Martin Nicolaus

"A sophisticated, insightful, well-documented view of the philosophy and practice that are at the heart of the LifeRing approach. This book offers a perspective on recovery that can motivate change in clinicians and researchers as well as among individuals struggling to find their sober selves." -- Carlo DiClemente

Recovery by Choice is a how-to book for achieving lifelong freedom from alcohol and other drugs. Using this book, you can construct an effective abstinence-based recovery program tailored to your individual reality. You will learn to act with confidence as your own therapist. You will empower your sober self. Now in its fourth edition, Recovery by Choice works by working the 'choice muscles' in your brain. You will master a simple but powerful tool for making the right choice in every life situation. You will make many hundreds of concrete decisions related to your personal recovery, and in the process you will gain in independence and self-efficacy.Recovery by Choice guides you through the nine key domains where people getting free of alcohol and other drugs may want to make changes: (1) My Body (2) My Exposure (3) My Acitivities (4) My People (5) My Feelings (6) My Life Style (7) My History (8) My Culture (9) My Treatment.Thousands of people have used Recovery by Choice to close the drinking/drugging chapter of their lives. They have made new choices that give them a healthier body, cleaner environment, engaging activities, fulfilling relationship, intelligent emotions, satisfying life style, authentic identity, positive cultural role, and the power to get help and take care of themselves in any situation.Recovery by Choice is a workbook, with the accent on work. If you roll up your sleeves and get into it, you can change your life forever.

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto (1848) and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work Capital. Here, for the first time, Marx set out his own version of Hegel's dialectics and developed his mature views on labour, surplus value and profit, offering many fresh insights into alienation, automation and the dangers of capitalist society. Yet while the theories in Grundrisse make it a vital precursor to Capital, it also provides invaluable descriptions of Marx's wider-ranging philosophy, making it a unique insight into his beliefs and hopes for the foundation of a communist state.