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Il n'y a pas lieu, madame: récit vérité
By Isabelle Robert. 1979
L'histoire vécue d'une femme qui parle de sa grossesse et qui nous raconte dans toute ses nuances le rapport intime…
qui s'établit entre son corps et l'être qu'elle porte. Ce qui s'annonçait comme une merveilleuse aventure tourne au cauchemar. 1979.One hundred names for love: a stroke, a marriage, and the language of healing
By Diane Ackerman. 2011
Author and naturalist Ackerman reflects on the time she spent caring for her husband, novelist Paul West, after a stroke…
took his ability to speak. With conventional therapy not working, Ackerman decided to step in and do everything she could to help her husband find his words. 2011.One beetle too many: the extraordinary adventures of Charles Darwin
By Kathryn Lasky. 2010
One man's medicine
By Morris Gibson. 1983
Amusing stories about a Scottish doctor's years as a medical student in Glasgow, an army physician in wartime England, and…
a general practitioner in rural Yorkshire. Followed by "A View of the Mountains." 1983.Onassis, an extravagant life: An Extravagant Life
By Frank Brady. 1977
This biography of Onassis focuses on his rise to power and riches with emphasis on the women in his life…
including Ingaborg Dedichen, Tina Livanos, Maria Callas, and Jacqueline Kennedy. 1977.On pills and needles: the relentless fight to save my son from opioid addiction
By Rick Van Warner. 2018
Through his harrowing personal story, Rick Van Warner exposes the common causes of opioid addiction, effective and ineffective ways it…
has been treated, and how families can walk alongside loved ones who are dealing with the realities of addiction. 2018.Faim de vivre: témoignage
By Jérôme Ferrer. 2018
Quand le cancer s'invite à table, même un grand chef se sent démuni. Jérôme Ferrer l'a vécu lorsque Virginie, avec…
qui il s'apprêtait à fonder une famille, a appris qu'elle avait un cancer du poumon de stade 4. Plongé dans un combat injuste, il a affronté la maladie avec les armes qui sont les siennes : le plaisir de cuisiner des plats assaisonnés de souvenirs et de tendresse. Son témoignage est un récit touchant, une réflexion sur le pouvoir d'une simple recette de tomates farcies, une belle histoire d'accompagnement et un généreux hommage à la ' faim de vivre ' de ceux qui s'aiment. Faim de vivre trouvera un bel écho parmi tous ceux qui accompagnent une personne atteinte du cancer et se sentent impuissants à la soutenir. 2018.Notice rouge: comment je suis devenu l'ennemi no 1 de Poutine
By Bill Browder, Renaud Bombard. 2015
B. Browder est le cofondateur d'Hermitage, le plus grand fonds d'investissement étranger de Russie. Diplômé de Stanford, il fait fortune…
à Moscou auprès des nouveaux oligarques, avant d'en être soudainement chassé par V. Poutine en 2005. Cet ouvrage retrace à la manière d'un polar les circonstances douteuses de la mort de son fiscaliste dans les prisons russes en 2009. 2015. Titre uniforme: Red notice.Northern Nurses II: more nursing adventures from Canada's North
By Karen J Scott, Joan E Kieser. 2005
A true account of nurses in Canada's north. Describes the enormous challenges faced in these regions, and the limits to…
travel and communications caused by the weather. The scope of situations described in the delivery of health care to these communities is nearly unimaginable to non-northerners, as are the talents, creativity and determination needed to succeed in such a harsh and unforgiving environment. Sequel to "Northern nurses: true nursing adventures from Canada's north" (DC25082). 2005.One of the world's top surgeons, an advocate of democratic medical services, and an international humanitarian, Norman Bethune invented the…
mobile blood transfusion unit for the Spanish Civil War. He is revered in China as a hero, where he was a personal friend of Chairman Mao Zedong, and where his unceasing and inventive work established a lasting bond between his adopted people and this heroic Canadian. 2004Norman Bethune (The Canadians)
By Roderick Stewart. 1974
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 dream is too high: life lessons from a man who walked on the moon
By Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham. 2016
No angel: the secret life of Bernie Ecclestone
By Tom Bower. 2011
Ecclestone has never before revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars in London's notorious Warren Street to become the…
major player he is today. He has finally decided to reveal his secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes on race tracks, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yachts and in the air. Includes strong language. 2011.No job for a lady: the autobiography of M. Phyllis Lose, V. M. D
By M. Phyllis Lose, Daniel Pratt Mannix. 1979
Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
By Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.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 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.