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Par Normand Baillargeon. 2011
" Halte aux consensus mous, aux fausses évidences, à l'opposition stérile des experts ! Bienvenue à tous ceux qui veulent…
se construire un avis, par eux-mêmes et pour eux-mêmes. Impertinents et critiques, ces petits antidotes leur sont dédiés. Longtemps les Français se sont rêvés cultivés. Ils lisaient L'Iliade et L'Odyssée au collège... Désormais, ils confondent une marque de prêt-à-porter avec le Zadig de Voltaire, quand ils ne prennent pas Liliane est au lycée pour le chef-d'oeuvre d'Homère... La culture est-elle passée de mode ? " -- 4e de couvPar David Morrell. 2009
Police officer Dan Page tracks his missing wife to Rostov, Texas, where a mysterious light phenomenon attracts spectators nightly. When…
a crazed gunman opens fire on the captivated tourists, Dan investigates the source of the shimmer. Violence and strong language. 2009Par Muhammad Yunus. 2009
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, explains "social business" as enterprise created to serve…
the poor. Proposes using capitalism to tackle poverty, pollution, and inadequate health care and education in developing countries. Advocates access to global television and news services for impoverished populations. 2007Par Francine Bastien. 1998
Dans ce recueil de souvenirs et de réflexions, Francine Bastien porte un regard critique sur sa carrière de correspondante à…
l'étranger, un travail qui l'a transportée de révolutions en émeutes et en guerres civiles un peu partout à travers le monde. Elle évoque ses "scoops" les plus réussis: sa rencontre avec le chef des rebelles du Chiapas, le sous-commandant Marcos, ainsi que la destitution du dictateur roumain Ceausescu. Elle met aussi en relief le fait qu'on accorde pas assez d'importance aux journalistes de terrain, surtout les femmes. Mais au-delà de toutes considérations, c'est la passion du métier qui transparaît derrière les propos de l'auteure. [SDMDiscusses the Great Books of the Western World, a fifty-four-volume anthology that debuted in 1952 and took the country by…
storm--generating thousands of book-discussion groups. Examines the men and marketing behind the project and the reasons the series, containing works by dead white males, eventually fell out of favor. 2008Par Thomas Childers. 2009
Documents the hardships experienced by U.S. veterans who returned home from World War II. Discusses problems such as unemployment, homelessness,…
alienation, and physical and psychological wounds. Highlights the lives of a former prisoner of war, an infantryman without legs, and the author's father, who suffered from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress. 2009Par Caroline Taggart. 2009
Handbook of facts, profiles of noted individuals, and more from a variety of subjects taught in school but potentially forgotten…
in adulthood. Includes instruction in English, literature, math, science, history, geography, and general studies. Bestseller. 2009Par Candice Millard. 2011
Chronicles the life of James A. Garfield (1831-1881), the twentieth American president. Highlights Garfield's rise from poverty to the Oval…
Office. Details the attack by deranged office-seeker Charles Guiteau and the medical care that killed Garfield despite the efforts of Alexander Graham Bell. Bestseller. 2011Par Gretchen Mcculloch. 2019
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A…
Wired Must-Read Book of Summer "Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix." —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spreadPar American Heritage Dictionary Editors, Houghton Mifflin Company. 2006
Detailed explanations of vocabulary from the fields of astronomy, biology, ecology, physics, and other areas of science and technology. Discusses…
terms such as absolute zero, big bang, fission, nanotube, quantum mechanics, prion, universal time, xerophyte, and more. Includes a pronunciation guide, etymologies, and supplementary notes on fundamental concepts. 2006Par Ammon Shea. 2008
A self-proclaimed collector of words describes his yearlong reading of the Oxford English Dictionary. He comments on words that he…
believes others would like to know about, such as "sympatetic," which is a companion one walks with, and "onomatomania," which means vexation at having difficulty finding the right word. 2008Par Craig Havighurst. 2007
Chronicles the rise of Nashville radio station WSM, established in 1925, which popularized country music including the Grand Ole Opry…
performances. Discusses the station's importance to the city. Profiles the businessmen and entertainers who influenced the station's popularity and protested the 2002 proposed format change. 2007Par John Grogan. 2008
John Grogan, author of Marley and Me (DB 61561), describes growing up near Detroit as the youngest of four siblings.…
Recounts many experiences, from disappointing his devout Catholic parents by living with his girlfriend to witnessing his father's 2004 death and his mother's mental decline. Strong language. 2008Par Myron Uhlberg. 2009
Children's book author Uhlberg describes his childhood in 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn with two deaf parents and a hearing but…
epileptic younger brother. He recounts dealing with his sometimes uncomfortable role as an interpreter and with the looks of curiosity and shock from strangers. Some strong language. 2008Par Amy Dickinson. 2009
Nationally syndicated advice columnist "Ask Amy," whose motto is "I make the mistakes so you don't have to," describes her…
adventures as a single mom raising a daughter and building a career. Contrasts her small hometown and close-knit family upbringing with her experiences in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. 2009Noting the dismal state of U.S. math performance, professor and researcher Boaler suggests solutions to the problems she found while…
conducting longitudinal studies of middle- and high-school math students. Offers parents advice for helping their children at home and for pushing for changes at school. 2008Par Booth Tarkington. 2001
George Amberson Minafer is the pampered but pitiful scion of a dynasty spanning three generations. When industrialization transforms his small…
midwestern town, George finds his family's fortune threatened not only by a new breed of entrepreneur, but by his relatives' arrogance and greed. Pulitzer Prize. 1918Par Danielle Laurin. 2010
« Le meilleur reportage vaut-il la mort d'un journaliste ? Cette question, Danielle Laurin la posera cent fois à son…
mari. Elle la posera aussi à d'autres journalistes de guerre prêts à mettre leur vie en danger pour exercer leur métier : Florence Aubenas, Roger Auque, Patrice Roy, Mariane Pearl, Sara Daniel, Céline Galipeau, Michel Cormier, Elizabeth Palmer, Barbara Victor, Patrick Chauvel, Anne Nivat, Michèle Ouimet, Pierre Foglia, Lieve Joris, David Rieff, Reza, Raymond Saint-Pierre, François Bugingo et le travailleur humanitaire Rony Brauman. Elle les fera parler de leurs motivations de départ, de leurs défis sur le terrain, de leurs peurs, aussi. De ce besoin d'être là où ça chauffe, à tout prix, l'adrénaline au plafond. Et elle continuera d'avoir peur pour son mari. » -- 4e de couvAuthor examines the stressful shift in the roles of men and women and describes what he believes to be physiological…
gender differences in dealing with the tension. Outlines coping mechanisms for women to help both themselves and their partners improve communication, mood, energy, and levels of attraction. 2008Par Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective. 2006
Describes the process of menopause for women and covers health-care options for its symptoms. Includes medical and alternative treatments such…
as stress management, diet, and exercise. Discusses scientific research studies and encourages women to focus on making good personal health-care decisions. Highlights women's natural life transitions. 2006