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99: stories of the game
By Wayne Gretzky, Kirstie McLellan Day. 2016
Wayne Gretzky looks back on the last ninety-nine years and tells us, from his point of view, about the NHL’s…
most memorable moments. From hockey's fierce early battles on natural ice; through its mythical golden era, where Howe, Richard, Béliveau, Hull, Orr, and Esposito defined greatness; through the unforgettable dynasties in Montreal, New York, and Edmonton and the success stories of today’s NHL, Gretzky takes us onto the ice and into the dressing room to share never-before-published stories about the great players and great characters who have inspired him. Bestseller. 2016.Hallelujah anyway: rediscovering mercy
By Anne Lamott. 2017
Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by “facing a great big…
mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves.” It’s up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere - ”within us and outside us, all around us” - and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it’s crucial, as “kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all.” Bestseller. 2017.Living the 7 habits: stories of courage and inspiration
By Stephen R Covey. 1999
A companion volume to "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". Living the 7 Habits presents more than 70 stories…
of people as they meet life's challenges and practise the seven habits. The stories are organised thematically into individual, family, community, education and workplace - with commentary from Covey following each story. 1999.The book of virtues: a treasury of great moral stories
By William J Bennett. 1996
A collection of poems and stories from the Bible, from great authors, and from folklore, which Bennett suggests can be…
used for teaching parents, teachers, students, and children about specific virtues. Topics include faith, self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, honesty, and loyalty. Bennett introduces each section. Bestseller.The reason you walk: a memoir
By Wab Kinew. 2015
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a…
year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. “The Reason You Walk” spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. 2015.Mr. Hockey: my story
By Gordie Howe. 2014
Big, skilled, mean, and nearly indestructible, Gordie Howe dominated the game and the record books for decades. Today he is…
still known as “Mr. Hockey”. Going back to his Depression-era roots, and following him through his Hall of Fame career, his enduring marriage to Colleen, his extraordinary relationship with his children, and into the present, this is the definitive account of an amazing life and legacy. Bestseller. 2014.The right to be cold: one woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic, and the whole planet
By Sheila Watt-Cloutier. 2015
The author explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture - and ultimately the world…
- in the face of past, present, and future environmental degradation. She argues that climate change is a human rights issue, and one to which all of us are inextricably linked. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. 2015.Party of one: Stephen Harper and Canada's radical makeover
By Michael Harris. 2014
Investigative journalist Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered…
by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Harper’s policies, instincts, and the often glaring gap between his stated political principles and his practices. Bestseller. 2014.Time now for the Vinyl Cafe story exchange
By Stuart McLean. 2013
For years, listeners of The Vinyl Cafe have shared their personal stories with Stuart McLean on The Vinyl Cafe Story…
Exchange. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the segment, Stuart and his long-time radio producer, Jess Milton, have collected their favourites. The result is a wonderful anthology of stories about rituals and romance, road trips and guitar licks, Saturday-night hockey games and Sunday morning pancakes. Sad things are tangled up with funny things, and sweet things too. Bestseller. 2013.The war that ended peace: the road to 1914
By Margaret MacMillan. 2013
In 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to…
pieces, and fatally undermined Europe’s dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last moment - so why did it happen? Beginning in the early nineteenth century and ending with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, historian Margaret Macmillan uncovers the political and technological changes, national decisions, and just as importantly, those moments of human muddle and weakness, that led Europe from peace to disaster. Bestseller. 2013.The world as it is: a memoir of the Obama White House
By Benjamin J Rhodes. 2018
For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the center of the Obama administration, first as…
a speechwriter, then as deputy national security advisor, and finally as a multipurpose aide and close collaborator. He started every morning in the Oval Office with the President's Daily Brief, traveled the world with Obama, and was at the center of some of the most consequential and controversial moments of the presidency. Now he tells the full story of his partnership, and, ultimately, friendship, with a man who also happened to be a historic president of the United States. Rhodes shows what it was like to be there from the early days of the Obama campaign to the final hours of the presidency. It is a story populated by such characters as Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates, and above all Barack Obama, who comes to life on the page in moments of great urgency and disarming intimacy. This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama's worldview and presidency, a chronicle of a political education and a record of the forces that shaped the last decade. Bestseller. 2018.Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress
By Steven Pinker. 2018
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this assessment of the human condition, cognitive…
scientist Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment has worked, but more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. Bestseller. 2018.Aunt Erma's cope book: how to get from Monday to Friday ... in 12 days
By Erma Bombeck. 1979
Comedy of the how-to-self-help mania that zooms in on favourite national pastimes and preoccupations. When Erma finally comes out of…
the kitchen, she no longer feels guilty if the sun sets on an empty crock pot, nor does she care that she flunked her paper towel test. Bestseller. 1979.Introduction critique aux psychologies des profondeurs: Freud, Groddeck, Jung, Szondi
By Jean-André Nisole. 1997
Métamédecine des relations affectives: guérir de son passé
By Claudia Rainville. 1997
L'auteur nous enseigne comment guérir de notre passé et de nos carences affectives, comment ouvrir à nouveau notre coeur et…
nous libérer de la dépendance affective. Alors nous pourrons envisager une relation de couple harmonieuse et épanouissante.Stéphan Bureau rencontre Boris Cyrulnik ((Collection Contact).)
By Boris Cyrulnik, Stéphan Bureau. 2008
"Difficile à qualifier, Boris Cyrulik collectionne les "logue" depuis trois décennies afin de mieux comprendre l'être humain. Psychologue, neurologue, psychiatre…
et éthologue, Boris Cyrulnik a répondu aux questions de Stéphan Bureau avec humour et lucidité. Vulgarisateur de talent, il a su rendre intelligibles les enjeux psychologiques et sociaux de la modernité. Sans jamais déroger à la simplicité engageante dont il a fait sa marque de commerce, il se révèle un fin observateur de la comédie humaine du XXIe siècle. Stéphan Bureau dévoile le côté pudique du chercheur qui projette surtout l'image d'un bon vivant au verbe facile. Ainsi, il aborde avec Cyrulnik des sujets aussi délicats que son évasion du joug nazi à l'âge de trois ans et la mort de ses parents dans les camps de concentration. Également, l'entretien nous apprend que le père du concept de "résilience" considère ne pas avoir réussi à être résilient lui-même. Le temps d'une entrevue, de quelques jours passés dans son village, à Toulon-La-Seyne, le scientifique, dont la démarche a été d'étudier l'homme comme on étudie les animaux, est à son tour étudié dans son milieu naturel. Un entretien lumineux, rien de moins!" -- 4e de couv.Comment utiliser l'attention et l'approbation systématiques
By R. Vance Hall, Marilyn C Hall. 1990
Comment maintenir le comportement
By Alan E Kazdin, Karen Esveldt-Dawson. 1990
Comment choisir les renforçateurs
By R. Vance Hall, Marilyn C Hall. 1990
La sagesse d'une psychologue ((Sagesse d'un métier).)
By Marie De Hennezel. 2009
"Et si la pratique d'un métier était aussi un parcours initiatique, un chemin vers la connaissance de soi et du…
monde ? Je me passionne pour l'être humain, "cette créature qui marche délicatement sur une corde raide". De quelle façon survit-on au désespoir d'être séparé de l'Un par sa naissance, comble-t-on le vide entre les grands rendez-vous de l'enfance, de la vieillesse et de la mort ? Comment supporte-t-on de ne pas être tout sur cette terre ? Au chevet des grands malades, ou des mourants, sur les lieux des catastrophes, on nous demande de contenir l'angoisse avec nos bras, avec nos mots. Parfois on vient à nous pour un travail de mise en ordre, de déblayage des obstacles au désir. On nous demande d'être le témoin, l'ange gardien, de cette descente dans les profondeurs pas toujours rassurantes de l'être. C'est cela qui nous est commun, à nous les "psy", quel que soit le domaine dans lequel nous intervenons, quelles que soient nos méthodes, nos théories, cette volonté d'aider nos semblables à se tenir debout, dans l'équilibre entre force et vulnérabilité. C'est le coeur de notre métier". -- 4e de couv.