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Vivre, tout simplement
Par Patrick Segal. 2005
Paralysé à vingt-quatre ans, en 1972, Patrick Segal a fait de son drame un atout. Après un incroyable tour du…
monde en chaise roulante, raconté dans L'Homme qui marchait dans sa tête, il est allé d'aventures en aventures. Parce qu'on n'a plus ses jambes on n'aurait pas droit à une vie normale ? Qu'à cela ne tienne, il a choisi de vivre mille vies exceptionnelles. L'ascension de l'Himalaya, l'engagement humanitaire et politique, une vie de baroudeur : il nous fait partager ses expériences les plus étonnantes et les plus intimes. Il prouve que la paralysie n'empêche ni le talent ni les performances en s'illustrant au plus haut niveau dans le sport, l'écriture, le cinéma ou encore la publicité et réussit le plus beau des défis : devenir père. Dans cet ouvrage, Patrick Segal dit tout, et évoque sans langue de bois des thèmes tabous comme l'amour, la famille et le quotidien des handicapés. Exaltant et parfois douloureux, impressionnant et émouvant, son parcours est une leçon de vie. -- 4e de couvSe guérir d'un parent alcoolique
Par Paulette Chayer Gélineau. 2006
Le livre traite du phénomène bien connu de l'alcoolisme, et surtout de son impact sur l'entourage, qui l'est beaucoup moins.…
Fortes d'une longue expérience dans les centres de traitement pour alcooliques, puis en clinique privée, les auteures présentent un livre pratique, dans un style simple et accessible. Dans leur démarche, elles identifient les valeurs qui sont blessées chez l'enfant d'une famille alcoolique. Elles examinent comment, devenu adulte, l'enfant de parents alcooliques apprend entre autre à garder sous silence ses émotions, à être hyper-responsable ou à contrôler excessivement son environnement. À la fin de chaque chapitre, les auteures proposent des exercices écrits permettant l'apaisement et favorisant la guérison. Le livre se veut un ' compagnon ' de route pour les enfants-adultes de parents alcooliques et les personnes affectées par cette problématique, de manière à leur donner le temps, l'espace et le soin pour leur permettre d'accéder à une plus grande liberté d'être. -- 4e de couvSe guérir autrement c'est possible: comment j'ai vaincu ma maladie
Par Marie Lise Labonté. 2001
À l'adolescence, Marie Lise Labonté est atteinte d'une première crise de la maladie incurable appelée arthrite rhumatoïde. À l'âge de…
26 ans, elle découvre une méthode de thérapie corporelle, l'antigymnastique, qui l'incite à entreprendre elle-même sa guérison. Commence alors pour Marie Lise une longue exploration de son corps qui va l'entraîner à un approfondissement de tout son être.What Are the Paralympic Games? (What Was?)
Par Gail Herman, Who Hq. 2020
It's time to cheer for the inspiring athletes of the Paralympic Games! As the Opening Ceremony for the 1948 Summer…
Olympic Games commenced in London, a similar sporting competition was taking place a few miles away. But the men at Stoke Mandeville weren't your typical athletes. They were paralyzed World War II veterans. The games at Stoke Mandeville were so successful that they would eventually lead evolve into the Paralympics. Participants from all around the world vie for the gold medal in a variety of sports, including archery, basketball, swimming, speed skating, and ice hockey. Author Gail Herman highlights their achievements, describes how these athletes train--both mentally and physically--for the games, and gives the reader a better understanding of what makes the Paralympic Games one of the world's most viewed sporting events.A World without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
Par Victoria Freeman. 2019
Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded…
institution. Martha was not yet two, but in 1960s Ontario there was little community acceptance or support for raising children with intellectual disabilities at home. In this frank and moving memoir, Victoria describes growing up in a world that excluded and dehumanized her sister, and how society’s insistence that only a “normal” life was worth living affected her sister, her family, and herself, until changing attitudes to disability and difference offered both sisters new possibilities for healing and self-discovery.Je n'en ai jamais parlé à personne
Par Martine Delvaux. 2020
"En octobre 2017, devant la vague de témoignages suscitée par le mouvement #moiaussi, j'ai senti une urgence : une fois…
sorties du silence, nous ne devions pas y retourner. C'est la raison pour laquelle j'ai lancé un appel. Ce livre est une chambre d'échos. Un chœur. Sans déesse ni héroïne en tête, des voix avancent. Nous faisons front commun. Martine Delvaux. Je n'en ai jamais parlé à personne : paroles recueillies et agencées par Martine Delvaux"One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all…
are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people. From original pieces by up-and-coming authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma, to blog posts, manifestos, eulogies, Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites listeners to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and loveOur house is on fire: Scenes of a family and a planet in crisis
Par Malena Ernman. 2020
Brought to you by Penguin. 'An extraordinary account of how one family rose, with unshakable moral clarity, to the tremendous…
responsibility of being alive at the moment when our immediate collective decisions will determine the fate of life on Earth. They share their story of courage not because they want our accolades, but because they demand our company. Greta Thunberg has already inspired a global moment - this book is part of how we will win' Naomi Klein This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Of a happy life with two young daughters which suddenly falters, never to be the same again. Aged eleven, the eldest stops eating and speaking, and her younger sister struggles to cope. Slowly, alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, their desperate parents become aware of another source for their firstborn daughter's distress: her imperilled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by her determination to understand the truth, the family begins to see the deep connections between their own and the planet's suffering. Against forces that try to silence them, disparaging them for being different, they discover ways to strengthen, heal, and act in the world. And then, one day, fifteen-year-old Greta decides to go on strikeJe ne suis pas un talisman
Par Bibiana Mbushi. 2012
" J'ai un peu plus de onze ans, et je m'appelle Bibiana. Tanzanienne à la peau blanche, je suis albinos.…
Certaines personnes pensent que nous sommes des êtres magiques et que nous priver d'un bras ou d'une jambe n'aura pas de conséquences car nos membres portent bonheur et repoussent. Ceci est mon histoire. " -- 4e de couvUne cure d'amour
Par Elton John. 2012
" Elton John est un survivant. Il en prend conscience dans les années 80 alors que la plupart de ses…
amis artistes meurent les uns après les autres d'une maladie alors mal connue et objet d'autant de préjugés que de répulsion. Pourtant il continue à vivre comme avant : excès de drogue et de sexe. Dans ce livre très émouvant, Elton John se livre pour la première fois. Sa remise en question démarre en 1985 alors qu'il accompagne Ryan White, jeune malade du Sida, tout au long de son agonie... " -- 4e de couvQuand j'étais invisible
Par Martin Pistorius. 2013
" A douze ans, Martin tombe inexplicablement malade. Il devient muet, en fauteuil roulant, et incapable du moindre mouvement. Les…
médecins affirment que son cerveau est totalement détruit. En réalité, si le corps de Martin est inerte, son esprit fonctionne parfaitement. Littéralement prisonnier, il ne peut même pas cligner des yeux pour se manifester. Le pire, ce sont ces infirmières qui le traitent désormais comme une chose, au point de lui faire subir des abus inimaginables... Jusqu'au jour où, après onze années de cauchemar, un thérapeute entrevoit de la vie chez Martin. Et peu à peu, le jeune homme se "réveille" à la vie. Un formidable combat, une extraordinaire renaissance. Martin recommence à marcher, parler et finit par se marier. Avant de raconter son histoire... Le témoignage bouleversant d'un enfant prisonnier 11 ans dans son propre corps. " -- 4e de couvDyslexique et alors?: un autre regard sur le handicap
Par Sabine Laîné. 2009
Fantine et Jérôme voulaient dix enfants. Ils n'en eurent qu'un, Ugo. Un enfant extraordinaire, un enfant aux richesses insoupçonnées. Et…
il en avait du courage, Ugo. Pour dix ! Car il était dys. Dyslexique, dans un monde où il ne fait pas bon être différent. Au début, c'était le bonheur, l'insouciance, l'éveil à la vie, une vie ordinaire. Puis, vint le temps de l'inquiétude... C'est quand même curieux qu'il parle toujours aussi mal ! Puis, celui des doutes... Il n'arrive même pas à apprendre à lire ! Il est bête ou quoi ! Ou fainéant... Et celui de la révolte, quand ils comprirent enfin et commencèrent à se battre. Pas contre la dyslexie, mais contre l'inertie de toute une société... Des années à souffrir aux côtés d'Ugo, à vivre avec un handicap invisible. Et la différence. Même pas l'indifférence, qui eût été plus douce, finalement ! -- 4e de couvSitting pretty: The view from my ordinary, resilient, disabled body
Par Rebekah Taussig. 2020
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to…
paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn't fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different storyA short history of humanity: A new history of old europe
Par Johannes Krause. 2021
&“Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] &‘archaeogenetics&’—the study of ancient DNA . .…
. Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.&”—Kyle Harper, The Wall Street Journal Johannes Krause is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a brilliant pioneer in the field of archaeogenetics—archaeology augmented by DNA sequencing technology—which has allowed scientists to reconstruct human history reaching back hundreds of thousands of years before recorded time. In this surprising account, Krause and journalist Thomas Trappe rewrite a fascinating chapter of this history, the peopling of Europe, that takes us from the Neanderthals and Denisovans to the present. We know now that a wave of farmers from Anatolia migrated into Europe 8,000 years ago, essentially displacing the dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-gatherers who preceded them. This Anatolian farmer DNA is one of the core genetic components of people with contemporary European ancestry. Archaeogenetics has also revealed that indigenous North and South Americans, though long thought to have been East Asian, also share DNA with contemporary Europeans. Krause and Trappe vividly introduce us to the prehistoric cultures of the ancient Europeans: the Aurignacians, innovative artisans who carved flutes and animal and human forms from bird bones more than 40,000 years ago; the Varna, who buried their loved ones with gold long before the Pharaohs of Egypt; and the Gravettians, big-game hunters who were Europe&’s most successful early settlers until they perished in the ice age. Genetics has earned a reputation for smuggling racist ideologies into science, but cutting-edge science makes nonsense of eugenics and &“pure&” bloodlines. Immigration and genetic exchanges have always defined our species; who we are is a question of culture, not biological inheritance. This revelatory book offers us an entirely new way to understand ourselves, both past and presentBionic beasts: Saving animal lives with artificial flippers, legs, and beaks
Par Jolene Gutiérrez. 2021
What happens when a young elephant steps on a buried land mine? What happens when a sea turtle's flipper is…
injured by a predator? Thanks to recent advances in technology, we have new ways to design and build prosthetic body parts that can help these animals thrive. Meet an Asian elephant named Mosha, a Kemp's ridley sea turtle named Lola, a German Shepherd named Cassidy, a greylag goose named Vitória, and Pirate, a Berkshire-Tamworth pig. Each of these animals was struggling, but through a variety of techniques and technologies, humans created devices that enabled the animals to live and move more comfortably. Discover the stories of how veterinarians, doctors, and even students from around the world used 3D printing and other techniques to build bionic body parts for these amazing animalsUne épine empourprée (T minuscule)
Par Michaël La Chance. 2019
« J'écrivais ceci encore abasourdi par un accident cérébral. Ce témoignage a-t-il un intérêt hors de moi-même ? J'étais trop…
étourdi pour convoquer le regard des autres, mesurer la lecture qu'ils pourraient en faire. La vision trouble, la marche entravée, j'écrivais sur le vif, à la recherche d'une trame symbolique pour réparer ma vie intérieure fracassée par l'accident silencieux. Soudain je regardais les choses comme une énigme, les êtres naturels comme des prodiges. J'étais devenu ma propre énigme, plus précisément, j'entrevoyais mes facultés, pour peu qu'elles me permettaient de respirer et de penser, de parler et de marcher, comme des mécanismes précieux et fragiles. »The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Par David Graeber, David Wengrow. 2021
Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing…
account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.Cræft: an inquiry into the origins and true meaning of traditional crafts
Par Alexander Langlands. 2018
Archaeologist examines the meaning of the Old English word "craeft," which denoted a sense of knowledge, wisdom, and resourcefulness through…
the history of production of goods made by human hands. Topics include making hay, sticks and stones, beekeeping, textiles, homebuilding, agriculture, and more. 2017Searching for the Amazons: the real warrior women of the ancient world
Par John Man. 2018
An exploration of the mythos of the Amazons, a tribe of female warriors. Discusses the stories told in many cultures…
about them and the past conclusions that they must have been merely myth. The author, however, uses research and archeological discoveries to demonstrate that they did, in fact, exist. 2018Unforeseen: the first blind Rhodes scholar : a memoir
Par James J. Barnes. 2017
A historian's memoir of becoming the first blind Rhodes Scholar in the mid-1950s. Describes the deterioration of the author's eyesight…
during his first year at Oxford and his determination to press on. Relates his subsequent personal and educational achievments, including a PhD from Harvard and a distinguished forty-four-year teaching career. 2017