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Toute la vie: nouvelles
By Claire Martin. 1999
Ce volume rassemble quatre textes inédits et neuf publiés dans des revues entre 1959 et 1997. Il vient nous rappeler…
à quel point Claire Martin s'était justement taillé une place d'importance dans notre littérature avant sont abrupt silence, au début des années 1970. 1999.Towards a just society: the Trudeau years
By Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Tom Axworthy. 1990
This collection of essays, edited by Pierre Trudeau and Thomas Axworthy, offers a controversial perspective on the challenges that Canada…
must face if the country is to survive and prosper. Essayists include Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Marc Lalonde, and historian Ramsay Cook. They cover the Trudeau government's sixteen years in power, patriation of the constitution, and the importance of a federalist state.Too much and not the mood: essays
By Durga Chew-Bose. 2017
Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philosophical, and occasionally brooding, thoughts. The result is a lyrical and piercingly…
insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. Invites readers to join in her search for a clearer understanding of who we are and the world we live in. An exploration of what it means to be a young first-generation writer today, shutting out the din in order to find her own voice. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Tissé par Mille
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.Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe: Essays On The Human Side Of Science
By Alan P Lightman. 1984
Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women…
are marginalized even within national discussions about inequality. This book takes on what it means to "be" a black woman today. 2018. Uniform title: Essays.The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West 1911-17 (Virago Modern Classics #2312)
By Rebecca West, Jane Marcus. 1983
In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on…
one of the foremost feminist and political thinkers of our time. West’s essays, reviews, and public correspondence tackle many subjects, including politics, suffrage, education, morality and ethics, the arts, and social figures of the day. 1983.The words we live by: the creeds, mottoes, and pledges that have shaped America
By Brian Burrell. 1997
In this anthology of major texts that have influenced life in the United States, the author compiles works ranging from…
the Golden Rule to the Mafia initiation oath. What began as a family hobby evolved into this collection of essays revolving around popular sayings. 1997.The way we are
By Margaret Visser. 1994
This collection of Visser's essays examines aspects of everyday life, and what they reveal about us. Common habits such as…
drinking coffee and smoking are presented as modern versions of initiation rites which are difficult to give up, even though they are shunned by society itself. Ordinary objects and typical behaviour are dissected to reveal an image of our modern selves - why we are the way we are, and how we became this way. 1994.The strangers next door
By Edith Iglauer. 1991
Collection of writings by the author of 'Fishing with John', covers fifty years and a range of subjects including wartime…
press meetings with Eleanor Roosevelt, stories from the buildings of New York, visits to Inuit cooperatives, and interviews with several Canadians, including Pierre Trudeau, Hubert Evans, M. Wylie Blanchet, Arthur Erickson, and Bill Reid. 1991.The tenth muse: the pursuit of earth science
By Ronald B Parker. 1986
The taste of things
By Joanne Kates. 1987
Written by restaurant critic and food writer Joanne Kates, this humorous and informative book includes autobiographical essays and stories of…
Joanne's travels, as well as essays on food allergies, modern food production, anorexia, and food banks. 1987.The Red Smith reader
By Red Smith, Dave Anderson. 1982
Omnibus of the late Pulitzer Prize-winner's sports columns, many chosen from personal scrapbooks and never collected before. Organized by subject,…
it includes chapters on racing, football, baseball, fishing, boxing, and various personalities. 1982.The portable Emerson
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
This selection of poetry and essays by Emerson includes: "The American scholar", his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society…
at Harvard; his controversial 1838 address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School; and his first published work, "Nature", which contains the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy. 1981.The pleasures of the past
By David Cannadine. 1990
This collection of 30 essays covers a wide range of issues from 19th- and 20th-century British history. The book's content…
ranges from essays on the monarchy, political ambitions and urban decay, through to studies of time, food and sex. It also includes an examination of some major personalities. 1990.The most wonderful books: writers on discovering the pleasures of reading
By Emilie Buchwald, Ed Dorris Michael. 1997
A collection of short essays by fifty-seven authors who reflect on favourite childhood books or the significance of reading. Sherman…
Alexie recalls that he learned to read with a Superman comic book. Confined to her house by polio, Bapsi Sidhwa discovered "an alternate existence" in books. Contains brief biographical notes on contributors. 1997.The mortgaged heart
By Carson McCullers. 1971
The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze (Mandarin Humour Ser.)
By James Thurber. 1992
First published in 1935, this volume contains six essays about language and people, described by the author as "mainly humorous,…
but with a few kind of sad ones mixed in." 1992.The immortal wilderness
By John Hay. 1987
Book-ends: collected intros and outros
By Michael Chabon. 2019