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By Albert Einstein. 1979
Il n'est personne dans le monde qui n'ait un jour entendu prononcer le nom d'Einstein. Son génie à fait l'unanimité.…
Il aura fallu la Seconde guerre mondiale et toutes ses conséquences pour laisser entrevoir un personnage d'une humanité exemplaire et profondément pacifique. À l'origine de ce livre, se trouve un certain nombre d'articles et de textes scientifiques d'Einstein revus et traduits par Maurice Solovine, un grand ami de l'auteur. Dans la première partie de ce recueil, on trouve les positions très nettes du savant dans le domaine social, religieux, politique et économique. Une large place est ensuite accordée à ses études scientifiques. 1989, c1979.By Marie Nimier. 2004
Marie Nimier, auteur de huit romans, ose avec ce nouveau livre s'attacher à la figure de son père, Roger Nimier.…
Elle explore l'amas de tôles froissées, interrogeant avec gravité le destin de cet écrivain que ses amis décrivent tour à tour, et parfois simultanément, comme un être désinvolte, sérieux, menteur, loyal, tendre, indifférent et malhabile de ses sentiments comme on est maladroit de ses mains. 2004.By Margaret Gillies Brown. 1999
The Gillies family immigrated to Canada in the 1950s. This book takes up the story of their return to Scotland,…
to live on a farm on the Carse of Gowrie. The text describes the ebb and flow of life as a farmer's wife with eventually seven children. 1999.By John Geiger. 2002
The true story of how the discovery of flicker potentials, and scientific observations about strange patterns, organized hallucinations, and even…
the displacement of time derived from stroboscopic light, nearly resulted in a Dream Machine in every home. 2002.By Hilary Place. 1999
In the 1880's, J.S. Place came to Dog Creek, where he amassed a frontier empire that included land, cattle, horses,…
hotels, a store, a flourmill and a sawmill; but soon after his grandson Hilary was born, J.S. lost it all. In this memoir, Hilary tells of his family's hard times as they worked to regain their heritage and of the changes in the Cariboo as the 20th century progressed. He profiles unforgettable characters and events from this long-gone but once thriving community. 1999.By June Cameron. 1999
As a child in the 1930's, the author began taking part in an annual voyage with her family, from Vancouver…
to Cortez Island, in a 36-foot wooden boat. This went on for almost two decades. In this memoir, she recalls the trips and the history and folklore of Cortez Island and the BC coast. 1999.By Irene Morck. 1999
A memoir of growing up in Alberta early in the 1900's. These stories, about trips to the general store, school,…
working a farm, and the occasional falling cow, were told to the author by her father. Filled with details about pioneer life, each story is tinged with the perception and wonder of a young boy. 1999.By Christopher Rush. 2008
Christopher Rush grew up in a small fishing village on the east coast of Scotland in the 1940s and 50s.…
In this memoir he brings back to life a world now vanished, creating a tale of folklore and fishing, fathers and sons, motherly love, church and school. 2007.By Marianne Leone. 2010
Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and…
was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen. In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse's mother, Marianne Leone, chronicles her transformation by the remarkable life and untimely death of her child. 2010.By Candice Bergen. 1984
Daughter of the famed Edgar Bergen, chronicles her fairy-tale life, along with its dark sides, from her childhood to the…
present. She tells about always living in the limelight and her childhood rivalry with Charlie McCarthy, her wooden "brother." 1984.By Maria Mutch. 2014
As a baby, Gabriel’s first words and affinity for sign language enthralled his adoring parents. When these words fell away,…
and his medical diagnoses multiplied, Maria Mutch committed herself entirely to her son’s care. Then, for about two years, Gabriel slept very little, drawing mother and son into a nocturnal existence of almost constant wakefulness. Here Maria shares the intensely personal challenges and revelations brought about by this period. As Gabriel’s sleeping hours dwindled, care took place within an isolated, often frightening world, in which Maria’s desire for connection and meaning expanded. Maria illuminates a search for love, understanding and comfort against the terrors of the unknown that will resonate with anyone who has lain awake in the dark, or longed to protect a loved one. 2014.By Christopher Isherwood. 1971
A portrait of the author's parents and their late Victorian romance, based on Kathleen's diary and Frank's letters. This story…
of a happy marriage is interspersed with the author's comments, which reveal not only his parents' characters and times but also much of his own personality. 1971.By Bill Gaston. 2018
Sons clash with fathers, particularly with towering, authoritarian figures like Gaston Senior. Fairly or unfairly, sons look for reasons to…
rebel, particularly against boring suburban fathers who seem to prize conformity above all else. And fairly or unfairly, sons judge their fathers when they can't handle their booze. But even a father and son as doomed to clash as Gaston and his father could fish together. When Gaston's father dies, this is the memory of his father that he keeps alive. In the years that follow, however, he learns more about his father's realtionship with his father. It too was marked by heavy drinking, though it took a much darker turn. What Gaston comes to realize is that the man his younger self had been so eager to judge was in fact capable of near-heroic feats of self-mastery. And as a father of grown sons himself, he acutely feels the wounds he must have inflicted years before by withholding so much he now knows that fathers long for. 2018.By Barbara Harshav, Israel Zamir. 1995
Profile of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer by his son, Israel Zamir. Abandoned by his father in 1935, Zamir initiates…
contact with Singer twenty years later in New York. Slowly and with much difficulty, father and son forge a relationship despite profound differences in philosophy, spirituality, and politics. Zamir eventually agrees to translate his father's works from Yiddish to Hebrew. 1995. Uniform title: Avi, Yitsḥaḳ Bashevis-Zinger.By Chelene Knight. 2018
From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of…
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry non-chronological memories of trying to fit in with her own family as the only mixed East Indian/Black child, to crystal clear recollections of parental drug use, Knight draws a vivid portrait of memory that still longs for a place and a home. Peering through windows and doors into intimate, remembered spaces now occupied by strangers, Knight writes to them in order to deconstruct her own past. From the rubble of memory she then builds a real place in order to bring herself back home. 2018.By Page Lambert. 1996
A woman chronicles her family's harsh, yet fulfilling, life on a Wyoming ranch. Celebrates their connection with the land and…
nature, while lamenting the passing of family traditions in the modern world. 1996.By James Herriot. 1997
Ten of James Herriot's stories about the creatures in the world of his veterinary practice. The characters include Herbert the…
orphan lamb, Dorothy the goat, and the incomparable Tricki Woo, Esq. 1997.By Sarah Saffian. 1998
New York journalist shares her feelings about being contacted by her birthmother at the age of twenty-four. The letters between…
Saffian and her birthparents, who had eventually married each other and had three more children, illustrate her initial reluctance to embrace this new family and her journey to being reunited with them. 1998.By Mark Anthony Jarman. 2002
On August 28, 1922, thousands of Dubliners came to pay respects to Michael Collins, the martyred Irish revolutionary, while elsewhere…
in the same city on the same afternoon, Michael Lyons, a cooper who worked for Guinness and author Jarman's grandfather, inexplicably drowned in the Grand Canal. These events became the seed for this combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, which relates the events of author Jarman's visits to Ireland, his family's past, and Ireland's bloody political history. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.By Philip Ball. 2014
If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it…
a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. The story of invisibility is not so much a matter of how it might be achieved but of why we want it and what we would do with it. 2015, c2014.