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The Canadian writer's workplace: building writing skills
Par John A Roberts. 2007
A complete grammar and composition text designed as a flexible resource for writers who need to improve their writing skills.…
It provides instructors with a wealth of grammar exercises and writing opportunities, and gives students a solid foundation for grammar mastery and the development of different styles and approaches to writing. 2007.The joy of writing: a guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir
Par Pierre Berton. 2003
Pierre Berton shares his own experiences in learning to write and in improving during his writing career. Includes information about…
editors, tips for writer's block, and story development through many drafts. 2003.The notes: Ronald Reagan's private collection of stories and wisdom ; edited by Douglas Brinkley
Par Ronald Reagan. 2011
Includes both Reagan's own writing and his favourite quotations, proverbs, and excerpts from speeches, poetry, and literature. The breadth of…
these notes sheds light on a man who was deeply engaged with the arts, culture, and politics. Known as the "Great Communicator," Reagan sought wisdom from a wide-ranging set of political figures, philosophers, novelists, and poets. Some strong language. c2011.Collins Cobuild English grammar: helping learners with real English (Collins Cobuild Ser.)
Par University of Birmingham Staff. 1990
A comprehensive reference grammar specially developed for advanced students and teachers of English. Using information from the COBUILD database, the…
editors have selected what they consider to be the most important examples of spoken and written modern English. 1990.Writing romance (The writing series)
Par Vanessa Grant. 1997
A step-by-step guide on writing and selling a romance manuscript. From plotting, developing believable characters, writing romantic scenes, and editing,…
to working with an agent and finding a publisher. Includes examples from published romance novels, and a resource guide for both new and experienced writers. 1997. (Self-Counsel writing series)Write it right: a handbook for students (Palgrave study guides)
Par John Peck, Martin Coyle. 2005
Would you put that in writing?: how to write your way to success in business
Par Dianna Daniels Booher. 1983
The author, editor, and literary critic offers his William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization, which…
he delivered at Harvard in 1994. In a prologue and three essays, the author reflects on his experiences, especially in the field of literature, before, during, and after World War II. He discusses contemporary writers and literary trends of the time. 1995.Worth repeating: a literary resurrection 1948-1994
Par Pierre Berton. 1998
Witness to war: a biography of Marguerite Higgins
Par Antoinette May. 1983
Reporter and war correspondent Higgins, a combination of intelligence, beauty, and drive, was an unbeatable competitor whose only goal was…
to get the story. Living in the dust and mud and fighting male chauvinism every step of the way, she was among the first to reach the concentration camp at Buchenwald and later to make her mark in Korea. 1983.Witness to a century: encounters with the noted, the notorious, and the three SOBs
Par 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.Where war lives
Par 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.When memory speaks: reflections on autobiography
Par 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.Voluptés (Récits)
Par 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.Veronica Guerin: the life and death of a crime reporter
Par 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.Vegetables and bush fruits (Cullen garden guides)
Par Mark Cullen. 1985
Provides information on preparing and planting a garden, the tools and materials required, as well as detailed information on 21…
vegetables and 8 bush fruits. Includes a chapter on gardening with children. (Cullen Canadian garden guide)Une histoire des fleurs: entre nature et culture
Par Valérie Chansigaud. 2014
" Les fleurs nous accompagnent dans toutes les étapes de notre vie aussi bien dans les moments heureux que malheureux,…
dans notre intimité comme dans notre vie sociale. Elles sont tellement omniprésentes que l'on a oublié qu'elles avaient aussi une histoire. Ce livre, en se basant sur une riche iconographie, retrace les multiples liens culturels qui nous unissent au monde des fleurs et nous invite à nous interroger sur ces relations. Depuis quand date notre passion pour les fleurs ? Que nous racontent les fleurs dans l'art ? Fleurs de riches ou fleurs de pauvres ? Les fleurs rendent-elles heureux ? Cet amour des fleurs n'est cependant pas sans conséquences et l'on peut s'interroger sur son coût écologique, sur les causes de la disparition de certaines fleurs et sur la naturalité de nos jardins. La démarche originale de ce livre nous conduit à reconsidérer cette histoire entre nature et culture et à nous poser des questions parfois insolites. Y avait-il des fleurs au paradis terrestre ? La plus belle des fleurs n'est-elle pas artificielle ? Y aura-t-il encore des fleurs demain ? " -- 4e de couv.Une histoire du monde sans sortir de chez moi
Par Bill Bryson, Hélène Hinfray. 2014
" Si l'Américain Bill Bryson nous a déjà régalés de désopilantes chroniques sur ses compatriotes, c'est dans un vieux presbytère…
anglais qu'il a élu domicile. Mais au lieu de s'y reposer après avoir aussi exploré l'univers (Une histoire de tout, ou presque), il découvre que beaucoup d'événements qui se sont produits sur Terre depuis au moins deux siècles se retrouvent sous forme d'objets et de rituels dans notre intérieur. Il entreprend alors un Grand Tour à l'échelle d'une maison pour raconter de pièce en pièce l'aventure du génie humain. Au fil de cette histoire humoristique et sérieuse de l'envers du décor, vous croiserez des personnages aussi différents que Virginia Woolf (qui n'aimait pas sa bonne) et Karl Marx (qui couchait avec la sienne). Vous saurez tout sur l'invention de la tapette à souris et la construction de la tour Eiffel ; vous pénétrerez dans d'immenses châteaux, mais aussi dans votre matelas, que squattent deux millions d'acariens ; et puis vous comprendrez que sans les water-closets à chasse d'eau il n'y aurait pas eu de révolution industrielle. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: At home : a short history of private life.Two solicitudes: conversations
Par 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.Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
Par Henry A Grunwald. 1999
The author chronicles his experience of macular degeneration, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications, and…
the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. 1999.