Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and developed through the extraordinary symbiosis evident between his paintings and letters. However it is a formidable task to read and analyze Van Gogh's nearly eight hundred...
Discursive works
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Author:Grant, Patrick, 1941-Summary: - Author:Begg, AlexanderSummary:
Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view “from the ground” of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba. In 1869 and 1870, Begg and Hargrave were regular...
- Author:Kennedy, Robert F.Summary:
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures. Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was...
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Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles. In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul...
- Author:Reid, ElizaSummary:
For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women...
- Author:Applebaum, Anne, Cohen, Stephen F., Kasparov, Garry, Pozner, VladimirSummary:
How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly...
- Author:Gingrich, Newt, Krugman, Paul, Laffer, Arthur, Papandreou, GeorgeSummary:
As middle-class incomes stagnate in advanced economies while the rich experience record income gains, the eleventh semi-annual Munk Debate pits wealth redistribution supporters Paul Krugman and George Papandreou against Newt Gingrich...
- Author:Johnston, MikeSummary:
Simply the Best delivers rare insights on success straight from the hearts and minds of winning coaches Scotty Bowman, Marc Crawford, Jacques Demers, Clare Drake, Ken Hitchcock, Mike Keenan, Dave King, George Kingston, Andy Murray,...
- Author:Toman, CynthiaSummary:
In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The nursing sisters...
- Author:Berg, ElizabethSummary:
Still Happy is Elizabeth's second collection of Facebook posts. Her first, Make Someone Happy, did indeed make many people happy, and so, due to popular demand, she has put together a second volume, which includes "The Book of Homer," a...
- Author:Schofield, P.Summary:
The Story of Dunbar: Voices of a Vancouver Neighbourhood draws on interviews with more than 350 local residents, including recent arrivals, descendants of pioneer settlers and the aboriginal inhabitants. Their personal accounts are...
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A collection of significant speeches by those who held the reins of power, and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Hear the original words, sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety, that have...
- Author:Nelson, DeanSummary:
To many journalists, the perfect interview seems more like luck than skill, but it's actually the result of careful planning and good habits. Let Dean Nelson show you how to nail it every time.
- Author:Varoufakis, YanisSummary:
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her...
- Author:Guo, WinonaSummary:
An eye-opening exploration of race in America In this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America....
- Author:Rae, John, McGoogan, KenSummary:
Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and...
- Author:Wachtel, EleanorSummary:
Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's 25 year anniversary, presents many of her best conversations from the show with authors including...
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"The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage." Matthew Kelly Between 2000 and 2003, Matthew lost three people very close to him to cancer. Matthew's father died in August 2003 after a two-year struggle...
- Author:Patterson, SteveSummary:
Steve Patterson's The Book of Letters I Didn't Know Where to Send is a collection of — wait for it — letters, written by award-winning stand-up comedian — you guessed it — Steve Patterson. The host of CBC Radio's The Debaters since 2007...
- Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. The end of ethnic nationalism -- building...
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