Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Outside ActivitiesFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Working with the Canadian Jewish Congress and running as an NDP candidate for the Ontario legislature. | Alan Borovoy | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Part 3Hitting a Billion From: Billion Dollar Start-Up |
This chapter explores the growth of HEXO from a small startup to a company with a valuation of over $1 billion. | Adam Miron; Julie Beun; Sébastien St-Louis | 86 | 2021 | $8.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Part Three: Section IIWomen and Depression: Auto/biographies |
This reading consists of the following essays: Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973] – M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Peace and Fire |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It gives insight into the changes and challenges faced by the family under the communist government. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Pre-Descent, In-Range, Landing and After Landing Checklist |
Chapter 6 discusses the landing process. Topics explored include ILS (Instrument Landing System), speed limits and how they calculate speed, keeping outside clean, small verses large aircrafts, … | Doug Morris | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Preparing for WarFrom: Churchill and Fisher |
Historian Barry Gough examines the preperations for war made by Winston Churchill and Jack Fisher (1911-1914) including the naval officers involved, the role of oil, the Mediterranean naval … | Barry Gough | 41 | 2017 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Prince Albert yearFrom: The Wheel of Things |
- | Mollie Gillen | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Real NamePart 2: Statues of Lions From: This is My Real Name |
Chapter 6 follows Brunet rediscovering herself. Topics discussed include strip circuits, studying poetry, laws surrounding sex work and paying for sex work, domestic violence, music tied to … | Cid V Brunet | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Relationship to Fear |
This chapter details the author’s sex education at school, her being tested with a friend for HIV, and how fear of AIDS influenced her romantic life as a lesbian. | EJ Colen | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Replanning the DowntownFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1970s. Downtown development and the central area plan | John Sewell | 25 | 2015 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Sacred ConnectionsFrom: At Home |
Chapter 6 features Diane Pugen. The chapter focuses on artists whose sense of home is tied directly to the land itself. | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Saving a Grand Old LadyPart III |
Part three of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 25 | 2014 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! SevenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! SilencesFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Talks about the story told within an author’s silence. What is revealed by the stories omitted. Singh illustrates this through the story of his mother’s older sister—a story she … | Jaspreet Singh | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Sixty-seven Pounds |
His illness leads to a break from Hockey and finding a job, his diagnosis with Hodgkin lymphoma and his transition into coaching | John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe | 23 | 2014 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Something Below HumanityThe Beautiful and the Beastly From: Disfigured |
Chapter 6 examines the archetype of beauty and the beast, exploring topics such as physical beauty, pity, humanity, isolation and childhood, beauty as good a sign of one’s characteristics, … | Amanda Leduc | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
