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Pandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Par Wayne Grady. 2023
Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline,…
taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases that arose from our shared global experience. Some, such as "uptick" and "pivot," had existed before but now took on new meaning, and others, such as "covidivorce," "quarantini," "covexit," and "shecession," appeared for the first time, their meaning instantly clear. Through this new vocabulary, we became more able to adapt to change, to domesticate it in a sense, and to reduce our fears. Moving from the very beginning of the pandemic (the "Before Times") and our early response to it through the peaks and troughs of the various waves in countries throughout the world, and ending with a contemplation of what the "After Times" might look like, this book takes us on a journey through the pandemic and illuminates both how this new language has unfolded and how it has changed the way we think about ourselves and each other.The dreaming path: Indigenous ideas to help us change the world
Par Paul Callaghan. 2023
Drawing on ancient Aboriginal wisdom, a leading Indigenous Australian healer and an Elder show you how to find contentment, purpose,…
and healing by learning to reconnect with your story—and ultimately the universe. Dr. Paul Callaghan belongs to the land of the Worimi people who live north of Sydney along the east coast of Australia. Raised to live the western way, Paul found himself mired in deep depression—struggling to find meaning while raising a family and working as a senior education executive. Desperate to break free of his restlessness, he made a drastic change: He "went bush" and connected with his elders to "walk Country" and learn Aboriginal traditions. Twenty years later, Paul is an expert healer and spiritual guide eager to share the wisdom of his ancestors and the insights he discovered on his life journey. In this affirming, empowering, and transformative book, he teaches you about the Dreaming Path—a connection to the earth and the universe, past, present, and future that has always been there, but can be difficult to find amid the chaos of the modern world. The Dreaming Path offers tips, practices, inspiration, and motivation that can enable you to achieve a profound state of mind, body, and spirit wellness, while encouraging you to think deeply about essential life topics, including: Caring for our place and the importance of story Relationships, sharing, and unity Love, gratitude, and humility Learning and living your truth Inspiration and resilience Being present and healing from the past Contentment Leading The Dreaming Path reminds us that we are our stories; by learning to recognize that we are all an indelible part of something much larger, we can begin to heal ourselves and our communitiesUn dernier tour d'ambulance: récits d'un paramédic
Par Martin Viau. 2023
"« JE L'AI SENTIE. AUSSITÔT, J'AI SU QUE C'ÉTAIT ELLE. L'ODEUR DE LA MORT. » Peu de gens savent ce…
qui se passe réellement à l'arrière d'une ambulance. Martin Viau, paramédic, vous dirait que c'est très bien ainsi. Lui et ses collègues interviennent sur des corps amochés, parfois méconnaissables, retrouvés dans des circonstances souvent effroyables. Ils affrontent tous les jours la souffrance et parfois, presque régulièrement, la mort. Pourtant, un jour, Martin Viau a eu besoin de prendre du recul et de tout raconter, de lever le voile sur leur quotidien méconnu. Écrit avec un talent littéraire saisissant, ce récit-vérité nous plonge au coeur d'un métier passionnant. Au fil des pages, l'auteur expose les graves travers du système préhospitalier d'urgence québécois. Il fait voir les conditions de travail aberrantes des paramédics de la province, qui exercent pourtant l'un des métiers les plus importants et les plus délaissés : celui de sauver des vies.? Studio Bulldog 2023"Appointed chief medical officer of the King Feisal Special Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Gray's adventures begin as soon…
as he steps off the plane to treat the brother of the King. The Boston physician shares his experiences both in the hospital and at the Palace and presents a rare look at a little-known societySunshine
Par Jarrett Krosoczka. 2023
The extraordinary - and extraordinarily powerful - follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he…
was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp forseriously ill kids and their families. Going into, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such aserious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim?But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets peoplethrough the most troubled of times. Not only was he subject to some of the usual rituals that come with being a camp counselor(wilderness challenges, spooky campfire stories, an extremely stinky mascot costume), but he also got a chance to meet someextraordinary kids facing extraordinary circumstances. He learned about the captivity of illness, for sure . . . but he also learnedabout the freedom a safe space can bring.Now, in his follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo, Jarrett brings readers back to Camp Sunshine so we canmeet the campers and fellow counselors who changed the course of his lifeA brilliant life: My mother's inspiring true story of surviving the holocaust
Par Rachelle Unreich. 2023
The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of…
the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed—which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around her. And, incredibly, when giving testimony later in life, she says that it was during this time—despite witnessing the depths of man's cruelty—that she learned about "the goodness of people." Born in Czechoslovakia, Mira was only 12 years old when World War II broke out. At 88, living in Australia, she is diagnosed with cancer, and her journalist daughter decides to interview her to distract her from her illness. What Rachelle discovers about her mother helps her fit together the jigsaw pieces of her own life. A Brilliant Life portrays not only how remote a prospect it was to live through the Holocaust, but what it is like to be the child of a survivor. A story of love, loss, wonder and the deepest kind of faith, A Brilliant Life questions the role that fate, chance and destiny play in one's life. It is a tribute to family, a story of incredible resilience and a chronicle of the deep connection between mother and child that not even death can destroyCoeurs: du premier au dernier battement
Par Alain Vadeboncoeur. 2023
Ce qu'il faut savoir sur le cœur pour mieux le comprendre, bien le soigner et prévenir la maladie! Le cœur…
humain a longtemps été perçu comme le siège des émotions, de l'amour et de l'âme, si bien que, pendant longtemps, il a échappé à notre compréhension. Dans cet ouvrage, le médecin et vulgarisateur scientifique Alain Vadeboncoeur aborde cet organe sous tous les angles pouvant intéresser le public : ses origines, son développement, son rôle essentiel, son fonctionnement interne si fiable, les symptômes qu'il cause parfois, les examens qui permettent de diagnostiquer ses problèmes, les traitements qui sont offerts et les moyens de prévenir les maladies qui l'atteignent parfois. Alternant habilement récits vécus, découvertes scientifiques et explications claires, tirés de son expérience de plus de 20 ans à soigner les cœurs, l'auteur nous livre la grande histoire du cœur, de son premier battement jusqu'à son dernier soubresaut. Écrit dans un style vivant et accessible, combinant une grande rigueur à une langue de tous les jours, et illustré par l'auteur lui-même, Cœurs dévoile tous les secrets de cet organe capable d'émouvoirBloodlands: Europe between hitler and stalin
Par Timothy Snyder. 2018
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny , the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's politics of mass…
killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history. Bloodlands won twelve awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought. It has been translated into more than thirty languages, was named to twelve book-of-the-year lists, and was a bestseller in six countriesGamelin: la tragédie de l'ambition (Biographies)
Par Max Schiavon. 2021
Biographie de l'officier Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). L'auteur tente de comprendre pourquoi cet homme a conduit les armées alliées au désastre…
en 1940. Il analyse ses choix tactiques et stratégiques, son comportement et ses failles. Il examine également les motivations de ceux qui l'ont désigné à ce poste. Il évoque sa vie publique et privée, ainsi que ses expériences.Dix aiguilles: récit
Par Martin Latulippe. 2007
De coeur inconnu: récit (Documents)
Par Charlotte Valandrey. 2011
" En 2005, Charlotte Valandrey révèle dans L'Amour dans le sang sa séropositivité depuis l'âge de 17 ans et sa…
greffe cardiaque récente, le remplacement de son coeur passionné, éreinté : C'est l'histoire d'une femme qui aima tellement qu'elle eut besoin d'un autre coeur.... Un mois après la parution de ce livre, Charlotte reçoit une lettre anonyme : Je connais le coeur qui bat en vous, je l'aimais... Ces mots, qui pourraient sembler fous, la bouleversent alors qu'elle est en proie à des cauchemars récurrents, des sensations impérieuses de déjà-vu et des changements intérieurs surprenants. C'est le début d'un étrange parcours pour Charlotte qui veut comprendre pour se libérer d'une présence qu'elle ressent intimement. Y a-t-il vraiment une autre vie en elle ? Un voyant troublant, un cardiologue amant, une psychanalyste rationnelle et un professeur figé dans le secret médical vont tenter de lui répondre. En quête de vérité, Charlotte, mère battante, femme joyeuse qui connaît le prix de la vie, nous entraîne avec elle dans un voyage initiatique captivant qui, des mystères de la mémoire cellulaire aux errances du coeur, la mènera peut-être vers ce port lumineux, but ultime de sa vie, l'amour rêvé, l'amour immense. " -- 4e de couvComprendre] la malvoyance chez l'adulte: la comprendre, la vivre mieux
Par Caroline Kovarski. 2007
"La personne malvoyante est celle dont la vision est mauvaise, handicap suffisamment marqué pour la gêner dans sa vie relationnelle…
et professionnelle. Néanmoins, même si sa vision est plus ou moins gravement déficitaire, elle voit ou perçoit encore. Cette réduction de la vision est cependant lourde de conséquences, tant sur le plan psychologique que celui de la réduction de l'autonomie. Fatalité subie, la malvoyance est aujourd'hui une déficience à laquelle peuvent être apportées certaines assistances. Si la survenue de la maladie ne peut être évitée, une rééducation spécifique, des aides techniques et humaines, des outils optiques adaptés, des prises en charge appropriées... sont autant de propositions qui peuvent désormais aider la personne malvoyante à utiliser le meilleur de son potentiel visuel. Toutes ces informations sont ici regroupées, synthétisées, clarifiées pour répondre aux besoins et questions des personnes malvoyantes, de leur entourage et des "professionnels de santé". Motivée par l'ambition du projet, l'équipe de spécialistes internationaux qui a rédigé cet ouvrage a souhaité transmettre toutes ses connaissances et savoir-faire pour donner à la personne malvoyante la possibilité de vivre au mieux avec elle-même, et aux autres acteurs de saisir le handicap que la malvoyance représente." -- 4e de couvQuinine and quarantine: Missouri medicine through the years (Missouri heritage readers series)
Par Loren Humphrey. 2000
"Combining the latest developments and research discoveries, board-certified gastroenterologist and medical host on CNN and Fox News, Dr. Roshini Raj…
shows the ways in which the microbiome impacts overall well-being, and helps readers reset their biological clocks by improving their gut health. With one in four Americans suffering from digestive health issues every day, gut health has become an increasingly important part of wellness. With the human body, so many issues can be improved upon, or cured, by balancing the microbiome. But the microbiome--a community of bacteria, viruses, and yeasts that dwell in the body--has long been something that the average person can find baffling--and maybe a little bit gross. By offering simple and straightforward answers to questions like what one should be eating, what probiotics are, which vitamins and medicines really work, Dr. Raj demystifies the gut. She uses the idea of a home renovation to show how different organs and parts of the body can be "renovated" in order to optimize the microbiome. After all, balancing one's microbiome improves digestive health, brain function, emotional stability, the body's response to inflammation, immunity, and lessens premature aging. Melding the latest developments and discoveries in microbiome research, along with Dr. Raj's practical tips developed from her years of clinical experience, Gut Renovation shows readers how to turn back the biological clock and revamp the way they live forever." -- Provided by publisherBrain rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school
Par John Medina. 2008
Maus: a survivor's tale (Pantheon Graphic Library)
Par Art Spiegelman. 2011
"A brutally moving work of art-widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written-Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the…
author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma." -- Provided by publisherThe urge: our history of addiction
Par Carl Erik Fisher. 2022
The stolen year: how COVID changed children's lives, and where we go now
Par Anya Kamenetz. 2022
An NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children's lives and how our country has nearly always failed to…
put our children first. The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract between America and its children. Tens of millions of students lost what little support they had from the government not just school but food, heat, and physical and emotional safety. The cost was enormous. But this crisis began much earlier than 2020. In The Stolen Year, Anya Kamenetz exposes a long-running indifference to the plight of children and families in American life and calls for a reckoning. She follows families across the country as they live through the pandemic, facing loss and resilience: a boy with autism in San Francisco who gains a foster brother and a Hispanic family in Texas that loses a member to COVID, and finds solace when they need it most. Kamenetz also recounts the history that brought us to this point: how we thrust children and caregivers into poverty, how we over-police families of color, how we rely on mothers instead of infrastructure. And how our government, in failing to support our children through this tumultuous time, has stolen years of their lives. Strong languageOr perish in the attempt: the hardship and medicine of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Par David J Peck. 2011
An in-depth examination of the health problems faced by the Lewis and Clark expedition, the common medicinal practices of the…
time, and the types of medical treatments used on the expedition. Adult. Some violence and strong languageThe energy paradox: what to do when your get-up-and-go has got up and gone (Plant paradox #6)
Par Steven R Gundry. 2021
"In his bestselling books, |The Plant Paradox| and |The Longevity Paradox|, Dr. Steven R. Gundry offered game-changing perspectives on our…
wellbeing. In |The Energy Paradox|, Dr. Gundry expands upon his previous discussions of gut, microbiome, and mitochondrial health, linking immune malfunction to the mental and physical symptoms of fatigue-including exhaustion, brain fog, depression, anxiety, and low metabolism. As Dr. Gundry explains, feeling tired, moody, and zapped of energy is not normal, no matter your workload or age. Fatigue is an SOS flare from the body, one that is intended to alert us that something is wrong. In his clinical work, Dr. Gundry has found that his patients who complain of feeling sick and tired all the time almost always have something in common: the inflammation markers of a leaky gut. In |The Energy Paradox|, Dr. Gundry will offer readers the information and tools necessary to quiet the autoimmune battle raging within-a battle that depletes precious energy reserves, leaving you drained and prone to mood disorders and weight gain. With new guidelines on how to increase mitochondrial energy production and nourish the microbiome; 30 new Plant Paradox-approved recipes; and lists of energy-boosting foods to consume and energy-depleting foods to avoid, |The Energy Paradox| will help readers take back their lives, giving them the energy they need to feel, look, and be their best." -- Provided by publisher