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La famille Van Houtte: l'histoire d'un bon café (Points. Sciences #32)
Par Erick Van Houtte. 2001
L'histoire de cette famille d'origine française ayant émigré au Québec au début du siècle et qui a associé son nom…
au café. Instructif et divertissant: les annexes contiennent des renseignements généalogiques, des informations sur la culture et le commerce du café et quelques recettes. [SDMLa faim dans le monde expliquée à mon fils
Par Jean Ziegler. 1999
Le scandale du gaz de schiste (Collection Partis pris actuels)
Par Philippe-Vincent Foisy. 2011
" Tout aurait dû bien se passer. Le gaz de schiste se trouve en abondance dans le sous-sol du Québec,…
et l'en extraire n'est qu'une formalité pour les multinationales dont c'est la spécialité. L'Eldorado énergétique nous tend les bras ! Mais le gouvernement Charest, dont d'anciens éminents collaborateurs travaillent d'ailleurs pour les gazières, est troublé : qu'est-ce qui pique donc ces citoyens qui se rebiffent en nombre ? Peut-être le fait que l'aventure, en plus d'être polluante, semble bien loin de pouvoir générer pour le Québec les revenus promis. Les journalistes Philippe-Vincent Foisy et Julien McEvoy livrent ici une enquête essentielle sur le dossier du gaz de schiste en éclairant les problèmes écologiques, politiques et éthiques qui suscitent à bon droit le mécontentement populaire. " -- 4e de couvW.E.B. Du Bois: a twentieth-century life (Up Close Ser.)
Par Tonya Bolden. 2008
Biography of African American activist, poet, and scholar William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963). Discusses his earning a PhD from…
Harvard University and his commitment to racial equality, justice, and world peace in the context of segregation, the Jim Crow laws, and two world wars. For grades 6-9. 2008The longest trip home: a memoir
Par 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. 2008The Houdini box
Par Brian Selznick. 2008
From the age of eight, Victor tries to perform Houdini's escape tricks, much to his mother's dismay. His admiration for…
the great magician leads him to inherit a box--supposedly Houdini's, but with the confusing initials "E.W." marked on it. For grades 3-6. 2008Searching for Schindler: a memoir
Par Thomas Keneally. 2008
Author of Schindler's List (RC 20835, BR 9689) describes his novel-writing process. Recalls his 1980 chance encounter with Holocaust survivor…
Leopold Pfefferberg in Beverly Hills, which led to Keneally writing about Oskar Schindler, a Nazi who saved hundreds of Jews from death camps. Some strong language. 2007The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead
Par David Shields. 2008
Fifty-one-year-old professor and author of Remote (BR 10661) discusses his own take on mortality and contrasts it with his ninety-seven-year-old…
father's optimistic attitude. He peppers his musings with biographical vignettes, biological facts about the aging body and mind, and quotes from people throughout history. Some strong language. 2008Lincoln: the biography of a writer
Par Fred Kaplan. 2008
Explores the life of Abraham Lincoln through the language of his writings. Posits that Lincoln's boyhood readings of Burns, Byron,…
Shakespeare, Aesop's fables, and the Bible shaped his ideas about liberty, love, and human nature and led to his use of clear, common speech to convey morality and democracy. 2008Lettre à un ami malheureux, ou, La quête du bonheur: La Quête Du Bonheur
Par Marc Fisher. 2011
" Le soir de son anniversaire, Paul, mon ami d'enfance, nous a fait un aveu inattendu: Je ne suis pas…
heureux! Ébranlé, j'ai protesté qu'il avait tout pour lui. Cinq minutes plus tard, les larmes aux yeux, il partait! Lorsque je suis revenu chez moi, j'ai décidé de lui écrire une longue lettre sur le bonheur. Je lui ai parlé de la beauté extraordinaire de la vie, etc. Je lui ai parlé des dettes, de la maladie et de la manière de les éviter... (...) Jusqu'à la fin, j'ai cru ma longue lettre inutile, et puis, quelque chose d'extraordinaire s'est passé dans sa vie, et c'est moi qui ai eu les larmes aux yeux. Marc Fisher " -- 4e de couvThe law of success: Using the power of spirit to create health, prosperity, and happiness by paramahansa yogananda
Par Paramahansa Yogananda. 2019
The faster the world moves, the more important it becomes to slow down and look within for what makes us…
truly happy. If you measure success by the quality of your life rather than just by material achievements, then the timeless wisdom of this book will speak directly to your heart and soul. For more than 50 years, this classic inspirational guide has helped hundreds of thousands of people to move through obstacles and invite all-round success fully into their livesRépartition de la richesse, privatisation des services publics, justice social, égalité des chances impôts, taxes, mondialisation ; politiciens, journalistes, économistes,…
lobbyistes, gens d'affaires de tout acabit... Lauzon n'épargne rien ni personne. Dans la langue colorée et pas toujours chatiée ! qu'on lui connaît , il nous explique clairement les différents enjeux économiques et sociaux auxquels nous sommes confrontés. -- 4e de couvNovelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006Author 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. 2008A bold fresh piece of humanity
Par Bill O'Reilly. 2008
Emmy Award-winning television commentator's autobiography, its title inspired by his third-grade teacher, a nun, who summed him up with the…
phrase. O'Reilly reminisces about his postwar working-class upbringing in Long Island, a Catholic-school education, his two years as a teacher, and his journalism career's start in 1970s Boston. Bestseller. 2008The house at Sugar Beach: in search of a lost African childhood
Par Helene Cooper. 2008
Memoir by New York Times correspondent describes her privileged childhood in Liberia as a descendant of black American founders. Cooper…
relates her uprooting by a 1980 coup that forced the family to flee to the United States--and her return decades later. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008West from Appomattox: the reconstruction of America after the Civil War
Par Heather Cox Richardson. 2007
History professor focuses on the formation of a middle class in post-Civil War America and asserts that its members defined…
the nation's identity at home and abroad for the next century and beyond. Highlights the era's sectional animosities, racial tensions, booming industrialization, suffragist activism, and westward expansion. 2007Letter to my daughter
Par Maya Angelou. 2008
Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RC 57200, BR 15665) shares life lessons in the form of…
reminiscences, poems, and short essays with her thousands of young daughters all over the world. In "Senegal" Angelou commits a social faux pas that her hostess graciously ignores. Bestseller. 2008The Alice B. Toklas cook book (Cook's classic library)
Par Alice B Toklas. 1998
Gertrude Stein's lifelong companion reminisces about great and humble meals shared with friends in wartime Paris, rural France, Spain, and…
America. Contains cooking tips and numerous recipes for dishes such as gazpacho, saddle of young boar, croquettes, mussels, violet soufflé, hot chocolate, and more. Foreword (1984) by M.F.K. Fisher. 1954The unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes and why
Par Amanda Ripley. 2008
Time magazine writer investigates the psychology of survival during disasters such as airline crashes, fires, hostage situations, and tsunamis. Reveals…
the traits that people demonstrate to help them escape. Includes interviews with subjects of the September 11, 2001, attacks; 2005's Hurricane Katrina; and the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting rampage. Some strong language. 2008