Mild-mannered English teacher Brian Smith has a big secret: he used to be a rock star. Kind of.In the summer of 2000, his one-hit-wonder punk band released a radio-friendly pop song and made it big. Then, just as quickly, it all fell apart. Though he's been living a quiet white-collar life for the last two decades, settled in his static suburban normalcy of treadmills and lesson plans and parenthood, a chance discovery leads to a collision between his old world and...

When humanity’s finest scientists spotted it, they checked and rechecked their calculations—then checked them again. Appallingly, unthinkably, they were right—a mysterious anomaly was systematically devouring the universe. Moving faster than the speed of light, it would reach earth’s solar system in well under a year, maybe sooner. Should they alert the world’s people? No, better to let them live out their last months in peace instead of enduring the social breakdown that would surely resu...

Forget the old-school “motivation” and pop-psychology that fills so many self-improvement books—it’s out of date and, honestly, doesn’t work that well in the first place. What you need to thrive in today’s distracting, fast-paced world are three, fundamental self-mastery skills—cognitive control, emotional self-regulation, and impulse control. Together, these skills are the holy grail of personal development, and Raise Your Inner Game presents the world's first m...

Mary Lawrence is a nerdy high school senior recently orphaned and tormented by the cool kids. She believes her life will make no positive difference. Marys joy comes from the music of the worlds most famous rock band, Promise. She meets a mysterious newcomer to the school, Matthew Blair, who also becomes a pariah because he upstages the in group. The two form a friendship that involves Promise, leading to incredible social change.

Levin examines what therapists can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn, and heal them. He shows the nature of the injuries to each party and considers ways to minimize them, since treatment itself can seem an injury to both patient and therapist.

Taken from the Preface of the 2001 edition. The contents of this book first appeared in print as a series of twenty-four articles in the Christadelphian Tidings in 1999-2000. During the run of the monthly installments, the editor received numerous requests for publication in book form. The present volume represents both the editor‘s and the author’s commitment to meet what seems a fervent and widespread desire for substantive material on the issue of faith. To that end, we have rewritten, ...