Firing Lines
Title | Firing Lines PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie Marshall |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2017-02-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1459738403 |
Read between the front lines: The stories of three Canadian female journalists stationed in England and France during the First World War. Europe: 1914–18. Mary MacLeod Moore, a writer for Saturday Night Magazine, covered the war’s impact on women, from the munitions factories to the kitchens of London’s tenements. Beatrice Nasmyth, a writer for the Vancouver Province, managed the successful wartime political campaign of Canadian Roberta MacAdams and attended the Versailles Peace Conference as Premier Arthur Sifton’s press secretary. Elizabeth Montizambert was in France during the war and witnessed the suffering of its people first-hand. She was often near the fighting, serving as a canteen worker and writing about her experiences for the Montreal Gazette. The reportage from these three women presents an insightful, moving, funny, and compelling body of observations of a devastating conflict, from underrepresented points of view. Firing Lines is based on the letters, articles, and books they wrote, as well as the records of those who knew them. The book offers a fresh perspective on a war that touched nearly every Canadian family and changed our sense of ourselves as a nation.
Firing Lines
Title | Firing Lines PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie Marshall |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017-02-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 145973839X |
The story and WWI reportage of Mary MacLeod Moore, Beatrice Nasmyth, and Elizabeth Montizambert. The three women reported from Britain and France during the First World War, for various Canadian publications. Their articles offer insightful, moving, funny, and compelling observations of a devastating conflict.
How to Win Arguments
Title | How to Win Arguments PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Rusher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
This entertaining work, sprinkled with illustrative real-life anecdotes, is a comprehensive guide to the techniques, rhetorical devices and principles of successful argumentation. The author, a debater since age thirteen, has lectured widely. Publisher of the National Review, Rusher is also a television commentator and syndicated columnist. Originally published by Doubleday in 1981.
If Men, Then
Title | If Men, Then PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Griswold |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374713707 |
A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”—a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.
In the Firing Line
Title | In the Firing Line PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Leighton |
Publisher | Mainstream Publishing Company |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781840183573 |
Jim Leighton has spent a lifetime in soccer, and now the former Scotland goalkeeper shares the memories of a remarkable career in this volume. He unveils the depths of his misery and tells why he will never again speak to Sir Alex Ferguson. He also breaks his silence to explain the real reason behind his shock decision to quit Scotland's squad as he neared a century of caps. Leighton admits that the domestic and European success he enjoyed during his first spell with Aberdeen, the club with whom he launched his career, made him totally unprepared for the agony of becoming a Manchester United reject.
The Painted Word
Title | The Painted Word PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Wolfe |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2008-10-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1429961201 |
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).
The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame
Title | The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Kafarowski |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2017-11-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 145973971X |
Louise Arner Boyd inherited the family millions in her thirties. Expected to lead a respectable life, she instead fell under the captivating spell of the north. Over the next thirty years, she organized and led seven hazardous expeditions around Greenland and was showered with international awards.