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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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.By Sheilla Jones. 2008
The seeds of the shift currently taking place in science were sown years ago, in 1925-7. That's when a dramatic…
two-year revolution in physics reached a climax, and scientists are still trying to resolve the problem, started then, of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. Describes the rush to formalize quantum physics, the work of just a handful of men fired by ambition, philosophical conflicts and personal agendas. c2008.By Keath Fraser. 2002
For twenty years, the author battled a rare disorder that caused him agonizing episodes of broken speech, leading to the…
loss of his voice. Mislead by the medical profession, convinced that the problem was psychological, Fraser finally received a proper diagnosis and found some relief with Botox, a drug mainly used to smooth out wrinkles. He then set out around the world to find others like himself, and to record in this memoir the wonders and frailties of the human voice. Some strong language. 2002.By Christine Marion Fraser. 1980
Christine Marion Fraser was born into a large, poor family in the Govan district of Glasgow during the 1950s. At…
the age of 10 she contracted a rare and horrifying disease which led to many months in hospital and her eventual confinement in a wheelchair. Even this, however, did not spoil her warmth and huge enjoyment of life.By Paul Kalanithi. 2016
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi…
was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality. Bestseller. 2016.By Deborah Heiligman. 2009
Portrays the private life of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), a public proponent of evolution. Discusses his marriage to devout Emma Wedgwood…
(1808-1896) and their lifelong debate over natural selection versus Christian creationism. Covers his work habits, bad health, and dedication to family. For junior and senior high and older readers. Printz Honor, National Book Award Finalist. 2009.By Eric Lax. 2004
Describes how in 1940 Oxford scientists Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, and Norman Heatley developed an antibiotic wonder drug from the…
mold discovered by Alexander Fleming twelve years earlier. Explains penicillin's lifesaving impact on treating infections, especially of World War II soldiers. Covers the controversy surrounding the 1945 Nobel Prize. 2004.By Michael Bliss. 1992
By Maxine Trottier. 2004
True stories of five Canadians whose inventions changed the world: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; James Naismith, who…
thought up the game of basketball; Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who built the first snowmobile; Rachel Zimmerman, inventor of the Blissymbol printer; and Mike Lazaridis, who came up with the BlackBerry. Grades 2-4. 2004.Chris Hadfield decided to become an astronaut after watching the Apollo moon landing with his family on Stag Island, Ontario,…
when he was nine years old, when it was impossible for Canadians to be astronauts. In 2013, he served as Commander of the International Space Station orbiting the earth during a five-month mission. Fulfilling this lifelong dream required intense focus, natural ability and a singular commitment to “thinking like an astronaut.” Hadfield gives us an insider’s perspective on just what that kind of thinking involves, and how earthbound humans can use it to achieve success and happiness in their lives. Bestseller. 2013.