Creator: Elizabeth Lumley
Edition: 41st
Publication date: 2006-05-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $341.00
Price: $292.50
Review Canadian Who's Who 2006 (Canadian Who's Who) / University of Toronto Press:Now in its ninety-sixth year of publication, this standard Canadian reference source contains the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical information on notable living Canadians. Those listed are carefully selected because of the positions they hold in Canadian society, or because of the contribution they have made to life in Canada. The volume is updated annually to ensure accuracy, and 600 new entries are added each year to keep current with developing trends and issues in Canadian society. Included are outstanding Canadians from all walks of life: politics, media, academia, business, sports and the arts, from every area of human activity. Each entry details birth date and place, education, family, career history, memberships, creative works, honours and awards, and full addresses. Indispensable to researchers, students, media, business, government and schools, Canadian Who's Who is an invaluable source of general knowledge. The complete text of Canadian Who's Who is also available on CD-ROM, in a comprehensively indexed and fully searchable format. Search 'astronaut' or 'entrepreneur of the year,' 'aboriginal achievement award' and 'Order of Canada' and discover a wealth of information. Fast, easy and more accessible than ever, the Canadian Who's Who on CD-ROM is an essential addition to your electronic library. Network Licensing available. [+]ISBN 0-8020-4057-8For pricing information, please contact CEDROM-Sni (416) 260-2369info. canada@cedrom-sni. comPST 8% applicable to Ontario residents on all of the aboveCD-ROM requirements:WINDOWS: 95/98/2000/NT/XP - 386/25Mhz - 4mb RAM (8mb recommended) MAC: OS 7, 8, and 9 - 4mb RAM (8mb recommended).
Publication date: 1982-01-01
Price: $282.58
Review Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman: V. 2 / Gregg Revivals:
Publication date: 1916
Review The luck of thirteen;: Wanderings and flight through Montenegro and Serbia / Dutton:Piccadilly weepers vanished and a depressed little quartet was left on the platform-our two selves a lean schoolmaster and an egg-shaped man who never spoke a word. We found a clerk sitting in an office. He said we could not leave our bags in his room but as we made him own that we could not put them anywhere else he looked the other way while we dropped them in the corner. ' (Excerpt from Chapter 1).
Creator: Svetlana Kokhanovskaya
Publication date: 1997-03
Dewey code: 796
Price: $19.95
Review Tarasov: The Father of Russian Hockey : Hockey's Rise to International Prominence Through the Eyes of a Coaching Legend / Griffin Publishing Inc.:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1868
Review Lee and His Lieutenants: Comprising the early life, public services, and campaigns of General Robert E. Lee and his companions in arms, with a record of their campaigns and heroic deeds / J.S. Morrow; [etc., etc.]:
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 941.505092
Price: $20.90
Review Sir Arthur Chichester: Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1605-16 / Dufour Editions:
Edition: Uniform Ed
Publication date: 1988
Review CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.: NEVER DESPAIR, 1945-65 V. 8 / WILLIAM HEINEMANN:
Publication date: 1991-10
Dewey code: 920
Price: $79.00
Review Helen Keller's Journal (American Biography Ser.) / Reprint Services Corporation:
Edition: Supplement
Publication date: 2006-08-04
Dewey code: 929
List Price: $362.00
Price: $279.78
Review Passenger & Immigration Lists Index 2007 (Passenger and Immigration Lists Index Supplement) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 818.5403
Price: $40.00
Review The Tangier Diaries, 1962-1979 / Cadmus Press:Every page drips with memories, writes William Burroughs about this collection of Hopkins' diaries covering two decades of a life lived as an ex-patriot. Hopkins was one of the most influential writers living in Tangier at the time; including , among others Paul and Jane Bowles. The writing varies from poetic, reflective to vernacular and antic. The mystery of walking through the palmeraie by night. The silence of the universe blots out the noisiness of man. Hopkins wrote the preceding line on December 23, 1966, however, by the 24th, he is more interested in lanterns made of tin cans, and , a Moroccan schoolboy, [who,] hoping to start a conversation, recited all the French he learned in school: 'Bonsoir, monsieur. Quelle heure est-il?'.
Authors
- Bob Boyer
- Carol Podedworny
- Daphne Odjig
Publication date: 2001-06-15
Dewey code: 759.11
Price: $29.95
Review Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 / Key Porter Books:Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 is a graceful blend of biography, essay, and critique which illuminates the importance of this gifted artist to the Canadian artistic community and provides art lovers with a rare glimpse into the extraordinary heart of this painter. Odjig confronts the themes of the aboriginal experience, her family dynamic, and her spiritual beliefs in her paintings, which are extremely personal. Collectors of her works are awed by her innovative use of traditional aboriginal symbols, which transcend the specific culture from which they come. In the early 1960s, her development of a recognizable "Odjig style" garnered her enough attention to make possible her first solo show in 1967. Odjig's reputation as an artist was growing internationally and her commissioned painting Earth Mother was displayed at EXPO '70 in Japan. Odjig's importance as a Canadian artist is immeasurable. Bob Boyer, a renowned Metis artist and lecturer, absorbingly explores in his preface the place of Native art in the broader spectrum of Canadian culture, in order to provide a more in-depth perspective on Odjig's significance. Pamela Krueger, an award-winning appreciator of Canadian art, discusses in the introduction the course of Odjig's life and career and places her art into its cultural context.
Creator: Nathan Reingold
Publication date: 1999-01-17
Dewey code: 537.0924
List Price: $80.00
Price: $291.16
Review The Papers of Joseph Henry, Vol. 8: January 1850-December 1853: The Smithsonian Years / Smithsonian:
Authors
- E.. A. Wallis Budge
- E. A. Wallis Budge
Dewey code: 938
List Price: $315.00
Price: $315.00
Review Alexander the Great (Kegan Paul Library of History and Archaeology) / Kegan Paul:Written by one of the most remarkable and erudite scholars of the early twentieth century, a man who has not an equal today, this book is a unique and authoritative portrait of one of the greatest men in history. The object of this work, which it admirally achieves, is to present to lovers of the legend and history about Alexander translations of all Ethiopic accounts of that man in English and to include all necessary commentary.
Authors
- Yvonne Argent
- Paul Marriott
Dewey code: 941.083092
Price: $45.00
Review The Last Days of T. E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind / Sussex Academic Press:A Leaf in The Wind covers the last days of T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) up to and following his mysterious and fatal motorcycle accident on the 13th of May, 1935. New evidence discovered by the authors questions the original story published at the time, and sheds new light on his tragic death. Meticulously researched over several years these painstaking investigations have revealed many new insights in Lawrence's life, activities and interests, some of which may surprise and offend many people. The documentary and photographic evidence encompasses some 60 plates, maps and figures, and for anyone with an interest in T E Lawrence this book will be essential reading.
Publication date: 1907
Review Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General United States Army (Volume 1) / Baker & Taylor:Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 - October 26, 1909) Union general in the American Civil War. He was noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater, and served there successfully. After the war, he commanded troops in the West, conducting a famous campaign against the Nez Perce tribe. He was instrumental in the founding of Howard University.
Publication date: 1980-09-10
Dewey code: 828.609
List Price: $240.00
Price: $294.92
Review Volume 40-42: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1734-1797 (The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence) / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 973.049697294
Price: $25.00
Review Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American / Univ of Texas Pr:African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society—the children of the poor—by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children were—and still are—restavecs, a French term whose literal meaning of "staying with" disguises the unremitting labor, abuse, and denial of education that characterizes the children's lives. In this memoir, Jean-Robert Cadet recounts the harrowing story of his youth as a restavec, as well as his inspiring climb to middle-class American life. He vividly describes what it was like to be an unwanted illegitimate child "staying with" a well-to-do family whose physical and emotional abuse was sanctioned by Haitian society. He also details his subsequent life in the United States, where, despite American racism, he put himself through college and found success in the Army, in business, and finally in teaching.
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 796.422092
Price: $19.95
Review Why: The Biography of John Carlos With Cd Jackson, Jr. / Milligan Books:
Publication date: 1997-11-13
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: $80.00
Review D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge Biography) / Cambridge University Press:The final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Vence in 1930. Based on much new or unfamiliar material, it describes his travels in Ceylon, Australia, the USA and Mexico in an increasingly desperate search for an ideal community. With his return to Europe in 1925, there is a detailed account of his rediscovery of painting, his battle against censorship, and the vitality with which he resisted the debilitating effects of tuberculosis. Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley's Lover are usually seen as the literary landmarks of these years; but Lawrence also wrote remarkable novellas, essays, criticism, short stories and poems. Lawrence is revealed here not as the impotent and self-obsessed figure of popular legend, but as a man more complex, more humorous, and more exemplary in his resolute grappling with the central problems of life and death.
Creator: Melba Porter Hay
Publication date: 1992-06
Dewey code: 320
Price: $60.00
Review The Papers of Henry Clay: Supplement 1793-1852 (Papers of Henry Clay) / University Press of Kentucky:
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