of the Billes Family and Canada's Favorite Company (HarperCollins Canada, 1989, ISBN 0-00-215977-5 )[ 26]
1989 : Greig Steward, Shutting Down the National Dream (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1988, ISBN 0-07-549675-5 [ 27]
1988 : Michael Bliss , Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business (McClelland & Stewart, 1990, ISBN 0-7710-1569-0 )[ 28]
1987 : Philip Smith, Harvest from the Rock: A History of Mining in Ontario (Macmillan of Canada, 1986, ISBN 0-7715-9705-3 )[ 29]
1986 : Ann Shortell and Patricia Best, A Matter of Trust (Penguin Books, 1986, ISBN 0-14-007721-9 )[ 30]
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