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Disabilities, Blindness and visual impairment, Eye-related medical conditions
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Second edition of guidebook suggests strategies to compensate for declining vision. Provides tips for organizing one's home; dealing with financial,…
personal, and legal affairs; and maximizing one's independence. Lists technological devices available and organizations and businesses that offer assistance. 2011
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Disabilities, Science and medicine biography, Eye-related medical conditions, Women biography
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Kear, diagnosed at age nineteen with retinitis pigmentosa, shares her struggles with acceptance of the condition and the risks and…
adventures she engaged in during her twenties. Describes falling in love and having children, and how she focused on them before admitting to having RP. Strong language. 2014
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Health and medicine, Blindness and visual impairment, Diabetes, Eye-related medical conditions
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Retina specialists and authors of Macular Degeneration (DB 74495) describe diabetic retinopathy, a potential problem for people with diabetes. Discuss…
its development, treatment options and ways to slow its progress, and lifestyle changes that lead to better glucose control. Offer advice on coping with visual impairment. 2014
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Biography, Health and medicine, Journals and memoirs, Science and medicine biography, Religious biography, Medicine, Eye-related medical conditions
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Middle-aged essayist describes the two years from 2009 to 2011 that she spent in the "land of the sick," searching…
for a diagnosis and treatment for her inflamed optic nerve. Also describes her spiritual disorientation in this companion to Things Seen and Unseen (DB 49806). 2013
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Disabilities, Health and medicine, Journals and memoirs, Science and medicine biography, General non-fiction, Eye-related medical conditions, History
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The late coauthor of Three Cups of Tea (DB 64285) describes following ophthalmologists Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit as they…
performed eye surgeries in rural Nepal. Discusses the 1995 founding of the Himalayan Cataract Project to prevent blindness in the Third World. 2013
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Biography of persons with disabilities, Disabilities, Adventurers and explorers, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Literature biography, General non-fiction, Criticism, Eye-related medical conditions
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Memoir of Scottish novelist McWilliam, who became functionally blind in 2006 because of the involuntary closing of her eyelids from…
a condition known as blepharospasm. McWilliam reviews her life, describes undergoing a two-part operation to restore her vision, and explores a possible psychological basis for her sightlessness. Strong language. 2010
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Indigenous peoples in Canada, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Canadian biography
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Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers. Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not…
know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders’ school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair and force her to do menial chores, but she remains undaunted. Her tenacity draws the attention of a black-cloaked nun who tries to break her spirit at every turn. But the young girl is more determined than ever to learn how to read. Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by stunning illustrations, When I Was Eight makes the bestselling Fatty Legs accessible to younger readers. Now they, too, can meet this remarkable girl who reminds us what power we hold when we can read.Available copies:
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Indigenous peoples biography, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Il existe dans chaque famille des histoires qui laissent des traces pour des générations. Des micromythes qui ne sortent pas…
de la microcellule familiale. Qu'on entretient un peu comme... comme le feu d'un poêle à combustion lente : une bûche de temps en temps.Mononk Jules reconstitue le parcours de Jules Sioui, un Wendat qui a bousculé l'Histoire canadienne avant de sombrer dans un énorme trou de mémoire familial et historique. Dans sa tentative de comprendre comment s'écrit l'Histoire (ou comment elle ne s'écrit pas) l'auteur se retrouve, malgré lui, face à un colosse aux pieds d'argile. Comédien, dramaturge et marionnettiste, Jocelyn Sioui tire ici sur les petits et grands fils de l'histoire de cet énigmatique grand-oncle, héros autochtone du 20e siècle.
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Indigenous peoples history, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Essays
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Auassat – « les enfants », en innu – dévoile un chapitre ignoré de nos relations avec les Premières Nations,…
une histoire terrible qui explique les traumatismes transmis d’une génération à l’autre, jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Au début des années 1970, des enfants autochtones sont disparus après avoir été envoyés à l’hôpital pour y être soignés sans leurs parents. Certains, déclarés morts alors qu’ils ne l’étaient pas, ont été adoptés. Plusieurs ont perdu la vie sans que leurs proches en aient été avertis. Encore aujourd’hui, les familles cherchent ces enfants qui n’ont jamais été oubliés.
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Disabilities, Health and medicine, Medicine, Eye-related medical conditions
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A retina specialist answers questions about the causes, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related wet and dry macular degeneration.…
Includes patient commentary and discusses the future possibilities of research trials. 2010
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Disabilities, Biography of persons with disabilities, Eye-related medical conditions
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In this expanded and revised edition, the author discusses blindness
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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Literature biography, Eye-related medical conditions, Psychology, Self help
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A high level radio news broadcast exec at the top of his career, Art awoke at a resort near Santa…
Fe, New Mexico, unable to see. Art's refusal to give up and his struggle to live life to the fullest is inspiring. His story is compelling in demonstrating courage, compassion, and resilience in the face of tragedy
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Indigenous peoples in Canada, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian politics and government, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Social issues
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The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root…
cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.
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Indigenous peoples in Canada, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian politics and government, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Social issues
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The Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal…
youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens.
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Indigenous peoples in Canada, Canadian history
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[...] je ne peux m’empêcher de me demander si l’omission de révéler et d’enseigner les horreurs commises par les ancêtres…
des Américains et des Canadiens caucasiens contre les peuples des Premières Nations d’Amérique du Nord [...] est une dissimulation intentionnelle ou une indication que ces personnes gardent toujours à l’esprit la notion que la vie d’une personne des Premières Nations n’a aucune valeur. » - Extrait de l’épilogue, Daniel Paul Première traduction en français du célèbre livre de Daniel Paul, We were not the savages (Fernwood Publishing). Paru pour la première fois en 1993, ce premier livre d’historiographie autochtone en est à sa 3e édition, et incorpore les recherches continues de l’auteur. Il montre clairement que les horreurs de l’histoire continuent de hanter les Premières Nations aujourd’hui... mais aussi tous.tes les Canadien.nes.
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Indigenous peoples in Canada, Journals and memoirs, Indigenous peoples biography
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"Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to…
the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read."—Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian and SufferanceA prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and Indigenous peoples and the power of narrative to emphasize truth over comfort.Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples. Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian--a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente's understanding of what it means to be a modern Indigenous person in a society still overwhelmingly colonial in its attitudes and institutions. As the child of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, Wente grew up in Toronto with frequent visits to the reserve where his maternal relations lived. By exploring his family's history, including his grandmother's experience in residential school, and citing his own frequent incidents of racial profiling by police who'd stop him on the streets, Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him. Wente analyzes and gives voice to the differences between Hollywood portrayals of Indigenous peoples and lived culture. Through the lens of art, pop culture, and personal stories, and with disarming humour, he links his love of baseball and movies to such issues as cultural appropriation, Indigenous representation and identity, and Indigenous narrative sovereignty. Indeed, he argues that storytelling in all its forms is one of Indigenous peoples' best weapons in the fight to reclaim their rightful place.Wente explores and exposes the lies that Canada tells itself, unravels "the two founding nations" myth, and insists that the notion of "reconciliation" is not a realistic path forward. Peace between First Nations and the state of Canada can't be recovered through reconciliation--because no such relationship ever existed.
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Disabilities, Health and medicine, Science and technology, Biography of persons with disabilities, Medicine, Science and medicine biography, Journals and memoirs, Eye-related medical conditions
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Neuroscientist explains that even after childhood surgery for strabismus, she had no depth perception. Recalls being unaware, despite her scientific…
training, that vision therapy could train her to use both eyes simultaneously. Describes the ocular exercise regimen given her by optometrist Theresa Ruggiero and her emotions upon experiencing stereopsis. 2009
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Indigenous peoples history, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Une réponse à la grande énigme : pourquoi les populations autochtones d’Hochelaga ont-elles disparu entre l’arrivée de Cartier et celle…
de Champlain? Ce livre, qui prend souvent les allures d’une incomparable « enquête policière », constitue la première et remarquable synthèse de l’histoire de Montréal au XVIe siècle, à la fois savante et accessible. Un essai scientifique captivant pour qui s’intéresse aux communautés autochtones.
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Nature, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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A board book about the importance of Nibi, which means water in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), and our role to thank, respect,…
love, and protect it. Written from an Anishinaabe water protector's perspective, the book is in dual language--English and Anishinaabemowin. Babies and toddlers can follow Nibi as it rains and snows, splashes or rows, drips and sips
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Indigenous peoples in Canada
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Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers. Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not…
know how to read. Ignoring her father's warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders' school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair and force her to do menial chores, but she remains undaunted. Her tenacity draws the attention of a black-cloaked nun who tries to break her spirit at every turn. But the young girl is more determined than ever to learn how to read. Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by stunning illustrations, When I Was Eight makes the bestselling Fatty Legs accessible to younger readers. Now they, too, can meet this remarkable girl who reminds us what power we hold when we can read