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Because we are Canadians: a battlefield memoir
Par Charles D Kipp, Lynda Sykes. 2003
Sergeant Charles D. Kipp was a Canadian soldier in the Second World War, fighting in the months following D-Day. Countless…
hardships were endured and when the war ended, Kipp had a lifetime of aftermath to deal with, both physically and mentally. Closure came for him decades later when he revisited a battlefield. Descriptions of violence. 2003.How Linda died
Par Frank Davey. 2002
Linda Davey was a lawyer, wife and mother, gourmet cook and wine connoisseur, and show-dog owner. In May of 1999…
she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. While caring for her with their two children, Linda's husband Frank chronicled her life, family, illness, and ultimately, her death. 2002.Dearest Émilie: the love-letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Madame Emilie Lavergne
Par Wilfrid Laurier, Emilie Lavergne, Charles Fisher. 1989
Laurier was Prime Minister of Canada for 15 years. It was Emilie, the wife of his law partner in a…
small Quebec town, who planned his transformation from talented bumpkin to influential statesman. Their affection is displayed in these 40 letters from Wilfrid to Emilie.Hello sweetheart, get me rewrite: remembering the great newspaper wars
Par Val Sears. 1988
In their competition to build readership during the 1950s, Canadian newspapers resorted to extreme measures, even hiding crime victims, for…
the sake of an exclusive story. Sears' account of the behind-the-scenes skirmishes among reporters battling for a scoop is often humourous, sometimes surprising and occasionally tragic. c1988.Georges Vanier, soldier: the wartime letters and diaries, 1915-1919
Par Deborah Cowley, Georges P Vanier. 2000
The wartime letters and diaries of Georges Vanier, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967. He…
was twenty-six when he became one of the first men to join the newly established Royal 22nd Regiment. His service in the First World War shaped his character, and he often described the four years spent on the battlefields of Europe as the most rewarding of his life. 2000.Fail until you don't: fight grind repeat
Par Bobby Bones. 2018
Experience on demand: what virtual reality is, how it works, and what it can do
Par Jeremy Bailenson. 2018
Dust to dust: a memoir
Par Benjamin Busch. 2018
Benjamin Busch is a veteran who has served two combat tours in Iraq. He is an actor on the hit…
HBO series The Wire and is the son of the acclaimed novelist Frederick Busch. In this memoir, Busch reflects upon life and loss, the longing for the elemental and the call of the wild, and how the curious children we were remain alive in us all. 2018.Hunger: a memoir of (my) body
Par Roxane Gay. 2017
As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between…
self-comfort and self-care. In this memoir, she explores her own past, including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 LAMBDA Bisexual Non-fiction Award. 2017.Cyberspies: the secret history of surveillance, hacking, and digital espionage
Par Gordon Corera. 2016
Reveals the history of espionage and its use of and dependency on technology, beginning with the Second World War and…
continuing through the Cold War and into the present Internet age where hackers and surveillance are commonplace. 2016.Dark territory: the secret history of cyber war
Par Fred M Kaplan. 2016
Probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads…
of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning - and, more often than people know, fighting - these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, the book chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. 2016.Canada
Par Mike Myers. 2016
The book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what…
makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian—and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. Bestseller. 2016.H is for hawk
Par Helen Macdonald. 2015
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since…
childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel and turned to the guidance of "The Sword and the Stone" author T. H. White's chronicle "The Goshawk" to begin her journey into Mabel's world. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity. Bestseller. 2015.Deep thinking: where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins
Par G. K Kasparov. 2017
In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated by the…
IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. Now Kasparov tells his side of the story. 2017.Fragments: memoirs of a wartime childhood
Par Binjamin Wilkomirski. 1995
A man's memoir of his early boyhood experiences in Nazi death camps. Recounts his father's cruel death, his separation from…
family, the terror and suffering of his internment, and his deliverance to a Swiss orphanage. Descriptions of violence. 1995. Uniform title: Bruchstucke.Graveyards of the dinosaurs: what it's like to discover prehistoric creatures (I Was There Ser.)
Par Shelley Tanaka, Philip J Currie, Mark Norell, Paul C Sereno. 1998
Describes paleontologists' discovery of dinosaur fossils at major sites in Mongolia, Canada, and Argentina. Presents information on the Oviraptor, Centrosaurus,…
and Herrerasaurus, among others. Discusses scientific evidence linking birds and carnivorous dinosaurs. Grades 4-7. 1998.Hope & despair: my struggle to free my husband, Maher Arar
Par Monia Mazigh. 2008
September 2002. Maher Arar, Canadian citizen, engineer and entrepreneur, boarded a plane in Tunisia bound for New York. Pulled aside…
by Immigration officials at JFK airport, he was questioned, held without access to a lawyer, and ultimately deported to Syria on the suspicion that he had terrorist links. He would remain there, tortured and imprisoned, while his wife Monia worked tirelessly to bring public attention and government action to her husband's plight. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.Hostage in Peking
Par Anthony Grey. 1970
The author, a journalist in China, was taken as a hostage by the Chinese communist regime, and this account of…
his two years' solitary confinement is based on the secret diaries he managed to keep during this time. 1970.How the world was one: beyond the global village
Par Arthur C Clarke. 1992
Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution
Par Steven Levy. 1984