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Riddles of existence: a guided tour of metaphysics
By Theodore Sider, Earl Brink Conee. 2005
The questions of metaphysics are among the deepest and most puzzling: What is time? Am I free in my actions?…
Why is there something rather than nothing? The authors make metaphysics accessible, bringing the riddles to life and showing how stimulating they can be to think about. 2005.Ressources inhumaines: les gardiens de camps de concentration et leurs loisirs 1933-1945 (Histoire)
By Fabrice D' Almeida. 2011
A partir des archives de la SS, l'historien étudie l'organisation du travail des gardiens de camps de concentration et d'extermination…
mise en place par Himmler et ses adjoints mais aussi la gestion de leurs loisirs pour éviter l'ennui et la démotivation. Prix Augustin-Thierry 2011.Return to Midway
By Robert D Ballard, Rick Archbold. 1999
Fifty-six years after the fateful World War II sea and air conflict, underwater explorer Ballard returns in search of the…
lost ships. Describes the events of June 4, 1942, and the author's discovery of sunken remains. 1999.Federal homicide prosecutor chronicles the investigation of the 1993 murder of African American mother-of-six Diane Hawkins and her teenaged daughter…
Katrina Harris in their Washington, D.C., home. Details the prosecutor's efforts and those of police and forensic specialists to bring Diane's ex-boyfriend Norman Harrell to justice. Violence and some strong language. 2007.Red sky at sunrise
By Laurie Lee. 1992
This omnibus edition brings together the three volumes of this British author's autobiography. He takes us from his childhood years…
in Gloucestershire in the 1920s to his wanderings in pre-civil war Spain and then his participation in the International Brigade. That war changed him forever. 1992.Real justice: sentenced to life at seventeen : the story of David Milgaard (Real justice)
By Cynthia J Faryon. 2009
David Milgaard was a kid who got into lots of trouble. Unfortunately, that made it easy for the Saskatoon police…
to brand him as a murderer. At seventeen, David was arrested, jailed, and convicted for the rape and murder of a young nursing assistant, Gail Miller. Throughout his twenty-three years in prison, David maintained that he was innocent and refused to admit to the crime, even though it meant he was never granted parole. Finally, through the incredible determination of his mother and new lawyers who believed in him, David was released and proven not guilty. This is the true story of how bad decisions, tunnel vision, poor representation, and outright lying and coercion by those within the justice system caused a tragic miscarriage of justice. For junior high and older readers. 2009.Ready for the people: my most chilling cases as a prosecutor
By Marissa N Batt. 2005
L.A. deputy district attorney Batt draws on more than 25 years of experience in recalling her most challenging cases, also…
describing those involved, including biased judges, hardworking police, sleazy lawyers and expert witnesses. Batt's compassion toward crime victims and good case preparation are contrasted with rulings that reflect the fragility of the US criminal justice system. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence and explicit strong language. 2004.Real justice: guilty of being weird : the story of Guy Paul Morin (Real justice)
By Cynthia J Faryon. 2012
The story of Guy Paul Morin, who was wrongly convicted of a little girl's murder. It took ten years and…
the just-developed science of DNA testing to finally clear his name. This book tells his story, showing how the justice system not only failed to help an innocent young man, but conspired to convict him. For junior high readers and older. 2013, c2012.Qu'est-ce que le boson de Higgs mange en hiver et autres détails essentiels
By Pauline Gagnon. 2015
Voici enfin un livre écrit en termes simples s'adressant à tous ceux et celles qui désirent en savoir un peu…
plus sur la physique des particules, mais qui n'ont pas nécessairement de bases en sciences. Une bonne dose de curiosité leur suffira pour découvrir tout un monde allant de l'infiniment petit jusqu'à l'infiniment grand. 2015. Titre uniforme: Who cares about particle physics?Pumpkinflowers: a soldier's story
By Matti Friedman. 2016
Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small,…
unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East. 2016.Pulleys and gears (Machines in action)
By Angela Royston. 2001
A look at pulleys and gears and how they are used to make machines work. These two gadgets are used…
in escalators, cars, fishing rods, and many other places. Grades 2-4. 2001.Putting trials on trial: sexual assault and the failure of the legal profession
By Elaine Craig. 2018
In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault litigation, the author provides an…
even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily--and sometimes unlawfully--contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers' public statements and commercial advertisements, the book demonstrates that--despite prominent contestations--complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to violations of their sexual integrity, and further examines how the legal profession can better respond to, and remedy, some of the factors that make sexual assault proceedings distressing for complainants. 2018.Pursuit: the chase and sinking of the Bismarck
By Ludovic Kennedy. 1974
Pour l'amour de Massoud: document
By Sediqa Massoud, Chékéba Hachemi, Marie-Françoise Colombani. 2005
Massoud. Ce nom évoque l'homme qui a résisté dans les montagnes d'Afghanistan contre les Soviétiques, puis contre les talibans. Le…
héros assassiné par les extrémistes de l'Islam, le 9 septembre 2001, deux jours avant les attentats du World Trade Center. Ce témoignage exceptionnel est celui de la femme que Massoud a aimée, épousée dans le plus grand secret, et avec qui il a eu six enfants. Sediqa Massoud nous révèle ici la face cachée d'un grand chef de guerre, visionnaire, épris de liberté, que le monde entier respecte et dont la vie personnelle reste à ce jour un mystère. 2005.1871. A police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy…
road - gashes were cloven into her skull, her left cheek was slashed open and smashed in, her right eye was destroyed, and above it a chunk of the temporal bone had been bashed out. The policeman gaped in horror as the woman held out her hand before collapsing into the mud, muttering “let me die” and slipping into a coma. Five days later, she died, her identity still unknown. Within hours of her discovery on Kidbrooke Lane, scores of the officers of the Greenwich Division were involved in the investigation, and Scotland Yard had sent one of its top detectives, John Mulvany, to lead it. After five days of gathering evidence, the police discovered the girl’s identity: Jane Maria Clouson, a maid in the house of the renowned Pook family… and she was two months’ pregnant with Edmund Pook’s child when she died. Murphy carefully reviews the evidence in the light of twenty-first-century forensic science in order to identify Jane’s killer. 2016." Ce livre s'adresse aux victimes directes ou indirectes de violences. Pour la victime, ce sera un outil d'aide indispensable.…
Si vous êtes en position d'agresseur, il pourra vous aider à mettre fin à cette spirale infernale. La violence est partout et ne fait aucune discrimination chez l'être humain. Elle commence de manière insidieuse en provoquant un déséquilibre sur les plans émotif, psychologique, psychique, spirituel et sexuel. Le stress intense et continu cause des symptômes physiques et des maladies. L'absence d'interventions aboutit souvent à la mort physique des victimes et agresseurs. Ce livre est une source d'informations, d'éducation, de sensibilisation et de prévention pour apprendre à la détecter et la comprendre. C'est l'ignorance des stratégies des agresseurs, les peurs et le silence qui en sont ses principaux atouts. " -- 4e de couv.Les pirates de Somalie: au coeur de leur univers secret
By Jay Bahadur, Richard Dubois. 2011
Ils règnent en maîtres et sèment la terreur dans le golfe d’Aden et très loin au-delà des côtes de la…
Somalie. Pourtant, il y a quelques années encore, les pirates somaliens n’étaient rien de plus que des pêcheurs qui avaient échangé leurs filets contre des fusils d’assaut et des lance-roquettes. Jay Bahadur a enquêté durant trois mois dans le Puntland, la terre d’élection des redoutables flibustiers somaliens. Les pirates lui ont raconté leur histoire. Livre comportant de la violence. c2011. Titre uniforme: Deadly waters.Connaître son diabète-- pour mieux vivre: 4e éd
By Jean-Louis Chiasson. 2004
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.Portrait of a monster: Joran van der Sloot, a murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway mystery
By Cole Thompson, Lisa Beth Pulitzer. 2011
Profiles the suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba and the 2010 murder of twenty-one-year-old…
Stephany Flores in Peru. Details van der Sloot's time in Aruba, Thailand, and Peru, and his attempt to extort money from Holloway's mother. 2011.Planet earth: the latest weapon of war
By Rosalie Bertell. 2001
One woman's look at the Earth and how we are changing it for the worse through warfare and security. Also…
a look at the move toward space and where we may be headed in the future. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.