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Weinzweig

Edited by Brian Cherney & John Beckwith
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Music, Biography & Autobiography

First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.
Influenced ...

Eagle Minds

Edited by Alan M. Gillmor
Subjects: Music, Biography & Autobiography

Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis ...

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the ...

Florence Nightingale’s European Travels

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

This seventh volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale consists of letters, observations, and notes from Florence Nightingale’s many trips to Europe, beginning with a family journey when ...

Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease ...

Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Religion, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is widely known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the founder of the modern profession of nursing. She was also a scholar and political activist who wrote and worked ...

Limelight

By Katja Lee
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee ...

Moving Archives

Edited by Linda M. Morra
Subjects: Archival Studies, Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement ...

The Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten

Edited by Mary J. Anderson
Subjects: Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Life Writing

How did a privileged Victorian matron, newly widowed and newly impoverished, manage to raise and educate her six young children and restore her family to social prominence?
Mary Baker McQuesten’s personal ...

Florence Nightingale’s Theology: Essays, Letters and Journal Notes

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

This third volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports her controversial theological essays (only two of which have been previously published) and a great array of correspondence, from ...