While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In Tourist Attractions, Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that focuses on the personal lives and identities of male sex workers who occupy a variety of roles in Brazil's sexual economy.Mitchell takes us into the bath houses of Rio de Janeiro, where rent boys cruise for clients, and to the beache...

This book is made for curious readers who want useful ideas, enjoyable challenges, and a reason to look up from the usual routine. The pages are organized so you can open anywhere and find something that matches your time, energy, interests, or mood. You do not need special equipment or advanced experience to begin. Pick an entry, try it at your own pace, and keep the ideas that make your day more interesting.The goal is simple: make discovery easier. Some entries invite creativity...

For more than three decades, Gregory Mitchell's world was reduced to the cold, unforgiving walls of a maximum-security prison. Sentenced 36 years to life for a crime committed in his youth; he entered incarceration hardened by violence, shaped by poor choices, and burdened by a life without purpose. Freedom seemed unimaginable, and redemption even more so.Yet within the silence of isolation and the weight of despair, an unexpected transformation began to take root. As the years pas...

Movement becomes easier to sustain when the plan is clear, the steps are approachable, and the routine fits real life. This guide is designed for beginners who want to become more active without feeling intimidated by complicated equipment, crowded gyms, or unrealistic schedules. Each section keeps the focus on safe preparation, steady practice, and useful progress. You can begin at your current level, pay attention to how your body responds, and build confidence through repetition.

We are living in a time of great panic about “sex trafficking”—an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, po...

The Favor of God explores the power, purpose, and operation of God's favor in the life of every believer.Apostle Gregory Mitchell explains that God's favor is more than an occasional blessing it is an expression of His grace that can guide, protect, provide, open doors, create opportunities, and position believers to fulfill their God-given purpose.Through Scripture, personal experiences, and practical spiritual insight, this book examines how to recognize ...

This book presents recent advances, challenges, and trends in modern microalgal biotechnology. It covers microalgae genetics, bioreactors, modeling, massive scale and industrial cultivation, and environmental, social, and economic aspects of microalgal biotechnology. The book also explores the emerging knowledge about high-value bioproducts from microalgae, e.g., biofuels, biosurfactants, bioremediation, bioplastics/biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, antioxidants (anti-aging), fatty acids, poly...

We all learn to read at school, after a fashion. But for most of us, this is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better use the left brain's focused attention combined with the right brain's peripheral attention, in close harmony. Good communication between the brain hemispheres is a pre-requisite for creative thinking and also a sense of wellbeing, where thoughts and feelings are integrated. As you probably expect, this course will also teach you to rea...

A guide for achieving an enlightened mind through the art of non-doing• Details meditation practices, focused on stillness of the mind, along with Patanjali’s yoga methods to maintain a consciousness referred to as “being in the zone”• Builds on Taoist, Confucian, and Hindu principles along with scientific findings to support wu-wei--the art of non-doing, non-forcing--as a way of life• Explains how wu-wei practitioners cultivate intelligent spontaneity and effortles...

A guide for achieving an enlightened mind through the art of non-doing• Details meditation practices, focused on stillness of the mind, along with Patanjali’s yoga methods to maintain a consciousness referred to as “being in the zone”• Builds on Taoist, Confucian, and Hindu principles along with scientific findings to support wu-wei--the art of non-doing, non-forcing--as a way of life• Explains how wu-wei practitioners cultivate intelligent spontaneity and effortles...

Detective Sarah Noble investigates a dark case in the town of Slayton.It began with the whispers.In the woods, in the park, and always at night. Then they came into town, down dark alleys, and in the shadows. Before long there was a knock on the door.When the couple were found dead with their faces frozen in horror, the black-eyed children were nowhere to be seen. Until it happened again.Detective Sarah Noble will need all h...

Drug-addicted washed up rockstar? CheckBeautiful, struggling woman with severe mommy issues? CheckA match made in heaven or hell? Still undecided…I’m a shadow of the man I once was. After losing both my wife and my son to my demons, I haveonly one thing left: my band, Riot.After the band moves to Las Vegas, I’m shipped off to a tiny, hole-in-the-wall town in the middle of