Bethune Returns Norman Bethune Rides Again

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304921034
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bethune Returns: Norman Bethune Rides Again! written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Dr. Norman Bethune returned to China in 2014? A novel look at Bethune and the New China.

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304922251
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bethune Trilogy written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-08 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bethune Trilogy: A Trip Around Lake Muskoka With Norman Bethune, Bethune's Tears Cure Cancer, Bethune Returns To China, and Bethune's Time. Four novels, 555 pages, magical realism, set in Gravenhurst, Muskoka, and China. Serious humour. Literary fiction. Should win the Leacock Award!

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304600939
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Trip Around Lake Muskoka With Norman Bethune -- And A Cure For Cancer written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical realist travel book about a trip around Lake Muskoka which brings Dr. Norman Bethune back to life and he discovers a local cure for cancer, amongst many other things

Author : Adrienne Clarkson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143175203
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Canadians: Norman Bethune written by Adrienne Clarkson and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious energy included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese Canadian, has always been fascinated by the dynamic man who married his social conscience to his medical mission. Reviled as a Communist by some, revered as a humanitarian by others, Bethune was a complicated, inspirational figure who lived and loved on a large canvas.

Author : Roderick Stewart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773586407
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phoenix written by Roderick Stewart and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian. Brilliant, yet erratic, Bethune's life was characterized by cycles of achievement and self-destruction and his adventurous spirit led him from the operating rooms of Montreal to the battlegrounds of Spain and China. In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment to the establishment of medicare in Canada. They also examine the reasoning that led Bethune to embrace Marxism and show the depth of his faith in the triumph of communism over fascism - a commitment that drove him to take risk after risk and ultimately led to his death from an infection caught while performing battlefield surgery in remote northern China. Based on extensive research in Canada, Spain, and China, and in-depth interviews with Bethune's family, friends, colleagues, and patients, Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune is the definitive Bethune biography for our time.

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304741737
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norman Bethune’s Tears Cure Cancer (Too Bad Bethune Never Cried!) written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical realist novel, a short novel, set in Muskoka, that brings Norman Bethune back from the dead, along with Renee Caisse, with her cure for cancer. The sequel to A Trip Around Lake Muskoka With Norman Bethune.

Author : Frances Hern
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1552778126
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norman Bethune written by Frances Hern and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Within hours of his arrival, Norman was taken to meet Chairman Mao Zedong. The smiling man grabbed Norman's hands in welcome....The two men talked for hours." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: history or biography. One of the world's top surgeons, an advocate of democratic medical services, and an international humanitarian, Norman Bethune risked his life to deliver blood to the front lines. He is revered in China as a hero, where he was a personal friend of Chairman Mao Zedong, and his unceasing and inventive work established a lasting bond between his adopted people and this heroic Canadian.

Author : Norman Bethune
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802009074
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Passion written by Norman Bethune and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against Japanese invasion. This book sheds light on the man, the artist, and the revolutionary. It uncovers new historical material relating to several controversies surrounding Bethune. A remarkable document obtained from the Communist International Archives in Moscow, for instance, discusses why Bethune was sent home in disgrace from the Spanish Civil War. It refers to a mysterious Swedish woman, Kajsa von Rothman, who was Bethune's lover and who was believed by left-wing Spanish authorities to be politically suspect. This collection of Bethune's writings and art reveals that politics preoccupied him only during the last four years of his life. Earlier, his passionate nature found expression in medical and surgical innovation, as well as in painting, sketching, photography, writing - from poetry and short stories to letters, radio broadcasts, and plays - and public speaking. The Politics of Passion reveals the many sides of Bethune's identity, exploring not only the life of a revolutionary doctor, but of an intense and compassionate artist.

Author : Michael Petrou
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858281
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renegades written by Michael Petrou and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1936 and 1939, almost 1,700 Canadians defied their government and volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. They left behind punishing lives in Canadian relief camps, mines, and urban flophouses to confront fascism in a country few knew much about. Michael Petrou has drawn on recently declassified archival material, interviewed surviving Canadian veterans, and visited the battlefields of Spain to write the definitive account of Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. Renegades is an intimate and unflinching story of idealism and courage, duplicity and defeat.

Author : Jennifer Welsh
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487001312
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of History written by Jennifer Welsh and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics. In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History,” which argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural and political evolution, and the path toward a more peaceful world. But a quarter of a century after Fukuyama’s bold prediction, history has returned: arbitrary executions, attempts to annihilate ethnic and religious minorities, the starvation of besieged populations, invasion and annexation of territory, and the mass movement of refugees and displaced persons. It has also witnessed cracks and cleavages within Western liberal democracies as a result of deepening economic inequality. The Return of History argues that our own liberal democratic society was not inevitable, but that we must all, as individual citizens, take a more active role in its preservation and growth.