The correspondence of walter benjamin and gershom scholem

The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives...

For you who died i must live on reflections on the march of living

Autobiography of a yogi

Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to...

Out of bounds

Jim tells what it means to be an athlete, with sex, Hollywood, drugs, and women as fringe benefits

The shoe boy a trapline memoir

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family...

The biography of mahommah gardo baquaqua his passage from slavery to freedom in africa and america

This is the biography of an American slave who was born in Africa. His adventures took him to Rio de...

A jewish voice from ottoman salonica the ladino memoir of sa'adi besalel a levi

This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original...

The souls of purgatory the spiritual diary of a seventeenth century afro peruvian mystic

The life of the black religious servant Ursula de Jesús (1604-1666) has remained one of the best-kept historical secrets of...

A fine mess an odd little book on surviving life's disasters

Kim Duke knows all about it...Is life getting you down? Does it feel like one bad experience after another? Are...

Mulder

This well-packaged and exhaustive volume is the first reliable source of biographical information on the woman who was special agent...

Black picket fences

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars...

Mark twain's own autobiography the chapters from the north american review

Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain’s great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own...

How to get a girl pregnant

How to Get a Girl Pregnant is a frank and funny memoir about a dyke trying to get pregnant. Karleen...

You know me the gita

The first readable translation of the major Hindu Holy book, translated to retain the oetry of the original, Sanskrit on...

Once a dancer . . . an autobiography

Autobiography of one of Balanchine's finest ballerinas "What a witty, evocative writer Ms. Kent is!"--New York Times "A daffy and...

Dying in public living with metastatic breast cancer

As a university professor, an environmentalist, and a world-traveller, Sue Hendler was thriving. Then she was diagnosed with metastatic breast...

Talking at the gates a life of james baldwin

"The unexamined life is not worth living" - this was James Baldwin's motto. Born in 1924 in Harlem, his first...

With a closed fist growing up in canada's toughest neighbourhood

In the Point St. Charles of the author's childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment is on...

The kids book of great canadian women

From artists and inventors to astronauts and engineers, Canadian women have played an extraordinary role in the development of Canada....

Canadian fighter pilot

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Judge's wife

These memoirs offer a compelling account of life in early British Columbia from the 1860s to the first decade of...

Queen elizabeth the queen mother the official biography

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on August 4, 1900. It...

Letters of sidney hook democracy

Sidney Hook (1902-1989) is known for his participation in the public debates about communism, the Soviet Union and the Cold...

Running like a girl notes on learning to run

When Alexandra Heminsley decided to take up running, she had hopes for a blissful runner’s high and immediate physical transformation....