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  • American Epidemic

    Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis

    Edited by John McMillian ...
    A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis everJust a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a "silent epidemic," but it is no longer possible to argue that the scourge of opiate addiction being overlooked. This is in large part thanks to the extraordinary writings featured in this volume, which includes some of the most ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Epidemic

    Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis

    Edited by John McMillian ...
    A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis everJust a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a "silent epidemic," but it is no longer possible to argue that the scourge of opiate addiction being overlooked. This is in large part thanks to the extraordinary writings featured in this volume, which includes some of the most ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beatles vs. Stones

    From the crtically acclaimed author of Smoking Typewriters comes a lively examination of the most legendary (and least understood) rivalry in the annals of rock ’n’ roll: “Beatles vs. Stones is one of the best rock biographies I have seen this year…If you thought you knew everything there was to know about these two groups, think again” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).In the 1960s an epic battle was ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Smoking Typewriters

    The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

    How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Smoking Typewriters

    The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

    How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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  • I Must Say

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