The Golden Rays

This is a short collection of five essays by Comrade Mao Zedong, including Serve the People.

Stop dwelling and spending your life inside the dark cave of worries, sadness, stresses, tensions, frustrations, fatigue and hopelessness. Don’t knit these webs of downfall and degradation. Your life is not to live in these hell like havens, however, to rise and shine in your life. Sow the seeds of growth and progress in your life and persevere and excel in your life. Your golden rays of success are always waiting for you. Just you need to awake and arise. ∽***∽

'This Golden Ray of Light is so warm, like the rays of our sun, feeding our Soul with nutrients on a physical and spiritual level. It is able to penetrate our body to the Core of our being and can fill every cell in our body to help us release all toxins, negativity, and distress that we have accumulated from our day to day activities. We have the ability to dissipate all that is not required, all the unhealthy energies that we have absorbed, by accessing the Golden Ray of Light. It is a pure and loving energy from God, our Creator, the Universe that can give us so much in the way of healing and protection . . . and more.' This book will not only explain how to access the Golden Ray of Light, but also guides you on how to: - cleanse your internal energy as well as protect it from the negative energies that continue to swirl around us, - hone into what lifts your Spirit and ignites your passions so that you can continue to move forward on your path, - feel the essence of who you are so that you become the master of your thoughts and the creator of your Dreams. The Golden Ray of Light is the Source that fuels the Spirit of the Warrior within. These techniques allow us to keep radiating and attracting all that is beautiful, wonderful, amazing and good . . . for that is what we are. Next book in series titled "Warrior of Wisdom - One Tribe" due to be released in June 2020.

In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that inspired the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders evoke the sometimes reckless but always exhilarating origins of skateboarding lifestyle and culture.

If only life could be like surfing! Having "funny" hair and being embarrassed in school is hard, but when little surfer Mop studies the lessons of the waves—breathing, letting the bad waves go by, and riding the good ones—he learns how to bring the mindfulness and joy of surfing into his whole life. Celebrated San Francisco surfer-journalist-dad Jaimal Yogis teaches 4-8 year olds timeless beach wisdom with the story of Mop, a sensitive and fun-loving kid who just wants to be in the ocean. Going to school and navigating classmates can be hard—but all that goes away when little surfer Mop paddles out in the waves. With a few tips from his clever mom, Mop studies the wisdom of the water and learns to bring it into his life on land: taking deep breaths, letting the tough waves pass, and riding the good ones all the way. With newfound awareness and courage, Mop heads back to land—and school—to surf the waves of life. With stylish full-color beachy illustrations from cover to cover.

What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.

"Celebrated skateboarder, Tino Razo, has documented and shredded abandoned backyard swimming pools throughout Southern California. The resulting body of work often elevates itself beyond a bunch of thrill-seekers navigating the suburban landscape. This book juxtaposes renegade sessions by world class skateboarders with dramatic architectural photographs of a lost American dream"--Amazon.com.

What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have marked his remarkable life – Miki Dora and Midget Farrelly to name a few. But surfing for Nat Young – and so many like-minded surfers – has never been about winning, never been about the sport. It’s a calling, an endless quest, a philosophy, a religion. Most of all, surfing is a way of life that has underpinned his other identities as board shaper, film producer, writer, raconteur, conservationist, activist, pilot, husband, father. Candid and wryly observed, Church of the Open Sky explores what it means to be a surfer, with a collection of true stories of Nat’s surfing life – and the friends, foes and heroes he’s met along the way.