Maria Rodriguez – författare

Women are both naturally suited for and extremely effective in politics. It is second nature for them to cooperate, include all voices, and discover all sides of an issue. This is exactly what a good politician does, and is necessary for good government at any level from local to national. Recognizing that, this book asks women to look at themselves, maybe for the first time, through the leadership lens. Rodriguez and Richards are confident that when they do, women will see how they routinely show leadership every day, no matter their life's path. Such skills, always associated with Management, certainly qualify them to pursue public office. Further, the authors totally debunk the myth that politics is reserved for the privileged or the intellectually elite. They give inside tips based on the experience of Maria Rodriguez as a two-term Mayor, a U.S. Congressional candidate, and a recent contender for Lt. Governor of Illinois. Richards brings her own kind of experience as a seasoned volunteer and award-winning author. Together they provide questions to ask yourself, things to consider, and a veritable map to getting someone, including yourself, elected.You will see how and where to start, what to do along the way, and how to raise money. Find out whom to trust, how to hire and when to fire staff, how to amass a pool of volunteers, and how to use them when you do. Campaign materials and events are discussed, as well as the protocols for both winning and losing. If more women enter politics, they will help raise the political bar, just as they have raised cultural bars for centuries. This is the book for anyone who wants to help change the country for the better, and even remotely considered running for office. It shows you how.

El Autor trata de descifrar la ficcin con la realidad en una investigacin profunda de hechos documentados y testimonio de personas investigadas a travs de trance hipntico, tambin versiones escritas, dejadas por personas ya fallecidas que dedicaron su vida a la investigacin de este controvertido tema, quienes unidos en un clamor de justicia utilizaron al autor como una especie de mdium para expresar los hechos de sus investigaciones.

Michael Braithwaite and his five-person crew are hired to steal a quantum-encrypted wallet from a private security company's hidden facility in the Nevada desert. The operation is precise, the defenses are mapped, and every contingency has been calculated.Then they open the vault.Behind the corporate cover of Arden Security Solutions lies an archive filled with classified government records, financial instruments, intelligence files, and an inner chamber absent from every blueprint. Michael resists the impulse to breach the chamber—but a last-second discovery leads him back to a drive marked with an unfamiliar symbol and a name that changes the mission completely:The Black Ledgers.The wallet was never the true objective. The client who hired them does not exist. Multiple covert teams are already converging on Mile Forty-Two, and someone has altered the facility's security systems to trap the crew inside. Their escape across the desert is only the beginning.The drive contains evidence of a hidden financial architecture operating beneath governments, corporations, intelligence agencies, and criminal organizations. Bribes, clandestine operations, political influence, off-book funding, and protected networks have been recorded for decades by an organization powerful enough to monitor the drive wherever it goes—and ruthless enough to destroy anyone who reads it.With their Los Angeles base burned, their payment gone, and several unidentified factions hunting them, Michael, Rix, Miles, Maddox, Slade, and Trask must decide whether to sell the Ledgers, expose them, or use them to uncover the people who built the system. But the first layer of data is only the beginning. A second encrypted layer points toward Geneva, an entity known as the Architect, and a conspiracy connected to a mission from Michael's past that never truly ended.The Vault At Mile Forty-Two launches The Black Ledgers, a conspiracy mystery thriller of precision heists, covert intelligence, hidden financial power, competing shadow networks, and a professional crew that discovers the most dangerous part of stealing a secret is surviving long enough to understand it.