Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  Confiscating Women’s VoicesFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the founding of Ma’an in 2002 and the 2005 Laqiya village election, where the author confronted a scheme in which men controlled women’s votes … | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 2 | 2024 | $0.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Confronting ApartheidFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene describes a personal encounter with apartheid in South Africa, where racial segregation permeated daily life. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  ConnecticutThe War Years From: No Place For A Woman |
The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life. | Antony Berger | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Consequential SummersFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter,Turene discusses two transformative summer jobs he held in Winnipeg during 1963 and 1965: guiding tourists through the Manitoba Legislative Building under Premier Roblin, and … | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Consider YourselfFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Poetry about Singh having his fortune told. | Jaspreet Singh | 1 | 2021 | $0.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Consolidating the Third Way: 2011–2015From: From Layton to Singh |
Chapter 3 examines the NDP’s complete shift to the "Third Way” political ideology between the 2011 and 2015 Federal Elections which solidified their movement towards the centre. … | Matt Fodor | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Constitution Express1980 |
Chapter eighteen of George Manuel’s biography covers his work on Aboriginal rights in the Constitution in 1980. It covers the Child Caravan in Vancouver to protest the Constitution Act … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Coolness, Courage, and SkillFrom: Asleep in the Deep |
This chapter summarizes the experience of Canadian nurses through the details of one woman’s service. Anna Stamers’ and other’s endurance and courage is described. | Dianne Kelly | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Core Startup TruthsFrom: Committed |
In this chapter, Sprickerhoff outlines the ten foundational truths of startup life, drawing on his 2001 founding of information security company eSentire in New York City. | Eldon Sprickerhoff | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Cormier’s Cove |
1927-1948. Outlines Romeo LeBlanc’s family history, his early life growing up in Corimer’s Cove (including statistics on education, resources, etc at the time), goes over the cost of … | Naomi E. S. Griffiths | 34 | 2011 | $3.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Corrals |
The chapter reflects on coming into adolescence, Spike the dog, playing in arsenic ridden lakes, “stuffing the goose”, wanting a boyfriend, the horse in the lake, and Margie’s … | Margaret Macpherson | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956? Myths, Legends, and Illusions |
Whether it could have been otherwise is the most frequent and poignant question for contemporaries and posterity alike when a revolution or an uprising has failed. Was defeat inevitable, or might … | Csaba Békés | 21 | 2010 | $2.73 Add |
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From  CowboyFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Spoon traces their formative bond with cowboy culture in Alberta, centred on their Uncle Carl and the three oil-rig uncles who toiled through the prairie seasons. | Rae Spoon | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Cracks |
The chapter recounts Margie and Maryanne’s two-night campout on Sammy’s Beach, youthful summers, stealing the clothes of skinny dippers foreigners, and the judgement-free friendship … | Margaret Macpherson | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Creating a Future |
Wendy Kitts recounts the story of Karen. The chapter discusses her focus on working, her daughter Emma, moving to New Brunswick, getting her GED, her struggles with learning math, and hopes to … | Wendy Kitts | 6 | 2009 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Creating Affordable Housing in Real NeighbourhoodsFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1970s. One of the very significant actions of the new Council was to embark on an affordable housing program. This resulted in thousands of affordable units being built by Council’s housing … | John Sewell | 33 | 2015 | $3.30 Add |
