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Fighting For Space

Fighting For Space

How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction

North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of … 408 View
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Foreword

From: Country of Poxes

Forward from Dr. Darlene Kitty. 3 $0.30 Add
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Foreword

From: The Accidental Caregiver

The foreword to The Accidental Caregiver, written by Dr. T. Jock Murray of Dalhousie University, examines the unprepared nature of family caregiving and the isolation it produces. 4 $0.40 Add
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Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements

From: Wigmore on Nicotine and its Drug Delivery Systems

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From: Shadows and Light

A forward from Dr. Katharine Smart. 2 $0.20 Add
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From: Out Loud

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From Housing to Harm Reduction

From Housing to Harm Reduction

From: Fighting For Space

This chapter highlights the synergy between VANDU and PHS as they grappled to establish basic facilities for the homeless population in Vancouver. Caught in the sparring between the health board … 26 $0.52 Add
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Fulfilling the Douglas/Lloyd Vision

Fulfilling the Douglas/Lloyd Vision

From: Medicare

Looks at how to fulfill the legacies of Tommy Douglas and Woodrow Lloyd and the steps that need to be taken in order to do so and outlines two promising areas of advancement 6 $0.60 Add
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Getting Back to Our Roots – Nathan Lewis and the Veteran's Sanctuary

Getting Back to Our Roots – Nathan Lewis and the Veteran’s Sanctuary

From: Field Excercises

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 discusses the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Getting from Here to There

Getting from Here to There

From: Basic Income For Canadians

This chapter looks at the next steps for making basic income a reality in Canada. 17 $1.70 Add
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Global Conflicts, Tensions, and Risks

Global Conflicts, Tensions, and Risks

From: The Oppinionated Middle Ground

In this chapter, Cowan examines international security from the fourteenth century to 2022, connecting the historical campaign against piracy to modern counter-terrorism efforts. 80 $8.00 Add
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Go Careful With That Blood of Mine: Blood Counts

Go Careful With That Blood of Mine: Blood Counts

From: Blood

From Blood: The Stuff of Life 66 $6.60 Add
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Group Applications in Nature-based Therapy

Group Applications in Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

The therapeutic factors of instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior, group cohesiveness, and existential … ; ; 17 $1.70 Add
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Growing Inequality, Basic Needs, and Health

Growing Inequality, Basic Needs, and Health

From: Medicare

Looks at the growing economic gap and how it factors into the health debate 6 $0.60 Add
Health and Wealth

Health and Wealth

How 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 … 136 View
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Health Care

Health Care

A Public Right or a Private Option

From: Canada after Harper

Colleen Fuller first relates how underfunding, privatization, and other neoliberal health care policies have undermined medicare. 24 $2.40 Add