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Strindberg and Autobiography
This is a book about Strindberg and about the nature of autobiographical writing. In this sensitive and discerning study, Michael Robinson has turned aside from the more traditional biographical approach to Strindberg. Instead he sets out to explore the highly idiosyncratic way in which Strindberg projected himself in language, looking at the problems which this brought in its trail, and laying…
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- 978-1-909188-09-9
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- 809.935 2 ROB s
The Reindeer Botanist : Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977
This well-researched book is the first biography of one of Canadas most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre. For nearly twenty years, Porsild s…
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- 978-1-55238-588-3
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- Northern lights, 1925-2943 ; 14
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- 580.92 DAT r
The Red Countess : Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia …
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her …
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- 9781783745562
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Racial Folly : A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family
Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those …
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- 9781921666216
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- Aboriginal history monograph ; 20
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- 994.007 202 BRI r
Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health
In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices. Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical r…
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The Perfect Mango
In 1994, at the age of twenty-five, when the “terrible brokenness that comes with sexual assault” was folded deep within her body and thoughts of suicide were always close by, Erin Manning wrote The Perfect Mango at an almost feverish pitch: nineteen chapters in nineteen days, a sort of self-rescue operation, where writing became a form of making (and feeling) life otherwise. Throughout tho…
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- 978-1-950192-14-4
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Paul Robeson : The Artist as Revolutionary
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation— batt…
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- 978 1 7837 1755 2
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Pacific Missionary George Brown: 1835-1917 : Wesleyan Methodist Church
George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activist, apologist for the missionary enterprise, amateur anthropologist, writer, constant traveller, collector of artefacts, photographer and stirrer. He saw himself, at heart, as a missionary. The islands of the Pacific Ocean were the scene of h…
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- 9781921862984
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- 266.719 509 2 REE p
Nature, nurture and chance : the lives of Frank and Charles Fenner
Frank Fenner’s life, as it unfolds in these pages, marks a significant piece of thehistory of Australian science. His chapters are studded with the names of manyof the major players in pathology, microbiology and the rising field of virologywith whose lives he interconnected, and his mode of inserting boxed informationon these participants throughout his text provides valuable biograp…
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- 1 920942 63 7
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Mr. Emerson’s Revolution
This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women’s rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he spoke about a spectrum of inner and outer realities—personal, philosophical, theological and cultural—all of whi…
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- 78–1-78374–099–4
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