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By George E Vaillant. 2003
For more than five decades Harvard Medical School has studied the basic elements of adult human development, analyzing the health…
and happiness of hundreds of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds. In ‘Aging Well’, the director of the study draws on the data gathered and reveals why some people turn out to be more resilient than others. His conclusion is that individual lifestyle choices play a greater role than genetics, wealth, race, or other factors in determining how happy people are in later life. With step-by-step advice and revelations of scientific findings, this book is aimed to help people age well. 2003.By Robert Levine. 2004
The Rolling Stones (now in their 60s) have sung to us for years about "what a drag it is getting…
old," but it doesn’t have to be that way. This book points to well-known public figures clearly aging with dignity and vitality; shows steps we can take to age while retaining these qualities in defiance of a society that challenges this quest. Living longer is not enough for most of us; we don’t want to just survive. The quality of our life as we age is most important, and much of that depends on our attitudes and approach. Includes strategies to optimize self-esteem as well as health, including attention to nutrition, exercise, health care, education, mind stimulation, sexuality, social activities, and cosmetics and cosmetic surgery. 2004.By Abigail Thomas. 2006
Author describes rebuilding her life after her husband was institutionalized for a traumatic brain injury he sustained when a car…
hit him in 2000. Thomas reflects on the evolution of their relationship and how she copes with help from family, friends, knitting, and her three dogs - Rosie, Harry, and Carolina. 2006.By Eric H Cline. 2015
" Un réchauffement climatique suivi de sécheresse et de famines, des séismes, des guerres civiles catastrophiques, de gigantesques mouvements de…
populations fuyant leurs terres d'origine, des risques systémiques pour les échanges internationaux... Nous ne sommes pas en 2015, mais bien au XIIe siècle avant J.-C. ! Toutes les civilisations de la Méditerranée grecque et orientale (de la Crète à l'Égypte, de Canaan à Babylone, etc.) se sont en effet effondrées presque simultanément, il y a plus de trois mille ans. Des régions entières ont été désertées, des villes détruites et définitivement vidées de leurs habitants. L'Égypte ne sera plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Comment un ensemble de civilisations florissantes a-t-il pu disparaître aussi brutalement ? Le grand archéologue américain Eric H. Cline mène l'enquête et nous raconte la fin de l'âge du bronze sous la forme d'un drame en quatre actes. Il fait revivre sous nos yeux ces sociétés connectées qui possédaient une langue commune, échangeaient de multiples biens (grains, or, étain et cuivre, etc.), alors que les artistes circulaient d'un royaume à l'autre. Les archives découvertes témoignent de mariages royaux, d'alliances, de guerres et même d'embargos. En somme, une mondialisation avant l'heure, confrontée notamment à des aléas climatiques qui pourraient avoir causé sa perte... Une passionnante plongée dans le passé qui nous oblige à réfléchir. " -- 4e de couv.By Mitch Albom. 1997
Some twenty years after college, Mitch Albom rekindles his relationship with a former professor who is terminally ill. His weekly…
visits with his dying mentor become a colloquium on the meaning of life, and Albom gains insight into "love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death." Bestseller. 1997.By Michael Gray. 2007
Blind Willie McTell, 1903-1959, was one of the most gifted musical artists of his generation, with an exquisite voice and…
a sublime talent for the twelve-string guitar. Blind from birth, McTell never behaved as if he were handicapped by his lack of sight and he explodes every stereotype about blues musicians. In this personal and moving odyssey into a lost world of early blues music, a vulnerable black population and more, Gray peels back the many layers of a tragic, occasionally shocking but ultimately uplifting story.By Jane Fox, Neville Cohen. 2007
The narrative starts in the early 1950s when Cohen's life was dramatically altered by a car accident. His emotional transition…
after the car accident is described in detail. He neither exaggerates his strengths nor focuses on the mistreatments and discriminations done to him. He frankly reveals his frustration toward love and relationship. 2007.By Claudette Vallée. 2006
Léonard Morin devient aveugle à l'âge de cinq ans, à la suite de l'explosion de détonateurs. C'était en 1929, l'année…
de la crise. Qu'est-ce que je vais faire avec mon aveugle? se demandait sa mère avec inquiétude... et avec raison. L'espoir était aussi sombre que son avenir dans le noir. Qu'allait-il faire avec sa cécité? Ce livre décrit la réponse de Léonard à ce défi. Après ses études à l'Ontario School for the Blind, il vient s'établir en Abitibi, en 1945, pour y exercer le métier d'accordeur de pianos. Il se mariera onze ans plus tard, adoptera cinq enfants et s'impliquera de façon étonnante dans la communauté des non-voyants et des voyants tout en faisant fructifier son gagne-pain. [...] -- 4e de couv.By Mathilde Monaque. 2006
A 14 ans, Mathilde va mal. Diagnostic : dépression. En quittant l'hôpital, elle ne comprend toujours pas les raisons de…
cette souffrance, mais elle sait pourquoi elle doit vivre. Elle écrit ce récit lumineux et tendre pour nous dire qu'on peut s'en sortir. La dépression de l'adolescent n'a rien à voir avec celle de l'adulte. Elle n'entraîne pas de sentiment de culpabilité. C'est plutôt un séisme : un bouleversement des certitudes, la peur d'être soi, la crainte de ne pas aimer et de ne pas être aimé. Mathilde est une adolescente " surdouée ". Cela ne veut pas dire qu'elle est plus intelligente, mais qu'elle emmagasine davantage d'émotions et de perceptions que les autres. Ainsi Mathilde peut décrire, avec une sensibilité à vif et une écriture lucide, l'univers d'une jeune fille qui se fracasse contre la vie. Un document d'espoir. Le premier témoignage sur la dépression écrit par une adolescente. En fin d'ouvrage, Jeanne Siaud-Facchin, qui a suivi Mathilde à sa sortie de l'hôpital, apporte son regard de psychologue sur l'adolescence, la dépression, la précocité.By Anselm Grün, Caroline Jouannic. 2008
"Qui a envie de vieillir ? La question de l'âge, ce destin partagé, ne cesse d'être remise à plus tard,…
alors même qu'il s'agit de l'un des grands défis de la vie. Vieillir, oui, puisqu'il le faut bien, mais comment ? Anselm Grün nous montre qu'avec l'âge, même le grand âge, se présentent aussi de nouveaux horizons, de nouvelles chances, comme à chaque étape de l'existence. C'est pourquoi il invite ses lecteurs et lectrices à accepter pleinement leur vieillissement comme la promesse d'une vie riche et renouvelée. Avec beaucoup de sensibilité, il nous initie à l'art de rencontrer - non pas malgré la vieillesse mais à travers elle - notre vérité la plus intime". -- 4e de couv.By Marie De Hennezel. 2008
"Le vieillissement inévitable ne nous condamne pas à la solitude, à la souffrance, à la déchéance, à la dépendance. L'auteur,…
sans langue de bois, nous guide vers un véritable "art de vieillir". Elle fait appel à son expérience de psychologue clinicienne, à ses rencontres avec des "vieillards magnifiques" comme son amie soeur Emmanuelle, pour nous montrer comment transformer en profondeur ce temps de notre vie, en apprivoiser les misères, en retirer les joies." -- 4e de couv.By William N Zulu. 2005
The life story of William Zulu, a linocut artist, highly acclaimed for his evocative art-works. Having contracted spinal TB as…
a baby, William underwent misplaced corrective surgery to his spine in his late teens which left him paralysed and permanently wheelchair bound. But William's story is no victim's litany; it recounts with zest and humour the events of his life, his unfolding artistic development and the world of deep rural Africa in which he is rooted. 2005.Seventy-four-year-old actress, activist, and work-out guru offers tips for making the most of what she calls Act III of life,…
which begins at age sixty. Lists eleven ingredients of successful aging, including reflecting on one’s past, caring about the bigger picture, being physically active, and eating healthfully. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011.By Christine Marion Fraser. 1980
Christine Marion Fraser was born into a large, poor family in the Govan district of Glasgow during the 1950s. At…
the age of 10 she contracted a rare and horrifying disease which led to many months in hospital and her eventual confinement in a wheelchair. Even this, however, did not spoil her warmth and huge enjoyment of life.By Peter Kavanagh. 2015
CBC journalist Peter Kavanagh was just an infant when he was diagnosed with paralytic polio and suffered permanent paralysis in…
the lower part of his left leg. As a child, Kavanagh endured painful medical procedures to even out the length of his legs, and experimental exercise techniques. He spent his youth in a leg brace and special footwear, isolating for a boy whose classmates ran freely in sneakers. His first lesson in walking was how to move while wearing such equipment. Throughout his life, as he developed a very successful career in public broadcasting, built a family, and indulged in his love of music and travel, Kavanagh underwent various surgeries to give him "normal" mobility. 2015.By David Mitchell, Naoki Higashida, Ka Yoshida. 2013
Naoki Higashida was only a middle-schooler when he began to write this book. Autistic and with very low verbal fluency,…
Naoki used an alphabet grid to painstakingly spell out his answers to the questions he imagines others most often wonder about him: why do you talk so loud? Is it true you hate being touched? Would you like to be normal? Naoki examines issues as diverse and complex as self-harm, perceptions of time and beauty, and the challenges of communication, and in doing so, discredits the popular belief that autistic people are anti-social loners who lack empathy. Bestseller. 2013.By Boris Cyrulnik, Louis Ploton. 2014
" Des contributions qui montrent que la résilience, concept développé par B. Cyrulnik, est possible chez les personnes âgées :…
apprendre à donner un sens aux épreuves qui ont marqué une existence, transmettre des leçons de vie aux plus jeunes, etc. Cette vision optimiste de la vieillesse participe de la résilience en favorisant les liens affectifs et en donnant du sens à l'existence. "By Judy McFarlane. 2014
"Put her away and forget about her." This was the blunt advice Grace Chen's grandfather gave Grace's parents when she…
was born with Down Syndrome. Twenty-four years later, Grace writes, "I always dream to be a famous writer." When Judy McFarlane is asked if she will help Grace, she realizes she holds deep, unacknowledged fears - that Grace will be a dull-eyed young woman who can't read, let alone write, that she might become agitated, even lash out. But the idea that Grace wants to be a writer, a dream McFarlane gave up when she was young, captures McFarlane. McFarlane delves into what it takes to face one's own prejudice, what it means to live a full life and believe you are worthy. 2014.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 Carol S North. 1987
From childhood on, the author was dogged by the strange voices and hallucinations of schizophrenia. She graphically describes her breakdowns…
and traumatic hospitalizations. She succeeded in conquering her disability and went on to become a psychiatrist. Some strong language. 1987.