Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 25 September 2024 English
In a rare convergence of academic and political worlds, Professor Morton draws on his experience as a former cabinet minister and leadership contender, inviting readers into a reflection on Alberta’s …
LCSH: Politicians—Alberta—Biography. | LCSH: Legislators— Alberta—Biography. | LCSH: Alberta—Politics … Alberta—Politics and government—1971- | LCSH: Alberta—Biography. | CSH: Alberta—Politics and government—1971-2015 …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 September 2024 English
At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it …
one were to triangulate absinthe’s intricate biography, one should look very closely at what happened …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 16 September 2024 English
On Beauty is a provocative collection of moments, confessions, overheard conversations, and memories, both fleeting and crystalized, revolving around the small chasms and large craters of everyday life. Situated at …
even the books that might seem otherwise. A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, or A Brief History …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …
Pluta 58 My Heart’s Best Wishes for You A Biography of Archbishop John Walsh John P. Comiskey …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 11 September 2024 English
The RSC and its Academies ensure that selection committees are populated in a manner that reflects the diversity of the relevant scholarly community, and the spread of disciplines within the …
Referees should be distinguished and French) biography of each referee must be included separately, either …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 11 September 2024 English
RSC AWARDS COMPETITION PREPARING A NOMINATION GUIDE mailto:nominations@rsc-src.ca The results of the deliberations of the various Awards Selection Committees will be sent to the Secretariat in the summer and winners …
nominators submit on their behalf) a short narrative biography to accompany their letter of reference. RSC AWARDS … for awards. It is important to append a brief biography (250 words maximum, 300 words if in French) of …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 11 September 2024 English
RSC AWARDS COMPETITION PREPARING A NOMINATION GUIDE mailto:nominations@rsc-src.ca The results of the deliberations of the various Awards Selection Committees will be sent to the Secretariat in the summer and winners …
nominators submit on their behalf) a short narrative biography to accompany their letter of reference. RSC AWARDS … for awards. It is important to append a brief biography (250 words maximum, 300 words if in French) of …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 11 September 2024 English
The RSC and its Academies ensure that selection committees are populated in a manner that reflects the diversity of the relevant scholarly community, and the spread of disciplines within the …
Referees should be distinguished and French) biography of each referee must be included separately, either …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English
“Chaiton's fearless and moving memoir is a precious gift to anyone who yearns for a better understanding of intergenerational trauma and the path to true liberation.” — JEANNE BEKER, author, …
survivors—Canada— Biography. | LCSH: Holocaust survivors—Canada—Biography. | LCSH: Jews—Canada— Biography. | LCSH: …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 9 September 2024 English
The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields, including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields’s work, …
Plays Criticism Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision Biography Jane Austen: A Life Anthologies Dropped Threads: … Ceremonies (1976), occupied with composing a biography of Moodie. Elizabeth Waterston claims, “Judith …
