What is alcoholism? Are you an alcoholic? Someone you close to you, perhaps?In a culture where drinking is everything to many people and drinking alcohol is celebrated, finding the will to quit drinking can be one of the toughest challenges an alcoholic can face. It's no lie; alcohol causes disease, disruption, and destruction if abused and when someone develops an alcohol addiction there is usually damage to relationships to family as well. Alcoholism is a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What is alcoholism? Are you an alcoholic? Someone you close to you, perhaps?In a culture where drinking is everything to many people and drinking alcohol is celebrated, finding the will to quit drinking can be one of the toughest challenges an alcoholic can face. It's no lie; alcohol causes disease, disruption, and destruction if abused and when someone develops an alcohol addiction there is usually damage to re...

To many of the Federal soldiers watching the Stars and Stripes unfurl atop Lookout Mountain on the morning of November 25, 1863, it seemed that the battle to relieve Chattanooga was complete. The Union Army of the Cumberland was no longer trapped in the city, subsisting on short rations and awaiting rescue; instead, they were again on the attack.Ulysses S. Grant did not share their certainty. For Grant, the job he had been sent to accomplish was only half-finished. Braxton Bragg’s ...

Florida Historical Society Samuel Proctor AwardRare accounts of Cuban migration in the words of the exiles themselvesBringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away is a moving look inside fifteen years of migrati...

First published in 1985. In the late autumn of 1774 at the age of 37 Tom Paine arrived in Philadelphia. Eighteen months later he had established himself as a seminal figure in the Independence movement. It was the start of a career in which he became the first US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; was outlawed from England by Pitt for the publication of the second part of the Rights of Man; delivered a final plea for the life of Louis XVI in the National Convention of 1794; was impris...

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies painstakingly hauled over the sketchiest of mountain roads. Soon even those quarter-rations would not suffice. Disaster was in the offing.Yet those Confederates, once jubilant at having routed the Federals at Chickamauga and driven them...

Whereas the earlier book, written in 2011, explained the concept of Operations Readiness and the need to have Assurance that any given project would be ready to begin operations immediately after handover, it did not address how this could be achieved in a practical way. The OR&A Solution is the only commercially available software, created specifically for deploying the OR&A process on major projects. It has now been developed, tested, deployed and used successfully for more than 10 years...

God inspired words of encouragement, poems of love, a song of joy, and writings of understanding, to love and be more appreciative toward one another.

"The definitive account of Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans' operational masterpiece—the almost bloodless conquest . . . of Middle Tennessee." —Sam Davis Elliott, author of Soldier of TennesseeJuly 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady tumult of events was news that William S. Rosecrans's Army of...

David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the USMarines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would beable to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he neverthought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Evenless that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of DaNang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell.David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteranshows us all how fr...

Are You Ready to Reboot Your PTSD?Reboot! Confronting PTSD on Your Terms offersa well-structured method for getting a grip onPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and startingto turn it around. Detailed inventories providethe opportunity to explore needs, bothphysical and emotional, both needs that are metand those that are unmet.Powell recommends doing one’s own work withthese inventories to maximize the effectivenessof therapy. He covers a brief ov...

"Far surpasses anything anyone else has ever done about this pivotal engagement." — The Journal of America's Military PastChickamauga, according to soldier rumor, is a Cherokee word meaning "River of Death." It certainly lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek. Here, award-winning author David Powell embraces a fre...