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Ma vie avec ces animaux qui guérissent
By Victor-Lévy Beaulieu. 2010
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu raconte son vécu " du bord des bêtes ", des anecdotes, du vécu vrai, de l'échinement sur la…
terre rocheuse du rang Rallonge à Saint-Jean-de-Dieu à la fermette peuplée de bien bon monde qu'il a construite le long de la route nationale à Notre-Dame-des-Neiges... 2010.Ce que les chimpanzés m'ont appris
By Daniel Paquette. 2014
Voici une histoire peu ordinaire. L'auteur de ce livre a eu la chance incroyable d'élever quatre bébés chimpanzés qui ont…
aujourd'hui plus de 35 ans, du moins pour les deux qui sont toujours vivants. L'éthologue Daniel Paquette nous raconte comment sa rencontre avec Spock, Sophie, Merlin et Maya a affecté positivement sa vie, au plan personnel et au plan professionnel dans le choix de ses projets de recherche sur les enfants. Il parle de son expérience en tant que mère pour ces chimpanzés et en tant que père pour ses propres enfants. Ce livre est aussi et surtout une initiation à la théorie de l'attachement, une théorie centrale en psychologie pour comprendre le développement socioaffectif.Curieuses histoires de plantes du Canada
By Alain Asselin, Jacques Cayouette, Jacques Mathieu. 2014
Le Vinland que les Vikings visitent vers l'an 1000 pourrait-il se situer dans la région de Québec ? En 1534,…
Jacques Cartier décrit l'usage du maïs, du tabac et d'une mystérieuse plante, l'annedda, qui guérirait du scorbut et de la syphilis. Mais quel est donc ce miraculeux conifère ? Quel usage fait-on de la gomme de sapin dans les églises en Europe ? Quelle sorte de chapelet mangeaient donc les Amérindiens ? Il est stimulant de constater que plusieurs questions concernant les premières observations des plantes canadiennes demeurent sans réponse et requièrent encore des efforts de recherche. Cette histoire détaillée, palpitante et pleine de rebondissements, est aussi riche en informations scientifiques, culturelles et historiques souvent méconnues. 2014.Brève histoire du progrès (Constantes)
By Ronald Wright, Marie-Cécile Brasseur. 2006
La croissance effrénée de la population humaine, de la consommation et de la technologie au XXe siècle a imposé à…
la planète un fardeau. Dans cet essai, Ronald Wright soutient que ce fâcheux dilemme du monde moderne est en fait aussi vieux que la civilisation. L'histoire a en effet prouvé que le progrès, quel qu'il soit, mène directement à l'échec et à l'anéantissement. 2006.Orr: my story
By Bobby Orr. 2013
Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. No defenseman had ever…
played the way he did, or received so many trophies, or set so many records, several of which still stand today. He has never written a memoir, authorized a biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now he is finally ready to tell his story. Bestseller. 2013.One well: the story of water on Earth (Into Reading, Trade Book)
By Rochelle Strauss, Rosemary Woods. 2007
Explains how water is recycled, and describes its distribution on Earth, with information about various species in various places, from…
coral reefs to the Bering Glacier in Alaska. Warns about pollution and its causes, the number of people affected, and how people can conserve water in daily life. An afterword provides further information on what can be done now to change things. Grades 4-7. 2007.Open heart, open mind
By Clara Hughes. 2015
From one of Canada’s most decorated Olympians comes a raw but life-affirming story of one woman’s struggle with mental illness.…
After more than a decade in the gruelling world of professional sports that stripped away her confidence and bruised her body, Clara Hughes began to realize that her physical extremes, her emotional setbacks, and her partying habits were masking a severe depression. After winning bronze in the last speed skating race of her career, she decided to retire from that sport, determined to repair herself. She has emerged as one of our most committed humanitarians, advocating for a variety of social causes in Canada and around the world. Bestseller. 2015.One soldier's story: a memoir
By Robert J Dole. 2005
Former senator from Kansas describes his enlistment into the elite U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division as a lieutenant during World…
War II. Chronicles the April 14, 1945, battle in Italy that paralyzed him, his long recovery, first marriage, and entry into civilian life and the political sphere. Bestseller. 2005.Jamais sans mon chien: 40 récits étonnants : [leçons de vie inspirantes et authentiques]
By Marie-Claude Roy. 2015
" Jamais sans mon chien présente plusieurs récits étonnants où des personnes de tous les horizons vous racontent à quel…
point leur chien a radicalement changé leur vie pour le mieux. Grâce à leur fidèle compagnon, des gens ont eu la vie sauve dans des circonstances tragiques, certains ont trouvé l'âme soeur, d'autres ont réintégré la société, traversé des épreuves plus facilement et plusieurs ont une meilleure qualité de vie. À travers ces histoires vraies, vous découvrirez aussi les habiletés extraordinaires des chiens permettant de retracer des personnes disparues, de trouver des liasses de billets de banque, des drogues, de pallier à des handicaps chez leur maître, d'anticiper des crises d'épilepsie, des crises de panique, des baisses de taux de sucre, etc. " -- 4e de couv.One Native life
By Richard Wagamese. 2008
Wagamese's look back at the long road he traveled in reclaiming his identity, and about what he's learned as a…
human being, a man, and an Ojibway. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, listening to the wind, or meeting Johnny Cash, these are stories told in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese shows how to appreciate life for the remarkable learning journey it is. Explicit descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2008.One day closer: a mother's quest to bring her kidnapped daughter home
By Lorinda Stewart. 2017
On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand was simple: pay millions or…
Amanda would be killed. For the next 460 days, Amanda’s mother, Lorinda Stewart, did everything in her power to get her daughter back alive. What was supposed to be a short negotiation stretched on, and weeks became months. As negotiations broke down, Lorinda found herself increasingly on her own. But she never gave up hope, even when the phone calls became more traumatic. Faced with the terrible possibility of her daughter’s death, Lorinda decided to bring in a private security company and raise money from donors to support the cause of bringing Amanda home. But would it be enough? Bestseller. 2017.One man's owl
By Bernd Heinrich. 1987
A detailed diary of the author's three-year relationship with a great horned owl that he rescued during a storm. The…
author's personal and scientific study of the animal's behaviour in a semi-wild environment combines with reflections of natural history and philosophical musings. c1987.On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century
By Timothy Snyder. 2017
"We are rapidly ripening for fascism. This American writer leaves us with no illusions about ourselves." -Svetlana Alexievich, Winner of…
the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Bestseller. 2017.Oil spill: disaster
By Mona Chiang. 2010
On April 20, 2010, disaster struck in the Gulf of Mexico - the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, causing…
one of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history. More than a million gallons of oil leaked into the water each day for months, as the oil company BP tried to stop it and scientists and emergency response crews tried to repair the damage. What caused this disaster and how can we stop it from happening again? Learn the answers to these questions and more as you find out about the oil spill, relief efforts, and the future of energy use. Grades 4-7. 2010.Of time and place
By Sigurd F Olson. 1982
Now you know Canada: 150 years of fascinating facts (Now You Know Ser. #21)
By Doug Lennox. 2017
Just in time for Canada's 150th birthday is this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history,…
famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and everything in between. In these pages, you'll learn the answers to questions like: Where did the word "Canuck" come from? How did an aristocratic French girl become a Canadian Robinson Crusoe? Why do Canadian engineers wear iron rings? What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic? Who was the first Black woman elected to Canada's Parliament? What unlikely team beat Canada for the gold medal for hockey in the 1936 Winter Olympics? How did the Halifax Explosion occur? Bestseller. 2017.Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence: The Soft Intelligence (Undersea discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.)
By Jacques Cousteau, Philippe Diolé. 1973
This study of the two most feared and misunderstood marine life forms is the result of Cousteau's twenty year research.…
Besides debunking the myths surrounding these gentle creatures, Cousteau discusses their life cycle and habits. 1973. Uniform title: Pieuvres.La vie entière: histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde
By Pierre Morency. 1996
L'oeil américain: histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde
By Pierre Morency. 1989
L'auteur a tiré un livre d'une série d'émissions radiophoniques diffusées à Radio-Canada. Il décrit la nature américaine, ses espèces indigènes…
ou importées en une vingtaine de textes qui s'attachent à mettre en évidence l'exubérance de la flore et de la faune, en particulier celle des insectes et surtout des oiseaux. Il met à contribution le folklore et accueille la fiction. 1989.North on the wing: travels with the songbird migration of spring
By Bruce McP Beehler. 2018
In March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo three-month trek to track songbird migration and the…
northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers and other Neotropical songbird species from Texas to Ontario. Beehler describes both the epic migration of songbirds across the country and the gradual dawning of springtime through the US heartland. 2018.