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The curse of the narrows: the Halifax explosion, 1917
By Laura MacDonald. 2005
On December 7, 1917, in the heart of the World War I, two ships collided in Halifax harbour. The resulting…
explosion killed over 2,000 people and injured some 6,000 more. Macdonald presents the whole story of how the military, volunteers and ordinary citizens united to organize one of the most complex relief efforts in North American history. Descriptions of violence. 2005.Lusitania 1915, la dernière traversée
By Erik Larson, Paul Simon Bouffartigue. 2016
" Le 1er mai 1915, le Lusitania, un paquebot britannique, quitte New York pour rejoindre Liverpool, avec à son bord…
près de 2.000 passagers. Le capitaine sait qu'il n'a pas le droit de s'approcher de l'Angleterre, zone de guerre. Mais, les règles interdisent les attaques de bateaux civils. À bord du sous-marin allemand U-20, le capitaine Schwieger est cependant bien décidé à couler le navire. " Titre uniforme: Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania.From Vimy to victory: Canada's fight to the finish in World War I
By Hugh Brewster. 2014
All was not quiet on the Western Front during the last years of WWI. Soldiers faced mud, trench foot, bombardments,…
barbed wire, snipers, and poison gas. Despite dreadful odds, the Canadian Corps moved forward, reaching deep inside enemy-occupied Belgium. The war cost Canada 60,661 of its finest citizens and thousands more who were wounded in body and mind. After their hard-won victory at Vimy Ridge, Canadians earned the admiration of the world — and a reputation as soldiers who could get the job done. From that moment in 1917, Canadian soldiers proved themselves again and again on the bloody battlefields of Europe. Grades 3-6. 2014.Boys: what it means to become a man
By Rachel Giese. 2018
What does it mean to be growing up male right now, when ideas about masculinity are in flux and power…
differences between the sexes are shifting? Award-winning Canadian journalist Rachel Giese connects with readers on both sides of the gender divide as she investigates how we can support boys to become their fullest and most honest selves. With empathy and insight, she tells stories of how boys from different races, classes and backgrounds are navigating the transition into manhood. Winner of the 2019 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 2018.Churchill and the Dardanelles: myth, memory, and reputation
By M Christopher Bell. 2017
The failure of the Allied fleet to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston…
Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, Churchill has been both praised and condemned for his role in launching this highly controversial campaign. For some, the Dardanelles offensive was a brilliant concept that might have dramatically shortened the First World War. To many others, however, Churchill was a reckless amateur who drove his unwilling and misinformed colleagues into a venture that was doomed to fail. 2017.A soldier's sketchbook: the illustrated First World War diary of R.H. Rabjohn
By John Wilson. 2017
Russell Rabjohn was just eighteen years old when he joined up to fight in the First World War. In his…
three years of soldiering, he experienced the highs and lows of army life, from a carefree leave in Paris to the anguish of seeing friends die around him. Private Rabjohn was also a trained artist, and drew everything he saw, including a captured pilot of a downed German biplane; the horrific Flanders mud; a German observation balloon exploding in midair; and the jubilant mood in the streets of Belgium when the Armistice is finally signed. With no surviving veterans of the First World War, Rabjohn's drawings are an unmatched visual record of a lost time. Grades 4-7. 2017.Under pressure: how the epidemic of hyper-parenting is endangering childhood
By Carl Honoré. 2008
When the impulse to give children the best of everything runs rampant, parents, schools, communities, and corporations unwittingly combine forces…
to create over-scheduled, over-stimulated, and overindulged kids. Rather than micromanaging every moment of children's lives, Honoré describes an emerging new movement that tries to find the balance between too much and too little. c2008.La discipline, un jeu d'enfant ((La Collection du CHU Sainte-Justine pour les parents).)
By Brigitte Racine. 2008
"Pour vivre en harmonie avec son enfant, il est primordial d'établir avec lui un solide lien d'attachement et de confiance.…
Lorsque l'enfant se sent aimé, valorisé et sécurisé, lorsqu'il constate qu'on croit en lui et qu'on partage des moments de plaisir avec lui, il a envie de collaborer et de vivre une relation où chacun est attentif aux besoins de l'autre. Il ne faut pas chercher plus loin, c'est aussi simple que ça, c'est un jeu d'enfant. Tel est l'essentiel de cet ouvrage sur la discipline, que parents et éducateurs ont tout intérêt à lire. De façon plus précise, l'auteur définit ce qu'il faut entendre par une discipline incitative. Faisant appel à des moyens concrets et efficaces, elle met en garde les parents contre les effets négatifs des punitons et des récompenses. Elle souligne, par contre, les bienfaits de l'action de réparation qui fait appel à ce que l'enfant a de meilleur en lui et qui favorise par le fait même l'harmonie familiale". -- 4e de couv.La Première Guerre mondiale ((Idées reçues : histoire & civilisations ; 169))
By François Cochet. 2008
"L'assassinat de François Ferdinand a déclenché le début des hostilités" "La guerre devait être courte" "Ce fut principalement une guerre…
des tranchées" "Verdun, la boucherie" "Sans les États-Unis, la guerre aurait été perdue" "Toute une génération a été inutilement sacrifiée"... Issues de la tradition ou de l'air du temps, mêlant souvent vrai et faux, les idées reçues sont dans toutes les têtes. L'auteur les prend pour point de départ et apporte ici un éclairage distancié et approfondi sur ce que l'on sait ou croit savoir". -- 4e de couv.Le défi de la discipline familiale (Collection Famille.)
By Joe-Ann Benoit. 2005
Un ouvrage qui s'adresse principalement aux parents mais qui peut être très utile aux professionnels de l'éducation. Il permet d'analyser…
son propre style d'intervention et le rôle que chacun fait jouer aux récompenses matérielles ou morales, les mesures disciplinaires utilisées pour contrôler les règles de vie, etc.Valeurs et sentiments des 2 à 5 ans: [comment parler des émotions avec notre enfant]
By Michael Schleifer, Cynthia Martiny, Nadia Tangorra. 2007
"Les enfants peuvent-ils parler des sentiments et des valeurs dès l'âge de 2 ans ? Bien sûr ! Mais qu'est-ce…
qu'un sentiment, une valeur, une valeur morale ? Qu'est-ce que l'empathie ? L'auteur nous invite à réfléchir tout en donnant des conseils pratiques sur la façon de développer un jugement sûr chez nos enfants. Ce livre s'adresse à tout éducateur - parent, grand-parent ou enseignant - qui, soucieux d'investir un temps de qualité auprès des jeunes enfants (qu'ils aient 1 mois ou 5 ans), souhaite leur inculquer des valeurs universelles telles que l'honnêteté, la politesse et la responsabilité. Au fil des exercices, contes et exemples contenus dans cet ouvrage, l'éducateur saura répondre de façon appropriée aux multiples interrogations de l'enfant. Il l'aidera à construire son autonomie morale et à accroître sa capacité de penser par lui-même." -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Talking about feelings and values with children.Parents-enfants
By Marie-Paule Mordefroid. 2008
Tous les parents rêvent d'une famille unie et paisible. Or, depuis l' âge du non jusqu'à la fin de l'adolescence,…
les occasions de confrontation entre enfants et parents ne manquent pas. D'une certaine manière, tout concourt à susciter les conflits au sein des familles, à commencer par les différences que l'on y observe : différences d'âge, de tempérament, de perception, de sensibilité, de langage [...]. Ce livre est tissé de témoignages recueillis auprès de pères et mères de famille ou puisés dans la propre expérience de l'auteur, mère de cinq enfants. Il met en perspective ces situations conflictuelles et montre comment des issues deviennent possibles lorsque le parent ajuste ses attitudes éducatives pour que l'enfant grandisse. Pas de recettes , mais des invitations argumentées à l'écoute, au dialogue, à la négociation peut-être, dans le respect de l'autre et de soi-même : une école de clarté, de patience et de courage, dans un juste exercice de l'autorité. -- 4e de couv."Dis maman, pourquoi on peut pas dire merde?"
By Joseph Messinger, Caroline Messinger. 2007
"Petits ou gros, comment déprogrammer les mots qui empoisonnent déjà l'avenir de votre enfant ? Comment traquer les tournures qui…
défigurent son image sociale ? Comment en finir avec ces expressions maudites qui gâcheront son existence d'adulte ? Apprendre à l'enfant à bien parler pour apprendre à bien penser, tel est l'objectif de ce livre, mais aussi lui permettre de maîtriser son discours et de l'adapter aux attentes de son entourage. Les mots ne peuvent pas tout mais ils peuvent beaucoup. Un livre de chevet pour tous les parents qui visent l'excellence pour leurs enfants." -- 4e de couv.1914: fight the good fight : Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War
By Allan Mallinson. 2013
Allan Mallinson has written a new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of…
what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. He explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer, its almost calamitous experience of the first 20 days' fighting in Flanders, and the point at which the BEF took up the pick and the spade in the middle of September 1914. 2013.100 days to victory: how the Great War was fought & won
By Saul David. 2013
The history of any war is more than a list of key battles, and Saul David shows vividly how the…
First World War reached beyond the battlefield, touching upon events and lives which shaped the conduct and outcome of the conflict. Ranging from the young Adolf Hitler's reaction to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, through a Zeppelin raid on Scarborough, the tragic dramas of Gallipoli and the battlefields of the Western Front to the individual bravery of the first Indian VC, Saul David brings people and events dramatically to life. 2013.Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania
By Erik Larson. 2015
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Germany had declared the…
seas around Britain to be a war zone, but the captain of the "Lusitania", William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the "Lusitania" made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. Bestseller. 2015.Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914
By Max Hastings. 2013
In 'Catastrophe', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St.…
Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalemates of later trench-warfare, but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age. 2013.Hands-on parenting: a resource guide for parents who are blind or partially sighted
By Debbie Bacon. 2006
Provides a wide range of practical information and resources for parents who are blind or partially sighted, including successful adaptations…
and strategies so that new parents don't have to re-invent the wheel. Developed by blind parent specialist Debbie Bacon, who is also a blind mother of three, from discussions with like parents from the U.S. and other countries. Topics include newborns, when your child is sick, feeding, toilet training, transportation, monitoring your child, child safety, toys and games, and working with professionals. c2006.Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
By Emma Hansen. 2020
“Still is one of those rare books that catches you up and does not let you go. With grace, courage,…
and honesty, Emma Hansen adds an important voice to this tragic and too-often silenced subject. I loved this book.” —Beth Powning, author of Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss A moving, candid account of one woman’s experience with stillbirth.Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and 6 days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still.Hansen gives birth to her son, Reid, amidst an avalanche of grief. Nine days later, she publishes a candid essay on her website sharing photos from the delivery room. Much to her surprise, her essay goes viral, sparking positive reactions around the world. Still shares what comes next: a struggle with grief and confusion alongside a desire to better understand stillbirth, which is experienced by more than two million women annually, but rarely talked about in public.At once honest, brave, and uplifting, Still is about one woman’s search for her own definition of motherhood, even as she faces one of life’s greatest challenges: learning to live after loss.What Is a Refugee?
By Elise Gravel. 2019
An accessible picture book that oh-so-simply and graphically introduces the term "refugee" to curious young children to help them better…
understand the world in which they live.Who are refugees? Why are they called that word? Why do they need to leave their country? Why are they sometimes not welcome in their new country? In this relevant picture book for the youngest children, author-illustrator Elise Gravel explores what it means to be a refugee in bold, graphic illustrations and spare text. This is the perfect tool to introduce an important and timely topic to children.