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Disarming Iraq
By Hans Blix. 2004
Blix reluctantly came out of retirement in 2000 to lead the U.N. weapons inspections team in Iraq because he was…
the only man everyone could agree on for the job. Three years later, those clamouring for military intervention grumbled at his inability (or, as they saw it, refusal) to present evidence of weapons of mass destruction, but he reminds readers that his assignment was to assess and report on the available evidence. A play-by-play account of the months of diplomacy and inspection efforts leading up to the Iraq war. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.China hands
By Charles Taylor. 1984
Charles Taylor, a former Peking correspondent, has selected reports from the last 25 years to provide a first-hand account of…
this dramatic period in Chinese history. 1984. Uniform title: The Globe and mail.Chen Village: the recent history of a peasant community in Mao's China
By Richard Madsen, Anita Chan, Jonathan Unger. 1984
Chinese lives: an oral history of contemporary China
By Hsin-Hsin Chang, Ye Sang, W. J. F Jenner. 1987
Includes interviews with 60 Chinese people from every walk of life: a 13-year-old street vendor; a pop singer; gold miners;…
bus conductors; ex-Red Guards; and a woman who was sold into prostitution in Shanghai in the 1930s. Some descriptions of sex. 1987.Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918
By Peter Balakian, Grigoris Palakʻean, Aris G Sevag. 2010
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople's Armenian community. It was…
the beginning of the Ottoman Empire's systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey--a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. 2010. Uniform title: Hay goghgotʻan.All the Shah's men: an American coup and the roots of Middle East terror
By Stephen Kinzer. 2003
Chronicles the August 1953 CIA-led coup in Iran that overthrew the democratic government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Describes the…
events that led to the takeover and the "catastrophic effects" that eventually resulted in the 1979 overthrow of the Shah by Islamic radicals. 2003.Adventures on the ancient Silk Road
By Priscilla Galloway, Dawn Hunter. 2009
Presents accounts of three explorers who journeyed on the Silk Road: Xuanzang, a seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim from China; Genghis Khan,…
the early-thirteenth-century Mongolian conqueror; and Marco Polo, the late-thirteenth-century Venetian merchant who traveled to the Chinese court. Includes cultural facts about places along the various routes. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction. 2009.Aids to independence: a guide to products for the disabled and the elderly (Self-counsel series)
By Irene Crawford. 1985
A history of the Middle East
By Peter Mansfield. 2009
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book, fully updated…
to 2009, follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence of modern nations, the Palestinian question, and Islamic resurgence. 2009.30 lessons for living: tried and true advice from the wisest Americans (Your coach in a box)
By Karl A Pillemer. 2011
Pillemer interviewed more than 1,000 Americans over the age of 65 about issues like children, marriage, money, and careers, finding…
time and again their answers pointed to the same set of essential lessons. Here, he delivers the personal stories and challenges overcome that led to their hard-won knowledge and sage advice. 2011.1421: the year China discovered America
By Gavin Menzies. 2004
Former British submariner and amateur historian theorizes that the Chinese under the third Ming emperor Zhu Di explored Antarctica, Australia,…
and the Americas decades before the Europeans. Speculates that the emperor's eunuch admirals circumnavigated the globe between 1421 and 1423. 2002.Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan
By Michael Griffin. 2001
Griffin chronicles the rise of the Taliban from their first appearance in 1994, examines their place in the context of…
Afghanistan's political instability, and discusses the significance of their brand of Islamic fundamentalism. 2001.The island of seven cities: the discovery of a lost Chinese settlement in the Americas
By Paul Chiasson. 2006
2002. Architect Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain on Cape Breton and found an old wide, well-made road, once flanked by…
walls. After two years of study, he believed that these ruins were originally built by the Chinese, as part of a large colony that thrived on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery. Chiasson addresses how the colony was abandoned and forgotten except in the storytelling and culture of the Mi'kmaq, whose written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs and legends expose deep cultural roots in China. 2006.The book of life: one man's search for the wisdom of age
By Andrew Jackson. 2000
Jackson quit his job to travel the world with his wife, meet the oldest people alive and imbibe some of…
their knowledge. He describes nonagenarians and centenarians in Slovakia, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, America, Ecuador and Bolivia. In their meetings with the aged, they explore the changing world and the peaceful demeanour which has helped these survivors to live into their dotage. 2000.Le mas des alouettes: il était une fois en Arménie : [récit] ((Points).)
By Antonia Arslan, Nathalie Bauer. 2007
[...] En racontant l'histoire de son grand-oncle Sempad et de sa famille pendant le génocide arménien, Antonia Arslan écrit la…
chronique passionnante d'une des plus grandes tragédies du XXe siècle. Porté par une langue chatoyante qui rend hommage à la littérature populaire arménienne, un livre pudique, intense et émouvant. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: La masseria delle allodole.Les honorables visiteurs: récits ((Série japonaise))
By Donald Richie, Pascale Renaud-Grosbras. 2006
"Dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, après deux cents ans de fermeture presque totale, le Japon fut contraint d'ouvrir…
ses frontières. Depuis, les voyageurs occidentaux n'ont cessé de s'étonner des particularités de cette exotique petite nation insulaire qui les accueillit tantôt avec égards, tantôt avec méfiance, en multipliant souvent les malentendus. Donald Richie a choisi d'évoquer de manière littéraire et originale les relations complexes entre Japon et Occident. En une douzaine de portraits savoureux et souvent cocasses, il retrace les expériences, les impressions et les incompréhensions de touristes prestigieux depuis plus d'un siècle, de Pierre Loti à Marguerite Yourcenar, en passant par Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau ou Truman Capote. On visitera ainsi le Hokkaidô à dos d'Aïnou en compagnie de l'Anglaise Isabella Bird, on verra Pierre Loti prendre femme comme on achète un bonzaï, on découvrira que Charlie Chaplin échappa de peu à un attentat fomenté par l'extrême droite nationaliste et on suivra l'initiation de William Faulkner aux vertus du saké..." -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The honorable visitors.Voyage au pays d'Al-Qaïda: une femme dans la guerre
By Sara Daniel. 2006
"Ce livre est un journal de guerre. Récit personnel, témoignage engagé, ce texte est écrit par une journaliste qui, bien…
que mère d'une petite fille de deux ans, décide de partir en Irak dès le déclenchement de la guerre pour voir, savoir, tenter de comprendre. Portée par son désir de connaître et non de juger, Sara Daniel est acceptée et accueillie, tant du côté des "coupeurs de tête" de Fallouja et des membres de la guérilla, que de celui des soldats américains qui l'embarquent dans leur char. Chronique humaniste d'un échec programmé, d'un désastre qui ne cesse de s'amplifier, ce grand reportage nous plonge dans le quotidien et l'absurdité de cette guerre tout en nous permettant d'en comprendre les enjeux politiques et humains." -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Voyage to a stricken land.Lettres chinoises: les diplomates chinois découvrent l'Europe, 1866-1894 ((La vie quotidienne))
By Feng Chen-Schrader. 2004
En 1866, pour la première fois de son histoire, l'Empire de Chine envoie des diplomates en Europe. C'est pour eux…
un véritable choc culturel, que Feng Chen-Schrader nous convie à partager, grâce à leurs propres témoignages : afin d'informer leur gouvernement de tout ce qu'ils découvrent, ils ont laissé derrière eux quantité d'écrits - rapports, récits, journaux intimes. Tout les surprend, tout leur semble singulier en Europe : la nourriture qui leur est servie, le rôle des femmes dans la société, les progrès techniques et, bien sûr, les systèmes politiques européens, avec les élections et le fonctionnement des Parlements. Convaincus de la supériorité absolue de la civilisation chinoise, ces hommes portent néanmoins un oeil neuf sur la vie des Occidentaux qu'ils décrivent avec soin, dans le détail et au quotidien. -- 4e de couv.Spirituality and ageing
By Albert Jewell. 1999
This work presents the experience of ageing as an opportunity for spiritual reflection and affirmation of life. The contributors are…
religious and spiritual leaders and ethical thinkers from a range of backgrounds. They define "spirituality" not just as a religious concept but as an answer to the natural human need for purpose, values and relationships - a sense of wholeness in life.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
By Hamida Ghafour. 2007
In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.