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How do sportsbooks make their lines? Which types of bets are the best? Can you beat the house? The Logic Of Sports Betting answers all these questions and more with a dash of humor and a whole lot of real talk about how it all works. Peek behind the counter and learn how sportsbooks operate. Combine that insider knowledge with why-didn’t-I-think-of-that sports betting logic, and you have the winning formula.

In just five years, the sports betting landscape in the US has been turned on its head. Old-school bookies are on the way out, and a new wave of modern sportsbooks has taken their place. If you’re playing to win, these new sportsbooks present the perfect opportunity. So long as you know what you’re doing, that is.

What if a company did everything in its power to create a culture in which everyone could overcome their own internal barriers to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime opportunities for personal and company growth? Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have found and studied such companies - deliberately developmental organizations. A DDO is organized around the conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned with people's strongest motive, which is to grow.

The Gravediggers made short work of the goblins, but something else is coming up from below to give them hell. Hell’s bells indeed! It’s getting awfully hot in New Orleans, and not only from the weather. Those infernal forces of evil just won’t let up, and it’s really burning through the gang’s patience. When an ancient Middle Eastern demon shows up ready for trouble, the band of misfits must find salvation, and fast. A weird cult preacher arrives on the scene, and the Gravediggers end up in India. Paul’s whisky is not the only fiery thing in his life, and when the human ...

The zombies are gone, and life for the Gravediggers has become a fairy tale. Unfortunately, it’s the old-fashioned, terrifying kind! Hordes of something green and nasty have invaded New Orleans, and the Gravediggers are learning that big, bad things come in small packages. As folklore comes to life, Paul and the others find that their crappy songs are not the only earworms in town. It’s a gray matter as something whispers madness into their ears and drives them into a state of paranoia. Can a wild hunt to the land of fairies and folklore show them the way? Will they be able to satisfy ...

The Gravediggers defeated the demons, so what could possibly be left? Time is on their side, but not in a good way! Something witchy is happening in New Orleans, and Paul’s the target…again. When a death cult conjures an ancient witch, you know there’s trouble brewing. And what’s this? Time travel? Past and present mingle with black magic, evil witches, holy knights, deception, palace intrigue, inquisitions, brainwashed cults, and as always, punk rock! Will Paul and Mary’s relationship last? Who will become the ultimate sacrifice for the gang? Will Ophelia finally win? More ...

What if the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud was not about an alleged murder, or a stolen pig, or an elopement, but ran much deeper, to the very blood of the two families involved? Ushaville, West Virginia is like a tiny European city in the middle of the piney wilderness. Four failed punk musicians’ van breaks down in Ushaville, and as they meet people in the town, they discover Ushaville’s bloody secret. The punks group up with a faithless priest; a skeptical ghost hunter; a real, magical fairy; a weak-minded professor; a Cherokee man; and a local bartender. This ridiculous, unlikely ...

A cab ride to an infamous cemetery takes a sinister turn when the passengers discover they may be the graveyard’s next residents. Fun and games unleash evil beyond imagination when a young couple rolls the dice of a board game from hell. And a treasure hunt turns deadly when a pair of explorers discover what’s really hiding deep in the woods....

The Gravediggers and friends thought that Ushaville had sucked all the horror out of their lives, but it looks like they find themselves in another hairy situation. They decide to buy a punk bar and go into business, but the customers look just a bit too furry. Well, that bites! As the people of New Orleans experience a change of attitude during the full moon, the Gravediggers must find an ancient, evil swamp witch, and convince her to give them the antidote. It's a howl of a scary time as the group of friends try to make the monsters sit, stay, and hopefully, roll over and play dead. Will ...

This is an autobiographical account of the life and lore of an extraplanar alien named Vinnford Sansbury and his Earthy anchor, Edward Collins. The story unfolds of a life lived in the Unmade Out-Lore and adapting to existence as an "Imaginary Being" in the Remade New Lore, with a smattering of nonlinear short asides gathered from the collective knowledge of the multiverse. But in the fading of Vinny's incredible powers, a creature calling herself "Madam Z" escapes the bonds of his complex Inner World. Now they are caught in a cloak-and-dagger struggle between competing alien factions.

Nine brand-new tales of pulp heroes vs. monsters! The Green Lama, Richard Knight, Captain Future, Green Ghost, Moon Man, and more battle demons and monstrosities from out of this world!

Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe.

This podcast helps Catholic men to find good works of literature that will help them become more cultured, more gentlemanly and more like a saint.

For Paul and the Gravediggers, ghosts are in the past. They are enjoying life in the present just playing their bad punk rock. But Paul still has some future issues to work out. When an abused, limping boy named Goth Timmy Cratchit wants the Gravediggers to play post-punk music, Paul refuses. After all, anything other than punk is commercialized, corporate crap, right? When Paul finds out that Goth Timmy’s life is in danger from abuse, Paul needs a Christmas miracle to save him. Can Paul get into the holiday spirit, or will the holiday spirits have to scare the lesson into him?

Blood is bright crimson. Your lips have turned blue. Best keep both eyes open. Because we are coming for you. - Valentine's Day isn’t all love, fun, and games. Flash horror Valentine's stories from a ton of talented authors. From dark and disturbing, morbid humor, or guts and gore; these stories have it all. How will you celebrate the holidays?

Social media marketing is one of the most effective and low-cost ways to promote your business. If you aren’t already doing it, you’re falling behind. One thing that can be guaranteed is that your competition is either on social media already, or they are making plans to transition. Are you going to sit back and let them take the lead? Or are you going to get your business online now and compete? Maybe you aren’t sure what platforms you should be using or how to go about doing it. That’s what we’re going to show you in this book.

In 1872, China—ravaged by poverty, population growth, and aggressive European armies—sent 120 boys to America to learn the secrets of Western innovation. They studied at New England's finest schools and were driven by a desire for progress and reform. When anti-Chinese fervor forced them back home, the young men had to overcome a suspicious imperial court and a country deeply resistant to change in technology and culture. Fortunate Sons tells a remarkable story, weaving together the dramas of personal lives with the fascinating tale of a nation's endeavor to become a world power.

In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.

Dead men tell no tales, but they do eat brains! Why won't the forces of evil just die and leave the Gravediggers alone? Weren't vampires and werewolves enough? Something new is arising in New Orleans, arising from the cemeteries! An ancient Voodoo curse won't let anyone rest in peace. Can the Gravediggers travel to Haiti to stop the original curse and save New Orleans from the evil horde? More importantly, will they ever find a bass player who doesn't die?

The Matt Miller Effect is about recognizing an inconsistency of thought, belief, or action and what changes can be made to grow. Topics range from belief in God to dealing with health issues...