Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780920698402
Author : Bert Whyte
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1926836081
Active for over 40 years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist Party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs--a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984--we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and comaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye--the left one, of course.
Author : Okan Hungry Wolf
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780920698174
Author : Adolf Hungrywolf
Publisher : Skookumchuck, B.C. : Good Medicine Books
Page : pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780920698037
Author : Johanna Dittmar
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Angkor (Extinct city)
ISBN :
Author : Chretien de Troyes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 1987-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300038380
A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love
Author : Anju Gattani
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 2021-01-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781953100092
To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy. On her wedding night, however, Sheetal quickly learns that the stranger she married is as cold as the marble floors of the Dhanraj mansion. Forced to smile at family members and cameras and pretend there's nothing wrong with her marriage, Sheetal begins to discover that the family she married into harbors secrets, lies and deceptions powerful enough to tear apart her world. With no one to rely on and no escape, Sheetal must ally with her husband in an attempt to protect her infant son from the tyranny of his family.sion.
Author : A.C. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2495 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134934815
'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.
Author : Bennett H Wall
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781015031500
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sandy Pool
Publisher : Blewointment Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780889712737
This is the highly anticipated second collection from Sandy Pool, whose debut book of poetry Exploding into Night (Guernica, 2009) was short-listed for the Governor General's Award for poetry in 2010. In the early 1900s, thousands of women between the ages of 11 and 45 were employed painting glow-in-the-dark watch faces in factories across North America. Several years after leaving the plant, the dial painters developed mysterious medical conditions. These included complete necrosis of the jaw, severe anaemia, intense arthritic like pains, and spontaneous bone fractures. Though clearly ailing from the use of radium based paint, the women were intentionally misdiagnosed as having syphilis. Many women died in shame before ever receiving compensation. Sandy Pool's second book, is equal parts dramatic elegy and poetic inquisition written in seven distinct voices. Drawing from the historical record of the 'radium women' and other instances of historical erasure, the work urges us to engage deeply with questions of time and women's history. The book confronts Bakhtin's notorious questions: What happens to time when history is being erased? What happens when time takes on flesh?
