Michael Ray Richardson was a star in the making. After a stellar collegiate career at the University of Montana, where he was voted first team All-Big Sky Conference as a sophomore, junior, and senior, the future seemed bright. Taken fourth overall in the 1978 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks, Richardson was billed as “the next Walt Frazier.”In just his second professional season, he became the third player in NBA history to lead the league in both assists and steals—both Knicks te...

What happens when a sanctuary city becomes a target?In 2025, under federal directive, ICE launched the most aggressive immigration crackdown in modern American history-right in the heart of Los Angeles. Families vanished overnight. Children were left behind. And private detention centers filled faster than courtrooms could process cases.Sanctuary Under Siege: Resistance, and the Real War on Immigrants is the definitive tell-all account of this mome...

This book explores many essential topics in a basic and easy-to-understand manner. This book, and the accompanying Electronic Devices and Circuit Fundamentals, have been modified with significant updates in content. The books are developed using a classic textbook – Electricity and Electronics: A Survey (5th Edition) – as a framework. Both new books have been structured using a similar sequence and organization as previous editions. The previous edition of Electricity and Electronics: A Su...

Book Description - The Surrogate's LieAuthor: Kelly R. RichardsonGenre: Psychological Thriller / Urban Crime Drama / Motherhood SuspenseTone: Dark, intense, character-driven with high emotional and psychological stakesShe thought carrying their child would give her a fresh start. She was dead wrong.Twenty-four-year-old Brooke Camden is broke, desperate, an...

Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac CTA is a concise visual guide to the imaging of congenital heart disease in infants and children. The book focuses on the utilization of cardiac CTA imaging for pediatric patients as distinct from adult patients, with an emphasis on techniques for retrospective and prospective scanning, reduction of the radiation dose, and CT data processing and analysis. It also describes cardiac CTA evaluation search patterns to assess the complex anatomy in congenital...

This atlas is a concise visual guide to the imaging of acquired heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. Imaging plays an ever-increasing vital role in diagnosis, preoperative planning, and postoperative management for children with these disorders. The book reviews techniques for lowering radiation, discusses protocols for imaging in children, and provides recommendations for the most appropriate studies that decrease the time and cost of imaging these patients. Focusing on fu...

While most current texts on the coronary artery include only a single chapter on anomalies, this is the first of its kind to focus on the challenges involved with imaging coronary artery anomalies in infants. Since the appearance of coronary artery anomalies is dramatically different in infants with commonly associated congenital heart disease, unique techniques and careful timing are required for imaging these 1-2 mm blood vessels. Additionally, many coronary anomalies are not commonly se...

The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game’s greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly too, with the draft lottery, shoe commercials, and a style driven largely by excess.One player who personified the eighties excess is Micheal Ray Richardson. During his eight-year career in...

Finally presented to the Allinan public, Maray’s life at court soon becomes dictated by traditions and duties. Wearing the face of the iconic queen, she is too easily recognized, and as a princess, the entire Allinan court is watching her every move.When even with Rhia locked up in the dungeons, the attacks on Maray’s loved ones continue, she learns that Rhia’s plan runs much deeper, and the more Maray knows the more the fear for her life and for all of Allinan blazes—for the force...

“Run, Maray, run. But where will you go? There is nowhere safe for you. Not in this world or the other one.”With both her mother and grandmother gone, Maray is left with the prospect of the crown—and a marriage she doesn’t want.As if that wasn’t enough, Gan Krai slowly tightens the sling around her neck, setting loose the nightmares of Allinan history.Now, Maray has to decide what type of ruler she wants to become—and what she is willing to sacrifice for it...

The blood that holds the power to change the fate of Allinan is the same blood that will destroy her.Even though Maray has returned to the world she grew up in, she isn’t safe. Grasping for power, Rhia seeks her blood to claim its magic. To prevent this, the rogue revolutionaries intend to kill Maray first.This time, running isn't an option. She must return to Allinan, where she belongs and where she has the best shots of learning to control her ma...

This complete introduction to the use of modern ray tracing techniques in plasma physics describes the powerful mathematical methods generally applicable to vector wave equations in non-uniform media, and clearly demonstrates the application of these methods to simplify and solve important problems in plasma wave theory. Key analytical concepts are carefully introduced as needed, encouraging the development of a visual intuition for the underlying methodology, with more advanced mathematic...