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The flock: The Autobiography Of A Multiple Personality

By Joan Frances Casey, Lynn I Wilson. 1991

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Women biography, Psychology, Social issues
Human-narrated audio

In 1981, therapist Lynn Wilson diagnosed Joan Casey as having a multiple personality disorder. Joan's story, interspersed with the therapist's…

notes, describes the abuse she suffered as a child as well as Lynn Wilson's unorthodox 4-year treatment of the disorder. Violence and explicit descriptions of sex. c1991.

The feminine mystique

By Betty Friedan. 2001

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Social issues
Human-narrated audio

This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist…

movement, and that has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations. A new introduction by Anna Quindlen traces the book in her own history, we well as how it was prescient on consumer culture and domestic issues. Some descriptions of sex. 2001, c1963.

The female heart: the truth about women and coronary artery disease

By Carol Colman, Marianne J Legato. 1992

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio

This guide to caring for the female heart discusses the role estrogen may play in preventing coronary artery disease (CAD)…

in premenopausal women. The authors offer recommendations for preventing CAD and other things that can "go wrong," presenting information on exercise, diet, medications, and stress. The changes of the heart during pregnancy are also discussed. 1992.

The fence: a police cover-up along Boston's racial divide

By Dick Lehr. 2009

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Law and crime biography, Law and crime, Police and military, True crime, Lifestyle, Social issues
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The Fence documents the true story of a Boston police incident during which an undercover officer was brutally beaten by…

fellow officers who mistook him for a murder suspect. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2009.

The field: the quest for the secret force of the universe

By Lynne McTaggart. 2002

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Medicine, Science and technology
Human-narrated audio

The author reveals a radical new biological paradigm - that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body…

are not distinct and separate from their environment, but a pulsating power constantly interacting with this vast energy sea. There may be such a thing as a life force. 2002.

The etiquette of illness: what to say when you can't find the words

By Susan P Halpern. 2004

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Medicine, Psychology, Self help
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A cancer survivor and psychotherapist addresses how individuals can best respond with sensitivity and compassion to a sick friend or…

relative. Demonstrates making a potentially awkward situation more comfortable through effective speech and behaviour. Includes suggestions for talking to children about illness. 2004.

The end of power: from boardrooms to battlefields and churches to states, why being in charge isn't what it used to be (Your coach in a box)

By Moisés Naím. 2013

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Social issues
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Argues that the leaders of today actually have less power than ever before, discussing the changing nature of leadership and the modern dynamics of power. 2013.

The ethical canary: science, society and the human spirit

By Margaret A Somerville. 2000

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Canadian non-fiction, Medicine, Philosophy, Science and technology
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As science and technology continue to advance, many moral and ethical questions begin to arise. The author, a leading authority…

on medicine, ethics and law, presents an examination of the various ethical concerns human society is currently facing. Addressing everything from cloning to genetically modified foods, this volume illuminates some of the most controversial and pressing issues of our time.

The devil and the disappearing sea: a true story about the Aral Sea catastrophe

By Robert W Ferguson. 2003

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Canadian non-fiction, True crime, Science and technology, Social issues, Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography
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The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest inland body of water, has lost over half its surface area and 80 percent…

of its volume since 1960, due to poorly planned irrigation systems. In January 2000, Canadian Rob Ferguson went to Uzbekistan to work on an environmental project to save the Aral Sea. After a year of dealing with corrupt officials, not only had the project gone nowhere, but Ferguson was under suspicion of murder. Some strong language. 2003.

The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America

By Richard Rothstein. 2017

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Social issues
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In this history of the modern American metropolis, Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided…

through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation--the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments--that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. 2017.

The hot zone: A Terrifying True Story

By Richard Preston. 1994

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Movie and television tie-insMedicine, Science and technology
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Preston chronicles human encounters with the Marburg and Ebola viruses, among the most lethal viruses known. He discusses the effects…

of the viruses on people infected with them, and suggests that they have emerged as the world's jungles and rain forests have been destroyed. He also describes outbreaks of the viruses, particularly an outbreak of a strain of Ebola among monkeys imported to the United States, and how the outbreak was contained. Strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 1994.

The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

By Bob Drury, Thomas Clavin. 2013

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Biography, Indigenous peoples biography
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Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great…

Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war. 2013.

The history of human rights: from ancient times to the globalization era

By Micheline Ishay. 2004

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General non-fiction, History, Social issues
Human-narrated audio

Depicts the struggle for human rights, from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. Chapters are structured…

around questions such as: What are the origins of human rights? Why did the European vision of human rights triumph over those of other civilizations? Has socialism made a lasting contribution to the legacy of human rights? Is globalization eroding or advancing human rights? 2004.

The health century

By Edward Shorter. 1987

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Canadian non-fiction, Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio

A history of medical advances made in the United States from 1887 to the present, and the relationship among academia,…

industry and government that made these advances possible. 1987. Uniform title: Health century (television program)

The green labyrinth: a journey to the Amazon

By Sylvia Fraser. 2003

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Canadian non-fiction, Medicine, Travel and geography
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Sylvia Fraser recounts her journey to Peru to learn about shamans and ancient practices. The centre of her journey revolves…

around learning about ayahuasca, a plant medicine that is said to transport a person from this plane of reality into another one. 2003.

The good girls revolt: how the women of Newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace

By Lynn Povich. 2012

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Movie and television tie-insSocial issues
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In the 1960s, Lynn Povich was one of the lucky women, like Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and…

Susan Brownmiller, to land a job at Newsweek, but it was a dead end - women researchers sometimes became reporters, rarely writers, and never editors. On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement, forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with discrimination. It was the first female class action lawsuit - the first by women journalists - and it inspired other women in the media to quickly follow suit. Includes strong language. 2012.

The education of Augie Merasty: a residential school memoir (The regina Collection)

By David Carpenter, Joseph Auguste Merasty. 2015

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Indigenous peoples biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Joseph (Augie) Merasty was one of 150,000 children taken from their families and sent to residential schools. Merasty takes readers…

inside his time at residential school, where he was taught to be ashamed of his family and his culture and where he experienced emotional and physical abuse. But even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through. 2015.

The discovery of insulin

By Michael Bliss. 1982

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Biography, Science and medicine biography, Canadian non-fiction, Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio

The discovery of insulin in 1922 was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the century and one of…

the most controversial. Bliss examines the research of, and the rivalry within, the team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod.

The drug trial: Nancy Olivieri and the science scandal that rocked the Hospital for Sick Children

By Miriam Shuchman. 2005

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Medicine
Human-narrated audio

In August 1998, a doctor named Nancy Olivieri, working with young people who suffered from a rare blood disorder, discovered…

serious problems with an experimental drug manufactured by Apotex. Though her research contract required her to remain silent, she decided she had no choice but to warn the patients involved in the trials, while Apotex reacted by cancelling her research and slamming her reputation. The Olivieri affair spawned two inquiries and multiple lawsuits, which revealed the weaknesses in medical research as well as a story of scientific rivalry and revenge. Some strong language. 2005.

The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness

By R. D Laing. 1990

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Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio
The author presents case studies of schizophrenic patients, and aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation. 1990.

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