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Calories, protéines, hydrates de carbone et sels minéraux
Par Charles Bordeleau. 1979
Liste d'aliments et boissons avec indication des protéines, calories, sels minéraux et hydrates de carbone contenus dans chacun. Cette liste…
est précédée de tables indiquant les calories nécessaires chaque jour aux femmes et aux hommes, de même que le poids idéal pour chaque catégorie de personne suivant sa taille. [SDMThe clueless vegetarian: a cookbook for the aspiring vegetarian
Par Evelyn Raab. 2000
Describes different types of vegetarian diets and the nutritional information necessary for optimum health. Provides easy recipes that would appeal…
to teenagers interested in a meatless lifestyle. For junior and senior high readers. 2000To begin the world anew: the genius and ambiguities of the American founders
Par Bernard Bailyn. 2003
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian analyzes the contradictory nature of key figures and documents of the American Revolution. Bailyn's five essays discuss…
cultural influences on political creativity, different sides of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin's idealism and realism, and the Federalist papers. 2003Biographical sketches of all the American presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. Provides interesting facts for each presidency,…
such as prominent contemporaries, political happenings, and notable events. For grades 5-8. 2000Collection of favorite family recipes from the best cooks in churches and neighborhoods across America, handed down from generation to…
generation. Provides family-size recipes for meats and seafood, soups, salads, vegetables, breads, cakes, pies, and cookies. Includes section on cooking for big crowds. 2001Terror and liberalism
Par Paul Berman. 2003
Liberal political and cultural critic examines the history and philosophy of totalitarianism leading up to the rise of Islamist extremism.…
Provides insights into terrorist ideologies and advocates strategic American interventions throughout the world to promote democracy. 2003Lettres à une jeune espionne: 1, La diagonale du double
Par Constantin Melnik. 1997
A travers ces Lettres à une jeune espionne, l'auteur, responsable des services secrets sous de Gaulle et maître incontesté du…
Renseignement, nous dévoile les mécanismes, "la psychologie et les techniques du plus obscur des mondes", celui des services secrets. [SDMThe rise of the new woman: the women's movement in America, 1875-1930 (American ways series)
Par Jean V Matthews. 2003
A social and political history of the suffrage movement in the critical years leading up to and after ratification of…
the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 that gave women the right to vote. Discusses the role of feminist pioneers in changing public attitudes and the ideas and values engendered by their debates. 2003Martha Washington: first lady of liberty
Par Helen Bryan. 2002
Presents the life of the first United States president's wife, Martha Washington (1731-1802), in the social, political, and economic context…
of early America, especially colonial Virginia. The chronicle depicts Martha as her husband's "active, indispensable partner," who "commanded respect in her own right," and reflects her instrumental role in George's success. 2002Disabled rights: American disability policy and the fight for equality
Par Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer. 2003
History and politics of the disability rights movement in the United States. Discusses how the disability community has coalesced in…
the past fifty years to press its demands and how passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act has shaped public policy and individual expectations. Also reviews ADA-related litigation and some "hot button" issues. 2003Make them go away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve & the case against disability rights
Par Mary Johnson. 2003
Journalist explores the backlash against the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and society's focus on medical treatment rather than equal…
opportunities. Discusses Clint Eastwood's decision to fight a lawsuit for access violations, Christopher Reeve's goal to walk again, and the proposed ADA Notification Act. 2003Collection of three hundred recipes for one-pot meals gathered from around the world. They include stews--dishes cooked gently for hours--made…
from beef, veal, lamb, pork, poultry, rabbit, fish, shellfish, and vegetables. Includes certain recipes' origins, such as octopus stew from the island of Djerba once thought to be the lotus-eater land Homer made famous. 2002Selon l'auteur, "...Quatre vestiges du puritanisme persistent encore dans le comportement américain contemporain: l'individualisme sauvage, la croyance d'être le peuple…
élu de Dieu, la cruauté institutionnalisée et la tradition de la confession publique."Cuisiner les légumes oubliés du Québec
Par Anne Samson. 2008
"Il existe plusieurs variétés de légumes oubliés. Les connaissez-vous toutes? Sauriez-vous comment apprêter ces légumes pour mieux les déguster? Anne…
Samson vous invite à la découverte de la courge, du topinambour, du panais et d'autres légumes mal connus. Elle vous explique tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur ces légumes et vous propose plusieurs recettes savoureuses afin de mieux apprécier et déguster ces petites merveilles oubliées". -- 4e de couvTraces the post-Civil War presidential election, which in America's centenary year pitted Ohio Republican governor Rutherford Hayes against New York…
Democratic governor Samuel Tilden. An electoral commission declared Hayes the winner after disputed southern returns and four months of backroom political intrigue by both parties. 2003Soliah: the Sara Jane Olson story
Par Sharon Darby Hendry. 2002
Biography of Minnesota soccer mom Sara Jane Olson, arrested in 1999 for terrorist activities in the 1970s when she was…
a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army--notorious for the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. Olson changed her name from Kathleen Soliah and remained underground for decades. Some strong language. 2002America's splendid little wars: a short history of U.S. military engagements: 1975-2000
Par Peter A. Huchthausen. 2003
Retired naval officer and author of K-19: The Widowmaker (DB 55090) traces America's post-Vietnam armed conflicts from the 1975 rescue…
of the hijacked SS Mayaguez in the Gulf of Siam through the 1990s interventions in the Balkans. Includes U.S. failures in Lebanon, Iran, and Somalia and victories in Desert Storm, Grenada, and Panama. 2003Baghdad diaries: a woman's chronicle of war and exile
Par Nuha Radi. 1998
A western-educated Iraqi artist depicts her life in Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War and her virtual exile in the…
years thereafter. Al-Radi records the everyday struggles of her relatives and friends to keep going in the face of bombing raids, the subsequent UN embargo and other fallouts of the warLe curry: une histoire gastronomique de l'Inde
Par Lizzie Collingham. 2009
Le mot curry est très probablement un anglicisme dérivé du tamoul Kari, qui désigne la préparation des épices destinées à…
l'assaisonnement. Progressivement, alors que les Anglais passaient en Inde du statut de marchands à celui de colons, c'est devenu un terme générique englobant l'ensemble des plats épicés nappés d'une sauce épaisse. La cuisine indienne s'est forgée aux nombreux carrefours de l'histoire de cet immense pays : marchands portugais, conquérants moghols et donc aussi Raj britannique l'ont enrichie, après quoi elle est partie elle-même à la conquête du monde. C'est cette extraordinaire épopée gastronomique, entre politique, gourmandise et sensualité, que nous conte avec bonheur l'historienne anglaise Lizzie Collingham. -- 4e de couv