Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for t...

The characters seem to come straight out of central casting: the international drug lord, Norwin Meneses; the Contra cocaine broker with a marketing MBA, Danilo Blandon; and the illiterate teenager who grows up to become the king of crack, Freeway Ricky Ross. Yet these people are real and their stories are true. In Dark Alliance, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb recounts how tons of cocaine were sold to the poor of Los Angeles, and the proceeds then channelled to the CIA-backed ...

Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall.He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocai...

Your body automatically strives for health and strength, but you may not be cooperating very well. This little book does much more than teach you to lose weight. This author informs and inspires you to develop a lifelong set of habits to have a lean, energetic body.In 5 Keys to Keeping Your Weight Off you will find answers to important questions like:• Does it matter when and how often I weigh myself?• What one thing can I add to my daily consumption that will make t...

Learn How to Keep the Weight Off for the Rest of Your Life...What Have You Got to Lose?Over 44% of Americans are overweight. Many of them have tried to overcome their problem through fad diets and expensive programs, only to eventually weigh more than before they began. Companies spend fortunes to get celebrities to convince you that this program is different and better than anything you've tried before. So you spend your money and do your best. The program seems to deliver everythi...

Get a quick, expert overview of the many key facets of adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) with this concise, practical resource by Drs. Seshadri Balaji, Ravi Mandapati, and Gary Webb. This easy-to-read reference presents a case-based approach to this fascinating and complex field. - Presents cases provided by ACHD specialists of patients with arrhythmia issues, which are evaluated by an international panel of arrhythmia experts. - Provides commentary and practical guidance on management...

Do you plan to stay in debt forever? Do you even have a plan to get free from your present debt or how long it will take for you to do it? I hope so, but if not, this book will help you chart that path.The average US household credit card debt stands at $15,593, counting only those households carrying debt. Americans owe $11.62 trillion in personal debt of various kinds. They owe $8.05 trillion in mortgages and an additional $1,122.7 billion in student loans. The bad news is that s...

Dedicated to the critical management of acutely ill adults with congenital heart disease, this comprehensive book discusses the many challenges faced in the management of these patients, who require intensive inter- and trans-disciplinary care. It provides the first universal review of the practical management of patients with these complex conditions, who survive into adulthood with congenital cardiac malformations and are often affected by other morbidities. For this reason, it reflects ...

This text focuses on conservation laws in magnetohydrodynamics, gasdynamics and hydrodynamics. A grasp of new conservation laws is essential in fusion and space plasmas, as well as in geophysical fluid dynamics; they can be used to test numerical codes, or to reveal new aspects of the underlying physics, e.g., by identifying the time history of the fluid elements as an important key to understanding fluid vorticity or in investigating the stability of steady flows.The ten Galilean ...

Lasting Weight Loss - A Quick LookWhat readers are saying..."This book was just the inspiration I needed to get serious about losing weight and getting fit.” - BookLover“Goal setting and overcoming obstacles are also addressed very well.” - TrishFLReader“I was looking for a book that could teach me how to make changes to my lifestyle and eating habits for permanent weight loss.” - Zara PWhat Have You Got to Lose?

It was supposed to be easier than this!You have set up your email service and are eager to build a great list for marketing your books and other products. Slowly, a few of your regulars on your blog subscribe to your new mailing list.Then, you send your first email and get no response. You were offering your latest book at a great price, but not one book sold. What's up? This was supposed to be easy!Writing successful emai...

This book is a series of Bible studies for couples, classes, and counselors to help enrich marriage relationships through consideration of God's priorities and principles. It is far from exhaustive, but its short chapters with question and answer format is valuable for personal study, counseling, and classroom discussions.