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La puissance de l'empathie: une solution aux problèmes relationnels (Collection Croissance personnelle)
Par Mireille Bourret. 2010
Il n'y a pas de véritable intimité sans empathie. Elle est une reconnaissance de l'autre, tant en ce qui concerne…
sa présence physique qu'en regard de ses émotions, de ses désirs, de ses sentiments et de ses idées... -- 4e de couvLe contrat de défiance
Par Maria Michela Marzano-Parisoli. 2010
Sans la confiance entre les individus, c'est toute notre société qui s'écroule. La peur, la déraison, la faillite, la guerre,…
la paranoïa menacent. Pourtant : la judiciarisation des rapports contractuels, le désir de contrôle, la difficulté d'accepter notre part humaine de fragilité, sans laquelle la confiance n'existe pas, engendrent une société de défiance. L'essai magistral de Michela Marzano offre une double perspective historique et philosophique : de la banqueroute de Law (1720) à la crise du prêt interbancaire (2007-2008), de l'égoïsme libéral au doute systématique des théories du complot, du don de soi dans l'amour à la multiplication des conflits juridiques dans la sphère privée (sait-on que 70 % des contentieux au Tribunal de grande instance sont familiaux ?), de la crainte de tout perdre à l'éloge de la dépendance, Michela Marzano construit et déconstruit notre rapport à la confiance. Le pilier de notre civilisation. -- 4e de couvMozart, génial et-- volage! (Collection Le petit Edgar)
Par Edgar Fruitier. 2010
« Sans prétention, mais avec la tendresse et « l’admiration inquiète » d’un véritable mélomane épris de son sujet, Edgar…
Fruitier nous raconte à sa façon la vie trépidante de ce génie précoce, indiscipliné et indisciplinable. » -- 4e de couvAges and stages: a parent's guide to normal childhood development
Par Charles E Schaefer. 2000
Offers information culled from scientific research about a child's emotional, cognitive, social, moral, and psychological development from birth to age…
nine. Provides examples of age-related behavior and suggests ways for parents to positively influence offspring. Highlights family and peer relationships, personal growth, and character formation. 2000Novelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006Author examines the stressful shift in the roles of men and women and describes what he believes to be physiological…
gender differences in dealing with the tension. Outlines coping mechanisms for women to help both themselves and their partners improve communication, mood, energy, and levels of attraction. 2008A bold fresh piece of humanity
Par Bill O'Reilly. 2008
Emmy Award-winning television commentator's autobiography, its title inspired by his third-grade teacher, a nun, who summed him up with the…
phrase. O'Reilly reminisces about his postwar working-class upbringing in Long Island, a Catholic-school education, his two years as a teacher, and his journalism career's start in 1970s Boston. Bestseller. 2008The house at Sugar Beach: in search of a lost African childhood
Par Helene Cooper. 2008
Memoir by New York Times correspondent describes her privileged childhood in Liberia as a descendant of black American founders. Cooper…
relates her uprooting by a 1980 coup that forced the family to flee to the United States--and her return decades later. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008White House Q & A
Par Denise Rinaldo. 2008
Facts about the history and functions of the presidential residence in Washington, D.C. Questions cover the famous rooms, the Rose…
Garden, first ladies' home decoration, family living and pets, holiday celebrations, and more. Includes a timeline for each president's stay in the White House. For grades 3-6. 2008Final salute: a story of unfinished lives
Par Jim Sheeler. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sheeler recounts the two years he spent shadowing marine major Steve Beck, an officer whose job is…
to notify the families of fallen soldiers. Sheeler portrays the lives of the deceased, Beck's efforts to comfort the grieving relatives, and the toll on surviving kin. 2008Letter to my daughter
Par Maya Angelou. 2008
Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RC 57200, BR 15665) shares life lessons in the form of…
reminiscences, poems, and short essays with her thousands of young daughters all over the world. In "Senegal" Angelou commits a social faux pas that her hostess graciously ignores. Bestseller. 2008The Alice B. Toklas cook book (Cook's classic library)
Par Alice B Toklas. 1998
Gertrude Stein's lifelong companion reminisces about great and humble meals shared with friends in wartime Paris, rural France, Spain, and…
America. Contains cooking tips and numerous recipes for dishes such as gazpacho, saddle of young boar, croquettes, mussels, violet soufflé, hot chocolate, and more. Foreword (1984) by M.F.K. Fisher. 1954Untold glory: African Americans in pursuit of freedom, opportunity, and achievement
Par Alan B Govenar. 2007
Interviews with twenty-seven African Americans who have excelled in the arts, politics, and business. First-person accounts describe overcoming discrimination and…
other obstacles to achieve personal goals. Includes businesswoman Josephine Cooke, who suffers from sickle-cell anemia, and mathematician Mary DeConge-Watson, a former nun. 2007When the wolves returned: restoring nature's balance in Yellowstone
Par Dorothy Hinshaw Patent. 2008
Describes the change in the balance of nature in Yellowstone National Park after the disappearance of wolves, including an increase…
in the elk and coyote populations. Gives the reasons that wolves were brought back and explains the resulting benefits to the park. For grades 2-4. 2008The man who made lists: love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Par Joshua C Kendall. 2008
Biography of Englishman Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), physician, mathematician, inventor, writer, and chess expert. Discusses Roget's family, marriage, and social…
life. Describes Roget's invention of the log-log slide rule, near-capture by Napoleon's army, progressive medical practices, and love of list-making that culminated in his publishing a book of synonyms. 2008The Anne of Green Gables cookbook
Par Kate Macdonald. 1988
Step-by-step recipes for teatime fare from egg-salad sandwiches and old-fashioned lemonade to macaroons, raspberry tarts, vanilla ice cream, chocolate caramels,…
cakes, and puddings. Inspired by passages from the books about Anne of Green Gables. Adult assistance recommended. For grades 3-6. 1985The wordy shipmates
Par Sarah Vowell. 2008
A history of the Puritan founders of New England. Contrasts Loyalist Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop with earlier Plymouth…
settlers led by the Reverend John Cotton. Discusses the philosophies of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, colonists' conflicts with Native Americans, and the Puritans' influence on American values. Bestseller. 2008Dough: a memoir (The sue William Silverman Prize For Creative Nonfiction Ser. #9)
Par Mort Zachter. 2007
Describes the author's shock in learning that his Jewish bachelor uncles had saved millions of dollars. His confusion--why did the…
author's mother and her brothers live so frugally while operating a successful day-old-bread store?--is mixed with elation--the inheritance solves his own financial woes and allows him time to write. 2007The great warming: climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations
Par Brian M Fagan. 2008
Anthropologist follows up The Little Ice Age (BR 13935) with an examination of the Medieval Warm Period (A.D. 800-1300). Describes…
changes in temperature and rainfall that brought bountiful harvests, population growth, and cultural advancement to western Europe while Central America and Southeast Asia experienced drought, famine, and decline. 2008She touched the world: Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer
Par Sally Hobart Alexander. 2008
Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-1889), the first deaf-blind child to receive a formal education--decades before Helen Keller. Discusses the causes…
of Laura's deaf-blindness at age two; her sponsorship at Perkins Institution; and her success at learning manual sign language. For grades 4-7. 2008