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The four walls of my freedom: Lessons I've Learned From A Life Of Caregiving
By Donna Thomson. 2014
Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral palsy. A former actor, director, and…
teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second career as a disability activist, author, and consultant. Thomson vividly describes her experience in treading delicately through daily care, emergencies, and medical bureaucracy as she and her family cope with her son’s condition while maintaining value and dignity (for Nicholas, too). She demonstrates the vital contribution that people with disabilities make to our society and addresses the ethics and economics of giving and receiving care. 2014.The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation
By Frieda Zames, Doris Zames Fleischer. 2011
The boy in the moon: a father's search for his disabled son
By Ian Brown. 2009
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.Poets and pahlevans: a journey into the heart of Iran
By Marcello Di Cintio. 2006
Di Cintio prepares for his journey to Iran by taking lessons in Farsi, researching Persian poetry and sharpening his wrestling…
skills. Once there, he talks politics with men in tea houses, wrestles, and visits sites and shrines associated with great Persian poets, learning that poetry is loved and quoted by everyone from taxi-drivers to students. The mosaic of incidents, encounters, conversations, sights, smells and moments creates a detailed impression of a country and society that will challenge preconceptions. 2006.Explores the way disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their…
quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. 2011.Le roman de Pékin (Le roman des lieux et destins magiques)
By Bernard Brizay. 2008
Pour les Chinois, comme pour les Occidentaux, jamais capitale n'a autant mérité le statut de ville mythique. Résidence du Fils…
du Ciel, capitale administrative, culturelle et religieuse du plus vieux, du plus peuplé et du plus grand empire au monde, Pékin et la Cité pourpre interdite où vivait l'empereur, entouré de ses concubines et de ses eunuques, fait toujours fantasmer. Le palais impérial est resté pendant cinq cents ans le centre sacré de l'Empire, le siège du gouvernement, où s'est écrite la grande histoire, celle de la Chine. Et la petite histoire, car la Cité interdite fut aussi le lieu privilégié d'intrigues, de drames et de crimes. 2008.How to write a journal (Language arts explorer junior)
By Cecilia Minden, Kate Roth. 2011
Writing is an important skill that you use every day: at school, with friends, at home - almost anywhere! This…
guide has tips and tricks that will help you become a writing expert and help you keep a journal, including writing about places, your opinions, events, and your wishes and dreams. Grades 2-4. c2011.How to write a book report (Language arts explorer junior)
By Cecilia Minden, Kate Roth. 2011
This guide includes tips and tricks for writing a book report. Covers the parts of a book reports, editing, writing…
about a non-fiction book, and how to include your own opinions. Grades 2-4. 2011.Hit by an iceberg: coping with disability in mid-career
By Janet Freedman, Marie Howes. 2003
More people suffer a disability before age 65 than die before age 65. Shows how to manage a mid-career disabling…
experience from a personal, financial, and legal standpoint. A guide through government and private insurance and rehabilitation programmes, housing and living assistance, and legal and money management considerations. 2003.English grammar for dummies (For dummies)
By Geraldine Woods. 2010
Fun and easy strategies that can help you when you're faced with such grammatical dilemmas as the choice between "I"…
and "me," and "who" and "whom." Other topics include: Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs - oh my!; Punctuation: The lowdown on periods, commas, colons, and all those other squiggly marks; Possession: It's nine-tenths of grammatical law; and Top Ten lists on improving your proofreading skills and ways to learn better grammar. c2010.Critical disability theory: essays in philosophy, politics, policy, and law (Law and society)
By Ed Pothier Dianne, Richard F Devlin, Dianne Pothier. 2005
Twenty-four scholars from a variety of disciplines come together here to identify the problems with traditional approaches to disability and…
to provide new directions. The essays range from focused empirical and experiential studies of different disabilities, to policy analyses, legal interrogations, and philosophical reconsiderations. 2005.Arabian sands
By Wilfred Thesiger. 1984
Thesiger, the son of a British diplomat, was born in a mud hut in Addis Ababa in 1910. This is…
the account of his travels from 1945 to 1950 during which he lived among the Bedouins and traversed the "Empty Quarter", a vast, arid desert. 1984.About Canada: disability rights (About Canada series)
By Deborah Stienstra. 2012
Through an examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications, and health care, this survey finds that, while important advances have been…
made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Argues that disability is not about “faulty” bodies that need to be fixed but about the institutional, cultural, and attitudinal reactions to certain kinds of bodies, contending that neoliberal ideas of independence and individualism are at the heart of the continuing discrimination against “disabled” people. Achieving disability rights is possible through universal design, disability supports, social and economic assistance, and a sense of belonging. 2012. (About Canada series)A place within: rediscovering India
By M. G Vassanji. 2008
Author M. G. Vassanji was born in Africa, where his Indian grandparents had settled, and his relationship to India had…
been complex and contradictory. Vassanji describes his many visits to India, encompassing bustling cities, quiet landscapes, fantastic stories and fascinating characters, in this his part travelogue and description, part history and meditation, and above all a quest for a lost homeland. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2008.Life and death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan mountaineering
By Sherry B Ortner. 1999
For more than a century, climbers from around the world have journeyed to test themselves on Everest's treacherous slopes, enlisting…
the expert aid of the Sherpas who live in the area. Drawing on years of field research in the Himalayas, renowned anthropologist Sherry Ortner presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk. 1999.Le Ramat de la typographie
By A Ramat. 1996
Outil indispensable pour toute personne qui doit rédiger, corriger ou composer des textes en français, Le Ramat de la typographie…
contient des règles et conseils fort judicieux. On y retrouve notamment des règles sur l'écriture des adresses, des dates et des heures, des nombres en chiffres ou en lettres de même que sur l'écriture des noms géographiques. L'auteur aborde aussi les règles de coupures de mots en fin de ligne, les règles des abréviations et d'emploi des majuscules. Il est aussi question de traitement de texte, de mise en page à l'écran et de correction d'épreuves. 1996.Journal d'un écrivain en pyjama: chronique ((Collection Chronique).)
By Dany Laferrière. 2013
" Le pyjama est un étrange habit de travail, nous dit Dany Laferrière, qui, après trente années décriture, décide de…
parler à ses lecteurs. Suite de fragments et de scènes où fiction, réflexion, récit, méditations salternent. Journal dun écrivain en pyjama met sous nos yeux litinéraire de cet écrivain pour qui la vie est une aventure exaltante, qui se conjugue entre lire et écrire.... " -- 4e de couv.Un orage dans ma tête: [L'épilepsie] ((Au cœur des différences).)
By Brigitte Marleau. 2013
Je m'appelle Mathilde et je suis épileptique. Ça veut dire que dans ma tête quelques fois, il y a des…
orages électriques. C'est comme si j'étais dans la lune, je ne bouge plus. Mais Adrien, lui quand ça lui arrive, il tombe par terre et tout son corps tremble et saute. Heureusement que j'ai Berger, mon toutou préféré, pour me rassurer. Années 1-3.Un point, c'est tout!: la ponctuation efficace
By J. P Colignon. 1993
Dans ce guide, chacun des treize signes de ponctuation fait l'objet d'un chapitre dans lequel les différentes utilisations sont énumérées,…
commentées et illustrées d'exemples pris dans la presse et dans la littérature. À la fin de chaque chapitre figure également le rappel de la règle typographique concernant la disposition des signes en question dans un texte composé. 1993.