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This book details the recent discovery of a Renaissance masterpiece, Poca Venere. This discovery could prove that Leonardo da Vinci was the artist who created the iconic painting Birth Of Venus, and not Sandro Botticelli.

Women: Down Through the Ages, How Lies Have Shaped Our Lives

by Jerry Schaefer

We see how men have engaged in a futile attempt to keep women down from Adam and Eve till now.

Into the Light

by W.R. Bailey

For many good reasons, this is being called the African Century. For the same good reasons, it is time to celebrate the history of Africa’s urban and scholarly past. This history upends the colonial-era narrative offered up in movies, the media, and schools. Recovering Africa’s actual history promises to boost expectations, especially for kids. It’s a game changer. The good news is that not just Africa’s history, but people around the world are recovering their actual history, where the colonial... more

Fangs of Frustration

by P. Scott Corbett

Born in the latter days of a crumbling Qing dynasty and the evaporation of centuries of Confucian order, Bia Lang struggles to find a place in a world that keeps shifting underneath his feet. Unable to follow his father’s path as a Confucian scholar, he is mesmerized by exciting tales of heroic bandits and crusaders for righteousness and the welfare of common people. He gravitates towards military service during Sun Yat-sen’s Republican revolution at first and eventually becomes a formidable b... more

Frances Perkins: The Woman Who Built America’s Safety Net

by Rodney Kelley

In Frances Perkins: The Woman Who Built America’s Safety Net, author Rodney L. Kelley presents an in-depth and vivid portrait of one of the most influential yet overlooked figures in American history. As the first woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet, Frances Perkins was the driving force behind some of the New Deal’s most enduring reforms, including Social Security, unemployment insurance, and labor rights legislation. Kelley’s biography breaks new ground, weaving together a themati... more

Starry Starry Noir Rebels and Censors

by Bernie Dowling

In five pictorial film reviews, Bernie Dowling explores the rebels and censors of film noir. Classic Hollywood Beauty Hedy Lamarr left the studio system that devalued her talent. However, censorship and perfectionism derailed her career as an independent producer.

This Is My Story: The Life and Journey of Dr. Richard C. Demeritte

by Dr. Richard C. Demeritte

The following pages will speak of his early life in one of the humblest of Bahamian communities; his climb through those embryonic and important years that form a man; his civic/sports interests; service to his country within the nation's civil arm and the diplomatic corps; and the noble accountancy profession. In all, his stewardship, as the country's Auditor General, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium/Federal Republic... more

Charity, Change, and Community: Frankford's Swedenborgians and Their Circle Volume II: 1875 - 1971

by Gail Rodgers McCormick

Volume II continues the story of Frankford's innovative and influential Swedenborgians from the eve of the United States Centennial in 1875 to the dissolution of their congregation in 1971, and beyond. The 19th century closes, the 20th century begins, and remarkable individuals interact with artistic, cultural, political, social and technological development, economic upheaval, wars, and epidemics, affecting Philadelphia, the surrounding region, and the United States. The members of the New Jeru... more

The Jamaican Bobsled Captain

by Ben Stubenberg

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, the Jamaican bobsled captain, Tal Stokes, lost control of the four-man sled he was piloting and crashed violently while millions watched on TV. As skulls slammed the ice for twenty-one perilous seconds before the sled came to a stop, a calming clarity settled over him. Instead of walking away just glad to be alive, Tal internalized the experience and committed himself to reaching the pantheon of Olympic bobsledding, whatever it took. In the run-up to t... more

A Tomb Guard Remembers

by Pasquale with Jen Gordon

"A Tomb Guard Remembers, compiled by a former Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Pasquale Varallo, is a commemoration to the centennial of the Armistice of the Great War November 11, 2018 and the centennial of the laying of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The centennial of the reburial of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery is November 11, 2021. This anthology is a collection of some of the many poems and songs, which those men who fought an... more

A History of Classical Greece

by Michael Mirra

The story of Greece in its Classical Age is full of achievement and strife. This book journeys to the city-states and kingdoms that had hegemony over the Greek world during this ancient time–Sparta, Athens, Thebes, and Macedonia–when these developments and conflicts occurred. Michael Mirra compares mythology to the historical record, details battles, and shows how sexuality and women respectively played a role.

Sede Vacante!: Part Two: The Lumen Gentium Theory About Our Present Ecclesial Circumstance

by Griff Ruby

Many concerned Catholics today, seeing the ways and teachings of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), are asking themselves, Can that man be a real Catholic pope? From the time of Paul VI, a small contingent of faithful Catholics known as sedevacantists have expressed the gravest doubts that he and each of his successors in turn since then were real popes of the Catholic Church. This minority view, long dismissed by most, now emerges into a wide public view as Jorge Bergoglio seems to go out of... more

The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church

by Griff Ruby

A detailed history of how the authentic Pre-Vatican II Catholic Church has survived and continues to survive into the Post-Vatican II era in the form of traditional (Latin Mass) Catholicism. Who are the players? What are the philosophical currents? What are the challenges? And what are the achievements, thus far? This is a history that delves into root causes, large movements, and small anecdotes of traditional Catholic clergy and prominent laity.

Women's Crusader

by R. Lee Wilson

\tWomen’s Crusader reveals the untold tale of romance and grief that launched Kate Beecher on a new path as an advocate for American women in the first half of the nineteenth century. Biographer R. Lee Wilson combed through unpublished letters, manuscripts, and diary entries to discover the secrets of Kate and Alexander Fisher, an unlikely couple. Kate was a fun-loving extrovert, while Alexander was an introverted math prodigy and brilliant Yale professor. But they were brought together... more

Tyranny of the Mind: Self-Rule & the Common American Uprising

by Julie A. Fragoules

As our society twists American values into offenses & individualism into greed, Tyranny challenges these distorted narratives and redefines the political spectrum. Her groundbreaking work reveals parallels between the oppressive past of the Roman Catholic Church and modern elitists as demonstrated by their response to Donald Trump and the America First movement. Both saw the common people as too simple to think for themselves or make the "correct" decisions without the guidance of more knowle... more

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