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In 1200 the Islamic world was on the brink of a scientific revolution while Sung China was on the brink of a technological and proto-industrial revolution which could have changed the entire history of the world. But instead of that both Islamic and Chinese civilization slipped into decline, with the scientific and technological revolutions halted by the destruction of key libraries, and by growing chauvanism, religious bigotry and ethnocentrism which prevented knowledge from outside these civilizations which would have been essential to the continuation of these scientific and ...

The Cyclist Chapter 2 continues the author's adventures on a bicycle as he was a teenager and in University. The stories cover the invention of the wonderful sport of bike hockey, of which the author is still the reigning world champion, the broadie (skid) on a tandem which not only scared the hell out of his co-cyclist but snapped the tandem in halve, and the discovery of true love while cycling.

The Dragon Wakes - The Rise and Future of China is a detailed article analyzing the factors that have led to China's amazing rise in economic power since the death of Mao and the possible widely different paths China may take in the future which will have a profound impact both on the Chinese people and nations around the world. It is a detailed and thoughtful analysis of the world's coming superpower. The Dragon Wakes is part of Polarshift - China, India and the Decline of the West

Broken Glass is a piercing analysis by Dr Matt Buttsworth of the origins and nature of the crisis of faith in the Progress Ethos gripping Western civilisation. He traces its origins from the battlefields of the Somme and the extermination camps of the Nazis to the mushroom cloud of Hiroshima arguing that after such events it is impossible to believe that man is good, with the image of man the discover being replaced by the image of man, the destroyer of worlds. The consequences of this loss of faith for Western civilisation have been profound leading to a loss of faith in the ideal of ...

Pero da Covilhã was a man of mystery. A spy who could speak Castilian like a Castilian and Arabic like a Moor. But even he could never have imagined the mission that he would be given by the King of Portugal. To travel not just across Spain and Italy but further into the lands of the East than any Christian man had journeyed since Marco Polo all the while knowing that every man or woman he met on the way could be an assassin sent to kill him. Covilhã’s mission was crucial to the success of the Portuguese plan to sail to India and beyond but if he did survive what would the Portuguese ...

Crash - the Unknown Sustainability of a Chinese Dominated World Trading System is a piercing investigation of the disastrous effects Chinese Mercantilism is having on the world economy, and whether it will cause the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? It argues that while China's rise has bought prosperity to hundreds of millions of people from China and from resource supplying nations across the world, including Australia, parts of Africa, Kazakhstan and Russia, its use of aggressive mercantilist has bankrupted the manufacturing industries of nations across the world whose ...

A collection of beautiful lyrical romantic poetry of a love that once was and is no more. Guaranteed to touch the heart.

This collection of short stories is about an extraordinary woman who lived at the beginning of White settlement in Western Australia who had three loves, one life long which was kept secret for over a hundred years. It is a story of survival, of life defining choices, and of loyalty.

The Myth of Primal Harmony - the idea that primal peoples lived in harmony with nature and with each other - is central to the radical ecology movement and its belief that this idyllic way of life was destroyed by the intrusion of agriculture and cities, or in the present, by the multinationals and tree fellers of evil Western multinationals. But that is what the Myth of Primal Harmony is, a myth. Primal Peoples, hunting and gathering peoples in the distant past or the present, did not live in harmony with nature or with each other, often having a devastating impact on the animals and ...

The idea that before the birth of modern science and the growth of European capitalism in the 16th century people lived in harmony with nature in self-sufficient agricultural communities is a powerful myth in the modern ecological movement and is used to attack modern science, capitalism and the international transport of food. However it is a myth. In this damning critique Dr Matt Buttsworth attacks this strongly held, widespread idealisation of the past. Before the 17th century, people did not live in harmony with nature; international trade in valuable products was widespread as were ...

With this chapter the reader enters into the humorous, realistic, enchanting world of the very popular should story book The Cyclist taken from the experiences, good, funny and bad of the author as a life long cyclist. Of when he first began to ride to school, of when he first got a new bike but it wasn't. His first encounter with a dugite (an Australian snake) and his decision, at the age of seven that it was time to being a voyage of exploration.

This piercing essay, written in honor of those murdered on Utøya Island and in Oslo, seeks to uncover the ideological origins of the ideas which motivated Anders Breivik to kill the innocent youths on Utøya and to detonate his car bomb near the Labor Party offices in Oslo. It analyses the ideas of theocratic absolutism and consequent intolerance and willingness to kill and murder which have caused religious or political conflicts for thousands of years and is a stirring defense of the ideas of multiculturalism and of Liberal Democracy.

In this brilliant expose Dr Matt Buttsworth investigates the apocalyptic nature of Radical Ecology by considering the apocalyptic nature of Radical Ecological models of history and their relationship with Zorastrian, Jewish and Christian Models of History before concluding with a consideration of the relationship between the models of history used by Radical Ecology and the Bolshevik/Communist models of history and the Nazi model of history. It is an extremely thought provoking and troubling analysis of the true nature of Radical Ecology. The Fatal Flaw is part of Eden and the Fall.

Pero da Covilhã was a man of mystery. A spy who could speak Castilian like a Castilian and Arabic like a Moor. But even he could never have imagined the mission that he would be given by the King of Portugal. To travel not just across Spain and Italy but further into the lands of the East than any Christian man had journeyed since Marco Polo all the while knowing that every man or woman he met on the way could be an assassin sent to kill him. Covilhã’s mission was crucial to the success of the Portuguese plan to sail to India and beyond but if he did survive what would the Portuguese ...

Eden and the Fall – The Fallacies of Radical Ecological History is a world history analysis book by Dr Matt Buttsworth which is a hard hitting, detailed expose of how radical ecologists uses history to recruit and motivate their followers. It shows that their models of history are profoundly anti-Western and apocalyptic varying only in who they blame for the current ecological crisis. It goes on to prove emphatically not only that their models of history are deeply flawed and factually false, but that the ancestors of this model, including Nazism, were extremely dangerous. It therefore ...

Europe is in crisis. As the leaders of France and Germany scramble to create one solution after another, the Euro is on the brink of collapse. Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy all of debts they cannot repay, and government bond interest rates have dramatically increased as bankers fears of sovereign risk and national debt default increase with every crisis and every failed solution. European and IMF funds have saved Greece, Portugal and Ireland for now, but what happens if Spain is engulfed by financial crisis? Or Italy? What nations or institutions in the world could save the third ...

Pero da Covilhã was a man of mystery. A spy who could speak Castilian like a Castilian and Arabic like a Moor. But even he could never have imagined the mission that he would be given by the King of Portugal. To travel not just across Spain and Italy but further into the lands of the East than any Christian man had journeyed since Marco Polo all the while knowing that every man or woman he met on the way could be an assassin sent to kill him. Covilhã’s mission was crucial to the success of the Portuguese plan to sail to India and beyond but if he did survive what would the Portuguese ...

From the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa thousands of Soviet citizens wanted to ally with the German side in an attempt to overthrow the hated communist system, an alliance that many of the leaders of the Wehrmacht desperately wanted. However, in their attempt to create this alliance, they had one enemy far worse than Stalin. That was Hitler himself, who was determined to exploit, starve and kill the Slavic Untermensch no matter what this cost in terms of the willingness of the Soviet peoples to ally with the German forces. This article is a a ...

Moments of Romance is a collection of romantic, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, short stories and poetry. It is touching and engaging for those who love the idea of romance. It is story of love, lost love, regret, yearning and hope.

The Rise of the West is a thought provoking analysis of a key event in world history - what events and factors led to the rise of the West to global supremacy when in 1200 China and the Islamic World were world leaders in science, technology and global trade and the West lagged far behind. It considers the factors that led to the decline of China and the Islamic world and in particular the impact of Genghiz Khan on World history. It concludes by examining the specific cultural and historical factors that led to the rise of the West and considers the factors that lead to the rise and fall of...