You're not going to quit. So drink like you know what you're doing. The Alcoholic's Survival Guide isn't a recovery book, and it doesn't ask you to stop drinking. It's a practical, no-judgment guide for functional drinkers, binge drinkers, and anyone who drinks regularly and wants to understand exactly what alcohol is doing to their body, their record, and their long-term health, without the lecture. Inside, you'll find the information most drinking guides skip entirely: ● How alcohol actu...

I didn’t know why I was awake and out on the town. Out on the town? Come on! I was in a diner two blocks from my home at 2:30 on a Sunday morning. If that was my new night on the town, I had sunk to a despairingly low degree of life vitality and social interaction. Truth be told, I was feeling disconnected from the real world of personal relationships and engagement with others, especially meaningful others. I had gone to bed but I felt restless, so I got up, got dressed, and wandered down...

Garbage Boy—a.k.a. Scarface, a.k.a. William—has had it rough his entire life. Facing off against a deadbeat dad and his mom’s abusive boyfriend, he’s had to fight every step of the way just to survive. Not only that, his family’s low social status makes him an object of ridicule and abuse among his peers and the community at large. That all begins to change when Garbage Boy meets up with Mister and Stone Pony, two mysterious men who enlist his aid in their growing sanitation enterprise. Wh...

The Baha’i Faith and African American Studies: Perspectives on Racial Justice provides readers who may already have basic or even advanced familiarity with the struggle for racial justice in the United States with new material from a less well-known angle: that of members of the Baha’i Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony are central to their religious expression. Inside these pages, readers will find history, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir s...