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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Chance Encounter From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community …	Travis Lupick	22	2017	$0.44 Add
From A Chance to Prove Myself Again – Gordon Cousins From: Field Excercises View New Society Publishers	Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading tells the story of …	Stephanie Westlund	10	2014	$1.00 Add
From A Choice From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Opioids. 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 …	Stephen Miller	5	2019	$0.50 Add
From A Drug-Users Union From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter throws light on the early years of struggle and the subsequent formation of Vancouver Area Network Drug Users (VANDU).	Travis Lupick	30	2017	$0.90 Add
From A Guaranteed Livable Income for Canadians From: Basic Income For Canadians View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter provides an outline of what basic income is.	Evelyn L. Forget	27	2020	$2.70 Add
NEW! A Life Spent Listening Breakwater Books	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
From A Moment in Time From: About Face View Breakwater Books	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 …	Ann Dwyer Galway	5	2019	$0.50 Add
From A Political Agenda for Building Medicare’s Next Stage From: Medicare View James Lorimer and Company	Examines how we must broaden the intellectual and institutional spaces for joint social activism — the kind of activism that will advance both medicare and Social Determinents of Health …	Doris Grinspun	12	2007	$1.20 Add
From A Question of Spirit From: About Face View Breakwater Books	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 …	Christopher Wallace K.	8	2019	$0.80 Add
From A Rogue Asteroid From: About Face View Breakwater Books	The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this …	Blaine E. Hatt	8	2019	$0.80 Add
From A Strategy for Mental Health From: Medicare View James Lorimer and Company	Proposes a strategy for Mental Health in Canada	Patricia J. Martens	8	2007	$0.80 Add
From NEW! A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts Limits From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Vertigo From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Quake From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Monsters From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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 Parts Dross From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	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