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The Gospel of Thomas: the hidden sayings of Jesus
By Harold Bloom, Marvin W Meyer. 1992
An English translation of 114 wise sayings attributed to Jesus as collected in the Coptic text found near Nag Hammadi…
in Upper Egypt. Discusses the history of the writings. Explanatory notes follow. Includes an interpretive essay by Harold Bloom. c1992.The green labyrinth: a journey to the Amazon
By Sylvia Fraser. 2003
Sylvia Fraser recounts her journey to Peru to learn about shamans and ancient practices. The centre of her journey revolves…
around learning about ayahuasca, a plant medicine that is said to transport a person from this plane of reality into another one. 2003.The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.Saints preserve us!: everything you need to know about every saint you'll ever need
By Rosemary Rogers, Sean Kelly. 1993
Designed to help you determine your patron saints, this book provides a biographical listing of saints arranged alphabetically, a calendar…
of saints by day of the year, and a list of patron saints for such categories as ethnicity, occupation, illness, and lifestyle. 1993.Le glaucome (Comprendre la maladie et ses traitements)
By Pierre Blondeau, Paul Harasymowycz, Patrick Hamel, Frédérique David. 2014
" Au Canada, environ 400 000 personnes sont atteintes de glaucome. Cette maladie chronique de l'œil touche 1 % à…
3 % de la population du monde occidental de plus de 40 ans et 10 % des octogénaires. Il s'agit d'une maladie extrêmement sournoise, qui peut détruire les capacités fonctionnelles de l'œil de façon irréversible et sans avertissement. Le dépistage est donc un enjeu majeur de la lutte contre le glaucome, d'autant plus que des traitements très efficaces permettent d'empêcher ou de ralentir sa progression. Écrit par des médecins spécialistes, dans un langage simple et clair, ce livre couvre les différents aspects de la maladie et fournit toute linformation nécessaire aux patients et aux proches... " -- 4e de couv.Polio: an American story
By David M Oshinsky. 2005
Account of the twentieth-century search for a polio vaccine and the rivalries that developed between competing medical researchers, notably Jonas…
Salk, Albert Sabin, and Hilary Koprowski. Traces the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis campaigns and the public health experiment involving Salk's vaccine. Evokes the widespread panic over the disease. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history. 2005.Pain: the fifth vital sign
By Marni Jackson. 2002
An exploration of the nature of pain, and why it is so poorly understood and expressed. Investigates the history of…
pain and the possibility of pain genetics. Includes stories of people in pain and pain pioneers, from eccentrics, artists, wrestlers, and writers to ministers, mothers, psychologists, philosophers, nurses, and doctors. Some strong language. 2002.Milarepa
By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 1997
Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665 (McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion)
By Patricia Simpson. 1997
Marguerite Bourgeoys is one of the most important figures in Quebec's religious and social history. In 1658 she founded the…
first school in the city of Montreal. From there she went on to establish a community of uncloistered women to assist in the education of women and children in New France. Bourgeoys was beatified in 1950 and canonized in 1982. She is still revered by many today. 1997.La vie est plus forte que la mort
By Marie-Paul Ross. 2013
Comment une petite fille fragile et condamnée par les médecins a-t-elle pu mener une vie de sœur missionnaire aux quatre…
coins du monde ? Comment une religieuse en est-elle arrivée à faire un doctorat de sexologie pour lutter contre les abus dont sont victimes les jeunes garçons et filles un peu partout sur la planète ? Comment a-t-elle affronté la misère, la souffrance et le terrorisme sans jamais perdre la foi ? La vie de Marie-Paul Ross est un pari gagné contre l’adversité. 2013.Kill or cure?: how Canadians can remake their health care system (Phyllis Bruce book)
By Rick Archbold, Carolyn Bennett. 2000
Dr. Bennett compares the health care system in Canada with other countries and analyzes where the money is being spent…
or misspent. She offers a plan for creating a new health care team that will bring together doctors and patients more productively, reduce overlapping and waste, and move health care technologically into the twenty-first century. She also suggests ways to choose a good family doctor and to become a health care advocate. 2000.Healing our world: Inside Doctors Without Borders
By David Morley. 2008
General information about the organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders. Also includes journal entries giving personal and detailed accounts of…
the group's work, including efforts to recover victims of an El Salvador earthquake, medical care in war-torn Congo, and treatment of the AIDS epidemic in Zambia. An introduction to a dedicated organization that gives people who live in forgotten places evidence that someone actually cares. For grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007.Crohn's disease & ulcerative colitis (Your personal health series)
By Fredric G Saibil. 2003
The author, a renowned expert on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), describes the normal gastrointestinal system, explains what goes wrong in…
someone with IBD. He also provides travel tips and other useful self-help strategies for living with IBD. He explains the possible complications of the disease, and the special problems of children with IBD. 2003.Better now: six big ideas to improve health care for all Canadians
By Danielle Martin. 2017
An important check-up on our health-care system--and what urgently needs fixing--from a respected doctor and passionate Medicare advocate. The author…
sees the cracks and challenges in our health-care system every day; uses real patient stories to illustrate what works in our health-care system and what doesn't; most importantly, she proposes bold fixes that are both achievable and affordable. Bestseller. 2017.Saints and angels
By Claire Llewellyn. 2003
Leaving the Saints: one child's story of survival and hope
By Martha Nibley Beck. 2005
As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented…
by the Church's high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them. But when she was hired to teach at Brigham Young University, Martha was troubled by the way the Church's elders silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church's most prominent authorities. 2005.Baptism of fire
By Frank Collins. 1997
Following a life of gang-led petty crime and poverty in Newcastle, Frank Collins finally joined the SAS. After spending time…
in America and Northern Ireland there was nothing he didn't know about guns and killing. Then, out of the blue, he experienced an extraordinary religious conversion, so powerful that he was compelled to change his life. He is now ordained as a Church of England minister.Les dérives de l'industrie de la santé: petit abécédaire
By J.-Claude St-Onge. 2006
"[...] Lauteur dévoile dans ce nouvel ouvrage le fruit de ses recherches, une mine d'informations fouillées, claires et souvent choquantes.…
Par exemple : les raisons pour lesquelles tant d'essais cliniques ne sont pas fiables; la démonstration que le fabricant du Vioxx devait savoir que son médicament était dangereux pour le cœur; la portion exagérée du coût des médicaments qui est due au marketing; de nouvelles preuves que les antidépresseurs poussent certains utilisateurs au suicide et qu'ils n'ont pas l'efficacité qu'on leur prête ; la démonstration qu'une autre politique du médicament est possible et peut sauver des vies et des milliards de dollars; la façon dont on invente de nouvelles maladies pour nous abonner aux pilules; comment les agences de contrôle jouent à la roulette russe avec nos vies; la constatation que le virus de la grippe aviaire est connu depuis au moins un demi-siècle et qu'il n'a pourtant jamais provoqué la pandémie si redoutée; et une foule d'autres renseignements qui pourraient vous protéger contre les dérives de l'industrie de la santé." -- 4e de couv.Mort sur ordonnance: la vérité consternante que cache la surconsommation de médicaments
By Ray D Strand, Donna K Wallace, Claude Charbonneau. 2005
Médecin de famille dexpérience, chaque semaine, Ray Strand doit délivrer des ordonnances à ses patients, mais il nen estime pas…
moins que, dans la majorité des cas, les médicaments ne devraient être prescrits quen dernier recours, et pas de façon quasi-automatique. Dans Mort sur ordonnance, le docteur Strand vous propose des règles de conduite simples pour vous aider à vous protéger, vous ainsi que votre famille, contre tout effet indésirable des médicaments vendus sur ordonnance. -- 4e couv. Titre uniforme: Death by prescription.François, le pape des pauvres
By Andrea Tornielli, Jean-Pierre Prévost. 2013
" Cet ouvrage montre, à travers les textes, les idées, les mots du pape François, comment ce fils d'immigrés, à…
la fois simple et érudit, fait de l'exigence évangélique et de la non-violence, les piliers de sa pastorale.Une biographie complète, qui donne les clefs pour comprendre cette personnalité plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît et révèle un pasteur qui incarne le renouvellement et la purification de l'Église. " -- 4e de couv.