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By Steven L Dubovsky. 1997
Dr. Dubovsky explains how the mind and body help and also interfere with each other. Includes a discussion of depression,…
the immune system, cancer, and heart disease. Suggests how to use the mind to heal the body. 1997.The author discusses how natural remedies are used in various countries to lower cholesterol, sharpen memory, fight infections, and otherwise…
improve health. She presents evidence supporting the value of these cures, describes how they work, and offers advice on proper usage. 1997.By Gina Bari Kolata. 2017
Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud…
and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolution--not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma--fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. 2017.By Gerda Saunders. 2017
Based on the "field notes" the author keeps in her journal, this is a window into a life distorted by…
dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa. 2017.By Elizabeth MacLeod. 2018
Meet Colonel Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space - and make a music video while in orbit!…
When Chris Hadfield was a boy, growing up on a farm in Milton, Ontario, Canada didn't have a space program. But from the moment he saw a man first walk on the moon, young Chris decided he would somehow get to space. And with everything Chris did, from learning to fix farm machinery and joining the Air Cadets to flying fighter planes and becoming a test pilot, he prepared himself to get there. Chris Hadfield has rocketed into space three times, been on two space walks and was the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. And nobody plays a guitar in space or rocks a mustache better! Includes a timeline. Grades 2-4. 2018.By Allan Duncan. 1989
By Les Harding. 1998
J.A.D. McCurdy became one of Canada's aviation pioneers for his design of a biplane called the Silver Dart. This book…
recounts his experiments with kites and planes and his 1909 landmark flight above the ice of the Bras d'Or. Although it crashed six months later, the Silver Dart's engine rests in the National Aviation Museum today, a reminder of the first person to fly out of sight of land. Grades 4-7. 1998.By Russell Martin. 1987
The author accompanied Dr. John Ferrier for one year, observing the man and his medical practice. The neurologist confronts multiple…
sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses. Some strong language. 1987.By Simon Garfield. 2001
Biography of William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), the British chemist who discovered the artificial dye mauve. Explains how Perkin at age…
eighteen produced the first aniline dye derived from coal. Discusses his subsequent fame and his importance as an inspiration for chemical advances in medicine, perfumery, food, explosives, and photography. 2001.By Anadi Martel. 2016
À la fois très ancienne et futuriste, la luminothérapie - ou '' médecine de la lumière '' - s'appuie désormais…
sur de solides bases scientifiques qui attestent de ses nombreuses propriétés thérapeutiques, révolutionnant la pratique médicale. Dans cet ouvrage très complet, Anadi Martel nous offre un tour d'horizon des dernières recherches d'avant-garde sur la luminothérapie et nous présente les nombreuses applications thérapeutiques qui en sont issues. S'adressant aux soignants comme à tous ceux qui pourraient en bénéficier, il nous montre les incroyables effets de la lumière sur la santé physique et morale - voire sur l'éveil de la conscience - et nous livre de précieux conseils pratiques et faciles à appliquer pour en tirer le meilleur avantage au quotidien. 2016.By Guylaine Guay. 2018
Dans ce récit personnel où se côtoient de savoureuses histoires et une chronologie hormonale du parcours féminin, Guylaine Guay aborde…
un sujet plutôt tabou ou, encore, tourné en dérision : la ménopause ! Quand on naît femme, les étapes de la vie hormonale sont nombreuses : la puberté, la période reproductive, la préménopause et celle dans laquelle l'auteure baigne présentement, la périménopause ou, dans ses mots, l'apocalypse hormonale ! Dame mature est une réflexion tantôt drôle, tantôt profonde, mais toujours tendre, sur ce moment charnière qui apporte son lot de changements physiques, émotifs et climatiques. Ce récit, bien qu'enveloppé d'une bonne couche d'humour, est empreint d'amour et d'anecdotes à la Guylou ! 2018.By Viktor E Frankl, G Bacon Clifford, Louise Drolet. 2006
Le besoin psychologique le plus profond est de donner un sens à sa vie. Viktor Frankl a mis sa découverte…
à l'épreuve durant ses 3 ans en camp de concentration et l'a confirmé par 60 ans de pratique psychothérapeutique. L'auteur expose les trois voies pour donner un sens à votre existence : la voie de l'accomplissement, la voie de l'amour, la voie de la transcendance. En lisant Viktor E. Frankl, vous redécouvrirez le sens de votre responsabilité et vous prendrez votre vie en mains. 2006. Titre uniforme: Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager.By Élisabeth Carrier. 1996
Infirmière sans frontières, l'auteure raconte avec passion ses expériences dans le Nord canadien avec les Amérindiens et les Inuits, ainsi…
que les nombreuses années qu'elle a consacrées au travail humanitaire en Afrique et en Asie. Pour ceux et celles qui souhaitent aller au-delà des images réductrices des médias, voici une biographie saissante et captivante, un voyage inédit à l'intérieur des pays les plus méconnus de la planète Terre. 1996.By Jean Carper. 1997
By Mathieu Froment-Savoie. 1991
Un jeune violoncelliste talentueux raconte l'histoire de sa lutte contre le cancer, qu'il qualifie de "sale maladie, la pire de…
toutes". Avec un brin d'humour, il nous fait partager ses craintes, ses angoisses, mais aussi ses joies, ses espoirs, ses rêves et ses projets. Années 3-6 et plus. 1991.By Antoine Sfeir. 2013
De façon pédagogique, l'auteur expose les faits historiques, théologiques et politiques qui ont figé le conflit entre une majorité Sunnite…
et une minorité Chiite, depuis la mort du prophète Mahomet. Ils permettent de comprendre les événements irakiens, iraniens, libanais ou syriens. Prix Livre et Droits de L'homme 2013. 2013.By Murray A Newman. 1994
Newman chronicles his thirty-seven year career as director of the Vancouver Aquarium. He takes readers behind the scenes during some…
of its triumphs and catastrophes. He also reveals the complexities of collecting expeditions and speaks candidly about public support for and criticism of the Aquarium over the years. 1994.By Amanda Stern. 2018
The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise,…
gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knew that there was something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends didn't have to cope with. And when Etan Patz disappeared down the block from her home, she couldn't help but believe that all her worst fears were about to come true. 2018.By Peter D Kramer. 1993
The author, a professor of clinical psychiatry and a practicing psychiatrist, may prescribe the drug Prozac, but he also supports…
the need for further study of its long-term effects. Is it right to give someone a personality-altering drug that makes him or her feel "better than well?" Through clinical studies with his own patients, Kramer addresses questions about how Prozac and other mood-changing drugs can affect society. 1993.By James Maskalyk. 2017
Humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, author of "Six Months in Sudan", draws upon his experience treating patients in the…
world's emergency rooms. From Toronto to Addis Ababa, Cambodia to Bolivia, he discovers that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of "human aliveness"--our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. And it's here too that he is swept into the story, confronting his fears and doubts and questioning what it is to be a doctor. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 2017.