This well researched, painstakingly documented book provides detailed information on the right-wing evangelical organization (Oxford Group Movement) that gave birth to AA; the relation of AA and its program to the Oxford Group Movement; AA's similarities to and differences from religious cults; AA's remarkable ineffectiveness; and the alternatives to AA. The greatly expanded second edition includes a new chapter on AA's relationship to the treatment industry, and AA's remarkable influence ...

Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought. Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied; it is little known and even less understood. Charles Stanton uses an innovative and involving approach to describe this fascinating but neglected facet of European m...

Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles of Anjou accosted a young Sicilian noblewoman. It sparked a bloody conflagration, the so-called War of the Sicilian Vespers, that would ultimately involve every part of the Mediterranean. The struggle for the coveted throne of Sicily eventually enmeshed all the great powers of medieval Europe - thepope, the Byzantine Emperor and the ...

This textbook is intended for an introductory course in the theory of complex analysis and Riemann surfaces. A special feature includes the systematic treatment of complex analysis from the point of view of partial differential equations. The main goal is to study complex analysis in one variable using modern mathematics with emphasis on its deep connections to other branches of mathematics, especially on the tremendous development of partial differential equations in the twentieth century...

"The Psychology of Obesity" is an essential self-help book for anyone looking to make lasting changes to their lifestyle and achieve sustainable weight loss. Written by a renowned psychologist, Thomas Stanton, and Nutrition Expert, Laura Charles this book offers a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to understanding the psychological and physiological aspects of obesity and provides practical advice on how to tackle the issue. Through a combination of anecdotes, case studies, and res...

This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary changes to the Earth system. Global climate change and rising sea levels are two prominent examples of how nature can no longer be simply thought of as something outside and removed from humans (an...