Matthew Paul Turner
In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing-sometimes cringe-worthy-and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be "of ... [... more]
Random House |
U-Boat Adventures: Firsthand Accounts from World War II
 fascinating, little known stories of ordinary uboat men.: What a fantastic book! I've been collecting submarine books for 30 years and this is the first one that really gives a view from the personal - human side from ordinary crewmen as well as from [... more]
CDN$34.33
Amazon CA |
Don Harper
Don Harper is a professional pet journalist and Cambridge University graduate who has written many and varied pet care books and articles. Don has first-hand experience of keeping and breeding a wide range of aquarium fish and writes with great ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Daniel Deardorff
Daniel Deardorff knows otherness firsthand. This highly regarded "singer" in the old sense of that word-musician, storyteller, maker of ritual-had polio as an infant and has used a wheelchair most of his life, giving him a lived perspective [... more]
Random House |
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Lucy S. Dawidowicz was educated at Hunter College and Columbia University in New York and studied East European Jewish life firsthand at the Yivo Institute of Jewish Research, formerly in Vilna, Poland. She has taught modern Jewish history at ... [... more]
Random House |
Colleen Craig
Born and raised in western Canada, Colleen Craig studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia. She then lived in South Africa during the 1980s and observed apartheid firsthand. In 1991 she moved back to Canada and settled in ... [... more]
Random House |
James Gilligan
Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others but destroy themselves rather than suffer a loss ... [... more]
Random House |
Johnny Rico
Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico's firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war. No one would have ... [... more]
Random House |
Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account ...
Very Powerful and Haunting: This is one of the most powerful first hand accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima that I have ever read. My copy was quickly passed around from friend to friend and it impacted everyone who read it. A very powerful Book: The [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
The Last of the Cape Horners: Firsthand Accounts From ...
Informative, Detailed. Truly excellent Reading: I had been looking for a good book describing what it was really like to sail on fully rigged Ships for a long time, and this may be the best book I have found so far. I have read everything from "Two [... more]
CDN$17.95
Amazon CA |
Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870
sucks: This book sucks, the stories suck, it is to boring and it is written poorly. Riveting stories told by real Indian captives!: This book is such a find! Each 'chapter' in this book is an actual real-life historical narrative of someone that was [... more]
CDN$11.75
Amazon CA |
Transcending Anxiety... Achieving Inner Peace: Firsthand ...
Transcending Anxiety: I have become familiar with this book through my work with clients who use the CHAANGE program to help them deal with anxiety. I have found the book to be well received, providing additional assistance for them in knowing how to [... more]
CDN$20.02
Amazon CA |
