Uncover the path to reclaiming your health and well-being in "Stop Steroids Use And Abuse". This insightful guide explores the complex world of steroid addiction, providing a compassionate yet practical approach to understanding the dangers and long-term consequences of steroid abuse. Here's a little of what you'll discover inside this book: - Understanding Steroids: Types and Uses - The History of Steroid Use - The Appeal of Steroids: Why People Use Them - Recognizing the Signs of Steroid...

A handbook for professional stylists from one of Chicago's best, Rev. Billy Simmons of Rev. Billy's Chop Shop. This book gets right to the fundamental best practices that a top-shelf practitioner should incorporate into their process.

The Asia Diaries is the true story of the author’s account of Asia and Oceania during the three years of his life from 2006 to 2009. Written in journal form, it describes his adventures with drunk Japanese fishermen, being pestered and hounded at 4 a.m. on the streets of Sasebo by prostitutes, building villages in India for tsunami victims, and rolling around Sydney and Omaha with crystal meth addicts. Different excerpts of original poetry are also included. The Asia Diaries shows how trul...

The living dead were making his life a living hell . . .A year ago, Chris Csejthe (pronounced "Chay-tay") was completely human—then a blood transfusion from the Lord of the Undead changed everything. Now he is a hunted man, sought by human and vampire alike for the secrets he knows and the powers that his mutated blood may bestow. So far he's dodged undead assassins, werewolves, a 6,000-year-old Egyptian necromancer, and Vlad Dracula himself. But now he's really go...

Two years ago Christopher Cséjthe survived a blood transfusion with a vampire only to discover that he was infected with one of the two viruses that transform the living into the undead. Since then he has survived by his wits as men, monsters, and government agencies have hunted him for the secrets his mutated blood may hold. His personal life is almost as troublesome as the assassins that turning up in ever increasing numbers: his bodyguard is a sexy vampire, his jealous werewolf lover ca...

In this provocative and intensely personal new book of essays about love and language, desire and drama, reminiscence, change, and fandom, William J. Simmons takes up Eve Sedgwick’s reparative reading as a challenge to empirical and taxonomical approaches to art, music, and film and instead promotes new ways of discussing them that create community and empathy rather than hierarchies. Specifically, Simmons advocates for incorporating memoir, history, theory, poetry, and even “the cringey a...

Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscript sources, and field research with living Indians.

Various representatives of the press, as well as many of my colleagues in the organization of which I have the honor to be the Founder and head, have repeatedly asked me to make a public statement, descriptive of our organization. It was anticipated in certain quarters that we should at once make specific reply to the embittered attacks upon the Klan. Although abundant space in the press was placed at our disposal for this purpose, we did not take advantage of the offer. It is no part of t...

This is a groundbreaking application of contemporary philosophy to human rights law that proposes significant innovations for the progressive development of human rights. Drawing on the works of prominent 'philosophers of the Other' including Emmanuel Levinas, Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak, Judith Butler and, most centrally, the Argentine philosopher of liberation Enrique Dussel, this book develops an ethics based on concrete face-to-face relationships with the Marginalized Other. It proposes...

Years back, a blood transfusion with a member of the undead left Christopher Cséjthe a half-vampire. Since that time, he's gone mano y monster with zombies, werewolves, master vampires, and creatures from the Cthulhu Lagoon.As founder of After Dark Investigations, he's seen his fair share of the seedy side of the supernatural world. He's saved New Orleans from total destruction in the past. And lost his family to another temporal realm.To add insult to injury, someone cut t...

This anthology contains twenty-one poems and illustrations that describes the feelings of the Poet before, during, and after the "Gulf War." The last poem in this book entitled, "Tis My Eyes To See," is ironically the first poem written. This poem addresses the mistreatment of veterans. This poem was read by the Poet at the first "Presidential Gulf War Illnesses Advisory Committee" which was held in Charlotte, North Carolina in September of 1995. Simmons also sung the "Battle Hymn of the R...

After discovering that her husband is cheating on her with her student, a teacher decides to revenge by having an affair with the student's boyfriend whom she also teaches.