Most Popular Books by Craig Brown

More Than Sobriety: Healing the Soul on the Journey to Complete Recovery Are you searching for freedom from addiction-and healing for your soul? This isn''t just another self-help book. More Than Sobriety is a powerful faith-based guide that takes you beyond quitting-into spiritual restoration. Written by recovery leader and founder of Stop Hiding Start Healing, Craig Brown shares his personal journey from addiction to healing through faith in Jesus Christ. With decades of ministry experience, he offers honest insight, practical action steps, and biblical wisdom to help you recover fully-mind, body, and soul. You''ll discover: Why willpower and secular programs often fall short How spiritual emptiness fuels addiction-and how faith restores wholeness Biblical truths that break the cycle of shame, fear, and relapse How to embrace your true identity beyond addiction Daily practices of surrender, prayer, and service that sustain recovery Each chapter includes action steps to help you apply spiritual principles to real-life challenges. Whether you''re struggling with addiction, walking alongside someone who is, or searching for hope-this book is a life-giving invitation to healing. It''s time to stop hiding. It''s time to start healing.

Provides a method of parenting to transform your home into a loving, peaceful, and respectful environment. Create an environment in which your child will want to behave, foster an internal sense of respect and responsibility in your child, structure your routines to encourage positive behavior, and use Biblical principles to undergird all of the above.

... Madonna trifft Michael Jackson trifft Nancy Reagan trifft Andy Warhol trifft Jackie Kennedy trifft Queen Elizabeth ... Eine amüsante, charmante, nostalgische Zeitreise durch die Welt der Stars, ein Karussell der Eitelkeiten, voller komischer oder auch wehmütiger Anekdoten und haarsträubender gesellschaftlicher Katastrophen.101 Begegnungen zwischen den Großen ihrer Zeit: Dichter, Politiker, Popstars, Schauspieler, Komponisten; gekrönte Häupter, die sich wie auf einer glanzvollen Dinnerparty sozusagen die Klinke in die Hand geben, denn nach einem ersten Zusammentreffen zweier Giganten wird einer von ihnen in einer zweiten Begegnung gezeigt, dessen Gegenüber dann wieder den nächsten Prominenten trifft, und so fort, dabei wild zwischen den Zeiten springend, bis zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert. Alles, was hier so großartig erzählt wird von dem genialen britischen Satiriker Craig Brown, ist wahr und basiert auf Memoiren, Tagebüchern und anderen Zeugnissen. Eine Auswahl der Partygäste: Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Martha Graham, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Alec Guinness, Evelyn Waugh, Igor Strawinsky, Walt Disney, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marilyn Monroe, Nikita Chruschtschow, Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsburg, Truman Capote, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Grigori Rasputin, Zar Nikolaus II, Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, Leo Tolstoi, Harpo Marx, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Mick Jagger, Gustav Mahler ... «Das Buch, über das ich am meisten lachen musste.» Julian Barnes

If pride comes before a fall, so too does greed. When George Jensen discovers his wife Paula''s adultery with the rich and influential Martin Brack, the scene is set for a vengeful campaign of blackmail. Brack soon realises that Jensen will not go away; he must be removed. But there was homework to be done and by its neglect the plan goes disastrously wrong. Jensen is left doubly embittered and very much alive. His response is naked greed, fuelled by unreasoning anger. Both protagonists are facing destruction. In this woeful tale there is sexual dalliance, blackmail, death and mindless retribution. The cruel twist at the story''s heart is beautifully counterbalanced by the fresh breath of innocent hope and a quiet striving for reconciliation enacted by two young children, carrying the episode to a moving and magical conclusion. Theirs is the final distinction and dignity.

Why was Sir Robin Day seen in the bar of the Garrick Club dressed as Widow Twankey? In what year, did John Bratby paint Lord Goodman naked on an ironing board? How did Major Ronald Ferguson gain his role as the headmistress in the remake of the classic St Trinian''s comedy series? This title answers these questions and many more.

This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject''s core elements, which can be used as a learning material for students pursuing their studies in undergraduate and graduate levels in universities and colleges and those who want to learn the topic via a short and complete resource. We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career.

In Neil Robertson - unworldly adolescent, romantic dreamer - we find a 20th century Icarus whose youthful vulnerability sends him soaring too near an emotional sun. Neil''s stormy and bizarre affair with his grandmother''s nurse, and his friendship with Archie, the amiable Scotsman who completes the unwholesome triangle, soon threaten to destroy his childhood for ever. Neil learns the hard way that, all too often, adults are not to be trusted with a child''s affections.

A comprehensive guide to charities and voluntary organizations in the UK and abroad. CONTENTS: Understanding the voluntary sector - working in the voluntary sector - finding the right work for you - looking at opportunities for young people - giving your free time - making a career in the voluntary sector - moving up, moving on - working overseas - working with people - working for animals and the environment

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Being 9,000 miles from the ones you love can be tough. It is tougher still when one of them is dying and you cannot be there to provide love and support. Together Again is the story of a brave woman''s battle with a malignant disease and her family''s struggle to help with the fight. Told by her son as a means of coping with his grief, we are transported from New Jersey, USA to New Zealand, on a journey that takes us through despair, laughter and hope, and when all seems lost, we are left with the resounding echo of love. The book is for anyone that has struggled with the grief of losing a loved one and who wants to know that they''re not alone.

The purpose of this book is to minimize the youth and young adults of today from being labelled as "waste yutes" (a youthful person who has failed to use their time wisely) through financial literacy. Being financially literate simply means that you''re competent when it comes to money and beginner level financial planning. Each chapter is titled with commonly used Toronto phrases to make it relatable and to grab their attention. Our goal is to give the youth and young adults in marginalized communities an equal opportunity to attain upward mobility. Young people need to feel empowered in order to make informed decisions and what better way than through the universal language of money?!In conjunction with the book, a financial literacy program, "Checks Over Strikes" has been birthed by Craig A. Brown and Dean M. Chambers. The course aims to further the knowledge attained from this book and serve as a form of accountability and guidance for those who are ready to embark on their financial literacy journey. Our hope is that they will share their newly acquired knowledge with their peers and apply it to their daily lives. This new-found information could be the motivation they need to be pillars in their community with an "Each One Teach One" mentality. Don''t delay, begin your journey today! Attachments area

Alla ville ha något av dem, alla hade en åsikt om dem. 50 år efter att medlemmarna gick skilda vägar fortsätter The Beatles att fascinera. Deras historia fick tidigt drag av mytologi, men Craig Brown visar att det går att ta sig an bandet på ett nytt sätt: hans prisade biografi är en underhållande mosaik av berättelser, scener, minnen och dokument som sammantaget ger en autentisk och originell bild av Beatles och deras epok, full av oväntade aha-upplevelser även för den trodde sig kunna sin Beatleslegend utan och innan.

Jude Bryson was a sixties icon. The major British designer of his time, he was courted by Mick Jagger, painted by Hockney, photographed by Snowdon, befriended by R D Laing and celebrated in a song by the Beatles. By the late 1970s, he had established a network of Bryson Stores which taught us all how good design could improve the quality of family happiness in our homes. Jude and Libby Bryson lived and worked from their house at Merton, on the Norfolk coast, their lives blessed by achievement and all the sophisticated joy offered by clear lines, strong colours and excellent use of fabric. Until, one day, the veteran disc-jockey Gary Shanling moved in next door. Gary was, to use his own phrase, hap-hap-happy-a happy man with a happy wife and two happy children, broadcasting happily every morning to millions of moderately miserable listeners. The intrusion of such extreme and constant happiness into their lives soon wrought havoc upon the previously comfortable existence of the townsfolk of Merton. Finding the fine balance of his own civilised lifestyle on the tilt, Bryson found himself forced to take extreme steps to win back his own happiness.

Enumerates the many different sounds a visitor might hear in the city, including the honking of trucks, the sound of a jackhammer, and the bonging of a big clock.

This being a history in two volumes of the lands and people of the sovereign Kingdom of Calontir, herein will be found the Chronicles of the earliest years of the Kingdom and its birth from its Midrealm Mother. These volumes encompass its culture and traditions as well as its chronological progress presented through the passing of its rulers. Light is shed on the origins of many titles, orders, customs, and shibboleths; many of our founders are celebrated.

The thymus, which is the primary site for T cell maturation, begins to involute after puberty leading to defects in T cell function. Although the mechanisms of thymic atrophy/involution are not clearly understood, both LPCs and stem cell niche aging have been proposed to be the cause. There are numerous studies in lympho-hematopoietic progenitor cells (LPC), along with a few studies dealing with stem cell niche ageing; however, there is a scarcity of studies that combine the interaction of the two. The lack of models seems to be a contributing factor to the scarcity of a combined study. Age-related T-cell immune system defects are associated with developmental disabilities in the interaction of progenitors in the bone marrow (BM) and thymic niches. So far what is known is that both cellular components will ultimately develop intrinsic/irreversible defects. There is much debate about which component is primarily responsible for the initial events that lead to the adverse regulation of the other component, but understanding the relationship is of clinical relevance for rejuvenating the aged immune system in order to delay/treat the onset of age-related diseases. In order to address the role of LPCs and stem cell niche aging, we have developed several comprehensive in vivo and in vitro models for functional characterizations of the lymphostromal interaction in mice. By using BM transplantation from wild type donors along with an IL7R -/- mouse as a recipient/host, transplantation of a fetal thymus into one/two hosts to recruit naturally thymic-seeding LPCs from young and/or aged BM in vivo, we found that LPCs outlive their niche cells in the BM and thymus. Although aged LPCs cannot compete against their younger counterparts, this is reversible when a young microenvironment is provided. Therefore, aging of T-lineage stem cells is largely regulated by their niches.