Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From NEW! From Archie to GeneFrom: On Account of Darkness |
This chapter continues to explore racism faced by Black athletes in various sports throughout history and today. | Ian Kennedy | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! FundraisingPart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Fundraising Nash discusses the costs of running for office at all levels of office. The chapter explores topics including donation rules and rebates, personal financial accountability, live … | Peggy Nash | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
From Housing:Keeping the Faith From: How We Changed Toronto |
1970s. The reform Council may have been inventive and proactive in undertaking such an ambitious affordable housing program enabled by the federal and provincial legislation, but that program … | John Sewell | 16 | 2015 | $1.60 Add |
From How to Be Bad at Things but Do Them Anyway |
- | S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From JuniorFrom: The M Word |
Maria Meindl reflects on her relationship with her sister and her mother, her mother’s illness, memories of the past, her own experiences with illness, and Junior. | Maria Meindl | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
From Land Title and the James Bay Battle1972-1973 |
Chapter twelve of George Manuel’s biography looks at land rights court battles and the issue of the James Bay hydroelectric project in Northern Quebec during the years 1972 and 1973. | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
From Leaving Atlanta |
This chapter describes the author’s friendship with their uncle, who was gay and died of AIDS when the Moore was young. | Stephen H. Moore | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
From NEW! Line of DefenceSide by Side for Mother Earth From: Unsettling Canada |
Line of Defence focuses on Indigenous peoples’ role in acting as environmentalist across the world, as the children and the defenders of the land. The chapter explores activism against the … | Arthur Manuel | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
From LossPART 3: LIFE AFTER LEADING: THE NERVE TO REDEFINE YOURSELF From: Nerve |
The authors reflect on their transitions out of significant leadership roles. Specifically, the authors talk about how they handled these changes and the emotions they experienced during the … | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From No Place For Amateur PilotsStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Two of this title entitled "Reaching All Northerners" discusses Stuard Hodgson’s first months in the Northwest Territories. Topics discussed include his grand … | Jake Ootes | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! Not a Madeleine Dunked in TeaFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Explores grief through food, music, and memory. Showcases how these facets of experience intersected with his grief. | Jaspreet Singh | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! oud/oldFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
On the chronic abstraction of using a language learned after childhood. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
From Pediatric Hidden Agendas and MythsFrom: A Lucky Life |
Talks about the hidden agenda of parents who bring their children to the pediatrician for complaints that may seem trivial to the physician. Most hidden agendas fall into one of the following … | Richard B. Goldbloom | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add |
From Penultimate PerspectivesFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Reflection on philosophies and past activities and the role played by the defence of democracy, and some advice for successors. | Alan Borovoy | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
From Queens and Kings for a Year — Grade 12, 1953–54 63From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at Armdale High, the construction and being a part of a very small grade 12 class here 1953-54 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 3 | 2014 | $0.30 Add |
From Rocky Mountain |
Rocky Mountain RoughRiders Hockey Club, red flags about a fellow coach involved with pedophilia | John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |