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...

This Is PK Mind Over Matter is a metaphysical book that explores the inside truth about naturally developing psychokinesis powers (PK), as a result of yoga and meditation practice. This manuscript highlights the inseparable connections between modern science and metaphysical studies. Accordingly, it presents the world with the Author's exciting and most groundbreaking PK discovery, known as the "Fridge Phenomenon" (FP). Here, the author will uncover the deepest mystical secrets un...

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...

The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance. The ramifications of the May 1864 engagement, which involved only 10,000 troops, were substantial. Previous studies, however, focused on the Confederate side of the story. David Powell’s, Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah: Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864, provides the balance that has so long been needed.Union General Ulysses S. G...

This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935, against the background of upheavals such as the First World War and the transition to full democracy as a consequence of the Reform Acts of 1918 and 1928. Combining an up-to-date synthesis of previous work with a reappraisal of the main personalities, themes and events of the period, David Powell brings clarity to this crucial yet complex period.Examining British p...

Third in a new series of campaign studies that take a different approach toward military history, The Maps of Chickamauga explores this largely misunderstood battle through the use of 120 full-color maps, graphically illustrating the complex tangle of combat’s ebb and flow that makes the titanic bloodshed of Chickamauga one of the most confusing actions of the American Civil War. Track individual regiments through their engagements at fifteen to twenty-minute intervals or explore each army...

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.