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By George Seldes. 1987
The memoirs of the American journalist are built around personalities such as Mussolini, Hemingway and Lenin, that Seldes encountered from…
the time he took his first newspaper job in 1909. Some strong language. 1987.By Beverly Biderman. 1998
Biderman follows the evolution of the cochlear implant and its use in restoring hearing to people who are deaf or…
hearing impaired. She shares her own journey from deafness to having a cochlear implant, and her research into the implant before she received it. She also discusses recent developments in the use of the implants.By Paul Watson. 2007
Paul Watson was born a rebel with one hand, who became a journalist specializing in war and guerrilla fighters. When…
Watson reported on Osama bin Laden's first battlefield victory in Somalia, his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the desecrated corpse of Staff Sgt. David Cleveland - whose Black Hawk was shot down over the streets of Mogadishu - helped hand bin Laden one of his earliest propaganda coups. With each new beheading announced on the news, Watson wonders whether he helped teach the terrorists one of their most valuable lessons. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. c2007.By Dervla Murphy. 1977
The author travels through the gorges of Baltisan with her six-year-old daughter. The wanderer from Waterford is a citizen of…
the world in the widest sense and believes that in order to see how the other half lives it is essential to seek amongst those who are still uncontaminated by this half. 1977.By Jill K Conway. 1998
Conway considers the memoir -- how it has developed over the centuries, the forms and styles it assumes, the strikingly…
different ways in which men and women present their lives, and why we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography. 1998.By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel. 2008
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year…
later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. 2008. Uniform title: Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto.By Lucinda Hage. 2014
Unable to have her own child and anxious to adopt, Lucinda is overjoyed when a newborn baby is granted to…
her and her husband. Devastation follows when the baby, Paul, is diagnosed with a serious genetic disorder that means he will be intellectually challenged and require medical intervention for the rest of his life. Lucinda’s already-tenuous marriage disintegrates, and she becomes a single mother caring for a difficult and fragile child. With exceptional resilience, tenacity, faith, and very hard work, she makes a successful life not just for herself but for her son. Summer camp changes Paul’s life, and Lucinda finds a new partner and love. The reader cheers for Paul as he struggles to take his rightful place in society, and for his mother as she works ceaselessly to make that possible. 2014.By Harold G Moore, Joseph L Galloway. 2008
This book gives you the advance information you need to plan a safe, comfortable and fun trip. It's packed with…
tips and insights from the authors' years of first-hand experience visiting Disney while dealing with disabilities and special needs. It also includes extensive input gathered from other Disney guests with a wide variety of conditions. Well researched, it has the most in-depth descriptions of any book of the physical "feel" and the emotional impact of attractions. Learn how to get your needs met in the parks, resorts & restaurants, details on handling medication & medical equipment, dietary needs, transportation, wheelchair use in the parks & resorts, and much more. 2007.By Smoke Blanchard. 1985
A professional mountain guide who began his climbing career as a teenager in the depression years relates his many exciting…
adventures in the mountains of California, Alaska, the Yukon, and Nepal. Blanchard offers advice on equipment and technique and discusses the people he has met. 1985.By Bruce S Feiler. 2001
One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, author Feiler recounts a personal odyssey -…
by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel - to retrace the Five Books of Moses through the desert. Along with archaeologist Avner Goren, he treks through Turkey, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Sinai, and Jordan, visiting the actual places of some of history's most storied events, from the mountain where Noah's ark landed to the site of the legendary burning bush. 2001.By Pierre Graveline. 2014
" 1971. Rêvant depuis toujours de prendre son envol, un jeune homme de dix-neuf ans quitte le Québec et part…
sur les chemins aventureux du monde. Seul et désargenté, il se déplace au gré des hasards de la route et dort souvent à la belle étoile. En huit mois, il parcourt 36 000 kilomètres, traverse l'Europe, explore la Turquie, puis l'Iran, l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan, trois pays que les fous de Dieu ont désormais rendu inaccessibles, vagabonde en Inde et au Népal, à la rencontre des peuples de la terre, de leur histoire, de leur culture. Jour après jour, il observe le cirque éternel de la vie des hommes, et découvre étonné, captivé, troublé, linfinie, l'étrange, la sublime diversité de notre insensée humanité. En ces temps pourtant pas si lointains où la poste met des semaines à livrer une lettre d'un continent à l'autre, où les communications téléphoniques internationales ne sont accessibles qu'aux plus fortunés, où l'Internet n'a pas encore réduit la planète à une peau de chagrin, il est tout simplement, dans le merveilleux sens ancestral du terme, un voyageur. " -- 4e de couv.By Marianne Apostolides, Madeleine Stratford. 2014
Transcriptions de conversations courageuses, traversées subjectives, incarnations du désir en action, décalages ou fragments d'origines, les Voluptés de Marianne Apostolides…
sondent la vie - cette trame qui se tisse - comme une perpétuelle mise en scène. Ces neuf récits jouent le jeu de l'oeuvre littéraire, cherchant au passage à « connaître le fin fond de l'histoire », celle d'un adultère, d'une première fois, ou celle du père et de son enfance troublée par la guerre. Voluptés ou la réalité de l'écriture de soi explore intelligemment la place qu'occupent le langage et le désir au sein de nos existences. Aspirant à devenir « pur plaisir », Marianne Apostolides se laisse aller au récit comme glisserait un vaisseau de vérité absolue. 2014. Titre uniforme: Voluptuous pleasures.By Richard Critchfield. 1981
In the tradition of the traveler-storyteller-amateur anthropologist, an award-winning American journalist describes the Third World villages he experienced during the…
1970s. Among the countries he visited were Brazil, Morocco, Sudan, Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, India, Egypt, and China. 1981.By Patrick Segal. 1979
Dans son fauteuil roulant, il partait à la découverte des autres et de lui-même. Aujourd'hui, au-delà d'une guérison dont il…
n'aurait que faire, la vie l'a enfin saisi et l'emporte. 1979.By Pico Iyer. 1988
This description of the collision of western culture with the Third World includes chapters on expatriate life in Hong Kong,…
the sex scene in Thailand, the mock paradise of Bali, popular movies in India, and baseball in Japan. Some descriptions of sex. 1988.By Emily O'Reilly. 1998
Veronica Guerin, a young crime reporter with the "Sunday Independent", was shot dead in Dublin in June 1996 as a…
direct consequence of her work - investigating the shadowy figures of Dublin's underworld. This is an account of one of the biggest and most shocking of Irish news stories. Strong language. 1998.By Pat Capponi. 1992
Pat Capponi, a former resident of Channan Court, a boarding house for ex-psychiatric patients in Toronto, describes the isolation and…
poverty that awaits discharged psychiatric patients who lack adequate support systems. c1992.By Richard Leonard, Germain Duclos. 2013
Malgré les progrès réalisés pour favoriser l'insertion sociale de ces élèves et la diminution substantielle des classes dites spécialisées ,…
plusieurs défis subsistent afin d'assurer l'inclusion du plus grand nombre d'élèves dans les écoles québécoises. En effet, les changements structurels et pédagogiques nécessaires s'annoncent difficiles dans un contexte contradictoire où l'on semble prôner l'inclusion tout en exigeant la même réussite scolaire traditionnelle pour tous les enfants. Les auteurs s'attardent notamment à la façon de contourner les obstacles des apprenants et aux ressources pouvant être mobilisées pour diminuer les exclusions et permettre aux enfants handicapés ou en difficulté d'apprendre et de s'épanouir davantage. 2013.By Barry Neil Kaufman, Luc Bernard Lalanne, Marie-Thérèse Kerzoncuf-Kolakowski. 1985
"Votre fils est autistique. C'est irrécupérable!" Barry et Suzi décident de percer, seuls, sans aucune aide professionnelle, le mur de…
cette forteresse qui coupe leur fils du monde. 1985. Titre uniforme: Son rise.