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By Robert J Dole. 2005
Former senator from Kansas describes his enlistment into the elite U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division as a lieutenant during World…
War II. Chronicles the April 14, 1945, battle in Italy that paralyzed him, his long recovery, first marriage, and entry into civilian life and the political sphere. Bestseller. 2005.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.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.By Magdalene Krüger Klinksiek, Janet M Hixon. 1996
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.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.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.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.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.By Kees Vanderheyden. 1994
Pour un enfant insouciant, la guerre ressemble parfois à un jeu.Mais ce livre est aussi une prise de conscience des…
drames effrayants que les conflits entraînent. Un témoignage important en cette époque où, aux quatre coins du monde, des enfants innocents côtoient quotidiennement la guerre et la mort. Années 3-6. 1994.By Ben Wicks. 1988
On 1st September 1939, in Britain, hundreds of thousands of children made their way to the railway station. In the…
homes of "borrowed parents", they listened as the Prime Minister declared war with Germany. This book serves as a record of the evacuated children whose lives were changed forever. 1988.By Roger Savoie. 1980
Ce livre veut vous apprendre à tout faire, à redevenir animal, à rendre les concepts fous, à bloquer un système.…
Il veut saccager le magasin de la philosophie, c'est-à-dire porter atteinte à ce qui est considéré comme le sommet de l'homme: la pensée. 1980.By Jean-Baptiste Botul. 2004
Le 5 janvier 1937, à Neuilly, Jean-Baptiste Botul prend dans son taxi une jeune cliente mineure qui lui ordonne :…
" Cours Désir ". Adresse équivoque s'il en est ! La nuit qu'ils passeront ensemble dans Paris vaudra à Botul de comparaître devant le tribunal professionnel des taxis parisiens. Pour sa défense, Botul se compare à Nietzsche, victime du démon de midi, amoureux tragique de Lou Andreas Salomé. Le récit qu'il fait de leur rencontre atteste que le Surhomme ne vaut pas grand-chose en face de la Surfemme. Car Lou, selon les termes de Botul, " était plus qu'une femme ". Parente de Lilith et de Lolita, elle incarne un démon mutant, moderne, celui de la " sexualité " femelle. Miraculeusement retranscrite, cette géniale plaidoirie confirme que Botul, ce penseur méconnu, fut le plus grand philosophe de tradition orale du XXe siècle.By Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel. 2006
Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of…
14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumours of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception centre" does the terrible truth sink in. 2006. Uniform title: Un di ṿelṭ hoṭ geshṿign.By Don Rearden, Jimmy Settle. 2017
The true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war hero.…
After being shot in the head during a dangerous high mountain operation in the rugged Watapur Valley in Afghanistan, Jimmy returns to battle with his teammates for a dangerous rescue operation, bullet fragments stitched over and still in his skull. 2017.By Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1991
First published in 1836, this book established Emerson as a scholar in the subject of the relationship between natural history…
and human nature. This edition has an introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan, a professor of history at Yale University, who credits Emerson as being a philosophical prose poet with a spiritual side. 1991.By Nadja Halilbegovićh. 2006
Halilbegovich was just 12 years old on April 6, 1992, when she was told there would be no school that…
day - not because of a holiday, but because of a war. Her diary reveals the hurt, pain, and despair brought on by the fighting within her country and describes the bombings, deaths, and destruction. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.By Yaël Dayan. 1985
Memoir by the daughter of the Israeli military hero, Moshe Dayan. She portrays him as a calculating military tactician, a…
Spartan nomad and an amateur archeologist digging in search of his own history. Some strong language. 1985.By John J Pershing. 1995
Then General of the Armies chronicles United States involvement in the "Great War", from Woodrow Wilson's 1917 appointment of Pershing…
to command the American Expeditionary Forces in France, through the armistice in 1918. Won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for history under the title "My Experiences in the World War". 1995. Uniform title: My experiences in the World WarBy Davin Seay, Eric Maddox. 2008
In 2003, Oklahoma native Maddox was a newly trained U.S. Army interrogation specialist. Assigned to Tikrit, Iraq, he was involved…
in the search and capture of Saddam Hussein and others on the military's Black List. Through the interrogation of a prisoner Maddox was instrumental in bringing in, he was able to discover Hussein's hiding place on his last day in Iraq. Strong language. 2008.