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Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Essays, Science and technology, United States travel and geography
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
Où va l'amérique ? Devant ce pays colossal et blessé, contradictoire et protéiforme, devant ce pays-concept dont les emblèmes, nobles… ou infamants, tournent à n'en pas finir sur le manège médiatique mondial, chacun est pris de vertige. American Vertigo ? Un livre-enquête mobile et chaleureux. Un reportage conceptuel et un " road book " sensuel, cérébral, drôle, véridique. La perspicacité du philosophe. L'oeil et le style du romancier. 2006.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Paranormal
Get underneath the covers, because between these book covers are stories about a supernatural sea hag that haunts Dobbin’s Gardens… marsh on Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, a used book from a Barrie, Ontario book shop that conjures up a ghostly figure that accompanies the buyer home, and a haunted playground at St. Ignatius School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Grades 3-6. 2016.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Paranormal
A poetry collection about cryptozoological creatures (the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, etc.) from around the world, written so as… to allow the design of the book to disguise the fact that the collection is poetry. Grades 2-4. 2015. Uniform title: Poems.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Paranormal
Written by the Director of Investigations at the British UFO Research Association, this reference examines key cases and episodes of… alleged alien abduction. It also analyses the phenomenon, nation by nation, and features a comprehensive review of the major theories. 1999.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Paranormal
La télépathie et la voyance existent-elles vraiment ou sont-elles dues au hasard voire à des manipulations douteuses? Et la télékinésie,… qui permettrait à des individus de déplacer des objets par la seule force de la pensée, est-ce une réalité ou une supercherie? Ce sont ces questions troublantes que Marcel Odier développe dans son livre. Il ne suffit pas de répertorier les cas spontanés pour se faire une opinion valable, il faut les susciter, les reproduire en laboratoire et étudier les conditions dans lesquelles ils peuvent apparaître. C'est la tâche à laquelle s'est vouée la Fondation Odier de psycho-physique. Son but principal est d'étudier les relations entre conscience, matière et espace-temps, afin d'analyser les éventuelles occurences de précognition, de clairvoyance ou de télépathie. La physique classique, celle de Newton qui est encore enseignée dans les lycées, ne tolérait pas ces phénomènes. Elle prônait un déterminisme absolu, où tous les événements devaient s'enchaîner inévitablement de cause à effet. En revanche, la physique moderne, avec la théorie des quanta, admet l'aléatoire, le hasard, qui se manifeste entre autres dans le jeu des particules élémentaires. À plus forte raison la matière animée, la vie, est sujette au hasard. Mais ce hasard, insensible à toute action physique, ne pourrait-il pas être influencé par le psychisme, par l'esprit? [...] -- 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Paranormal
Si les ovnis et les enlèvements extraterrestres ne sont que fantasmes de lesprit et mythes modernes, comment est-il possible, demande… Jean Casault, que des dizaines de comités scientifiques se soient penchés sur cette question depuis 1947? Comment se fait-il que des chercheurs sérieux aient bien voulu être associés à ces phénomènes? Chaque année aux États-Unis, on rapporte des milliers de cas dobservations dovnis. Dans le monde, ce compte pourrait atteindre quelques millions. Ce nest pas rien, en particulier si on réalise que de 5% à 28% de ces observations restent inexpliquées à ce jour. Cest suffisant pour que cet ouvrage intéresse tant les sceptiques que les gens qui croient que dautres formes de vie existent ailleurs. -- 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Paranormal
Doit-on ignorer les pouvoir inexpliqués tels que la télépathie, précognition, orientation que les animaux semblent manifester? Dépassant le domaine de… l'anecdotique où ce type de phénomène a été jusqu'alors relegué, le docteur Sheldrake aborde pour la première fois ces questions sous un angle rigoureusement scientifique. Titre uniforme: Dogs that know when their owners are coming home and other unexplained powers of animals.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
Les tribus indiennes l'appelaient Occochappo ( anciennes eaux ), Misha Sipokni ( au-delà du temps ), ou le Grand Fleuve… : Misi-ziibi. Au fil de l'eau et des siècles, on lui donnera d'autres noms encore : le Père des Fleuves, le Grand Boueux, le Nil d'Amérique, le Vieil Homme chanté par les bluesmen de Memphis - Old Man River... Creuset de culture et berceau de la civilisation américaine, le Mississippi, avec ses 4 000 kilomètres de long, ses 250 affluents prenant leur source dans 31 des Etats de l'Union et son fameux delta, est sans doute e monument naturel le plus grandiose de l'Amérique, qu'il coupe en deux telle une immense artère liquide, tantôt majestueuse, tantôt furieuse, charriant un foisonnement de paysages, d'histoires et de légendes. Depuis les guerres de colonisation jusqu'aux ravages de l'ouragan Katrina, sur les traces de Mark Twain ou de Faulkner, en compagnie des griots cajuns et des magiciens vaudous, Mario Maffi raconte les mille et une circonvolutions d'un fleuve à la richesse inépuisable. Aussi poétique qu'érudit, entre carnet de route littéraire et rêverie géographique, Mississippi s'inscrit dans la lignée du Danube de Claudio Magris ou du Radeau de la Gorgone de Dominique Fernandez. -- 4e de couv.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Movie and television tie-ins, Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family disbanded and… her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk 1,100 miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington State - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet. 2015.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
Aimé Tschiffely had an unlikely dream: to ride 10,000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York City. On 23 April… 1925 this quiet, unassuming schoolteacher, with little equestrian experience, set out on his epic journey. His only companions were two native Argentine horses called Mancha and Gato. Together the trio traversed the Pampas, scaled the Andes and swam across the crocodile-infested rivers of Colombia. Along the way they were assailed by vampire bats, mistaken for gods and stalked by hostile revolutionaries. After two harrowing years, the man who had originally been labelled 'a lunatic' by the press was accorded a ticker-tape parade when he rode triumphantly through the streets of New York. 2014.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Paranormal
The author examines the millennium prophecies of spiritual philosopher and psychic visionary, Edgar Cayce, as well as Cayce's link to… the projections of Nostradamus, predictions which still have relevance today. 1997.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Paranormal
What are the chances of being hit by lightning three times in one lifetime? And then, being hit again after… you are dead and buried? Read about this and other mysterious legends, including ghosts lurking on board mystery ships and the dark and chilling secrets of Niagara's Devil's Playground. 2003.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Paranormal
There are things in this world that we cannot explain, such as reincarnation, premonitions, and other paranormal experiences. These occurrences… are explored here from a scientific perspective, using current research and scientific theories. Suggestions on how to deal with such occurrences and where to go for help and information are also included. 2002.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
European history, Politics and government, Paranormal, Death and bereavement
For most of human history, religion provided a clear explanation of life and death, but in the late 19th and… early 20th centuries new ideas - from psychiatry to evolution to Communism - seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands. Gray investigates the belief that the science-backed Communism of the new USSR could reshape the planet, and the belief among a group of Edwardian intellectuals that there was a non-religious form of life after death. c2011.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, United States travel and geography, Travelogues
Bryson describes his cross-country journey to revisit what he deems the "magic places" of his youth, beginning with his hometown… of Des Moines, Iowa, and including the Rocky Mountains. Reminisces about his childhood and his father as he recounts adventures across thirty-eight states and 13,978 miles. Some strong language. c1989, 2002.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author, Bruce Fogle - the UK's bestselling cat &… dog writer - decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy. Travelling in the footsteps of the great American novelist John Steinbeck, who published Travels with Charley - his standard poodle - in the '60s, Fogle set off in search of the North America of his childhood. 2006.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Movie and television tie-ins, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
Bryson relates the adventures and misadventures of two totally unfit hikers, as he and longtime friend Stephen Katz traverse the… 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Returning from more than twenty years in Britain, he set out to rediscover his homeland, but the two men find themselves awed by the terrain and stymied by the unfamiliar local culture. His gruelling yet fascinating trek gave him a rare perspective on American life. Some strong language. Bestseller.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
After nearly two decades in England, Bill Bryson returned to the country of his birth. Gathered here are 18 months'… worth of his "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Paranormal
A collection of allegedly true UFO-based stories. Among the stories featured are that of two people who were kidnapped and… used in horrific experiments by hideous, lizard-eyed aliens. There is also the story of strange beings descending in a beam of light to rescue a girl and her father.