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Trouble tête: journal intime d'une dépression
By Mathilde Monaque. 2006
A 14 ans, Mathilde va mal. Diagnostic : dépression. En quittant l'hôpital, elle ne comprend toujours pas les raisons de…
cette souffrance, mais elle sait pourquoi elle doit vivre. Elle écrit ce récit lumineux et tendre pour nous dire qu'on peut s'en sortir. La dépression de l'adolescent n'a rien à voir avec celle de l'adulte. Elle n'entraîne pas de sentiment de culpabilité. C'est plutôt un séisme : un bouleversement des certitudes, la peur d'être soi, la crainte de ne pas aimer et de ne pas être aimé. Mathilde est une adolescente " surdouée ". Cela ne veut pas dire qu'elle est plus intelligente, mais qu'elle emmagasine davantage d'émotions et de perceptions que les autres. Ainsi Mathilde peut décrire, avec une sensibilité à vif et une écriture lucide, l'univers d'une jeune fille qui se fracasse contre la vie. Un document d'espoir. Le premier témoignage sur la dépression écrit par une adolescente. En fin d'ouvrage, Jeanne Siaud-Facchin, qui a suivi Mathilde à sa sortie de l'hôpital, apporte son regard de psychologue sur l'adolescence, la dépression, la précocité.Cyber criminalité: enquête sur les mafias qui envahissent le Web
By Éric Filiol, Philippe Richard. 2006
Les temps sont révolus où les menaces informatiques se limitaient aux virus créés par des étudiants isolés. Aujourd'hui, les cybercriminels…
sont de plus en plus organisés, leurs stratégies plus ciblées et leurs armes plus sophistiquées. Internet se criminalise, et le plus inquiétant est à venir. Cet ouvrage est d'abord une mise en garde contre toutes les escroqueries qui menacent aujourd'hui tant les particuliers que les entreprises. Il vous fournira toutes les informations utiles sur le phishing, le spam, les virus, l'ingénierie sociale, les vols de données bancaires, l'espionnage industriel, la prise de contrôle de machines à distance, etc. Les derniers chapitres constituent un cri d'alerte sur les nouvelles formes de criminalité (voire de terrorisme) qui émergent aujourd'hui et vont se répandre sur le Net dans les prochaines années. -- 4e de couvL'autobiographie (Science ouverte)
By Charles Darwin. 2008
Comment un jeune bourgeois victorien, plutôt paresseux et porté sur la chasse, en est-il venu à révolutionner la biologie avec…
sa théorie de l'évolution des espèces ? Cette brève autobiographie, écrite à l'intention de ses enfants sur le ton de la confidence, est le texte le plus intime et le plus révélateur qu'ait laissé Charles Darwin. S'y mêlent son voyage autour du monde et ses problèmes de santé, son mariage et les débats suscités par sa théorie, les autoportraits du gamin espiègle et du vieux sage respecté, ainsi que le drame d'une foi religieuse désorientée par le hasard des lois naturelles. Cette édition, première traduction française exhaustive du travail de Nora Barlow, petite fille de Charles Darwin, complète l'autobiographie de nombreux documents essentiels, et fait la part des ajouts et suppressions qui ont affecté ce texte justement célèbre. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882.Spring will come
By William N Zulu. 2005
The life story of William Zulu, a linocut artist, highly acclaimed for his evocative art-works. Having contracted spinal TB as…
a baby, William underwent misplaced corrective surgery to his spine in his late teens which left him paralysed and permanently wheelchair bound. But William's story is no victim's litany; it recounts with zest and humour the events of his life, his unfolding artistic development and the world of deep rural Africa in which he is rooted. 2005.Silent witnesses: a history of forensic science
By Nigel McCrery. 2013
'Silent Witnesses' looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of…
remarkable intuition, painstaking observation, and leaps in scientific knowledge have developed this fascinating branch of detection. 2013.The secret
By Deric Henderson. 2016
May 1991 in the seaside town of Castlerock in Northern Ireland and the bodies of two people, police officer Trevor…
Buchanan and nurse Lesley Howell, are found in a car filled with carbon monoxide. The pair have apparently taken their own lives, unable to live with the pain of their spouses’ affair with each other. Their adulterous spouses, Sunday school teacher Hazel Buchanan and dentist Colin Howell, continued their affair secretly but both later remarried other people. A series of disasters in Howell's life made him reveal that he and Hazel Stewart had conspired to murder their spouses nearly two decades earlier. That confession led to two of the most sensational murder trials ever seen in the UK. 2016. Uniform title: Let this be our secretForensics: the anatomy of crime (Wellcome Ser.)
By Val McDermid. 2014
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived,…
how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can use a corpse, the scene of a crime or a single hair to unlock the secrets of the past and allow justice to be done. Bestselling crime author Val McDermid draws on interviews with top-level professionals to delve, in her own inimitable style, into the questions and mysteries that surround this fascinating science. 2014.Into the past: a memoir
By Phillip V Tobias. 2005
Tobias focuses on the first 40 years of his life: from his troubled childhood in Durban and Bloemfontein to his…
intense student days at Wits University (where he also taught from 1945 until his retirement in 1993) and the prolific research, correspondence and travels of his early career. He vividly recounts his interactions with some of the great names in twentieth century science as well as their impact on him. Through his dedication to the people of Africa, Tobias opens windows on the San (or Bushmen) of Botswana, the Tonga of Zambia, and he recounts his role in the fight against racism during the harrowing decades of South Africa's apartheid regime. 2005.Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world (Women in Science)
By Rachel Ignotofsky. 2016
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,…
from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual. Grades 4-7. 2016.The perfection of hope: a soul transformed by critical illness
By Elizabeth Simpson. 1997
Elizabeth Simpson reflects on her life since her cancer diagnosis in 1994. After surviving a potentially lethal treatment, which put…
her into remission, she began to seek out alternative therapies and changed her lifestyle drastically. She also began writing the stories in this book, exploring the idea that hope is a powerful medicine itself. 1997.Dinosaur hunters: uncovering the hidden remains of Canada's ancient giants (Amazing stories)
By Lisa Murphy-Lamb. 2003
Dinosaur hunters are tough, observant, and tenacious. They have to be in order to survive the gritty heat of badlands,…
swarms of mosquitoes, and extreme conditions. This collection of biographies includes the story of the first dinosaur bone found on Canadian soil, as well as the recent exciting discoveries by the Royal Tyrrell's Dr. Philip Currie. Grades 5-8. 2003.British Columbia murders: mysteries, crimes and scandals (Amazing stories)
By Susan McNicoll. 2003
Six of British Columbia's most notorious murders are recounted in these gripping stories of betrayal and intrigue. From the tragic…
murder of Molly Justice to the unsolved mystery of Janet Smith's untimely death, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.Ontario murders: Mysteries, Scandals, And Dangerous Criminals (Amazing stories)
By Susan McNicoll. 2004
Six chilling stories of notorious Ontario murders are recounted in this collection. From the pretty but dangerous Evelyn Dick to…
the mysterious murder of one of the Fathers of Confederation, Thomas D'Darcy McGee, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.Touching the earth
By Roberta Lynn Bondar. 1994
Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman to travel in space. The book provides an inside look at her experiences…
as an astronaut, from the training at NASA to the actual take-off aboard the space shuttle "Discovery" in January 1992. Details of her journey in space are presented with a message of hope for harmony with our surroundings. c1994.The Massey murder: a maid, her master and the trial that shocked a country
By Charlotte Gray. 2013
In February 1915, a member of one of Canada’s wealthiest families was shot and killed on the front porch of…
his home in Toronto as he was returning from work. Carrie Davies, an 18-year-old domestic servant, quickly confessed. But who was the real victim here? Charles “Bert” Massey, scion of a famous and privileged family, or the frightened, perhaps mentally unstable Carrie, a penniless British immigrant? When the brilliant lawyer Hartley Dewart, QC, took on her case, his grudge against the powerful Masseys would fuel a sensational trial. Winner of the 2015 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2013.The neuroscientist who lost her mind: my tale of madness and recovery
By Elaine McArdle, Barbara K Lipska. 2018
In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness--was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to…
her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors figured out what was happening, the immunotherapy they had prescribed began to work. Just eight weeks after her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity. Lipska describes her extraordinary ordeal and its lessons about the mind and brain. She explains how mental illness, brain injury, and age can change our behavior, personality, cognition, and memory. She tells what it is like to experience these changes firsthand. And she reveals what parts of us remain, even when so much else is gone. 2018.The sun does shine: how I found life and freedom on death row
By Bryan Stevenson, Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin. 2018
A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became…
a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration. Bestseller. 2018.Stark choices: a surgeon's story
By Jaroslav F Stark. 2016
Czechoslovakia, 1968. Jarda Stark had a promising career as a heart surgeon ahead of him. His future seemed assured. But…
all was to change abruptly as the Russian tanks rolled in to crush the Prague Spring of 1968 and the family had a skin-of-their-teeth escape from the Communist authorities as they fled to the West. He soon found a place as a paediatric cardiac surgeon in the world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. He saved countless lives, received international honours and co-wrote a textbook regarded as a bible of paediatric cardiac surgery. 2016.Words in my hands: a teacher, a deaf-blind man, an unforgettable journey
By Diane P Chambers. 2005
A true story of a sign language teacher's encounter with Bert Riedel, an 86-year-old pianist who lost his hearing and…
sight at age 45. By learning hand-over-hand signing, Bert was able to experience a life renewal, and at the same time, Bert's teacher underwent a personal transformation. 2005.Mary, Mary, nurse contrary: the life of Mary Alicia Hodkinson 1912-1995
By Anne Bradley. 1997
Nurse Mary Alicia Hodkinson became a pioneer in geriatric care, bringing dignity and fullness of living to the end of…
life. A whirlwind of energy and courage, she fought to dispel apathy, old assumptions and accretions on outworn nursing systems. To bring dignity and fullness of living to the end of life was her aim. Her story will encourage and inspire all who wish to bring such blessings to those in their care. 1997.