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He wasn’t just the man who discovered gravity. He was the man who tried to measure God. Isaac Newton is often remembered as the cold genius who sat under an apple tree and changed the world with a single thought. But the truth is far stranger — and far more human. Heaven’s Codebreaker peels back the myth to reveal the obsessive, secretive, visionary mind behind modern science.

For centuries, college was a temple — a place of ideas, inquiry, and dusty robes. But somewhere between the monastery and the marketing department, something changed. In Campus, Inc., JJ takes listeners on a sly, engaging journey through the history of higher education. From theology lectures in medieval Europe to stadium-sized campuses with climbing walls and billion-dollar football programs, this is the story of how college became a business — and how success got sold, one loan at a time. This isn’t a takedown. It’s a timeline.

Before we knew anything else, we had to decide what mattered. This is the story of that decision. History 101 is a time-bending, mind-bending deep dive into the very idea of history itself — how it started, who told it, what got erased, and why it still shapes everything we believe about ourselves. From firelight myths to Mesopotamian propaganda, medieval scribes to Enlightenment idealists, textbook wars to TikTok historians, this book tracks the strange evolution of how humans record the past — and how those records reflect the present more than we like to admit.

What does it really feel like to live in the world’s most powerful police state? Not from the outside. Not from the headlines. From the inside. This book isn’t a political exposé. It doesn’t rant. It doesn’t accuse. Instead, it walks — through the apartments, schools, subways, offices, phones, and daily routines of modern China. Life Inside China is calm, neutral, and observational — but quietly devastating. It shows, without saying, how surveillance becomes normal… How silence becomes safety… And how freedom fades not with violence, but with optimization.

The CIA has shaped world history from behind the scenes for over 75 years—through spycraft, propaganda, coups, mind games, surveillance, and a whole lot of denial. This book walks through the actual history, one operation at a time. No hype. No spin. Just what happened. From Cold War beginnings and MKUltra experiments to media manipulation, secret prisons, drone strikes, and digital warfare, The CIA covers the major programs and turning points that changed not just American policy—but global reality. If you’ve ever wondered what the CIA actually does—this is the answer.

What do you get when you mix sun gods, death gods, dragon-slaying storm brothers, and a mirror that brought back the light? You get the Kojiki—the oldest book in Japan, the sacred origin story of a nation, and the mythic scroll that crowned emperors for over a thousand years.

From the Big Bang to Bitcoin. From the pyramids to pandemics. From cave scribbles to artificial intelligence. This is the full ride. humanity.exe is a one-volume megabook that scrolls through all of human history—fast, vivid, irreverent, and unrelenting. No fluff. No filler. Just the story of civilization told like it actually happened: chaotic, brilliant, stupid, and somehow still standing.

He came in a sealed train, carrying nothing but rage, theory, and a plan to burn the world. LENIN: The Man Who Lit the Fuse is the explosive true story of how one man hijacked a crumbling empire, rewired history in blood and steel, and vanished into a myth that still haunts the planet. From the 1905 revolution to the Red Terror, from exile to empire, from bulletproof theory to flesh-and-blood consequences—this is Lenin without euphemism. Visionary and vicious. Strategic and ruthless. Less a man than a detonation. He didn’t just change Russia. He lit the fuse for everything that came after.

Before hashtags, before marches filled with megaphones, there was one man in a loincloth—walking hundreds of miles to make salt. Gandhi: Salt, Soul, and the End of Empire isn’t your textbook history. It’s the real, raw breakdown of how a soft-spoken lawyer became the living symbol of resistance—not through war, but through will. This book unpacks how one man faced the British Empire—the most powerful force on Earth—armed only with truth, hunger strikes, and a refusal to play by the rules. It’s not a worship piece. Gandhi wasn’t perfect.

For over fourteen centuries, Islam has been shaping civilizations, inspiring revolutions, building empires, and anchoring daily life for billions. Yet in much of the modern world, it remains one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented forces on Earth. This isn’t a religious manual or a political hit piece. It’s a story—told with clarity, reverence, and curiosity. From the deserts of 7th-century Arabia to the heights of the Islamic Golden Age, from the fall of the caliphate to the headlines of today, Islam traces the full arc of a faith that became a civilization.

From intake to discharge, Life Inside the Asylum walks you through the modern psychiatric system: the rules, the rituals, the staff, the patients, the punishment protocols, and the quiet violence hidden behind clinical language. No fluff. No fiction. Just the raw structure of a world few understand until they’re already inside. Locked doors. Forced meds. Therapy by checklist. This is what happens when mental health care stops being care — and becomes compliance.

William Shakespeare didn’t just write plays. He rewrote the code of English itself. This isn’t a textbook. It’s an autopsy. Of the man. The myth. The infection. From Stratford’s dirty streets to the echoing rafters of the Globe, Shakespeare: The Man Who Infected English unpacks how one playwright didn’t just survive history—he rewrote it.

What do bonfires, black cats, sexy nurses, and soul cakes have in common? They all live inside Halloween — a holiday that’s part ancient ritual, part capitalist fever dream, and all vibes. In Trick or Treat: A Spooky Little Halloween History, JJ unwraps the strange evolution of October 31st — from Celtic bonfire nights and Catholic ghost cleanups to suburban mischief, horror movies, and candy-fueled chaos. This is not your average history book. It’s a sharp and slightly haunted walkthrough of one of humanity’s weirdest, most wonderful traditions.

Why do we all spend our childhoods trapped in desks? From ancient cave lessons to cafeteria pizza, Schooled is a clear-eyed look at how we built the modern education system—and how it ended up shaping every kid who passed through it.

You don’t live around plastic. You live inside it. From childhood toys to water bottles, from Tupperware to your bloodstream — plastic didn’t just change the world. It became it. Foreverland is the story of the synthetic substance that reprogrammed reality. What started as a miracle material became a cultural operating system — reshaping taste, convenience, economics, nostalgia, and even human biology. Funny, haunting, and eye-opening, this book will make you see the modern world for what it really is: Plastic. And it’s not going away.

Out of Time is the untold story of calendars, clocks, and the human obsession with taming chaos. From ancient moon cycles to atomic vibrations, James Johnson traces how we invented time, tried to perfect it, and accidentally built a system that now runs our lives — whether we like it or not.

The Most Wonderful Time is a warm, funny, and unexpectedly profound journey through the centuries of stories, symbols, and surprises that gave us the holiday we know today. From the winter solstice rituals of early humans to the chaos of Saturnalia in ancient Rome… from the real Saint Nicholas to Coca-Cola’s Santa… from pagan ghosts and Yule logs to Mariah Carey — this is the true, tangled history of Christmas as you’ve never seen it. Along the way, James Johnson explores the contradictions at the heart of the holiday: joy and grief, light and darkness, sacred and commercial.

What starts as a breakup story turns into a Florida trip, a cruise, some mushrooms, and a pizza delivery gig. Totally normal. Until it isn’t. This is the story of how one guy tried to get his life together after heartbreak… and accidentally unraveled everything. From overpriced cruise drinks and beach tanning to psilocybin ego deaths and metaphysical math, this book is equal parts journal, transmission, and existential comedy special. If you’ve ever been heartbroken, broke, awake at 3AM asking what the hell is going on — this one’s for you. It’s not a self-help book.

Before mindfulness apps. Before lo-fi beats to study to. Before every self-help book told you to “let go”… There was Alan Watts. This book isn’t a lecture. It’s a vibe. Everything Is Fine, Actually is a chilled-out journey through the life and mind of a man who didn’t care about enlightenment points — just clarity, laughter, and presence. From his British roots to his West Coast evolution, Watts preached the art of not trying, the illusion of the ego, and the sacred joke of existence.

Before the statue, before the speeches, before the myth — there was just Abraham Lincoln: a tall, awkward kid from a log cabin who read too much and believed in something bigger than himself. This is the story of how he rose from dirt-floor beginnings to become the president who held the United States together in its darkest hour. From the courtroom in Springfield to the fields of Gettysburg, from quiet heartbreaks to bold proclamations, Lincoln faced a nation on fire and refused to let it burn to the ground.