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The Future is an Unlocked Door

The Future is an Unlocked Door

From: About Face

On Narcotics. 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 … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Gang Mother

The Gang Mother

From: Gang Life

Monica, a forty-fiveyear- old lesbian gang mother. Now clean after too many years of injecting morphine and cocaine, she takes in young gang members and cares for them. She was terrorized by a … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Hair Salon

The Hair Salon

From: Fighting For Space

Despite the non-support of the sitting mayor of Vancouver, VANDU and PHS members persevered with a single-mindedness – to open a supervised injection site for the drug users of Downtown … 28 $0.56 Add
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The Healing Journey: Women with Disabilities and Intimate Partner Violence

The Healing Journey: Women with Disabilities and Intimate Partner Violence

The Healing Journey Project Disability and IPV Violence Against Women Results in and Causes Disability Service Use Among Women With and Without Disabilities Violence Against Disabled Women Cuts Both Ways Note References

From: Not A New Problem

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The Integrative Seminar as a Pedagogical Tool for Anti-oppressive Social Work Field Education

The Integrative Seminar as a Pedagogical Tool for Anti-oppressive Social Work Field Education

From: Transforming the Field

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The Integrity Model

The Integrity Model

To Be or Not To Be as A Function of Our Values

From: About Face

The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. ; 9 $0.90 Add
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The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields

From: Fighting For Space

By the late 1990s, drug overdoses, HIV/AIDS, and an outbreak of hepatitis C were collectively killing more than one person in the Downtown Eastside every single day. Desperate for attention from … 28 $0.56 Add
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The Last Song of Akol Chol

The Last Song of Akol Chol

From: From Bombs to Books

Details the life of a young boy from the Sudan who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the war. When his family came to Canada in order to get him the services he needed they placed him in … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Legacy of Violence

The Legacy of Violence

From: From Bombs to Books

Discusses how teachers and others can support students who have lived through extreme violence and what programs have worked in two schools with high refugee populations. 8 $0.80 Add
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The Little Blue House and the Glenner Town Square: New Ideas in Day Programs
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The Little Blue House and the Glenner Town Square: New Ideas in Day Programs

From: Happily Ever Older

Readings in this text explore a variety of case studies from around the world of approaches to long-term care. 27 $2.70 Add
The Mean Girl Motive

The Mean Girl Motive

Negotiating Power and Femininity

Prior to the 1980s, girls were completely excluded from research on childhood aggression, presumably because their ‘sugar and spice and everything nice’ made them averse to … 96 View
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The “Myth” of Child Sponsorship

The “Myth” of Child Sponsorship

From: Change a Life, Change Your Own

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The Myth of Community, Family and Friends

The Myth of Community, Family and Friends

From: Telling Tales

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The National Stage

From: Alexa!

Switching her focus to the federal stage, Alexa takes on the challenge of federal leadership. Chronicles her leadership and electoral campaigns, and the personal connections made along the way. 61 $6.10 Add