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By Carlo Rovelli, Patrick Vighetti. 2015
Avec les mots de l'écrivain, le talent du poète, Carlo Rovelli nous fait apercevoir le mystère du monde, la beauté…
du monde, une beauté à couper le souffle. Ces sept leçons donnent un aperçu rapide des aspects les plus importants et fascinants de la grande révolution qui a bouleversé la physique au XXe siècle, et surtout des questions et des mystères que cette révolution a soulevés. Elles nous emmènent dans le monde enchanté des grandes idées de la physique actuelle : de la relativité générale d'Einstein à la physique quantique, des particules élémentaires à l'architecture de l'Univers, de la gravité quantique à la nature du temps et de la conscience. 2015.By Jacques Arnould. 2015
By Jean-François Chassay. 2009
Les sciences ne peuvent échapper à la culture. C'est pourquoi la fiction, mieux souvent que l'histoire des sciences, montre comment…
elles changent nos perceptions du monde. Sept d'entre elles, parmi les plus marquantes : Giordano Bruno, Galilée, Newton, Darwin, Marie Curie, Einstein et Oppenheimer, sont ici convoquées comme autant d'exemples emblématiques de ces échanges entre science et fiction. 2009.By Andrew Nikiforuk. 2008
Canada has one third of the world's oil source; it comes from the bitumen in the oil sands of Alberta.…
Advancements in technology and frenzied development have created the world's largest energy project in Fort McMurray, where the sticky bitumen is extracted from the earth. Providing almost 20 percent of America's fuel, much of this dirty oil is being processed in refineries in the Midwest, but Nikiforuk believes the project is polluting the air, poisoning the water, and destroying boreal forest, and argues for change. Some strong language. c2008.By Walter Alvarez. 1997
A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth…
sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.By Jay Ingram. 1992
Ingram explores the world of speech, from the first words on earth to the complex wizardry of the brain. He…
discusses the physiology, including the theory that speech is encoded in our genes, and the dynamics of conversation. 1992.By Pauline Kael. 1984
By Tom Mulcair. 2015
The inside story of Thomas Mulcair's rise from modest beginnings to the threshold of power. Discover the man behind the…
headlines, who he is, how he thinks, and the struggles he faced - from fighting sexual misconduct, to protecting our environment, to his work alongside Jack Layton leading the NDP to a historic breakthrough in Quebec. Bestseller. 2015.By Knowlton Nash. 2001
Knowlton Nash relates how the Canadian broadcast media came to be. Nash, a newsman on CBC television for many years,…
tells the story of Canadian broadcasting via its many battles: public vs. commercial interests; radio vs. television as an advertisement revenue source; and cable vs. over-the-air transmission. 2001.By Dan Yashinsky. 2004
The art of storytelling is very much alive in today's world. Yashinsky has lived with storytelling all his life, first…
listening to storytellers and then becoming one himself. It's the traveler who stops to hear the voice of the dusty little mouse on the road who is rewarded with the treasure. 2004.By David Ritchie. 1988
By Ivan Amato. 1997
Amato traces the use of stuff--raw materials--in the development of products from prehistoric to modern times. He relates the evolution…
of the field of materials science to the human ability to manipulate smaller and smaller building blocks of matter. He theorizes that "smart" materials, under research in the 1990s, signal the beginning of a new technological era. c1997.By David Peters, Don Lessem. 1997
Lessem explains that the "biggest" dinosaurs weighed the most. They were plant-eating dinosaurs,the sauropods. He details how dinosaur bones have…
been discovered and what scientists have learned from them. He concludes with a description of the Argentinosaurus, officially named in 1993, which may prove to be the biggest dinosaur ever. Grades 3-6. c1997.By Lisa Brennan-Jobs. 2018
Lisa's father, Steve Jobs, was a mythical figure rarely present in her life. As she grew older, he ushered her…
into a new world of mansions, vacations, and private schools. But he could also be cold, critical, and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school, Lisa moved in with her father, hoping he'd become the parent she'd always wanted him to be. Bestseller. 2018.By Cary McClelland. 2018
The tech boom of our time is changing San Francisco at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and…
known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been transformed by Silicon Valley. But the richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and the cracks in the city's facade begin to show. Inspired by Studs Terkel's classic works of oral history, writer and filmmaker Cary McClelland has spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the Bay Area's rapid change: tech innovators, venture capitalists, coders, homeless advocates, pawn brokers, prosecutors and public defenders, tattoo artists, and tour guides. Silicon City masterfully weaves together their voices and unforgettable stories to create a dynamic portrait of a beloved city and a cautionary tale for the entire country. 2018.By Philip Mould. 1995
This book presents an insider's view of the art world. The author, a dealer, reveals the processes of identification, deduction…
and restoration which can turn a grubby misattributed 'sleeper' into a major masterpiece. He reveals the men and women who have made these discoveries, the auctioneers whose job it is to spot the 'sleepers', and the dealers whose job it is to outwit them. 1995.By Lisa Bany-Winters. 2000
Introduces the concepts of music, dance, and acting, suggesting how to create a musical production through games and role-playing, and…
describing all aspects of a show from auditions to curtain call. Grades 4-7. 2000.By Ray Jayawardhana. 2011
After millennia of musings and a century of false claims, astronomers have found hundreds of planets around other stars since…
1995, and at the crux of the astronomers’ pursuit is one basic question: Is our solar system, with planets in circular orbits, gas giants in the outer realm and at least one warm, wet, rocky world teeming with life, the exception or the norm? Astronomers expect to find alien earths by the dozens within the next three years, and to look for signs of life before this decade is out. If they succeed, the ramifications for all areas of human thought and endeavour - from religion and philosophy to art and biology - are profound, if not revolutionary. c2011.By Wade Davis. 1992
The diversity of humankind and the relationship to landscape, from the high Arctic and the northern forests to the swamps…
of the Orinoco, is hunted, gathered and appreciated here by Davis. He recounts a dozen journeys, some in search of ethnobotanicals; others for spiritual and poetic influences. 1992.By Robert Kyncl, Maany Peyvan. 2017