Your cart is empty.
  Search: Books

Search results for “ ”

Showing 1 to 10 of 45 results.

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family

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

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale’s life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform ...

And Peace Never Came

By Elisabeth M. Raab
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing ...

Recollections of a Forest Life

By George Copway
Afterword by Deanna Reder
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Indigenous Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Early Canadian Literature

The first book published by an Indigenous author in Canada is George Copway’s Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847), in which he offers an autobiographical account of his life and experiences, ...

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 ...

Working Memory

Edited by Jeanne Perreault & Marlene Kadar
Subjects: History, Military History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies
Series: Life Writing

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing ...

“I Want to Join Your Club”

Edited by Norah L. Lewis
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

“I am a girl, 13 years old, and a proper broncho buster. I can cook and do housework, but I just love to ride.”
In letters written to the children’s pages of newspapers, we hear the clear and authentic ...

"Without fear and with a manly heart"

Edited by L. Iris Newbold, K. Bruce Newbold
With Evelyn A. Walters, and Mark G. Walters
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Military History, Biography & Autobiography

Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, ...

163256

By Michael Englishman
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Jewish Studies, Military History
Series: Life Writing

163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of ...

A War Guest in Canada

By W.A.B. Douglas
Foreword by Cynthia R. Comacchio
Introduction by Roger Sarty
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Military History, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B ...

Accident of Fate

By Imre Rochlitz & Joseph Rochlitz
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Jewish Studies, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia.
At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home ...