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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

The scope, drama, and importance of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign were on par with Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its significance and wealth of primary source material, the operations in North Georgia have long lingered in the shadows. Award-winning author David A. Powell’s first and second volumes of his planned five-volume series covered the campaign’s opening phases: the maneuvers around Dalton and Resaca in May, and the trench warfare and fierce fighting near Ma...

July 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 the Cumberland had driven Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee entirely out of Middle Tennessee. The brilliant campaign nearly cleared the state of Rebels and changed the calculus of the Civil War in the Western Theater. Despite its...

The second volume in a three-volume study of this overlooked and largely misunderstood campaign of the American Civil War.According to soldier rumor, Chickamauga in Cherokee meant "River of Death." The name lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged a sprawling bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek. This installment of Powell's tour-de-force depicts the final day o...

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...