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By Rose Rioux-Durette. 1990
Une jeune aveugle dans la France du 19e siècle
By Zina Weygand, Catherine Kudlick, Thérèse-Adèle Husson. 2005
Lorsque la jeune Adèle commença à dicter ses Réflexions sur la condition des aveugles en 1825, elle n'était probablement pas…
consciente d'accomplir un acte révolutionnaire. Et pourtant ! Femme et aveugle dans la société oppressive du XIXème siècle, elle nous livre là un témoignage qui interroge notre vision du passé, nos hiérarchies sociales, nos valeurs, les notions modernes de citoyenneté, les relations entre individu et sensorialité. 2004.Une enfance bleu-blanc-rouge
By Gilles Archambault, Marc Robitaille. 2000
Un collectif rend ici hommage au hockey d'antan. Les auteurs dont plusieurs sont des personnalités québécoises racontent leurs souvenirs d'enfance,…
représentant les valeurs sociales de ce sport: contact humain, réconfort, refuge, prétexte, catalyseur, soupape, rêves de gloire, objet de discussions animées. 2000.Understanding low vision
By Randall T Jose. 1983
A thorough review that covers fundamentals, assessment, clinical services, training and instructional services, and future directions. The author establishes a…
framework for understanding the impact of low vision on functioning, learning, and psychosocial status. Special sections contain chapters, reports, technical materials, curriculum guides, resources, and questionnaires by experts from 21 areas. 1983.Tropic of hockey: my search for the game in unlikely places
By Dave Bidini. 2000
Author, musician, and hockey fan Bidini decided to seek out Canada's export sport in the far corners of the world.…
His quest led him to a rink on the eighth floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, the gritty city of Harbin in northern China, to Dubai and even Transylvania. He discovers that hockey is a powerful connector around the world, and glories in its exhilaration and moments of grace. Some strong language. 2000.Tough calls: NHL referees and linesmen tell their story
By Dick Irvin. 1997
Touching the rock: an experience of blindness
By John M Hull. 1990
In 1983 John Hull, a lecturer at Birmingham University, was forced to accept that he was blind. This book tells…
of his exploration of the "other world" of blindness. He reveals how every human experience, eating and lovemaking, playing with children and buying drinks in the University bar, is transformed. 1990.Tom & Bear: the training of a guide dog team
By Richard B McPhee. 1981
A day-to-day description of the training of 12 guide dogs and their masters at Guiding Eyes for the Blind in…
Yorktown Heights, New York. Useful to readers of any age who are interested in obtaining a guide dog. Grades 5-8. 1981.Tiger: a hockey story
By James Lawton, Tiger Williams. 1984
Williams, raised in small-town Saskatchewan, has played professional hockey in Toronto, Vancouver and Detroit. In this book, he describes the…
realities of life for a hockey player who literally had to fight to get to the top of his profession. c1984.They call me Gump
By Gump Worsley, Tim Moriarty. 1975
The world through blunted sight: an inquiry into the influence of defective vision on art and character (New aspects of art)
By Patrick D Trevor-Roper. 1970
Discusses the effect of various visual disorders upon personality and the visual arts. Each type of eye ailment is explained…
and related to examples from the work of famous artists. 1970.The stick: a history, a celebration, an elegy
By Bruce Dowbiggin. 2001
Consider the London schoolteacher whose basement is a treasure trove of old sticks, the Calgary handyman who turns broken ones…
into children's furniture, or the NHL owner whose rec room floor is made of hockey sticks. The hockey stick, from the earliest ones carved from tree-roots by the Mi'kmaqs of Nova Scotia to today's scientifically precise models, is an iconic symbol of the place that gave it birth, a tangible bit of Canadian culture, a link to Canada's past. Dowbiggin introduces us to the people and legends of the distinctly Canadian stick. 2001.The status of Canadian youth who are blind or visually impaired: a study of lifestyles, quality of life and employment
By Deborah Gold, Alexander Shaw, Helen Simson. 2005
A comprehensive study of the lifestyles of Canadian youth, ages 15 to 30, living with vision loss. Covers social life,…
leisure and recreation, employment, and education. Discussed the dreams and goals of the participants, and whether they felt their vision loss affected their ability to reach their goals, and what other obstacles, if any, they had experienced along the way. 2005.The stolen light (Continents of exile. #6.)
By Ved Mehta. 1989
This volume of Ved Mehta's ambitious project to document his own life story deals with the author's experiences at college,…
and his young and illuminating adulthood in California. Ved, who set out to prove himself as a blind student among the sighted, refused to acknowledge gloomy predictions for his future made by `specialists'. Ved Mehta manages at least in part, to reconcile the conflicting forces of the Indian and American, sighted and unsighted worlds. Sequel to "Sound-shadows of the new world" (DC28717). 1989. (Continents of exile ; 6)The politics of blindness: from charity to parity
By Graeme McCreath. 2011
Examines the conventional approaches to numerous problems that affect people who are blind, such as education, Braille literacy, economic inequities,…
stereotyping, job training and employment opportunities, poverty, rehabilitation and social services. c2011.The physics of hockey
By Alain Haché. 2002
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play hockey, but consider this: the same universal principles that sent…
men to the moon also go into launching a slapshot, crashing into the boards, accelerating across the blue line, or cutting down a shooter's angle. The author, a physicist, explores and explains the science behind the game, including how a sharpened blade glides on ice, or why Bobby Hull's slapshot zipped through the atmosphere so much faster than his modern counterparts' did. Haché even includes explanations on how a Zamboni works. 2002.The mind's eye
By Oliver W Sacks. 2010
Neurologist uses case studies to illustrate the brain’s ability to adapt to lost senses. Discusses a concert pianist who can…
no longer read music, a writer who is unable to read print after suffering a stroke, and Sacks’s own macular melanoma and its effects on his visual perception. 2010.The ledge between the streams (Continents of exile. #4.)
By Ved Mehta. 1984
As a blind nine year old, the author once held a hand in each of two, very different streams: a…
symbolic experience which he has carried with him all his life. He writes of his adolescent years between 1940 and 1949 and of how he became aware of the disparate currents flowing through his own life and that of his country. Sequel to "Vedi" (DC28720). 1984. (Continents of exile ; 4)Young Leafs: the making of a new hockey history
By Gare Joyce. 2017
Auston Matthews made history on October 12, 2016 by becoming the first player in the modern game to score four…
goals in his NHL debut. It was a momentous occasion for the talented young All-Star, but it was equally important for his newly adopted city and its storied, century-old team. That night marked the dawn of a new era for the Toronto Maple Leafs. The team had a long and colourful history, and it had always been foundational to the city's image. But years of losing seasons had tarnished the team's reputation and left even the most diehard fans questioning their loyalty. It seemed that each passing year brought more of the same: more mediocrity, more heartbreak, more disappointment. But the team's management had a plan, one that would take them where others feared to go: a total rebuild. Piece by piece, they were assembling a group of young, talented players who would reshape the team. 2017.You don't have to be blind to see
By Jim Stovall. 1996
The author, blind before the age of thirty as a result of juvenile macular degeneration, encourages others to achieve through…
their dreams. Using examples from his own life, Stovall suggests that people can succeed by changing the way they think. He recommends that once a path is decided, people should find mentors to help them along the way. c1996.