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The founder of the first female-focused recovery program offers a groundbreaking look at alcohol and a radical new path to sobriety.
We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. Yet no one ever questions alcohol’s ubiquity—in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn’t drink. It is a qualifier for belonging and if you don’t imbibe, you are considered an anomaly. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some kind of magic elixir, though it is anything but.
When Holly Whitaker decided to seek help after one too many benders, she embarked on a journey that led not only to her own sobriety, but revealed the insidious role alcohol plays in our society and in the lives of women in particular. What’s more, she could not ignore the ways that alcohol companies were targeting women, just as the tobacco industry had successfully done generations before. Fueled by her own emerging feminism, she also realized that the predominant systems of recovery are archaic, patriarchal, and ineffective for the unique needs of women and other historically oppressed people—who don’t need to lose their egos and surrender to a male concept of God, as the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous state, but who need to cultivate a deeper understanding of their own identities and take control of their lives. When Holly found an alternate way out of her own addiction, she felt a calling to create a sober community with resources for anyone questioning their relationship with drinking, so that they might find their way as well. Her resultant feminine-centric recovery program focuses on getting at the root causes that lead people to overindulge and provides the tools necessary to break the cycle of addiction, showing us what is possible when we remove alcohol and destroy our belief system around it.
Written in a relatable voice that is honest and witty, Quit Like a Woman is at once a groundbreaking look at drinking culture and a road map to cutting out alcohol in order to live our best lives without the crutch of intoxication. You will never look at drinking the same way again.
A collection of Mythras rules for combat, conflict and character
creation and much more.
A gripping, sweeping new epic from the critically-acclaimed #1
international bestselling author of We Begin At The End, Chris
Whitaker. A missing persons mystery. A serial killer thriller. A
love story. One of the must-read novels of the year.
Parallel Lines is a collection of eight very different scenarios
set in seven very different versions of Earth. Each mission is
self-contained, but the collection can be played as a complete
campaign with the characters forming an elite team in Valhalla's
Mjollnir Section.The adventures include the Salem Witch Trials, a
post-apocalyptic Camargue, an Orwellian Britain, epic journeys by
airship and Trans-Siberian Express, a voyage to the bottom of the
sea, an investigation through the streets of a disintegrating
Edinburgh, and a murder hunt through a dystopian London.Packed with
wild ideas and creative locations, along with dozens of colourful
NPCs (and some distinctly weird ones), Parallel Lines is
transplanar adventuring at its very best.Parallel Lines requires
access to both Luther Arkwright: Roleplaying Across the Parallels
and Mythras for full enjoyment.
While quantum theory has been used to study the physical universe
with great profit, both intellectual and financial, ever since its
discovery eighty-five years ago, over the last fifty years we have
found out more and more about the theory itself, and what it tells
us about the universe. It seems we may have to accept non-locality
- cause and effect may be light-years apart; loss of realism -
nature may be fundamentally probabilistic; and non-determinism - it
seems that God does play dice! This book, totally up-to-date and
written by an expert in the field, explains the emergence of our
new perspective on quantum theory, but also describes how the ideas
involved in this re-evaluation led seamlessly to a totally new
discipline - quantum information theory. This discipline includes
quantum computation, which is able to perform tasks quite out of
the range of other computers; the totally secure algorithms of
quantum cryptography; and quantum teleportation - as part of
science fact rather than science fiction. The book is the first to
combine these elements, and will be of interest to anybody
interested in fundamental aspects of science and their application
to the real world.
What would you do if you knew the world was going to be destroyed
by a huge asteroid in one month? The mesmerising YA debut from the
winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel 2021 and
the New York Times Bestselling author of We Begin at the End. They
knew the end was coming. They saw it ten years back, when it was
far enough away in space and time and meaning. The changes were
gradual, and then sudden. For Mae and her friends, it means
navigating a life where action and consequence are no longer
related. Where the popular are both trophies and targets. And where
petty grudges turn deadlier with each passing day. So, did Abi
Manton jump off the cliff or was she pushed? Her death is just the
beginning of the end. With teachers losing control of their
students and themselves, and the end rushing toward all of them, it
leaves everyone facing the answer to one, simple question... What
would you do if you could get away with anything?
Not one Earth, but an infinity of them, existing in parallel
continua, their own paths, own histories, own futures, own
mistakes. Most are unaware of the existence of a multiverse; but
some parallels know that Earth is not alone, but mirrored.ZeroZero
knows. It watches the parallels, ensures their stability. ZeroZero
knows that instability spreads like a disease, infecting each
parallel until a critical mass is reached and cataclysm is
guaranteed.The Disruptors know. And they are intent on subverting
the multiverse for their own ends, to destabilise countries,
instigate wars, bring about destruction.The Valhalla Project was
established to stop the Disruptors; to uncover their plans,
identify their agents, and eliminate them. Their best agent is
Luther Arkwright, unique in the multiverse, a powerful psychic, but
himself unstable. Arkwright does not work alone. There are others.
You.Based on Bryan Talbot's acclaimed graphic novels,Luther
Arkwright: Roleplaying Across the Parallelsis a Mythras supplement
introducing the Arkwright multiverse and all the rules needed for
adventuring in countless parallel dimensions. This book contains
game rules for contemporary character creation, psionics,
technology, firearms, vehicles and more!
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