Health & Fitness
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 About FaceEssays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada |
About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face … | Douglas Gosse | 424 | 2019 | View |
 NEW! Decolonize Self-Care |
Decolonize Self-Care mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary “self-care” practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 284 | 2023 | View |
 Health and WealthHow Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being |
This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when … | Monica Townson | 136 | 1999 | View |
 Secret Life of Your MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 387 | 2017 | View |
 NEW! Take Back the TrayRevolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions |
Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it … | Joshna Maharaj | 258 | 2020 | View |
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NEW! Editor’s Preface |
In the Preface, series editor Bhakti Shringarpure reflects on modern self-care in the era of social media, mega influencers, neo-liberal hustle, and colonial ideologies. | Bhakti Shringarpure | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From Health of the PopulationFrom: Health and Wealth |
A discussion of Canadian policies and pracices around the promotion of a healthy population in Canada in the 1990s, with context on activities elsewhere in the developed world in the same time period. | Monica Townson | 22 | 1999 | $2.20 Add |
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From IntroductionA Meeting of Hearts, Minds and Microbiomes |
For centuries, humans have seen nature as something we must dominate, conquer, and tame, progressively eroding the natural resilience of ecosystems, with the loss of many species more vulnerable … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Take Back the Tray |
- | Joshna Maharaj | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: About Face |
The Introduction outlines the questions that this anthology seeks to answer: Who suffers from addictions in Canada, How can we better understand addictions, What are the steps forward in the … | Douglas Gosse | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Good Food ValuesFrom: Take Back the Tray |
- | Joshna Maharaj | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
The authors contextualize modern self-care, its relation to corporate marketing, its individualization, and how the movement can be tied to intersecting systems of oppression including … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 49 | 2023 | $4.90 Add |
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From My Life is Going Up in SmokeFrom: About Face |
On Smoking. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Jennifer Barnett | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Community Food CentresGetting Started at The Stop From: Take Back the Tray |
- | Joshna Maharaj | 37 | 2020 | $3.70 Add |
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From Dear AlcoholFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Michael Parsons | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! How to Have Amazing Sex (And Become Your Best Self in the Process)From: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 1 discussed women’s work, the gendered origins of multitasking, as well as sex as self-care. The authors detailed the idea that women are inherently prone to multitasking, therefore … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 43 | 2023 | $4.30 Add |
