Twelve Step Sponsorship is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors.Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and practice--how to do it and why--in a clear, step-by-step presentation. Written by the author of Getting Started in AA, a widely acclaimed guide for the...

History major, Elizabeth Grace has always been exceptionally good at the subject. No matter the era, she remembers the past as if she belongs there…Just when Lizzy is in the thick of her studies at Knox University, her life takes a turn backwards. Literally. Lizzy finds herself hours behind everyone or hours in front. She can’t explain it. Nor can she explain her attraction to the alluring new Dean of History, Phillip Desmond. Phillip’s timelessly attractive, curiously young and ha...

A pitch-black comedy set in London overshadowed by the looming threat of the Second World War, Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in his head and he realizes, without a doubt, that he must kill her. In the darkly comic Hangove...

Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and practice—how to do it and why—in a clear, step-by-step presentation. Written by the author of Getting Started in AA, a widely acclaimed guide for the newcomer to the program of AA, this book is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors. It includes informative sections th...

Turn ideas into goals—and goals into impactThe road to school improvement and student achievement is paved with good intentions—so why does the destination seem so far away? If you’re like most educators, the answer is a pothole known as the implementation gap.This book provides a road map to bypassing that gap in your school or district, offering a carefully researched, field-tested methodology that takes leadership teams, professional learning co...

In beautiful, thoughtful, and sensitive lyrics, UPSTREAM offers an enthusiastic encounter with a winter journey paddling up the Mississippi River. This sequence of meditations follows in the tradition of Basho's Eastern travelogues-as a contemplation of self, history, and our contemporary environment.UPSTREAM gives form to the belief that life, itself, is a relationship with the Earth. Guided by Native Nation cosmologies, this collection captures that complexity o...

In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama, and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only for money, Munday is here restored to his rightful position as an historical figure at the centre of many import...

Emma is stricken with guilt. She feels abandoned and alone in her dilemma. She is unable to find a solution that will satisfy her need to control. Emma is struggling to learn her every option, juggle her career, and stay on the road to success. She lives by the map she drew out for her life. Will she find her option, choose wisely, and get back on the proper road? Without a sincere guide, she may be lost or worse.Have you wandered off your road? Maybe youve lost your map. Do you wan...

This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and religious sects, giving a broad comparative view. Drawing on the insights of history, anthropology and sociology, he surveys classic and contemporary theory to give a full picture of the variety a...

This book aims to make population genetics approachable, logical and easily understood. To achieve these goals, the book’s design emphasizes well explained introductions to key principles and predictions. These are augmented with case studies as well as illustrations along with introductions to classical hypotheses and debates.Pedagogical features in the text include:Interact boxes that guide readers step-by-step through computer simulations using public domain softwa...

Almost everything we read about the history of early Christianity comes from the Jewish Bible, composed during their captivity in Babylonia from about 500 to 450 BCE. Thus, right from the start, the information is old, and, after centuries of changes by rabbis, popes, and kingsnot to mention translation errorsthere is no way we can tell whether what we read is accurate, if anything written that many years ago can be said to be accurate. Thus the reason for the title of this book: Hey, ...

While investigating her fathers suspicious death, Margarete Mathews discovers the two men in her life are far from the people she has believed them to be. The loving and kind Brandon, her eighteen-year-old brother, a once quiet child has become cunning and devious, someone she distrusts and fears.The other one is Dallas, the man with whom she finds herself falling in love, despite his sometimes bizarre behavior. His entrance into her life comes at the same time she learns she is be...