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Join the author on his dharma journey of discovery as he treats his depression with Western methods and Tibetan Buddhism learned with his wife from the teachings of the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman, Allen Ginsberg, and the lamas of the KTC Monastery in the Hudson Valley.

A history of Armenian masonry that goes back to the legendary origins of Noah to the operative stone masons to the speculative masons to the lodges of the 1800s, their destruction during the genocide, and their revival in 1991.

Now in its Third Edition this work has improved text and images at a reduced paperback cost. The 6,000-year history of the Armenian people going back archaeological wine making finds in caves to some say Noah’s ark landing on the sacred Armenian mountain Ararat and co-existing with Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and even Ottomans. At one time the Armenians had a trading empire that went from India to Moscow. Then came catastrophe with the 1915 Genocide where the Ottomans wiped out 1.5 million Armenians after which there was the long road to recovery beginning in Paris and elsewhere ...

Fleeing the Turks who were conducting the Armenian Genocide the Armenian people were given an offer they couldn’t refuse from Russia or the Soviet Union if you will. The Russians would protect Armenia but the country had to fall inside the Soviet empire’s Iron Curtain whereas Armenia survived but disappeared into the Russian gulag for decades before the light of freedom was born again for Armenians.

The author uses Tibetan Buddhism meditation techniques to help with the treatment for his depression. The words of one lama bring hope by saying how bad can things be, you are here and human and a step away from enlightenment.

Released the day India landed on the moon, August 23, 2023 The Armenians of India: Merchants of Empires from the Age of Vishnu and Home Again, Second Edition, tells the story of the 2300 year relationship between India and its Armenians. The diaspora of Armenian merchants in India were at the center of a global trading network and at the center of their lives were their churches which remain as monuments to the diaspora in India. The Second Edition contains updated information on freemason Sir Catchick Paul Chater not just the greatest Armenian philantrphist and business leader of India and...

The famed Catskills guidebook now in its expanded 5th edition with new attractions like the Catskills Visitor's Center with its adjacent Fire Tower and a section on the I-88 Corridor which includes Cooperstown, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Farmers Museum, the Iroquois Museum and Howe Caverns joining traditional sites like North Lake, Kaaterskill Falls, Hunter Mountain, Phoenicia, Woodstock, Overlook Mountain, the Esopus Creek, Belleayre Mountain, Margaretville. John Burroughs' Woodchuck Lodge, Slide Mountain, and historic Kingston and so much more in America's first vacationland. ...

The book studies infanticide through sacrifice, exposure and abortion in Ancient Greece and Rome. "A very informative book, it pertains to a controversial topic of infanticide... in ancient Greece and Roman times...looking at the past, Boyajian is cognizant of the future. A book for not only those who appreciate history but for the general reader and audience." -- Gary A. Kulhanjian, Social historian. Five star rating from Goodreads.

Ten year old Gregory peers into a Free Library book box and is swept away into the the greatest adventure of his life in the fashion of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Before the author became a judge he interned during law school for Justice Charles Kuffner in Staten Island who was fascinated by Minor League Baseball so much so he gets the author hooked on the idea so that when the minor leagues arrive in New York City he and his late wife Jeri get heavily into the game going to see the Brooklyn Cyclones and the then Staten Island Yankees and when they move to the Hudson Valley they become season ticket holders for the local team the Renegades. This is their story about the game and the people they meet and the friends that sit with them. This crowd ...

Mike and Jeri are the perennial Jimmy Stewart character from Its A Wonderful Life where Stewart just can’t get off the ground for a Grand Tour of Europe for his entire life. Lucky for Mike and Jeri good fortune falls their way and they are able to travel twice a year for many years including four trips to London and one to Edinburgh. There is some sort of progression from trip to trip but it’s not certain if it’s a good thing or bad. Booklife reports that, Michael Boyajian’s, The U.K. Progression, named by Amazon as NUMBER ONE NEW RELEASE among London book 24 hours after publication...

Armenian Edessa was a Christian city overrun by Muslims. The church called for a crusade to rescue the city and the Knights Templar would guide and protect these crusaders and the Armenians.

Sybil Ludington rode further and longer than Paul Revere to warn of the approaching British saving the entire Hudson Valley in the American Revolution helping to upend Britain’s plan to capture the Hudson River and destroy the patriots by dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. An incredible achievement of riding, Stacey Romeo,Championship rider, trainer and instructor.

The Armenians were a crucial part of the army of Alexander the Great following him to the ends of the known world at that time.

A timely audiobook about the subject of equal rights, this listen will provide listeners with knowledge of overt and covert discrimination in America. The author, a former human rights judge and historian, Michael Boyajian, explores how the LGBTQ community was violated by society, focusing on the impact of bars, taverns, and clubs.

He was the greatest spy of the American Revolution - so much so, that at times, it was hard to tell if he was working for the British or the Americans.

Mike and Jeri leave behind their Brooklyn and Long Island lifestyles for a vacation in the sun west to San Francisco and then down the coast to Big Sur, Monterey, Pebble Beach and Carmel. Then they set off for a four hour drive to Yosemite in their clown car, a tiny Geo Metro. Jeri falls immediately in love with San Francisco wanting to stay and send for their things confident that as a coordinator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art she can land a job at an art museum in San Francisco and Mike can transfer out of Brooklyn Law School to a law school here. What will their decision be, should ...

Today suicide is viewed as a mental health issue but in Roman times it was viewed as an acceptable life exit strategy. The revised second edition explores the topic in today's light and in the eyes of the Romans..

Join the author as he recalls his earliest encounters with Buddhism and his subsequent awakening on the Dharma path.

The Armenians were the power behind the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was a great empire that missed the European arrival in the New World by a few decades. They did not endure a thousand years under siege but were a major player on the world stage and much of their power came from an ancient people known as the Armenians who supplied them with emperors, generals, soldiers, intellectuals, religious leaders and artisans.