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Norman Bethune (Extraordinary Canadians)
By Adrienne Clarkson. 2011
Reviled as a communist by some, revered as a humanitarian by others, Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and…
political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious talents included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Includes violence. 2011.No previous experience: a memoir of love and change
By Elspeth Cameron. 1997
Elspeth Cameron, a literary biographer, shares her journey from an unhappy marriage to the realization that she is a lesbian.…
Along the way she must deal with her own confused feelings and the reactions of her friends and family to her decision. Some descriptions of sex. c1997.No compromise: the story of Harvey Milk (Civil Rights Leaders Ser.)
By David Aretha. 2010
Only after his assassination did America truly begin to understand Milk's impact on the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and…
transgender people. Documents his life from his birth on Long Island, to his struggle for an identity, through his calling as a gay-rights activist and politician in San Francisco. For junior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2010.No dream is too high: life lessons from a man who walked on the moon
By Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham. 2016
No job for a lady: the autobiography of M. Phyllis Lose, V. M. D
By M. Phyllis Lose, Daniel Pratt Mannix. 1979
Niels Bohr et la physique quantique (Points. 145)
By François Lurçat. 2001
Une tentative, par moments philosophique, pour rendre l'oeuvre de Bohr compréhensible à des lecteurs qui ne savent rien de la…
physique. "Un appendice donne des précisions destinées à celui qui a des rudiments de mathématiques du niveau de l'enseignement secondaire". 2001.Never say die: new adventures from the country vet
By David Perrin. 2006
Veterinarian Dave Perrin is building his dream home in the peaceful community of Lister, B.C., and puts in overtime to…
deal with some of the most improbable clients and frustrating cases of his career: snakes with indigestion, alcoholic dogs, hogs that beep, and heifers from hell. His loving dog, Lug, makes himself useful in desperate times. 2006.Naked in the promised land: A Memoir
By Lillian Faderman. 2003
Faderman is known as the foremother of gay and lesbian studies, yet few would suspect she was the illegitimate child…
of a guilt-obsessed single mother, that she tried to please her mom by becoming a movie star, or that she worked her way through college as a stripper. Faderman's mother and aunt left Latvia in 1923 to work in New York and send back money to their family, but neither could save their loved ones from Hitler's Holocaust, which tormented Faderman's mother endlessly. Trying to make her life meaningful and redeem her mother's suffering, Faderman eventually entered the University of California at Berkeley, ultimately achieving a Ph.D., a baby, a lover, and becoming a groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies. Some strong language and descriptions of violence, descriptions of sex. 2003.Naked imperfection: a memoir
By Gillian Deacon. 2014
What if you’re doing everything right - living a healthy, virtuous, conscientious life - and something goes terribly wrong? Gillian…
Deacon was the paragon of virtue, the standard-bearer for how to live responsibly on the Earth. So when the all-natural, vegetarian, yoga-practising, marathon-running mother of three young boys was diagnosed with breast cancer, the world stopped making sense. This is her story. c2014.My life with trees: a sylvan journey
By Gary L Saunders. 2015
While organized by tree species like a reference book, Saunders' essays actually impart equal parts natural and personal history. And…
like the best sylvan essayists of earlier generations (Thoreau, Leopold), Saunders draws greater truths about our relationship with nature - and with each other - out of what on first glance might appear to be recitals of botanical facts or yarns about adventures past. A close reading promises not only to expand one's understanding of the ecology of the forest, but also to offer a model for how we might better live our lives with trees. 2015.My glory was I had such friends: a memoir
By Amy Silverstein. 2017
Memoirist Amy Silverstein tells the story of an extraordinary group of women who surrounded and supported her through the long,…
emotional fight to stay alive as she waited for her second heart transplant in twenty-five years. 2017.My leaky body: tales from the gurney
By Julie Devaney. 2012
In and out of emergency rooms in Vancouver and Toronto as she is diagnosed and treated for ulcerative colitis, Devaney…
is poked, prodded, and abandoned to a closet at one point, bearing the indignities of a system that seems hell-bent on victimizing the sick. As she recovers, she takes action, setting up a gurney on stage at workshops and conferences across the country to teach Bedside Manners 101, and to advocate for repairs to the system. Includes strong language. 2012.Musings on medicine
By Gordon Hunter Grant. 1984
My year off: Recovering Life After A Stroke
By Robert McCrum. 1998
Recalls the stroke suffered in 1995 by the forty-two-year-old editor-in-chief of the British publishing firm Faber and Faber. Describes the…
impact on many aspects of his life, including his two-month-old marriage to journalist Sarah Lyall. Includes day-to-day observations by both spouses during the following year. 1998.Mon histoire naturelle: vétérinaire auprès des animaux sauvages
By Marie-Claude Bomsel, Béatrice Madeline. 2016
De son éducation versaillaise et anticonformiste à la jungle des plateaux de télévision, Marie-Claude Bomsel a suivi un parcours hors…
du commun. Depuis plus de quarante ans, cette femme vétérinaire conte aux Français, à la radio ou à la télévision, les histoires de ses animaux, ceux qu'elle aime et protège avec ardeur depuis son enfance. Drôles, touchantes, étonnantes, ces anecdotes, issues de sa carrière de vétérinaire puis de directrice de la Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes à Paris, rappellent combien les animaux sont proches de l'homme, doués de sensibilité et d'une intelligence parfois ignorée. Riche de ses très nombreux voyages sur tous les continents, Marie-Claude Bomsel livre aussi un plaidoyer, à l'heure où l'avenir de la planète est en question, en faveur d'une meilleure protection de la condition animale et de la sauvegarde de la nature. 2016.Morgue: a life in death
By Ron Franscell, Vincent J. M Di Maio. 2016
Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. Complex technology and intricate research can take…
curdled blood, bone shards, and flakes of skin and turn them into justice. And Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of the lions of forensic science in his own right. Di Maio guides us into the inner sanctum, through the cases that have made him famous, from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the racially charged shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, to the unmasking of a serial baby-killer and the mysterious death of troubled genius Vincent van Gogh. 2016.Most of my patients are animals
By Robert M Miller. 1985
The author is a veterinarian in California. Although his speciality is equine medicine, he has doctored every type of animal,…
from poodles to panthers. For junior and senior high readers. c1985.Moondust: in search of the men who fell to Earth
By Andrew Smith. 2005
Smith set out to find and interview the remaining nine astronauts who have walked on the moon, in order to…
learn how their lives, and ours, were changed forever by this surreal adventure. Some strong language. 2005.Mother warriors: a nation of parents healing autism against all odds
By Jenny McCarthy. 2008
When Jenny McCarthy published her story of her successful efforts to save her son from autism, though the reaction was…
tremendous, she hadn't anticipated the overwhelming response from other parents of autistic children who wanted to share their own stories. Here Jenny expands her message to share these stories, showing how each parent fought to find her own child's perfect "remedy of interventions." Along the way, Jenny shares her own journey as an autism advocate and mother, as well as the continuing progress of her son, Evan. 2008.Morgentaler: a difficult hero : a biography
By Catherine Dunphy. 1996
Well-known as one of Canada's most controversial figures, Henry Morgentaler is portrayed as a man of many contradictions. This biography…
of Morgentaler is based on interviews with colleagues, friends, family, and Morgentaler himself, and covers his youth and experiences during the Holocaust, as well as his career in Canada and his legal struggles. 1996.