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The mother of all baby books: an all-Canadian guide to your baby's first year
By Ann Douglas. 2001
The sequel to "The mother of all pregnancy books." Contains chapters on preparing for the early weeks of parenthood, getting…
to know your new baby, coping with the most common new parent worries, and much more. 2001.The rope in the water: a pilgrimage to India
By Sylvia Fraser. 2001
Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of "something larger than myself, something deeper, something more." Travelling 12,000 kilometres…
as a solitary traveler across deserts and through jungles, she visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges and the Golden Temple of the Sikhs; spends time with a Hindu sect up Mount Abu and meditates eleven hours a day for ten days in a Buddhist retreat while observing a vow of silence. 2001.The dolphin's tooth: a decade in search of adventure
By Bruce Kirkby. 2005
Stuck in an engineer's cubicle and tormented by doubts and boredom, Kirkby quit his job to bicycle the Karakoram Highway…
in northern Pakistan. Over the next fifteen years, he undertook some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer, including running Africa's Blue Nile Gorge, climbing Mount Everest, or learning to embrace the wilderness on the Tatshenshini River of Canada's Arctic. 2005.The prince of the marshes: and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
By Rory Stewart. 2006
British diplomat and author of "The Places In Between" describes his 2003 postwar work as deputy governor in the marshlands…
of southern Iraq. Details the hazards of keeping the peace among the Shia warlords while trying to rebuild the infrastructure. Strong language and some violence. 2006.Yet being someone other
By Laurens Van der Post. 1982
Learning to understand the Japanese has provided the author with his greatest spiritual joy and some of his most painful…
lessons in survival. The process has been spread over twenty years and between extremes of experience: a visit to Japan at the age of twenty in return for rescuing two Japanese visitors from severe embarrassment in a whites-only cafe in Durban, and then as a British colonel in the P.O.W. camps in Java for three and a half years. 1982.Y'a-t-il un parent dans la salle?
By Martyne Huot, Nathalie Schneider. 2006
"C'est rendu que je vois plus souvent mon boss que mes p'tits. Ça n'a pas de bon sens!" "Ça déborde…
au bureau. Ça déborde à la maison. Que faire?" "Je me sens tellement coupable quand je dois travailler le week-end..." Certains psychologues le prétendent, bien des médias le répètent ad nauseam, nombre de parents à bout de souffle le pensent aussi une conciliation travail-famille parfaite est tout simplement utopique. En fait, précise Martyne Huot, s'épanouir au boulot et à la maison n'est pas impossible. Il faut juste laisser tomber son aspiration à la perfection. Et se poser les bonnes questions. 2006.With the Kama Sutra under my arm: an Indian journey
By Patricia Bernard. 2006
Having been left for another, Trisha decides that the best way to nurse her broken heart is to escape to…
India, armed with a copy of the Kama. At the last minute, she is joined by her long lost backpacking companion, Sally. With her passion for architecture and history in her heart, and with the Kama Sutra under her arm, Trish Bernard takes us on a hilarious romp through India. 2006.Wisdom of our fathers: lessons and letters from daughters and sons
By Tim Russert. 2006
Collection of letters Russert received after publication of a memoir about his father, "Big Russ and Me". Includes correspondence from…
Americans recounting relationships with their fathers, along with Russert's interviews and memories. Recalls generational differences and relates ways fathers have passed on wisdom to their children. Bestseller. 2006.Where the Indus is young: a winter in Baltistan
By Dervla Murphy. 1977
The author travels through the gorges of Baltisan with her six-year-old daughter. The wanderer from Waterford is a citizen of…
the world in the widest sense and believes that in order to see how the other half lives it is essential to seek amongst those who are still uncontaminated by this half. 1977.When your child drives you crazy
By Eda J LeShan. 1985
Offers advice on how to decipher a child's behaviour to determine what is going on beneath the surface and suggests…
practical methods for handling specific behaviour, such as whining, nagging, biting and lying. 1985.What I talk about when I talk about running: a memoir
By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel. 2008
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year…
later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. 2008. Uniform title: Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto.National twins guru and founder of Twiniversity--and mother of twins herself--Natalie Diaz provides a no-holds-barred resource about life with twins,…
from pregnancy and birth all the way through your duo's first year of life. 2018.What did I do wrong?: mothers, children, guilt
By Lynn Caine. 1985
Interviews with thousands of mothers deplores the tendency of mothers to accept blame for what happens in their children's lives.…
Other factors include genes, fathers, health, school, peers, economics and luck. Some strong language. 1985.What do you really want for your children?
By Wayne W Dyer. 1985
We are soldiers still: a journey back to the battlefields of Vietnam
By Harold G Moore, Joseph L Galloway. 2008
Walking up & down in the world: memories of a mountain rambler
By Smoke Blanchard. 1985
A professional mountain guide who began his climbing career as a teenager in the depression years relates his many exciting…
adventures in the mountains of California, Alaska, the Yukon, and Nepal. Blanchard offers advice on equipment and technique and discusses the people he has met. 1985.Walking the Bible: a journey by land through the five books of Moses
By Bruce S Feiler. 2001
One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, author Feiler recounts a personal odyssey -…
by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel - to retrace the Five Books of Moses through the desert. Along with archaeologist Avner Goren, he treks through Turkey, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Sinai, and Jordan, visiting the actual places of some of history's most storied events, from the mountain where Noah's ark landed to the site of the legendary burning bush. 2001.Voyageur
By Pierre Graveline. 2014
" 1971. Rêvant depuis toujours de prendre son envol, un jeune homme de dix-neuf ans quitte le Québec et part…
sur les chemins aventureux du monde. Seul et désargenté, il se déplace au gré des hasards de la route et dort souvent à la belle étoile. En huit mois, il parcourt 36 000 kilomètres, traverse l'Europe, explore la Turquie, puis l'Iran, l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan, trois pays que les fous de Dieu ont désormais rendu inaccessibles, vagabonde en Inde et au Népal, à la rencontre des peuples de la terre, de leur histoire, de leur culture. Jour après jour, il observe le cirque éternel de la vie des hommes, et découvre étonné, captivé, troublé, linfinie, l'étrange, la sublime diversité de notre insensée humanité. En ces temps pourtant pas si lointains où la poste met des semaines à livrer une lettre d'un continent à l'autre, où les communications téléphoniques internationales ne sont accessibles qu'aux plus fortunés, où l'Internet n'a pas encore réduit la planète à une peau de chagrin, il est tout simplement, dans le merveilleux sens ancestral du terme, un voyageur. " -- 4e de couv.Votre enfant est-il trop sensible?: comment le comprendre, l'aider, l'aimer
By Janet Poland, Judith E Craig, Rosemarie Bélisle. 1997
Cet ouvrage montre que la trop grandesensibilité peut être gérée, modifiée et atténuée. Les auteures amènent le lecteur à découvrir…
les nombreux avantages qu'offre un tel tempérament, un don qu'il faut mettre à profit. Elles fournissent aux parents inquiets des points de repère pour favoriser l'éclosion des qualités potentielles de l'enfant. 1997.Villages
By Richard Critchfield. 1981
In the tradition of the traveler-storyteller-amateur anthropologist, an award-winning American journalist describes the Third World villages he experienced during the…
1970s. Among the countries he visited were Brazil, Morocco, Sudan, Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, India, Egypt, and China. 1981.