Résultats de recherche de titre
Articles 1 à 20 sur 35969
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Littérature, Critiques
Audio avec voix humaine
Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Critiques , Christianisme, Textes religieux, Rédaction
Audio avec voix humaine
Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Essais et documents généraux, Espionnage, Critiques
Audio avec voix humaine
A study of how the literature of espionage compares with its actual practice, written by a former CIA officer. Hitz…
concludes that in most instances truth is more surprising and peculiar than fiction. For espionage fans interested in an insider's assessment of the reality behind the entertainment. Some strong language. 2004.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Critiques , Poésie
Audio avec voix humaine
Contains all of Page's classic poems, as well as several unpublished poems. Includes two short essays on poetry. 1985.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Critiques , Rédaction
Audio avec voix humaine
Meyer shows how all the greats - Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and numerous other classic writers - are still…
very relevant. Using his trademark approach to reading and understanding, he takes readers on an exciting voyage of discovery through some of the most important works of Western literature. 2000.
Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral palsy. A former actor, director, and…
teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second career as a disability activist, author, and consultant. Thomson vividly describes her experience in treading delicately through daily care, emergencies, and medical bureaucracy as she and her family cope with her son’s condition while maintaining value and dignity (for Nicholas, too). She demonstrates the vital contribution that people with disabilities make to our society and addresses the ethics and economics of giving and receiving care. 2014.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Littérature (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Anthologies, Critiques
Audio avec voix humaine
This collection of Davies' non-fiction writing, culled from four decades of dialogues, diaries and sketches, gives his views of people, literature, and himself. 1979.
Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Legislative history of the civil rights movement for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Discusses various advocacy organizations, and the roles of technology and deinstitutionalization. c2011.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Personnes handicapées (biographies), Personnes aveugles ou ayant une vision partielle (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Déficiences, Cécité et déficience visuelle
Audio avec voix humaine
Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…
at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Littérature (biographies), Journaux personnels et mémoires, Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Critiques
Audio avec voix humaine
Frye's entries contain self-analysis and self-revelation, as well as humour, dark moods and claustrophobia, and some self-congratulating. They also serve…
as a chronicle of Frye's life, as we watch him teach classes, plan his career, record his dreams, register his reactions to the people he meets, and reflect on books, music, movies, and religious and political issues. Some strong language. 2001.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine
A chronicle of milestones in the ongoing fight for disability rights in the United States; includes the 1940 establishment of…
the National Federation of the Blind and the passing of both the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Grades 4-7. c1996.
Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Arts et divertissement, Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille automatisé
Film has often shown people with physical disabilities as deserving isolation from the rest of society. Norden examines hundreds of…
Hollywood and international movies and uncovers the industry's practices for maintaining this status quo, while offering an array of physically disabled characters who embody or break out of stereotypes. He observes the arrival of a new set of stereotypes tied to the growth of science and technology in the 1970s and 1980s, and underscores later movies that display a newfound sensitivity. Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 1994.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Littérature, Critiques
Audio avec voix humaine
The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. 1970.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Littérature, Critiques
Audio avec voix humaine
Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that…
contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated to contemporary writerly ones. Atwood also gives readers some insight into the fashions and foibles of those times. Her recollections and anecdotes offer a wry and often humorous look at the early days of the institutions taken for granted today - from writers' unions and grant programs to book tours and festivals. 2017.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine
First published as a magazine article in 1950, this book deals with Buck's feelings about her daughter Carol's mental retardation.…
Buck, noted for her humanitarian work with children, relates her struggle to understand and help her daughter. She was perhaps the first prominent person to openly acknowledge a retarded child, and as such broke a national taboo with her article's publication. 1992.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Critiques , Essais, Rédaction
Audio avec voix humaine
Dr. Frye has collected all his essays on Canadian writing and painting which he believes are of permanent value. Includes…
his annual surveys of English Canadian poetry which originally appeared between 1950 and 1960.
Braille (abrégé), Braille électronique (abrégé), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canada (romans)Personnes handicapées (biographies), Sciences et médecine (biographies), Familles (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Littérature, Critiques
Audio avec voix humaine
A personal account of the author's mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other…
writers have approached death in their own work. The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history. 2017
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Déficiences, Santé et médecine, Maisons et jardins
Audio avec voix humaine
Yeomans, a nurse involved in occupational and physical therapy, suggests ways to adapt gardening techniques to a number of physical…
challenges, including visual problems. Tips are included in each chapter, and 20 sample gardens provide ideas such as gardens which stimulate all of the senses, indoor and container gardens, and herb and dried-flower gardens. The sample gardens also include lists of plants by sensory categories, such as fragrant plants, plants to listen to, and plants which are pleasant to the touch. [1993], c1992.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Téléchargement direct), DAISY audio (Zip)
Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine
Ellen's personal experiences as a parent of children with autism and ADHD, a celebrated autism author, and a contributor to…
numerous publications, classrooms, conferences, and websites around the world coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical roles adult perspectives play in guiding the child with autism to a meaningful, self-sufficient, productive life. 2016.