Este es un libro maravilloso y me ha ayudado muchidimo..Su contenido ,para mi ,encierra lo mas grande en lectura espiritual que yo haya leido jamas.Por esta razon,quisiera obtener dos copias de este libro.

Methadone is obviously the most succesfull form of treatment available today hopefully this book will shed some light on a subject that many people do not understand that being adiction relapse and recovery.

This is an excellent review of international literature and practical guidance for anyone involved with opioid addiction, or curious about it. Includes an excellent discussion of the "moral basis" for resistance to maintenance treatments, debunking it thoroughly. A MUST READ for professionals and community members dealing with the heroin/pharmaceutical opiate epidemic.

This is a key book to read if you want to get to grips with the vast literature on the topic of opiate agonist maintenance. Its unusually well written and scientifically authoritative and really the best thing around on the subject at the moment

I tend to read a lot of nonfiction, at least in the last few years, but I have read lots of fiction and enjoy a great story. I mention this because much of this book reads as if the author was writing a fictional story about prison, yet was doing a poor job of it. The fact that it is a personal memoir and meant to be a true account of the struggles of the author makes it a fascinating read and I'll admit that I was able to tune out the outside world for a few reading sessions over a couple a days as I burned through the pages.

What made some of the reading difficult was keeping up with all the names and events and the general time line. It got confusing at times.

But the actions of people that interacted with the author were clear enough to present an engaging story, and anyone that is interested in the world of prisons and criminals doing hard time during the period of the book will find this work interesting. Most of the hard core story telling happens from the mid sixties through the seventies and into the eighties. There is stuff going on in the nineties here but the story starts to lose some of its steam.

As for the politics of the story and the expose' of the corruption, if the author is to be believed, and I think he presented a very strong case (although alternative arguments are not really here) then the conclusion can be clearly drawn; there is and has been a lot of corruption in the Louisiana prison system. As for my personal feelings after my reading I think that I mostly chose to believe what the author has to say, the prison system is filled with corruption and the justice system is filled with unfairness.

That being said, although I agree that the author is a "changed man", I didn't change my opinion of the death penalty after reading his story. While I don't think he needs to be singled out for special punishment now, I think that the first unfairness was that he didn't receive the death penalty shortly after conviction. Using a gun while committing a felony should carry the death penalty. Life is precious and valuable and we show complete disrespect to the victims of violent crime when we as a people fail to administer fair and impartial justice.

The author complains that many murderers have been released while he was passed over for parole. And I agree that there is an injustice here, but it isn't to him, it is to the victims and the victims families of those predators being released. Life in prison should mean life and the death penalty should mean the death penalty.

All in all I recommend this book to anyone interested in a story about prison life and the struggle of one man that was sent to prison yet still found a way to bring something redeeming to this world. I was disappointed that even though he grew up, matured, came into a realization that he had devastated many lives by killing someone that was loved and found a way to stand up to prison injustices he doesn't mention any help from God or at least a "higher power". It seems that he healed and cured himself. If this is not true than the book left out some important details. I am not saying he should have made something up, of course, but if his redemption was "self willed" than reading about it has little value as the vast majority of us simply aren't that great.

In either case the book is an entertaining and compelling story and I wasn't disappointed in the time I spent reading it.

This is the best book I've ever read, hands down. It gave all the facts, good or bad, along with the consequences. I do not usually have sympathy for prisoners but this is an exception. This is a perfect example of the people in charge being more corrupt than the prisoner. It shows that trying to do the right thing after making a mistake in your youth only results in more punishment and the corrupt people win. It is a sad thing to know that our leaders in politics are so often more corrupt than the prisoners. I would love to read another book by the Sinclairs telling "the rest of the story". I admire Jodi Sinclair and I'm not sure anyone else would have this dedication after all the "knockdowns" in her life. I wish them the best life has to offer in their future. They have paid enough.

Billy Wayne Sinclair murdered a store clerk in a robbery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1965. The clerk was a former football star, and the "politically powerful football fraternity" made his initial imprisonment as deprived as possible, and for thirty-five years has acted against any parole actions. Sinclair tells his life story in _A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story_ (Arcade Publishing). It is full of distressing events during his upbringing and during his decades of imprisonment, but it is devoid of self-pity. Sinclair landed on Death Row in Angola, "the bloodiest prison in America." He became a "fanatic devotee" of self discipline. He began studying law on a daily schedule. "I learned to lock my mind on living, to believe that I had a future... The Row taught me patience. It burned away my habit of recklessness when I grew frustrated in the pursuit of a goal."

Readers who can stomach Sinclair's descriptions of an abusive upbringing by a sadistic father and his descriptions of prison life will find some bright light in this dark tale. Angola was "a world of racial strife and hatred; homosexual rape and slavery; protection rackets that provided a way for the strong to live comfortably at the expense of the weak; and widespread drug trafficking that brought its dealers tremendous profits and its users an escape from the bitter reality of their failed lives." In this dismal environment, Sinclair continued to study, and became a jailhouse lawyer, helping many of the other criminals. He became an editor of the penitentiary's newsmagazine, _The Angolite_, and helped change it from an innocuous newsletter to a serious prison publication with journalistic standards. It won journalism awards and played its part in bringing reforms to Angola. Sinclair continued his life as a whistle-blower, and while it gained him respect, it also led to recriminations from the authorities and continued balking at his parole attempts. When he challenged the corruption within the inmate society, his life was at risk.

He wrote the book with his wife of nineteen years; it is clear he loves her, but it is a mystery why she, a television news reporter, entered into a jailhouse marriage. Nonetheless, they have produced a book that is graphic, powerful, and unforgettable. As Sinclair went through losses within the prison system, he gained empathy about the loss of life he had caused in a punk robbery decades ago. He has seen the worst of humanity as captors and captives, but he also has distinct admiration for some of the exemplars on both sides. He has had decades with no disciplinary write-ups, has served prisoners and prisons with needed reforms, and has seen multiple murderers begin their sentences and end them while he trudges on. His disturbing and inspiring book is a tale of redemption, but the redemption is incomplete. If nothing changes, he will be eligible for release in 2011.

I found a lot of contradictions in this book. For example, author argues that thoughts are not important, and thinking is only a function. Nevertheless, thoughts control who we are and how we feel. Same with the past. Don't think about the past, it's not important, though past forms our behavior and attitude to life, and it shapes the way we understand this world and ourselves. Well, thoughts and past can't be unimportant if they have a great control over us.
I tend to agree with the reader from Chicago - if you have serious psychological problems or if you are deep into thinking about who you are and where you belong in this world, you'll find this book way way too simple.
Still, I'm giving this book two stars and not one because first, I liked the discussion about separate realities (the only chapter I really liked), second, there are a lot of people who clearly benefited from this book and wrote excellent reviews. I believe that the effort is not wasted if the author helped so many people feel a bit happier.
And finally, I wish you peace and harmony you're seeking, whether you'll find it in this book or from any other source (such as within yourself).

I can only add a few words to the mostly positive reviews already posted. The reader from Chicago unfortunately missed the point. Life does not have to be a self-improvement course. We _do_ have the tools we need to live a happy life, but so often deny ourselves, out of a notion that life is only meaningful if we "struggle for clarity", and earn our well-being. Over the years I've taken myself to task for mistakes,choices,relationships, in order to consider myself "worthy' of a happy

existence. The concepts in this book _are_ simple, but not stupid. Carlson's metaphor for living in the moment; the image of a motor boat, and it's wake, couldn't be easier to understand. We stand at the back of the boat, studying the wake, but it's the engine that moves us forward! As it is with our past, we can examine it, but like the wake, it's not going to get us anywhere.

Ever felt like depression and negativitity were swamping all the happiness out of your life? Then read this book before you turn to Prozac. When I first found this book, back in 1997, I instantly recognized myself in Dr. Carlson's descriptions of the way thoughts can play through one's head and cause you to act in reactionary, emotional ways when one is experiencing what he calls a "low mood." He teaches readers, though, through a step by step process, how to return once again, to a state of "healthy psychological functioning." This book is NOT another "positive thinking" book. No, it is one of the most profound little books you'll ever pick up. It teaches you how to recognize "low moods" and to avoid action during low moods. It shows how to return to "normal functioning." After reading the book version several times a year for the last couple of years, I recently bought a two-tape audio version of this book, which is read by the author, and allows me to review the book's key principles whenever I feel a low mood setting in for too long. Not just a book. A great mental health tool.

I really felt that this book is a good overview to all the major issues surrounding this debate, though I felt that the book could have been better in a couple ways.
1) The Open but Cautious representative wasn't representative of most of the evangelical world, in my opinion. Gaffin was right when he said Saucy was "more cautious that open". I think they should have gotten someone a little farther removed from cessationism to argue that point of view.
2)It's probably just me, but I personally think that Grudem himself should have written the defense of the third wave P.O.V.
Other than those minor contentions, and the apparent inability for the authors to grasp some of the other arguments that were being presented, this work is an excellent introductory work that should be read by all who wish to seriously engage in the miraculous gifts debate.

I did not find this book overbalanced on the charismatic side, as one Amazon reviewer suggested. On the contrary, I feel that Richard B. Gaffin was a very wise choice for a representative of the cessationist viewpoint. His arguments move away from flimsy prooftexting and he engages well with the biblical evidence. He avoids the virile tone towards continuationists that many others on his side of the debate have exhibited, and relies on good argumentation and scholarship rather than just anti-charismatic rhetoric.

Similarly, those propounding a continuationist view of spiritual gifts raise some interesting points, Sam Storms giving the most compelling arguments in its favour.

This book will provide an excellent introduction to the current debate, and will be far more helpful to cessationists and continuationists alike than the many other books in the genre which exhibit a much more partisan, even hostile approach.

Before reading this book, I was already established in my belief in the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. However, God certainly opened my eyes and my heart throughout the course of my reading. I believe that it is imperative, as believers, that we know why we believe what we believe and be able to back that up with scripture. These four authors encouraged and challenged me to dig into the Word of God and to seek His face. I came away from this book with a greater appreciation and respect for the Body of Christ and was reminded that in the end we will all be together in unity.

Not a field guide, this is a systematic COMPLETE record of bird-sightings in Massachusetts. It is pretty dry, but has information that can interest even a casual bird-watcher (when were Ethiopian Cattle Egrets first recognized in the U.S.?) Since it shows maps of every breeding pair seen of a given species, it can answer pretty definitively whether you are seeing a Black- Chinned Hummingbird or not.

This is a workbook styled study of the women of the Bible. Its organized into daily reflections with verses to read and concepts to think about. You cover one woman per week.

I was pleasantly surprised, in that it was written by men so I was expecting a particularly subservient bent to it, but it was not. It portrays the women intelligently and gives us enlightening and positive role models.

Consider the first woman of the bible. Eve, whose reputation isn't exactly favorable, since she got us kicked out of the Garden. However, the study guide leads you through the positive aspects of that trial and tribulation, and lets you take a away the positive and inspirational contributions Eve made to all of us.

I recommend this book for any Woman seeking to further her spiritual self.

The pictures are full color but only are of male birds. It only has the summer coloring also, not winter coloring of changing birds like goldfinches. Very nice up close pictures though. It shows great detail of birds in their natural settings. This book is perfect for a pocket or bag. It measures about 4" high and 6" long. This book contains basic data of common eastern birds. It states a brief description, identification, voice, habitat, and range. There is also information about basic birdwatching, identifying, and attracting birds in the introduction. I keep this book next to my home office computer where I have a feeder outside my window just in case I have an unfamiliar visitor.

I tried to learn from an electronic version of this book called Using Visual Basic 6. After you make the Calendar project, you'll be scratching your head saying, well I don't understand what the code is for, but you will be starving for more step by step projects. After all it is rewarding to make a project, and see it work. Then you look farther into the book, and there are not so many projects really. They just go on and on about stuff that you will never remember, not even using it in a real implementation. Too much at once. Take the chapter on "What's New in VB6"? Its All New to me. I could not finish because I am new to all this.

That being said, When I got this book, you can imagine my surprise when It was that same book I already had, but with a new name! I have to say the book was much nicer in real life. It looked good compared to the electronic version. But I was not about to read it again. Therefor, I give it 3 stars for the fact I did not read it all the way, and it says its for Beginners, that I don't believe. Maybe Programers beginning VB6? I guess Using VB6 (Former Name) wasn't for beginners, I don't know?

I have a shelf full of books on Visual Basic. Many of them are over-priced thousand page monsters that simply collect dust because the information I need is too hard to find. This book is not only a great value at a reasonable price, it is also a useful reference for a beginning to intermediate level programmer. I can easily find the information I am looking for. The steps are spelled out clearly and code examples are provided as well. This book would be a worthy addition to anyones Visual Basic library. I highly recommend it.

You've just bought VB6 so now what? Practical Visual Basic 6 that's what. It is cheaper than other books and covers usefull topics in depth, rather than try to gloss over everything. It has a language reference section which is a good thing for a begginer, and it has a CD with all the code examples - saves time typing - also includes working model VB6. A clear choice all round.