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By George Seldes. 1987
The memoirs of the American journalist are built around personalities such as Mussolini, Hemingway and Lenin, that Seldes encountered from…
the time he took his first newspaper job in 1909. Some strong language. 1987.By Paul Watson. 2007
Paul Watson was born a rebel with one hand, who became a journalist specializing in war and guerrilla fighters. When…
Watson reported on Osama bin Laden's first battlefield victory in Somalia, his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the desecrated corpse of Staff Sgt. David Cleveland - whose Black Hawk was shot down over the streets of Mogadishu - helped hand bin Laden one of his earliest propaganda coups. With each new beheading announced on the news, Watson wonders whether he helped teach the terrorists one of their most valuable lessons. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. c2007.By Jill K Conway. 1998
Conway considers the memoir -- how it has developed over the centuries, the forms and styles it assumes, the strikingly…
different ways in which men and women present their lives, and why we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography. 1998.By Marianne Apostolides, Madeleine Stratford. 2014
Transcriptions de conversations courageuses, traversées subjectives, incarnations du désir en action, décalages ou fragments d'origines, les Voluptés de Marianne Apostolides…
sondent la vie - cette trame qui se tisse - comme une perpétuelle mise en scène. Ces neuf récits jouent le jeu de l'oeuvre littéraire, cherchant au passage à « connaître le fin fond de l'histoire », celle d'un adultère, d'une première fois, ou celle du père et de son enfance troublée par la guerre. Voluptés ou la réalité de l'écriture de soi explore intelligemment la place qu'occupent le langage et le désir au sein de nos existences. Aspirant à devenir « pur plaisir », Marianne Apostolides se laisse aller au récit comme glisserait un vaisseau de vérité absolue. 2014. Titre uniforme: Voluptuous pleasures.By Emily O'Reilly. 1998
Veronica Guerin, a young crime reporter with the "Sunday Independent", was shot dead in Dublin in June 1996 as a…
direct consequence of her work - investigating the shadowy figures of Dublin's underworld. This is an account of one of the biggest and most shocking of Irish news stories. Strong language. 1998.By Margaret Atwood, Howard Scott, Phyllis Aronoff, Victor Lévy Beaulieu. 1996
Well-known French-Canadian novelist and renowned author Margaret Atwood spent several weeks together during which they discussed many topics of mutual…
interest: the importance of childhood, of myth, and of belonging to territory; the real versus the imaginary world; the native question in Canada; power and lack of it; the writing life - and, of course, their own works. Their conversations were recorded and broadcast in French on Radio-Canada. Here they have been transcribed and some additional quotations and notes have been added. 1996. Uniform title: Deux sollicitudes.By Wayne Grady. 1992
A collection from 28 authors representing the best and most significant writing in Canadian natural sciences. Each piece is introduced…
by the editor. Authors include Samuel Hearne, Farley Mowat, and Roderick Haig-Brown. 1992.By Camille Laurens. 2008
Entendre, justement, c'est par ce mot que Camille Laurens a démarré son feuilleton "Tissé par Mille". Habilement, elle le décortique,…
en dévoile tous les sens, nous proposant un jeu littéraire exquis qui tient tout à la fois de la définition d'Alain Rey (le chroniqueur de France Inter), de l'analyse à la Roland Barthes (ses textes me font penser à "Fragments d'un discours amoureux"), ou encore du Raymond Devos jouant avec les mots. 2008.By Joe Schlesinger. 1990
A refugee from Czechoslovakia, Joe Schlesinger came to Canada where he began his career as a journalist. He describes his…
early years as well as his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Vietnam, China, the Middle East, South and Central America.By Patrick Watson. 2004
Patrick Watson has had a broadcasting career that began in radio in 1943, and has included writing, producing, acting, directing…
and hosting literally thousands of television programs and films - from a children's radio adventure to news and documentaries to current affairs. He gives a first-person account of his life, from childhood to his early days of broadcasting, to the troubled years of his chairmanship of the CBC, and of the myriad projects he has been involved in, including his creation of the famous Heritage Minutes. 2004.By Susan J Tchudi, Stephen Tchudi. 1984
Discusses journal, letter and creative writing as well as school reports and other factual pieces. Offers ideas for finding subjects,…
editing and getting published. For junior and senior high readers. 1984.By James Jackson Kilpatrick. 1984
The first major effort to portray the intellectual forces which have moulded the thinking and writing of those English-speaking historians…
who sought to explain our past during the period 1900-1970. Winner of the Governor General's Award. 1976.By Rosamunde Pilcher, Siv Bublitz. 1995
This book complements the fictional world Rosamunde Pilcher has created in her books such as 'Shell Seekers' and 'September'. The…
book includes an introduction by the author and extracts from her novels and short stories. 1995.By John Fairfax, John Moat. 1981
By Julia Cameron. 1996
A step-by-step guide to a journey of spiritual healing and discovery of the creative potential, or "spiritual DNA," that resides…
in every person. Describes practical tools such as writing, singing, mask-making, and walking meditation to uncover deep-seated strengths and abilities. Companion to "The Artist's Way". 1996.By Gillie Bolton. 1999
Writing therapy is a relatively new development. It provides opportunities for self-reflection for both patients and practitioners. Putting down on…
paper what you feel and how you are responding to a personal or professional issue can be therapeutic. The text emphasises the role of creative writing and begins an evaluation of its potential. 1999.By Henry Hitchings. 2009
An account of the transplanted, stolen, and bastardized words that make up the English language. A history of English as…
a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. Covers the Norman Conquest to the present day, chronicling the English language as a living archive of human experience. Some strong language. 2009.By Peter Murray, Linda Murray. 1983
This comprehensive and detailed reference contains entries on major artists of the last seven centuries; short biographies of over 1,200…
artists; descriptions of artistic techniques and styles; definitions of artistic movements; and much more. 1983.By David Hugh Farmer. 2003
This book features concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints, from the famous to…
the obscure, the rich to the poor, and the academic to the uneducated. From all walks of life and from all periods of history, the wide varieties of personalities and achievements of the canonized are reflected. Featuring maps of pilgrimage sights in Europe and fully updated appendices. Recently-added saints include the Martyrs of Korea, Vietnam, and the Spanish Civil War, Andrew of Crete, and Emily Rodat, a female hermit of the 7th century. There are also more Scottish and Irish saints, and ancient Welsh saints; more European saints from all centuries, as well as more saints from Eastern Europe; more recently canonized saints, and female saints from the USA. 2003. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.