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In a bid to take down MS-13's criminal network in the Mission District of San Francisco, Michael Santini, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, recruits a pair of hardened gang members and convinces them to risk their lives as criminal informants. Set in a city with one of the strictest sanctuary policies protecting illegal immigrants in America, Operation Devil Horns illustrates how politically correct ideology impacts life-or-death crime fighting on the streets.

Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability. The fastest growing of these is Parkinson's: the number of people with Parkinson's doubled to over six million over the last 25 years and is projected to double again by 2040. Harmful pesticides known to cause Parkinson's proliferate, many people remain undiagnosed and untreated, research funding stagnates, and the most effective treatment is now a half century old.

This ninth volume of Favorite Science Fiction Stories is a little unusual, in that it includes a few stories that are not really that short, bordering on novellas. Titles include: "The Concrete Mixer" by Ray Bradbury, "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, "Bedside Manner" by William Morrison, "The Inferiors" by Mari Wolf, "The Aggravation of Elmer" by Robert Arthur, "Conquest over Time" by Michael Shara, "The Virgin of Valkarion" by Poul Anderson, "No Charge for Alterations" by H. L. Gold.

The record-holding two-time National Basketball Association champion reflects on his work ethic, his on-the-court friendships and rivalries, the great teams he's played for, and what it takes to have a long and successful career in this thoughtful, in-depth memoir. Playing in the NBA for 18 years, Ray Allen won championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat and entered the record books as the original king of the three-point shot. Known as one of the hardest-working and highest-achieving players in NBA history, he was legendary for his sharp shooting.

In this unflinching and inspiring autobiography, the boxing legend faces his single greatest competitor: himself. Sugar Ray Leonard's brutally honest and uplifting memoir reveals in intimate detail for the first time the complex man behind the boxer. The Olympic hero, multichampionship winner, and beloved athlete waged his own personal battle with depression, rage, addiction, and greed.

Daniel Goleman nos invita, con la colaboración de Paul Kaufman y Michael Ray, a comprender el proceso creativo, librarnos de los pensamientos que nos bloquean y desatar nuestra imaginación. El espíritu creativo encierra un mensaje fundamental: todos podemos ser creativos. Esto se aplica a los niños, los adultos, las empresas y las comunidades. ¿Cómo podemos liberar nuestro espíritu creativo y emplearlo para mejorar nuestra calidad de vida?

They're baaaaaaaaaaaaacckkkkk!!! Rocky Coast Radio Theatre returns with yet another copious cornucopia of classic concoctions, crafted and compiled for the captive congregation (gotta love that thesaurus!). Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V offers dramatized adaptations (complete with music and sound effects) of chilling stories penned by Edgar Allan Poe, Hugh B. Cave, and H. P. Lovecraft, as well as a few additional treats.

The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music from Jacksonville, Florida. Together, they and fellow bands like Blackfoot, 38 Special, and Molly Hatchet would reset the course of '70s rock. Yet Jacksonville seemed an unlikely hotbed for a new musical movement. Michael FitzGerald blends eyewitness detail with in-depth history to tell the story of how the River City bred this generation of legendary musicians.

From the survivor of 10 Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, an inspiring memoir about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring 19, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

Professor Michael Ray uses the four tools of faith, absence of judgment, observation, and questions to describe how to release creativity in your personal environment.

Through 25 years of teaching Stanford University's famed Personal Creativity in Business course, Michael Ray discovered that people who move beyond ordinary success and achievement have a secret. They live for a highest goal that drives them to accomplish their dreams, find fulfillment, and become generative leaders. Here, Ray tells you how you, too, can thrive by incorporating this powerful secret into your daily life.

The author "discovered" the feline world's best-kept secret in a file hidden on his mother's computer by her cat, Cleo, and now shares it with humanity for the first time. Topics covered range from avoiding visits to the vet, to the artful display of captured prey, to getting in the way of a human trying to read anything, including this paragraph. Upon publication, Cleo denied authorship and hired a team of lawyers with their claws out, but despite her best efforts, word is spreading with over 75,000 Kindle downloads.

In this book, you will finally learn how to use positive thinking and what its benefits are. You will discover a new world. You will be able to maintain serenity in every situation and face everything in the right way, analyzing and making all the best moves. You'll notice how a few simple tips on positive thinking will improve self-esteem and health and bring you lots of luck!

Club Wealth World Class REO Agent is meant for real estate agents at all levels, whether you were in the REO game back in the mid-to-late 2000s or you are looking for another revenue stream to add to your business. Written by four world class coaches in the real estate industry today with over 20 years experience in the REO business, this revolutionary book includes: a step-by-step guide to techniques and strategies to make six figures in real estate right now; how-to model to get started in the REO business no matter where you are in real estate; and more.

Welcome to The FOUR: A fearsome faith foursome talkin’ about Black Life, Love, Power & Joy. YOUR HOSTS: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Lisa Sharon Harper, Rev. Michael Ray Mathews, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis Four of America’s most gifted, prophetic Black leaders are also four of the funniest, most irreverent, soulful and justice-rooted friends around. For the first time, they’ll join their public voices in a special podcast series as freewheeling as the barbershop and beauty salon, and as dynamic and deep as the books, films, television, speeches and sermons they’ve created, and protests they’ve...

Being positive is a habit that needs to be developed. Our mind has the extraordinary ability to learn even the most complicated things. We just have to repeat the action continuously for a short time, and it will be assimilated. It is a bit like riding a bicycle - it is difficult, at first, to maintain balance but then, it becomes an automatic action. You won't even have to think about moving the pedals.

Pulp Heroes Reborn Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present volume five of Mystery Men (& Women ), their showcase anthology for debuting new pulp heroes created by today’s best action-adventure writers.

Yahooty Who? characters teach children to think about and investigate the world around them. From the way he borrows one of your socks to the creative sock puppets he leaves behind for children, Yahooty finds his way into the hearts of all who hear his story. As you hear the story of Yahooty, children come to learn that Yahooty does all that he does as a selfless act to bring happiness to the world. A great lead into the valuable lesson of helpfulness, acceptance, and understanding.

The Prophetic Resistance Podcast travels the country to talk to our beloved community of freedom-fighters, justice-seekers and faith leaders. We are asking how - in this moment - leaders of faith and moral courage can cultivate prophetic resistance rooted in revolutionary love.

Let hosts John-Michael Powell, Zachary Ray Sherman and Sean Harrison Jones help you sift your way through the "greatest" films of all time, as they watch and discuss films you always hear people talking about. From reviews and interviews, to current filmmaking trends, Pick Ups tackles the craft of filmmaking through the lens of the movies we can never seem to forget.