A terrific take on theatre singing by a master teacher. David Craig knows more about singing in the musical theatre than anyone in this country - which probably means the world. Time and time again his advice and training have resulted in actors moving from non-musical theatre into musicals with ease and expertise. SHORT OF TAKING CLASSES, THIS BOOK IS A MUST. - Harold Prince

On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie The Day After premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear attack with vivid scenes of the post-apocalyptic hellscape that would follow. The film was viewed by over 100 million Americans and remains the highest rated TV movie in history. After the premiere, ABC News aired an episode of Viewpoint, a live special featuring some of the most prominent public intellectuals of the debating the virtues of the Arms Race and the prospect of a winnable nuclear war. The response to the film proved more powerful than perhaps any film or television program in the history of media. Aside from its record-shattering Nielsen ratings, it enjoyed critical acclaim as well as international box office success in theatrical screenings.

The path to primetime for The Day After proved nearly as treacherous as the film's narrative. Battles ensued behind the scenes at the network, between the network and the filmmakers, with Broadcast Standards and Ad Sales, in the edit room and on the set, including the nuke-mares experienced by the cast. After the director was pushed aside, he contemplated suicide while also engineering a comeback through the press. But these skirmishes pale in comparison to the culture wars triggered by the film in the press, alongside a growing Nuclear Freeze movement, and from a united, pro-nuclear Right. Once efforts to alter the script failed, the White House conducted a full-throttled propaganda campaign to hijack the film's message.

Apocalypse Television features a dramatic insider's account of the making of and backlash against The Day After. No other book has told this story in similar fashion, venturing behind-the-scenes of the programming and news divisions at ABC, Reagan officials in the White House who mounted the propaganda campaign, rogue publicists who hijacked the film to promote a Nuclear Freeze, the backlash from the conservative movement and Religious Right, the challenges encountered by film's production team from conception to reception, and the experiences of the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, where the film was set and shot, if also, ground zero in America's nuclear heartland.

Skulking in the caves along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the world's most wanted terrorist passes his days playing Monopoly, watching The Simpsons and Sex in the City, safeguarding his tub of yoghurt from a thieving comrade, phoning Mummy in Saudi Arabia, planning his Memorial Library, and fantasizing about having a passionate affair with either Laura Bush (with whom he is totally besotted), Cherie Blair or, should all else fail, the wife of his best friend.

Bin Laden also has to cope with the stress of being hunted by US Special Forces, preventing his deputy from taking over as leader of al-Qaeda, fearing that he looks Jewish, and filming new video releases for his enemies. When he's not popping Valium, he spends time wondering if his arch enemy in the White House is as stupid as he seems-and deciding that he is.

This book-a fascinating mix of fact and fiction-shows bin Laden obsessing about internet pornography (using such sites to send encrypted messages), watching the Athens Olympics (which he doesn't bomb because he's desperate to see Ian Thorpe and the synchronized swimming), and even dreaming of one day eating at the Carnegie Deli and shopping at Neiman-Marcus.

This is a book of joy, an Easter of jubilation. Holiness infuses these poems: holy flights of imagination, holy laughter, holy living in the everyday, and holy resurrection hope. Even the punishing season of winter is 'a glass of chilled champagne.' And angels everywhere-materializing to sing a Bach mass in the middle of the night on an empty street, or maybe dropping in for a summer swim. The energy, the down-to-earth reverence-is all of a piece, creating an abundance of blessings for any reader fortunate enough to step inside the world David Craig writes and lives.-JILL PELÁEZ BAUMGAERTNER, Poetry Editor, Christian Century

With his immediately recognizable voice-wry but reverent-and uncommonly deft prosodic skill, David Craig's new poems serve to resurrect the beauty of formal structures bearing uncontainable and exultant spirit into view.-SCOTT CAIRNS, author of Slow Pilgrim and Anaphora

David Craig's infectious new collection Easter celebrates the being and becoming of the 'unlikely people' with whom 'God hangs out' (oh, may we be among them!). It is impossible not to revel in its joyful faith. The collection brims with verses that merit meditation ('Jesus waits to realize Himself in the flesh of this world./It was what He was born for') as well as countless expressions of sheer happiness derived from a life that is 'changing imperceptibly toward the good.' Craig's gift is to gather the fruit and the fracas of our dailiness and raise them in oblation, without attempting to conceal our rough edges, which are God's to smooth. Easter is poetry to carry with us, from laughter to prayer, from trial to praise.-SOFIA M. STARNES, Virginia Poet Laureate, Emerita

After Mary, St. Francis is clearly the most popular and influential of all the disciples of Jesus Christ. He embodies the spiritual poverty, humility, and childlikeness which are absolutely essential for anyone who wants to grow. And it is fitting, too, to examine his life in poetry, since Francis is considered by many to be the father of Italian poetry. In these St. Francis Poems, David Craig gives us what literature should: slices of Henry James's lived life as they move past sentimentality to get to the hard-edged, visceral realities in the original texts--though they never lose sight of laughter or of simple joy. These poems invite us to celebrate with Lady Poverty around her meager table, which is fitting, since that is the only place we will ever be fed. This project itself revisits the haunts of David Craig's first book, The Sandaled Foot (1980). But here St. Francis seems to come even more deeply alive--next to shelves of cool, protected water, in the red meadows of praise.

It's a mistake to insist on an upper middle-class gospel. Orthodox Catholic universities can fall into this trap, as any privileged person can. What matters is spiritual poverty. This is what we are called to, to take the lowest part--always. After all, the only sins we can really know are our own. These poems are an attempt to foreground that problem, that solution. May they give Jesus glory, whatever their success.

It doesn't take mind reading superpowers to be able to tell when someone is lying--but it does take special skills and a little practice. In Detect Deceit, David Craig, an international expert in undercover operations, provides readers with an easy-to-follow guide on applying lie detection skills to your everyday life. From bargaining, making a purchase, or dealing with children, to the more serious issues of negotiating a contract or identifying infidelity, Craig delivers simple but effective tips and techniques we can all use to see behind the fa ade and get to the truth.
Split into three parts, the book looks at the nature of lying and how to detect lies, and includes an easy reference section that summarizes all the main points. Lying is a normal part of human communication and sometimes is necessary to protect someone's feelings, but there are also hurtful lies meant to deceive. You can't always rely on what comes out of someone's mouth. With fullcolor photographs and practical examples, Detect Deceit provides anyone with the tools to be a human lie detector. The mystery of what a person is really thinking is finally unlocked in this fascinating and informative book.

It is no secret that the impact of painful events upon a life can change everything - priorities, relationships, attitudes, behaviors - at least for a while. But after the pain is gone, the debris is cleared away, and the fear has subsided, human beings inevitably attempt to renegotiate the desperation-based promises made to God in exchange for his divine intervention. Why does it take a potentially deadly illness or catastrophic event to get our attention? Why do we tend to disregard God's plan to use such circumstances to teach us valuable lessons? Why do we invariably forget the lessons, ignore the lessons, or simply fail to apply them to subsequent life experiences? IT'S OKAY TO FAIL THE TEST is the true story of one man's struggle to learn the many lessons God is trying to teach him without having to take the test again and again. After ten years of managing the threat of death by cancer this preacher's kid from Oregon ultimately recognizes that God will use whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to get and keep his attention. Twenty-five years after deserting his faith, abandoning his call to ministry, forsaking his relationship with God, and slumbering under the spell of self-sufficiency, the author is rudely awakened by the discovery of a large cancerous tumor growing in his throat. His unwillingness to believe that the doctor always knows best just because he's the doctor produces the startling revelation that what is often called a terminal illness can, in reality, be a chronic disease. The discovery of the tumor also leads him to a re-examination of his relationship with God and the series of promises he made in exchange for his life. His quest to learn why the cancer returns on multiple occasions after obvious miracle healing produces an understanding that God does not always provide answers to our questions or an explanation for our circumstances. That God does indeed chasten those he loves. And that God most often wants us to trust him simply because he asks us to.

Lying is a normal part of human communication and is sometimes necessary to protect someone's feelings, but there are also malicious lies meant to deceive, cheat, and defraud. You can't always rely on what comes out of someone's mouth. It doesn't take mind reading superpowers to be able to tell when someone is lying--but it does take special skills and a little practice.

In Lie Detecting 101, international expert in undercover operations Dr. David Craig provides readers with an easy-to-follow guide on applying lie-detection skills to your everyday life. From the simple skills of bargaining, making a purchase, or dealing with children, to the more serious business of negotiating a contract or identifying infidelity, Craig delivers simple but effective tips and techniques we can all use to see behind the fa ade and get to the truth.

Lie Detecting 101 is the culmination of over twenty years of practical criminology and hundreds of hours of academic research. Split into three parts, the book looks at understanding lies and how to detect lies, and includes an easy reference section that summarizes all the main points. With full-color photographs and practical examples, Lie Detecting 101 provides anyone with the tools to be a human lie detector. The mystery of what a person is really thinking is finally unlocked in this fascinating and informative book.

One of the first medical ethnographies to be written on contemporary Vietnam, Familiar Medicine examines the practical ways in which people of the Red River Delta make sense of their bodies, illness, and medicine. Traditional knowledge and practices have persisted but are now expressed through and alongside global medical knowledge and commodities. Western medicine has been eagerly adopted and incorporated into everyday life in Vietnam, but not entirely on its own terms.

Familiar Medicine takes a conjectural, interdisciplinary approach to its subject, weaving together history, ethnography, cultural geography, and survey materials to provide a rich and readable account of local practices in the context of an increasingly globalized world and growing microbial resistance to antibiotics. Theoretically, it draws on current critical and cultural theory (in particular applying Pierre Bourdieu's work on habitus and practical logics) in innovative but approachable ways.

David Craig addresses a range of contemporary fascinations in medical anthropology and the sociology of health and illness: from the trafficking of medical commodities and ideas under globalization to the hybridization of local cultural formations, knowledge, and practices. His book will be required reading for international workers in health and development in Vietnam and a rich resource for courses in cultural geography, anthropology, medical sociology, regional studies, and public and international health.

After Mary, St. Francis is clearly the most popular and influential of all the disciples of Jesus Christ. He embodies the spiritual poverty, humility, and childlikeness which are absolutely essential for anyone who wants to grow. And it is fitting, too, to examine his life in poetry, since Francis is considered by many to be the father of Italian poetry. In these St. Francis Poems, David Craig gives us what literature should: slices of Henry James's lived life as they move past sentimentality to get to the hard-edged, visceral realities in the original texts--though they never lose sight of laughter or of simple joy. These poems invite us to celebrate with Lady Poverty around her meager table, which is fitting, since that is the only place we will ever be fed. This project itself revisits the haunts of David Craig's first book, The Sandaled Foot (1980). But here St. Francis seems to come even more deeply alive--next to shelves of cool, protected water, in the red meadows of praise.

There are over 195,289 registered charities in the UK spending about 80 billion of our money a year. Charities claim that almost ninety pence in every pound we give is spent on 'charitable activities'. But with many of our best-known charities, the real figure is less than fifty pence in every pound. But does Britain really need so many charities? And do our charities spend enough of our money on good causes? The Great Charity Scandal exposes the truth about Britain's massive charity industry and recommends how we need to change things so more of our money goes where we expect.

Forged in the secretive world of covert operations, Unlocking Secrets uses real crime and practical examples to reveal the new frontier in interpersonal communications: advanced psychological skills. Thanks to this book, these skills can now be used by anyone who wants to improve their interpersonal and communication repertoire.
In Unlocking Secrets, David Craig has simplified the psychological methods used so effectively by criminal investigators and covert operatives to persuade others to reveal their secrets. He shows how these skills can be easily applied to benefit in everyday professional and personal situations.
These secret-revealing techniques subtly influence people to share hidden information, and may assist people working with patients, clients, children, or friends who carry a difficult and burdensome secret. They can also be used to improve business knowledge, as well as to initiate and enrich personal relationships. Unlocking Secrets will arm people with the latest interpersonal skills to enrich their personal life and advance professional careers.

Lying is a normal part of human communication and is sometimes necessary to protect someone's feelings. At the same time, there are also malicious lies meant to deceive, cheat, and defraud. Especially in today's world, in which technology, media, and the government have blurred the lines between fact and fiction, you can't always rely on what comes out of someone's mouth or what you see on the internet or television. It doesn't take mind-reading superpowers to be able to tell when someone is lying--but it does take special skills and a little practice.

In How to Become a Human Shit Detector, international expert in undercover operations Dr. David Craig provides readers with an easy-to-follow guide on applying lie-detection skills to your everyday life. From the simple skills of bargaining, making a purchase, or dealing with children, to the more serious business of negotiating a contract, identifying infidelity, or understanding lies in politics, Craig delivers simple but effective tips and techniques we can all use to see behind the fa ade and find our way to the truth.

The culmination of more than twenty years of practical criminology and hundreds of hours of academic research, this book is the premier guide to the art of lie-detecting. Split into three parts, the book looks at understanding lies and how to detect lies, and it includes an easy reference section that summarizes all the main points. The mystery of what a person is really thinking is finally unlocked in this fascinating and informative book.

The Holy Spirit takes the things of Christ and makes them real to us. In this book, Dr. David Craig teaches us the importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in a supernatural language to God. Dr. Craig lives from total dependence on God and the practice of biblical principles in everyday life. He is honest, bold, unashamed, and sold out for the great purposes of the King of all kings. Read, enjoy, and learn more about walking with God This book is a welcome, joyous, and positive side of walking in the supernatural Even the satanic forces working in this world know the power of speaking in tongues. Shouldn't you? Read this book and arm yourselves for the days we live in

Jesus is God, and we as necessarily devotional Christian poets must not shy away from that fact. These poems try to celebrate that reality, who He is, without sacrificing literary quality. They are distinctly American (baseball, jazz, and free verse) in form, Beat in the line of Mary Fabilli, Thomas Merton, and Daniel stick it to the man Berrigan. And they try to accomplish this without sacrificing humor and romp. May these, and all Christian poems, both now and in the future, wave that flag of freedom--no matter what our personal struggles. Our lives, our poems are about Jesus finally, the One who is mercy itself. May He look kindly upon us, and give us His peace.

God desires to lead us into all truth and show us things to come. In My Supernatural Life Dr. David Craig records life events and shares some significant dreams and visions. His desire is to encourage you to consider your own dreams and visions and their supernatural impact. Dr. Craig's words are transparent and personal. He includes pertinent scripture for both the spiritual purpose and benefit of understanding and obeying your dreams and visions. Enjoy Dr. Craig's story and get ready for God to bring to your remembrance earlier dreams and visions preparing you for the moment at hand

Active Shooter Prevention and Response. It's a complex topic involving location Security Surveys and reports with options to consider. Training and drills for Law Enforcement and civilians and mental preparation for attacks that can occur virtually anywhere people gather. A comprehensive study of this disturbing and deadly phenomenon can easily encompass 100's of hours of classes, reading and on location services. Few of us have the time or inclination to invest in that level of training. Authored by a Crime Prevention Specialist this booklet is designed to be read in under an hour and encompasses highlights from training that I believe will offer a good grounding in Active Shooter knowledge that when taken into account will make you safer and more secure. I strongly encourage you read the entire contents as the ideas and information imparted will help you better prepare to avoid and/or mitigate the effects of an Active Shooter attack. About the Author: David is a crime prevention specialist with over 1000 hours of training, much of which is related to active shooter concepts. He performs security surveys at businesses, government institutions and private homes with the goal of improving overall target hardening and personal safety. He also instructs civilian classes on situational awareness and a survival mindset. Thousands have attended his seminars. Knowledge affords power to act in ways that will enhance your tactical readiness. Thank you for the trust and confidence you show by investing your time to learning how you may better avoid or survive a real life active shooter situation.