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19831,100 pages. "Consists of succinct abstracts of 1719 papers selected from the Cannabis archive of the Addiction Research Foundation." - from Introduction. Tight and square. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
1965Features: Our scramble to keep India's atom peaceful; Former Canadian diplomat, Arnold Smith, is newly elected first secretary-general of the Commonwealth - with photos; To Hell and Back - an anonymous writer's tale of alcoholism and drug addiction; The real meaning of dreams, by Ben Rose; Sweet Song of Success - Features story on Ian and Sylvia, with photos; Quebec's new Power Elite - Claude Morin, Arthur Tremblay, Guy Fregault, Louis-Phillips Pigeon, and Jean Deschamps; Sunday Driver - Commercial Artist and Canadian Racing Driver of the Year, Al Pease races his MGB; Is the Canada Council Squandering Your Money?; Talking with insects and animals (like dolphins) to learn how to talk to other worlds; Tai Chi - a new health kick, a thousand years old; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
193840 pages. Features: Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; The Wedding Present, by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Design for a National Capital, by J.F.C. Smith - a bird's-eye view of the fifty-year plan for the beautification of Ottawa, with black and white photos; Streamliner, by Ray Millholland; 29,000 Miles over the Arctic - by Air Commodore H. Hollick-Kenyon, who is convinced that airliners can fly the circumpolar skyway from America to Asia - with black and white photos; Arena Dramas - highlights from the sports parade as recorded by the dean of Canadian sports writers Elmer W. Ferguson - with photo of "Mighty Mite" Auriel Joliat; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - Cut the Barbed Wire! - he describes the addiction to war and military spending; Looms of Conflict, by Burton L. Spiller - in which crisis strikes at Rainbow Mills and a young man in love discovers romance can be bitter sweet; Norman Reilly Raine - a writing career launched in Maclean's leads to an Academy award for the best screen play of the year, by Harry Bossin - with photo of Mr. Raine; Who was Joe Boyle? (conclusion) - Snatching treasure from Bolsheviks, rescuing prisoners, defying fleets, signing treaties - "Uncle Joe" was nothing if not versatile, by Flora Alexander Boyle - with black and white photos; Nice full-page black and white ad for Pontiac cars; Gorgeous colour back cover ad for Buckingham cigarettes features a hummingbird illustration. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
1984Features: More Colonial decorating sources; The Sonoran Desert Indian Shop; Diane Foster - tea Cups in a Tackle Box; The Great Missouri Break Away Contest; Ancient Symphonies - recapturing a royal heritage; Joe & Marie Biehl's Pleasant Addiction; Amanda Skinner's Porcelain Artistry; The Contemporary Casa Catalina; Deidra Spann's International Figures; It's all in the family with the Fulton-Schaefer family - from movie model sets to dollhouse miniatures; St. Paddy's Pot O' Gold Feast; Framed Victorian photos; Mary Eccher's gourmet gaffs - miniature food messes!; For centuries couture has influenced coiffures; Clancy's Irish Pub - green bear flows at this neighborhood watering hole; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
195564 pages. Features: Colour ad for International Harvester ads inside front cover; The Girl Who Had No Talent - Bea Lillie; Gorgeous two-page colour ad for Chrysler's "Mostion-Design" style of wrap-around windshields; The Big Battle of the Big Stores - Simpson's versus Eaton's - article with photos; The Dope Craze That's Terrorizing Vancouver - it has the highest rate of drug addiction in the Western Hemisphere - article with photos; The Squalid Mess in Indo-China - Canada's UN team struggles to help build a democracy while the Reds feel shure they'll get all they want without fighting; Meet Quebec's Most Famous Family - Roger Lemelin's Plouffes; How to Avoid a Third World War, by Bertrand Russell; The Flirtatious Phantom of Montreal - story by Michael Sheldon; Hitler's Car Makes a Comeback - the Volkswagen is crowding world markets - article with great photos; Rexall centerfold ad; Nice purple DeSoto auto ad; Plymouth ad; Pontiac ad; Colour ad for the Detroit Sheraton Cadillac Hotel inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196180 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for the 1962 Dodge Valiant (red) inside front cover; International Harvester mining equipment ad features photos at the McDame Mountain asbestos mine in the Cassiar range, near the B.C.-Yukon border; Colour 1962 Chrysler ad; Work Addiction - the habit that rules men who rule the rat race; The Undeserving Poor - a group portrait of the small and anonymous minority of Canada's poor who eat up the lion's share of welfare money; Why I Stole the Luxury Liner "Santa Maria"; A New Look at the Great Lakes - article with colour photos; A Fall of Birds (fiction); The Rise of the Tree-Savers - heavy duty equipment is used to transplant mature trees in Ontario which would otherwise be destroyed by development; The Nightmare Life of a Hemophiliac; My Secret Rendezvous with a Red Attache - Toronto student Harry Malcolmson and his meeting with Serguei Divilkovsky; The West Indians - Our Loneliest Immigrants - permanent strangers in a white land; The Fifth Comeback of Jacques Normand, Quebec's First Funnyman; Canadian Club colour photo ad features surfing photos of Mark Lyons; Log of Seagoing Scientists aboard the "Porte Dauphine"; The Prime Minister's New Vision - a national power grid; Operation Fleshcreeper - Red answer to NATO arms; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features young square dancers. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1899Pages 114-224. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part X; My Baby Leopard - R.H. Summers describes raising the cubs of a large leopardess he shot - with photos; The Peril of Seaman Diver Young - he spent five hours upside-down underwater while attempting to retrieve a torpedo for the H.M.S. Hood; My Cycle Ride to Khiva - part 3 of 3 of this excellent photo-illustrated recollection by Robert L. Jefferson; Our Baboon Hunt - South African farmer Mr. Charles Wisbey describes how he battled a serious pest - with photos; A Night to Remember - Edith and Leila become lost in a remote tiger-infested Indian jungle; The Jumping Procession at Echternach, Luxemburg - photo-illustrated article; A Masai Massacre - Missionary Rev. James Houghton and his wife are murdered in Central Africa; Through Pygmy Land - part II of a photo-illustrated account of Albert B. Lloyd and his trip; Entombed in a "Drive" - Australian Louis Anson is trapped deep underground; Venomous Snakes and Their Ways - photo-illustrated article, including Lieut.-Colonel N. Montgomery, who was killed by a Mamba in Zululand; Where Women Never Speak - photo-illustrated article on the Abbe Cestac in southwesst France; A Fight with Wolves on the Altar - Galician Stanislaus Bruhs is attacked by three large wolves in a church!; Dramatic photo of Judge Lynch and black man about to be lynched at Texarkansas; Photo of Persian being treated for opium addiction with milk and a twist; Photo of the Rosary Fete in the city gaol, Manila, Philippines; Photo-illustrated announcement of upcoming article on Charles Neufeld, a prisoner for 12 years in Omdurman; and more. Above-average wear. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1988112pp. 22 cm. Paperback Very good condition
1982VG+ hardcover. 305 p.
1990Library sticker to spine and FEP, stamp on inside back cover and page block Ex-Library
1990Library sticker to spine and FEP, stamp on inside back cover and page block Ex-Library
1996Library stickers and stamps on the spine and on the FEP. This volume on substance abuse and addiction covers such topics as: the epidemiology of substance abuse; alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, marijuana and opiates; intrauterine effects of substance abuse; and inpatient management issues and pain treatment Government Reference Library
1980In protective cover. Ex-library Ex-Library
1985Dust jacket in a good condition with light general wear. Hard cover very well preserved. Contents sound and good, pages are crisp, text bright and tight throughout. Clean Copy
1989Library sticker on spine and FEP, stamp on inside covers and page block. Ex - Library
1979Library sticker to spine and inside cover, pocket to FEP, stamp to inner FEP, title page , catalog page and page block. Some pencil underlining to pages 9 - 10 Ex - Library
1988rif. 2635Le Pâtre 1988 335 pages in8. 1988. broché. 335 pages.
2003rif. 4253Michel Lafon 2003 187 pages 14x22x2cm. 2003. broché. 187 pages. Ce livre est le témoignage poignant de Vincent Humbert un jeune homme tétraplégique aveugle et muet après un accident qui revendique le droit de mettre fin à ses souffrances. Il s'agit d'un plaidoyer personnel et émouvant pour le droit à mourir dans la dignité qui a profondément marqué le débat sur l'euthanasie en France
2016rif. 6080Gallimard 2016 320 pages 14x2x20cm. 2016. broché. 320 pages. L'autrice Alix de Saint-André relate son expérience personnelle avec un traitement expérimental au baclofène un relaxant musculaire qui a profondément affecté son état mental. Le livre décrit sa chute psychologique un délire mystico-religieux et son combat contre l'addiction tout en explorant paradoxalement comment ce traitement l'a libérée de l'angoisse de la page blanche lui permettant d'écrire intensément
1990rif. 7837Club du livre 1990 183 pages IN4. 1990. reliure editeur. 183 pages. Les Paradis Artificiels est un essai de Charles Baudelaire explorant les effets du haschisch et de l'opium sur l'esprit humain en particulier leur relation avec la création poétique et artistique. L'ouvrage à la croisée de l'observation de la confession et de la réflexion philosophique examine les altérations psychiques provoquées par ces substances et dénonce la recherche d'un idéal illusoire à travers l'ivresse
1989rif. 8117Hommes et Groupes 1989 225 pages in8. 1989. broché. 225 pages. Cet ouvrage de Catherine Sokolsky publié en 1987 est un essai documentaire destiné au grand public qui examine de manière approfondie les dangers et les effets indésirables des tranquillisants (notamment les benzodiazépines). Il met en lumière les pièges de la dépendance physique et psychique le sevrage difficile et propose des alternatives comme la psychothérapie pour s'en passer
2009rif. 8166DE BOECK SUP 2009 192 pages 16x1 4x23 4cm. 2009. broché. 192 pages. Cet ouvrage collectif présente le concept de résilience appliqué aux personnes âgées en particulier dans le contexte de la maladie d'Alzheimer et des maladies chroniques. Il explore comment la mémoire les récits de vie et les relations avec les soignants peuvent soutenir cette capacité à se développer malgré l'adversité
2004rif. 9440Calmann-Lévy 2004 240 pages 14x1 5x21cm. 2004. broché. 240 pages. L'ouvrage explore le concept de possession à travers une perspective psychanalytique établissant des analogies entre les rituels de possession dans certaines cultures africaines et mahoraises et la manière dont le sujet peut être 'hanté' par son histoire familiale. L'auteur propose une lecture de l'acte thérapeutique comme un processus où le patient se libère d'une emprise initiale en acceptant temporairement la dépendance du transfert interprétant les symptômes comme des formes de possession subie
2003rif. 9573Actes Sud 2003 134 pages in8. 2003. broché. 134 pages. Le roman suit Lili une femme dont l'enfance a été marquée par des hommes attirants mais dangereux. Oscillant entre réel et fantasmes elle est attirée vers Yoïm un homme pervers tandis que le récit explore la folie amoureuse et la dépendance à travers une écriture singulière
1978rif. 10281Gallimard 1978 poche. 1978. broché. Cet ouvrage de sociologie analyse la pauvreté sous un angle qui dépasse la simple dimension économique. Il distingue et compare la pauvreté dans le Tiers-Monde où le risque de mourir de faim est présent et celle du Quart-Monde dans les sociétés opulentes définie davantage par une absence de position sociale et une marginalité. L'auteur Jean Labbens propose une réflexion sur la nature complexe de la pauvreté de l'individu pauvre et de la nation pauvre
