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Robert E. Lee: a Penguin life
Par Roy Blount. 2003
Cultural journalist and humourist with southern upbringing offers character insights on Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). Discusses…
Lee's background, the strengths and weaknesses of his military tactics, and his sense of honor. Appendixes explore Lee's sexuality, quirky humor, and attitude toward slavery. 2003Pregnant! what can I do?: a guide for teenagers
Par Tania Heller. 2002
Physician provides guidance for teenage women who become pregnant unintentionally. Offers suggestions for getting help, making the right decisions, and…
building a better future. Discusses pros and cons of parenthood, abortion, and adoption, and presents interviews with teens who chose each option. For senior high and older readers. 2002Martha Washington: first lady of liberty
Par Helen Bryan. 2002
Presents the life of the first United States president's wife, Martha Washington (1731-1802), in the social, political, and economic context…
of early America, especially colonial Virginia. The chronicle depicts Martha as her husband's "active, indispensable partner," who "commanded respect in her own right," and reflects her instrumental role in George's success. 2002La difficulté de vivre (Collection "Leur vie")
Par Françoise Dolto. 1986
Recueil de vingt textes déjà parus dans des revues ou des livres. L'auteure a une longue expérience comme psychanalyste d'enfants.…
L'ouvrage est moins un livre sur la psychanalyse des enfants que sur des aspects de la psychologie de l'enfant. On y trouve des réflexions, des informations, des analyses de cas, des conseils sur la psychologie des enfants et sur la façon de vivre avec eux. [SDMHeart and soul: the story of Florence Nightingale
Par Gena K Gorrell. 2000
Biography of the nineteenth-century British nurse. Although born into a wealthy family, Nightingale elected to dedicate herself to relieving suffering.…
Discusses her privileged childhood, choice of profession, field work during the Crimean War, and contributions to medical care. For grades 5-8. 2000"De nombreux enfants sont atteints de troubles tels que le trouble du déficit de l'attention avec ou sans hyperactivité, les…
troubles d'apprentissage ou les troubles anxieux. Un fait est toutefois moins connu : la concomitance des troubles constitue la norme et non l'exception. Les parents, les enseignants et les professionnels doivent donc souvent apprendre à intervenir auprès de l'enfant en difficulté en tenant compte d'un nombre considérable de facteurs. Cet ouvrage, facile à consulter, présente les causes, les symptômes et le traitement des troubles de façon claire et accessible. Le lecteur peut en outre y trouver des conseils précis et efficaces, après avoir découvert les principes généraux de l'évaluation et de l'intervention dans les premiers chapitres. Écrit sur un ton réaliste mais amusant, cet ouvrage s'avère un guide incontournable pour tous ceux qui cherchent à améliorer la qualité de vie d'enfants atteints de troubles multiples". -- 4e de couvBokassa 1er, [un empereur français: Un Empereur Francais
Par Géraldine Smith. 2000
Cette biographie fut amorcée en 1993, lorsque l'auteure fut la seule journaliste à avoir obtenu une interview exclusive à la…
sortie de prison du personnage, traduite par une semaine d'entretiens. Elle est la première véritable biographie sérieuse basée sur 93 témoins privilégiés de la vie de Bokassa. Elle raconte un destin exceptionnel, l'histoire d'un indigène devenu enfant de troupe qui s'est hissé jusqu'au rang d'empereur, mais elle constitue aussi une enquête minutieuse sur les ambiguïtés et la familiarité des relations franco-africaines. Entre autres, les intrigues et les magouilles politiques comme l'affaire des diamants. [SDMDyslexie: une vraie-fausse épidémie (Noir #379)
Par Colette Ouzilou. 2001
L'auteur porte un regard nouveau sur la dyslexie et pointe du doigt la confusion faite entre mauvais lecteurs et dyslexiques.…
Elle dénonce certaines pratiques scolaires qui s'avèrent très sélectives et propose des voies pédagogiques préventives. Un livre qui s'adresse aussi bien aux enseignants qu'aux parents qui veulent lutter contre l'échec de l'enfant dès le cours primaireLa chimie féminine: pour et contre les hormones
Par René Frydman. 2006
Ce livre est un livre pour les femmes, toutes les femmes. Contraception, traitement (le la stérilité, traitement de la ménopause…
: la vie des femmes va être rythmée par les hormones. Peut-on prendre des hormones sans risque toute sa vie ? La pilule favorise-t-elle le cancer ou les maladies cardio-vasculaires? La fécondation in vitro est-elle sans complication pour les femmes et leurs enfants ? Toutes les femmes peuvent-elles prendre un traitement pour la ménopause ? Lequel et pendant combien de temps? Faut-il avoir peur des traitements hormonaux? Les professeurs René Frydman et Philippe Bouchard font le point sur les connaissances actuelles et prodiguent leurs meilleurs conseils, pour que chaque femme puisse maîtriser sa fertilité, son bien-être et participer aux décisions qui la concernent. -- 4e de couvA groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short…
union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn. Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his country forever. John Guy and Julia Fox, two of the most acclaimed and distinguished historians of this period, have joined forces to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways. By closely examining the most recent archival discoveries, and peeling back layers of historical myth and misinterpretation and distortion, Guy and Fox are able to set Anne and Henry's tragic relationship against the major international events of the time, and integrate and reinterpret sources hidden in plain sight or simply misunderstood. Among other things, they dispel lingering and latently misogynistic assumptions about Anne which anachronistically presumed that a sixteenth-century woman, even a queen, could exert little to no influence on the politics and beliefs of a patriarchal society. They reveal how, in fact, Anne was a shrewd, if ruthless, politician in her own right, a woman who steered Henry and his policies, often against the advice he received from his male advisers—and whom Henry seriously contemplated making joint sovereign. Hunting the Falcon sets the facts–and some completely new finds–into a far wider frame, providing an appreciation of this misunderstood and underestimated woman. It explores how Anne organized her "side" of the royal court on novel and (in male eyes) subversive lines compared to her queenly predecessors, adopting instead French protocol by which the sexes mingled freely in her private chambers. Men could share in the women's often sexually charged courtly "pastimes" and had liberal access to Anne, and she to them—encounters from which she gained much of her political intelligence and extended her authority, and which also sowed the seeds of her own downfall. An exhilarating feat of historical research and analysis, Hunting the Falcon is also a thrilling and tragic story of a marriage that has proved of enduring fascination over the centuries. But in the hands of John Guy and Julia Fox, even the most knowledgeable reader will encounter this story as if for the first timeJours de femme au quotidien (La Santé au quotidien #10)
Par Anne Kervasdoué. 1992
La ménopause et le remplacement hormonal
Par Marie-Andrée Champagne. 1995
"Qu'est-ce que les hormones? Quel rôle jouent-elles dans notre vie? Qu'est-ce qui se passe dans notre corps à l'étape de…
la ménopause? Autant de questions auxquelles l'auteur, médecin, répond afin d'offrir une information à jour et complète à toutes les femmes." [SDMComment l'aider à-- se calmer et se concentrer (Comment l'aider à--)
Par Catherine Jousselme. 2008
"Dans un monde de plus en plus bruyant et excitant, les enfants sont soumis à un excès de stimulations. L'agitation…
qui en résulte est souvent confondue avec de l'hyperactivité. Or les enfants qui "débordent" ont besoin de se sentir enveloppés, retenus et protégés. Ce sont les parents qui vont remplir ce rôle. Il est important de favoriser des moments de silence et de calme pour que les enfants puissent se construire. Quant à la véritable hyperactivité et son cortège de symptômes (impulsivité, difficultés scolaires et relationnelles...), il convient de s'interroger sur ses causes au lieu de privilégier spontanément une approche tout-médicament". -- 4e de couvMona: Tome 2, Je t'aime la vie
Par Ginette Bureau. 1985
De rémission en rémission, jusqu'à quand est-il permis d'espérer? Ce récit, comme l'écrit le médecin traitant de la petite leucémique,…
donne au lecteur une idée des problèmes d'une famille avec un enfant atteint d'une maladie grave. Lecture émouvante, éprouvante. Une grande sincérité. Il existe sur le sujet bon nombre de récits plus ou moins romancés. Mona se passe au Québec, d'où son intérêt particulier. Cette histoire a inspiré le téléfilm intitulé Le Jardin d'Anna, qui réunit les deux volets de Mona. [SDMLa métamorphose: mes treize années chez Bruno Bettelheim
Par Stephen Eliot. 2002
"Comment devenir un homme quand on grandit dans une institution pour malades mentaux?". L'auteur, ancien patient de l'Ecole orthogénique de…
Chicago, fondée par Bruno Bettelheim, offre ici un témoignage unique sur la vie quotidienne dans ce microcosme, côtoyant chaque jour le célèbre docteur, les soignants, et bien sûr les autres enfantsNature champions (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
Par Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. 2023
Lives of the wives: Five literary marriages
Par Carmela Ciuraru. 2023
"The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have…
to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about."—Francine Prose, author of The Vixen A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of money, power, and fame in these complex and fascinating relationships. "With an ego the size of a small nation, the literary lion is powerful on the page, but a helpless kitten in daily life—dependent on his wife to fold an umbrella, answer the phone, or lick a stamp." The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, ruthless ambition, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it's easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy, short-lived, and mutually destructive. "It's been my experience," as the critic and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote, "that nobody holds a man's brutality to his wife against him." Literary wives are a unique breed, requiring a particular kind of fortitude. Author Carmela Ciuraru shares the stories of five literary marriages, exposing the misery behind closed doors. The legendary British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan encouraged his American wife, Elaine Dundy, to write, then watched in a jealous rage as she became a bestselling author and critical success. In the early years of their marriage, Roald Dahl enjoyed basking in the glow of his glamorous movie star wife, Patricia Neal, until he detested her for being the breadwinner, and being more famous than he was. Elizabeth Jane Howard had to divorce Kingsley Amis to escape his suffocating needs and devote herself to her own writing. ("I really couldn't write very much when I was married to him," she once recalled, "because I had a very large household to keep up and Kingsley wasn't one to boil an egg, if you know what I mean.") Surprisingly, the most traditional partnership in Lives of the Wives is a lesbian couple, Una Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall, both of whom were socially and politically conservative and unapologetic snobs. As this erudite and entertaining work shows, each marriage is a unique story, filled with struggles and triumphs and the negotiation of power. The Italian novelists Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia were never sexually compatible, and it was Morante who often behaved abusively toward her cool, detached husband, even as he unwaveringly admired his wife's talents and championed her work. Theirs was an unhappy union, yet it fueled them creatively and enabled both to become two of Italy's most important postwar writers. These are stories of vulnerability, loneliness, infidelity, envy, sorrow, abandonment, heartbreak, and forgiveness. Above all, Lives of the Wives honors the women who have played the role of muses, agents, editors, proofreaders, housekeepers, gatekeepers, amaneunses, confidantes, and cheerleaders to literary trailblazers throughout history. In revisiting the lives of famous writers, it is time in our #MeToo era to highlight the achievements of their wives—and the price these women paid for recognition and freedom. Lives of the Wives is an insightful, humorous, and poignant exploration of the intersection of life and art and creativity and loveDk life stories: Anne frank (DK Life Stories)
Par Stephen Krensky. 2020
Learn all about Anne Frank and her world-famous diary in this children's biography. In this biography, discover the incredible story…
of Anne Frank, the courageous young writer who hid from the Nazis during World War II. Anne Frank's diary is read by children and adults worldwide. It tells two stories: one of an extraordinary young girl living in hiding during one of the most fearsome times in history, and one of a relatable young girl facing the same questions and troubles that kids come up against today. Learn how both sides of this puzzle made up the person who is Anne Frank. Meet her family and friends, explore "The Annex" where they hid, and see her story put in historical context alongside information about World War II and the Holocaust, and Hitler and Nazi Germany. This new biography series from DK goes beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting people. An age-appropriate text to create an engaging audiobook children will enjoy listening to. This is the one biography series everyone will want to collect. © 2019 Stephen Krensky © 2020 DK AudioCatherine Girard-Audet (Raconte-moi #54)
Par Hélène Gagnon. 2023
L'enfance de Catherine se passe dans le bonheur auprès de sa famille. Introvertie et passionnée par la lecture, elle se…
sent comblée avec son chien Pollux, Annie, sa best, et Pilu, son amie imaginaire. Au secondaire, tout bascule. L'intimidation et le placotage derrière son dos sont au rendez-vous. Rien ne va plus ! Catherine pleure et se réfugie dans son journal intime. Puis, un changement d'école illumine à nouveau sa vie. L'amour, les amitiés et les voyages forment la jeune femme qu'elle devient. Son diplôme universitaire en poche, Catherine est loin de se douter qu'un jour, elle imaginera un personnage qu'elle baptisera Léa Olivier et qui fera d'elle une auteure des plus populairesPassionate mothers, powerful sons: The lives of jennie jerome churchill and sara delano roosevelt
Par Charlotte Gray. 2023
A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian…
Charlotte Gray. Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicentre of political power on two continents. In the mid-19th century, the British Empire was at its height, France's Second Empire flourished, and the industrial vigor of the United States of America was catapulting the republic towards the Gilded Age. Sara and Jennie, raised with privilege but subject to the constraints of women's roles at the time, learned how to take control of their destinies—Sara in the prosperous Hudson Valley, and Jennie in the glittering world of Imperial London. Yet their personalities and choices were dramatically different. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Her deft social and political maneuverings helped not only her mercurial husband but, once she was widowed, her ambitious son, Winston. By contrast, deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. But once widowed, she made Franklin, her only child, the focus of her existence. Thanks in large part to her financial support and to her guidance, Franklin acquired the skills he needed to become a successful politician. Set against one hundred years of history, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a study in loyalty and resilience. Gray argues that Jennie and Sara are too often presented as lesser figures in the backdrop of history rather than as two remarkable individuals who were key in shaping the characters of the sons who adored them and in preparing them for leadership on the world stage. Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons breathes new life into Sara and Jennie, offering a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made