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36 produkter
Making of a Museum
Av Judith Nasby
Inbunden, 2021
585 kr
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Judith Nasby, founding director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, animates the story of the gallery from its humble beginnings in the hallways of a university campus in 1916 to its latest incarnation as the internationally recognized Art Gallery of Guelph.The book is beautifully …
Smitten by Giraffe
My Life As a Citizen Scientist
Häftad, 2021
323 kr
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When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey …
Gold’s Rounds
Medicine, McGill, and Growing Up Jewish in Montreal
Av Phil Gold
Inbunden, 2023
484 kr
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Growing up on St Lawrence Boulevard, Phil Gold never aspired to be a doctor. But working as an encyclopedia salesman, a bottle washer at Molson, and a fur-coat schlepper in textile factories helped him realize and embrace his parents’ desire for him to follow that path.Looking back at his short …
Never Rest on Your Ores
Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time, Second Edition
Inbunden, 2023
603 kr
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More than a century ago, a prospector discovered gold at Ontario's Kirkland Lake and a son was born to British immigrants in Saskatchewan. The boy – Norman Bell Keevil – went on to become a renowned scientist, teacher, and prospector, discovering a small but high-grade copper mine in Ontario. …
Ghost Stories
On Writing Biography
Häftad, 2024
290 kr
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A biographer is, in a sense, the ghostwriter of someone else’s life, trying to keep out of the way but inevitably leaving an imprint and being changed in the enterprise. In her memoir Judith Adamson, a professional biographer, tells the ghost’s side of the story.Adamson reveals the questions she …
What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me About Democracy
Av Jane Cooper
Häftad, 2024
287 kr
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Win the votes, buy the votes, steal the votes, invalidate the votes! There is a lot that can go right – and so much that can go wrong – in a Ukrainian election. From the opening of the campaign through to the final decision on the results, it is a rollercoaster ride for the candidates, the election …
Blatant Injustice
The Story of a Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany Imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II
Av Walter W. Igersheimer, Ian Darragh
Häftad, 2024
379 kr
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Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and …
Darkest Night Brings Longer Days
Surviving War and Iran's Evin Prison
Häftad, 2025
290 kr
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In the late 1980s Sirous Houshmand found himself in the confines of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a political prisoner facing a future where survival seemed unlikely. Thousands were killed in mass executions in 1988, including many of Houshmand’s closest prison friends. These memories would shape …
Louis J. Robichaud
A Man for the Moment
Inbunden, 2026
424 kr
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Louis J. Robichaud, the first elected Acadian premier of New Brunswick, transformed an inward-looking province with an ingrained aversion to change into a vibrant modern society now home to strong political, administrative, and educational institutions. Donald Savoie draws a portrait of adroit …
Le Moment était Venu Pour Quelqu'un Comme Lui
Louis J. Robichaud
Inbunden, 2026
424 kr
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Louis J. Robichaud, le premier Acadien élu premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick, a transformé sa province repliée sur elle-même et réfractaire au changement, en une société moderne et dynamique maintenant dotée de solides institutions politiques et administratives et d’établissements …
Ground to Stand on
A Canadian Literary Life
Av Sandra Djwa
Inbunden, 2026
431 kr
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“Now, don’t you ever leave Newfoundland,” Premier Joey Smallwood told seventeen-year-old Sandra Djwa in 1956. But leave she did – only to return decades later as a pathbreaking literary scholar and one of Canada’s most influential female academics, carrying with her a remarkable legacy of …
Harrison McCain
Single-Minded Purpose
Häftad, 2027
359 kr
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The only rival to Harrison McCain’s entrepreneurial success was his deep attachment to his Maritime roots. From McCain’s beginnings in Florenceville, New Brunswick, and the early mentorship he received from K.C. Irving, to the global success of his corporate empire McCain Foods, Donald Savoie …
I'm from Bouctouche, Me
Roots Matter
Häftad, 2027
387 kr
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Donald Savoie grew up in a small Acadian village and went on to become an accomplished writer and academic whose books have profoundly affected Canadian public policy and public administration. I'm from Bouctouche, Me is not only his story but a story about Canada, the Acadian people, and the …
Alice Street
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2010
549 kr
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Alice Street recounts how Valeriote was born at the sunset of good times and the dawn of hard ones. His mother's fifteenth child, he grew up in an Italian Catholic family on a street full of proud families with a multitude of languages and backgrounds. From being packed into the local church, to …
Discovering Confederation
A Canadian's Story
Häftad, 2015
245 kr
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Janet Ajzenstat is one of Canada's most respected thinkers on the moral and philosophical foundations of responsible government and Confederation. Discovering Confederation is a study of political science over the last forty years through the intellectual lens of her career. Ajzenstat details her …
Oil Has not Run Dry
The Story of My Theological Pathway
Av Gregory Baum
Häftad, 2018
381 kr
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Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum shares recollections about his lifelong commitment to theology, his atypical views, and his evolving understanding of the Catholic …
Against the Current
The Memoirs of Boris Ragula, MD
Av Boris Ragula
Inbunden, 2005
560 kr
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The daunting adversities faced by a Belarusian refugee who found himself at the crossroads of history and geography
My Life at the Bar and Beyond
Inbunden, 2005
485 kr
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A rich, anecdotal memoir that adds a personal dimension to the major events in recent Quebec history
Red Travellers
Jeanne Corbin & Her Comrades
Inbunden, 2006
605 kr
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The story of a life devoted to promoting communism illuminates Canadian labour and social history in the interwar years.
Teeth of Time
Remembering Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Av Ramsay Cook
Inbunden, 2006
426 kr
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A memoir about the forty-year friendship between Ramsay Cook and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Greater Glory
Thirty-Seven Years with the Jesuits
Inbunden, 2007
485 kr
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A candid memoir by a former Jesuit about a way of life that is becoming obsolete.
Doctor to the North
Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit
Inbunden, 2008
485 kr
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The experiences of a university heart specialist and consultant to the Inuit of the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Dal and Rice
Inbunden, 2008
426 kr
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An affectionate portrait of a childhood spent in India during the last days of the British Raj
In the Eye of the Wind
A Travel Memoir of Prewar Japan
Av Ron Baenninger, Martin Baenninger
Inbunden, 2009
426 kr
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Yokohama, a quiet fishing village when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived with his gunboat diplomacy in the mid-1800s, was quickly transformed into a bustling port for international trade. The change brought affluent foreigners to the city but also mobilized Japanese nationalist hostilities. It was in …
I'm from Bouctouche, Me
Roots Matter
Inbunden, 2009
470 kr
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In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated, isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis J. Robichaud, pointed the way for Acadians like Savoie to make important contributions to Canada's development. …
Margaret Macdonald
Imperial Daughter
Av Susan Mann
Häftad, 2010
411 kr
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During an era of separate spheres for men and women, Margaret Macdonald used her nurse's training to gain access to the military and a life of work, travel, and adventure. In 1906, she was one of the first two nurses to receive a permanent appointment to the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She became …
Crises and Compassion
From Russia to the Golden Gate
Inbunden, 2011
426 kr
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Letiche, now in his nineties, provides an intriguing look at the changes that have occurred during his lifetime. Following his Kiev childhood and formative years in Depression-era Montreal, he completed a doctorate at the University of Chicago and took up a Rockefeller fellowship at the Council on …
In the Eye of the China Storm
A Life Between East and West
Av Paul T.K. Lin, Eileen Chen Lin
Inbunden, 2011
560 kr
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Born in Vancouver in 1920 to immigrant parents, Lin became a passionate advocate for China while attending university in the United States. With the establishment of the People's Republic, and growing Cold War sentiment, Lin abandoned his doctoral studies, moving to China with his wife and two …
Georges and Pauline Vanier
Portrait of a Couple
Inbunden, 2011
457 kr
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Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France - detailing their disappointments and triumphs during social and …
Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs
College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942
Av Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
Inbunden, 2012
471 kr
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Elizabeth Hillman enrolled at McGill University the week World War II began. As a freshman writing for the McGill Daily, she covered torchlight football parades and dances at the Ritz Carleton hotel while elsewhere the paper reported U-boats torpedoing convoys and war planes plummeting into the …
