Title search results
Showing 121 - 140 of 45095 items
The mind's eye
By Oliver W Sacks. 2010
Neurologist uses case studies to illustrate the brain's ability to adapt to lost senses. Discusses a concert pianist who can…
no longer read music, a writer who is unable to read print after suffering a stroke, and Sacks's own macular melanoma and its effects on his visual perception. 2010.They fight like soldiers, they die like children: the global quest to eradicate the use of child soldiers
By Jessica Dee Humphreys, Roméo A Dallaire. 2010
In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain,…
has unlimited versatility and incredible capacity for both loyalty and barbarism - children. Believing that no one should tolerate a child being used in this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of child soldiers. He provides an introduction to the phenomenon, as well as solutions to eradicate it. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.Rare courage: veterans of the Second World War remember
By Rod Mickleburgh, Rudyard Griffiths. 2005
Twenty Canadian Second World War veterans candidly describe their experiences, including the sinking of the Bismarck and landing on the…
beaches of Normandy. Describes the search of a Jewish nurse for survivors of the Holocaust and provides tales of shot-down airmen on the run in occupied Europe. Some strong language. 2005.Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
By Atul Gawande. 2014
In his previous books, Dr. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines…
its ultimate limitations and failures - in his own practices as well as others’ - as human lives draw to a close. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds people who show us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about. The subject of a PBS documentary. Bestseller. 2014.Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war
By Stephen Kimber. 2003
In May 1945, the city of Halifax erupted in a riot - a two-day orgy or boozing, looting, window-smashing, dancing…
in the streets, public fornication, and mindless mayhem to 'celebrate' the end of the war. The paternalism, privations, overcrowding, and tensions of a city at war created a situation waiting to explode, and an admiral's pride provided the match that set it off. Includes interviews with the people who lived through it - sailors, slackers (civilians), street urchins, prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, reporters, and just plain local folks. Some strong language. 2003.Time and chance: the political memoirs of Canada's first woman prime minister
By Kim Campbell. 1996
Canada's first woman prime minister reflects on her political career up to the fateful election of 1993. She discusses her…
experience in municipal and provincial politics, her election to federal Parliament, her involvement in the Mulroney government, and her election as leader of the Progressive Conservatives. 1996.February 1945. The war is almost over and Britain and America rule the waves, but sixty young Nazi soldiers still…
choose to undertake a mission in U-869 - to reach and bomb the coast of America. Several weeks later the boat barely has enough fuel to make it home and radio links with Germany are broken. The commander, Neuerberg, must make a tough decision: to carry on to America and risk death in the pursuit of glory, or to admit defeat and return home. Driven by pride, patriotism and determination, he decides to risk it. In 1991, a group of deep-sea divers hear about the wreck of a U-boat 260 feet beneath the sea. There are virtually no records of the Nazi submarine, and an on-location investigation is extremely dangerous. But twelve divers decide to take the risk. Over the next six years they eventually piece together an incredible story. 2004.The French Foreign Legion: a complete history
By Douglas Porch. 1991
From inauspicious beginnings to its present status as a respected metropolitan force, Douglas Porch describes the French Foreign Legion's battles…
all over the world. He looks beyond the myths that surround the Legion and analyzes its outstanding performance throughout history. He also discusses its special problems in recruitment, discipline and morale. 1991.The silent thief: bone-building exercises and essential strategies to prevent and treat osteoporosis
By Karine Bohme, Frances Budden. 2001
Known as the "Silent Thief" for its quiet, symptom-free onset, osteoporosis can slowly erode bone mass. However, it can not…
only be treated, but also prevented with good advance planning, simple lifestyle strategies, and essential bone-building exercises. This book outlines a comprehensive, three-pronged approach to combating and preventing osteoporosis - one combining dietary, medical and exercise-based strategies. 2001.The lonely patient: how we experience illness
By Michael Stein. 2007
Despite years of medical training and practice, only when his brother-in-law Richard was diagnosed with a rare cancer did internist…
Stein contemplate the psychological effects of illness. During the next eight years, as Richard fought a losing battle, Stein witnessed how he and other patients dealt with chronic and terminal illnesses and how caretakers and loved ones were affected. He compares it to living in a strange, new place in which one experiences four emotional stages: betrayal, terror, loss, and loneliness. Some strong language. 2007.Who killed Canadian history?
By J. L Granatstein. 1998
Canadian historian Granatstein writes of his concern that Canadian students are no longer taught Canadian history. Unlike older countries which…
understand the importance of history, he argues that Canadian schools, universities, and education policy makers have allowed Canadian history to be dropped in favour of trendy subjects or "dumbed down" in basic textbooks. 1998.Confessions post-référendaires: les acteurs politiques de 1995 et le scénario d'un oui
By Chantal Hébert, Jean Lapierre, Valcourt Joseph-Aimé. 2014
" Les généraux politiques qui ont mené la bataille référendaire de 1995 ont aujourd'hui tous quitté la scène politique. Certains…
sont plus ou moins oubliés; d'autres sont entrés de plain-pied dans l'histoire du Canada. Pour plusieurs d'entre eux, il restait encore à raconter comment ils avaient imaginé les lendemains d'un Oui québécois. Dans cet ouvrage surprenant, Chantal Hébert et Jean Lapierre vont au-delà des stratégies convenues et de la campagne au quotidien pour jeter un nouvel éclairage sur un moment révélateur de la vie du Québec et du Canada. Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard, Mario Dumont, Jean Charest, Sheila Copps, Lucienne Robillard, Preston Manning, Frank McKenna et plusieurs autres se sont prêtés au jeu. Deux décennies plus tard et plus particulièrement à la suite de la défaite décisive des souverainistes aux élections québécoises de 2014 , les révélations de Hébert et de Lapierre risquent de vous étonner. En posant une question inattendue, ces observateurs politiques chevronnés ont ingénieusement mis en lumière les fractures, les tensions et les craintes qui, encore aujourd'hui, marquent le Canada. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The morning after.Footsteps on old floors: true tales of mystery
By Thomas H Raddall. 1988
These six true mysteries that have baffled and fascinated historians for decades include the gruesome murders aboard the "Herbert Fuller"…
in 1896 that brought her crew to a Halifax courtroom; the life of a Halifax prostitute at the turn of the century; and the mystery of a ship found adrift at sea without a crew. 1988.The kids book of Canadian exploration
By Ann-Maureen Owens, Jane Yealland. 2004
Did you know that Arctic explorers trapped in winter ice were forced to eat their shoes to avoid starvation, or…
that French adventurer la Vérendrye was convinced that Lake Winnipeg led to the Pacific Ocean? From Natives looking for hunting grounds to Europeans searching for fish, gold, or the Northwest Passage, explorers have always been drawn to Canada. And now, with no unmapped lands left, present-day explorers focus on outer space, the ocean, and the preservation of the Earth. Grades 3-6. 2004.The black book of English Canada
By Normand Lester, Ray Conlogue. 2002
Normand Lester, a former journalist with Radio-Canada (the French-language equivalent of the CBC), provides a defence of his native province…
and a repudiation of what he sees as the anglophone media's unfair attacks on Quebec and Quebecers. He chronicles general English-Canadian intolerance: the expulsion of the Acadians; the hanging of Louis Riel; R. B. Bennett's funding of anti-Semitic publications; and the internment of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War. Lester argues that the myth of two equal, amicable co-founders of the nation, one promoted by the federal government, ignores the fact that there will always be two incompatible national histories. 2002, c2001. Uniform title: Le livre noir du Canada anglais.Trapped in the Arctic (Adventures in Canadian history.)
By Pierre Berton. 1993
Berton tells the story of Robert John McClure, a veteran British Navy officer who was determined to find the fabled…
North West Passage. In 1850, he claimed to have found it, but in 1851, his ship became trapped in the Arctic ice, and was stuck there for nearly two years. Grades 3-6.Survivors: children of the Halifax Explosion
By Janet F Kitz. 1992
F.L.Q., histoire d'un mouvement clandestin: Histoire D'un Mouvement Clandestin
By Louis Fournier. 1998