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The Healing Rosary: Rosary Meditations for Those in Recovery from Alcoholism and Addiction Review

I've used Fr. Peyton's rosary book for years and highly recommend that, (esp since his cause for sainthood has just been opened). However, Mike D.'s meditation definitely gave me a new perspective on the rosary. It's such a powerful tool and if you see any sin as an addiction, you can customize his meditations into something relevant to your situation. Also his conversion story was quite touching as well.

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Getting a Winning Verdict in My Personal Life: A Trial Lawyer Finds His Soul Review

In sharing his unique story, Gary provides an insightful, inspiring and motivating read. This book perfectly captures the thoughts and feelings that so many trial attorneys have on a daily basis, and it demonstrates just how a dedicated and caring attorney can overcome adversity and personal difficulties to pursue his clients' causes with zeal and passion. The book has left me more inspired and it has strengthened and reaffirmed my commitment to my family, to my clients and to a trial lawyer's work. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a must-read for every trial attorney and for anyone who genuinely wants to understand the heart, mind and soul of a trial attorney.

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BONDAGE AND DISCIPLINE, SADISM AND MASOCHISM: Zack's Odyssey Part 1 Review

Bondage and Discipline Sadism and Masochism (BDSM) by Lusipher is a story about a 44 year-old married, black cab driver that is stuck in a rut and cannot seem to free himself. Zack is depressed, miserable with this job, his life, and feels he has not contributed enough to be deemed worthwhile. Married to a wonderful woman who works, cooks, cleans and is devoted to him just is not enough for Zack.
Zack is a functioning alcoholic who works the day shift as a cab driver, but at night he is introduced to an alternative lifestyle. Zack meets Sadie Sunshine a beautiful woman who is tempting and dangerous. She is just enough to get Zack aroused and interested in what she can offer him and make him forget about the sorry life he is leading.
Sadie needs to be needed and Zack loves to be wanted, but when he realizes he should not be dealing with this sadistic woman he is not fully aware of who he is or what he has become. Is desire and mutilation worth giving up your soul and your marriage? This book is filled with graphic sex scenes and details that will have you screaming to make it stop. I found this book to be nonetheless humorous, because it just did not seem very real to me at all. It was a stretch for me to read something of this magnitude, but I was lost and fighting to finish the story before it really got started. The print was way too small and the repetition drove me crazy. However, the book left me wondering what happened with Zack and his wife. Stay tuned for part two.

Reviewed by: Cheryl Hayes
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When White Is Black Review

Family, genealogy, and racial categorization is explored in this family history and sociological look at race in When White is Black by John A. Martin Jr. In 1969, Martin, a former social service agency director, received a call in the early morning hours at his home in Berkeley, California, informing him that his mother, Eulalie, was killed in an accident. Just before the Alameda County coroner ended the conversation with Martin, he asked him what race is your mother? For though, she appeared to be white, the coroner questioned her living in a black neighborhood. Martin attempted to explain his mother's racial make-up as predominately white with Negro and Indian but accepted reluctantly that as a result of the one-drop rule, she would be classified as a Negro in death, as she was in life.

Thus began Martin's contemplation regarding the racial ambiguities of his mother's family that had plagued him most of his life. Martin methodically details the genealogy of both sides of his maternal lines of mixed-race people, beginning with his mother's paternal white ancestors who were from France and England. Martin's roots stemmed from Houston and Galveston by way of New Orleans. His family tree lists his ancestors with designations of mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, black, Choctaw and Seminole Indian. Beginning with the 1850 U.S. Census and through 1920, the government attempted to identify thousands of mixed-blood peoples with the term of mulatto. For one census year, 1890, the terms, quadroon and octoroon were added in an attempt to identify the percentages of African blood that existed in those who were not "white." Those designations were abandoned because of the unreliability of these labels and the census resorted back to using mulatto for all mixed black and white people until 1920.

Mama Peachey's family (Martin's mother's mother) passed for white until she was almost an adult. She told her children that they were different from darker-skinned Negroes and taught them to disdain, loud, ignorant, foul acting colored people. She told all five of her girls to be proud of their exotic good looks and to seek colored men who were educated and from other mulatto families as they would have better opportunities. In California, where Martin moved as a toddler, his mother and grandmother would regale the family with stories of being mistaken for white on the bus and putting those who made disparaging remarks about blacks in their place. After Eulalie's death, Martin and his brother would reminiscence about the times people would stare at them on the street when they were with their beautiful mulatto mother and how the teachers were always surprised when this white-looking woman showed up to claim her children, letting those teachers know her children were not the average Negroes and they were to be treated with respect.

Martin details the pain of living with a tortured mother who became an alcoholic. He left diverse Berkeley to go live with his father in Houston for a year during high school where he found the segregation of the 1950s Jim Crow Texas stifling, despite the black middle- class lifestyle his father's status afforded him. Though Martin never verbalized that his mother's alcoholism was attributed to her racial persona, he inferred that living in a nation where race is a prominent factor was a constant source of frustration. Martin also muses how ironic that his mother broke off an interracial affair with an Italian American man because of race, given the gradation of whiteness in her own family.

In the final analysis, Martin advocates for the abolishment of the one-drop rule and embracing a multiracial nation. It is his belief that white parents of mixed-children children should lobby the government for broader racial categorizations. Additionally he contends African Americans are opposed to a multiracial identification because it decreases their numbers. He thinks that although many blacks have mixed-blood they acquiesce to the black label out of a sense of loyalty that is misguided.

It was a walk down memory lane as Martin described landmarks of the Bay Area, particularly establishments in 1940s and 50s San Francisco, Berkeley and Downtown Oakland. This was a good look at identity and race with well-documented sources. I would recommend to those who research genealogy and have an interest in family history in a social construct.

Reviewed by Dera R. Williams
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Alcoholism: The Genetic Inheritance Review

This is an inspiring book for anyone who is or knows an alcoholic. My mother-in-law is in the final stages of alcoholism. I felt like crying when I read this book because I felt like the author had met her or seen her. Just when we think there is no hope and that we are alone with this disease, we realize that others are out there, and that we can learn from their experiences. The descriptions are detailed and the personal accounts are vivid. Anyone who is an alcoholic or who knows an alcoholic should read this book.

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Dying for a Drink: A Pastor and a Physician Talk About Alcoholism Review

Dying for a Drink recounts the powerful story of one pastor's successful journey of recovery from the disease of alcoholism. After twenty years of sobriety, Alexander DeJong talks openly about his longtime struggle with alcoholism-his descent into heavy drinking, his shame and his fears of discovery, and his growing understanding of the disease through his family's support, group therapy, and the care of a Christian physician. Balancing the personal narratives of Alex DeJong and his wife with professional insights from Alex's treating physician, Dr. Martin Doot, the book helps readers understand the social, medical, and psychological elements of alcoholism. Each of the chapters also includes questions for discussion and reflection. Sensitive, honest, and caring, Dying for a Drink is a valuable resource for churches, counselors, health-care professionals, and individuals and their families who are struggling in the grip of alcoholism.







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The Absolute Truth About Alcohol & Alcoholism Review

Do you, or a spouse, or a sibling, or a relative, or a friend, or a valued employee, have a problem with alcohol? Do you understand why and how you, or they, developed this problem? Do you understand your, or their, behavior when you or they are intoxicated? Do you know the truth about the ingredients of alcoholic beverages and how they effect the mind and body, and why? Do you know, or have any idea, what to do to help yourself or anyone else with a drinking problem? Would you like to know why alcohol remains inexpensive, easily obtainable, highly advertised, and even socially acceptable when it causes so much harm in people's lives? Would you like to know the unsugarcoated truth about alochol and alcoholism?







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Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults: Epidemiology. Neurobiology. Prevention. and Treatment (Recent Developments in Alcoholism) Review

Alcohol continues to be the substance of choice for today's youth, leading to serious physical, psychological, and social consequences. Alcohol Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults ably addresses this growing trend. The latest entry in the Recent Developments in Alcoholism series, it comprehensively presents a wide-ranging clinical picture of teen drinking - epidemiology, neurobiology, behavioral phenomena, diagnostic and assessment issues, prevention and treatment data - in a developmental context. Fifty expert contributors display the scientific rigor, practical wisdom, and nuanced analysis that readers have come to expect from previous volumes. Among the subjects studied in depth: - Initiation of alcohol use/abuse - Risk and protective factors for alcohol dependence - High-risk adolescent populations - Drinking habits of college students - Long-range consequences of teenage drinking - Family-, school-, and community-based prevention programs - Treatment of comorbid substance and psychiatric disorders Clinicians, researchers, and policy makers will find this a bedrock source of evidence-based knowledge, whether one's goal is choosing an age-appropriate assessment tool for eighth graders, preventing drinking among high school students, or understanding the alcohol-friendliness of campus culture. Here is a critical resource for all professionals dedicated to helping youngsters grow up sober.







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White Knuckles & Wishful Thinking: Learning From the Moment of Relapse in Alcoholism and Other Addictions Review

One of the FINEST books on the process of relapse. Mr. Du Wors presents a finely crafted work; clear and concise, offering the reader a NEW look at an old problem. Written for the practicing therapist, student, and most important of all, the recovering individual. SUPERB text for use in the classroom with begining students in the field of chemical dependency counseling. Mr. Du Wors brings deeper meaning and understanding to the idea that many recovering people experience, "One won't hurt." A fine blend of 12 step philosophy, and a practical, workable guide that will CHANGE the way you look at relapse - one drink, one cigarette, or one line of cocaine does not have to lead to another and another. A MAJOR WORK in the field of addictions that has been needed in a critical and long misunderstood area of human behavior. The chain of relapse has finally been broken. Read this book today it will CHANGE the way you view the relapse process!

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HOW TO BE FREE OF ALCOHOLISM, CANCER AND MANY OTHER DISEASES Review

I was very skeptical, but I used the methods in this book.
It was the wisest thing I have ever done for my health and my family.
It truly works!

HOW TO BE FREE OF ALCOHOLISM, CANCER AND MANY OTHER DISEASES

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Blurred Vision: One Woman's Memoir of Looking Beyond Abuse, Alcoholism, and Codependency Review

Francine may have had blurred vision, but her story provides the lens for others to see their own experience a bit clearer. This was a difficult read, because the person she wrote about is my brother. Even though I knew about his alcoholism, I had no idea of the misery she lived with day in and day out. My heart goes out to all those living with alcoholism and with alchoholic partners. I recommend this book to anyone living with someone who drinks. Francine shows that one can not only climb out of that darkness, but go on to create a wonderful life.

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Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow Review

I'd like to congratulate Lawrence for "Teacher of the Year!" This outstanding book immortalizes the phenomenon of a teacher and makes me feel fortunate to have first-hand experience as a student in his class. Indeed, the well crafted story with its anecdotes, details and photos demonstrates that the homework was complete.

For years I believed there was an incredible story behind Mr. Barlow and the academic gifts he presented to his students. Thanks to Lawrence, I can now fully admire the humility of the American hero that was obscured within the exterior of the alleged curmudgeon...A+!

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God and Alcoholism: Our Growing Opportunity in the 21st Century Review

Dick B. dealt with this proliferating "goofy gods" recovery problem straight on. More and more therapists, counselors, rehabs, and even AAs are substituting absurd names for "god" in place on the one, true, living God who was the source of power relied on for recovery in A.A. Reverend Sam Shoemaker--dubbed a co-founder of A.A. by Bill W.--rejected such practices when he spoke to AAs at their International Convention. In this book, the author deals with the originating expressions--higher power, power greater than ourselves, and God as we understood Him--and shows how they were weak and compromising expressions that replaced the Heavenly Father, Creator, Maker, Father, God of our fathers, Father of Lights, and Spirit with plainly Biblical origins and meanings. In keeping with a belated deal made by three AAs--Bill W., Hank P., and Fitz M., the stage was set after the Big Book manuscript was readied for publication. Fitz protested that the change would obliterate the Christian and Biblical expressions which were part of the original program. Fitz lost. The Step language was changed. The original materials were simply tossed out and lost. And if all that merely involved a search for original meanings, the problem would be a tiny one. However, AAs, counselors, and those associated with recovery began calling their "higher power" a radiator, a light bulb, a tree, a table, a chair, Santa Claus, Ralph, Gertrude, a door knob, a rock, the goddess, and many many more idolatrous words and phrases. Such usage offends me because it deceives and misleads. It also clearly violates the Ten Commandments, which were revered in early A.A. And it is best answered, perhaps, by the explanation of such nonsense in Psalm 115. I am delighted that Dick looked at the Big Book titles, the Bible names and titles, and then documented all the places where the goofy god names replaced the Creator. I rejoice too in the careful studies by Stewart C., Dick B., and George T. over the years which showed that the word "God" and Biblical synonyms such as Creator, Maker, Father, as well as descriptive pronouns numbered over 400 in the Third Edition of the Big Book. By contrast, "higher power" is used twice--both times in the context of the word "God." I doubt that atheists and rim-runners will find much comfort in reading the facts as to how far the "God business" has gotten out of line; but I am sure that devout believers--Christians, Jews, Protestants, and Roman Catholics alike will welcome a book that tells it like it was instead of encouraging sick alcoholics to "find" and put other gods before Yahweh, the Creator. There's more to be read also in Dick's titles, Cured; When Early AAs Were Cured and Why; The Good Book and The Big Book; and The Good Book-Big Book Guidebook.

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The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Patient Workbook Review

As someone who makes his living because of the existence of casinos I am always struck by the fact that some people just can't stop gambling. They would rather lose all their money and some would rather lose everything they have in life as long as they can play the games.

Now I don't think compulsive gamblers are any different than other addictive types. I knew someone who was told by his doctor that he was going to die - because he was running too much. The runner had thoroughly devastated his body and bled everytime he urinated.

The addicted will always be with us. This book addresses how to help them, if they can be helped. There is definitley something in the brain and in the personality that causes people to do the destructable.

Frank Scoblete: author of Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution! and Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution!

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"How To Overcome Alcoholism" Review

Do You Have a Friend or Family Member
Who is Abusing Alcohol?

Did you know that 40% of alcoholics
in the U.S. are women?

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Substance abuse is rampant and alcohol tops the list of all forms of abuse. Sadly, alcoholism does not discriminate. The chances are very high that you have a friend or family member who drinks too much.

The problem is that there are no clear-cut statistics. Even the number above is a best estimate. The reason is because most alcoholics are in serious denial.

The first step to getting help is to recognize the symptoms of alcoholism. They can be very subtle. Did you know that there are actually different "stages" of alcoholism? The more you can learn about alcoholism the sooner you can get help.

Can you separate facts from myth?

Did you know that high alcohol content in your body affects the immune system thereby hindering its ability to fight off diseases?

Did you know that beer does not have a lower effect of intoxication than wine or liquor?

Did you know that women alcoholics have higher risk then men for health problems?

Where to get the answers?

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See what's inside:

· What is Alcoholism – Is it a disease or a vice? Read what certain groups of professionals have to say.

· Symptoms of Alcohol Abuse – Is it memory lapses, depression, anxiety, missing work or all of the above?

· What Are Some of the Causes of Alcoholism – And the consequences?

· Alcoholism and the body – We all know about the liver trouble, right? But are you aware of the other tolls it takes? Pretty scary stuff!

· Frying Your Brain – You've seen the ads, right? This is your brain on drugs? Well, guess what? Alcohol is a drug!

· The Alcoholic Family – Do you think that only the alcoholic suffers? Think again!

· More Facts versus Fiction – Think coffee and fresh air will sober you up? Think again.

· Alcohol and Senior Citizens – This is worse than you might think.

· Alcoholism in Teenagers – This is sad and on the rise. How to detect it and nip it in the bud.

· Alcohol and Nutrition – Find out how a good nutritional plan can overcome the bad effects from years of neglect.

· How to Treat Alcoholism – Learn about alcohol withdrawal syndrome as well as rehabilitation.

· No Cure for Alcoholism – Are you disappointed? It's the truth but there's more to know. Learn what that is inside.

Remember that people who abuse alcohol are in a state of denial. They don't believe that alcohol is a problem for them therefore they do not seek treatment.

You can't help someone to recovery unless you understand what alcohol abuse is, where it comes from and why the alcoholic has it. This is the first step is being able to lead someone you care about on the road to recovery.

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