Selvbiografier

The shocking crimes of teacher Ed Horne wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada's Arctic.In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darling of the Northwest Territories education department with his dynamic teaching style. He was learning to speak the local language, Inuktitut, something few outsiders did. He also claimed to be Indigenous -- a claim that would later prove to be false. In truth, Edward Horne was a pedophile who sexually abused his male students.From 1971 to 1985 Horne's predations on Inuit boys would disrupt life in the communities where he worked -- towns of close-knit families that would suffer the intergenerational trauma created by his abuse.After years of research, journalist Kathleen Lippa examines the devastating impact Horne's crimes had on individuals, families, and entire communities. Her compelling work lifts the veil of silence surrounding the Horne story once and for all.

First published in 1991, this title is based on a 4-year longitudinal study of pupils from two catchment areas from the first days of their entry to primary school. Using qualitative methodologies of depth interviewing and 'naturalistic' observation, it examines the social construction of pupil careers in the dynamics of classroom life.

A pioneer of nursery education in inner-city areas, Margaret McMillan changed the course of British educational history. Originally published in 1989, working from her own fresh collection of Margaret McMillan's letters and newspaper articles, Dr Bradburn tells in full the inspiring story of a cultured woman who found a new motivation.

Originally published in 1981, Parents and Playgroups brings together three wide-ranging reports which examine the role of the playgroup movement, its underlying philosophy and the contribution made by both playgroups and Mother and Toddler groups to the lives of thousands of mothers and children throughout Britain at the time.

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents. Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood finds out why he's the hero the world needs right now.Kosciuszko - our iconic highest mountain - is a name familiar to all Australians. But how many people know who the mountain is named after?Tadeusz Kosciuszko , who lived from 1746 to 1817, is the most famous person Australians probably know absolutely nothing about. A military engineer, freedom fighter, and champion of human rights, this extraordinary revolutionary was crucial to the success of the American War of Independence, then bravely led an uprising against Russia and other invaders in his native Poland, promising freedom and equality to all who joined his cause.In his day, Kosciuszko was loved and respected across Europe and America. His great friend Thomas Jefferson called him 'as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known', while Kosciuszko would later challenge Jefferson to live up to the famous words 'All men are created equal' by bequeathing his American funds to free enslaved people, including those on Jefferson's plantation.Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood (From Snow to Ash; The Brumby Wars) has spent a lifetime walking, skiiing and writing about Kosciuszko National Park. Now he sets off on the trail of the man himself, travelling across the USA, Poland and Switzerland to key sites in Kosciuszko's life. Returning to Australia where a potential name change from Mt Kosciuszko to an Indigenous name is hotly debated, he walks with the area's traditional owners and discovers the ancient history of Australia's highest peak.Kosciuszko's life and legacy is enthralling, inspiring and indispensable. But is that reason enough to keep his name on the mountain?

Ryan Gosling is somuch more than a Hollywood heartthrob...

Revolution charts the dramatic story of Ange Postecoglou's instant impact on Celtic and charts his life and times in football, through the eyes of those who know him best. This book provides an in-depth, fascinating insight into the making of a man and his unique football philosophy.

In this new biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest. What emerges is a portrait of James as his contemporaries knew him: a gregarious, idealistic man obsessed with the idea of family, whose personal and political goals could never match up to reality.

Small Game Hunter echoes the author's fascination and appreciation of the strange and wonderful world of insects and spiders. It is a scientific and cultural kaleidoscope of the many encounters that he had across his career and around the globe.

Bruce Murray Arnott: Into the Megatext provides the first comprehensive overview of one of South Africa's most significant sculptors. His influence as an artist, scholar, designer, curator, and educator runs deep; intuited through the work of many of South Africa's leading contemporary scholars and practitioners in the visual arts.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARDA personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.It Stops Here is the profound story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in the face of colonization. In deeply moving testimony, it recounts the  intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation to overcome colonial harms and the powerful stance they have taken alongside allies and other Indigenous nations across Turtle Island against the development of the Trans Mountain Pipeline—a fossil fuel megaproject on their unceded territories.In a firsthand account of the resurgence told by Rueben George, one of the most prominent leaders of the widespread opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, It Stops Here reveals extraordinary insights and revelations from someone who has devoted more than a decade of his life to fighting the project. Rueben shares stories about his family’s deep ancestral connections to their unceded lands and waters, which are today more commonly known as Vancouver, British Columbia and the Burrard Inlet. He discloses how, following the systematic cultural genocide enacted by the colonial state, key leaders of his community, such as his grandfather, Chief Dan George, always taught the younger generations to be proud of who they were and to remember the importance of their connection to the inlet.Part memoir, part call to action, It Stops Here is a compelling appeal to prioritize the sacred over oil and extractive industries, while insisting that settler society honour Indigenous law and jurisdiction over unceded territories rather than exploiting lands and reducing them to their natural resources.

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon 'Ruthlessly honest and viscerally beautiful. The book I wish I had read as a medical student.' Emma EspinerThe world of surgery is strange, messy and intense. From a man presenting with fishhooks in his stomach to being punched in the face by a patient, it's all in a mad day's work for a female general surgeon. Even with emergency operations in the wee hours and constantly being mistaken for a nurse, there are still moments of laughter and tenderness amid the chaos. When Ineke's parents in Samoa fall ill, she becomes torn between her roles as a surgeon, a daughter and a single working mother, leading her to ask: are the sacrifices of a life in scrubs worth it?This is an extraordinary memoir from inside the operating room about the heart it takes to survive.

Presenting portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the Norman Conquest, The Winchester Power-House is the first volume of a study covering the lives of some one hundred holders of the high ecclesiastical office.

Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist das religionspädagogische Potenzial bibliodramatischer Arbeit im Kontext von Vergebung und Versöhnung. Dieses wird aus seinen philosophischen und theologischen Grundlagen entwickelt, um dann anhand der exemplarischen Dokumentation mehrerer Bibliodramaspiele empirisch veranschaulicht zu werden. Mit der Auswertung der Erfahrungsberichte (nach Inghard Langer) lässt sich zeigen, dass bibliodramatische Inszenierungen erlebnisstarke Begegnungen mit biblischen Versöhnungs- und Vergebungsgeschichten ermöglichen, die die Teilnehmer*innen ihr eigenes Potenzial von Vergebung und Versöhnung entdecken lassen. Die Autorin inspiriert damit die Arbeit der katholischen Kirche in Kroatien und trägt dazu bei, einen gesellschaftlich wirksamen Weg der Vergebung und der Versöhnung zu bahnen.

"I never wanted to be a prophet..." Read the biography of a woman of the people, who was called by God to serve Him by being the interpreter of His word as a prophet. The author, Matthias Holzbauer, passes on stories from Gabriele, in which she describes her childhood and youth. She tells what it meant for her to accept the call of God and to serve Him, the Eternal, as the interpreter of His word of light. And she accepted this call. One hundred percent - until today. "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth." So spoke Jesus of Nazareth 2000 years ago. Gabriele is the living proof that also today, in our time, God does not let Himself be silenced - for the Free Spirit blows where it will. Gabriele is the proof that God, the Father of us all, loves His children. For He never forsakes us - not even in times of upheavals and disasters, into which we human beings have maneuvered ourselves. An excerpt from the biography, a quote from Gabriele:"'Life is revelation,' this is how He spoke to me. 'If you are for the life, then you are linked in unity and love with the innermost part of your neighbor, and also with the love in the animals, in the plants and in the minerals.' He taught me the fine and subtle langue of light of the animals, of the plants and the stones. ...And so, the prophetic Spirit does not simply speak through the prophet without further ado - first, the prophet has to do what God wants. Whatever the prophet passes on to his fellow people from the law of life, he has to first have learned on himself. Then he becomes clean and is constantly connected to the prophetic stream... This book contains 2 CDs: CD1: "Deep Breathing"and"Abide in You" - 2 meditations and CD2: "You Spurn the One God and Believe in Eternal Damnation. I Am the God of Love!" - A God-Father Revelation from 1996"