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By Etty Hillesum, Philippe Noble. 1995
A Amsterdam, une femme juive de 27 ans tient un journal et y consigne ce que vont être les dernières…
expériences de sa vie. Un bel exemple d'altruisme absolu, de développement personnel et de libération spirituelle, dans des conditions plus que précaires. 1995. Titre uniforme: Het verstoorde leven ; Het denkende hart van de barak.By Rachel Sherman. 2017
A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society. From TV's "real…
housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing and displaying social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. These New Yorkers also want to see themselves as hard workers who give back and raise children with good values, and they avoid talking about money. Although their experiences differ depending on a range of factors, including whether their wealth was earned or inherited, these elites generally depict themselves as productive and prudent, and therefore morally worthy, while the undeserving rich are lazy, ostentatious, and snobbish. Sherman argues that this ethical distinction between "good" and "bad" wealthy people characterizes American culture more broadly, and that it perpetuates rather than challenges economic inequality. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the real lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us. 2017.By Pierre Day. 1991
By Alice Parizeau. 1991
By Gilles Archambault, Marc Robitaille. 2000
Un collectif rend ici hommage au hockey d'antan. Les auteurs dont plusieurs sont des personnalités québécoises racontent leurs souvenirs d'enfance,…
représentant les valeurs sociales de ce sport: contact humain, réconfort, refuge, prétexte, catalyseur, soupape, rêves de gloire, objet de discussions animées. 2000.By Roger Payette, Jean-François Payette. 2015
" En analysant trois oeuvres québécoises majeures à savoir Un homme et son péché de Claude-Henri Grignon, Les Belles-soeurs de…
Michel Tremblay et La Petite Vie de Claude Meunier les auteurs passent en revue les éléments socioculturels qui façonnent la définition que les Québécois se donnent d'eux-mêmes comme collectivité et qui transforment leur culture nationale, pourtant si féconde, en une fabrique de servitude. Après avoir analysé les sources de cet assujettissement et ses conséquences douloureuses, les auteurs proposent une démarche d'affranchissement afin que le peuple prenne sa vie collective en main en s'appropriant un agir qui lui permettra de se rétablir dans le bonheur authentique de collaborer à la construction d'un monde commun. " -- 4e de couv.By Joseph Facal. 2011
A l'occasion d'une année sabbatique où il a enseigné à l'université Carolo III de Madrid, Joseph Facal s'est installé avec…
toute sa famille en Espagne. L'auteur y note des réflexions très libres, inspirées par l'actualité et par sa découverte de la vie espagnole. Il s'intéresse aussi bien à la tauromachie qu'au nationalisme catalan, aussi bien au renouveau urbain de Barcelone et de Bilbao qu'aux conséquences de la crise financière sur la vie des Espagnols. Agréable à lire, comme un journal de voyage, cet ouvrage donne aussi sur la réflexion de la société québécoise à partir d'un point de vue extérieur. 2011.By Rosemary Bray McNatt. 1998
Autobiography of a successful writer who grew up in the Chicago slums and later attended Yale University. Bray laments that…
welfare has been reformed and will no longer create opportunities for people to achieve. Uses her family as an example of how welfare helps impoverished women stay home and care for their children. 1998.By Alys Robi. 1990
Alys Robi raconte, avec une franchise bouleversante, les cinq années d'enfer qu'elle a passées dans un institut psychiatrique. Du jour…
au lendemain, la première grande star du Québec que Hollywood s'arrachait déjà, a vu basculer son destin à la suite d'un terrible accident d'automobile. 1990.By Gilles Archambault. 1993
"Quand une personne meurt, elle emporte avec elle tant de secrets qu'elle apparaît avec le temps comme de plus en…
plus impénétrable. Ma mère est morte l'automne dernier. Elle s'en est allée avec une partie de ma mémoire". Un récit qui se lit comme une bouleversante confidence. 1993.By Vikram Seth. 2005
Author of "A Suitable Boy" (DC13732) writes about his great-uncle, an Indian dentist, and the uncle's German Jewish wife. Portrays…
the couple's meeting in Berlin before World War II, their wartime losses and migrations, postwar marriage, and his own years living with them in England in the 1970s. Some descriptions of violence. 2005.By Lawrence Hill. 1993
An historian provides an overview of the people and events in Canadian Black history from the earliest days to the…
present. He talks about slavery in Canada, African-Canadian settlers and immigrants, black churches and schools, immigration from the Caribbean, and black contributions in Canada. c1993.By Ruth Minsky Sender. 1988
This autobiography begins with the author's liberation from Auschwitz and concludes with her arrival in the United States in 1950.…
After the war, Jewish survivors continued to suffer discrimination from local Germans and Russian soldiers. Sequel to "The cage". For junior and senior high readers. c1988.By Tristan Demers. 2010
L'histoire d'amour entre Tintin et les jeunes lecteurs québécois a commencé bien avant qu'Hergé ne foule pour la première fois…
le sol américain, en 1965. Lors de son séjours au Québec, des milliers d'admirateurs se pressent autour de lui et, réciproquement, Hergé ressent d'emblée pour ce pays une sympathie profonde. Cet ouvrage à l'allure de journal retrace le voyage d'Hergé à Montréal, Québec et Manicouagan. Salon du Livre : Lauréat volet Vie pratique 2011. 2010.By Mordecai Richler. 1994
Richler's memoir and travelogue explores the question of what it means to be a Jew living outside of Israel. It…
focuses on two of his journeys to his homeland: one as a teenage Zionist in the years leading up to the creation of Israel in 1948; the other as a Diaspora Jew in his 60s comparing himself to the Israelis who were once his teenage friends in Montreal. Some strong language. 1994.By Sidney Poitier. 1980
By Judy Fong Bates. 2010
Growing up in her father's hand laundry in small town Ontario, Fong Bates listened to stories of her parents' past…
lives in China, a place far removed from their every-day life of poverty and misery. But in spite of the allure of these stories, Fong Bates longed to be a Canadian girl. Fifty years later she finally went back to her ancestral home in China for a reunion that spiralled into a series of unanticipated discoveries. Some descriptions of violence. Canada Reads 2012. c2010.By Tepilit Ole Saitoti. 1986
The author's life story from his birth into a traditional society in Tanzania in 1949, through his education in a…
mission school and initiation as a warrior to his career as a game park guide and ranger. c1986.By James W. St. G Walker. 1984
This examination of immigration from the West Indies to Canada begins with a background history of the West Indies, including…
the importation of African slaves, and discusses immigration to Canada from the 18th century to the present. Includes population statistics and suggestions for further reading. 1984.By Isabel Wilkerson. 2010
Chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South…
for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Bestseller. 2010.