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Coping with glaucoma: A Guide To Living With Glaucoma For You And Your Family
Par Edith Marks, Rita Montauredes. 1997
Butter down the well: reflections of a Canadian childhood
Par Robert Collins. 1980
The author recalls the joys and sorrows of his childhood in rural Saskatchewan in the 1920s and the 1930s. His…
vivid imagination helped him to survive the loneliness of homestead life and the dreariness of the barren prairies. Followed by "The long and the short and the tall". 1980.By way of deception
Par Victor Ostrovsky, Claire Hoy. 1990
As a junior officer with the Mossad, Israel's security organization, Ostrovsky had extraordinary access to its files. At first elated…
at the privilege of joining the Mossad, Ostrovsky's experiences convinced him that it had betrayed the trust of Israel. Bestseller 1990. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 1991, c1990.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.Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: the woman behind the legend (Missouri biography series #1)
Par John E Miller. 1998
Biography of the woman who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. Examines how the child who lived those…
experiences evolved into the mature author who wrote about them. Discusses the role of her daughter Rose in encouraging and editing her novels. 1998.Back trail of an old cowboy
Par Paul E Young, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost. 1983
This affectionate, humorous look at range life during the early part of the century is written by an old cowhand…
from Utah. An authentic picture of life in the real west. c1983.Andy Russell's campfire yarns (Andy Russell Ser.)
Par Andy Russell. 1998
America's Great Game: the CIA's secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East
Par Hugh Wilford. 2013
Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of…
the agency's three most influential officers in the Middle East. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station ; Miles Copeland was a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. These "Arabists" propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. 2013.Aliments pour les yeux: un programme alimentaire pour des yeux en santé
Par Laurie Capogna, Barbara Pelletier. 2011
Dr. Laurie Capogna et Dr. Barbara Pelletier ont élaboré un guide pour améliorer la santé oculaire et prévenir, ralentir ou…
supprimer les maladies oculaires les plus communes. Muni des derniers résultats scientifiques, de conseils pratiques, d’idées de repas et de recettes… c’est un guide complet, facile à suivre sur la science et la sante. c2011.A candle in the grub box: the story of Frank Jackson as told to Sheila Douglass
Par Frank Jackson, Sheila Douglass. 1977
Frank Jackson was born in England in 1890, but came to the Peace River, British Columbia region as a teenager.…
The book recounts his struggle against the wilderness to establish a homestead and cattle business. It also describes the colourful characters he encountered through the years. 1977.A child's day (Historic communities.)
Par Bobbie Kalman. 1994
Between waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, pioneer children John and Emily enjoy a full…
day of simple pleasures and hard work. We watch them go to school, do their chores, celebrate a birthday, and attend a country fair. At every turn, we learn what they wear, what they eat, what stories they read, and what toys they play with. Grades 3-6. c1994.Roughing it in the bush: or, life in Canada
Par Susanna Moodie. 2006
Les années Condor: comment Pinochet et ses alliés ont propagé le terrorisme sur trois continents ((La découverte poche ; 280. Essais))
Par John Dinges, Isabelle Taudière. 2008
"Les années Condor raconte l'histoire secrète des "sales guerres" conduites par les dictatures latino-américaines alliées des États-Unis, au cours des…
années 1970 et 1980. Pendant plus de dix ans, six gouvernements ont mené de concert des actions clandestines contre leurs opposants, enlevant et assassinant plus de 30 000 personnes. À l'initiative du président chilien Augusto Pinochet, et avec le soutien de la CIA, ils ont mis sur pied une organisation terroriste internationale, l'opération Condor, pour liquider les opposants qui s'étaient réfugiés dans d'autres pays latino-américains, en Europe ou aux États-Unis. Le journaliste américain John Dinges fait ici le récit de cette histoire effroyable, fruit d'une enquête de plusieurs années, nourrie de nombreux témoignages, de documents secrets américains déclassifiés et des archives des dictatures elles-mêmes. Il révèle l'ampleur de la complicité de Washington dans les crimes de dictateurs pour lesquels les États-Unis étaient le "leader" [...]". -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The Condor years.Eyes (Your personal health series)
Par Marvin L Kwitko, Marvin Ross. 1994
A child's day (Historic communities)
Par Bobbie Kalman. 1994
Between waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, pioneer children John and Emily enjoy a full…
day of simple pleasures and hard work. We watch them go to school, do their chores, celebrate a birthday, and attend a country fair. At every turn, we learn what they wear, what they eat, what stories they read, and what toys they play with. Grades 3-6. 1994.Fort life (Historic communities.)
Par Bobbie Kalman, David Schimpky. 1994
Vengeance: the true story of an Israeli counter-terrorist mission
Par George Jonas. 2005
The mission of five ordinary Israelis: to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven…
Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Details the mechanics, the horror, and the day-by-day suspense, as they changed identities constantly, moved from country to country, and were themselves tracked in turn (and some killed) by PLO assassins. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2005.Windbreak: a woman rancher on the northern plains
Par Linda M Hasselstrom. 1987
Provides a detailed description of life on the plains of South Dakota. Recounts the daily events over the course of…
a year, rounding up cattle, mending fences and feeding animals. c1987.Wilderness journey: reliving the adventures of Canada's voyageurs
Par Ian Wilson. 2000
The Wilsons combine the lively account of their wilderness journey with fascinating stories of voyageur life 200 years ago. They…
travelled northwest by canoe on lakes and rivers from Lake Superior to northern Saskatchewan, then by dog team across Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 2000.What lies across the water: the real story of the Cuban Five
Par Stephen Kimber. 2013
“What lies across the water” recounts the events leading up to the 1998 arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban…
intelligence agents convicted of conspiring to commit espionage agents the United States. The five agents had been sent to Florida to infiltrate and report on the activities of Miami-based, anti-Cuban terrorist groups, which were carrying out deadly terrorist attacks against Cuba. Cuba passed on information their agents learned about illegal activities to the FBI. But, instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI arrested the Cuban Five. c2013.