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Nom de code: MaChouette : [l'enquête sur le scandale des commandites
Par Daniel Leblanc. 2006
Pierre Péladeau: biographie (Questions de culture #16)
Par François-Xavier Simard. 1996
When my ghost sings: A memoir of stroke, recovery, and transformation
Par Tara Fraser. 2023
A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is…
thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes-the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost. Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now, while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost. She meets Jude, who is also contending with their identity, the gap between who they are and who they present to the world. As Jude's transition progresses and they begin testosterone injections, Tara's conflict with Ghost heightens. Ghost's voice becomes stronger, and memories of hospital visits, old desires, and her ex threaten Tara's new relationship. She burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing, a farewell letter, and an embracing/reclamation of selfhoodNoir Canada: pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique
Par Alain Deneault. 2008
"...] En dénonçant de nombreux abus qualifiables de crimes commis par ces sociétés privées, Alain Deneault s'attaque à l'image factice…
répandue sur la scène internationale d'un Canada intrinsèquement pacifiste, bon et généreux. Il recense avec soin et précision les nombreux cas (déjà rapportés ailleurs dans le monde par plusieurs ONG, journalistes, analystes ainsi qu'experts de l'ONU) dans lesquels les sociétés canadiennes se rendent coupables de corruption, de pillage institutionnalisé des ressources minières ou pétrolières des pays africains, et attisent ou maintiennent l'instabilité et les conflits pour obtenir de juteux contrats. [...]" -- 4e de couvAway from the dead
Par David Bergen. 2023
From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in early-twentieth century Ukraine amidst the chaos of revolution. As…
anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen tells a deceptively stunning story of the restorative power of love amidst the destruction of warParer aux risques de demain: le principe de précaution
Par Dominique Bourg. 2001
Mythes et légendes économiques
Par Alessandro Giraudo. 2007
"Shéhérazade, la fille du grand Vizir, raconte au calife un fragment d'histoire tous les jours, mais la suite est reportée…
au lendemain... Ce livre fait appel à la même technique. Il présente un cocktail de petits chapitres qui parlent de mythes et de légendes économiques, de mouvements d'hommes et de marchands, de militaires et de religieux, d'erreurs économiques stratégiques, de curiosités, de cas d'espionnage dans l'industrie et la finance. Verdun devient une grande place du commerce et de la castration des esclaves avant l'an mil, quand Bagdad est la ville la plus puissante du monde. Comment Venise peut-elle remplacer les foires médiévales de la Champagne ? Qui a réellement financé l'expédition de Christophe Colomb et bouleversé le monde... et la table des Européens ? L'alun permet aux Papes de payer des guerres contre les "Infidèles", les banquiers génois ont le presque-monopole des finances de Charles V et de Philippe II, l'argent et l'or des Indes occidentales financent l'économie européenne qui les exporte vers le Moyen et l'Extrême-Orient pour continuer à importer épices, soies et porcelaines. [...]. De la première grande crise énergétique (celle du bois) à la crise de la patate qui décime la population irlandaise, des grands abattoirs de Chicago inspirant le taylorisme de Henry Ford aux graves crises économiques mondiales très souvent alimentées par des spéculations boursières violentes : le monde se globalise au grand galop. Même les guerres deviennent mondiales". -- 4e de couvClass: A memoir
Par Stephanie Land. 2023
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "Raw and inspiring." — People "Land is not just exploring her own story,…
but also the larger implications of what it means to fall between the cracks of American capitalism." — The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid . When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid , she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" ( People ). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid , which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie's escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class , Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph against all oddsEinstein in time and space: A life in 99 particles
Par Samuel Graydon. 2023
Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret , in this innovative biography of the famous physicist…
told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as a shorthand for all scientists, appearing everywhere from cartoons to textbooks. He has become more myth than man. That being the case, how best to capture his essence? In Einstein in Time and Space , talented young science journalist Samuel Graydon answers that question with an illuminating mosaic—99 intriguingly different particles that cumulatively reveal Einstein's contradictory and multitudinous nature. Glimpsed among these shards: a slacker who failed every subject but math, a job seeker who couldn't get hired, a lothario who courted many women, and a charmer who was the life of the party. As brilliant as he was inconsistent, Einstein was simultaneously an avid supporter of the NAACP and the fight for civil rights and someone capable of great prejudice. He was loved by many, known by few, and inspirational to a generation of young physicists. Graydon reveals every corner of Einstein's world: the false reporting that rocketed Einstein to fame nearly overnight, his effect on people he met merely in passing, even the remarkable posthumous journey of the famed physicist's brain. Entertaining, comforting, bolstering, and shocking, Einstein in Time and Space is the unique story of a man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within itFollowing the Good River: The Life and Times of Wa'xaid
Par Briony Penn. 2020
Based on recorded interviews and journal entries this major biography of Cecil Paul (Wa’xaid) is a resounding and timely saga…
featuring the trials, tribulations, endurance, forgiveness, and survival of one of North America’s more prominent Indigenous leaders. Born in 1931 in the Kitlope, Cecil Paul, also known by his Xenaksiala name, Wa’xaid, is one of the last fluent speakers of his people’s language. At age ten he was placed in a residential school run by the United Church of Canada at Port Alberni where he was abused. After three decades of prolonged alcohol abuse, he returned to the Kitlope where his healing journey began. He has worked tirelessly to protect the Kitlope, described as the largest intact temperate rainforest watershed in the world. Now in his late 80s, he resides on his ancestors’ traditional territory.Following upon the success of Wa'xaid's own book of personal essays, Stories from the Magic Canoe, Briony Penn's major biography of this remarkable individual will serve as a timely reminder of the state of British Columbia's Indigenous community, the environmental and political strife still facing many Indigenous communities, and the philosophical and personal journey of a remarkable man.Wa'xaid passed away at the age of 90 on December 3, 2020.Bottoms up and the devil laughs: A journey through the deep state
Par Kerry Howley. 2023
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown "At 25, [Reality] Winner—yoga teacher, beloved…
sister, AR-15 owner—was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking classified documents about a Russian election attack. Howley deftly analyzes the brutal, surreal conditions that underlie this drama and the way that they implicate all of us." —Glamour Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she could have possibly imagined. Following Winner’s unlikely journey from rural Texas to a federal courtroom, Howley maps a hidden world, drawing in John Walker Lindh, Lady Gaga, Edward Snowden, a rescue dog named Outlaw Babyface Nelson, and a mother who will do whatever it takes to get her daughter out of jail. Howley’s subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera set in the deep state, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs is a free fall into a world where everything is recorded and nothing is sacred, from a singular writer unafraid to ask essential questions about the strangeness of modern lifeMoonshot: A nasa astronaut's guide to achieving the impossible
Par Mike Massimino. 2023
A former NASA astronaut and New York Times bestselling author delivers lessons for teamwork, innovation, and leadership to the average…
person through thrilling, firsthand accounts of space exploration. When you think of a NASA astronaut, the image that probably comes to mind is one of the All-American hero: athletic, charismatic, ready to take on the stars. But former NASA astronaut turned business speaker and bestselling author Mike Massimino was pretty much the opposite. He was the underdog, one of the weakest swimmers during NASA training and a "gangly, scrawny, working-class kid from Long Island with bad eyesight and a fear of heights." Still, after working hard and working smart, Massimino had a successful career as an astronaut. Now, he uses his experience to bring readers valuable, actionable, and entertaining advice for how to get back up and make possible the seemingly impossible—now on Earth. Moonshot shares Massimino's hard-earned lessons and how to apply them in work and life. Using humor and a unique storytelling ability, he inspires readers to identify the passion in their work, use teamwork and innovation to solve problems, provide leadership in the face of adversity, and never give up when pursuing a goal. Written with characteristic wit and a big heart, Mike operates as our mission control to navigate us as we achieve our own personal and professional moonshots. Like Admiral McRaven's Make Your Bed and Voss's Never Split the Difference brought military and hostage negotiation lessons to civilian life, Moonshot distills stories and insights from NASA into an accessible, compact, actionable guide of how to get the little things right to accomplish our big goalsPoverty, by america
Par Matthew Desmond. 2023
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative…
and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. “Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”— The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, Chicago Public Library Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedomAgathe de Saint-Père connut un destin à la mesure de son tempérament. Audacieuse, elle créa la première manufacture de tissage…
au Canada et devint une commerçante prospère. Ce fut elle aussi qui commercialisa le sucre d'érable, qu'elle fit connaître en France. Une maîtresse femme et une femme de passion!Thunderstruck
Par Erik Larson. 2006
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s "great hush." In Thunderstruck , Erik Larson tells…
the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners; scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed; and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, "the kindest of men," nearly commits the perfect murder. With his unparalleled narrative skills, Erik Larson guides us through a relentlessly suspenseful chase over the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicateL'homme qui était Sherlock Holmes: une biographie du Dr Joe Bell
Par Ely Liebow. 2012
« C'est à vous que je dois Sherlock Holmes», écrit Arthur Conan Doyle à son ancien professeur et mentor, le…
docteur Joseph Bell, en 1892. Cet éminent chirurgien, qui enseigna la médecine à l'Université d'Édimbourg, est le père de la fameuse «méthode déductive» qui sera la signature de Sherlock Holmes, l'essence de son mystère et la source de la fascination exercée par le célèbre détective sur tant de générations de lecteurs dans le monde entier. Réputé pour ses fabuleux pouvoirs d'observation, Joseph Bell éblouissait ses contemporains par l'apparente magie de ses déductions, qu'il s'agisse d'établir un diagnostic ou de résoudre les affaires criminelles qu'allaient lui confier plus tard Scotland Yard et la Couronne d'Angleterre. Fruit d'une recherche approfondie, cette biographie de référence relate avec brio l'existence de cet homme remarquable, salué par la communauté médicale et la ville tout entière pour son talent, son dévouement et ce don exceptionnel qu'il allait léguer à son illustre héritier de fiction. » -- 4e de couvMesdames, prenez vos affaires en main! (Collection Affaires plus)
Par Lison Chèvrefils. 2000
« Les femmes ne voient pas l'argent de la même façon que les hommes, dit Lison Chèvrefils, planificatrice financière d'expérience.…
La gestion des finances personnelles est perçue par beaucoup d'entre elles, même parmi les plus jeunes, comme une affaire de chiffres... qu'elles laissent aux spécialistes ou à leur conjoint! Pourtant, gérer ses avoirs, c'est se donner la liberté de choisir la vie qu'on aime, avec les moyens qu'on a. Et ça, c'est dans les cordes des femmes! » -- 4e de couvUn homme d'influence: Sir Siegmund Warburg, 1902-1982
Par Jacques Attali. 1985
Né avec le siècle dans une très ancienne famille de banquiers juifs, Siegmund Warburg, à l'exemple de ses plus grands…
ancêtres, commence sa carrière comme banquier et conseiller du Prince en Allemagne. Dans les tourbillons de Weimar qui ruinent son père, il participe aux tortueux financements des réparations allemandes. Et lorsque l'économie de la dette laisse place à l'économie de la guerre, l'avènement de Hitler l'envoie à Londres, avec son nom pour tout capital. Il y fonde une petite société financière, y invente les modes de financement des Alliés en guerre, et contribue à briser ceux de l'Allemagne au moment où Hitler détruit, avec son peuple, la banque que sa famille a mis plus de deux siècles à bâtir.Le grand banquet: la suprématie de la cupidité et de l'appât du gain
Par Linda McQuaig. 2004
Le capitalisme a toujours eu pour moteur l'intérêt personnel. De nos jours, cependant, les choses vont plus loin : une…
véritable culture de la cupidité et de l'appât du gain s'est développée. La résistance aux effets dévastateurs du capitalisme et la persistance d'activités non marchandes nous montrent pourtant qu'il est encore possible de vivre autrement, que l'être humain n'est pas unidimensionnel.«Au nom supérieur de la collectivité, éliminer les paradis fiscaux ne serait pas seulement utile à contrer le terrorisme, mais…
aussi, cela mettrait fin à l'évasion fiscale frauduleuse de plusieurs milliards de dollars par année qui y est effectuée par les entreprises et les individus et permettrait, par le rapatriement de ces mêmes milliards, à la population et au gouvernement d'ici de stimuler l'économie locale par des investissements collectifs productifs (santé, éducation, aqueducs, environnement, infrastructures, etc.), plutôt que de permettre à une minorité possédante, qui n'a pas payé sa juste part d'impôts, de stimuler la spéculation et l'épargne à l'étranger. Le travail au noir pratiqué ici par certains est de la petite bière comparé aux milliards détournés ailleurs par d'autres.[...] Pratiquer l'évasion fiscale dans les paradis fiscaux, c'est du vol et ceux qui aident (banques, comptables, avocats) et tolèrent (politiciens) sont leurs complices.»Léo-Paul Lauzon tire sur tout ce qui bouge, pourrait-on croire, mais il n'en est rien, car le populaire professeur n'a dans sa mire que ces affairistes et leurs porte-queue, banquiers, mandarins des grandes sociétés (pétrolières, compagnies pharmaceutiques, entreprises de communication, etc.), spécialistes patentés en économie à la solde des penseurs du néolibéralisme et de la privatisation tous azimuts. Il nous prouve, dans ce deuxième tome, qu'une pensée humaniste peut encore et doit exister, surtout à l'heure où tous les acquis sociaux semblent menacés.La compréhension des mécanismes de notre appauvrissement au profit d'une minorité est plus que jamais à l'ordre du jour. Léo-Paul Lauzon y contribue magistralement.