In the winter of 1982 Jake Jacobs went from the icy streets of Chicago to Las Vegas, where, he'd heard, the streets were paved with gold. That was the beginning of his career as a professional gambler. He worked with some of the best players ever to separate casinos from their chips.But he'd also learn that the life of a gambler didn't stop when he got up from the table. His travels took him from Tokyo banks to Manila shanty towns. He walked down dark alleys, and drove up and down ...

Angry mobs of anarchists, progressives, and socialists are raging in our streets, bringing violence and destruction to neighborhoods once found safe and peaceful. Among these rioters and looters are naive young people who are easy targets for leftist recruiters.Who are these mobsters and why have they abandoned democracy and capitalism?In this eye-opening treatise, respected educator and historian, Dr. Jake Jacobs, unmasks the Marxist agenda roaming our streets. He...

Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the doing of public policy, would seem to be a logical home for analysis of food systems in action. However, food is largely ignored by public administration scholars, and scholars from other disciplines can unintentionally draw up established ...

**Northwest Know-How: Beer is your crash course on all that is malty and hoppy in the Pacific Northwest.From the brewing basics and local lore to resident brewers and their standout drafts, explore the world of PNW craft beer with this engaging guide.**Craft beer is a nationwide movement, and in the upper left corner of the country you will find some of the most passionate and dedicated producers around. Northwest Know-How: Beer is an ode to the region's b...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

Here be dragons and sorcery, time travel and sorrow.Vicious garden gnomes. A grounded phoenix rider. A new mother consumed with vengeance. A dying god. Soul magic. These stories wrestle with the experience of loss—of loved ones, of relationships, of a sense of self, of health—and forge a path to hope as characters fight their way forward.From bestsellers and SPFBO finalists to rising voices, 13 exceptionally talented authors explore the many facets of grief...

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnos...