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The Basque history of the world
By Mark Kurlansky. 2000
Traces the Basque cultural identity from its ancient origins to the twentieth century. Combines history, travelog, and reporting, including culinary…
and literary background. Examines the Basques’ contributions to western civilization, even as they preserved their fierce independence and venerable traditions through the ages. 2000.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.The Balfour Declaration: the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict
By Jonathan Schneer. 2010
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century, committing Britain…
to supporting the establishment in Palestine of "a National Home for the Jewish people". Schneer recounts the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, and introduces the key players: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, Zionist hero; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary British officer who "set the desert on fire" for the Arabs; and Basil Zaharoff, the infamous universal arms dealer. 2010.The Armada (The American Heritage library)
By Garrett Mattingly. 1987
A historian tells the story of the Spanish Armada of 1588, including an account of the historical and political events…
that led up to the launching of the Spanish fleet against Elizabethan England. Winner of Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. 1987.The Armageddon factor: the rise of Christian nationalism in Canada
By Marci McDonald. 2010
To most Canadians, the politics of the United States, where fundamentalist Christians wield tremendous power, seem too foreign to ever…
happen here. But McDonald believes that the Canadian Christian right - infuriated by the legalization of same-sex marriage and the increasing secularization of society - has been steadily building organizations, alliances and contacts that have put them close to the levers of power. Shows how the religious right's influence on the Harper government has led to important but little-known changes in everything from foreign policy and the makeup of the courts to funding for scientific research and social welfare programs. c2010.Testament
By Dennis Lee. 2012
A poetic summation of Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking past works and featuring…
many new poems, this collection reminds us of the reality we’ve made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2012.The 49th paradox: Canada in North America
By Richard Gwyn. 1985
The Adventures of Nanabush: Ojibway Indian stories
By Sam Snake, Emerson S Coatsworth, David Coatsworth, Francis Kagige. 1979
During the 1930s, the stories told by the elders of the Rama Ojibway Band were compiled and translated into English.…
These 16 stories tell of Nanabush, one of the most powerful, and most mischievous, spirits of the Ojibway world. Grades 4-7 and older readers. 1979.Ten days that shook the world (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
By John Reed. 1977
The author conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary…
journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. 1977.Testaments betrayed: an essay in nine parts
By Milan Kundera, Linda Asher. 1995
A discursive examination of the development of the European novel, focusing on the works of Rabelais, Cervantes, Kafka, and others.…
Celebrates the element of humour as "an invention bound up with the birth of the novel." Explores the kinship between novelist and musical composer. 1995. Uniform title: Testaments trahis.Sexomonarchie: ces obsédés qui gouvernaient la France
By Henri De Romèges. 2013
''Henri IV, bon vivant, priapique et violeur : a levé une armée de 300 000 hommes pour les beaux yeux…
d'une blonde de 42 ans sa cadette. Louis XIV : ses folies amoureuses ont achevé de ruiner le royaume. Le Régent : ce partouzard a couché avec tout le monde, même avec sa fille. Louis XV : après des années de sagesse, est devenu pédophile. Napoléon Ier : 60 maîtresses officielles et des filles de toutes conditions livrées à chaque bivouac. Napoléon III : le meilleur client des maisons closes de Paris, et pourvu en actrices par le surintendant des spectacles. Traits communs ? Ils n'étaient pas nécessairement obsédés sexuels au départ, à croire que la fonction crée le besoin... Ils prennent, parfois de force, mais ils paient. Très cher. Les maîtresses de Louis XIV ont coûté à l'État presque autant que le château de Versailles ! Tôt ou tard, ils sont rongés par les maladies vénériennes... et les remords dévots. Et bien sûr, ils ont fait des enfants partout. On pourrait avancer sans grands risques que nous sommes tous, ou presque, de souche impériale ou royale. Tout dans ce livre est vrai ! Henri de Romèges, écrivain rigoureux, n'a gardé de ses sources que les faits incontestables. Il n'empêche que l'ouvrage fourmille de scènes irrésistibles, où l'amour côtoie le cynisme, le raffinement le sordide, et le ridicule le tragique. Et qu'à la lecture de cette chronique sexuelle débridée, nos dirigeants actuels font figure d'enfants de choeur ! '' -- 4e de couv.Sissi, ou, La fatalité (Présence de l'histoire)
By Jean Des Cars. 1997
Sur la trace de Nives: récit
By Erri De Luca, Danièle Valin, Nives Meroi. 2006
Erri De Luca accompagne la célèbre alpiniste italienne Nives Meroi dans l'une de ses expéditions himalayennes. Réfugiés sous la tente,…
en pleine tempête, ils engagent une conversation à bâtons rompus. Dans ce lieu magique à la jonction entre le ciel et la terre, où la beauté des montagnes contraste avec la violence des conditions climatiques, les récits d'altitude de la jeune femme sont une trame où se tissent réflexions et souvenirs de l'auteur autour du métier d'écrire et de la Bible. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: Sulla traccia di Nives.Si la science m'était contée: des savants en littérature
By Jean-François Chassay. 2009
Les sciences ne peuvent échapper à la culture. C'est pourquoi la fiction, mieux souvent que l'histoire des sciences, montre comment…
elles changent nos perceptions du monde. Sept d'entre elles, parmi les plus marquantes : Giordano Bruno, Galilée, Newton, Darwin, Marie Curie, Einstein et Oppenheimer, sont ici convoquées comme autant d'exemples emblématiques de ces échanges entre science et fiction. 2009.Strong women stories: native vision and community survival (Women's issues publishing program)
By Kim Anderson, Bonita Lawrence. 2003
A collection of 17 essays which present original and critical perspectives from writers, scholars and activists on issues that are…
pertinent to Aboriginal women and their communities in both rural and urban settings. The contributors address such issues as youth health and sexual identity; women's aging, sexuality and health; and caring for children and adults living with fetal alcohol syndrome. 2003.Summer (Seasons. #4.)
By Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey. 2018
The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, "Summer" once again intersperses short…
vividly descriptive essays with emotionally raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family's life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of subjects--mosquitoes, barbeques, cynicism, and skin, to name just a few--he braids the various threads of the previous volumes into a moving conclusion. Knausgaard writes for his daughter, striving to make ready and give meaning to a world at once indifferent and achingly beautiful. In his hands, the overwhelming joys and insoluble pains of family and parenthood come alive with uncommon feeling. Sequel to "Spring". 2018.Tales of the Amazon: how the Munduruku Indians live
By Jane Springer, Daniel Munduruku. 2000
The first part of the book tells the story of a young Amazon Munduruku boy, Kaxi, raised to be a…
shaman. In the second part, the author describes how he came to the city of Sao Paulo as a young man, and experienced culture shock and racism. The last part provides information about the Munduruku and other Amazon people and their ways of living. Grades 2-4. 2000, 1996. Uniform title: Histórias de índio.Tales the elders told: Ojibway legends
By Basil Johnston. 1981
These legends, which include "Why birds go south in winter" and "The first butterflies", are an integral part of the…
spiritual and cultural heritage of the Ojibway people. For all ages.Survival of the fattest: an irreverent look at the Senate
By Larry Zolf. 1984
Swingback: getting along in the world with Harper and Trudeau
By Mike Blanchfield. 2017
Canada, under Harper, became a different sort of global citizen than before, one that occupied a new, unfamiliar position for…
this country--the odd man out. Deviating from the cross-party consensus of how Canada should govern itself outside its borders, Harper's leadership marked a turn from multilateralism, typified in his refusal to "go along to get along" on the world stage. This stance characterized Canadian relations with the United Nations and Canadian responses to political and military strife throughout the world. In the wake of Justin Trudeau's promise to return Canada to its pre-Harper state, this book examines Canada's global relations under Harper and their impact on the situation the Liberals have inherited. 2017.