Orion Jackson, kingpin of the BGO, otherwise known as the Black Gangsta Organization, has inherited a world of life-threatening problems.The adverse circumstances of an uncouth outside affiliate have mercilessly entangled Orion and his organization to an ongoing murderous conflict with the Mexican mob. This cruel and deadly challenge threatens to forfeit Orion’s hopes and dreams of providing a peaceful and safe life for his family.Much to his dismay, Orion alarmingly discovers that sowing ...

As She Began, an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to tAhe most crucial period in Ontario's history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American Revolution streamed into the land between the lakes, giving Ontario its geographic shape and political destiny.Concentrating on the personal and social aspect of the loyalist migration, Bruce Wilson looks at the origins, the background, the motives, and the later successes of the...

Finding the truth, no matter the cost. In 1917, Henry Carter and Etta Pearce are reporters for the Bisbee, Arizona newspaper. Following the backlash after Carter's scathing report on the deportation of striking IWW mine workers, their editor Cal Langley send the budding muckrakers to New Mexico to investigate the murder of a prominent Silver City rancher. There they discover that the killer may have been hired to eliminate the rancher, a fact that the trial being held in El Paso has ignore...

Hounded by the law, haunted by his memories, one man tries to flee from the one thing he can never escape. Himself.J.D. Hooper is on the run. He killed a man in Kentucky and made bitter enemies in Tennessee. Leaving behind a marked trail of evil deeds and havoc as an enforcer for powerful men, he seeks refuge in the American Southwest in 1908. There he encounters Pancho Villa and the Mexican bandit takes a liking to the brash American. But J.D. can' t escape his past, or his future,...

In the spring of 1906 in Kentucky, Wes Wilson stands in his freshly plowed field gazing at furrows that will soon be filled with young dark-leaf tobacco plants. This crop is his life's blood, the product that allows him to feed and clothe his family. Wes is determined that nothing-not the powerful monopoly trying to drive prices down, or the growers' association demanding that farmers hold back their crops-will stand in his way. But the secrets and lies which plague the community smother W...

Bruce Wilson's strike diary is an honest and action packed account of what it was like for five young men on picket dutyduring the longest most bitterest dispute in modern times.This complete unedited account with images taken on the day to compliment the day's events help to paint a better picture of what was happening.The diary contains mixed emotions throughout. It's a tragedy. heartbreaking at times & hilarious all at the same time.It's so funny even in the ...

Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) spent over forty years developing a philosophical system that addresses the fundamental problems of Western metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Although never formally completed, what emerges from Peirce’s writings is a distinctive system that, through an innovative semiotic or theory of signs and cognition, combines a thoroughgoing form of empiricism with a...

A fascinating challenge and great training tool, these two- three- and four-move checkmates are great for beginning, intermediate, and expert players. Mates are in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex positions. Learn the standard patterns for cornering the king, corridor and support mates, attraction and deflection sacrifices, pins and annihilation, the quiet move, and the dreaded zugzwang. Mate challenges are presented from both Blacks and Whites perspective so players learn ...

Both a fascinating challenge and a great training tool, these tricky tactical problems are not only fun to solve, but great for advanced beginners, intermediate, and expert players to use as tools to improve their game.  Tactics are presented in order of difficulty, so that players can advance from simple to complex positions.  Examples from actual games illustrate a wide range of tactics from the classics right up to the current games.  You'll learn to use pins, single and double forks, doub...

A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors-both veteran professional chess instructors-have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Divided into three chapters, each filled with 9.991 large, clear diagrams, the entire gamut of necessary tactical knowledge is challenged, tested, and with the result that the reader becomes a stronger ...

Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids! The authors should know - they have used these puzzles in their lessons for years.

Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to beginners and children, present 200 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill players as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for beginners and kids! The authors should know ' they have used these puzzles in their lessons for years.