Résultats de "Roy" dans Toutes les catégories

Rien n'aura empêché Nicole Juteau de tenter le tout pour le tout, pas plus un programme collégial où seuls les hommes étaient admis qu'une loi qui interdisait d'engager des policières. Grâce à sa ténacité et à sa témérité, elle est devenue, en 1975, en plein coeur de l'Année internationale de la femme, la première policière au Québec. . Première femme dans un monde d'hommes, elle a relevé une multitude de défis, dont celui d'être promue enquêteuse et agente double à l'escouade régionale alcool et moralité.

In Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls, storytellers take us from Florida to the Northern Rockies to the Arctic Ocean with wild and true stories, a reminder that the natural world is rugged and unpredictable. Including stories from Steven Rinella and Clay Newcomb, and spearfishing champion Kimi Werner, this immersive audio collection also features tales from listeners who survived falling through the ice, gunshot and arrowhead wounds, hand-to-hoof combat with a deer, and a spearfisherman who made the best shot of his life to save a friend from certain death.

There's an art and science behind how doctors diagnose and treat medical patients. Where do doctors get these skills? The Grand Rounds experience, where they practice how to make accurate diagnoses by examining real patients. And with Dr. Benaroch's 24 unique lectures, you'll explore how a master physician solves medical problems just like a detective.

Eve est une espionne. Pour mener à bien ses missions, elle se déguise, ment, dérobe et tue. La sécurité de son pays est souvent en jeu, après tout ! Avec Luna, sa partenaire geek spécialisée en explosifs toujours planquée dans son oreille, on peut dire que sa vie ne manque pas d’action ! Mais lorsqu’elle fait la rencontre d’un joli cuistot, elle hésite à lui parler de son travail.

Pour Milan, les ordinateurs sont plus simples à comprendre que les femmes. Aimer? Il ignore ce que c’est, lui qui compte rester célibataire toute sa vie. Quand son grand-père vieillissant l’incite à se marier afin de pouvoir mourir en paix, Milan angoisse. Il tient à rassurer son grand-père, mais comment est-il censé procéder? Heureusement, sa sœur accepte de l’aider. Elle en parle à son amie Simone, qui a besoin d’argent… Une relation sous contrat? C’est ce dont ils ont besoin! Après avoir été trahie par son ex, Simone décide que les affaires de cœur ne lui réussissent pas.

The Paranormal Investigative Task Force has given Detective Jason Schlatt the Class-A ranking for his supernatural anomaly skills. He doesn’t just fight the fiends that blend in, he can trace their energy and see exactly where they’re hiding. In a world filled with hidden dangers, the hunters become the hunted.

Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”

Léo a un problème de taille : s’il ne trouve pas un moyen de rendre son bar rentable, il sera obligé de le vendre à des promoteurs immobiliers. Mais l’idée de s’en départir lui est insupportable. Après tout, ce commerce est un héritage de son père.

In these 10 eye-opening lectures by a practicing doctor and medical educator, you’ll walk through a series of medical mystery cases ripped from history and involving well-known historical figures whose identities are nevertheless hidden from you. Every one of these cases requires you to use your detective skills to identify and diagnose the mystery patient just like the doctors that attended them. In the process, you’ll learn fascinating insights into medicine: both the medicine that was practiced thousands of years ago and the medicine doctors practice today.

My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Radical and superbly listenable, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Roy offers a powerful defense of the collective, of the individual, and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military, and governmental elites.

For 31 years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK" - for "bind them, torture them, kill them" - he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media. The nation was shocked when the fiend who was finally apprehended turned out to be Dennis Rader - a friendly neighbor...a devoted husband...a helpful Boy Scout dad...the respected president of his church. Written by four award-winning crime reporters who covered the story for more than 20 years, Bind, Torture, Kill is the most intimate and complete account of the BTK nightmare

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Olivier n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même. Lorsque la pression se fait trop forte, il trouve refuge chez Joëlle, son ex-belle-soeur avec qui il a la sensation de pouvoir partager son deuil. Fiancée avec Éric depuis quelques années, Joëlle a mis l’idée du mariage de côté dès que sa soeur est tombée malade, secrètement anxieuse à l’idée de développer le même cancer. Lorsqu’elle se décide à aborder le sujet avec son amoureux, elle découvre qu’il a une liaison.

Congratulations on your new baby, dad! The next few months will come with a lot of joy, a lot of changes, and a lot to learn—and this book for first-time fathers is here to help. Written by a dad and pediatrician, it’s filled with supportive and straightforward advice especially for dads. It’s your one-stop resource for everything from birth and basic newborn care to baby-proofing your home, discovering your parenting style, and being there for your partner.

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world's leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders - the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motive and thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques that allow law enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who commit these crimes.

In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.

Léo ayant refusé les avances de Kitty, celle-ci décide de prendre ses distances avec son associé. C’est bien la première fois qu’elle essuie un revers de la sorte ! Les choses auraient été bien plus simples s’il avait succombé à son charme. Désormais, elle ne peut s’empêcher de le voir comme le fruit défendu… et il est terriblement tentant ! Depuis que Kitty a tenté de le séduire, Léo a du mal à chasser cette femme de son esprit. Et pour cause : elle est littéralement le fantasme de tous les hommes ! Si seulement il n’avait pas autant de principes…

The New Year Dragon Dilemma: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose plan to watch the famous Chinese New Year parade. But during the parade, Miss Chinatown disappears, and so does her crown! The Castle Crime: Someone has stolen Queen Elizabeth’s jewels right outside Windsor Castle! The friends head to the castle for clues. Operation Orca: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are on a whale-watching adventure. They see a mother orca and her calf. But the next day, the calf is missing! Secret Admirer: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose each start getting messages from a secret admirer.

In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy, under Lord Horatio Nelson, dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that recreates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.

In this distilled version of his best-selling Life Without Diabetes, Professor Roy Taylor offers a brilliantly concise explanation of what happens to us when we get type 2 and how we can reverse it permanently. Taylor's research has demonstrated that type 2 is caused by just one factor - too much internal fat in the liver and pancreas - and that to reverse it you need to strip this harmful internal fat out with rapid weight loss.

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Léon croyait avoir tourné la page sur son rôle de famille d’accueil. Pourtant, lorsqu’on lui confie Lou, une ado rebelle au passé trouble, il accepte… pour quelques mois seulement. En lui enseignant l’art de rafistoler des objets cassés, il découvre qu’elle pourrait bien recoller les morceaux de sa propre vie.