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By Tzu Sun. 2006
Twenty-five hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought.…
Since that time, all levels of the military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu for warfare, and others have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. 2006.By Wesley B Turner. 2011
A biography of Major General Sir Isaac Brock, describing his life, career, and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and the…
context within which he lived. An unlikely hero of the War of 1812, he was admired by his American foes almost as much as by his own people. Even more striking was how a British general whose military role in that two-and-a-half-year war lasted less than five months became its best known hero, and one revered far and wide. 2011.By Cornelius J Jaenen. 1991
Beginning with the early and modern history of Belgium, this booklet describes the history of Belgian contact with and immigration…
to Canada. Includes population statistics and suggestions for further reading. 1991. (Canada's ethnic groups ; 20)Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Privateer Martin Frobisher took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. On…
July 14, 1576, he sighted the most easterly tip of Arctic North America. Over the next three summers the area would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New world, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. 2001.By Pierre Berton. 1988
This history is divided into three sections: 1818-1848, the search for the Northwest Passage; 1848-1859, the search for the lost…
Franklin expedition; and 1859-1909, the search for the North Pole. Berton describes hardship, heroism, murder and cannibalism, and stresses the important role played by the Indians and Inuit. Bestseller 1988.By Hazel Rowley, Pierre Demarty. 2006
L'auteur raconte l'histoire du couple formé par "ces deux maîtres à penser existentialistes". Un couple qui partageait la même "soif…
d'absolu" et refusait les "conventions sociales". Beauvoir et Sartre ne "vécurent jamais ensemble", "ne se cachèrent jamais" leurs multiples "liaisons", etc. 2006.By Olive Spencer Loggins. 1983
By James Laxer. 2012
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is at the height of its ascendancy; Napoleonic France is…
struggling to maintain its position as a world power; the incumbent American empire is quickly expanding its territory, while the Native peoples struggle to establish their own confederacy. Laxer focusses on the Native struggle for nationhood and sovereignty; the battle between the British Empire and the United States over Upper and Lower Canada; and the unlikely friendship and political alliance between Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh and Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. 2012.Third edition of guide for families whose members suffer from dementia. Covers a wide array of related social, medical, psychological,…
financial, and legal problems and suggests possible solutions. Includes information on hospice and assisted facility care and advances in medical research. c1999.By Richard Gwyn. 1985
By Daniel Stashower. 1999
Arthur Conan Doyle was not only one of the most famous storytellers of his time, but also an adventurer, doctor,…
family man, and crusader. This biography describes his travels in the Arctic and Africa, his experiences in the Boer War, his unusual and complex family life, and his spiritual crusade. 1999.By Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeleine Bemelmans. 1985
By James Laxer. 2006
In 1604, a small group of migrants fled political turmoil and famine in France to start a new colony on…
Canada's east coast. Their roughly demarcated territory included what are now Canada's Maritime provinces, land that was fought over by the British and French empires until the Acadians were finally expelled in 1755. In the absence of a state, what defines an Acadian today is elusive, and while their community, centred in New Brunswick, is more confident than ever, it is entering a contentious debate about its future. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.By Barry Broadfoot. 1973
By David Kilcullen. 2009
Kilcullen illuminates both the global "War on Terrorism" and its relation to associated "small wars" in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines,…
Indonesia, Thailand, Chechnya, Pakistan and North Africa. He sees today's conflicts as a pairing of contrasting trends: local social networks and worldwide movements; local insurgencies seeking autonomy and a broader pan-Islamic campaign. He warns that America has often misidentified insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances (whom he calls "accidental guerrillas") as part of a worldwide terror network. c2009.By Dominique Bona. 2010
Comment un écrivain aussi discret que Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) est-il parvenu à allumer un feu chez ses créatures romanesques, principalement…
féminines, et à le faire partager à ses lecteurs ? Sensibilité à vif sous son élégance Mitteleuropa de juif autrichien, cet artiste attire la foudre. Choyé par les élites, il aurait pu demeurer l'archétype d'une civilisation disparue, broyée par les guerres et les totalitarismes. Or, bien plus que certains de ses contemporains naguère illustres, il n'a pas cessé de séduire. Ses biographies de Fouché et de Marie-Antoinette conservent un charme et une profondeur inégalés. La Confusion des sentiments continue de troubler. Peut-être les lueurs sombres, les fumées délétères de son oeuvre correspondent-elles à nos tourments contemporains.By Marie De Hennezel. 2015
" Marie de Hennezel aborde dans ce livre la question encore taboue de la sexualité des seniors. Observant une juste…
mesure entre pudeur et impudeur, elle sonde le mystère et la profondeur de la vie amoureuse dans ce nouveau chapitre de la vie. Au fil de ses rencontres, de ses lectures, de sa propre réflexion, et même de ses incursions sur des terres lointaines, comme celles du tantrisme ou des arts d'aimer de l'Orient, elle invite le lecteur à un voyage au coeur d'un territoire méconnu. " -- 4e de couv.By Julien Green. 2007
Écrit d'abord en anglais pour une parution américaine en 1942, ce texte inédit, traduit par l'auteur lui-même, retrace sa jeunesse…
à Paris au sein d'une famille nombreuse, désordre et bohème : enfance à Passy, Première Guerre mondiale, engagement à peine majeur, études à l'Université de Virginie. À son retour en France en 1923, Green veut être écrivain, rencontre Mauriac, Lacretelle, et Cocteau. 2007. Titre uniforme: Memories of happy days.By Huguette Bouchardeau. 2007
By Georges Nivat. 1980
L'écrivain Soljenitsyne, peut-être le plus célèbre des dissidents russes, s'est donné pour tâche de nous faire connaitre le vrai régime…
Sovietique; du Kremlin jusqu'aux camps de travail. Ce livre est un essai tant sur l'homme que sur l'oeuvre. 1980.