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Second sight
By Robert V Hine. 1993
As a young man, Hine was informed that his eye condition, uveitis, would eventually lead to blindness. After graduate school…
and marriage, and well into his career as a history professor, Hine did gradually lose his sight to cataracts, which the uveitis made inoperable. Hine used braille, talking computers, and readers to continue teaching and writing for the next fifteen years, and then underwent an operation that restored sight in one eye. c1993.Self-healing: my life and vision (Arkana Ser.)
By Meir Schneider. 1989
A remarkable Russian Israeli who has gone some way to understanding the latent power of self-healing which is locked inside…
human beings. In this book Meir Schneider relates the experiences of his own life and his later work with people affected by chronic headaches, polio and muscular dystrophy. Meir was born blind, the son of a deaf father, yet he has insisted upon living a regular life making no concessions to himself for his lack of sight, and offering hope to others. 1989.See it my way
By Peter White. 1999
Unsentimental and humorous autobiography by the BBC's disability affairs correspondent, the second blind son born to sighted parents. The text…
covers Peter White's childhood, his experiences at special schools, the shock of `real life' - of the problems of coping with seemingly ordinary, everyday living away from home or a special school, his career with the BBC, marriage and parenthood, his love of sport, his occasional rage at the attitudes of `normal' people, and his sometimes volatile relationship with his father. 1999.Sans prescription ni ordonnance
By Jean Coutu, Jean Couture. 2010
Qui peut prétendre connaître le vrai Jean Coutu? La discrétion dont il a toujours fait preuve sur sa vie est…
inversement proportionnelle à l'omniprésence de la marque de commerce qu'il a si habilement popularisée. Alors qui donc est celui dont le nom évoque à lui seul la pharmacie de détail? 2010.Sam Walton, made in America: my story (ITK audio)
By Sam Walton, John Huey. 2017
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single…
dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. 2017.Samuel MacLure, architect
By Janet Bingham. 1985
A biography of one of British Columbia's foremost architects. During his active career from 1890-1929, he designed and oversaw the…
building of many homes in Victoria and Vancouver, many of which are in use today. 1985.Renouer avec Dieu: Dialogue Avec Ceux Qui Doutent, Croient Ou Ne Croient Pas-
By Jean-Paul Simard. 2012
Ce livre propose une quête de Dieu épurée, avant toute religion, tout dogme et toute morale, dans une sincère empathie…
avec le questionnement humain sur le sens de la vie, de l'amour et de la souffrance. Dieu, nous dit l'auteur, se découvre davantage suivant les chemins du coeur et de l'expérience que celui de la raison, confirmant ainsi que l'acte de croire est premier par rapport à la démarche rationnelle. Un livre qui permettra de renouer avec le Dieu auquel chacun aspire. 2012.Rumeurs à l'aube
By Benoît Lacroix, Simone Saumur-Lambert, Pierrot Lambert. 2015
" Benoît Lacroix, qui a eu cent ans le 8 septembre 2015, se confie une fois de plus à ses…
amis pour dire sa confiance en la lumière. Dialoguant avec les poètes et les penseurs de l'espérance Jean d'Ormesson et François Cheng, il perçoit les rumeurs d'une aurore inédite depuis le silence de la forêt de Maska jusqu'à la sagesse des "gens de parole" nombreux qu'il fréquente. Cette conversation est suivie de quelques réflexions spirituelles que Benoît Lacroix a publiées dans diverses revues au fil de sa vie. Enfin, ce recueil offre un bouquet de "coups de coeur", soit 111 petits textes inédits où la mémoire et l'imagination jouent à saute-mouton pour nous dire le monde selon Benoît Lacroix. "Religions et laïcité: pour un nécessaire dialogue
By Bruno Demers, Mathieu Lavigne. 2014
Le livre que voici entend répondre à deux préoccupations: comprendre les défis que pose le processus de laïcisation d'une société…
et présenter des points de vue méconnus sur la question, issus des traditions religieuses monothéistes que sont le judaïsme, le christianisme et l'islam. 2014.Riopelle, grandeur nature (Collection Approches)
By Daniel Gagnon. 1988
Ce livre rapporte l'évolution du peintre, son ascension et sa confrontation avec la province de Québec, car Riopelle a soulevé…
ici beaucoup de passion; il a dérangé par sa fougue, sa liberté et surtout par son succès. 1988.Roman Catholicism
By R. C Sproul. 2013
Sacred roads: adventures from the pilgrimage trail
By Nicholas Shrady. 1999
A "pilgrim's progress is both an interior journey, a spiritual exercise, and a physical journey toward an actual site imbued…
with a divine character." Shrady describes the six routes he travelled in such countries as Bosnia, India, and the Holy Land that took him to sites encompassing Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. 1999.Rumours of another world: what on earth are we missing?
By Philip Yancey. 2004
Yancey investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. He grapples with why God made the…
world and what our role truly is, and seeks to answer the question, "How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural?“. Philip writes, “I have come to understand faith as the highest form of integrated encounter. Faith puts together, assembles, re-orders, accepting the entire world as God's handiwork”. 2004.Roughneck: the life and times of Big Bill Haywood
By Peter Carlson. 1983
Biography of the former cowboy, prospector, and silver miner who became the radical leader of the Industrial Workers of the…
World - the celebrated "Wobblies." He led miners in the bloody "labour wars" in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and textile workers in the famous "bread and roses" strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Prosecuted in two criminal cases, a "guilty" Haywood jumped bail and escaped to exile in Russia. Some strong language. 1983.Rudolf Nureyev: the life
By Julie Kavanagh. 2008
Born in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. His achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out…
of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe and much more. 2008.Room to dream
By David Lynch, Kristine McKenna. 2018
The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and…
writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced--sometimes successful, sometimes not--to bring his projects to fruition. Part-memoir, part-biography, 'Room to Dream' interweaves Lynch's own reflections on his life with the story of those times, as told by Kristine McKenna, drawing from extensive and explosive interviews with ninety of Lynch's friends, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and collaborators. Lynch responds to each recollection and reveals the inner story of the life behind the art. 2018.Rodin
By Pierre Daix. 1988
Si l'on ne connait qu'un seul nom de sculpteur, c'est celui de "Rodin" qui vient à l'esprit. Qui était ce…
génie inclassable que sa liaison avec Camille Claudel a récemment mis en lumière? Ce livre nous présente Rodin dans son ampleur et son intimité. 1988.Road song
By Natalie Kusz. 1990
The author recalls her family and youth in Alaska, including the accident that left her blind in one eye, her…
family's poverty and bad luck, her teenage rebellion and her return to the land. 1990.River queen: the amazing story of tugboat titan Lucille Johnstone
By Paul Levy. 2006
Lucille Johnstone was a living legend in the BC business world. In 1948, Lucille was working as a "girl Friday"…
for River Towing; forty years later Rivtow was a $250 million corporation, Lucille its president and CEO. This is the story of a brilliant leader known as much for her kindness and social conscience as for her talents in the boardroom. 2006.Retrouver le goût de la vie
By Anselm Grün, Corinna Gepner. 2013
'' Dans une société où même le temps du loisir doit être comblé par des activités , nous courons, nous…
courons... jusqu'à ce qu'advienne la grande fatigue. Lorsque nous nous heurtons à la frustration et à l'impuissance, quand le chemin que nous avons pris ne nous a finalement menés nulle part, nous nous sentons vidés, dépossédés de tout désir. Anselm Grün nous montre comment faire face à ces moments d'angoisse voire d'effondrement, qui peuvent dès lors être saisis comme autant d'occasions de revenir vers nous-mêmes. En effet, ces grandes fatigues ont la capacité insoupçonnée de nous mener vers l'essentiel de notre vie : le rythme de notre propre âme et de notre corps afin de retrouver notre source intérieure. '' -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Ich bin müde.