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Oiseaux, merveilleux oiseaux: les dialogues du ciel et de la vie (Science ouverte)
Par Hubert Reeves. 1998
Les oiseaux, leurs prouesses, leurs migrations, offrent l'un des plus émouvants témoignages de la prodigieuse richesse de notre univers. Comment…
le vol gracieux des hirondelles a-t-il pu émerger de la chaotique matière primordiale ? Les oiseaux seront ici nos guides dans la recherche des ferments du levain cosmique. 1998.On not losing my father's ashes in the flood
Par Richard Harrison. 2016
In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the…
poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta--a crisis that would become the inciting event and central theme of this collection. Combining elements of memoir, elegy, lyrical essay and personal correspondence with appreciations of literary works ranging from haiku to comic books, Richard Harrison has written a book of great intellectual depth that is as generous as it is enchanting. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.On equilibrium
Par John Ralston Saul. 2001
Explains how different human qualities give us intelligence, self-confidence and practical ability to think and act as responsible individuals, and…
argues that when certain qualities are worshipped in isolation they become ideologies. Saul explores the essential qualities of humanity and suggests how they can be used to achieve equilibrium for the self and to foster an ethical society. 2001.On Liberty. From "Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government". With selections from "Auguste Compte and positivism" (Everyman's university library)
Par John Stuart Mill, Harold Acton. 1972
Contains three of Mill’s most important works along with some extracts from a fourth, his "Auguste Comte and Positivism" (1865).…
The editor, H.B. Acton, provides a new introduction in which he reconsiders Mill’s moral and political philosophy in the light of early twentieth-century thought and scholarship. 1972.On board the Titanic: what it was like when the great liner sank (I was there book)
Par Shelley Tanaka, Ken Marschall. 1996
The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…
survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.Auto-portrait
Par Kahlil Gibran, Paul Kinnet. 1988
Dans ce livre, Anthony R. Ferris, grand ami du poète, nous fait connaître Khalil Gibran tout au long des étapes…
de sa vie professionnelle et de ses relations affectives, en rassemblant des lettres riches du symbolisme propre au style de Gibran. 1988.Nationalité et modernité: Essai
Par Daniel Jacques. 2005
L'auteur a pour but de penser la nation d'un point de vue philosophique; il cherche à établir quelle peut être…
la légitimité politique de la nation dans un contexte démocratique. Prix Victor Barbeau. 2005.Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes: guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne
Par Roland Viau. 1997
Cet ouvrage explique les moeurs guerrières de Iroquoiens qui menaient des guerres de capture, la cruauté dont ils faisaient usage…
à l'égard de leurs prisonniers, le cannibalisme auquel ils se livraient. 1997.Notes from a feminist killjoy: essays on everyday life (Essais ; #no. 2)
Par Erin Wunker. 2016
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara…
Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view. She attempts to think publicly about why we need feminism, and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices of being a mother and a feminist, to building friendship amongst women as a community-building and -sustaining project, to writing that addresses rape culture from the Canadian context and beyond, Wunker invites the reader into a conversation about gender, feminism, and living in our inequitable world. Winner of the 2017 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. 2016.Notes from the rainforest
Par György Faludy. 1988
The entries in this diary, written at night in the silence of the forest, range from philosophical aphorisms to acid…
comments on the state of Communism, the excesses of the American way of life, and the characteristics of Canadian culture. Winner of the 1990 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1988.Notes from the Hyena's belly: an Ethiopian boyhood
Par Nega Mezlekia. 2000
The author relates stories and myths from his youth in Jigiga, Ethiopia. Mezlekia recalls that, as the nation's feudalism gave…
way to Marxism, he found himself in a revolutionary student cell and later became a teenage guerrilla. He survived imprisonment, famine, turmoil, and near execution by a firing squad. Governor General's Award. 2001, 2000.Northrop Frye: a biography
Par John Ayre. 1989
Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.…
In this biography, Ayre describes Frye's impoverished childhood and traces the progression of his work. Nominated for the City of Toronto and Trillium Awards.No shelter here: making the world a kinder place for dogs
Par Rob Laidlaw. 2011
Dogs have been loyal to humankind for thousands of years, but today, millions of dogs are neglected and malnourished, and…
millions of other dogs are used in scientific research and for entertainment, and kept as pets in a remarkable diversity of conditions. Laidlaw explores the world of homeless, mistreated, and exploited dogs, and the challenges they face, but he also focuses on the people he calls "dog champions" – people around the world who dedicate their lives to helping dogs. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Winner of the 2013-14 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. 2011.Le philosophe chat: ou, Les ruses du désir (Quinze/prose exacte)
Par Roger Savoie. 1980
Ce livre veut vous apprendre à tout faire, à redevenir animal, à rendre les concepts fous, à bloquer un système.…
Il veut saccager le magasin de la philosophie, c'est-à-dire porter atteinte à ce qui est considéré comme le sommet de l'homme: la pensée. 1980.No axe too small to grind
Par Joey Slinger. 1985
Nietzsche et le démon de midi
Par Jean-Baptiste Botul. 2004
Le 5 janvier 1937, à Neuilly, Jean-Baptiste Botul prend dans son taxi une jeune cliente mineure qui lui ordonne :…
" Cours Désir ". Adresse équivoque s'il en est ! La nuit qu'ils passeront ensemble dans Paris vaudra à Botul de comparaître devant le tribunal professionnel des taxis parisiens. Pour sa défense, Botul se compare à Nietzsche, victime du démon de midi, amoureux tragique de Lou Andreas Salomé. Le récit qu'il fait de leur rencontre atteste que le Surhomme ne vaut pas grand-chose en face de la Surfemme. Car Lou, selon les termes de Botul, " était plus qu'une femme ". Parente de Lilith et de Lolita, elle incarne un démon mutant, moderne, celui de la " sexualité " femelle. Miraculeusement retranscrite, cette géniale plaidoirie confirme que Botul, ce penseur méconnu, fut le plus grand philosophe de tradition orale du XXe siècle.Night field: poems
Par Don McKay. 1991
My shoes are killing me: poems
Par Robyn Sarah, Eric L Ormsby. 2015
Poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on…
the “hazardous … treasurehouse” that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada’s most well-regarded poets. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2015.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.Nature: A Facsimile Of The First Edition
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1991
First published in 1836, this book established Emerson as a scholar in the subject of the relationship between natural history…
and human nature. This edition has an introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan, a professor of history at Yale University, who credits Emerson as being a philosophical prose poet with a spiritual side. 1991.