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An intimate memoir of miscarriage, premature birth, and motherhood from a bold and brilliant new voice in Atlantic Canada
I am the space between motherhood and longing for it, but it’s a space that doesn’t exist. I can’t be both fertile and infertile, our language...
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Nimbus
Parution :
2021-09-21
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A story for every misfit who ever thought they were the only ones without all the answers. Robert O’Brien loves cars. Growing up in Dublin, they provided a welcome refuge from the human interaction he found so difficult. His father’s race car, a BMW E30 M3 Sport...
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Tidewater Press
Parution :
2021-09-10
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Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2021-04-05
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An explosive book that exposes the truth about breast cancer screening.For decades, women have been told that mammograms save lives. Yet many scientists say that this is in fact not true. Conspiracy of Hope reveals how breast cancer screening was introduced in the US...
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Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2018-10-02
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In the follow-up to their award-winning memoir Bitter Medicine, brothers Clem and Olivier Martini continue the story of their family’s journey through mental illness, dementia, caregiving, and the health care system.
Olivier Martini and his mother, Catherine, have...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2017-09-12
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Miracles Happen is the story of a tragic event that happened in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2010. On August 13, Rendell Drover, a respected fisherman in the community, was injured in an industrial accident that nearly claimed his life.
In this memoir,...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-03-03
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Miracles Happen is the story of a tragic event that happened in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2010. On August 13, Rendell Drover, a respected fisherman in the community, was injured in an industrial accident that nearly claimed his life.
In this memoir,...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-03-03
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Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names-booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative "firewater." Confronting the...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2016-09-24
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We don’t talk about it and avoid the tension generating subject. Snoring makes us laugh or even cry. We very much want to get rid of it. There are ways to fight it. You will find an inventory of them herein, complete with advice on how to improve them, but that’s not...
Editeur :
Les Éditions du Net
Parution :
2016-08-12
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When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks....
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-12-16
Collection :
Life Writing
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The Bonapace Method is a couple-centered birth preparation technique that has been validated by numerous scientific studies and is based on the principles of the neurophysiology of pain. It offers fathers-to-be the necessary support to experience this transition period...
Editeur :
Juniper Publishing
Parution :
2015-11-11
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NON CLASSE
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Darüber spricht man nicht! Man vermeidet dieses ärgerliche Thema! Es existieren Mittel es zu bekämpfen. Diese werden Sie hier übersichtlich erfasst vorfinden, ergänzt durch einige Hinweise, um deren Wirksamkeit zu verbessern. Doch das ist es nicht allein! Dieses Buch...
Editeur :
Les Éditions du Net
Parution :
2015-03-06
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Ever since their early twentieth-century “Golden Age,” postcards on both sides of the Atlantic have recorded popular culture. Through humour, views of urban and rural places, photographs of individuals, fantasy, advertising, and succinct messages, they have documented...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2014-06-27
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Ever since their early twentieth-century “Golden Age,” postcards on both sides of the Atlantic have recorded popular culture. Through humour, views of urban and rural places, photographs of individuals, fantasy, advertising, and succinct messages, they have documented...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2014-06-27
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A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2013-06-30
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A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2013-06-30
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The essential family reference when it comes to understanding the treatment and prevention of illnesses that affect the human body.
A reference work that has benefited from the participation of some 300 physicians, medical specialists and university professors.
Editeur :
Québec Amérique
Parution :
2013-03-08
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Infertility in both men and women has become a modern epidemic. Problems like erectile dysfunction now appear to affect more than fifty-percent of the population over the age of 40. It almost seems as though the most natural thing in the world is no longer second...
Editeur :
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Parution :
2012-02-06
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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-07-07
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Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-07
Collection :
Life Writing
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