Thin Wire: A Mother's Journey Through her Daughter's Heroin Addiction is an honest and intimate account of heroin addiction told by both mother and daughter. Amber is introduced to drugs and becomes addicted without her mother's knowledge. She meets a dealer who feeds her habit. Whilst living together, they are raided by the police. Bailed to her mother's address with a £200-a-day addiction, Amber doesn't think her family will accept her back when they discover the truth. When she's charged by the police with dealing class A drugs and accepting stolen goods, she fears she'll go to prison. Trying to feed her habit alone, Amber meets a fellow addict who offers to introduce her to prostitution. The prospect terrifies her, but will her mother help her?An unflinching story that looks at drug addiction from two different sides, Thin Wire will appeal to a diverse range of readers, in particular fans of autobiographies and memoirs, and is remiscent of Melvin Burgess' Junk. The book's concluding section offers two sets of personal guidelines; one for addicts, the other for parents or partners of addicts, while the in-depth, harrowing real life story vividly illustrates the difficulties of overcoming addiction. In a society where 50% of teenagers experiment with drugs, Amber is every mother's child. She could be yours.

In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. 140 illustrations.

Would you like to create powerful Ajax applications without having to be a JavaScript expert? Are you a Java developer who is looking for a better way to build rich web applications? In this book we’ll introduce you to ThinWire, an innovative open source Ajax framework that strives to empower Java developers of all skill levels. Learn how to create responsive, expressive & interactive web applications with ease. Rather than requiring you to work in the dual worlds of client & server side programming, with ThinWire you write your entire application in Java on the server-side, without writing any JavaScript, HTML or CSS. ThinWire accomplishes this feat by encapsulating the underlying client-side rendering and data communication layers, instead providing you with a clean Java component model for dealing with familiar concepts such as a buttons, trees, or grids. Use the ThinWire Handbook as a developer guide while building your ThinWire applications or just as a way to learn more about this innovative framework. Either way, the handbook provides complete coverage of all the goodies that the framework has to offer, giving you everything you need to know to build virtually any kind of Ajax web application. Whether you’re looking to tackle a small personal project or a large enterprise class project, ThinWire has the power to deliver and with the ThinWire Handbook by your side, you’ll have the know-how.

This is part 1 of poetry, prose & art from past performance art shows from Janet Kuypers, starting with the 1997 show "Seeing Things Differently." Other shows include Lake Demented Poets 03/13/02, Six Eleven (06/11/02), Stop. (09/10/02), Death Comes in Threes (03/18/03), Changing Gears (06/17/03), Not Mute (06/25/03), the Cycle of Life (06/25/04), The Other Side (10/25/03), Side A/Side B (12/09/03), Dreams (02/03/04), a Night of Firsts (06/22/04), Poetry Fest (08/28/05), Questions in a World Without Answers (10/05/04), & How Do I Get There? (02/15/05). The title "Chapter 38" is based on the Janet Kuypers chapbook "Chapter 18". At the end of this collection is also the original "Chapter 18" chapbook of poetry and photography. This 6" x 9" collection book was originally released an a cc&d magazine ISSN# special release book, but it was later converted to an ISBN# collection book (so material on the copyright page may reflect only the magazine ISSN number, but not the newly-received ISBN number).

If you can, youre right; if you cant, youre right. This book is designed to inspire you to achieve your best and when you do, to do even better. Quotes and stories are the mechanism used because they make the reader think. Many of the quotes are an age old and therefore draw on the wisdom of our ancestors. Gather stories and quotes for yourself. Use them to inspire work. Remember one thing, you are worth the effort. Go for it. The author would like to thank all the people who wrote the quotes and short stories presented in this book. Where known, the author was cited, else, unknown. May their work continue to inspire others.

The author reconstructs his journey from basic training.

Girl on Wire is a simple yet brilliantly uplifting allegory of a young girl struggling to build her self-esteem and overcome the anxiety that many children feel as they grow - she walks the tightrope, afraid she will fall, but with the support of those she loves, her toes grip the wire and she walks forward, on her own, with a new confidence.