Джеймс Маскалик4.0 A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive. In this deeply personal book, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, author of the highly acclaimed Six Months in Sudan, draws upon his experience treating patients in the world's emergency rooms. From Toronto to Addis Ababa, Cambodia to Bolivia, he discovers that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of -human aliveness---our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. And it's here too that he is swept into the story, confronting his fears and doubts and questioning what it is to be a doctor.
Masterfully written and artfully structured, Life on the Ground Floor is more than just an emergency doctor's memoir or travelogue--it's a meditation on health, sickness and the wonder of human life.
Таня Талага4.0 In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.
More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Jordan Wabasse, a gentle boy and star hockey player, disappeared into the minus twenty degrees Celsius night. The body of celebrated artist Norval Morrisseau’s grandson, Kyle, was pulled from a river, as was Curran Strang’s. Robyn Harper died in her boarding-house hallway and Paul Panacheese inexplicably collapsed on his kitchen floor. Reggie Bushie’s death finally prompted an inquest, seven years after the discovery of Jethro Anderson, the first boy whose body was found in the water.
Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this small northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.
Кио Маклир4.4 В книге «Птицы, искусство, жизнь: год наблюдений» Кио Маклир отправляется в орнитологическое путешествие по большому городу и на своем пути размышляет о природе творчества и поисках осмысленной жизни.
Оказавшись в сложной жизненной ситуации, рассказчица открывает для себя мир «бёрдинга», наблюдений за птицами. С одной стороны, эссе, исследующее наши взаимоотношения с окружающей природой, с другой — откровенный опыт автофикшн, упражнение в искусстве приметливости и дневник наблюдений за собой. Птицы для Маклир становятся тем же, чем были грибы для Джона Кейджа, бабочки для Владимира Набокова или пчелы для Сильвии Плат — внешним толчком к внутреннему путешествию.
На более глубинном уровне Маклир поднимает вопросы о том, как нас формируют и воспитывают наши параллельные увлечения, и как мы можем прийти к тому, чтобы бережно относиться не только к девственным природным местам в мире, но и к пятнистым городским пространствам, в которых мы живем.
