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Watson Kirkconnell is one of the most familiar figures in the world of Canadian letters. Educated at Queen's and Oxford, he has published several volumes of poetry and poetry translations, was the founding father and first chairman of the Humanities Research Council, a charter member and national president (1942-44, 1956-58) of the Canadian Authors Association, and has shared in university life for 45 years. He has been active in many other areas of public life; as one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society (now the John Howard Society of Manitoba), a joint organizer of the Citizenship Branch, Ottawa, a founder and first president of the Canadian-Polish Society, as well as the Baptist Federation of Canada of which he was national president (1953-56). In widespread recognition of his work in these many fields Dr. Kirkonnell has received twelve honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, the United States, Hungary, and Germany, knighthoods from Poland and Iceland, and numerous awards from other countries. The chronicle of such a full and active career offers a valuable look at many aspects of Canadian life: in his memoirs Dr. Kirkonnell has avoided a merely chronological arrangement of his autobiography but sought rather to take various phases of the Canadian tradition and to analyse his experience of each down through the years. This Slice of Canada demonstrates the author's discerning faculty of observation and his close involvement, not only with the arts, but with education, religion, politics and other areas of Canadian life.

Kirkconnell, Watson, --- Kirkonnell, V., --- Kirkkonel, Vatson, --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.

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"Kay Boyle knew everybody. In a long life (1902-1992) spent in motion between the United States and Europe she was the friend of Robert McAlmon (whose Being Geniuses Together she supplemented), with Harry and Caresse Crosby (founders of The Black Sun Press), Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst (with whom she fled World War II France), Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Janet Flanner, Katherine Anne Porter, and a host of other powers and talents. Twice recipient of the O. Henry award for the best short story of the year (in 1935 for "The White Horses of Vienna" and 1941 for "Defeat"), Boyle was also an early contributor to Harriet Monroe's Poetry and published novels in every decade between the 1930s and 1990s. She published more than forty books, including fourteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry, children's books, memoirs, and translations. Throughout her life Boyle wrote letters. Boyle was a foreign correspondent for The New Yorker from 1946 until 1953, when she and her Austrian husband were caught by McCarthy's red scare. Her famous correspondents include William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Djuna Barnes, Alfred Stieglitz, Katherine Anne Porter, Howard Nemerov, Jessica Mitford, and Louise Erdrich. Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters gathers hundreds of her letters to tell in her own words the excitement, frustrations, intrigues, dangers, and satisfactions of the intersecting careers of Boyle and her friends. Candid and canny, Boyle wrote with freedom and wit, haste, ire, and affection. Her letters reveal as nothing else can her involvement with writing and writers"--

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. --- Authors, American --- Women authors, American --- American women authors --- Boyle, Kay,

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"An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original."--Back cover. Part-essay and part-memoir, 'This Little Art' is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation.

Literature --- translations [documents] --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Books and reading. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Littérature --- Translating and interpreting. --- Translators. --- Übersetzung. --- Literary Figures. --- Personal Memoirs. --- European. --- Women Authors. --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- Translations. --- Traductions --- Histoire et critique. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Briggs, Kate

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Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as well as the promise of new understanding. Wo.

Feminist archaeology. --- Women --- Sex role --- Féminisme et archéologie --- Femmes --- Rôle selon le sexe --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Archäologie. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Frau. --- Geschlechterrolle. --- Sex role. --- Women. --- Historical. --- Personal Memoirs. --- Political. --- Presidents & Heads of State. --- Reference. --- Rich & Famous. --- Royalty. --- To 500. --- Vor- und Frühgeschichte.

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A former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. --- Border security --- Emigration and immigration. --- Employees. --- Extranjeros ilegales --- Illegal aliens --- Illegal aliens. --- Materiales en español. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Cantú, Francisco, --- U.S. Border Patrol --- U.S. Border Patrol. --- Officials and employees --- Frontera México-Estadounidense (Región) --- Mexican-American Border Region --- North America --- Emigración e inmigración.