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Unsettling Canada: a national wake-up call
Par Naomi Klein, Arthur Manuel, Ronald M Derrickson. 2015
As the son of George Manuel, who served as president of the National Indian Brotherhood and founded the World Council…
of Indigenous Peoples in the 1970s, Arthur Manuel was born into the struggle. From his unique and personal perspective, as a Secwepemc leader and an Indigenous activist who has played a prominent role on the international stage, Manuel describes the victories and failures, the hopes and the fears of a generation of activists fighting for Aboriginal title and rights in Canada. Bestseller. 2015.Une école à la dérive: essai sur le système d'éducation au Nunavik
Par Nicolas Bertrand. 2016
Depuis l'implantation des premières écoles fédérales au milieu du siècle dernier, le système d'éducation au Nunavik n'a cessé d'être en…
crise. Absentéisme fréquent, faibles résultats scolaires, décrochage important des élèves au secondaire. le portrait est, hélas, familier. L'école échoue par ailleurs à enseigner adéquatement la culture inuite, ce qui attise les critiques à son égard. Prenant appui sur son expérience personnelle à titre de suppléant dans le village de Kangirsuk, Nicolas Bertrand dresse le portrait de cette école dont la dérive a des racines profondes et complexes. Il réfléchit aussi à la manière de réformer ce système et démontre la difficulté de cette entreprise. Car tant et aussi longtemps que l'école sera perçue par les Inuits, à tort ou à raison, comme un obstacle et non comme une condition de leur émancipation, sa légitimité sera contestée et sa mission, compromise. De l'éducation de sa jeunesse dépend pourtant l'avenir du Nunavik qui, sans renier son passé, doit aussi accepter pleinement sa modernité. 2016.Une brève histoire du futur: comment la science va changer le monde
Par Michio Kaku, Olivier Courcelle. 2014
" Faire surgir de la matière à partir du néant, créer des formes de vie inédites, exploiter l'énergie des étoiles,…
terraformer Mars : quelles percées scientifiques nous attendent d'ici à 2100 ? En quoi vont-elles révolutionner notre quotidien ? Pour le savoir, suivez Michio Kaku, spécialiste mondial de la théorie des cordes, et entreprenez un magistral voyage dans le temps ! Découvrez une vision stupéfiante de notre futur, fondée non sur des spéculations, mais bien sur des technologies qui existent déjà à titre expérimental dans une poignée de laboratoires. Loin d'une compilation hasardeuse, ce livre est le fruit d'une colossale enquête auprès de 300 chercheurs de haut vol, afin de délimiter les frontières de la connaissance dans les domaines du calcul formel, de l'intelligence artificielle, de la physique quantique, de la médecine, des nanotechnologies, du spatial, etc. Fantastique conteur, Michio Kaku met en scène les dernières avancées de la science pour mieux nous surprendre, nous émerveiller - voire nous faire peur - par ses intuitions géniales, toutes compatibles avec les lois de la physique... actuellement connues ! " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Physics of the future.Un assassin blanc comme neige
Par Christian Bobin. 2011
" L'encre fraîche de Rimbaud tache mes doigts. Ses proses font trembler l'air au-dessus de la page comme sur une…
route fondue au soleil d'été. Je vais chercher mon pain, mes nuages et mes étoiles dans l'unique librairie du Creusot. L'acacia au bas de la rue du Guide surgit comme un donateur fou. Son haleine sent le miel et l'or. Toutes les fleurs se ruent vers nous en nous léguant de leur vivant leur couleur et leur innocence. Les contempler mène à la vie parfaite. Les anémones sont si crédules que même l'enfer leur donne raison. " -- 4e de couv.In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people – especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg,…
and Cree – travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with Queen Victoria, E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk poet and performer, and many others. 2017.Tout l'univers sur un tee-shirt: à la recherche d'une "théorie du tout"
Par Dan Falk, Benoît Patar, François D' Apollonia. 2005
L'univers est vaste et effrayant, disait Pascal. Il est aussi fascinant. Arriverons-nous un jour à le connaître jusqu'à pouvoir le…
résumer en une formule d'une concision parfaite ? Une formule si simple, si belle, si efficace qu'on pourrait l'imprimer sur un tee-shirt, avec le succès qu'on imagine ? Nous n'en sommes pas là, mais qui sait si les astrophysiciens, forts de leurs prédécesseurs, ne sont pas en quête de ce nouveau Graal de la science que serait une telle " Théorie du tout " ? Avec passion, le journaliste et vulgarisateur scientifique Dan Falk a mis ses pas dans ceux des plus grands savants de l'histoire pour nous aider à comprendre l'univers dans lequel nous vivons. Des philosophes de l'Antiquité à Einstein, en passant par Newton et Maxwell, de la toute récente théorie des cordes au défi que constitue aujourd'hui l'articulation de la relativité générale et de la physique quantique, le rêve de pouvoir un jour rendre compte de tout, et par conséquent de tout connaître, a animé ces boulimiques de la connaissance qui ont consacré leur vie à la philosophie et à la science. Le récit de leur quête est une épopée des plus fascinantes dont l'intrigue reste - heureusement - non résolue : parviendra-t-on un jour à la connaissance ultime de l'univers ou s'agit-il d'une féconde utopie, moteur de progrès ? 2005. Titre uniforme: Universe on a T-shirt.Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe: Essays On The Human Side Of Science
Par Alan P Lightman. 1984
This is an honour song: twenty years since the blockades, an anthology of writing on the "Oka crisis"
Par Leanne Simpson, Kiera L Ladner. 2010
A collection of narratives, poetry, and essays exploring the impact of the 1990 resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, otherwise known as the…
“Oka Crisis”. The book is written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, scholars, activists and traditional people, and is sung as an Honour Song celebrating the commitment, sacrifices and achievements of the Kanien’kehaka individuals and communities involved. c2010.They called me number one: secrets and survival at an Indian residential school
Par Bev Sellars. 2013
Like thousands of other Aboriginal children, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a…
church-run residential school. These institutions attempted to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only, not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family - from substance abuse to suicide attempts - and articulates her own path to healing. 2013.The white roots of peace: the Iroquois book of life
Par Paul A. W Wallace. 1993
The story of how one man united the five warring Iroquois nations - Mohawks, Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas and Onandagas -…
into a single confederacy over 500 years ago. Deganawidah, The Peacemaker, became the greatest of all spiritual leaders of the Iroquois. His work is preserved in the Confederacy's traditional constitution, and had a major impact in shaping the American Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.The universe from flat earth to quasar (Pelican Ser.)
Par Isaac Asimov. 1983
The noted scientist and science fiction author explores the exciting implications of black holes, taking the reader on an engaging…
tour from the atom's innermost core to the outermost reaches of the universe. 1983.The turning point: science, society, and the rising culture
Par Fritjof Capra. 1982
The physicist author contends that the mechanistic world view of Cartesian-Newtonian is outdated and dangerous in the modern world. He…
espouses a new holistic vision of reality more in keeping with our technological and social advances. 1982.A groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics…
to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes. Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman's overview of current research as we attempt to build a 'theory of everything', but also questions many of the assumptions that lie behind string theory. 2008.The spirit of Canada: Canada's Story In Legends, Fiction, Poems And Songs
Par Barbara Hehner. 1999
An anthology that celebrates Canada's life and times, filled with stories, songs, poems, and legends. Beginning with native creation myths,…
a cross-section of Canadian history follows, including the discovery of the New World, early settlement, and Confederation, as well as legends, humour, and multiculturalism. Highlights classic pieces, such as "In Flanders Fields" and "The Hockey Sweater", as well as hidden gems. For Grade 2 and up. 1999.The reconciliation manifesto: recovering the land, rebuilding the economy
Par Arthur Manuel, Ronald M Derrickson. 2017
Manuel and Grand Chief Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the…
steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable footing. They show how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous Peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate and distort the relationship. They review the current state of land claims, tackle the persistence of racism, and celebrate Indigenous Rights Movements while decrying the role of government-funded organizations like the Assembly of First Nations. They document the federal government's disregard for the substance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples while claiming to implement it. This will appeal to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who are open and willing to look at the real problems and find real solutions. Winner of the 2018 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. 2017.The quantum labyrinth: how Richard Feynman and John Wheeler revolutionized time and reality
Par Paul Halpern. 2017
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his…
teaching assistant. The soft-spoken Wheeler was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet a lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born that led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time and reality. 2017.The physics of hockey
Par Alain Haché. 2002
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play hockey, but consider this: the same universal principles that sent…
men to the moon also go into launching a slapshot, crashing into the boards, accelerating across the blue line, or cutting down a shooter's angle. The author, a physicist, explores and explains the science behind the game, including how a sharpened blade glides on ice, or why Bobby Hull's slapshot zipped through the atmosphere so much faster than his modern counterparts' did. Haché even includes explanations on how a Zamboni works. 2002.The portable Emerson
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
This selection of poetry and essays by Emerson includes: "The American scholar", his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society…
at Harvard; his controversial 1838 address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School; and his first published work, "Nature", which contains the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy. 1981.The Portable twentieth-century Russian reader
Par Clarence Brown. 2003
Clarence Brown's collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin,…
Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's "Petersburg", Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago", and Sasha Solokov's "A School for Fools"; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece "Envy"; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam. 2003.The Penguin Stephen Leacock
Par Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies. 1981
This collection from the beginning of the century ranges from observations about the absurdities of everyday life to fantastic stories…
such as that of A, B and C, that famous trio featured in mathematical problems. 1981.