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Food and drink, Diabetes
This diabetic cookbook contains over 200 specially created recipes which provide healthy, balanced meals. Each recipe lists calories per serving,… fat, protein and carbohydrate content. The book also contains a section on diabetes and a healthy lifestyle. 2001.
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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Health and medicine, Diabetes
The New York Times bestselling author of "Eat to Live" and "Super Immunity", and one of the country's leading experts… on preventive medicine, offers a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse diabetes - without drugs. Bestseller. 2013, c2012.
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Biography, Native peoples biography
Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great… Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war. 2013.
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Biography, Native peoples biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Joseph (Augie) Merasty was one of 150,000 children taken from their families and sent to residential schools. Merasty takes readers… inside his time at residential school, where he was taught to be ashamed of his family and his culture and where he experienced emotional and physical abuse. But even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through. 2015.
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Religion, Buddhism
The Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world… in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us. 1992.
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Health and medicine, Diabetes
The authors answer more than 130 frequently asked questions about diabetes. Chapters address general information, facts about Type I and… Type II diabetes, concerns of family and friends, and weight loss. Also includes results of the 1993 American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Study. 1994.
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Religion, Buddhism
Statements of ethical and spiritual principle as guides in finding inner tranquillity. Written in the fifth century B.C., these teachings… focus on "mastery and purification of the self, strength and sobriety of character, and the ultimate attainment of freedom and independence." 1994.
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Food and drink, Health and medicine, Nutrition, Diabetes
For diabetics, diet is more than a lifestyle choice - it's the key to controlling the course of their disease.… Many struggle to maintain a healthy weight because the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association are unhelpful in regulating blood sugar - the critical component in keeping diabetes in check. Dr. Bernstein provides a low-carbohydrate approach that has enabled his patients, and himself, to take control of their disease. 2005.
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Nature, Animals and wildlife, Christianity, Buddhism
O'Reilley embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, she describes her work in an agricultural… barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France. She seeks in both places a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world. 2000.
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Food and drink, Nutrition, Diabetes
Revised edition containing information on diabetes and its management, based on 1994 recommendations of the American Diabetes Association. Includes advice… on exercise, alcohol, dining out, and eating while travelling; recipes for soups, breads, meats, poultry, seafood, eggs, cheese, yogurt, pastas, and desserts. 1996, c1978.
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Biography, Native peoples biography
The true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who… have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building. Shannen's fight took her all the way to Parliament Hill and was taken up by children around the world. Shannen’s dream continues today with the work of the Shannen's Dream organization and those everywhere who are fighting for the rights of Aboriginal children. Grades 3-6. 2011.
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Buddhism
A handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart, and how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine… compassion toward others. The author shows how to "start where we are" - embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives - and frames her teachings around 59 traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims. 2001, c1994.
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Canadian fiction, Native peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Native peoples, Native peoples of Canada
Describes the treatment of aboriginal children in Canada who were taken to live in residential schools. The story is told… using interviews and anecdotes shared by those who attended the schools. The current state of aboriginal affairs is also discussed. 1997.
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Canadian fiction, Native peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Native peoples, Native peoples of Canada
On a Saskatoon night in November 1990, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared, to be found dead in a field, his body… frozen, three days later. The police investigation was cursory, but Neil's mother Stella refused to give up, as did witness Jason Roy, who had seen Neil, beaten and bleeding, in the back of a Saskatoon police cruiser the night he disappeared. It was only in January 2000, when two more men were found frozen to death, that the truth about Neil Stonechild's fate began to emerge. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.
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Biography, Native peoples biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
James Bartleman, Ontario’s first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how… learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his country as an ambassador. In time, Bartleman’s exciting and fulfilling career as a Canadian diplomat took him to a dozen countries around the world, from Bangladesh to Cuba, and from Australia to South Africa. After a vicious beating in a hotel room robbery in South Africa, however, he was forced to come to terms with a deepening depression. In the end, Bartleman found new meaning in life when he became the Queen’s representative in Ontario and mobilized the public to support his initiatives championing books and education for Native children. 2016.
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Canadian fiction, Native peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Native peoples, Native peoples of Canada
Recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal… oil-lamp lighting. As a half-breed kid, he was caught between two worlds. His Native mother's fight with depression flowed from that dilemma, while his father, a white, working class, guy who never had any money, made the best home brew in the village - and his specialty was raisin wine. 2007.
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Biography, Native peoples biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Thought to be the last of the pelagic seal hunters, Jones is the hereditary Chief of the Pacheenaht people of… Vancouver Island's west coast. In this memoir, complied with American film producer Stephen Bosustow, the Chief relives the fascinating odyssey of his people as they emerged into the modern Canadian way of life. 1981.
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Philosophy, Buddhism
L'auteur, philosophe et maître zen, s'interroge sur le sens que nous pouvons donner à notre vie et sur notre présence… en ce monde. Une méditation sur le mystère de l'existence s'appuyant sur les philosophes d'Orient et d'Occident. 2007.
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Religion, Buddhism
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Health and medicine, Diabetes
Cette quatrième édition apporte beaucoup d'informations nouvelles tant à la population en général qu'aux personnes diabétiques. Pour la première fois,… il y est question des facteurs de risque impliqués dans le développement du diabète et de la prévention du diabète de type 2. Les personnes diabétiques y trouveront une mise à jour des nouveaux lecteurs de glycémie, des médicaments anti-diabétiques oraux et des insulines. En ce qui concerne l'alimentation, le livre présente le nouveau guide nutritionnel de Santé Canada. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire et plus vieux. 2004.