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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! A Life Spent Listening |
A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In … | Hassan Khalili | 224 | 2022 | View |
![]() A Lucky Life |
As a longtime pediatrician, Richard Goldbloom placed a high value on connecting with and communicating with his patients and their parents. His ability to reach an audience is evident in this … | Richard B. Goldbloom | 304 | 2013 | View |
From ![]() NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsLimits From: On Opium |
The author describes her writing life in relation to the chronic pain and stiffness of her disease and how, no longer depressed, she has stretched her own limits with opiods, and asks if she can … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsVertigo From: On Opium |
Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsQuake From: On Opium |
As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsMonsters From: On Opium |
The author describes what suffering does to her body and mind and how the effort required to transcend it makes her feel like a monster. While her condition allows her to walk and run but not … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsDross From: On Opium |
In this chapter, dross, the undesirable scum that rises to the top of molten metal and also the residue from previously smoked opium is applied as metaphor to junkies: the unwanted product of … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsSaturnalia From: On Opium |
Through the description of a trip to Spain, the author explores facism and the relationship between governments and drug users, and other disposable groups of people. The author states that we … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() Admitto Vos ad GradumFrom: A Lucky Life |
Talks about becoming chancellor of the university (Dalhousie) | Richard B. Goldbloom | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
From ![]() An Ounce of Prevention:What Is It Really Worth? From: A Lucky Life |
His work with the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination and Walter Spitzer | Richard B. Goldbloom | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
From ![]() At the Feet of the MastersFrom: A Lucky Life |
Discusses studying medicine and some of the masters who taught him. He studied in the 1940s and completed his residency in the early 1950s. Talks | Richard B. Goldbloom | 21 | 2013 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() Background:Life Before Dementia From: Pilgrim Souls |
An Introduction to the first part of the book, talks about what it means to care for someone with Dementia | Jim Lotz | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Before We MetFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
Outlines their lives before they were married | Jim Lotz | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
![]() BerylThe Making of the Disability Activist |
A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … | 318 | 2023 | View | |
From ![]() Buffalo BillFrom: A Lucky Life |
Talks about his great Uncle William Goldbloom (Buffalo Bill) who was a fur trader in Prince Rupert BC who he met in the late 1940s | Richard B. Goldbloom | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Coming of Age in Cape BretonFrom: A Lucky Life |
Talks about meeting his wife at school, going on to talk about visiting her family in Cape Breton and his dealings with the medical community there | Richard B. Goldbloom | 12 | 2013 | $1.20 Add |