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 I have tried my hand at nearly every genre of creative writing, from poetry and adventure novels to political diatribes, from science fiction to philosophy,
jokes and film reviews. Most of what I have written is in English, but a few of my short pieces are in Dutch and some are in French.
My most frequent themes are political and social commentary, European-American relations and the state of the world. Some of my work is
posted below. I would enjoy hearing your comments.
A Tale of Survival: From War Ravaged Europe to the Promise of America  This novel is a personalized story of the 20th century, complete with all its horror and all of its promise.
The story chronicles how I survived WWII, came to America alone at 18, eventually thriving and earning a
Fulbright scholarship. As my life as a professor unfolds, I see my own experience mirrored in the history
of the times, with all of its stormy, sometimes murderous, sometimes joyous explosions.
Read an Excerpt Purchase Book Purchase e-Book The Future History of the World August 2011, 395 pages  This book is the history of humanity from 2011 to the year 25000.
The story evolves from mundane, early 21st century contemporary politics
to a spiritual apotheosis.The first chapters examine the struggles of current nation states, with a special focus on the United States. Presidential successions, the war on terrorism, immigration, the economy, the energy crisis, etc. History advances through the constant ebb and flow of progress and retrogression, taking one step back for every two steps forward. In the near future, the US and the Western Hemisphere suffer great decline. However, there occurs a Renaissance - the Great Awakening. The Western Hemisphere, a new confederacy called Hispaniola, once again will provide renewed leadership and inspiration to the world.  Gradually, there is world unification, and expansion into space.
In time, there is a federated Earth - Gaia - which expands into the
Solar System - Solaria. There are many ups and downs and tragedies, even in the distant future. However, in time, war between nations
becomes something of the past and mankind relies increasingly on true science. Scientific progress means space travel, the conquest of space,
super communication networks, but above all: the science of the mind. True science is not mechanistic. It is moral. Humanity is a forward
moving intelligence. Its evolution is moral. It moves towards perfect spirit - God. The book's perspective is totally holistic.
We are holons. Each individual and the larger system to which he belongs, are both a part
and a whole, at the same time. The whole is immanent within the part, as each cell contains the total genetic information of the organism
to which it belongs. Humanity is a unified macro-organism, now called Solaria. Solaria is the leading anti-entropic life-force in the
universe, counteracting the Universe's savage race towards ultimate entropy and oblivion. Solaria is the never-ending process of
humanity evolving towards the Omega point, towards becoming God. The book culminates in a mystical apotheosis when, in the 26th
millennium, Solaria begins to expand into the Galaxy in order to humanize it.
Download Book Searching For Christine  Searching for Christine is a fun,
fast-paced cloak-and-dagger novel. Matt is a young professor in California. He and his
girlfriend Christine are deeply in love. Christine goes to a medical convention, but then she disappears - somewhere in
Europe. Matt frantically goes searching for her. This takes him to Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Budapest and many other places,
each time finding clues about Christine's fate and whereabouts, but arriving just moments too late to rescue her. He bumps
into mysterious men and women, not knowing whether they are friend or foe. His trek across Europe is a dangerous but exciting
adventure, involving violence, political intrigue and criminal conspiracy. It is also a travelogue, Dan Brown-style. It is humorous
and knowledgeable, with surprises in every chapter.
Download Book I Spent My Life Practicing Politically Incorrect Sociology  This book is an anthology of 376 articles and essays. Some of these have been published in places like the Wall Street Journal,
the New York Times and Playboy. The items are very diverse. They include amusing short essays, serious sociological analyses,
postmodern narratives, political diatribes, and critiques of many prevailing assumptions. I analyze dozens of social issues and
political events, I debunk the reactions to these by lay people and by academicians.
I take on political correctness as well as
stereotypical responses to inequality, crime, sex, race, terrorism, etc. The work is the product of nearly 40 years of experience
in teaching, publishing and arguing, as well as my rich international background.
Download Book Letters from the House of the Yellow Star, written by Margit Gorog  This is a series of letters written to me by my grand-mother in 1944, when she and the rest of my family were corralled into the
Budapest Jewish ghetto and prepped for deportation to Auschwitz. While my grand-mother survived the Holocaust, she was pretty sure
when she wrote these pages that she would not. These letters are comparable to Anne Frank’s diary.
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