Patrick O'Neil

James Brown

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.

How Stories Can Save Our Lives

Writing Your Way to Recovery

On the Road with Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Flipper, Subhumans And... Heroin

Anarchy at the Circle K

Steve Heller

Wendy C. Ortiz

Yuvi Zalkow

Daniel José Older

Susan Southard

Elizabeth Earley

Andromeda Romano-Lax

Bernadette Murphy

Laraine Herring

Jillian Lauren

Naomi Benaron

Joan Dempsey

Tara Ison

Noriko Nakada

Alistair McCartney

Gayle Brandeis

Michael Passafiume

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

Dawna Kemper

Wendy Hudson

Rochelle Newman

Gordon Lee Johnson

F. Douglas Brown

Anna Scotti

Antoinette Brim

Jose Hernandez Diaz

Valentina Gnup

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Steve De Jarnatt

Lauren Schmidt

Topper Lilien

Lisbeth Andriessen

Deborah Bauer

Antonia Crane

Tammy Delatorre

Jacqueline Heinze

LaToya Jordan

Hazel Kight Witham

David Bumpus

Raymond Gaston

Katelyn Keating

Lise Quintana

Arielle Silver

Wendy Dutwin

Seth Fischer

Michael Leal García

Khadija Anderson

Angela Brommel

M. L. Brown

Joe Jiménez

Tanya Ko Hong

Shelly Krehbiel

Gina Loring

Allie Marini

Maiana Minahal

Jim Natal

Daniel G. Reinhold

Chrys Tobey

Reyan Grande

2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. We commemorated this occasion with a special edition of our journal. Lunch Ticket Special: Celebrating 20 Years of Antioch¿s MFA in Creative Writing features new and previously published works by Antioch MFA alumni.

Celebrating 20 Years of Antioch's MFA in Creative Writing

Lunch Ticket Special

Sam S. Lightstone

Toby J. Teorey

Jan L. Harrington

Jim Melton

Stephen Buxton

Graham Witt

Ralf Hartmut Güting

Markus Schneider

Graeme Simsion

Thomas P. Nadeau

Tony Morgan

W.H. Inmon

Bonnie O'Neil

Lowell Fryman

Terry Halpin

Elizabeth 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. Chapters contributed by various recognized experts in the field let the reader remain up to date and fully informed from multiple viewpoints. Details multiple relational models and modeling languages, enhancing the reader’s technical expertise and familiarity with design-related requirements specification. Coverage of both theory and practice brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases.

Database Design: Know It All

Before his life went totally off the rails, Patrick O'Neil was living the punk rock dream, working at San Francisco's legendary Mabuhay Gardens, going on to become a roadie and then the road manager for such seminal bands as Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Subhumans, and T.S.O.L. But that was before his heroin addiction veered totally out of control. A junkie for eighteen years, O'Neil, the educated son of intellectuals, eventually turned to a life of crime, ending up the ringleader of a group of armed bank robbers, all in an increasingly out-of-control attempt to keep himself and his girlfriend in drugs. Now, after a stint in San Quentin and fourteen years sober, O'Neil takes a look back at the experiences--moving, calamitous, and at times both hilarious and terrifying--that led to his downfall and recovery. Told in sparse prose and graphic detail, Gun, Needle, Spoon examines the long road to redemption and the obstacles along the way, demystifying the "criminal life" so often depicted in film and fiction but seldom written about from the first-hand viewpoint of those who have lived it.

Gun, Needle, Spoon

How much freedom does a man need? Three times during his twenties Patrick O'Neil threw in a desk job, ended relationships and flung himself at the world. With the words of his literary heroes ringing in his ears, he set off determined to pursue adventure and a grander, more romantic vision of life. It wasn't long before O'Neil was tumbling in and out of absurd predicaments and genuine danger. His sometimes foolhardy quest for raw experience found him in the clutches of lawless military cops in Rio, staring down armed Jamaican gangstas, and hiding from murderous cowboys in a lonely Mexican outpost - or was that last encounter just a figment of his peyote-fired imagination? Despite frequent peril on the road - not least in New York, where he came between an obsessive-compulsive housemate and his paper towels - O'Neil found like minds, inspiration and enlightenment. Tripping from the Sahara Desert to the Amazonian jungle, Sidewaysreveals that the way forward isn't always straight ahead.

Sideways

Database: Principles Programming Performance provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of database systems. This book focuses on database programming and the relationships between principles, programming, and performance. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of database design principles and presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts used by a DBA. This text then provides grounding in many abstract concepts of the relational model. Other chapters introduce SQL, describing its capabilities and covering the statements and functions of the programming language. This book provides as well an introduction to Embedded SQL and Dynamic SQL that is sufficiently detailed to enable students to immediately start writing database programs. The final chapter deals with some of the motivations for database systems spanning multiple CPUs, including client-server and distributed transactions. This book is a valuable resource for database administrators, application programmers, specialist users, and end users.

Principles Programming Performance

Database

Patrick O'Neil

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