Dr Garth Lean's Books

The The Tragedies and Triumphs in an Alcoholic’s Family

A Journey to Alcoholic Hell and Back

By: Dr. Mike Duffy

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The The Tragedies and Triumphs in an Alcoholic’s Family

A Journey to Alcoholic Hell and Back

By: Dr. Mike Duffy

Are you watching the self-destruction of a loved one struggling with substance abuse, or are you the one addicted? Perhaps you are an observer standing outside the arena watching the chaos and asking yourself, "Why don't they just quit?" If you find yourself in one of these situations, this book is written with you in mind. By sharing our family's story of tragedy and triumph, we have an opportunity to encourage those whose life's pathways have taken them to some of the same dark places our family has been. If ever a story of miraculous recovery--from the agonizing valley of alcoholism and addiction to the mountaintop of recovery and service--should be told, it is the story of Gene Duffy, my dad. His journey took him from the gutters of Chicago's skid row, including a trip to the morgue to be prepped for burial, to the peace and serenity of California's beautiful Napa Valley, where he pioneered an amazing work and became one of the most prominent voices for recovery in his day. It is my hope and desire that this book, with my dad's life story serving as a platform for carrying the message of hope, and my sharing some lessons I learned along the way, may inspire someone who may be spiraling downward in cycles of misery and destruction to seek help. It may also encourage someone whose life has become difficult as they are being sorely impacted by another's deadly addiction. Let me assure you, there is hope! Although no one can go back and change their beginning, anybody can begin to change their ending! One does not have to live out the rest of their life captive to the misery and horrors of a difficult past; rather, they can begin today to embrace a happy and fruitful future.

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134

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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ISBN 13

9798890434234

Living With Cancer

A Few Things Your Friends Want You to Know

By: Dr. Gillian Dolansky Presner

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Living With Cancer

A Few Things Your Friends Want You to Know

By: Dr. Gillian Dolansky Presner

After happily achieving many of my personal and professional childhood dreams, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with terminal cancer while pregnant with my 3rd daughter at the age of 36. In this book I write about my lived experience since that time and give advice regarding how to engage with the people in your life with a cancer diagnosis.

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106

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FriesenPress

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ISBN 10

103917910X

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9781039179103

Legal Interpretation in International Commercial Arbitration

By: Dr Joanna Jemielniak

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Legal Interpretation in International Commercial Arbitration

By: Dr Joanna Jemielniak

This book fills a gap in legal academic study and practice in International Commercial Arbitration by offering an in-depth analysis on legal discourse and interpretation. Written by a specialist in international business law, arbitration and legal theory, it examines the discursive framework of arbitral proceedings, through an exploration of the unique status of arbitration as a legal and semiotic phenomenon. The book also includes comparative examinations of existing legal framework and case law which reflect the international nature of the subject.

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279

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409447197

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9781409447191

Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

By: Dr Linda Ioanna Kouvaras

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Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

By: Dr Linda Ioanna Kouvaras

The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage’s (‘silent’ piece) 4’33”. But much post-1970s musical endeavour with an experimentalist telos, collectively known as 'sound art', has displayed a postmodern need to ‘load’ modernism’s ‘degree zero’. After contextualizing experimentalism from its inception in the early twentieth century, Dr Linda Kouvaras’s Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate creatively how sound is embedded within local, national, gendered and historical environments. Taking Australian music as its primary - but not sole - focus, the book not only covers discussions of technological advancement, but also engages with aesthetic standpoints, through numerous interviews, theoretical developments, analysis and cultural milieux for a contemporary Australian, and wider postmodern, context. Developing new methodologies for synergies between musicology and cultural studies, the book uncovers a new post-postmodern aesthetic trajectory, which Kouvaras locates as developing over the past two decades - the altermodern. Australian sound art is here put firmly on the map of international debates about contemporary music, providing a standard reference and valuable resource for practitioners in the artform, music critics, scholars and educators.

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429

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472400356

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9781472400352

Travel and Transformation

By: Dr Emma Waterton,Dr Garth Lean,Dr Russell Staiff

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Travel and Transformation

By: Dr Emma Waterton,Dr Garth Lean,Dr Russell Staiff

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409467651

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9781409467656

Book's by Dr Garth Lean

The The Tragedies and Triumphs in an Alcoholic’s Family

The The Tragedies and Triumphs in an Alcoholic’s Family

Living With Cancer

Living With Cancer

Legal Interpretation in International Commercial Arbitration

Legal Interpretation in International Commercial Arbitration

Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

Travel and Transformation

Travel and Transformation

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