Country Commercial Guide: Thailand (Country Commercial Guides)

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Thailand's GDP totaled US$123 billion in 1999. Compared to some of their neighbors, Thai citizens enjoy a comparatively rich per capita income of US$2,370. In Thailand's largest city, Bangkok, residents enjoy a per capita income of US$6,000 and in this country of abundant food and natural resources, a level of purchasing power parity exceeding that of many countries with higher income levels. According to the World Bank, Thailand is expected to attain its pre-crisis level of output in 2002, and its pre-crisis level of welfare in 2003.

Thailand was the United States' 25 th largest export market in 1999 with US exports totaling more than US$4.9 billion. In the fourth quarter, American exports finally displayed a sustained rebound from the drop resulting from the economic crisis and year-on-year growth exceeded 30 percent in the first quarter of 2000. The U.S. is Thailand's single largest trading partner (ahead of Japan) with 1999 two-way trade of US$19 billion. The U.S. is Thailand's second largest foreign investor (following Japan) with a total accumulated direct investment of over US$15 billion, with half of U.S. investments in the energy and petrochemical industries.

Major investments in Thailand by American and third country firms continue to occur on a regular basis. Sectors with long-term planning horizons, e.g., energy, petrochemicals, automotive, continue to find Thailand an attractive location for investment. For example, General Motors opened a $600 million new vehicle assembly plant in mid-2000, joining Ford and other automotive manufacturers in Thailand, solidifying the country's reputation as the “Detroit of Southeast Asia”. Increasingly, companies investing in Thailand are those requiring skilled but cost-competitive labor. In addition, as Thailand slowly moves ahead with its near to medium term plans to privatize many state-owned enterprises, additional opportunities both for investment as well as sales of equipment should arise in important sectors such as energy, aviation and telecommunications.

In summary, most international companies recognize the long-term potential within Southeast Asia's regional markets. While the economic crisis of 1997-98 forced companies to re-formulate market development strategies, very few American firms decided to withdraw from Thailand. Thailand continues to provide a cost-effective regional manufacturing and distribution hub for the greater Mekong and ASEAN region and every month sees new investment in Thailand to serve the renewed growth in demand among the Southeast Asian economies. American firms hoping to sell into Thai markets can succeed by offering quality, reliability and value in Thailand's increasingly productivity-drive and price-conscious marketplace.

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Previous reviewer was too kind

Little practical advice

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Along with Difficult People
Brandon Toropov
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You're no idiot, of course. You know how to negotiate the best prices, mediate your kids' disputes, and even have your mother-in-law over for dinner now and again. But when it comes to dealing with truly difficult people, you feel like donning a suit of armor. Don't suit up yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Along with Difficult People provides you with everyting you need to know to build better relationships. Whether you want to negotiate a raise, ask for your lawnmower back, or take legal actions, this book will help you do it. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

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Previous reviewer was too kind.......2007-04-15

This book offers precious little in the way of practical advice when it comes to dealing with any kind of real situation whatsoever.

I wouldn't purchase this book at a bargain basement sale for 50 cents. Want to gain friends and influence people? Put some of Brandon Yusuf Toropov's non-existent helpful suggestions to the test and see how far you go.

Let's face it, this world has its fair share of difficult people. The fact that Brandon Yusuf Toropov thinks we should be paying for such trash suggests to me that he might be one of them.

Little practical advice.......2000-11-20

Although most entries in this series are usually rather dependable, this volume fails to offer truly workable solutions to encounters with difficult people. Anyone who has had to deal with difficult people will undoubtedly know that it is not an easy challenge, and that for the most part, a little common sense and a lot of patience are the best way to cope. Unfortunately, the solutions suggested in this book provide little more than that. Granted, it may be impossible in one volume to deal with the large variety of difficult personality types that we encounter every day.

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There is nothing trivial about food: the study of culinary culture and its history provides an insight into broad social, political and economic changes in society. The present collection of essays reflects many of the important transitions through which 40 European countries have passed, and in this sense, it is a history book. It is also a colourful celebration of an enormously rich part of our cultural heritage. The tastes and smells of a country¹s traditional table are a meaningful route to an important part of its collective memory, accessible to everyone. Food is also one of the simplest and most direct ways to promote multicultural understanding. This book offers an excellent insight into the meaning of food culture and will be of interest to anyone who wishes to explore the diversity of our European cultural heritage. Contents
Preface
Introduction - Food: identity and diversity by Fabio Parasecoli
Country essays--
Armenia: Insights into traditional food culture by Svetlana Haik Poghosyan
Austria: Contemporary art and the essence of eating by Rainer Metzger
Azerbaijan: A cuisine in harmony by Tahir I. Amiraslanov
Belgium: Endives, Brussels sprouts and other innovations by Marc Jacobs and Jean Fraikin
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The mouth is small but it can swallow a mountain by Nenad Tanovi´c
Bulgaria: Golden fruits from the orchards by Rayna Gavrilova
Croatia: From myth to authenticity by Veljko Barbieri
Cyprus: Culinary traditions throughout the year by Savvas Sakkadas
Denmark: Nation-building and cuisine by Else-Marie Boyhus
Estonia: Pleasures of the palate by Maire Suitsu
Finland : Continuity and change by Johanna Mäkelä
France: French gastronomy, French gastronomies by Jean-Pierre Poulain
Georgia: Foodways in rapid transition by Mary Ellen Chatwin and Zaal Kikodze
Germany: Sauerkraut, beer and so much more by Gunther Hirschfelder and Gesa U. Schönberger
Greece: A well-tempered culinary experience by Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou and Evie Voutsina
Hungary: The komatál: symbol of friendship and affection by Zsuzsanna Tátrai
Iceland: The creative fight for survival by Örn D. Jónsson
Ireland: Simplicity and integration, continuity and change by Regina Sexton
Italy : Food in Italian cinema by Viviana Lapertosa
Latvia: Old customs and contemporary habits by Ieva Pi-gozne-Brinkmane
Lithuania: Rituals and feasts by Birute. Imbrasiene.
Luxembourg: A gastronomic expedition by Georges Hausemer
Malta: Continuity in change by Kenneth Gambin
Moldova : Ritual breads through the seasons by Varvara Buzila? and Teodorina Bâzgu
Monaco: A rich culinary heritage by Françoise Gamerdinger and René Novella
Netherlands: Twenty-two minutes at the table by Bert Natter
Norway: Between innovation and tradition by Henry Notaker
Poland: Cuisine, culture and variety on the Wisla river by Kazimierz Krzysztofek
Portugal : A dialogue of cultures by Ana Pessoa e Costa
Romania: Discoveries and delights by the House of Guides and Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs
Russian Federation: Rediscovering classics, enjoying diversity by Alexandra Grigorieva
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Slovak Republic: The character of Slovak cuisine by Rastislava Stolic?ná
Slovenia: The festive table by Janez Bogataj
Spain: Agape and conviviality at the table by Diego Valverde Villena
Sweden: From crispbread to ciabatta by Richard Tellström
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: A new regime of nutrition by Dusan Matic
Turkey: The tastes of a splendid herita

Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity, and Dialogue.

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Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity, and Dialogue.
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Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity, and Dialogue.
Council of Europe Publishing
Manufacturer: Council of Europe Publishing. Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity, and Dialogue. Council of Europe, 2005. Quality paperback. 502pp. Very good, with torn title page.
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This book is Proper

This book is Proper

Capitalism brought to life in Technicolor.

More pizazz than a Johnson Red Book

Pricing and Hedging Swaps
Paul Miron , and Philip Swannell
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This book explains both the basic and advanced principles of pricing swaps and their hedge applications. Chapters describe pricing methods, swaps valuation, dealing with interest rate exposure, developing trading strategies and their application in portfolio management. Lucid clearly structured with extensive use of worked examples.

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a serious review.......2003-07-19

This book is indeed very well written and very thorough. It is aimed at people that are not super-league mathematicians, but the finance market participant who has the maths/physics superstar background won't find the presentation annoying. I am finding it especially useful in building curves for markets that I do not have first hand knowledge of.
The problem, of course, is the price. Out of stock at the moment, but when it is in, it costs [$$$]. This is completely outrageous for a book which has not been updated, and is entirely latex produced. In other words, the publishers would have got PHOTO READY print from the authors - no colour diagrams or anything. I think [$$$] would be a reasonable price for the publishers to mark it at. ...

This book is Proper.......2002-06-20

In all my years of experience, I have never encountered a more helpful book in understanding the financial derivatives. Having gone countless rounds with the market in the past, I can safely say that everyone can use something like this in his/her corner. Dodging blows, keeping loose and flexible and countering with devastating shots are all fundamental in success in this business and Mr. Miron comes through with a training program that is second to none. I think that it is interesting to note that the authors are not focused on just finance and have interests completely outside of banking. As a matter of fact, I have had the pleasure to Mr. Miron and have actually heard him play in a band years ago. I must say that the man plays a mean guitar.

This book is Proper.......2002-06-20

Capitalism brought to life in Technicolor........2001-10-17

Economic theory being a sort of hobby of mine, I couldn't help but notice this particular work. I have written a book myself of which I was quite proud, but this one just blew me out of my grave. I think that after reading this brilliantly written piece that I am completely turned around on the issue of economics. Perhaps flinging around finicncial derivatives is the way forward.

My only complaint is that the copy that I read was a photocopy. I find this distressing that there are so many photocopies of the work in circulation. As a distinguished writer myself, I, too, know the pains of not earning the residuals that are most deserved.

More pizazz than a Johnson Red Book.......2001-10-15

As a busy Central Banker, I have precious little time for truly entertaining reading. However, this book is a MUST for everyone involved in economic negotiations with Heads of State. It succintly and laboriously explains every aspect of the minutae of setting interest rate policies, issuing government debt and dealing with Presidents who can barely spell bond, let alone price a bermudan option on one. The only question I have is what is the Sterling thing that the authors go on about all the way through the book? Never heard of it.

Oh yeah, it also fits the annoying gap I have on the right hand nearside leg of my Central Banker-sized mahogany desk. Perrrrfect.

Now then.... back to annoying all those stoopid investment bankers.

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PRICING AND HEDGING SWAPS
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Very good book clear and well reasoned.

Excellent Book for Ambitious Entrepreneurs

Strategic Partnerships: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Joint Ventures and Alliances
Robert Wallace
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Build long-term success though mutually beneficial relationships with larger business entities.

An estimated 20,000 corporate alliances have been formed worldwide over the past two years. Such strategic alliances can provide business owners with long-term security, new revenue channels, and, often, the anchor needed to maintain stability in otherwise turbulent waters.

A successful joint venture can open the door to a world of future partnership opportunities, says renowned entrepreneur Robert Wallace. In Strategic Partnerships: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Joint Ventures andAlliances, he outlines a framework business owners can use to conceive, develop, and execute such relationships between themselves and larger organizations. Based on the author's 20 years of field research, readers will learn how to:

* Evaluate the suitability of a potential joint venture partner.

* Establish relationship boundaries to define how partnering companies can work together through processes and complications.

* Keep relationships fun, exciting, and profitable.

* Properly and legally bring joint venture arrangements to a close.

Most chapters conclude with a case study of a business illustrating the chapter topic, along with an interview with an executive from a major corporation. The stories and interviews give readers real-life takeaways that they can relate and apply to their own situations, providing them with a specific tool to move forward in their development.

Robert Wallace is a longtime entrepreneur sought after for his expertise in engineering, telecommunications, systems development, business development, intrapreneurship, and entrepreneurship. He is the founder and chairman of a minority-owned IT consulting firm, and of a Web portal fostering the development of minority and women entrepreneurs. In 2000, Wallace was selected as the only small business member of the GE Center for Financial Learning Advisory Board.

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Very good book clear and well reasoned. .......2007-03-31

From the first I found the book to be filled with good information. Most business books put me to sleep, but this one kept me turning pages, a nice change. Why the change? because it offered great insight and ideas that get my creative mind flowing and showed me what great ventures are easily with in my reach.

Don't get me wrong, I've done my share of host beneficiaries and joint venture deals in the past, but I have never thought them though as the author suggests and outlines. The anthers JV outline is really a great way to work your way though the process from deciding on a partner to the final ending of the deal. All in all a great resource.

My suggestion is that if you have been thinking about getting a few deals going but are waiting to learn more, then wait no more. This book will put you on a solid footing to really go for it. And if you have done deals in the past and are wondering how to get better at the art then again this book is a great resource even for those with some kills under their belt.

On a bottom line note, for me business book boils down to this: Did the book help me to make money? So far it has not but I have only had it a few days. But the points are so clear and understandable that I'm going to look up past Host Ben partners and JV partners just to see if we can get the ball rolling again but this time even better and with even more profit. So yes I can easily predict that this book will help me make more money and profit in my business.

With that stated this book is all in all one of the best real world business books I've read in a while. It is a business builder and asset.

One last comment. The book is written with minorities in mind. Don't let that fool you even if you are Joe Average Every Man. The information will work for any business and any person.

Excellent Book for Ambitious Entrepreneurs.......2005-02-26

This is the best, most relevant book on building strategic alliances for ambitious woman- and minority-owned entrepreneurial companies that I have seen. It is an outstanding resource, being both very specific and highly useful. I have a small, young woman-owned business. Using the books' guidelines, I am currently in the process of developing a relationship with a very large national company and we are both excited about the opportunities to build success together.

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While the UK tax system becomes ever more complicated and textbooks reflect this trend, Taxation: Policy & Practice, 2002 edition, maintains its clarity and brevity. Student-friendly and informative, this textbook is based on a structured, conceptual framework. Updated annually to ensure an accurate reflection of the current tax climate, it avoids unnecessary and confusing detail to provide an ideal introduction to UK taxation, fiscal policy and decision making. Taxation: Policy and Practice offers basic coverage of current tax law and provides an excellent aid to an introductory taxation course. Written in an accessible style with examples, activities and questions throughout, this textbook gives students a thorough understanding of taxation principles and practice. The companion Website provides additional questions and answers, links to other tax materials available online and information on tax developments as they occur throughout the year.

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Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin epitomized the spirit of love, service, and honesty that today are the hallmarks of Alcoholics Anonymous. As a hospital admissions officer in the 1930s in Akron, Ohio, Sr. Ignatia befriended Dr. Bob Smith, co-founder of AA, and courageously arranged for the hospitalization of alcoholics at a time when alcoholism was viewed as a character weakness rather than a disease.

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Nun Steps Up To The Bar.......2007-05-13

This is a great history of the beginnings of A.A. and of the struggles of Dr. Bob to find a credible medical facility to help in the physical and spiritual recovery of alcoholics. Sr. Ignatia is one more non-alcoholic, like Dr. Silkworth and Fr. Ed Dowling, who serve at a pivotal point in the A.A. story. The author helps us see in Sr. Ignatia's own spiritual and personal biography how uniquely prepared and how providentially generous she was to be able to facilitate Dr. Bob's and A.A.'s program at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio. I was intrigued with the seriousness that Sr. Ignatia, the doctors at St. Thomas and the Sisters of Charity in recognizing and attending to the underlying spiritual dimension of alcoholism. They were not the only ones to do this, as the book relates, but they helped bridge the moral/clinical gap that so many professionals and others, then as today, refuse(d) to accept.
I found Sr. Ignatia's life journey very instructive. She was a very diligent teacher of music, professional, and in a sense driven. She had her Waterloo experience in a near nervous breakdown. The doctor asked her if she wanted to be a dead music teacher or a live nun? Thence, began her service as Admissions Director at St. Thomas. She had learned first hand that living life involved ups and downs and that a "mysterious-to-us-at-times" Providence, Power Greater Than Ourselves, God would lead when we were ready to surrender. Living in that awareness allows one to take risks for the good. The story of Sr. Ignatia, Dr. Bob and early A.A. in Akron and Cleveland is a story of risk and fulfillment.

The Mary Darrah Contribution to A.A. History Presentation.......2007-01-03

For eighteen years now, I have been researching, analyzing, and pulling together all of the wellsprings of A.A. My area of focus and such expertise as I have concerns the original A.A. program in Akron which derived primarily from the United Christian Endeavor Movement of Dr. Bob's youth in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The Akron program was summarized by Frank Amos in his report to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1938; and its ingredients are a dead ringer for the techniques of the Salvation Army, the Rescue Missions, the principles and practices of Christian Endeavor, and several of the Oxford Group life-changing ideas. But early Akron A.A. was a unit unto itself. On the East Coast, Bill Wilson was formulating his ideas for recovery from the conversion thesis of Dr. Carl Jung, his own conversion at the altar at Calvary Rescue Mission, Ebby Thacher's prior conversion there, and Bill's study of the monumental coverage of such conversion experiences by Professor William James. There is much more, and it is discussed in my latest title The Conversion of Bill W. And later, after the Akron program had earned its spurs as a Christian Fellowship, Wilson was commissioned to write a text which was supposed to describe the original program and flesh it out with testimonials by those who participated. Instead, Bill drew on all the sources in the East, plus some newcomer ideas from Richard Peabody, Sam Shoemaker, Dr. Silkworth, and New Thought writers. Out of this came the Big Book, published in 1939, and very much based on the teachings of Rev. Sam Shoemaker of Calvary Episcopal Church. But Bill left out the rich Akron roots including the Bible, Quiet Time, Anne Smith's teaching and her journal, the Book of James, the Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13, and the devotionals like the Upper Room, the books AAs studied such as Drummond's The Greatest Thing in the World, plus what Bill was later to call the "doctrines and dogma" of the missions. The end results of the Wilson pen were a Big Book and Twelve Steps which neither resembled the Akron program nor the conversion picture painted so clearly for Bill by Jung, Hazard, Thacher, Silkworth, James, and even Shoemaker. Because of this jumble, I have spent most of my research time and 31 published titles covering the materials that were left out, are virtually unknown today, and yet produced the astonishing 75% success rate in Akron and the 93% rate in Cleveland.
Meanwhile, author Mary Darrah had been working up her materials on Sister Ignatia of St. Thomas Hospital in Akron. For me, the material seemed at first to be irrelevant to my work on the earliest A.A. But, from the beginning, I noticed the very important pieces of Akron history that Darrah had unearthed and placed in the Ignatia book. I appreciate them even more today. These included: (1) Specific mention of Anne Smith's Journal and its relevance to the Twelve Steps later penned by Wilson. (2) Her delightful phrase that Anne Smith served God and Scripture daily to those who supped at the Smith home each morning. (3) Her highlighting of the close relationship between Ignatia and Dr. Bob's wife Anne. (4) Her providing Ignatia's materials on hospitalization and recovery. While Darrah's history pertained to the period which began after the Big Book was published in 1939 (though Mary tries to make it otherwise), she seemed to grasp the importance of the all-but-forgotten history of Akron A.A. itself. She overrates Ignatia's part in the "founding," but she brings to light one of the major factors that branched forward in Akron during Bill's twelve or so years of major depression. For, in post-big book days, while Bill was suffering from immobilizing depression, it was the work of Clarence Snyder in Cleveland, Dr. Bob and Anne and Ignatia in Akron, Richmond Walker's writings, Father Pfau's writings, Ed Webster's writings, and the materials from local groups that changed the face of A.A. yet allowed it continued growth. By all accounts, Ignatia's contributions in this period were enormous. And I believe that if one looks at the very unusual AA of Akron pamphlets that were written by Evan W., commissioned by Dr. Bob, and circulated from the 1940's to this day, you can see that there was a hearty ember of Bible, Christianity, and devotional practices that was fanned and kept glowing during New York's dark years. And if you look at the original Akron program (1935-1938), the sources of that program, the surviving details as outlined in DR. BOB and The Good Oldtimers, the program at St. Thomas Hospital as spelled out by Darrah, and the Akron pamphlets, you can see a deeply religious foundation in the A.A. program which no one seemed to understand any better than Sister Ignatia. My recommendation? Look at A.A. from a chronological standpoint--not the tired and erroneous timelines still being circulated. Look at the Akron beginnings in Vermont and the program that emerged and produced the pioneer 40 in Akron and their cures. Look then at the beginnings in the East Coast and the original emphasis by Bill on conversion--sparked probably by his own grandfather Willie's conversion and healing of alcoholism. Then look at the Big Book program and Twelve Steps that Bill fashioned in 1938 and 1939 largely from the Oxford Group teachings of Rev. Sam Shoemaker. At that point, you have three major legs of our history. Then came Bill's long devastating depression, the new ideas and writings that sprang into being, coupled with Clarence Snyder's consistent championing of the Big Book, the Steps, the Bible, and the Four Absolutes and Ignatia's priceless work with beginners that did not diminish or detract from the Christian principles and Bible roots and did produce worthy results. The Darrah book is very valuable if one wishes to see the biography of A.A. from 1934 through 1955 when major and substantially different changes were placed in cement with A.A. Comes of Age, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and the St. Louis Convention. Good for Mary. See a summary of the foregoing picture, including Darrah's findings, Ignatia's role, the St. Thomas story, and the important Akron picture in the 1940's in my title Real Twelve Step Fellowship History. Dick B.

Great Topic, Poor Writing.......2005-06-27

Mary Darrah deserves credit for tackling the biography of a tremendously overlooked personality from AA's past. The story of the little Nun is covered in detail. Darrah does a good job of getting the facts down.

However, this book suffers from stilted language and poor organization. The narrative conveys no passion or excitment, something I'm sure the writer must have possesed in order to cover such an obscure figure as Sister Ignatia. The chapters are not organizaed well and do not flow evenly into each other.
IT almost has the feel of one of those bad textbooks you had in high school.

However, it's still worth laying out the money for this book if you're desiring a better understanding of AA history.

An excellent historical document for all to read.......1999-08-21

Mary Darrah's book on Sr. Ignatia is an excellent historical document for all to read whether or not they are in recovery from alcohol or other drugs. This book is an accurate historical account of both the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous as well as the life of a compassionate yet tough woman.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in the truth about AA history. It is interesting, informative and enlightening.

Mitchell K. (Author of HOW IT WORKED, The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio)

This book was key to my understanding of how AA works........1998-11-23

In the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous, the recovery rate was about seventy five per cent. Today, the recovery rate is less than one per cent. In the early days of AA, 1935 to 1945, the founders of AA (Bill Wilson, Dr. Bob Smith and Sister Ignatia) operated under the concept that alcoholism was the indication of a spiritual illness. You first took away the alcohol, let the patient go through the withdrawal, and then they trained the alcoholic to be a spiritual person, both by learning to pray, (any religion would do) and then to pass your victory on to other suffering alcoholics. As AA grew, it began to be accepted in government run hospitals. And anything to do with the government has to have nothing to do with religion. So they began to treat alcoholics with psychiatry and downplayed the religious angle, hence the much lower recovery rate. Groups that use religion to treat alcoholics, like Teen Challenge, have an 80% recovery rate. When Sister Ignatia was helping to steer the recovery boat, along with Bill Wilson, Dr. Bob and the assent to Grace, recovery from alcoholism was possible for the first time on this planet. The other influence working against AA's religious methods was the birth, in the late 50's, of political correctness which fears surrender to religion (of ALL kinds) Reading this book about Sr. Ignatia has strenghthened my spirituality in AA. I just celebrated fourteen years sober.

SISTER IGNATIA : Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous

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SISTER IGNATIA : Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous
Mary C. Darrah
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Mary C. Darrah
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Mary C. Darrah
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