Title search results
Showing 61 - 80 of 109034 items
The burning house: unlocking the mysteries of the brain
By Jay Ingram. 1994
The blue planet: a natural history of the oceans (Blue Planet Ser.)
By David Attenborough, Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes. 2001
Focusing on seven different habitats, this book is a comprehensive guide to the world's oceans. It explores the hidden depths…
of the oceans to reveal many fascinating facts. Some strong language. 2001.The body book: a fantastic voyage to the world within
By David Bodanis. 1984
Attempts to provide a description of the physiological processes involved in certain emotions and activities. Topics include fear and anger,…
sexual desire, conception and pregnancy, pain and illness, stress and worry. 1984.Taupes: infiltrations, mensonges et trahisons
By Fabrice De Pierrebourg, Vincent Larouche. 2014
" Les taupes sont la hantise des services de renseignement et des corps policiers. Certaines sont parachutées pour infiltrer un…
pays, dérober des secrets et recruter d'autres taupes. D'autres trahissent l'organisation qui les emploie et offrent leurs services à l'ennemi par vengeance, pour flatter leur ego ou par appât du gain. Leurs aventures rocambolesques fascinent ou choquent et les ravages qu'elles causent avant d'être détectées leur valent ce surnom bien mérité! De Montréal à Moscou, ces enquêtes captivantes apportent un éclairage nouveau sur des cas marquants de l'actualité canadienne, entre autres ceux de Benoît Roberge, enquêteur-vedette sur le crime organisé, Jeffrey Delisle, officier reconnu coupable d'espionnage, et Donald Heathfield et Tracey Ann Foley, le célèbre couple d' illégaux du KGB. " -- 4e de couv.Terrorisme: quand tout peut devenir une cible
By Pierre Richard. 2016
Le 13 novembre 2015, la France, ébahie, apprenait qu'elle était en guerre. Un nouveau terrorisme était né. Si les cibles…
visées avaient, jusqu'alors, généralement valeur de symbole commissariats de police, mosquées, synagogues, journaux ou officines gouvernementales, dorénavant, on visait la rue. Personne n'était à l'abri. Un terrorisme mondialisé. Si la France venait d'être touchée (et allait encore l'être), ce n'était pas le seul pays figurant sur la liste de l'ennemi maintenant déclaré: Daesh ou le groupe État islamique. New York avait été frappée, de même que Londres, Madrid, Moscou, Istamboul, Casablanca, ou encore Bamako Et la liste ne manquerait pas de s'allonger. Un terrorisme né des politiques occidentales. Car Daesh n'est que l'héritier du système mis en place par Washington, au début des années 1980, pour contrer l'Armée rouge en Afghanistan. Ce sont ces moudjahidines, entraînés et formés au Pakistan par la CIA, qui constituent aujourd'hui la pire menace visant l'Occident! Pour la première fois de l'histoire moderne, une organisation rebelle vouée à la lutte aux infidèles de toutes sortes, occupe un territoire grand comme la moitié de la France, lourdement armée non seulement d'un arsenal traditionnel, mais aussi de technologies des plus sophistiquées. Pire encore: le danger vient maintenant de l'intérieur des pays occidentaux et le nombre de terroristes potentiels ne cesse de croître Dans cet ouvrage fort bien documenté, l'auteur offre un portrait saisissant de ce nouveau terrorisme: ses origines, son histoire, son évolution, ses armes de propagande et ses forces obscures. Un ouvrage essentiel, d'une terrible actualité. 2016.Sœurs volées: enquête sur un féminicide au Canada
By Emmanuelle Walter. 2014
" Depuis 1980, près de 1 200 Amérindiennes canadiennes ont été assassinées ou ont disparu dans une indifférence quasi totale.…
Proportionnellement, ce chiffre officiel et scandaleux équivaut à 55 000 femmes françaises ou 7 000 Québécoises. Dans ce récit bouleversant écrit au terme d'une longue enquête, Emmanuelle Walter donne chair aux statistiques et raconte l'histoire de deux adolescentes, Maisy Odjick et Shannon Alexander. Originaires de l'ouest du Québec, elles sont portées disparues depuis septembre 2008. " 4e de couv.The blind mechanic: the amazing story of Eric Davidson, survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion
By Marilyn Elliott, Janet Kitz. 2018
Eric Davidson was a beautiful, fair-haired toddler when the Halifax Explosion struck, killing almost 2,000 people and seriously injuring thousands…
of others. Eric lost both eyes-a tragedy that his mother never fully recovered from. Eric, however, was positive and energetic. He also developed a fascination with cars and how they worked, and he later decided, against all likelihood, to become a mechanic. Assisted by his brothers who read to him from manuals, he worked hard, passed examinations, and carved out a decades-long career. Once the subject of a National Film Board documentary, Eric Davidson was, until his death, a much-admired figure in Halifax. Written by his daughter Marilyn, this book gives new insights into the story of the 1917 Halifax Explosion and contains never-before-seen documents and photographs. Winner of the 2019 The Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction). 2018.The blind watchmaker: Why The Evidence Of Evolution Reveals A Universe Without Design
By Richard Dawkins. 1986
A controversial book which contends that evolution by natural selection - as originally outlined by Darwin - is the only…
answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 1986.The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism
By Lawrence Goldman. 1989
Henry Fawcett, a promising academic, was blinded in a shooting accident at the age of 25. This did not hinder…
him from consolidating his position at the confluence of so many streams of British culture and politics. 1989.Former Los Angeles prosecutor asserts that U.S. Supreme Court justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, and Kennedy "did not act impartially…
in the case of Bush v. Gore" when they stopped the recount of contested Florida votes during the 2000 presidential election. Developed from an article that originally appeared in the Nation. Bestseller. 2001.The biker who shot me: recollections of a crime reporter
By Michel Auger, Jean-Paul Murray. 2001
As a journalist, Auger has observed and reported upon the growth of the biker gangs and their increasing involvement in…
organized crime. He has written a number of articles that exposed the Hells Angels' links to the Mafia; articles that he knows enraged the bikers enough to have him killed. This is an account of his life as a crime reporter, with particular attention to his brush with death when he was shot in the back six times with a pistol equipped with a silencer, and the events that followed. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.The Barlinnie story: riots, death, retribution and redemption in Scotland's infamous prison
By Robert Jeffrey. 2009
Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world, and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's…
toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging Shed, including serial killer Peter Manuel. It has sparked rooftop protests and cell-block riots. It has been home to godfathers of crime like Arthur Thompson, Sr. and Walter Norval. 2009.The best of Crocus Coulee
By Betty Kilgour. 1986
Betty Kilgour, the "Erma Bombeck of the farm set", lives on a farm in Three Hills, Alberta. Her ability to…
see the humour in everyday situations has endeared her to C.B.C. radio listeners and to readers of the Red Deer Advocate to which she contributed a weekly column. This book is a collection of her most popular columns. 1986.The beak of the finch: a story of evolution in our time
By Jonathan Weiner. 1994
Discusses the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, who spent more than twenty years in the Galapagos Islands researching Charles…
Darwin's finches to confront Darwin's notion of evolution as a time-suspended process. Weiner incorporates research from other scientists to assert that evolution is dynamic, involving constant, even observable, change. L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. 1994.The beauty of the beastly: new views on the nature of life
By Natalie Angier. 1996
Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer for the New York Times offers her essays on the beauty of organisms usually considered beastly,…
and the beastliness behind conventional icons of beauty in the natural world. Admitting she "anthropomorphizes shamelessly," she humorously discusses commonalities that humans share with other species. Topics include loving, adapting, healing, creating, and dying. Some descriptions of violence. 1995.A collection of humourous and surprising essays which examine the scientific explanation for certain human behaviours, the scientific world's attempts…
to re-examine history, including the Salem witch trials, and some of the stranger questions tackled by scientists. Sections on human behaviour, curiosities of life, science and history, natural battles and how things work are included. 1998.The Baltimore case: a trial of politics, science, and character
By Daniel J Kevles. 1998
Examines a case involving scientific accountability, government funding of research, and the civil rights of scientists. Explains the origins of…
an accusation of fraud against DNA researcher Thereza Imanishi-Kari; the defence of her integrity by her co-author, Nobel Prizewinner David Baltimore; and their persecution in the 1980s and restitution in the 1990s. 1998.The artificial heart (An Impact book)
By Melvin Berger. 1987
Traces the history of the development of the artificial heart, including experimentation with animals and human heart transplants. Discusses the…
psychological and ethical issues surrounding their use. For junior and senior high readers. c1987.More and more of our social, political and religious activities are modelling themselves after the World Wide Web. A committed…
anarchist, Vaidhyanathan shows how the key information structure of our time is the 'peer-to-peer network'. These networks have always existed - gossip is one example, as is word-of-mouth advertising - but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century. Everything from culture to terrorism and extremist politics to religion will be affected. 2005.Terrorism: the new world war
By David Harding, Lloyd Pettiford. 2003
This text offers an examination of the complex phenomenon of terrorism and the role it plays in modern society. The…
book includes comprehensive biographies of major terrorist groups and individuals. It discusses in detail the most infamous acts of terror penetrated, from the kidnapping and murder of Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, to the US-Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. In the light of recent events it also provides a startling look at the possible future of terrorism and its impact on the Western world. 2003.