LIFE EXPECTANCY IN COURT
 A Textbook for Doctors and Lawyers
T. W. Anderson, MD, PhD
Life expectancy is an important issue in cases of serious personal injury. This book explains how to calculate life expectancy, and how to avoid common mistakes and misunderstandings. Basic concepts are illustrated with data from studies involving a wide range of conditions, including alcoholism, cerebral palsy, colon cancer, diabetes, and spinal cord injury (tetraplegia). There are also case studies of three of the major topics in life expectancy — cerebral palsy; traumatic brain injury; and tetraplegia.
The chapters are user-friendly, with extensive use of visual aids such as graphs and tables. The subject of epidemiology is at the heart of the methods that are discussed, and additional reading sources are suggested for those readers who would like to learn more about this important area of modern medicine.
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MEDICAL / LEGAL
ISBN: 0-9689533-0-1
Price: $105.00 CDN / $90.00 US




AFTER BRAIN INJURY: Tools For Living
J. Lynne Mann, R. Psych. with Michael Rossiter
The trauma of brain injury affects many people besides the injured one, and After Brain Injury: Tools for Living offers hope to all of them. A guide to psychological recovery after the loss and upheaval that follow such an event, this book is full of new ideas and experience—something many survivors and their caregivers have run out of.
In clear language and with easy-to-follow exercises, the authors lead the reader through the four stages of psychological recovery: becoming more self-aware, recovering emotionally, thinking in new ways, and changing behavior.
In reading this book you will:
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 be exposed to new ideas about recovery
– find methods and tools for solving problems specifically faced by brain injury survivors and their caregivers
– get to practice these methods and tools by doing worksheets
– be inspired to try out new skills and ideas in everyday situations
develop the ability to remember those new skills and ideas.
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HEALTH / PSYCHOLOGY / BRAIN DAMAGE REHABILITATION
ISBN 1-894694-25-2 / $89.95 US

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Also available: The Pocket Guide for After Brain Injury
ISBN 1-894694-28-7 / $39.95 US




ADDICTION BY PRESCRIPTION
One Woman's Triumph and Fight For Change
Joan E. Gadsby
In 1966, Joan Gadsby’s four-year-old son died of a brain tumour. In response, her family physician prescribed a “chemical cocktail” of tranquillizers, sleeping pills and anti-depressants – an act that initiated Gadsby’s slow descent into an abyss of unrecognized addiction. Over the next 20 years, Gadsby’s career, her family relationships, her financial security and her health were all threatened. She was on various occasions arrested, restrained, and sedated as a result of the paradoxical side effects of the drugs. It was only after she unintentionally overdosed in 1990 that she found out the insidious effects of the drugs, stopped taking them and went through the “hell” of withdrawal – alone.
Gadsby has emerged from her addiction to become a health and wellness consultant to corporations, governments, healthcare organizations. She is a tireless advocate for systemic change and accountability of prescribed sedative/hypnotic drugs. She interviewed thousands – from consumers to doctors to pharmaceutical representatives and government officials as she conducted extensive international research – in her quest to expose the shocking truth of the depth and breadth of addiction by prescription which affects hundreds of thousands of men and women worldwide who become “accidental addicts.”
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HEALTH / MEDICATION ABUSE / TRANQUILIZING DRUGS
Trade paperback
ISBN 1-55263-334-9 / $15.95 US / $19.95 CDN
Hardcover
ISBN 1-55263-156-7 / $24.95 US / $29.95 CDN

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Also available: Our Pill Epidemic video:
ISBN 1-894694-33-3 / $15.95 US / $19.95 CDN




SMOKE-FREE
 How One City Successfully Banned Smoking in all Indoor Public Places
Barbara McLintock
Award-winning journalist and author Barbara McLintock uses the example of B.C.’s capital city, Victoria, as a case study to show how a region can not only pass legislation, but implement it and enforce it with such effectiveness that the compliance rate now exceeds 99 per cent. The story is a dramatic narrative in its own right, replete with details of harrowing public meetings, widespread early defiance of the law in drinking establishments, an often-hostile media climate and even death threats to those responsible for implementation and enforcement. But it also shows the benefits of enacting such a law, not just through improved air quality for patrons and workers but also how such a bylaw results in a reduced smoking rate in the population and growing popularity for the measure, even amongst smokers.
This book is a must-read for every non-smokers’ rights advocate, every public health official and every local or state legislator who's exploring the idea of enacting smoke-free legislation. But it also makes compelling reading for anyone interested in a true-life insider drama that offers a close-up view of a controversial public policy.
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CURRENT EVENTS / MUNICIPAL LAW / NON-SMOKERS' RIGHTS
Trade Paperback / 6" x 9" / 224 pages
ISBN 1-894694-31-7 / $14.95 US / $19.95 CDN




GREAT WALKS OF VANCOUVER
The Lower Mainland at Your Feet
Charles Clapham
Walk in easy stages from Vancouver to Mission — explore the Fraser River and its tributaries and find historic treasures you never knew existed.
Go around Burrard Inlet and Burnaby Mountain — enjoy the green ravines that carry scores of creeks down from the mountains.
Walk from Horseshoe Bay to the Peace Arch and continue to Fort Langley — enjoy Vancouver’s marine history and the peace of its southern farmlands.
Walk across and around Vancouver without retracing your steps. Maps and complete instructions detail how to reach and follow each of the book’s one-way walks. Charles Clapham shows you how to leave your car at the end of the planned day’s walk, bus to the start and walk back to your car. Or better still, use the bus and leave your car at home. He makes suggestions for parking and transit, special points of interest, stops for coffee and lunch and—of crucial importance to all urban walkers—possible “pit stops.”
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HIKING / VANCOUVER
Trade paperback / 5.5” x 8.5” / 384 pages
Granville Island Publishing
ISBN 1-894694-30-9 / $15.95 US / $19.95 CDN




WALK HORSESHOE BAY TO THE U.S.A.
Charles Clapham
[This book] outlines in detail a route around the Strait of Georgia shoreline from the ferry dock at Horseshoe Bay to the Peace Arch, a distance of some 140km.That may sound like a rather ambitious hike, but Clapham has organized it into ten reasonable one-day expeditions. His philosophy is that hiking should begin about 9 a.m., finishing at 2 p.m.; in time to get home for tea. This is a civilized approach that leaves the evening free, with ample time to recover. . . . Sometimes this book tells us as much about Clapham as it does about the route. In that case, is he the sort of person you'd like to hike with? The answer is definitely yes.
— Patrick Brown, Island Tides
HIKING / VANCOUVER
Paper / 5.5" x 8.5" / 112 pages
ISBN 0-89716-825-9 / $14.95 CDN / $12.95 US





WALK THE BURRARD LOOP
Rural Walks through Urban Vancouver
Charles Clapham
Clapham has made it his mission to discover rural pathways linking up the various parts of the city. [This] book describes green pathways that connect to form a loop around the Burrard Inlet. . . . It's a great concept.
— Karen Gram, The Vancouver Sun
HIKING / VANCOUVER
Paper / 5.5" x 8.5" / 160 pages
ISBN 0-89716-830-5 / $15.95 CDN / $12.95 US