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By James Maskalyk. 2009
In 2007 James Maskalyk, a doctor newly recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières, set out for the contested border town of…
Abyei, Sudan. He spent his days treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic and watching for war. Worn thin by the struggle to meet overwhelming needs with few resources, he returned home six months later more affected by the experience, the people, and the place than he had anticipated. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.By Michael Savage. 2016
For the past eight years there has been a retrovirus in the White House, and the last Presidential term has…
infected the body politic with hateful anti-American views and nation-destructive ideas. The entire Democratic Party, plus many Republicans, have been invaded and infected by these ideas. They just repeat them over and over to the detriment of the United States. The bad news? It is very difficult to detect that we have been infected until it is too late. This virus may force us to learn to live with our currently infected political system indefinitely. But, Savage knows what needs to be done in order to bring the government and country back to health. Bestseller. 2016.By Ezra Levant. 2009
As a result of appearing before the Human Rights Commission for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Levant began investigating other…
Commission cases. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases, and that human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things. Some strong language. 2009.By Dusko Doder. 1986
By Germaine Greer. 1984
Beginning with a simple comparison between the parent-child relationship in the affluent West and the villages in the Third World,…
the author leads the reader to ask some disturbing questions about our pre-conceived ideas of the nuclear family. Some descriptions of sex. 1984.By William Empson. 1973
Professor Empson analyses the effects which may be obtained, deliberately or unconsciously, through the use of ambiguity. According to Empson…
developments in British and American criticism can only be understood in terms of the key word "ambiguity." 1973.By Meir Schneider. 1989
A remarkable Russian Israeli who has gone some way to understanding the latent power of self-healing which is locked inside…
human beings. In this book Meir Schneider relates the experiences of his own life and his later work with people affected by chronic headaches, polio and muscular dystrophy. Meir was born blind, the son of a deaf father, yet he has insisted upon living a regular life making no concessions to himself for his lack of sight, and offering hope to others. 1989.By Dick Morris, Eileen McGann, Clayton Liotta. 2012
Morris and McGann believe that foreign countries such as China, Russia and the EU are ripping America off and plundering…
its economy, with the help of its own political and business leaders. With the unemployment rate soaring and the economic picture growing bleaker, this is a wake-up call for everyone from middle class workers and Tea Party conservatives to labour leaders and environmentalists who oppose globalism and its negative economic and environmental repercussions. 2012.By Claude Castonguay. 2012
Celui qu'on désigne comme le père de l'assurance maladie examine notre système public de santé aujourd'hui et ne reconnaît plus…
son enfant. Toujours aussi attaché aux valeurs de solidarité, d'universalité et d'équité qui le guidaient dans les années 70, il invite ici à un constat très sévère sur la façon dont les soins sont prodigués au Québec. Force est de constater que notre système de santé connaît de sérieux problèmes. Il ne fonctionne pas comme il devrait eu égard aux besoins des Québécois et aux énormes ressources que nous y consacrons. Le Québec ne peut plus se permettre d'investir chaque année des dizaines de milliards, en fait pratiquement la moitié du budget du gouvernement, sans objectifs et sans obligation de résultats, sans progrès réels. 2012.By Kathleen Ann Lahey, Kevin Alderson. 2004
Describes both the experiences of same-sex couples who have been able to marry, and the stories behind the scenes that…
explain how the legal battle was won. Using legal history and interviews, the authors investigate the two sides of this process. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004.By Ann Crittenden. 1988
A history of the sanctuary movement to aid political refugees from Central American wars. Chronicles its origin in the early…
1980s through the 1986 court trial that convicted many of its leaders of smuggling and harbouring illegal aliens. c1988.By Joan Didion. 1983
In 1982 the author went to El Salvador. She describes the situation from the government's standpoint since she was unable…
to spend time with the guerrillas. Even so, the picture of terrorism emerges with fear and political repression. 1983.By Chrystia Freeland. 2000
Chrystia Freeland details the Russian transition from communism to capitalism and the ongoing repercussions. She takes us behind the scenes…
and shows us how a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers squandered a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. She argues that while their achievements were considerable, their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. 2000.By Marilou Brousseau, Marcel Lebœuf. 2014
" Marilou Brousseau et Marcel Leboeuf ont entrepris de nous livrer leur propre voyage dans les sentiers de la peur…
et d'en tirer pour nous d'ultimes leçons permettant de l'apprivoiser et de la guérir avant qu'elle ne devienne chronique ou invalidante. "-- 4e de couv.By Charles Albert Poissant. 2007
By Marie-Paule Dessaint. 2014
" Que l'on frôle la quarantaine ou que l'on fête ses 80 printemps, chaque étape de l'existence nous place devant…
des interrogations et des défis particuliers. Pour y voir clair, Marie-Paule Dessaint propose de relire sa vie. Elle a réuni 21 récits qu'elle livre en intégralité afin de saisir la nature de l'exercice et d'en apprécier les bénéfices. En contrepoint, elle expose les caractéristiques et enjeux de chaque âge à partir du mitan : activité professionnelle, vie affective, familiale, santé, spiritualité, retraite" -- 4e de couv.By John Bradshaw, Céline Sinclair. 1993
La honte, qui provoque en nous un besoin maladif d'accomplir des performances, est à l'origine de bien des problèmes de…
compulsion et de dépendance. John Bradshaw nous livre ici un témoignage bouleversant et propose de nouvelles techniques de guérison. c1993.By Ted Stanger. 2004
By David Stafford. 1999
Explores the relationship between the United States president Franklin Roosevelt and the British prime minister Winston Churchill before and during…
the Second World War. Explains how the two leaders shared intelligence secrets, bribed Spain to remain neutral, and trusted each other despite conflicting postwar national interests. 1999.By William Blum. 2000
A critical look at the U.S. and its role as a superpower. Blum examines the U.S. foreign policy and its…
involvement in foreign elections and assassinations. He raises the question of why the U.S. has become the target of terrorists and discusses the issues of freedom and human rights in the U.S. 2000.