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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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English

"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …

descendants. Although she never completed a biography of Norquay, the collection that she tended has it is not complete.I n t r o d u c t I o n 5 Biography, as a literary form, is said to be “the dominant


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 April 2024 English

“Inspiring, healing, and future-facing, this long overdue book gives us valuable new insights into the histories and identities of Métis people.”

not incidental that Maria begins her facts of biography with this: “I should tell you about our home


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 April 2024 English

From award-winning poet Catherine Owen, a collection of poems about one woman's journey from BC to a new life in Alberta, where she buys an old house and creates a …


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 26 March 2024 English

The story of Cape Breton presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Contributors capture the vital elements of a region on the rural …

distinctive radical expressions. Frank’s magisterial biography of coal miner and communist James Bryson McLachlan Introduction 17 16. Lane Jonah, “Everywoman’s Biography,” 157. See also Lane Jonah and Dunham, “Life (2013): 390– 426. Frank, David. J. B. McLachlan: A Biography. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1999. Harvey, D. C. “Scottish 147– 56. Lane Jonah, Anne Marie. “Everywoman’s Biography: The Stories of Marie Marguerite Rose and Jeanne


Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre · 6 March 2024 English

Ivey Business School has earned an international reputation for its teaching and research excellence and the high caliber of its students and faculty; 3. [...] Renowned for its Case-Method of …

Transcript/grade report (electronic form accepted); • Online biography (confirmation it has been completed); and, • Proof


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 February 2024 English

Rose is divorced, fifty, and estranged from her daughter. At a student art opening on a rainy March evening she meets Morrison, a genial hoarder and womb-twin survivor, who leads …


DDN: Dundurn Press · 13 February 2024 English

His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when there’s so much he wants to forget?There was a time before his wife …

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BCCAT: BC Council on Admissions and Transfer · 12 February 2024 English

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delivery mode [e.g. in-person, online] 1 Instructor biography 1 How often the course meets per week, and the


DDN: Dundurn Press · 6 February 2024 English

Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada’s political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately …

Kenneyism Kenneyism is more than the political biography of one man; it is a history of the populist far-right editor, Calgary Herald Kenneyism is as close to a biography as we’re going to get unless Kenney writes his Premiers (Canada)—Alberta—Biography. | LCSH: Politicians—Canada—Biography. | LCSH: Populism—Canada. journalist, may not have written a conven- tional biography of Jason Kenney. We can safely leave that to some WARRIOR whiLe this Book isn’t a ConventionaL biography, it’s nonetheless worthwhile to explore Jason


AMO: Association of Municipalities of Ontario · 6 February 2024 English

following benefits: • Recognition on the AMO website • Recognition at the Conference • Corporate biography and logo on the mobile app • Recognition in the plenary hall sponsorship loop Addional benefits

website • Recognition at the Conference • Corporate biography and logo on the mobile app • Recognition in the


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