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Title : Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir Material Type: printed text Authors: Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali, Author Publisher: University of Regina Press ISBN (or other code): 978-0-88977-659-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Addiction
Biography
Biography and personal stories
Immigration and Refugees Issues
QueerAbstract: Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia's societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age. What follows in this fierce and unrelenting account is a story of one young man's nascent sexuality fused with the violence wrought by displacement. Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir [printed text] / Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali, Author . - Canada : University of Regina Press, [s.d.].
ISBN : 978-0-88977-659-3
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Addiction
Biography
Biography and personal stories
Immigration and Refugees Issues
QueerAbstract: Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia's societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age. What follows in this fierce and unrelenting account is a story of one young man's nascent sexuality fused with the violence wrought by displacement. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status PER ABD 2019 PER ABD 2019 Livre/Book QPIRG-Concordia Biography and personal stories Available
Title : Courage for the Earth : Writers, Scientists and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson Material Type: printed text Authors: Peter Matthiessen, Editor Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Publication Date: 2007 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-618-87276-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography
Consumer Activism
EcologyAbstract: Rachel Carson is remembered as a hero for raising the alarm over ocean pollution and pesticides, and she is cherished for the sheer beauty of her writing. In introducing this thoughtful tribute to Carson marking the centennial of her birth, Matthiessen writes with stirring insight into Carson's spirit and achievements, setting the tone for the dozen affecting essays that follow. Biographer Linda Lear attests to Carson's "literary genius" and profound sense of responsibility. John Elder delves into Carson's poetic language. Al Gore writes with particular empathy about the vicious attacks Carson endured when Silent Spring was published, in 1962, a work that elegantly yet ferociously questions business as usual in light of environmental concerns. Edward O. Wilson calls Carson "valiant," and Terry Tempest Williams praises Carson's "moral courage." Brought down at 56 by cancer linked to the pollution she decried, Carson wrote exactingly, rhapsodically, and presciently: "It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within." Courage for the Earth : Writers, Scientists and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson [printed text] / Peter Matthiessen, Editor . - [S.l.] : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
ISBN : 978-0-618-87276-3
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Biography
Consumer Activism
EcologyAbstract: Rachel Carson is remembered as a hero for raising the alarm over ocean pollution and pesticides, and she is cherished for the sheer beauty of her writing. In introducing this thoughtful tribute to Carson marking the centennial of her birth, Matthiessen writes with stirring insight into Carson's spirit and achievements, setting the tone for the dozen affecting essays that follow. Biographer Linda Lear attests to Carson's "literary genius" and profound sense of responsibility. John Elder delves into Carson's poetic language. Al Gore writes with particular empathy about the vicious attacks Carson endured when Silent Spring was published, in 1962, a work that elegantly yet ferociously questions business as usual in light of environmental concerns. Edward O. Wilson calls Carson "valiant," and Terry Tempest Williams praises Carson's "moral courage." Brought down at 56 by cancer linked to the pollution she decried, Carson wrote exactingly, rhapsodically, and presciently: "It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within." Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status CLI MAT 2007 CLI MAT 2007 Livre/Book Sustainable Concordia Climate Change (SC) Available
Title : Eleanor Marx: Volume One Material Type: printed text Authors: Yvonne Kapp, Author Publisher: Pantheon Books Publication Date: 1972 ISBN (or other code): FEMKAP1972 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography Keywords: Biography, Eleanor Marx, Tussy, Marx, Communism Abstract: Eleanor was the youngest of three surviving Marx children. She was the only to be born, live, love, work, and die in England to become a public figure in her own right. Volume One of this highly acclaimed biography tells Eleanor's story from her birth in 1855 up to and throughout the year of her father's death in 1883. Volume Two opens with Eleanor's common-law union with Edward Aveling in 1884 and concludes in 1898 when she committed suicide at the age of the forty-three. Eleanor Marx: Volume One [printed text] / Yvonne Kapp, Author . - [S.l.] : Pantheon Books, 1972.
ISSN : FEMKAP1972
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Biography Keywords: Biography, Eleanor Marx, Tussy, Marx, Communism Abstract: Eleanor was the youngest of three surviving Marx children. She was the only to be born, live, love, work, and die in England to become a public figure in her own right. Volume One of this highly acclaimed biography tells Eleanor's story from her birth in 1855 up to and throughout the year of her father's death in 1883. Volume Two opens with Eleanor's common-law union with Edward Aveling in 1884 and concludes in 1898 when she committed suicide at the age of the forty-three. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FEMKAP1972 FEMKAP1972 Livre/Book Labour Library Biography – LAB Available
Title : Eleanor Marx: Volume Two Material Type: printed text Authors: Yvonne Kapp, Author Publisher: Pantheon Books Publication Date: 1976 ISBN (or other code): FEMKAP1976 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography Keywords: Eleanor Marx, Tussy, Biography, Marx, Communism Abstract: Eleanor was the youngest of three surviving Marx children. She was the only one to be born, live, love, work, and die in England and to become a public figure in her own right. Volume One of this highly acclaimed biography tells Eleanor's story from her birth in 1855 up to and throughout the year of her father's death in 1883. Volume Two opens with Eleanor's common-law union with Edward Aveling in the 1884 and concludes in 1898 when she committed suicide at the age of the forty-three. Eleanor Marx: Volume Two [printed text] / Yvonne Kapp, Author . - [S.l.] : Pantheon Books, 1976.
ISSN : FEMKAP1976
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Biography Keywords: Eleanor Marx, Tussy, Biography, Marx, Communism Abstract: Eleanor was the youngest of three surviving Marx children. She was the only one to be born, live, love, work, and die in England and to become a public figure in her own right. Volume One of this highly acclaimed biography tells Eleanor's story from her birth in 1855 up to and throughout the year of her father's death in 1883. Volume Two opens with Eleanor's common-law union with Edward Aveling in the 1884 and concludes in 1898 when she committed suicide at the age of the forty-three. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FEMKAP1976 FEMKAP1976 Livre/Book Labour Library Biography – LAB Available
Title : Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old: A makeover for self and society Material Type: printed text Authors: Kimberly Dark, Author Publisher: AK Press ISBN (or other code): PER DAR 2019 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Aging
Biography
Body, beauty and fat activism
Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
Feminism
QueerAbstract: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old is a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark’s experience of being fat since childhood—as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-conforming “girl with a pretty face,” active then disabled, and inevitably aging—each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) function in everyday life and how the architecture of this social world constrains us. At the same time, she provides a blueprint for how each of us can build a more just social world, one interaction at a time. Includes an afterword by Health at Every Size expert, Linda Bacon. Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old: A makeover for self and society [printed text] / Kimberly Dark, Author . - [S.l.] : AK Press, [s.d.].
ISSN : PER DAR 2019
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Aging
Biography
Body, beauty and fat activism
Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
Feminism
QueerAbstract: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old is a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark’s experience of being fat since childhood—as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-conforming “girl with a pretty face,” active then disabled, and inevitably aging—each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) function in everyday life and how the architecture of this social world constrains us. At the same time, she provides a blueprint for how each of us can build a more just social world, one interaction at a time. Includes an afterword by Health at Every Size expert, Linda Bacon. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status PER DAR 2019 PER DAR 2019 Livre/Book QPIRG-Concordia Body, beauty & fat activism Available
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