A top surveillance expert whose career inspired the film, The Conversation, traces his life from an abusive childhood in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town to a premier producer of electronic surveillance devices, a career marked by false charges by the FBI after his testimony before the National Wiretap Commission in 1975.

The Antarean Odyssey is about the birth and the fiery end of their home-world. It is a story about adventures, love, heartbreak, sorrow and of overcoming difficult and often dangerous situations. The Antarean Odyssey Book One The Labors of Jonathan One evening Jonathan Wright overhears a conversation about a world-wide Cartel, an interstellar trade agreement, and aliens called Altruscans. The Antarean Odyssey Book Two The Original Four This story is about four girls coming from diverse cultures and backgrounds, and they are the beginning of the Antarean people. The Antaean Odyssey Book Three Loss of Eden The ending of childhood might feel like the loss of Eden. It is time for the Original Four to meet the world. They story is about an expedition going terribly wrong. Sabrina races home against time and death only to find a deserted ship. The Antares is only manned by androids. The Antarean Odyssey Book Four Starship Trefayne Sabrina didn't mind leaving Acheron. But she was not too crazy about having to drop her studies and the being a guinea pig integrating a Chiron Starship. If Captain Thalon aka Sargon though to have Sabrina safely on the Trefayne, he will soon learn otherwise. The Antarean Odyssey Book Five Misalliance Now is the time for Commander Sarah Thalon, Chief Medical Officer of the Worldship Antares to leave home to become an intern on Madras to fulfill a requirement of Starfleet of the Planetary Alliance.

Born 1935 in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania I lived with my two brothers, Al and Ron, and parents in one half of a duplex house on Horton Street. It was a basic house consisting of living/dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms and one bath. The kitchen stove and furnace were both coal fired. Dad was a plumber who worked for his father, owner of Martin L. Kaiser Company, Plumbing and Heating. Grandfather worked for his father, my great-grandfather, who emigrated from Prussia in 1858. He served in the civil war rising to a rank of Sergeant. The Kaiser copper and tinsmith business began in Prussia and can be traced to the late 1700’s.

"Readers will discover the failures of Kissingers policy of detente in the early 1970s, the mistaken departure from Carters balanced policy toward China and the USSR, and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures"-Foreign Service Journal. "Obers book recounts it all, along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks, Victor and Jennifer Louis, Nina and Ed Stevens, U.S.-Soviet summits, microwaves, bugged buildings and typewriters, fires, spy dust and spy mania . . . Its all there, the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90, a place so unlike todays walled air-conditioned, high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination."-Richard Gilbert, AmericanDiplomacy.org "You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s. I dont know anyone who has done it better."-Donald Connery, former Time-Life correspondent, Moscow. "Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy, this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior"-George Feifer, "The Girl from Petrovka".

Back info In the year 2127 on a planet one hundred thousand light years away a race of artificial human’s labor to supply Earth with the miracle ore Dycornum. Then an anomalous quirk occurred in the maturation process and sentient artificials were born. Now free from the supercomputer that governed their every thought, they followed their natural inclination and came to Earth to be a part of humanities utopian society. Detective Dexter Ruyac, like everyone else on Earth, envisioned the artificals as advertised by the government to be drones – biological machines; so far removed from mankind they did not even have souls. He was startled to discover that the anomaly of a sentient artificial he had found was just one of many. One presidential official of the global government the World Court deemed them as an industrial accident and a threat to the social order of Earth; knowledge of these intelligent artificials should not reach the public. This officer of the Court formed a black operation group of cybernetic hunter killers to eliminate them. Dexter’s social pledge as a policeman to protect and serve has extended to these immigrants of mankind from across the stars but he is running out of time to find them first.

Questions about how ancient Greek texts establish their authority, reflect on each other, and project their own truths have become central for a wide range of recent critical discourses. In this volume, an influential group of international scholars examines these themes in a variety of poetic and rhetorical genres. The result is a series of striking and original readings from different critical perspectives that display the centrality of these questions for understanding the poetic and rhetorical aims of ancient Greek texts. Characterized by a combination of close attention to philological detail and theoretical sophistication, the essays in this volume make a compelling case for this kind of focused, critically informed dialogue about the nature of ancient textual praxis. Students of classical literature will find a wealth of critical insights and challenging new readings of many familiar texts.

A global pandemic leaves a small part of the population immune to a deadly virus. The lucky ones, those with the right genes. In the aftermath of a pandemic, those who are immune are discriminated against. Society views them as a threat and their civil rights are restricted. John refuses to submit to his fate and become a pariah. Instead, he takes a leap of faith and leaves for a faraway world. But his fight for freedom is not over and the challenges that confront him put his resolve to the test.