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Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Adventure and exploration, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, World War I
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
On December 7, 1917, in the heart of the World War I, two ships collided in Halifax harbour. The resulting… explosion killed over 2,000 people and injured some 6,000 more. Macdonald presents the whole story of how the military, volunteers and ordinary citizens united to organize one of the most complex relief efforts in North American history. Descriptions of violence. 2005.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Home and garden, Science and technology
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
To prove that the most dangerous pollution comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces, Smith and Lourie ingested… and inhaled these items for one week. They expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people across the globe; they also describe the extent to which we are poisoned, from the simple household dust that is polluting our blood to the toxins in our urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste. c2009.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Home and garden
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Covers reasons to compost; differing approaches; how decomposition works; various methods, ingredients, and containers; how to speed decomposition; and how… to use the end result. The bibliography provides 14 other books on composting; a list of sources of composting supplies is also given. c1998.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
" S. Tesson décrit son voyage en side-car de Moscou à Paris, sur les traces de Napoléon, 200 ans, presque… jour pour jour, après la retraite de Russie. La débâcle tragique de l'armée française, les tourments des soldats, les étapes du parcours (Smolensk, Minsk, la Berezina, Vilnius, etc.) sont relatés. " -- 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Home and garden
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Harris - who has been an organic gardener since the 1960s - encourages the Canadian gardener to get back to… basics. With information updated for today's society, she shows how little use pesticides and chemicals are when making a lush and abundant garden. 2009.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), War, World War I
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
The failure of the Allied fleet to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston… Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, Churchill has been both praised and condemned for his role in launching this highly controversial campaign. For some, the Dardanelles offensive was a brilliant concept that might have dramatically shortened the First World War. To many others, however, Churchill was a reckless amateur who drove his unwilling and misinformed colleagues into a venture that was doomed to fail. 2017.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Home and garden
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the… soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything from flowers that keep time, to the strange gift of compost, to great gardens of the world, to things lost and found underground. 2011.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Home and garden
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Quelques principes scientifiques simples peuvent nous apprendre beaucoup sur les plantes et améliorer notre pratique du jardinage. Une fois que… l'on sait comment vivent et fonctionnent les plantes, il est en effet plus facile d'obtenir d'elles une meilleure croissance, une floraison plus importante ou de plus beaux fruits. Le lecteur trouvera dans ce livre des informations sur ce qui fait la qualité d'un sol, sur les besoins des plantes pour bien se développer, sur le processus de germination ou encore les mécanismes de défense face aux ravageurs et maladies diverses... Mais l'auteur ne se contente pas d'expliquer la vie cachée des plantes, elle raconte aux jardiniers comment mettre en pratique leurs nouvelles connaissances pour apporter aux plantes les soins les plus appropriés et créer de superbes jardins. 2015. Titre uniforme: Practical science for gardeners.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
War, World War I
Human-transcribed braille
"L'assassinat de François Ferdinand a déclenché le début des hostilités" "La guerre devait être courte" "Ce fut principalement une guerre… des tranchées" "Verdun, la boucherie" "Sans les États-Unis, la guerre aurait été perdue" "Toute une génération a été inutilement sacrifiée"... Issues de la tradition ou de l'air du temps, mêlant souvent vrai et faux, les idées reçues sont dans toutes les têtes. L'auteur les prend pour point de départ et apporte ici un éclairage distancié et approfondi sur ce que l'on sait ou croit savoir". -- 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Home and garden
Human-transcribed braille
[...] Le guide 175 questions-réponses sur les produits ménagers répond aux nombreuses questions que les consommateurs se posent sur les… produits qu'ils utilisent tous les jours. Les réponses, simples et précises, vous permettront de comprendre facilement les mécanismes biologiques et chimiques en oeuvre et de choisir vos produits en toute sécurité. Grâce à ce livre, vous saurez comprendre les étiquettes, faire les bons choix et contribuer à la sauvegarde de l'environnement tout en nettoyant efficacement! -- 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
Alix de Saint-André a pris trois fois la route de Compostelle. La première fois, elle est partie de Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, sur… le chemin français, avec un sac plein d'idées préconçues, qui se sont envolées une à une, au fil des étapes. La deuxième fois, elle a parcouru le chemin anglais depuis La Corogne, lors d'une année sainte mouvementée. L'ultime voyage fut le vrai voyage, celui que l'on doit faire en partant de chez soi. Des bords de Loire à Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, de paysages sublimes en banlieues sinistres, elle a rejoint le peuple des pèlerins qui se retrouvent sur le chemin, libérés de toute identité sociale, pour vivre à quatre kilomètres-heure une aventure humaine pleine de gaieté, d'amitié et de surprises... -- 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
Conçus comme un voyage en soi, les livres de la collection font découvrir un pays en entrant peu à peu… dans la vie quotidienne, à travers ce que l'on perçoit dès l'arrivée dans le pays ; l'histoire, racontée à travers les grands monuments ; les villes, décrites à travers des circuits, des trajets : itinéraires culturels, parcours culinaires, parcs et jardins, marchés... ; les paysages et les sites naturels, présentés de façon à mettre en valeur leurs aspects remarquables : mer, montagnes, îles, déserts ou volcans... ; les loisirs, les fêtes et la culture contemporaine, aident le lecteur à partager la vie des habitants. - 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle… of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, ghosts and foxes. Patrick Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain as he travels to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic. 2017.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
War, World War I
Human-transcribed braille
Allan Mallinson has written a new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of… what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. He explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer, its almost calamitous experience of the first 20 days' fighting in Flanders, and the point at which the BEF took up the pick and the spade in the middle of September 1914. 2013.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
War, World War I
Human-transcribed braille
The history of any war is more than a list of key battles, and Saul David shows vividly how the… First World War reached beyond the battlefield, touching upon events and lives which shaped the conduct and outcome of the conflict. Ranging from the young Adolf Hitler's reaction to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, through a Zeppelin raid on Scarborough, the tragic dramas of Gallipoli and the battlefields of the Western Front to the individual bravery of the first Indian VC, Saul David brings people and events dramatically to life. 2013.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Bestsellers (Non-fiction), War, World War I
Human-transcribed braille
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Germany had declared the… seas around Britain to be a war zone, but the captain of the "Lusitania", William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the "Lusitania" made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. Bestseller. 2015.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, 'Strands'… is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation. 2012.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the… British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world, a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations. 2013.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
War, World War I
Human-transcribed braille
In 'Catastrophe', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St.… Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalemates of later trench-warfare, but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age. 2013.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, European travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
This is a glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys. 2011.