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Le boiteux
By Robert Cessieux. 1979
L'auteur a recueilli les confidences de celui que la maffia a surnommé le boiteux. Il s'agit d'un ancien trafiquant devenu…
agent double et auquel nous devons le démantèlement de plusieurs filières et réseaux de drogue Nord-Américains. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1979.Moments tendres
By Serge Laprade. 1981
Ce livre de philosophie populaire propose bien modestement une réponse à cette question : comment mettre de la beauté dans…
notre quotidien? Il se compose de réflexions, de poèmes et de lettres envoyées à l'auteur, Serge Laprade. 1981.Nous, les vieux: dialogue sur la vie et ses choses
By Marguerite Lescop, Benoît Lacroix, François Lescop. 2006
Ayant franchi allègrement le cap des 90 ans, c'est avec sagesse et humour que Marguerite Lescop et Benoît Lacroix abordent…
les grandes questions de la vie, celles que tous se posent et auxquelles on voudrait tant trouver des réponses satisfaisantes. Nous, les vieux met en présence deux êtres hors du commun que la vie a rapprochés : une mère de famille qui a publié à 80 ans un ouvrage devenu un best-seller, Le tour de ma vie en 80 ans, et un prêtre dominicain qui a consacré sa vie à l'étude de la religion populaire, à qui on doit plusieurs ouvrages remarquables, La foi de ma mère, notamment. De leur singulière amitié sont nés des échanges empreints d'espérance dont François Lescop, le fils de Marguerite, a rapidement perçu toute la richesse et l'à-propos. 2006.One and one make five
By Mary Evans. 1996
This remarkable story charts a lifetime of working with visually impaired and deafblind people. From adverse beginnings, without bitterness or…
regret, through childhood illness and war, Miss Evans recounts her training and subsequent work. Great emphasis is laid on working with noncommunicating, deafblind children, with help and guidance for parents and carers in achieving that exclusive first breakthrough and alleviating the problems of the elderly with acquired handicaps. 1996.Oiseaux, merveilleux oiseaux: les dialogues du ciel et de la vie (Science ouverte)
By Hubert Reeves. 1998
Les oiseaux, leurs prouesses, leurs migrations, offrent l'un des plus émouvants témoignages de la prodigieuse richesse de notre univers. Comment…
le vol gracieux des hirondelles a-t-il pu émerger de la chaotique matière primordiale ? Les oiseaux seront ici nos guides dans la recherche des ferments du levain cosmique. 1998.Nowhere to run: the killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill
By Mike McIntyre. 2003
Dennis Strongquill was an Aboriginal RCMP officer who had spent his life protecting society, but was helpless to fend off…
three ruthless killers who ambushed him on a dark Prairie highway. Robert and Danny Sand were two young brothers who had grown to hate authority, and Laurie Bell was a struggling junkie with a fatal attraction to Robert. Together, the trio embarked on a ruthless cross-country crime spree, leaving behind a trail of victims. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2003.On a clear day
By Alex MacCormick, David Blunkett. 1995
Born in 1947 in the slums of Sheffield, England, David Blunkett has never let blindness be more than an inconvenience…
to him, whether at university or in the British House of Commons as an MP. In this autobiography, he discusses his life, politics, and, most of all, his beloved guide dogs, Ruby, Offa, and Lucy. 1995.On sight and insight: a journey into the world of blindness
By John Martin Hull. 1997
In 1983, forced to accept total blindness, John Hull began to keep a cassette diary. In it he recorded his…
daily experiences, his thoughts and impressions. It offers a unique journey into the "other world" of blindness - a world where people have no faces, a world in which perception of sound, silence, time and space are dramatically transformed. He relates his interactions with other people, including his relationship with his young children and their growing understanding of his blindness. 1997.On the farm: Robert William Pickton and the tragic story of Vancouver's missing women
By Stevie Cameron. 2010
Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the…
disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killers gave Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years, but also to information unknown to the police, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Bestseller. c2010.On equilibrium
By John Ralston Saul. 2001
Explains how different human qualities give us intelligence, self-confidence and practical ability to think and act as responsible individuals, and…
argues that when certain qualities are worshipped in isolation they become ideologies. Saul explores the essential qualities of humanity and suggests how they can be used to achieve equilibrium for the self and to foster an ethical society. 2001.On Liberty. From "Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government". With selections from "Auguste Compte and positivism" (Everyman's university library)
By John Stuart Mill, Harold Acton. 1972
Contains three of Mill’s most important works along with some extracts from a fourth, his "Auguste Comte and Positivism" (1865).…
The editor, H.B. Acton, provides a new introduction in which he reconsiders Mill’s moral and political philosophy in the light of early twentieth-century thought and scholarship. 1972.On my own: the journey continues
By Sally Hobart Alexander. 1997
After going blind at twenty-four, Alexander describes also losing part of her hearing. Determined to be independent and self-sufficient, she…
recounts her fears and difficulties adjusting to a new apartment, finding a job, and meeting the right man. For junior high readers. 1997.Oliver's twist: the life and times of an unapologetic newshound
By Craig Oliver. 2011
The only child of two alcoholics, Oliver spent his childhood and adolescence in the homes of strangers. A chance summer…
job with the local CBC station launched his broadcasting career, taking Oliver from Prince Rupert, B.C. to Ottawa, Washington, and Central America, and eventually to chief parliamentary correspondent for CTV News. At the same time, Oliver pursued a personal passion for Canada’s wilderness rivers, paddling some of the remotest waters in western and northern Canada with political and media figures such as Tim Kotcheff and Pierre Trudeau. Most surprising is the revelation that this comfortable television presenter has been legally blind for a decade. Includes strong language. c2011.On blindness: letters between Bryan Magee and Martin Milligan
By Bryan Magee, Martin Milligan. 1995
What begins as a philosophical exchange between the philosopher and broadcaster Bryan Magee and the late Martin Milligan, activist and…
philosopher blind almost from birth, develops into a personal and intense discussion of the implications of blindness. They open the eyes of the sighted to the world as experienced by the blind. 1995.Obstacles, bring' em
By Maria Federici. 2013
This is the story of Maria Federici (Doyle), a young woman whose life changed on a February night in 2004.…
Maria was coming home late from work when, on a trailer a good distance in front of her, an item of unsecured furniture fell off and broke apart, sending a large piece of particle board catapulting through her windshield, striking her in the head, and causing massive brain and head injuries as well as complete blindness. This is Maria's story of survival, recovery and a rebuilding of life by taking some of the most challenging obstacles and learning to overcome them. 2013.Now we see through a glass darkly: musing on failing sight can be funny
By Vie Tulloch. 2003
When Vie Tulloch, an accomplished sculptress, was told she had serious sight problems that were incurable, her life was initially…
surrounded by an aura of self-pity. She reluctantly accepted that her carving days were over. However, with characteristic stoicism and jollity she has addressed the situation and this book is an account of her frustrating battle against the odds. 2003.Obstruction of justice: the search for truth on Canada's Highway of Tears
By Ray Michalko. 2016
"The Highway of Tears" is a lonely seven hundred kilometer stretch of road that winds through the Coast Mountains wilderness…
of British Columbia. Over the last four decades nine young women have been murdered or gone missing from this remote highway. All but one were Aboriginal. To date not one case has been solved. Fueled by frustration with the police's inability to solve any of these crimes, inspired by the belief that someone somewhere knew something, ex-RCMP turned private eye Ray Michalko embarked on a life altering journey to unlock the secrets of these cases and, in the process, discovered as much about the crimes as he did the reasons they've gone unsolved. 2016.Auto-portrait
By Kahlil Gibran, Paul Kinnet. 1988
Dans ce livre, Anthony R. Ferris, grand ami du poète, nous fait connaître Khalil Gibran tout au long des étapes…
de sa vie professionnelle et de ses relations affectives, en rassemblant des lettres riches du symbolisme propre au style de Gibran. 1988.Nationalité et modernité: Essai
By Daniel Jacques. 2005
L'auteur a pour but de penser la nation d'un point de vue philosophique; il cherche à établir quelle peut être…
la légitimité politique de la nation dans un contexte démocratique. Prix Victor Barbeau. 2005.Les grands dossiers criminels du Canada
By Jean-Claude Castex. 1991
Des récits authentiques bien documentés à l'intention de ceux qui aiment frissonner d'effroi. L'amour, la haine, la jalousie, l'ambition, le…
racisme, la cupidité, le sadisme, la pédophilie, le nécrophilie et le cannibalisme sont au coeur même des grandes affaires criminelles qui ont défrayé la chronique: Coffin, le Klu Klux Klan et l'incendie du Collège de Saint-Boniface, l'affaire Earle Nelson, etc. c1990-c1991.