The Classic Guide to Recovery from AlcoholismThis no-nonsense guide to understanding and recovering from alcoholism provides new hope for alcoholics, their families, and friends. Hard-won experiences -- Father Martin is a recovering alcoholic -- underlies this thorough yet always clear presentation. Chalk Talks sheds new light upon the complex problems of alcoholism, which affects the mind, body, soul, and emotions. Father Martin does not preach or moralize but remains practical in discussing attitudes toward, and reasons for, alcoholism; the physiological/psychological effects;...

"Strindberg - Other Sides: Seven Plays" presents fresh translations based upon the new national Swedish edition of Strindberg's works, hewing close to Strindberg's techniques of -scoring- his scripts for actors and directors. The plays are illuminated in introductory essays revaluating Strindberg's role in transforming theatre (and art) with his extraordinary new forms. "The Ghost Sonata" is a keystone in the construction of the expressionist theatre; in "The Pelican" Strindberg goes -over the top- with his own form of psychological drama until it soars beyond the realm of realism; "The Dance...