Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his early days in Victoria, his studies in Toronto with Alberto Guerrero, his first compositions, and his later studies in Paris with the renowned Nadia Boulanger, of whom he offers a comprehensive personal view. In the memoir’s central chapters Beckwith describes his activities as a writer, university teacher, scholar, and administrator. Then, turning to his creative output, he considers his compositions for instrumental music, his four operas, choral music, and music for voice. A final chapter touches on his personal and family life and his travel adventures. For over sixty years John Beckwith has participated in national musical initiatives in music education, promotion, and publishing. He has worked closely with performing groups such as the Orford Quartet and the Canadian Brass and conductors such as Elmer Iseler and Georg Tintner. A former reviewer for the Toronto Star and a CBC script writer and programmer in the 1950s and ’60s, he later produced many articles and books on musical topics. Acting under Robert Gill and Dora Mavor Moore in student days and married for twenty years to actor/director Pamela Terry, he witnessed first-hand the growth of Toronto theatre. He has collaborated with the writers Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, and bpNichol, and teamed repeatedly with James Reaney, a close friend. His life story is a slice of Canadian cultural history.

Would it be wrong for a Christian to choose to not have children? After all, it's only natural, but is it mandatory? From a Christian and pro-life perspective, author Amanda Smith shares her belief regarding the choice of a Christian to never get pregnant or raise children and why she herself has chosen to be child-free. She also offers her opinion as to why an individual may possibly be happier if they choose this route versus what is considered the norm--not just for Christians, but people in general. This book well handles the very controversial, little discussed, and unheard-of subject of Born-Again Believer choosing to pursue only after Jesus and whatever He has called them to do with their lives rather than parenthood, to the point that the reader will most likely not be left with any questions as to what they should do by the end of this book. Can you handle it? Read this book if you dare to find out!

From union carpenter to gender activist... Sometimes the best way to tell a story is to take you there. A union carpenter holds her own on the job until she gets hurt. While recovering from an injury, she digs into a mysterious medical situation from her past and old issues resurface. She then learns that she is part of a community who has been systemically duped for not measuring up.

1804: Unheard of the First Black Social Revolution By: Dr. Martin A. Chrisphonte There is nothing new under the sun! Our society continues to make a replica of mistreatments of the black race, as it existed in the European slave society. Much closer to us, the reader understands the struggles in the Pearl of the Antilles, Haiti, that led to freedom. 1804: Unheard of the First Black Social Revolution sketches in chapters the misfortunes of the Haitian Autochthonous, the establishments of cruel system of European hegemonies in Saint Domingue, the prowess of the Haitian indigenous army that led to the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte on the land and the establishment of the first black Nation in the western hemisphere.