Books

This book is dedicated to travelers and those who intend to venture beyond their comfort zone——faraway from their respective home country, across oceans and borders to discover more than what they set out to explore, to those in pursuit of education, and those who seek opportunity as expatriates. Each destination is more than a place on a map; it is an experience, a feeling, that begins the instant one chooses to go. May these pages serve as a guide—offering a smarter way to discover the world. Explore more. Travel deeper. And above all, allow the journey to shape you and widen your perspective.

Decades of genealogical research on the Deerfield Barnard line, never published during the compiler's lifetime. Traces descendants of Francis Barnard from his arrival in Hartford (1644) through ten generations, including primary sources, cemetery records, and extensive historical context from King Philip's War through the Revolutionary period. Companion website available for searching. Part A of a multi-volume series covering this prominent colonial New England family connected by marriage to the Strong, Griswold, Pinney, and Webster families.

Wonders Through Time takes you on a fascinating journey across civilizations, empires, and lost worlds to discover the most astonishing historical marvels ever created. From legendary monuments to forgotten wonders, this book reveals the stories, mysteries, and human genius behind the greatest achievements of history. If you love history, exploration, and the incredible power of human imagination, this book will change how you see the past.

For thirty-five years, St. Paul welcomed America's most wanted criminals. John Dillinger, Ma Barker, Babyface Nelson, all found sanctuary under the O'Connor Layover Agreement. Commit no crimes in the city, pay your bribes, and police looked the other way. This volume explores protected spaces across centuries. "First Rate" traces the phrase to HMS Victory and the Age of Sail. "Safe Havens Then and Now" draws an uncomfortable parallel between gangster-era protection rackets and modern tech platforms—Google's reCAPTCHA crowdsourcing labor, Twitter's bot ecosystem, Carnegie Mellon finding half of COVID tweets came from bots. "Where Computers Come From" reveals why computing's origins stayed classified: the machines were built for cryptology. A secret company in St. Paul constructed America's first stored-program computers. Seymour Cray learned his craft there. Three essays. Three protected spaces. One question: who benefits from the shelter?

For nearly fifty years, a secret hid on a tombstone in Arlington National Cemetery. William Friedman founded NSA cryptography. His wife Elizebeth broke Nazi Enigma codes. When she designed their headstone, she encoded his initials in the inscription using the same Bacon cipher they'd studied together in 1918. Nobody noticed until 2017. This volume explores hidden messages and buried truths across three centuries. The title essay traces Elizebeth Friedman's classified work that was kept secret because J. Edgar Hoover claimed credit. "Return With Honor" dissects Wikipedia disinformation about the military Code of Conduct, demonstrating how subtle deflection works and how to detect it. "The Salem Trials" connects the author's genealogy to original 1692 court documents, correcting myths that persist to this day. Three essays. Three hidden stories. One thread: the difference between what happened and what we're told.

When the DOJ announced its Big Tech investigation, it cited one court case: a 1958 decision against the Northern Pacific Railway. Why would a famous railroad matter to Silicon Valley? The transcontinental railroads controlled westward expansion through checkerboard land grants. They were the platform, the logistics, the gatekeeper. When they added strings—buy our land, ship only on our rails—the Supreme Court shut them down. That precedent now haunts Silicon Valley. This volume traces the connections through three essays. We meet Sam Brannan, the Mormon merchant who became San Francisco's first millionaire by cornering the shovel market before announcing the Gold Rush. We watch Erle Stanley Gardner troll the Bar Association with a recursive legal trick. And we confront an uncomfortable fact: Google and Facebook have hired the Pinkertons. The same Pinkertons from Blair Mountain. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. These rhymes have teeth.

Big Tech often frames itself as unprecedented and unstoppable. History suggests otherwise. This volume collects three historical essays examining moments when large technology and infrastructure systems failed, consolidated, or triggered institutional response. From the 1988 Morris Worm and the early internet’s first shutdown, to railroad monopolies that shaped modern antitrust law, these essays trace recurring patterns in how systems scale, break, and attract regulation. Written as historical nonfiction, the book avoids prediction and policy advocacy, instead inviting readers to view modern platforms through the lens of earlier infrastructure systems, and to become students of history.

Something is broken. You can feel it. You work harder and fall further behind. You're told it's the market, it's global forces, it's just how things are now. It's not. Fifty years of decisions built an economy that takes from those who work and gives to those who toll. This book names the decisions, the people who made them, and exactly when. Then it shows you what can be done about it.

What if surviving Big Tech’s power imbalance requires the same mindset as surviving a blizzard on Mount Rainier, or resisting indoctrination as a POW? Surviving Spring Break on the Mountain: The Power of Experiential Education weaves together SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) lessons, software ethics, climbing expeditions, and centuries‑old navigation wisdom to show how you can stay principled, sharp, and intact when the system around you isn’t. Through gripping real‑world stories and hard‑earned insight, this book gives you a practical path to doing what’s right, and helping others do the same.

In a world collapsing under injustice, corruption, and spiritual decay, Awakening from Defeat: The Language of the Truth calls humanity—especially the Muslim world—to rediscover divine purpose. From Gaza’s suffering to the moral crises of modern civilization, John Abraham exposes how materialism, Zionism, and neo-globalism have replaced Qur’anic truth with illusion. This bold manifesto traces the fall of Islamic values, the silence of leaders, and the betrayal of justice, yet offers hope through a return to revelation, unity, and moral courage. Rooted in the timeless guidance of the Qur’an, it invites readers to rebuild civilization on truth, justice, and spiritual awakening. A call for conscience, action, and renewal for Muslims and all seekers of truth.

This is a wonderful story of the prophet Muhammad’s (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) whose immigrated to Ethiopia with the king of Ethiopia (Negus) and the lessons, sermons and morals that can be learned from it.

This book includes some authentic narrations about the honor Allah bestowed upon His Prophet and Friend, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, by taking him on a night journey from the Sacred House of Allah to Al-Aqsa, and his ascension to the Divine Presence with the Almighty King.

This is the story of the Prophet's Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) migration from Mecca to Medina, with lessons and morals.

This is the story of the great and blessed Battle of Badr, through which Allah distinguished between truth and falsehood, and honored His Prophet and the Muslims. Along with it are lessons, morals, and sermons.

“Η Υπόθεση των Διαδοχικών Πολιτισμών” διαπραγματεύεται το πολύ πιθανό φαινόμενο μέσα στην ιστορία εκατοντάδων χιλιάδων έως εκατομμυρίων ετών του ανθρώπινου είδους, ως Homo sapiens, να συμβαίνουν διαδοχικές εξαφανίσεις του ανθρώπινου πολιτισμού, από ακραία φυσικά φαινόμενα, καταστροφικά για τη ζωή στον πλανήτη, που επιστρέφουν τον άνθρωπο στην αρχή: στον πρωτόγονο κυνηγό και συλλέκτη καρπών! Ένας κύκλος που η υπόθεση υποψιάζεται ότι έχει επαναληφθεί από 5 έως 200 φορές μέχρι σήμερα και δικαιολογεί μια αρχαίγονη προέλευση για όλα τα γνωστά μεγαλιθικά μνημεία, που βρίσκονται διασκορπισμένα παντού στον Πλανήτη μας, ότι έχει απομείνει από τους προηγούμενους χαμένους ανθρώπινους πολιτισμούς ή ότι πρόλαβαν να μας αφήσουν, σαν μήνυμα προς το μέλλον!  “Η Υπόθεση υποστηρίζει την ιδέα ότι οι άνθρωποι έχουμε καταφέρει να επιβιώνουμε διαδοχικές μεγάλες καταστροφές, από φυσικά φαινόμενα, αλλά χάνοντας κάθε φορά σχεδόν ολοσχερώς τον πολιτισμό μας ξεκινώντας σαν πρωτόγονοι, πάνω στον πλανήτη.