Patrick O'Neil

This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases. The proposed book expertly combines the finest database design material from the Morgan Kaufmann portfolio. Individual chapters are derived from a select group of MK books authored by the best and brightest in the field. These chapters are combined into one comprehensive volume in a way that allows it to be used as a reference work for those interested in new and developing aspects of database design. This book represents a quick and efficient way to unite valuable content from leading database design experts, thereby creating a definitive, one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.

If you want to read about subversive pop culture, stanky substance abuse, dejected relationships, overt self-depreciation, and the despair of living in a dystopian future, then Joel Landmine is your man. He will not disappoint. His first book of poetry Yeah, Well... set the tone. Now Things Change is going to kick that tone's ass and set the bar even higher. It'd be really lame to announce something like, "Joel Landmine is a poet to keep your eye on as he's going places," because he already left for that higher ground and we're the ones trailing behind. Patrick O'Neil, from his foreword. Author Gun, Needle, Spoon

Writing Your Way to Recovery: How Stories Can Save Our Lives is an extraordinary collection of personal stories and creative writing exercises designed to help others achieve lasting sobriety. This book provides a vital roadmap to the artistic, personal and spiritual growth to all those battling addiction.The authors of this unique approach to recovery should be dead. That they are not is a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit and the power of hope. Although they now share over three decades of sobriety, they spent even more years as alcoholics and addicts. Hell on earth is real for those suffering from substance abuse, but the authors know that there is a way out of this hell. For they have lived it, and in these pages they offer the hope, strength and wisdom of the once seemingly damned.

During punk rocks heyday in the late '80s and early '90s O'Neil worked at the legendary Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco's premier punk venue. He then went on to become a roadie and eventually the tour manager for Dead Kennedy's and Flipper. That was before his life got totally out of control: O'Neil was a heroin addict for 18 years. Although the specificities of O'Neil's story are more extreme than most, the narrative arc is not. Many will relate to the idea of getting exactly what you want only to discover it isn't what you need.