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You--the owner's manual: an insider's guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger
By Mehmet Oz, Michael F Roizen. 2005
Layperson's guide to the human body describes the major systems and common diseases. Authors state that "knowing your body gives…
you the power to change it, maintain it, decorate it, and strengthen it." Includes nutrition advice and recipes. Bestseller. 2005.Agatha Christie's secret notebooks: fifty years of mysteries in the making
By Agatha Christie, John Curran. 2009
Literary advisor to the bestselling queen of crime's estate describes, excerpts, and discusses the seventy-plus notebooks discovered at Christie's family…
home after her daughter's 2004 death. Includes notes about Christie's books, alternative plot ideas, and two previously unpublished stories featuring her long-running protagonist Hercule Poirot. c2009.The author, editor, and literary critic offers his William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization, which…
he delivered at Harvard in 1994. In a prologue and three essays, the author reflects on his experiences, especially in the field of literature, before, during, and after World War II. He discusses contemporary writers and literary trends of the time. 1995.Writers at work: the Paris review interviews, sixth series (Writers At Work Ser. #6)
By George Plimpton. 1984
Words still count with me: a chronicle of literary conversations
By Herbert Mitgang. 1995
A series of impressionistic portraits drawn from interviews with more than sixty of the twentieth century's great authors, including E.B.…
White, Rebecca West, and Norman Mailer. Gives insights into their personalities and creative lives. 1995.Words with power: being a second study of the Bible and literature
By Northrop Frye. 1990
Frye shows how the elements of myth have given structure to literature. He also examines the influence that the Bible…
has had on the literature of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake and T.S. Eliot. Sequel to "Great code".William Blake: [part work]
By Edward Larrissy. 1985
Why Indigenous literatures matter (Indigenous studies series)
By Daniel Heath Justice. 2018
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter…
asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions: How do we learn to be human? How do we become good relatives? How do we become good ancestors? How do we learn to live together? Blending personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis with close readings of key creative and critical texts, Justice argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part to challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have targeted Indigenous connections to land, history, family, and self. More importantly, Indigenous writers imaginatively engage the many ways that communities and individuals have sought to nurture these relationships and project them into the future. 2018.When words deny the world: the reshaping of Canadian writing
By Stephen Henighan. 2002
A look at the evolution of Canadian writing in the 1990's, when it became a commercial enterprise, through the eyes…
of one Canadian writer. Topics include the Giller Prize, Toronto-centrism, and the literary languages of the Americas. 2002.Vivre en santé après 40 ans
By Gilles A Bordeleau. 1986
Gilles A. Bordeleau fait figure de pionnier dans le domaine de la naturopathie au Québec. Son livre nous enseigne ce…
qu'il faut faire pour être en forme et le rester malgré les tribulations et les vicissitudes de la vie. 1986.En 2011, Jacqueline Lagacé, Ph. D., publie l'ouvrage Comment j'ai vaincu la douleur et l'alimentation chronique par l'alimentation, qui suscite…
un immense intérêt tant au Canada qu'en Europe. Son blogue est rapidement inondé de témoignages et commentaires soulignant les bienfaits de la diète hypotoxique, pointant aussi les difficultés rencontrées. Infatigable chercheuse, Jacqueline Lagacé s'attelle aussitôt à la tâche, soucieuse d'apporter des réponses précises aux 1001 questions soulevées et de faire état des avancées de la recherche scientifique en ce domaine. L'ouvrage Une alimentation ciblée pour préserver ou retrouver la santé de l'intestin est le fruit de ce travail. L'auteure y vulgarise les connaissances scientifiques les plus récentes concernant les liens entre les aliments consommés et les maladies inflammatoires chroniques. Elle indique comment et pourquoi les choix alimentaires sont en très grande partie responsables de l'équilibre ou du déséquilibre fonctionnel de l'intestin et, conséquemment, de la santé globale. Elle explicite aussi l'impact de la diète hypotoxique sur les maladies chroniques. Enfin, elle apporte un éclairage précieux sur des sujets controversés, comme la prise de suppléments de calcium, de vitamine D, d'oméga 3, la fiabilité des tests de détection des intolérances alimentaires, etc. La réussite de la diète hypotoxique passe par une alimentation ciblée et cet ouvrage est l'outil indispensable pour y parvenir. 2016.Un coeur intelligent: lectures
By Alain Finkielkraut. 2009
Le roman comme antidote au totalitarisme, à l'oppression, à l'isolement, avec à l'appui neuf exemples puisés dans la littérature moderne:…
Kundera, Grossman, Haffner, Camus, Roth, Conrad, Dostoievski, James et Blixen. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2009.Ultimate foods for ultimate health.. and don't forget the chocolate!: And Don't Forget The Chocolate!
By Mairlyn Smith, Liz Pearson. 2007
Covers disease-fighting powerhouse foods, how often to eat them, and in what quantities. Filled with great tips for eating on…
the run, dining out and snacking wisely, the book includes recipes such as orange avocado black bean salsa salad, Jamaican spiced marinade for pork tenderloin, and wild blueberry muffins with lemon-zest topping. Follow-up to "The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan". c2007.Tyrant: Shakespeare on politics
By Stephen Greenblatt. 2018
Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I…
clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution. Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules---these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues---and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them--and imagined how they might be stopped. As Greenblatt shows, Shakespeare's work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today. 2018.A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' has stood atop The New York Times Bestseller…
List for well over a year, with millions of copies in print. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that the historical information in the book is all factually accurate. But is this claim true? As historian Bart D. Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, 'The Da Vinci Code' is filled with numerous historical mistakes. 2004.Treasure Island revisited
By Jack Fitzgerald. 2005
The story of Captain Keating and the Cocos Island treasure, also known as "The lost treasure of Lima", was the…
inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island". Hundreds of adventurers from all over the world, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sought Keating's treasure, estimated to be worth three hundred million dollars. An examination of the tale of Captain Keating, and of the connections between his story and Stevenson's classic. 2005.Tout sur les compléments alimentaires: les bons et les moins bons
By Luc Cynober, Jacques Fricker. 2017
Faut-il prendre des compléments alimentaires ? Dans quels cas ? Et, si oui, lesquels ? Comment alors bien les choisir…
? Pour quels bénéfices ? Ce guide combine l'expertise d'un professeur et la pratique d'un médecin. Il vous permet de distinguer les bons produits des moins bons, voire de ceux qui sont dangereux pour la santé. Pour choisir les bons compléments alimentaires qui peuvent améliorer votre bien-être quand vous voulez combattre la fatigue, retrouver du tonus, lutter contre les signes de l'âge, maigrir ou encore avoir de beaux cheveux... 155 compléments alimentaires de consommation courante passés au crible avec des conseils avisés pour bien les choisir, mieux acheter et préserver votre santé. 2017.This is our writing
By T. F Rigelhof, Gabor Szilasi. 2000
Rigelhof examines selected works of accomplished Canadian writers including Robertson Davies, Carole Corbeil, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen,…
and lists twelve works that he considers the best in what has been written by Canadians in the twentieth century. In a sequence of interlinked personal essays, he also explores the life as a writer in Canada at the end of the twentieth century. 2000.The Yeats companion
By Ulick O'Connor, W. B Yeats. 1991
This book begins with a biography showing all Yeats' many facets, above all that of the poet constantly exploring the…
themes of love, nationalism and inevitable death. A critical commentary on alternating selections of poetry and prose encompasses Yeats in public and private and conveys the continual development of his creative imagination. 1991.