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Literature, Criticism
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Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.
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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Christianity, Religious texts, Writing
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Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.
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General non-fiction, Espionage, Criticism
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A study of how the literature of espionage compares with its actual practice, written by a former CIA officer. Hitz…
concludes that in most instances truth is more surprising and peculiar than fiction. For espionage fans interested in an insider's assessment of the reality behind the entertainment. Some strong language. 2004.
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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Poetry
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Contains all of Page's classic poems, as well as several unpublished poems. Includes two short essays on poetry. 1985.
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Criticism, Writing
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Meyer shows how all the greats - Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and numerous other classic writers - are still…
very relevant. Using his trademark approach to reading and understanding, he takes readers on an exciting voyage of discovery through some of the most important works of Western literature. 2000.
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European history, Dinosaurs
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The text tells the story of the bitter feud between Gideon Mantell, who uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry…
and became obsessed with the ancient past and Richard Owen, patronised by royalty, the Prime Minister and the aristocracy, who scooped the credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. Their struggle was to create a new science that would change man's perception of his place in the universe. 2000.
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Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Anthologies, Criticism
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This collection of Davies' non-fiction writing, culled from four decades of dialogues, diaries and sketches, gives his views of people, literature, and himself. 1979.
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Dinosaurs
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Science historian draws on recent, revolutionary discoveries to present a new picture of dinosaurs and their world. Takes exception to…
the long-held myth that these beasts were sluggish, small brained, giant lizards. 1976.
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Canadian non-fiction, Science and technology, Dinosaurs
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In 1985, a party of Canadian and Chinese scientists embarked on a five-year treasure hunt in China's Gobi Desert, the…
badlands of Alberta and Canada's Arctic. They hoped to answer questions about dinosaur behaviour, migration, and evolution. 1993.
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Literature biography, Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Criticism
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Frye's entries contain self-analysis and self-revelation, as well as humour, dark moods and claustrophobia, and some self-congratulating. They also serve…
as a chronicle of Frye's life, as we watch him teach classes, plan his career, record his dreams, register his reactions to the people he meets, and reflect on books, music, movies, and religious and political issues. Some strong language. 2001.
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Literature, Criticism
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The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. 1970.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Criticism
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Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that…
contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated to contemporary writerly ones. Atwood also gives readers some insight into the fashions and foibles of those times. Her recollections and anecdotes offer a wry and often humorous look at the early days of the institutions taken for granted today - from writers' unions and grant programs to book tours and festivals. 2017.
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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Essays, Writing
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Dr. Frye has collected all his essays on Canadian writing and painting which he believes are of permanent value. Includes…
his annual surveys of English Canadian poetry which originally appeared between 1950 and 1960.
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Canadian non-fiction, Science and technology, Dinosaurs
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Wayne Grady, the science editor of Equinox, and Phil Currie, a Canadian palaeontologist, travel to Patagonia, China, and the Alberta…
Badlands. Living in tents, experiencing rain, mud, windstorms, disagreements, and the ultimate glimpse of bone, they try to find conclusive evidence in an ongoing debate: did dinosaurs go extinct, or evolve into birds of the modern world? 2000.
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Literature, Criticism
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A personal account of the author's mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other…
writers have approached death in their own work. The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history. 2017
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Science and technology, Archaeology, Dinosaurs
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A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth…
sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.
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Canadian non-fiction, Literature, Criticism
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Originally published in 1972, Atwood's book redefined what made this country's literature unique in a landscape dominated by its British…
and American counterparts. She describes the struggle of local writers to survive this dominance, eventually asserting that there is a distinct Canadian literature, with its own preoccupations, themes, and ideas specific to its history, geopolitics, and landscape. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004, c1972.
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Science and technology, Dinosaurs
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Lessem explains that the "biggest" dinosaurs weighed the most. They were plant-eating dinosaurs,the sauropods. He details how dinosaur bones have…
been discovered and what scientists have learned from them. He concludes with a description of the Argentinosaurus, officially named in 1993, which may prove to be the biggest dinosaur ever. Grades 3-6. c1997.
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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Essays, Travelogues
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A collection of essays, anecdotes, travel pieces, and criticism by Canadian poet Al Purdy. The pieces are divided into essays…
on encountering the world through Canadian sensibilities, opinions on other writers like Charles Bukowski, Margaret Atwood, and Bliss Carman, and reviews of poets like bill bissett and Russian Anna Akhmatova. 1995.
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Literature, Criticism
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet…
Malcolm. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of the men who often undervalued their work as critics and essayists. 2018.