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...

Ik heb nooit een relatie gewild. Ik ben tevreden met mijn leven—werken op de ranch, tijd doorbrengen met mijn broers en zusje, en genieten van de vrijheid om naar bed te gaan met wie ik maar wil. Maar dan neemt mijn baas een nanny aan voor zijn vijf kinderen. Amber is lief en puur, opgegroeid onder de strikte controle van haar religieuze ouders. Een meisje als zij heeft niets te zoeken bij iemand zoals ik. Ik weet dat ik afstand van haar zou moeten houden. Maar als Amber me toevertrouwt da...

I’ve never wanted a girlfriend. I’m happy with my life—working on the ranch, spending time with my brothers and sister, and enjoying the freedom to hook up with whoever I want. But then my boss hires a nanny for his kids. Amber is sweet and pure, and grew up under the strict guidance of her religious parents. A girl like her has no business getting involved with someone like me. I know I should keep my distance. But when Amber confides in me that she wants to break free from her parents’ c...

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 ...

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...

The sports landscape changed in the spring of 1994 when the Cleveland Indians moved into their new stadium at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario. No longer the joke of the league, The Jake made them the jewel of baseball and helped revitalize a city and a fan base. For the first time ever, these interviews and stories from the players, managers and front office personnel give the inside scoop on what happened on the field, in the dugout and behind the scenes of this exciting time in Clevel...

"A masterpiece of storytelling" – Goodreads.com"Brilliantly conceived … taut and chilling" – A.W Baldwin2040: The world is burning, and hope is almost lost…As feuding trillionaires insulate themselves on sub-Antarctic islands and lobby for nation-state recognition, the eco terrorist known as Vidar pours fuel on the flames of social disintegration. Mega storms and heat wreak havoc, driving the greatest diaspora in history. Am...

HIP HOP was born in the 1980s, exploded into the music mainstream in the 1990s, and by the Millennium, had become the biggest-selling genre in the record business. DOCTORS OF RHYTHM: Hip Hop’s Greatest Producers Speak! begins with rap’s biggest early hits that helped prove Rap was here to stay were classics like Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing,” Doug E. Fresh’s “The Show,” Young M.C.’s “Bust a Move,” Kool Moe Dee’s “Go See the Doctor” and “How Ya Like Me Now?!”, Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Po...

If you’re a County Music fan, you’ve seen glimpses perhaps of it on TV shows like Nashville and movies like Walk the Line, but never before have fans of music’s biggest-selling genre been invited inside the heart of the creative nerve centers where their favorite # 1 hits are brought to life, the recording studio! Inside the pages of Behind the Boards: Nashville, Country music fans for the first time ever are given a front-row seat inside Music Row’s most famous ...

Prince’s most prolific period between 1977 and 1994 is explored here for the first time in depth via exclusive, firsthand interviews with his key engineers, including fan faves Susan Rogers and David Leonard and Peggy McCreary, along with Matt ‘Dr’ Fink re-creating the making of all Prince’s greatest hits for fans, from “1999” and “Purple Rain” to “Bat Dance” and “Kiss,” every album and hit are broken down in exciting detail as fans are taken inside Paisley Park and Prince’s world.

The recording studio has long been referred to as “the lab” in record-producer slang, and the Scientists of Sound for the first time takes rock and roll fans of every genre and generation on a first-of-its-kind behind-the-scenes tour of the record-making process, from analog to the digital era. Many of the most famous hits of all time are chronicled here, including “Start Me Up” by the Rolling Stones, every Eagles hit from “Hotel California” through “Life in the Fastlane,” Joe Walsh’s “Lif...