This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Addiction is a funny thing in that it can feel completely in control one day, and completely out of control the next. While it’s something that some never seem to have to face, you’re not one of the lucky ones. But that’s not the right way to look at it…If you can see yourself as someone who now has the chance to dive deeper into who you really are, and get to know yourself on a more meaningful level, you’ll get...

This book examines common actions and/or lack of actions of most failed relationships. SICK - The Terminal Illness of Relationships. The culprit of failed or failing relationships are actions represented in the word SICK as a mnemonic device for Stop Service - Ignore Intimacy - Cut Communications - Kill Kindness. Marriages and other relationships are ending at a rate never seen before.Service is love. You love the one you service. Service is the key to what we get in life. Stop pro...

Sourdough Bread and Cookies: Easy Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users is a thoughtfully crafted guide for anyone who loves the smell of freshly baked bread or the comfort of a homemade cookie. Whether you’re just beginning your sourdough journey or you’ve been baking for years, you’ll find something here to inspire and elevate your craft.Inside, you’ll discover:• How to start and maintain a healthy sourdough starter from scratch• Easy to follow recipes for arti...

Becoming the Leader You Needed is a powerful memoir and guide for anyone who has ever felt unseen, unheard, or unsure of their place in the world. Through deeply personal stories, reflection prompts, and affirmations, Mary Johnson shares how she transformed adversity into purpose and silence into strength. This book is a call to action for readers to embrace their own leadership journey, lift others as they climb, and become the guide they once needed.

Thomas L. Johnson's remarkable life, wherein he was born into slavery before going on to a successful career as a minister and missionary, is told here in his own words.Until the age of twenty-eight, Johnson lived under the yolk of his slave masters. As a servant he was subject to abuse for trivial matters, such as not knowing the difference between right and left. Sold on by his master whilst still a teenager, the author had already self-taught himself rudiments of literacy from le...

The details of international business are growing more complex by the day-and even the most seasoned professionals can find themselves in need of guidance. This comprehensive answer book supplies readers with a clear view of the entire export/import process, explaining the ins and outs of shipping and insurance; payment mechanisms; distributors vs. agents; customs and export control requirements; and transportation issues. Featuring dozens of sample contracts, procedures, checklists, and r...

In order to eradicate terrorism, our nation must go beyond merely shoring up military strength. It must also effectively confront the fundamentalist ideology that fuels and supports the terrorists. The War on Terrorism: A Collision of Values, Strategies, and Societies operates on the premise that the violent rejection of globalization at the root o

Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source materials, examines the information operations and related narratives of Afghan insurgents, especially the Afghan Taliban, and investigates how the Taliban has won the information war. Taliban messaging, wrapped in the narra...

The author gained considerable experience of working in countries in the Soviet sphere in the 1980sYugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungarybut this did little to prepare him for a long-term stint in Kazakhstan, commencing at the outset of 1993. If his eyes were opened wide in Belgrade, Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest, they were bug-eyed in Almaty, Kazakhstan. There he keenly experienced the harshness and wonders of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. The good news is that Tom Johnson wrote a serie...

At age twelve, author Thomas Michael Johnson faced the death of a great-grandparent he was close to as a child. That trauma left him with an irrational fear of losing loved ones. By the time he married and became a father, the fear of death living within him was incapacitating and debilitating, often causing difficulties in his personal and professional life.Seeking freedom from this terror, Johnson began to understand the difference between joy and happiness; he was delivered from...

The Trials of Worly the Ward is a historic fiction that tells the story of abuse, oppression and suppression of wards. Its a story of love, betrayal, violence and death. Using the relationship between wards and their foster parents, the conflict between the social classes and Liberian educational, economic and social realities as background, Thomas lays bare the infected wounds on most Liberians. Many years after the founding of Liberia as an independent nation, an undercurrent of subjugat...

We are nomads. We are all nomads. We are all nomad singing our lives into the night. Our lives arise, melodies and syncopated rhythms giving way to meanings and tellings. Shadows, echoes, and flickerings. Hints, mumblings, and innuendo. Some of the stanzas are whispers and others are loud, slow dirges. Some we sing alone. Others are call and response. We rarely sing together (all of us at once and in the same place), but we do. From time to time. Quite often when we are not trying to. Quit...