BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Excessive Force

By (author) Alok Mukherjee & Tim Harper
Categories: Biography: general

Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration ...

Wild Fierce Life

By (author) Joanna Streetly
Categories: Memoirs

Wild Fierce Life is a heart-stopping and vivid portrait of life on the continental edge and one woman’s evolving place within it. Streetly’s vivid storytelling evokes a sincere respect for nature, ...

Metis Pioneers

By (author) Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Categories: Indigenous peoples

In Metis Pioneers, MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s ...

Wisdom in Nonsense

With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep ...

Journey of a Thousand Miles

Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second World War and became the co-founder of what would soon become multi-million-dollar skin care company NeoStrata. / Ruey Yu évite la famine qui déferle ...

Notes From a Feminist Killjoy

By (author) Erin Wunker
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Essais Series

Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life attempts to think publicly about why we need feminism and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices ...

The World's Most Travelled Man

By (author) Mike Spencer Bown
Categories: Memoirs

The World’s Most Travelled Man is an eye-opening account of the universal human experience as seen from each corner of the changing world. Blending a romantic connection to nature through solitude and ...

Jacob Isaac Segal

By (author) Pierre Anctil
Translated by Vivian Felsen
Categories: Social and cultural history
Series: Canadian Studies

Celebrated Montréal writer Jacob Isaac Segal (1896–1954) paved the way for a major literary movement in the North American Jewish diaspora. In tracing the poet’s literary trajectory, this book reflects ...

The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts

By (author) Kerry Mason
Categories: History of art
Series: The Unheralded Artists of BC

Arthur Pitts (1889–1972) born in the UK, came to Canada in 1914. He lived in Saanichton, British Columbia, attended the Westminster School of Art in London (1920) and the Vancouver School of Decorative ...

The Hand of God

Set against a background of intense religious and cultural change and tensions over the meanings of nationalism and federalism in both Québec and Canada, Michael Gauvreau’s The Hand of God traces the ...