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Morgentaler: a difficult hero : a biography
Par Catherine Dunphy. 1996
Well-known as one of Canada's most controversial figures, Henry Morgentaler is portrayed as a man of many contradictions. This biography…
of Morgentaler is based on interviews with colleagues, friends, family, and Morgentaler himself, and covers his youth and experiences during the Holocaust, as well as his career in Canada and his legal struggles. 1996.Mountains beyond mountains: The Quest Of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World
Par Tracy Kidder. 2003
Cultural biography of Paul Farmer, physician, Harvard professor, anthropologist, and infectious disease specialist with a mission to improve medical conditions…
in remote locations. Recounts his founding of Partners in Health, recognition for creating a public health system in disease-ridden settlements of Haiti, and travels among unserved peoples in Latin America and Russia. 2003.Le génie dédaigné: Einstein et la Suisse
Par Alexis Schwarzenbach, Etienne Barilier. 2005
L'enfant des neiges: récit
Par Nicolas Vanier. 2004
Mémoires glacées: document
Par Nicolas Vanier. 2007
Mighty river: a portrait of the Fraser
Par Richard C Bocking. 1997
This history of the Fraser River is written from a human and natural perspective. It also sounds an alarm for…
a mighty river that has been compromised by careless development, and by damage to adjoining ecosystems. 1997.Metamorphosis: stages in a life
Par David T Suzuki. 1987
Biography of the host of CBC's television program, "The Nature of Things". He tells of his childhood on the West…
Coast, especially his detention during World War II in a concentration camp for Japanese-Canadians. He also describes people and events that have changed his life. 1987.Memory's last breath: field notes on my dementia
Par Gerda Saunders. 2017
Based on the "field notes" the author keeps in her journal, this is a window into a life distorted by…
dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa. 2017.Meet Chris Hadfield (Scholastic Canada biography)
Par Elizabeth MacLeod. 2018
Meet Colonel Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space - and make a music video while in orbit!…
When Chris Hadfield was a boy, growing up on a farm in Milton, Ontario, Canada didn't have a space program. But from the moment he saw a man first walk on the moon, young Chris decided he would somehow get to space. And with everything Chris did, from learning to fix farm machinery and joining the Air Cadets to flying fighter planes and becoming a test pilot, he prepared himself to get there. Chris Hadfield has rocketed into space three times, been on two space walks and was the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. And nobody plays a guitar in space or rocks a mustache better! Includes a timeline. Grades 2-4. 2018.Medicine, madams and mounties: stories of a Yukon doctor
Par Allan Duncan. 1989
McCurdy and the Silver Dart
Par Les Harding. 1998
J.A.D. McCurdy became one of Canada's aviation pioneers for his design of a biplane called the Silver Dart. This book…
recounts his experiments with kites and planes and his 1909 landmark flight above the ice of the Bras d'Or. Although it crashed six months later, the Silver Dart's engine rests in the National Aviation Museum today, a reminder of the first person to fly out of sight of land. Grades 4-7. 1998.Mauve: how one man invented a color that changed the world
Par Simon Garfield. 2001
Biography of William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), the British chemist who discovered the artificial dye mauve. Explains how Perkin at age…
eighteen produced the first aniline dye derived from coal. Discusses his subsequent fame and his importance as an inspiration for chemical advances in medicine, perfumery, food, explosives, and photography. 2001.Dame mature: réflexion comico-dramatique d'une périménopausée velue et moite
Par Guylaine Guay. 2018
Dans ce récit personnel où se côtoient de savoureuses histoires et une chronologie hormonale du parcours féminin, Guylaine Guay aborde…
un sujet plutôt tabou ou, encore, tourné en dérision : la ménopause ! Quand on naît femme, les étapes de la vie hormonale sont nombreuses : la puberté, la période reproductive, la préménopause et celle dans laquelle l'auteure baigne présentement, la périménopause ou, dans ses mots, l'apocalypse hormonale ! Dame mature est une réflexion tantôt drôle, tantôt profonde, mais toujours tendre, sur ce moment charnière qui apporte son lot de changements physiques, émotifs et climatiques. Ce récit, bien qu'enveloppé d'une bonne couche d'humour, est empreint d'amour et d'anecdotes à la Guylou ! 2018.Découvrir un sens à sa vie avec la logothérapie
Par Viktor E Frankl, G Bacon Clifford, Louise Drolet. 2006
Le besoin psychologique le plus profond est de donner un sens à sa vie. Viktor Frankl a mis sa découverte…
à l'épreuve durant ses 3 ans en camp de concentration et l'a confirmé par 60 ans de pratique psychothérapeutique. L'auteur expose les trois voies pour donner un sens à votre existence : la voie de l'accomplissement, la voie de l'amour, la voie de la transcendance. En lisant Viktor E. Frankl, vous redécouvrirez le sens de votre responsabilité et vous prendrez votre vie en mains. 2006. Titre uniforme: Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager.Entre le rire et les larmes: une citoyenne du monde raconte
Par Élisabeth Carrier. 1996
Infirmière sans frontières, l'auteure raconte avec passion ses expériences dans le Nord canadien avec les Amérindiens et les Inuits, ainsi…
que les nombreuses années qu'elle a consacrées au travail humanitaire en Afrique et en Asie. Pour ceux et celles qui souhaitent aller au-delà des images réductrices des médias, voici une biographie saissante et captivante, un voyage inédit à l'intérieur des pays les plus méconnus de la planète Terre. 1996.Le cancer à onze ans
Par Mathieu Froment-Savoie. 1991
Un jeune violoncelliste talentueux raconte l'histoire de sa lutte contre le cancer, qu'il qualifie de "sale maladie, la pire de…
toutes". Avec un brin d'humour, il nous fait partager ses craintes, ses angoisses, mais aussi ses joies, ses espoirs, ses rêves et ses projets. Années 3-6 et plus. 1991.L'odyssée blanche
Par Nicolas Vanier. 1999
Local colour: writers discovering Canada
Par Carol Martin. 1994
Life in a fishbowl: Confessions Of An Aquarium Director
Par Murray A Newman. 1994
Newman chronicles his thirty-seven year career as director of the Vancouver Aquarium. He takes readers behind the scenes during some…
of its triumphs and catastrophes. He also reveals the complexities of collecting expeditions and speaks candidly about public support for and criticism of the Aquarium over the years. 1994.Little panic: dispatches from an anxious life
Par Amanda Stern. 2018
The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise,…
gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knew that there was something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends didn't have to cope with. And when Etan Patz disappeared down the block from her home, she couldn't help but believe that all her worst fears were about to come true. 2018.