Victory Kirk spent decades trapped in addiction, shame, and survival mode. What began as casual use spiraled into a deadly dependency that nearly took everything: his health, his relationships, and his will to live. When he finally collapsed under the weight of withdrawal and despair, Victory entered treatment—broken, terrified, and convinced he was beyond saving.But recovery had other plans."Breaking the Chain" follows Victory's emotional journey through detox, relapse, re...

BOOK DESCRIPTIONFrom Use to Recovery: Rudy – Former Fentanyl Addict on His Journey follows the raw, unfiltered story of a young man who fell deep into the grip of addiction and fought his way back to life. Rudy never expected his choices to lead him toward homelessness, dangerous circles, and the daily fight just to survive — but fentanyl doesn't negotiate. It takes.Through powerful moments of struggle, relapse, awakening, and transformation, reader...

This is raw, semi-autobiographical fiction at its most painfully honest' Observer'Brilliant, lyrical, hilarious, heartbreaking' Cristina GarcíaDavid is only fourteen when he first tries crack cocaine. He is instantly hooked, and spends the next decade fighting his way out of jail and rehab. Though he reaches a tenuous sobriety, it is only when he takes a literature class at the local community college that something within him igni...

Based on the Coheed & Cambria album of the same name, songwriter and front-man Claudio Sanchez brings his epic tale to the printed page in this definitive collection of the entire "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" saga.As revolution thunders throughout The Keywork, Claudio Killgannon hears his calling as a hero. So why does he not answer it? This is space opera like you’ve never seen before!Co-written by comics-lu...

One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated Books of 2022"One of PureWow’s "10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January"One of BookShop.org's "Notable New Releases"One of The New York Times Book Review’s "16 New Books Coming in January"One of Poets & Writers' "New and Noteworthy Books”"David Sanchez's first novel—brilliant, lyrica...

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Raised in a Mexican home in an Anglo neighborhood, David Sánchez was fair-skinned and fluent in Spanish and English when he entered kindergarten. None of this should have had any influence on the career path he chose, but at certain moments it did. With the birth of the Chicano Movement and affirmative action, a different and sometimes disturbing significance became attached to his name. Sánchez's story chronicles his life and those moments.No matter how we transcend our origins, t...

The current social and economic context increasingly demands open data to improve scientific research and decision making. However, when published data refer to individual respondents, disclosure risk limitation techniques must be implemented to anonymize the data and guarantee by design the fundamental right to privacy of the subjects the data refer to. Disclosure risk limitation has a long record in the statistical and computer science research communities, who have developed a variety o...

A study of how coins, riches and lands were gained and distributed among the soldiers, warriors, and mercenaries in the Antiquity and Early Medieval times.Land was the ideal store of wealth in the ancient Mediterranean world. It brought social respectability, and its possession allowed participation in the politics of the cities governed by landowning elites. Crucial defense of the interests of a given polity through armed services often involved the distribution o...

Emperador de la Forja, Sabio de las Piedras... títulos insignificantes ante la muerte.Después de más de setecientos años, esperaba un final tranquilo y solitario para su larga vida. Sin embargo, no estaba destinado a ser así. Una sola elección cambió su destino, y su alma se vio obligada a vivir de nuevo como una mazmorra. Renacida pero encadenada al corazón de una montaña, esta vieja alma lo ha perdido todo... y más.En un mundo de dioses y demonios, no hay...

Comprehensive reference text for the development of advanced antenna systems for 5G and beyondSmart Antennas for 5G+ addresses the transformation that simple, conventional antennas have gone through to fulfill the complex and challenging performance expectations of 5G wireless communications and beyond. It also describes the 5G physical layer including the gNodeB, basics of the propagation channel, and user equipment (UE) specific antenna aspects. The auth...

A bridge that interrupts a legacy of pain with the honest sharing of stories.Sana, Sana is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landscape of Latinx experience and a testimonial to community efforts to heal them. A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being that prio...