Fascinating and candid, IRS Secrets from the Nation's Cash Register examines the inner workings of the Internal Revenue Service as well as its relationship to the federal courts. Author Julian Chitta - who worked for eight years at an IRS center as a collection agent - shows us how the IRS is stacked against the US taxpayer. This unique book provides a qualified snapshot of the workings of the fourth branch of the government, and shows how it has outlived elections, administrations, and congressional whims to form a specific power base for its own interests. IRS Secrets from the Nation's Cash...

This is the story of Rome during the fourth century, in the time of its 57th emperor, the first Christian ruler, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, who later was called Augustus, the man known to posterity as a saint, and as CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.His life and work was the object of study for countless historians, yet most of them missed to discover the man under the purple imperial robes. This book tries to fill in some of the missing aspects necessary to reconstruct his true portrait. He was not a perfect man, by any standards, just the right man, at the right place, at the right time. This is...

This book revisits some simple scientific research data which could be considered as the equivalent to Chicken Little's alarm call that the sky is falling. Based on materials widely distributed in the press, the author examines how the superstitions gain a place in the scientific research work, debunking some of them with simple arguments that can be taken from most high school manuals. The author stops to look at climate issues, vaccines, population explosion, homosexuality, to quantum physics and few other issues that makes "experts" out of ordinary Hollywood actors or TV anchormen and...

This book offers you a candid look into the workings of one of the world's largest bureaucracies, the author of the Agenda 21 Act. Motivated by the best intentions, it tries to stamp out poverty in the world, and to protect the most fragile environmental areas, but it leaves out the cost factors, in terms of quality of life and liberty. Would the Agenda 21 impact the USA positively or negatively? You be the judge

'Beatrice' is a working bee who got at the end of her life, and not wanting to be a burden for her society, decided to retire. The book examines the structure and the social events in the life of a bee hive. The reader will find a lot of interesting facts about the biology of this social insect, in the middle of a natural environment with predators, earthquakes, volcanoes, in an Indian village in a foreign country. The influence of the humans on plants and animals is explained in conversational terms, so that a youngster could enjoy this book, which could be classified as an adult story for...

This is the story of the USS-220, the submarine "Barb," under the command of her skipper, Commander Eugene Bennett Fluckey, and her crew, during the war in the Pacific theater. It sank more Japanese tonnage than any other US Navy vessel, being known as the "Galloping Ghost of the China Coast," an elusive ship killer feared by the Japanese Imperial Navy. Nobody got any Purple Uearts on this submarine, and everyone on board got back home alive. Advanced to the rank of Rear Admiral, "Lucky Fluckey," remained the same modest man, even though he was awarded with the highest Navy decorations,...

This is a collection of short stories based on historical events and characters largely ignored by some historians. It is a candid look into the soul of the Lone Star State, with her people, cattle and oil.

This book examines critically, in historical perspective, the evolution of Marxism, from classical theories to the Neo-Marxist currents p;acing the accent on the ways the US was affected by these leftist ideologies. The book analyses the main ideas regarding the various fashions of socialism, like international socialism, national socialism and democratic socialism, concluding that the Marxist ideologies never worked anywhere. The author reproduces, in translation, interviews with Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, giving the reader a unique opportunity to look into the psyche of those despots who...