Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military battlefields. In this fascinating book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine-meth-from its origins as a cold and asthma remedy to the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. Meth is the latest "epidemic" to attract the attention of law enforcement and the media, but like...

This book will keep you on edge with all of its crises and ups and downs, and how well the heroine's feelings are masterfully communicated! This manuscript of one person's life changes and experiences is very emotionally and psychologically oriented, and there are numerous character studies of family members and friends. Action, change, excitement, and movement dominate the narrative, and the characters are open and easy to relate to for most everyone....

While working on a spring 2020 internship for Untold, a Middle Tennessee State University student proposed Untold: The Campus Diaries as a mental health awareness campaign within the campus community. In a "Dear Diary" format, this online blog was designed to resonate with any student who has faced a challenge, crisis, or difficult period through their college years. The result? Even with COVID-19 and nationwide campus shutdowns, students began...

For as long as anyone can remember, Brittani Evans has always been ambitious. Though an attractive girl, she has cared more about her academics than her appearance. At the age of twenty-two, she works two jobs to cover her college tuition since higher education isn't a top priority to her family. She knows what her long-term goals are, and she doesn't mind taking food orders and selling shoes while she earns her degree. Sierra Jones and Brittani have...

English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities represents a collection of essays by established teacher-scholars across English Studies who offer critical commentary on how they have worked to create and sustain high-impact online programs (majors, minors, certificates) and courses in the field. Ultimately, these chapters explore the programs and classroom practices that can help faculty across English Studies to think carefully and critically...

The Grooming of a Chancellor is Sir George Alleyne's autobiography. He was born in 1932 in St Philip, Barbados, the first of the seven children of Eileen, a homemaker, and Clinton Alleyne, a schoolmaster. With his signature charm, Alleyne recounts his experiences from primary and secondary school in racially divided Barbados to gaining a Barbados Scholarship to study medicine at the fledgling University College of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica....

Discover how to use natural materials to print on any surface, from paper and fabric to ceramics, wood, and walls. With simple step-by-step instructions and clear photographs, Laura Bethmann encourages crafters of all levels to create original nature prints with leaves, flowers, fruits, shells, stones, and more. Her unique project ideas include stationery printed with maple leaves, a clothes hamper printed with scallop shells, and a pillow printed...

"How do we help make black America better? Jesse Brown reminds us that we gain financial success and security when we pay ourselves first."-Tavis Smiley, author of How to Make Black America Better: Leading Black Americans Speak Out "Jesse Brown's commonsense approach is a surefire way to watch your money grow."-Myra J., The Tom Joyner Morning Show Achieve your financial freedom with step-by-step instructions from award-winning investment manager...

Lust. Lies. Double lives. The rock and roll industry is full of people who are looking out for themselves, and willing to do anything to rise to the top. Those who are in the thick of it know what it's like to stab someone in the back, and they know what it's like to be stabbed. For five brothers, the rise to fame has been, filled with trouble and hardship, but they have persevered. Now they're at the top of their game and the top of the charts too....

G. K. Chesterton was a literary giant of his age. With an exceptional intellect, he wrote about history, politics, economics, philosophy, social and literary criticism, and theology. He published essays, novels, biographies, short stories, and poetry, and the Christian classics Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man, which C. S. Lewis credits as instrumental in his conversion to Christianity. With much of his finest material out of print or...