{"product_id":"living-recovery-9780345367853","title":"Living Recovery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese words  familiar to recovering people everywhere  describe the challenging realities we must face when we begin recovering from an addiction. And as life goes on there is a tremendous need for meaningful recovery support. Learning to deal with the different stages of growth and the new emotions that surface during the recovery process requires new living skills.  Now all the pamphlets in the bestselling Hazelden Pocket Power series have been collected in this inspirational volume. Living Recovery provides an in-depth look at twenty-two tools for recovery  and offers pragmatic guidance in penetrating  yet easy-to-read reflections on: -- Accepting Criticism -- Forgiveness -- Freedom from Fear -- Gratitude -- Great Expectations -- Honesty -- Hope -- Humility -- Inadequacy -- Just for Today -- Letting Go -- Living the Principles -- Loneliness -- Loving Relationships -- Miracles in Recovery -- Patience -- Prayer and Meditation -- Reaching Out to Others -- Serenity -- Surrender -- Understanding Rejection -- When Doors Close  So whether youre recovering from addiction or you live or work with someone who is  the principles of Twelve Step living outlined in this book can guarantee a richer  healthier life.  One hundred percent of the net proceeds from the sales of the Random House edition of Hockneys Alphabet will go to the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust for AIDS research and services to people with AIDS.  Sir Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in Britain and America to contribute original texts for an alphabet to be specially drawn by David Hockney  the proceeds of which would benefit AIDS research and services to people with AIDS. The result is this stunning volume of ABCs for grown-ups  a unique anthology of art and literature.  Here are the letters of the alphabet  in David Hockneys inimitable style -- created in a variety of media  including collage and laser copier -- with brief accompanying texts by a dazzling array of world-class writers. Each was assigned to his or her letter by Stephen Spender  who himself contributed the Preface and a poem for the letter A.  Those who love words will delight in the texts  which include  among others: -- Joyce Carol Oates on B  for birth  the \"most profound\" of all the Bs. -- Iris Murdoch on C  a \"warm  comforting  friendly\" letter. -- Paul Theroux on D  for death: \"An endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.\" -- Gore Vidal on E: \"So very like a comb.\" -- Norman Mailer on F: \"What a compliment you are paying me with that letter.\" -- Martin Amis on H  for homosexual: \"It asks for courage. It demands courage.\" -- Erica Jong on I  a poem  \"To the Letter I.\" -- Margaret Drabble on L  for laughter: \"Do we not  in looking back on friendships  holidays  parties  good times  remember the laughter even when the jokes are forgotten?\" -- Doris Lessing on P  for pumpkin: \"One of the joys of autumn.\" -- Kazuo Ishiguro on T  for T-bone steak: \"A dish renowned for its directness and simplicity.\" -- Julian Barnes on U  for unless: \"The most sinister word in the English language.\" -- John Updike on V  for venereal  but also for victory. -- Susan Sontag on W  for weather. -- Anthony Burgess on X  a poem  \"An Elegy for X.\"  Along the way  there is a previously unpublished letter  donated to the project by Mrs. Valerie Eliot  from T. S. Eliot to a young  aspiring writer  and a short essay by Arthur Miller comparing contemporary prejudice against AIDS to the prejudice against tuberculosis he remembers from his childhood.  \"The worlds Alphabets -- Alpha to Omega \" says Stephen Spender in the Preface  \"are drums and trumpets  clarion calls  State Funerals  Massed Choirs  Burial and Redemption.\" Hockneys Alphabet is all that  as well as an enchanting and thought-provoking gift book that will help end the AIDS crisis here and all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275659698229,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345367855","price":63.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345367853.jpg?v=1780511413","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/living-recovery-9780345367853","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}