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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.Parenting your parents: straight talk about aging in the family
Par Michael Gordon, Bart J Mindszenthy. 2013
There is now an increasing awareness of the complex challenges posed by the expanding aging population in North America. When…
our parents reach a certain age and have difficulty coping, we find ourselves wondering how to provide them with the kind of love, care, support, and attention they need, just as they have done for us all our lives. This book offers crucial advice to help you, a new Vulnerability Index to measure what level of need your parents may have right now, as well as a financial planning section and resource directory. 2013.Les forces de l'âge
Par Michel Coulombe. 2014
" Vous ne faites pas votre âge ! Il a pris un coup de vieux ! Ce n'est plus de…
son âge. Des phrases comme celles-là, on en entend tous les jours. Que l'on ait 40, 50, 60, 70 ou 80 ans, chacun a sa propre expérience du vieillissement. Vingt-huit personnalités québécoises âgées de 48 à 98 ans partagent la leur. Sans tabou, à cœur ouvert. Parfois inquiets, parfois sereins, toujours pertinents, ils parlent du bonheur, de la famille, de l'amour, de la solitude, de l'âgisme, de ce qui les anime, de ce que la vie leur a appris. Tête-à-tête inédits avec des femmes et des hommes inspirants dont les réflexions sur le temps qui passe et les forces de l'âge vous aideront à y voir plus clair et à avancer sur le chemin du vieillissement. " -- 4e de couv.Cease: a memoir of love, loss, and desire
Par Lynette Dawn Loeppky. 2014
The memoir tells the story of a young woman who has decided to leave an eight-year relationship. As Lyn begins…
to plan her exit, her partner Cecile suddenly falls ill. In a tumultuous drop towards a complicated end, the young woman is forced to become sole caregiver to the woman she had been planning to leave. Set against the "family values" of rural Alberta, this is a story about how we love and why we stay, especially in a time of crisis. 2014.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.L'art de bien vieillir (Spiritualites Grand Format Ser. #Vol. 6131114)
Par Anselm Grün, Caroline Jouannic. 2008
"Qui a envie de vieillir ? La question de l'âge, ce destin partagé, ne cesse d'être remise à plus tard,…
alors même qu'il s'agit de l'un des grands défis de la vie. Vieillir, oui, puisqu'il le faut bien, mais comment ? Anselm Grün nous montre qu'avec l'âge, même le grand âge, se présentent aussi de nouveaux horizons, de nouvelles chances, comme à chaque étape de l'existence. C'est pourquoi il invite ses lecteurs et lectrices à accepter pleinement leur vieillissement comme la promesse d'une vie riche et renouvelée. Avec beaucoup de sensibilité, il nous initie à l'art de rencontrer - non pas malgré la vieillesse mais à travers elle - notre vérité la plus intime". -- 4e de couv.La chaleur du coeur empêche nos corps de rouiller: vieillir sans être vieux
Par Marie De Hennezel. 2008
"Le vieillissement inévitable ne nous condamne pas à la solitude, à la souffrance, à la déchéance, à la dépendance. L'auteur,…
sans langue de bois, nous guide vers un véritable "art de vieillir". Elle fait appel à son expérience de psychologue clinicienne, à ses rencontres avec des "vieillards magnifiques" comme son amie soeur Emmanuelle, pour nous montrer comment transformer en profondeur ce temps de notre vie, en apprivoiser les misères, en retirer les joies." -- 4e de couv.Intolerable: a memoir of extremes
Par Kamal Al-Solaylee. 2012
As a gay man living in an intolerant Middle East, Al-Solaylee escaped first to England and eventually to Canada, where…
he became a journalist and academic. While he was enjoying the cultural and personal freedoms of life in the West, his once-liberal family slowly fell into the hard-line interpretations of Islam that were sweeping large parts of the Arab-Muslim world in the 1980s and 1990s. The differences between his life and theirs were brought into sharp relief by the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Yemen. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. 2012.Eyes (Your personal health series)
Par Marvin L Kwitko, Marvin Ross. 1994
Seventy-four-year-old actress, activist, and work-out guru offers tips for making the most of what she calls Act III of life,…
which begins at age sixty. Lists eleven ingredients of successful aging, including reflecting on one’s past, caring about the bigger picture, being physically active, and eating healthfully. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011.A seven-step program for getting through menopause and enjoying a longer, healthier life without drugs
Par Catherine D Lowes. 1998
Explains what menopause is and how to recognize its symptoms. Also shares ideas meant to help women to assess their…
health, alleviate the symptoms of menopause, and reduce their risk of osteoporosis and heart disease through diet, exercise and lifestyle. 1998.The queen of Whale Cay
Par Kate Summerscale. 1997
Joe Carstairs was renowned in the 1920s as an 'invert' who smoked cheroots and dressed as a man, as an…
heiress to the Standard Oil fortune and as the fastest female speedboat racer in the world. In 1934 she disappeared to create her own kingdom, founding and ruling a colony of 500 black Bahamians.We have always been here: a queer Muslim memoir /
Par Samra Habib. 2019
Growing up in Pakistan, Samra Habib lacks a blueprint for the life she wants. She has a mother who gave…
up everything to be a pious, dutiful wife and an overprotective father who seems to conspire against a life of any adventure. Plus, she has to hide the fact that she's Ahmadi to avoid persecution from religious extremists. As the threats against her family increase, they seek refuge in Canada, where new financial and cultural obstacles await them. When Samra discovers that her mother has arranged her marriage, she must again hide a part of herself--the fun-loving, feminist teenager that has begun to bloom--until she simply can't any longer. So begins a journey of self-discovery that takes her to Tokyo, where she comes to terms with her sexuality, and to a queer-friendly mosque in Toronto, where she returns to her faith in the same neighbourhood where she attended her first drag show. Along the way, she learns that the facets of her identity aren't as incompatible as she was led to believe, and that her people had always been there--the world just wasn't ready for them yet. 2019.Dead Mom Walking: A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters
Par Rachel Matlow. 2020
"A hilarious memoir of effervescent misadventures." --Toronto Star"How am I laughing at someone's mother's cancer? How? We think we can't…
laugh about death, about cancer, about our mothers and their suffering . . . and we can't, but we can. And there's so much relief in that. I laughed, I cried, I laughed and laughed and laughed." --Carolyn Taylor, BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOWA traumedy about life and death (and every cosmic joke in between)When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, Rachel Matlow is concerned but hopeful. It's Stage 1, so her mom will get surgery and everything will go back to normal. But growing up in Rachel's family, there was no normal. Elaine, an alternative school teacher and self-help junkie, was never a capital M "Mommy"--she spent more time meditating than packing lunches--and Rachel, who played hockey with the boys and refused to ever wear a dress, was no ordinary daughter.When Elaine decides to forgo conventional treatment and heal herself naturally, Rachel is forced to ponder whether the very things that made her mom so special--her independent spirit, her belief in being the author of her own story--are what will ultimately kill her. As the cancer progresses, so does Elaine's conviction in doing things her way. She assembles a dream team of alternative healers, gulps down herbal tinctures with every meal, and talks (with respect) to her cancer cells. Anxious and confused, Rachel is torn between indulging her pie-in-the-sky pursuits (ayahuasca and all) and pleading with the person who's taking her mother away.With irreverence and honesty--and a little help from Elaine's journals and self-published dating guide, plus hours of conversations recorded in her dying days--Matlow brings her inimitable mother to life on the page. Dead Mom Walking is the hilarious and heartfelt story of what happens when two people who've always written their own script go head to head with each other, and with life's least forgiving plot device.Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary
Par Andrea Bennett. 2020
A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a…
body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, class, and bike mechanics (apparently you can learn a lot about yourself through trueing a wheel). In "Tomboy," andrea articulates what it means to live in a gender in-between space, and why one might be necessary; "37 Jobs 21 Houses" interrogates the notion that the key to a better life is working hard and moving house. And interspersed throughout the book is "Everyone Is Sober and No One Can Drive," sixteen stories about queer millennials who grew up and came of age in small Canadian communities. With the same poignant spirit as Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide, Like a Boy addresses the struggle to find acceptance, and to accept oneself; and how one can find one's place while learning to make space for others. The book also wonders what it means to be an atheist and search for faith that everything will be okay; what it means to learn how to love life even as you obsess over its brevity; and how to give birth, to bring new life, at what feels like the end of the world. With thoughtfulness and acute observation, andrea bennett reveals intimate truths about the human experience, whether one is outside the gender binary or not.Rebent Sinner
Par Ivan Coyote. 2019
Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous…
books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, and longlisted for Canada Reads. In their latest, Ivan takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling and revealing stories of what it means to be trans and non-binary today, at a time in their life when they must carry the burden of heartbreaking history with them, while combatting those who would misgender them or deny their very existence. These stories span thirty years of tackling TERFs, legislators, and bathroom police, sure, but there is joy and pleasure and triumph to be found here too, as Ivan pays homage to personal heroes like the late Leslie Feinberg while gently guiding younger trans folk to prove to themselves that there is a way out of the darkness. Rebent Sinner is the work of an accomplished artist whose plain truths about their experience will astound readers with their utter, breathtaking humanity.A History of My Brief Body
Par Billy-Ray Belcourt. 2020
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHYFINALIST FOR THE BC AND YUKON BOOK PRIZE, FOR BOTH THE…
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE AND JIM DEVA PRIZE FOR WRITING THAT PROVOKESNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexual exploration and intimacy, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us.The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy's Radically Honest Tale
Par Cheri DiNovo. 2021
Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage in Canada…
in 2001. This story of one queer kid will hopefully inspire other young people (queer and not) to resist the system and change it.