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River of time: A Memoir Of Vietnam
By Jon Swain. 1997
Account of the exodus in Vietnam and the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge, which Swain witnessed as a…
foreign correspondent in Indo-China from 1970-1975. Although shocked and horrified by the senseless killing around him, Swain admired and appreciated both the French colonists and native cultures he encountered. Descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. 1997.Reflexions sur la guerre, le mal et la fin de l'histoire: précédé de Les damnés de la guerre
By Bernard-Henri Levy. 2001
Est-ce la fin ou le retour de l'Histoire? Qu'y a-t-il dans la tête d'un kamikaze? Pourquoi Hegel et Kojève croyaient-ils…
que le Mal n'a plus d'avenir? Qu'a confié le commandant Ma ssoud à l'auteur en 1981 puis en 1998? Que disent les ruines de Sarajevo et de Manhattan? Comment un Normalien, disciple d'Althusser, se retrouve-t-il, à 20 ans, dans les maquis du Pakistan Oriental? Michel Foucault est-il meilleur journaliste qu'Hemingway? Pourquoi la guerre est-elle si "jolie" pour Proust, Apollinaire et Cocteau? Quand le monde a-t-il basculé de la logique de Clausewitz à celle d'Oussama Ben Laden? A quoi peut bien servir la philosophie dans les faubourg de Bogota et de Bujumbura? Suffirait-il, pour arrêter le massacre, de tendre la main aux damnés du tiers monde? Que veulent les terroristes?Rising in flames: Sherman's March and the fight for a new nation
By Jeff Dickey. 2018
The Civil War brought America to the brink of self-destruction, but it also created a new country from the ruins…
of the old one. Rich with despair and hope, this book tells the dramatic story of the Union's invasion of the Confederacy, and how this colossal struggle helped create a new nation from the embers of the Old South. 2018.Rising '44: the battle for Warsaw
By Norman Davies. 2004
Uses archives and interviews to chronicle the two-month rebellion by Polish Resistance against German occupation. Describes the nearby Soviet army's…
refusal to help and diplomatic disagreements among Poland's western Allies that led to the Poles' failure and Warsaw's destruction. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.Ressources inhumaines: les gardiens de camps de concentration et leurs loisirs 1933-1945 (Histoire)
By Fabrice D' Almeida. 2011
A partir des archives de la SS, l'historien étudie l'organisation du travail des gardiens de camps de concentration et d'extermination…
mise en place par Himmler et ses adjoints mais aussi la gestion de leurs loisirs pour éviter l'ennui et la démotivation. Prix Augustin-Thierry 2011.Return to Midway
By Robert D Ballard, Rick Archbold. 1999
Fifty-six years after the fateful World War II sea and air conflict, underwater explorer Ballard returns in search of the…
lost ships. Describes the events of June 4, 1942, and the author's discovery of sunken remains. 1999.Revenge of the land: a century of greed, tragedy, and murder on a Saskatchewan farm
By Maggie Siggins. 1991
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…
fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.Rescuing Patty Hearst: memories from a decade gone mad
By Virginia Holman. 2017
This memoir is Virginia Holman's stunning debut and winner of the Pushcart Prize in 2001. Virginia delves into the often…
painful, occasionally joyful, moments of her childhood with a schizophrenic mother. Through touching honesty and self-reflection, Virginia confronts memories of a life in which reality and fantasy gradually became difficult to separate. 2017.Red sky at sunrise
By Laurie Lee. 1992
This omnibus edition brings together the three volumes of this British author's autobiography. He takes us from his childhood years…
in Gloucestershire in the 1920s to his wanderings in pre-civil war Spain and then his participation in the International Brigade. That war changed him forever. 1992.Biography of musical genius Ray Charles, who was left sightless by glaucoma as a child. While a student at the…
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, Charles learned to read and write music in braille. Describes his personal and professional struggles, including drug addiction, as well as triumphs. For Junior and Senior High readers. c1994.Reading by touch
By Susanna Millar. 1997
Discusses a series of studies employing video recordings to analyze the exact hand and finger movements in both skilled and…
novice braillists. Such studies offer a useful approach to studying the development and interaction of linguistic skills of Braille readers. 1997.Rag cosmology
By Erin Robinsong. 2017
In this time of ecological precarity, "Rag Cosmology" is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes of engagement with the…
environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, "Rag Cosmology" counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and inner voices, wages of avoidance and wages of listening--these poems offer the intimate and lush language of thought that yearn for an imaginative reinvention of how we understand what we are part of and what we are losing. Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.Quand bien même je verrais: témoignage
By Sophie Massieu, Florence Montreynaud. 1998
Sophie Massieu est une personne extraordinaire. C'est une jolie jeune fille de vingt-trois ans, aveugle de naissance et qui a…
fait de brillantes études. Elle vit seule à Paris et a l'ambition de devenir journaliste de presse écrite. Son secret? Sa mère, qui a été présente à ses côtés sans s'imposer ni peser. 1998.Puppy training: the guide dogs way
By Julia Barnes. 2004
If you have ever seen a guide dog at work you will have been amazed by the level of training…
that produces such good behaviour. But now every owner can transform that lively, mischievous puppy into a beautifully-trained adult. 2004.Pumpkinflowers: a soldier's story
By Matti Friedman. 2016
Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small,…
unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East. 2016.Pursuit: the chase and sinking of the Bismarck
By Ludovic Kennedy. 1974
Probably inevitable
By Matthew Frederick Tierney. 2012
A collection of high-energy poems jolted by the philosophy and science of time. Sailing through the rhythms of a world…
made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr, Tierney uses his wit and legerdemain to grapple with the gap between what's seen and what's experienced. Winner of the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. c2012.Pour l'amour de Massoud: document
By Sediqa Massoud, Chékéba Hachemi, Marie-Françoise Colombani. 2005
Massoud. Ce nom évoque l'homme qui a résisté dans les montagnes d'Afghanistan contre les Soviétiques, puis contre les talibans. Le…
héros assassiné par les extrémistes de l'Islam, le 9 septembre 2001, deux jours avant les attentats du World Trade Center. Ce témoignage exceptionnel est celui de la femme que Massoud a aimée, épousée dans le plus grand secret, et avec qui il a eu six enfants. Sediqa Massoud nous révèle ici la face cachée d'un grand chef de guerre, visionnaire, épris de liberté, que le monde entier respecte et dont la vie personnelle reste à ce jour un mystère. 2005.Prairie fires: the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Caroline Fraser. 2017
Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived…
blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser - the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series - masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books and uncovering the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life. Set against nearly a century of epochal change, from the Homestead Act and the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. 2017.Glaucoma: the complete guide : a patient handbook
By Tina T Wong. 2011
One of the world's leading experts helps you navigate through glaucoma from diagnosis to the many treatment options. This landmark…
patient handbook stands out as both authoritative and readable, providing the critical information necessary to help patients. 2011.