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Urgence planète Terre: l'esprit humain face à la crise écologique
By Jean-Marc Mendel, Albert Gore, Claude Badens. 2007
Best-seller traduit en onze langues, cet ouvrage de l'ancien vice-président des États-Unis se veut "une réflexion globale assortie de mesures…
précises et concrètes". Il se compose de trois parties remarquablement documentées: Un équilibre en danger - À la recherche de l'équilibre - Pour rétablir l'équilibre. Un véritable "Plan Marshall" écologique, plan que seules les grandes puissances auront les moyens de mettre en oeuvre. 2007, c1993. Titre uniforme: Earth in the balance.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.Un an dans la vie d'une forêt
By David George Haskell, Thierry Piélat. 2014
" Jour après jour, le biologiste a observé un mètre carré de sol forestier des Appalaches une année durant. Il…
livre ses réflexions et ses découvertes sur l'écologie, l'évolution du vivant, l'interaction entre les espèces, le rythme des saisons et les conséquences de l'activité humaine sur la nature. "-- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Forest unseen.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.Trees (A New true book)
By Illa Podendorf. 1982
Tout peut changer: capitalisme et changement climatique
By Naomi Klein. 2015
Oubliez tout ce que vous croyez savoir sur le réchauffement climatique. La " vérité qui dérange " ne tient pas…
aux gaz à effet de serre, la voici : notre modèle économique est en guerre contre la vie sur Terre. Au-delà de la crise écologique, c'est bien une crise existentielle qui est en jeu celle dune humanité défendant à corps perdu un mode de vie qui la mène à sa perte. Pourtant, prise à rebours, cette crise pourrait bien ouvrir la voie à une transformation sociale radicale susceptible de faire advenir un monde non seulement habitable, mais aussi plus juste... Naomi Klein soutient ici que le changement climatique est un appel au réveil civilisationnel, un puissant message livré dans la langue des incendies, des inondations, des tempêtes et des sécheresses. Nous n'avons plus beaucoup de temps devant nous. L'alternative est simple : changer... ou disparaître. 2015.Tough calls: NHL referees and linesmen tell their story
By Dick Irvin. 1997
To save the wild earth
By Ric Careless. 1997
Nine British Columbia environmental campaigns are highlighted here. The author provides behind-the-scenes glimpses of critical moments in each of the…
campaigns, all aimed at protecting wilderness areas. Careless reveals the kind of strategy needed to achieve victories, and includes personal reminiscences of some political leaders encountered as well. 1997.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.Time to change: essays
By David T Suzuki. 1994
In this collection of essays, David Suzuki urges us to place the environment above all else, arguing for a halt…
to the "mindless economic growth" that is killing the planet. He offers concrete suggestions for making changes that will matter to all our futures. To Suzuki, there is hope in our love of children, our reverence for nature, and the grass roots transformation that is already taking place. 1994.This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate
By Naomi Klein. 2014
Explains why the environmental crisis should lead to an abandonment of "free market" ideologies and current political systems, arguing that…
a massive reduction of greenhouse emissions may offer a best chance for correcting problems. Winner of the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. c2014.They call me Gump
By Gump Worsley, Tim Moriarty. 1975
The Whale and the Supercomputer: on the northern front of climate change
By Charles Wohlforth. 2004
Journalist offers a nuanced account of global warming from the perspectives of scientists and native Alaskan In~upiaq people. Examines the…
impact of climate change on the In~upiaq, whose traditional livelihood is threatened by milder winters and thinning sea ice. Provides the contrasting viewpoints of scientists studying Arctic environmental changes. 2004.Climatologist discusses the art and science of long-term climate forecasting. Examines forty-year forecasts for seven locations that are physically vulnerable…
to climate change. Predicts that unless we actively work to reduce carbon emissions, weather conditions around the world will become unbearable. 2010.The trees in my forest
By Bernd Heinrich. 1997
In 1977 the author purchased 300 acres of recently cutover woodlands in Maine. His "biography" of that land shows how…
he went about restoring its ecological balance. As caretaker, owner, scientist, and teacher, Heinrich muses on the relationships of the trees, plants, animals, and natural forces at work within the forest. 1997.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 revenge of Gaia: why the earth is fighting back - and how we can still save humanity
By J. E Lovelock. 2006
British scientist who originated the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a superorganism assesses the impact of human activity on the…
planet. Lovelock supports a transition to nuclear energy and advocates preparation for inevitable climate and social changes in the twenty-first century as a result of global warming. 2006.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.Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves stories of unpredicted natural disaster with those of scientific discovery.…
The result is a journey from ancient man's first crude tide predictions to today's advanced early warning ability based on the Global Ocean Observing System, as we search for ways to predict tsunamis and rogue waves and critical aspects of climate change. Some descriptions of violence. c2010.The plundered planet: why we must, and how we can, manage nature for global prosperity
By Paul Collier. 2010
Natural resources can transform the poorest countries or tear them apart, while the actions of the rich world could further…
impoverish them. Collier proposes standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage them, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a new approach to climate change. c2010.