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By Florent Dabadie. 2023
Journaliste sportif installé au Japon depuis plus de trente ans, l'auteur évoque son quotidien en tant qu'étranger, le rapport des…
Japonais au travail, la crise financière de 2008 ainsi que le rôle des femmes dans la société nippone.By Monique Polloni. 2023
Anne est une femme de 56 ans, douce, au regard allumé, qui vit quelque part sur l'île de Vancouver. Quand…
vient le temps de parler d'elle-même, étonnamment, elle utilise le mot .système.. Car, voyez-vous, Anne n'est pas seule dans sa tête: plusieurs identités s'y côtoient et l'aident, encore aujourd'hui, à surmonter d'importants traumatismes subis pendant l'enfance. Dans cet ouvrage, vous ferez non seulement sa connaissance, mais aussi celle de Joy, de Five, de Kylie, de Kelsie et de Stephie, les principales identités qui l'habitent. Solidement appuyée par des experts, l'autrice explique comment le trouble dissociatif de l'identité (TDI) affecte le couple d'Anne, ses relations, son travail, sa vie tout entièreÀ partir de leurs recherches, les auteurs vous feront découvrir cette femme d'exception issue d'une famille d'illustres colons de Ville-Marie.…
La nature insouciante de son mari, Pierre Legardeur, a permis à celle qui deviendra seigneuresse de Repentigny et de Lachenaie de l'éclipser à plusieurs reprisesBy Renée Dupuis. 2023
Quand elle a choisi la carrière du droit au début des années 1970, Renée Dupuis éprouvait une crainte, celle de…
s'ennuyer. La profession était encore majoritairement réservée aux hommes et le succès s'y mesurait trop souvent à l'aune de la réussite matérielle. Cette jeune femme nourrissait, au contraire, l'ardent désir de défendre le droit à l'égalité pour tous. Au cours du demi-siècle qui a suivi, elle s'est frayé une carrière atypique qui lui a permis de faire avancer les causes qui lui sont chères. Elle propose aujourd'hui un récit inspirant où elle refait pour nous le chemin qu'elle a tracé, sans plan préconçu, en se laissant guider par ses pas, par ses convictionsBy Tara Lawson. 2021
Dans ce deuxième livre, Tara cède la parole aux enfants. C'est à leur tour de raconter, en mots et en…
dessins, leur quotidien au sein de cette famille pour le moins atypique. Le livre est enrichi de multiples photos tirées des tournages de la cinquième saison de la téléréalitéBy Crystal Hefner. 2024
A JANUARY 2024 APPLE BOOKS STAFF PICK AND AUDIBLE EDITORS SELECT A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and…
misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman's stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner's final days. At just twenty-one years old, Crystal Harris' life changed forever when she attended a party at the notorious Playboy mansion. Picked out of the crowd by Hugh Hefner, she became one of his infamous "girlfriends," attending glamorous Hollywood parties and traveling the world. Yet this seemingly alluring lifestyle had a dark side. Hef controlled his girlfriends with strict rules regarding everything from their hair and makeup to their curfews, and Crystal was forced to compete with other women for her spot in the highly hierarchal system. Living at the mansion, she felt more like a fixture than a resident. She quickly rose to the top, but being Hef's number one girlfriend came at the cost of Crystal's identity outside her role in the Playboy universe. Her fate seemed sealed when Hef surprised her with a marriage proposal she could not imagine refusing. But as Crystal Hefner, she grew increasingly restless to understand who she truly was away from what she saw as Playboy's toxic culture. In ONLY SAY GOOD THINGS, Crystal offers a vulnerable and clear-eyed look at how her experience with Hugh Hefner catalyzed her transformative journey from someone who prized external validation over all else to a person who finally recognizes her true worth. This candid memoir provides a fascinating look behind the scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, and an equally empowering perspective on hard-won lessons about who we allow to determine our valueArgues that the depletion of the world's tropical rainforests has caused irreversible ecological damage. Explores the loss of biodiversity, drastic…
climatic changes, and the uprooting of indigenous populations. Describes the debate about the severity of these problems, especially in British Columbia and the Amazon. For senior high and older readersThe opposing viewpoints in this volume concern the environment. Scientists debate the causes and effects of global warming, whether it…
poses a serious threat to human life, and how to preserve the rainforests that are endangered by slowly rising temperatures. For junior and senior high and older readersAnother ten writers offer original autobiographical stories. The authors in this volume are: Norma Fox Mazer, Rita Williams-Garcia, Paul Fleischman,…
Jane Yolen, E.L. Konigsburg, Howard Norman, Michael J. Rosen, Kyoko Mori, Karen Hesse, and Joseph Bruchac. For grades 5-8Biographical sketches of twelve men and women who enjoy exploring the world around them in such scientific careers as a…
rain forest ecologist, an anthropologist, or an underwater photographer. For grades 4-7Ten "grown-up writers who were once children" present stories based on their own childhood experiences. Authors are: Mary Pope Osborne,…
Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, and Francesca Lia Block. For grades 5-8Katakis defines stewardship as a way of seeing, thinking, and acting on this planet with underpinnings of honor, duty, and…
courage. Reflecting this idea are essays by thirty authors, including Wendell Berry, Gerald Vizenor, and Gary Paul Nabhan. In her contribution, Mary Catherine Bateson discusses the integral part death plays in both forests and families. Some strong languageBy Anne Mazer. 1995
Fourteen multicultural autobiographical tales of young people growing up in America. Some tales explain what it was like to immigrate…
to the United States, and others describe the experience of growing up within two cultures. In "Sound-Shadows of the New World," Ved Mehta, a blind student from India, arrives in America to attend a school for the blind. For junior and senior high readersEighty-five interviews, chronologically arranged, conducted with noteworthy individuals by prominent journalists and writers. Pieces include biographical information about interviewer and…
interviewee. Features such figures as Karl Marx, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Mao Tse-tung, and Mae West. Some strong languageEssays illustrating the need for humans to learn to live in an environmentally sensitive manner. By authors such as Edward…
Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and Onondaga chief Oren Lyons, the essays are grouped in three sections. The first depicts the current state of nature, the second describes the impact of growth-driven economics and overpopulation, and the third offers some possible solutionsBilled a book for Walden Woods, this collection of essays was compiled to raise money to protect the development-threatened woods…
made famous by Henry Thoreau. The concerned authors include a number of celebrities such as Robert Redford, Cesar Chavez, Tom Hanks, Jimmy Carter, Wallace Stegner, Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, and Edward Kennedy. They discuss either Walden Woods or other environmental problemsBy Dominique Prinet. 2022
Au cours des années 1960 et 1970, le Grand Nord canadien était en pleine effervescence. Dominique Prinet, alors jeune pilote…
de brousse, y a effectué des vols incroyables, lui qui a transporté, par tous les temps, des pêcheurs, des chasseurs et des trappeurs, des chercheurs d'or ou de pétrole, ainsi que des blessés et des malades nécessitant une évacuation d'urgence. C'était bien avant le GPS, quand les cartes se révélaient imprécises, les modes de communication, rudimentaires, et que les voyages du genre duraient des semainesBy Dïana Bélice. 2023
2042. Le sort de l'humanité est en jeu. Le véritable objectif de Paul Montès est révélé au grand jour. Et…
c'est bien pire que tout ce qu'aurait pu imaginer Mathis. Alors que le jeune militant prend conscience que son ennemi ne reculera devant rien, il perd tranquillement pied. La bataille qu'il doit mener pèse lourd sur ses épaules. Malgré la pression, réussira-t-il à garder la tête froide ? À vaincre une fois pour toutes ses adversaires ? À sauver la planète Terre ? Et si l'alliance avec Tokhe n'était pas suffisante pour y arriver ?By Ann Thwaite. 2023
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award-winning biography of A.…
A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, and Kelly Macdonald. It offers the listener a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood. Goodbye Christopher Robin is a story of celebrity, a story of both the joys and pains of success, and, ultimately, the story of how one man created a series of enchanting tales that brought hope and comfort to an England ravaged by the First World WarBy Bettina L Love. 2023
This program features an introduction read by the author. "I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I…
never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream." —Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice. It is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to The New Jim Crow , Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists , Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press