Brock and Gabby, a young couple living in the New Orleans, Louisiana’s urban housing development, also known as the projects, find themselves in a bind when Brock is charged with a murder he didn’t commit. Sticking to the code of the streets by not snitching on the actual killer and unable to afford a lawyer, the two now face even tougher obstacles as Brock is without bond and facing thirty years to life. Backs against the wall, the two are forced to make sacrifices that ultimately pay off...

This is the essential guide to helping you launch and sustain a successful small business. It provides you with all the tips and information available to help you launch into the next phase of your working career, the phase that not so long ago, you only imagined. With these tested and proven methods, you can do anything from starting a home- based business to building the foundation for a small business with a team of your own. You make the call.Opportunities only exist when you m...

Brought to you by Penguin.Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since.Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism a...

This is a recollection of stories and events that happened to me as I remember them. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when I was in the seventh grade. Currently I am forty six and have not had a surgery ever for this illness. I believe I was able to shift my paradigm to cope for stress which everyone says is the cause for Crohn’s. I guess that is like saying, “We don’t what causes it, so let’s put it into the “unknown bucket” and call it stress.” Nice. Anyways, here it goes…..

Color Me Colorless does not only explore the life of the author but the nostalgic path of self-identity and growing up fast. If by chance you grew up with cousins who felt like joking all the time and played way too much, if youve watched all the nineties cartoon classics, lived with grandparents and siblings, or even just dove into the depths of your imagination, this book is for you! Color Me Colorless is the poetry book you can just vibe well with. It also identifies with social pattern...

"Alex is the ordinary guy with the average life who is in search of his place in society. This is part of the big dream which I feel is most documented and the most sought out portion of a person's life. It provides the blueprint for how an average person can find fame and fortune. Alex worked very hard to change his ordinary persona and achieve the Fifteen Minutes of genuine love and admired Fame.Alex gets the formula for his fame from Mr. J, the local transient philosopher. Mr. J ...

This is the story of Eric William Absolon, a relentlessly enthusiastic Aviation champion, whose lifelong love of aircraft has never wavered throughout his long and varied career. From boyhood fascination to the adult realization of his ambitions, this first-hand account takes in some of the key events of the dynamic period of twentieth century history which the author lived and worked through. Working his way up the ranks of the Gloster Aircraft Company, Absolon was able to see all the com...

The last two decades saw a host of governments abandon statist development models for more market-friendly ones. However, not all reform attempts fared equally well. Why do some governments succeed in implementing market reforms while others fail? Why might the same government succeed in one policy area but not another? Market Reforms in Mexico explores these central questions by examining Mexico's reform experience in privatization, deregulation, and environmental policy. More th...

This book examines U.S.–Latin American relations from an historical, contemporary, and theoretical perspective. By drawing examples from the distant and more recent past—and interweaving history with theory—Williams illustrates the enduring principles of International Relations theory and provides students the conceptual tools to make sense of inter-American relations. It is a masterful guide for how to organize facts, think systematically about issues, weigh competing explanations, and co...

This is a journey from victim to victor. This is a true story about some of my experience. It is a story of restoration, resilience and complete recovery.

With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard established the magazine's reputation, Weird Tales also regularly published work from abroad. Its longstanding editor Farnsworth Wright took a keen interest in translation as a literary artform, as did frequent contributors such as Clark Ashton Smith. Night Fears gathers fourteen st...

Pentecostalism is often characterized as an ecstatic movement—centrally involving spirited worship, speaking in tongues, prophecy, and healing—as well as an exclusivist one, primarily aligned with North American white evangelicalism. Yet there is a vibrant Black Pentecostal tradition stretching back more than a century that is both theologically complex and deeply grounded in an ethics of social justice.In More Than Tongues Can Tell, Eric Lewis Williams dismantles prevaili...