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Smart medicine for your eyes: a guide to natural, effective, and safe relief of common eye disorders
Par Jeffrey Anshel. 2011
Information about the eyes; sections on nutrition, herbal therapies, and homeopathic remedies. Discusses disorders of the eye and visual system,…
conventional treatments and self-treatments, eye care techniques, and refractive surgeries and vision therapies. c2011.Glaucoma: the complete guide : a patient handbook
Par Tina T Wong. 2011
One of the world's leading experts helps you navigate through glaucoma from diagnosis to the many treatment options. This landmark…
patient handbook stands out as both authoritative and readable, providing the critical information necessary to help patients. 2011.In its early days as Bytown, Ottawa was a community of entrepreneurs. Through the stories of eight intriguing businessmen the…
development of the country's capital is revealed. These capital titans, in working toward their dreams, flavoured the region, and the country, with their strong personalities and opinions, and their legacy is still being felt today. 2004.Lord Beaverbrook (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par David Adams Richards. 2011
Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill's cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from…
a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick, he became a millionaire at age 25, earned the title of Lord Beaverbrook at 38, and by age 40 was the most influential newspaperman in the world. Fiercely loyal to the British Empire, he was nonetheless patronized by London's upper class, whose country he worked tirelessly to protect during World War II. Richards, one of Canada's preeminent novelists, celebrates Beaverbrook's heroic achievements in this perceptive interpretive biography. 2011.Last Canadian beer: the Moosehead story
Par Harvey Sawler. 2008
From the moment in 1867 when family matriarch Susannah Oland began brewing beer in her Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, backyard, the…
Oland name has been synonymous with Maritime beer and successful family business. Reveals who the Olands are and what has made them successful, and how the Olands will continue to keep Moosehead as an independently owned family business. 2008.Into the blast furnace: the forging of a CEO's conscience
Par Courtney Pratt, Larry Gaudet. 2008
When steel manufacturer Stelco Inc. went into bankruptcy protection in early 2004, there was a lot at stake during the…
company's restructuring: 6,000 jobs, 10,000 pensions; the egos and pocketbooks of lawyers, investors, union leaders, politicians and hedge fund managers, each with a special interest to flog and no interest in compromise. CEO Courtney Pratt, hired to clean up the mess, believed in keeping the company alive while ethically reconciling the competing interests - and trying to stay human in a bottom-line world. Some strong language. c2008.How to write a journal (Language arts explorer junior)
Par Cecilia Minden, Kate Roth. 2011
Writing is an important skill that you use every day: at school, with friends, at home - almost anywhere! This…
guide has tips and tricks that will help you become a writing expert and help you keep a journal, including writing about places, your opinions, events, and your wishes and dreams. Grades 2-4. c2011.How to write a book report (Language arts explorer junior)
Par Cecilia Minden, Kate Roth. 2011
This guide includes tips and tricks for writing a book report. Covers the parts of a book reports, editing, writing…
about a non-fiction book, and how to include your own opinions. Grades 2-4. 2011.Get smarter: life and business lessons for the 20- to 40-year-old
Par Seymour Schulich. 2007
In examining his own life, Seymour Schulich, a Canadian billionaire and philanthropist, realized that at age 20, and even at…
age 30, he knew very little. This is his attempt to impart lessons learned in a lifetime to today's youth, by someone who has achieved success in both his personal and professional life. Covers such issues as how to make a decision, choosing a career, and how to deal with adversity. 2007.English grammar for dummies (For dummies)
Par Geraldine Woods. 2010
Fun and easy strategies that can help you when you're faced with such grammatical dilemmas as the choice between "I"…
and "me," and "who" and "whom." Other topics include: Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs - oh my!; Punctuation: The lowdown on periods, commas, colons, and all those other squiggly marks; Possession: It's nine-tenths of grammatical law; and Top Ten lists on improving your proofreading skills and ways to learn better grammar. c2010.Cold hard truth: on business, money & life
Par Kevin O'Leary. 2011
Blind vision: the neuroscience of visual impairment
Par Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi. 2011
Italian researchers examine the effects of blindness on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. They demonstrate the…
ways other senses evolve to help compensate for the absence of sight. 2011.I am potential: eight lessons on living, loving, and reaching your dreams
Par Patrick Henry Hughes, Patrick John Hughes, Bryant A Stamford. 2008
Patrick Henry Hughes was born with a rare genetic disorder that left him without eyes and physically disabled, but he…
was also blessed with exceptional musical talent, able to play the piano at the age of two. Now, at age nineteen, he is a nationally known pianist, singer, and trumpeter who has performed at the Kennedy Center. But he's best known for playing in the University of Louisville marching band, while his devoted father pushes him in formation in his wheelchair. With determined optimism and courage, Hughes has made "I am potential" his mantra and defied the impossible at every turn. 2008.The uncrowned king: the sensational rise of William Randolph Hearst
Par Kenneth Whyte. 2008
More than a century ago, William Randolph Hearst stormed the Manhattan publishing establishment and usurped Joseph Pulitzer as the dominant…
force in the most hotly contested newspaper market the world has ever seen. In three years, Hearst built the foundation of one of America's greatest media empires, yet his reputation as a journalist has always been haunted by allegations of sensationalism, self-promotion, warmongering, and outright fakery. Some descriptions of violence. c2008.Le Ramat de la typographie
Par A Ramat. 1996
Outil indispensable pour toute personne qui doit rédiger, corriger ou composer des textes en français, Le Ramat de la typographie…
contient des règles et conseils fort judicieux. On y retrouve notamment des règles sur l'écriture des adresses, des dates et des heures, des nombres en chiffres ou en lettres de même que sur l'écriture des noms géographiques. L'auteur aborde aussi les règles de coupures de mots en fin de ligne, les règles des abréviations et d'emploi des majuscules. Il est aussi question de traitement de texte, de mise en page à l'écran et de correction d'épreuves. 1996.Journal d'un écrivain en pyjama: chronique ((Collection Chronique).)
Par Dany Laferrière. 2013
" Le pyjama est un étrange habit de travail, nous dit Dany Laferrière, qui, après trente années décriture, décide de…
parler à ses lecteurs. Suite de fragments et de scènes où fiction, réflexion, récit, méditations salternent. Journal dun écrivain en pyjama met sous nos yeux litinéraire de cet écrivain pour qui la vie est une aventure exaltante, qui se conjugue entre lire et écrire.... " -- 4e de couv.Droit pénal
Par Danièle Delisle. 1992
Droit du travail
Par Danièle Delisle. 1992
Éloge du carburateur: essai sur le sens et la valeur du travail
Par Marc Saint-Upéry, Matthew B Crawford. 2010
Matthew B. Crawford était un brillant universitaire, bien payé pour travailler dans un think tank à Washington. Au bout de…
quelques mois, déprimé par son emploi, il démissionne pour ouvrir un atelier de réparation de motos. À partir du récit de son étonnante reconversion professionnelle, il livre dans cet ouvrage intelligent et drôle l'une des réflexions les plus fines qu'il ait été donné de lire sur le sens et la valeur du travail dans les sociétés occidentales. Mêlant anecdotes, récits et réflexions philosophiques et sociologiques, il montre que ce travail intellectuel , dont on nous rebat les oreilles depuis que nous sommes entrés dans l' économie du savoir , se révèle pauvre et déresponsabilisant. Il démontre que le travail manuel peut même se révéler beaucoup plus captivant d'un point de vue intellectuel que tous les nouveaux emplois de cette économie du savoir -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Shop class as soul craft. An inquiry into the value of work.Un point, c'est tout!: la ponctuation efficace
Par J. P Colignon. 1993
Dans ce guide, chacun des treize signes de ponctuation fait l'objet d'un chapitre dans lequel les différentes utilisations sont énumérées,…
commentées et illustrées d'exemples pris dans la presse et dans la littérature. À la fin de chaque chapitre figure également le rappel de la règle typographique concernant la disposition des signes en question dans un texte composé. 1993.