Wolfpack is a modern-day novel about five friends experiencing love, loss, and life lessonstogether. This assemblage of young professionals will make you laugh, cry, and reach out to your wolf pack in life.
Living Inspired chronicles Alex’s journey as a motivational speaker on a mission to speak in one hundred cities. This book asks the question, If you devoted your life to pursuing only things that inspired you, how much more could you accomplish? Drawing upon his experiences as a business owner, immigrant, and triple amputee, Alex has delivered “A-Motivational Presentations” at places like Google, NASA, and Harvard. He has carried the Olympic torch and is in the San Diego Unified School District’s Hall of Fame. A native of Medellin, Colombia, Alex is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He resides in the bustling East Village area of San Diego, California.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE People have always told me, “Judy, your life is a journey and it has been a remarkable one. You should write a book!” Honestly, I have been too busy dedicating myself to helping as many students as I can to get an education. I believe that my life story is worth telling, but when would I have time to tell it? Even more importantly, how would I write it when I have always been challenged by putting my thoughts on paper? Because of my father’s tutelage, my greatest strength since I was a young girl was articulating my thoughts through my speaking ability. I shied away from writing as much as possible, and I have always used the medium of speech to convey my thoughts.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS ALEX MONTOYA, Author Alex Montoya is an award-winning author and motivational speaker. His previous books are all on Amazon: Swinging for the Fences (2008), The Finish Line (2012), See the Good (2016), Wolfpack (2017), and Living Inspired (2018). He is a recipient of a Colombian Medal of Honor and graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Based in San Diego's East Village, he is also on the Board of Directors for the Gurmilan Foundation. This is his first children's book and you may learn more about his disability-awareness and inspirational presentations at www.alexmontoya.org. BETO GURMILAN, Executive Editor Beto Gurmilan is an award-winning educator, author, and speaker. He is the President of the San Ysidro School Board (San Ysidro, CA), community college instructor, and founder of the Gurmilan Foundation, which provides support and scholarships to people with disabilities. He is also the author of From My Chair (2016) and speaks on behalf of the Foundation to schools, businesses, and civic organizations. www.humbertogurmilan.com MAGHAN GALLAGHER, Illustrator Maghan Gallagher is a rising star in the illustration and design world. After a nationwide search, she was selected to illustrate this book as a senior at Guerin Catholic High School in Westfield, Indiana. A member of the National Honor Society, she is well-versed in many forms of art and also enjoys feature films.
(Foreword by John MacArthur) An interactive guide to passionate preaching through spiritual power, conviction, compassion, authority, urgency, brokenness, your whole being, and imagination.
What's the hardest thing you've ever faced? Alex Montoya had to ask himself that same question. Was it the fact that he'd just left his dream job? Or that he had no current love life? Or was it greater hardships like losing a sister to cancer? Or dealing with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease in his family--while enduring his own disability as a triple amputee? All these seemed daunting, and so did national challenges like living in the era of 9/11 and the dot-com industry implosion. But his perspective changed when he remembered a sign on a friend's desk: See the Good. It became a mantra and an attitude. See the Good in your crises, your adversity, and the toughest situations and people in your life. It changed how he saw his past and future. From the author of Swinging for the Fences and The Finish Line comes this tale of redemption and renewal. How a mind-set can become a mission and a mission can become a movement. This book will make you laugh, cry, and feel strong emotions. Invariably, you'll look at your own life and decide that you can overcome all challenges--once you see the good!
Alex Montoya's story of training and "running" the San Diego Rock'n'Roll Marathon is a continuation of his memoir of an immigrant child who lived his entire life with prosthetics and followed his dreams to work in major league baseball.
Unable to prevent the assassination of a CIA station chief by Iranian hostiles who are allegedly plotting a nuclear attack on the United States, John Wells goes undercover to discern the truth on an assignment that takes him from Guatemala and Thailand to Hong Kong and Istanbul.
Recounts six infamous crimes committed in nineteenth-century Mexico City and the underworld they were used to create. Examining judicial records, newspapers, government documents, and travel accounts, the author uncovers the truth behind some of nineteenth-century Mexico's most notorious criminals, including the serial killer "El Chalequero.
Alex Montoya's story of training and "running" the San Diego Rock'n'Roll Marathon is a continuation of his memoir of an immigrant child who lived his entire life with prosthetics and followed his dreams to work in major league baseball.
My Califa’s Rehab Rangers booking number is YA-65544; I will never forget it. This is a first-hand narration of growing in the 1980’s and 1990’s around criminally infested streets of Los Diablos County, Califas. This autobiography describes a gang initiation, drug involvement, and twenty years of arrests for various low-level non-violent crimes. It is an adventurous entourage through police precincts and juvenile hall institutions leading to Los Diablos’ dreadful Twin Titans Corrective Facilities, including Califa’s Rehab Rangers. Eventually, we will visit the ever-controversial Immigration and Child Endowments’ holding camps tossing out legal and illegal immigrants with lifetime deportations ignoring all American-raised families. Part memoir, part inspiration—total human institutionalization and dehumanization, uncut. In addition, we will explore human life complexities within today’s state-of-the-art prisons and we will see men coping for survival with only their essential necessities to strive. Moreover, questions will abound about our innate free will, that is, are we indeed free from Big Brother? Is the separation of migrant families legal? This story may also serve as an academic reference to our technical legality of incarceration—and once inside, what are our constitutions protecting prisoners’ rights, or should they have any legal protections whatsoever. Indeed, we are forever cognizant that not everything under our sun is a ray of hope for every man; therefore, our daily challenge is to withhold those glorious constitutions that grant us universal liberty of choice. At our day’s end, literature is mind’s liberty.
Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author A curated collection of new Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground between Latinx and Latin American artists? Featuring a mix of plays and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino Theater Company's Encuentro de las Américas festival, produced in partnership with the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in 2017. The collection chronicles not only the theatrical productions of the festival, but also features a transnational exploration of U.S. Latinx and Latin American theatre-making. Alongside plays by Evelina Fernández, Alex Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdrán this anthology also includes a mix of monologues, snapshots, profiles and interviews that together provide a dynamic account of these intersections within U.S. Latinx and Latin American Theater. A unique collection it serves not only as a testament to the diversity of Latinx artists, but also to the strength of the Latinx Theater movement and its ever-growing networks across the Hemispheric Americas. Full playtexts include: Dementia by Evelina Fernández WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharoah Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza 10 Million by Carlos Celdrán
CIA agent John Wells refuses to let a privileged businessman walk away from a crime in this novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security. Now it’s time for him to pay, and Wells has made it his personal mission. There are plenty of crosscurrents at work, though. The White House doesn’t want anybody stirring the pot; his old CIA bosses have their own agendas; other countries are starting to sniff around, sensing something unusual. It is when Russia and China enter the mix, however, that the whole affair is set to combust. With alarming speed, Wells is once again on his own...and the wolves are closing in.
In the wake of 9/11, the mission of the Border Patrol has been redefined, with emphasis shifting from stopping the flow of drugs and illegal immigration to the critical mission of protecting our vast borders from terrorist infiltration. Agents guard some 8,000 miles of U.S. borderlands using helicopters, four-wheel-drive trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, and snowmobiles, as well as patrolling on horseback, on bicycle, and on foot. These men and women possess unique skills that combine the best qualities of peace officers, humanitarians, and range-riding cowboys. Their knowledge of immigration law rivals that of many attorneys. Their job is lonely, difficult, and dangerous. Book jacket.
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Living Inspired chronicles Alex’s journey as a motivational speaker on a mission to speak in one hundred cities. This book asks the question, If you devoted your life to pursuing only things that inspired you, how much more could you accomplish? Drawing upon his experiences as a business owner, immigrant, and triple amputee, Alex has delivered “A-Motivational Presentations” at places like Google, NASA, and Harvard. He has carried the Olympic torch and is in the San Diego Unified School District’s Hall of Fame. A native of Medellin, Colombia, Alex is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He resides in the bustling East Village area of San Diego, California.
New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures — Hispanic and Anglo — meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor — shovel and axe, irony and humor — he shows them how to survive, even flourish, in their isolated village. A remarkable look at modern life in the mountains, River of Traps also magically evokes the now-vanished world in which Romero tended flocks on frontier ranges and absorbed the values of a society untouched by cash or Anglo America. His memories and wisdom, shared without sentimentality, permeate this absorbing story of three men and the place that forever shaped their lives.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE People have always told me, “Judy, your life is a journey and it has been a remarkable one. You should write a book!” Honestly, I have been too busy dedicating myself to helping as many students as I can to get an education. I believe that my life story is worth telling, but when would I have time to tell it? Even more importantly, how would I write it when I have always been challenged by putting my thoughts on paper? Because of my father’s tutelage, my greatest strength since I was a young girl was articulating my thoughts through my speaking ability. I shied away from writing as much as possible, and I have always used the medium of speech to convey my thoughts.
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches to animal-borne illness, Mosquito Trails tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change, and economic upheaval. Blending theory from medical anthropology, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Nading develops the concept of “the politics of entanglement” to describe how Nicaraguans strive to remain alive to the world around them despite global health strategies that seek to insulate them from their environments. This innovative ethnography illustrates the continued significance of local environmental histories, politics, and household dynamics to the making and unmaking of a global pandemic.
Get Your Geek On! Unless you're horndog Howard Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory, the words "geek" and "lust" are seldom found in the same sentence. Until now, bub. Whether it's the most recent tweet from Felicia Day, the newest book from Terry Pratchett, or the latest anything from Joss Whedon, the world is a smoking hot, happening place for Geeks. Geek Lust, a humorous celebration of Geekdom's frenzied desires, heats it up like 1.21 Giga-Suns. It spotlights some of the awesomest real and fictional geeks in history, including Einstein, Madame Curie, Nerdist Chris Hardwick, and Steve Urkel (!); features classic science fiction and horror stories; the greatest experiences to have playing video games; gadgets gone wild; various top lists such as the hottest cryptids; and things from Star Wars that could be euphemisms for your genitals. If you yearn for time travel, robotics and cloning; if Kirk still captains your imagination; and if, when all is said and done, you still can't decide between Linda Carter's Wonder Woman or Lucy Lawless's Xena, Warrior Princess, welcome to Geek Lust. And by the way, is it hot in here or did the next-generation iPhone just drop?
Through the lenses of Shotokan Karate and biomedicine, sensei and biomedical scientist Alex W. Tong shows readers how body, mind, and spirit can be developed through martial arts practice. Through the practice of martial arts, a person can realize their full potential--not only in body, but in mind and spirit. The Science and Philosophy of Martial Arts shows readers how. Author, sensei, and biomedical scientist Alex W. Tong delves into the physical, mental, and spiritual components of martial arts and integrates contemporary sports psychology, kinesiology, and neuroscience into a nuanced and illuminating understanding of what martial arts practice can be. Structured into three sections, Tong discusses: The Mind: The dao of martial arts, mental tranquility, contemporary neuroscience, and warming up the brain The Body: Posture and stance, breathing in martial arts, and the physics of mastery and effort The Spirit: Soul, spirit, and moving zen; nature and manifestations of the spirit Each section includes observations on martial arts origins, physiology, and tangible results on martial arts training. Blending traditional and contemporary approaches, knowledge, and research, The Science and Philosophy of Martial Arts builds a vision of practice that elevates physical performance, awareness, decisiveness, and strength of spirit.
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