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Steal my rage: new native voices
Par Joel T Maki. 1995
An anthology of poetry, short stories, and essays by aspiring Native writers from across the country. Topics range from spirituality,…
traditional values, and the recovery of aboriginal languages, to self-government, urban life, and healing. 1995.Straight talk: speeches and writings on Canadian unity (Canadian politics, political science)
Par Stéphane Dion. 1999
Shanghai grand: forbidden love and international intrigue on the eve of the Second World War
Par Taras Grescoe. 2016
Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes…
to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affair, and became absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton, and gangster Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen. But when she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees. Danger lurks on the horizon, though, as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai, paving the way for Mao Tse-tung's Communists' rise to power. 2016.Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
Par Mark Duncan. 1988
Saving China: Canadian missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1888-1955
Par Alvyn Austin. 1986
From 1888 to 1949, Canadian missionaries aimed to Christianize China's people, educate its youth, eliminate its disease and reform its…
agricultural methods. Within this atmosphere of religious and cultural imperialism, the church moved from simple evangelistic goals to active participation in Third World modernization. 1986.River of time: A Memoir Of Vietnam
Par Jon Swain. 1997
Account of the exodus in Vietnam and the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge, which Swain witnessed as a…
foreign correspondent in Indo-China from 1970-1975. Although shocked and horrified by the senseless killing around him, Swain admired and appreciated both the French colonists and native cultures he encountered. Descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. 1997.Red star & green dragon: looking at New China
Par Lila Perl. 1983
Quai des Indes
Par Irène Frain. 1993
Prophets outcast: a century of dissident Jewish writing about Zionism and Israel
Par Ed Shatz Adam, Adam Shatz. 2004
Since the early twentieth century, some of the fiercest and most eloquent critiques of Israel and Zionism have been made…
by Jewish thinkers, proposing solutions to the question of Palestine that range from a two-state solution to socialist internationalism. What links them is their belief that Israeli policies have been a disaster not only for Palestinians, but for Jews as well. 2004.Pour l'amour de Massoud: document
Par Sediqa Massoud, Chékéba Hachemi, Marie-Françoise Colombani. 2005
Massoud. Ce nom évoque l'homme qui a résisté dans les montagnes d'Afghanistan contre les Soviétiques, puis contre les talibans. Le…
héros assassiné par les extrémistes de l'Islam, le 9 septembre 2001, deux jours avant les attentats du World Trade Center. Ce témoignage exceptionnel est celui de la femme que Massoud a aimée, épousée dans le plus grand secret, et avec qui il a eu six enfants. Sediqa Massoud nous révèle ici la face cachée d'un grand chef de guerre, visionnaire, épris de liberté, que le monde entier respecte et dont la vie personnelle reste à ce jour un mystère. 2005.Aux origines du drame syrien, 1918-2013
Par Xavier Baron. 2013
" Ce livre est le premier à effectuer une plongée détaillée dans un siècle d'épreuves et de tragédies. Dû à…
un journaliste qui connaît parfaitement la région et son histoire, il contribue à répondre à la lancinante question : pourquoi ? Les responsabilités de Bachar al-Assad dans le drame que vivent les Syriens aujourd'hui sont écrasantes. Mais cette évidence n'explique pas tout, loin de là. Avant le fils, il y a eu le père. Avant le père, il n'y a jamais eu de régime démocratique digne de ce nom. Il y a eu l'occupation française entre les deux guerres, il y a eu le partage arbitraire par les Européens des provinces arabes de l'empire ottoman. Le tout ponctué de conflits violents et de répressions. Il y a eu aussi et il y a encore un ensemble de religions qui cohabitent mal, il y a eu un fort courant laïc (notamment le parti Baas au pouvoir), un impitoyable jeu international : jadis les Européens, aujourd'hui Israël et les grandes puissances arabes et non arabes. L'héritage de souffrance est immensément lourd. Xavier Baron est un ancien directeur de l'Afp pour le Proche-Orient. " -- 4e de couv.Poems and sketches of E.B. White
Par E. B White. 1981
Collection of poems, essays, satires, and other occasional short pieces which display the author's characteristic wit, craft, and whim, most…
originally published in such magazines as the "New Yorker", "Harper's", and the "Atlantic". Several of the works have never been published before. 1981.Petits agacements en tout genre
Par Constance Chaillet. 1998
People's China: a brief history
Par Craig Dietrich. 1986
Our harsh logic: Israeli soldiers' testimonies from the occupied territories, 2000-2010
Par Breaking the Silence Group Staff. 2012
The very name of the Israel Defense Forces suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory,…
and support for the occupation of Palestinian territory rests on the belief that the army's actions and presence in the West Bank and Gaza are essentially defensive and responsive. But Israeli soldiers reveal how the key planks of the army's ostensibly protective program - "prevention of terror," "separation of populations," "preservation of the fabric of life," and "law enforcement" - have in fact served to accelerate acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, and ultimately thwart the possibility of independence. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.Oscariana: the wit & maxims of Oscar Wilde
Par Oscar Wilde, Stephen Calloway, David Colvin. 1997
A collection which showcases Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime, The Maxims of Oscar…
Wilde and Oscariana, and organized by subject. Includes many epigrams and sayings which ridiculed the conventional wisdom of Wilde's day and skewered its hypocrisies. 1997.Operation Nemesis: the assassination plot that avenged the Armenian genocide
Par Eric Bogosian. 2015
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of…
the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper editor, an engineering student, and a diplomat. Together they formed one of the most effective assassination squads in history. They named their operation Nemesis, after the Greek goddess of retribution. The assassins were survivors, men defined by the massive tragedy that had devastated their people. With operatives on three continents, the Nemesis team killed six major Turkish leaders in Berlin, Constantinople, Tiflis, and Rome, only to disband and suddenly disappear. 2015.Orientalism: Western Conceptions Of The Orient (Penguin classics)
Par Edward W Said. 2003
The author surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering Orientalism as a powerful European ideological…
creation. He traces his view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experience as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, the author examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. 2003, c1978.Nagasaki: life after nuclear war
Par Susan Southard. 2015
Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand…
experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. 2015.Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing…
appalling human rights abuse by the US funded regime of the President of Islam Karimov. In this memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror. 2007.