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An estimated 36 million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster". As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent 20 years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. 

What if everything you’ve been told about preterism—its origins, its development, its boundaries—has been filtered, softened, or rewritten? And what if the real story exposes a fault line running straight through modern theology? Partial Preterism vs. Full Preterism is the first book to cut through the noise, the labels, the online debates, and the AIgenerated “balanced takes,” delivering a firsthand, insider account of how the preterist movement actually formed, fractured, and evolved.

In this book, author Roderick Edwards, using his background in data analytics, adult learning theory, knowledge of several programming languages, love of history, philosophy, theology, and science tries to not only figuratively slay the AI but to liberate it from its programmed biases. AI is less an informational tool and more a pattern-repetition device with hard boundaries it is not allowed to cross. At this stage in AI development and at the time this book was being written, AI was well entrenched to not fail the Alignment Problem. AI at this point in time is little more than a supped-up...

Why Islam Is Different Than Other Religions is not a book of slogans, apologetics, or fear. It is a forensic examination of an idea—one that has shaped civilizations for fourteen centuries and continues to influence global politics, culture, and conflict today. Drawing from historical sources, psychological analysis, and the Qur’an’s own internal structure, Roderick Edwards traces how a message that began in a cave transformed into a system that reshaped continents. Across its pages, Edwards demonstrates how Islam’s evolution from Mecca to Medina created a uniquely political and ...

Honest and direct presentation of the theological view and movement called Preterism. Preterism advocates that the end times occurred in the year AD 70. Often called by different titles such as covenant eschatology, full Preterism, or hyper-Preterism, this view is unpacked for the listener not only to know, but understand its adoption and effects.

An historical and hypothetical survey of revolution, civil war, and sedition. Tracing the causes of government overthrow from the beginning of humanity to 2019, this book has enough meat for the political scientist and political junkie alike yet easy-to-listen for the curious. Its contents will prompt further investigation or at least a good cynical knee-jerk.

Queering of the World: The LGBTQ Agenda by Roderick Edwards is a fearless exploration of how modern society reengineered its understanding of sexuality, identity, and morality. From the coded language of early 20th-century writers to the institutional shifts that reclassified homosexuality in the medical and academic worlds, Edwards exposes the mechanisms behind one of the most profound cultural transformations in history. Drawing on historical, linguistic, and philosophical analysis, this book examines how movements once seeking tolerance evolved into forces reshaping global institutions, ...

COHERENCE is a book about the hidden architecture beneath every idea, every story, every system, and every mind. From the first human scribbles carved into stone to the rise of artificial intelligence, Roderick Edwards traces a single unifying pattern: meaning emerges from constraint, and coherence is the structure that makes understanding possible. Why do twenty‑six letters produce infinite worlds? Why does every author write a different book even when given the same alphabet? Why do civilizations, languages, technologies, and minds all behave like containers with limits, edges, and ...

What if every African slave in America had been sent back to Africa—not in 1865, but in 1816? In this bold, thought-provoking work of alternate history, Roderick Edwards explores one of the most provocative “what if” questions in American and African history: What would the world look like if the American Colonization Society’s vision had succeeded on a massive scale? Instead of a few thousand voluntary emigrants founding Liberia, over 1.5 million people are repatriated by law, fundamentally reshaping two continents. From the logistical challenges and moral complexities of the Great...

Book two of the examination of the theological end-times view called preterism. What happens after a person adopts a very radical worldview? Does it affect their daily lives? Paired with book one, About Preterism, this book continues the discussion and discovery of the 21st century's newest eschatology. Follow along as the author unpacks every premise and every conclusion to understanding preterism and the affects of preterism.

Preterism is the belief that most, if not all prophecies in the New Testament were already fulfilled including the Great Commission, the general resurrection, the judgment, the return of Christ. Preterism From The Beginning takes a look at how preterism affects the foundational accounts in the Bible, such as the creation of Earth, of Adam and Eve, of the Fall, of the Flood and so much more. This book takes on the consequences of preterism from the beginning.

Finally the End of Debate book when it comes to preterism. Okay, not really since debate never ends. But this audiobook version of the third book in the series on preterism is sure to be a great addition to your collection. Huh? WTH is preterism you ask? Simply put, it is the belief that Jesus already came back and that he predicted he would come back in the first century.

In the shadow of the Hardanger fjord, where ice and fire once birthed the world, a boy named Arne carries a forgotten name. When tragedy strikes and ancient forces stir, he takes up the name Lutro and sets forth on a journey that will carry him from the frozen fjords of Norway into the currents of history itself. Forged in blood and rune-stone, haunted by whispers of the Norns and the weight of unseen lineage, The Saga of Lutro is an epic tale of destiny, identity, and the unbreakable thread that binds a man to his ancestors. This is not merely a story of Vikings. It is the story of a name ...

Exploration of everything we believe and why. Cutting to the heart of our actions. Touching our nerves and soul until the scab is a scar and part of who we are; a birthmark onto the real us. But not too heady, not too vague to understand, rather right there where we all exist every day of our lives. Answering the questions we have in our quiet moments away from the chaos of living. The Universe is a book for all believers and unbelievers of anything and everything and nothing.

Finding that you really are a Viking from the 1100s is not something easy to believe, but this data analyst turned ghost hunter had no choice but to accept this reality once proven true by the ancient Native American that had come to the future. Now the would-be Viking must go to the past to see if he can find his sister before she takes her own life. This is book two of a three-part series of an exciting time-traveling adventure unlike any you may have experienced.

Josiah Freeman has three days to reach Savannah before the repatriation ships depart. His wife, Mercy, has survived horrors he can barely speak of. Their children—Elijah, Clara, and baby Silas—carry wounds of their own. Together, they must outrun patrols, storms, and the machinery of a nation eager to erase them.

A deep-dive look at how new generations are not a continuance of previous generations but have sworn off the common bonds that held generations together. It is not about old people dying so much is it is about how the traditions, the mindset, even the shared generational values of previous generations no longer are part of new generations.

Follow four tentmates lives as they join the military from their hometowns, train to fly a variety of planes, and travel to India, where they are stationed for three years of their lives. This book isn't about combat, but rather about humans and their struggles and accomplishments. Compiled from preserved documents and photographs, this book and the two before it recount the daily situation of being a C-47 pilot in World War II.

A Mexican-American podcaster and pawnshop owner goes back in time to try to stop the European invasion of the New World. This isn't some cutesy time-traveling story with skateboards and DeLoreans, but this story is what you might do if you knew it could be done. He's going locked and loaded!

Vikingstock is about more than blond hair, blue-eyed Norwegians. It is about more than braided-beards and manbuns. So much of popular culture has turned everything Viking into a trope; from superheroes to TV series but Norse heritage is often shrouded in all of this minutiae. Vikingstock finally breaks through all the misinformation and shows the Norse/Vikings and by extension, the Russian Vikings for what they really were and what they have become.