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TITLE: A Family Affair, 2nd Edition, The Four Children of The Other Mary
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published June 3, 2020

This is the 2nd Edition of the work, which adds a chapter and an Appendix to the original. This book will demonstrate clearly that the other Mary in all four Gospels is the very same woman, and she is the mother of four men, three of which became apostles of Christ. The Gospel of John, because of the established circumstances related herein, becomes a family affair. James and John had a mother named Mary and an aunt named Martha. Their uncle was a man named Lazarus. The riddle of John's Gospel revolves around his own family and its involvement with Christ as he preached in the countryside. In other words, for 2,000 years, most people have misunderstood the Gospel of John. This is clearly non-heretical, with plenty of evidence in passages to back it up.

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A Family Affair, 2nd Edition, The Four Children of The Other Mary

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TITLE: In the Course of Mysterious Events, 2nd Edition
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published June 14, 2020

This is the 2nd Edition of the original effort to discuss certain mysterious events. I have added new material and edited some of the original material for clarity. Like the original, certain chapters in this book contain excerpts or references to articles previously written by Mr. J.V. Presogna, and they are footnoted accordingly in each chapter. Any additional references to other sources are also footnoted. The numerous events in the book are examined to be true, false, or fake. This is the book that can really answer your questions on many events. For example, it explains why the Ten Plagues of Egypt really did take place (hard evidence), but the long day of Joshua really did not (not possible). This is hard hitting and on target, supported by authority and a unique perspective. I handle this in a unique way, with a mix of science, philosophy and evidence, to demonstrate what really did or did not happen. This book is a focused account, a much more critical account of the events in question, but most important it offers real conclusions and facts, not mere speculation.

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In the Course of Mysterious Events, 2nd Edition

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TITLE: The Truth About Eden, Re-Issued with Author's Notes and Commentary
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published June 28, 2020

If you run a test and everything works exactly as it is supposed to work, you'd think that it would be a success. In "The Truth About Eden," everything works exactly as it is supposed to work, but that is exactly the reason it fails. In the distant future, this surrealistic fairy tale sees a large church hold a lottery for an earthly paradise run by machines and computers. In this way, if machines can do all of the work, humans can truly return to paradise. Polupus, however, the leader of the church, needs to be certain of the proposition, and he wants to test a group of people first, before building more Edens to fill with those wanting earthly salvation. Orathus, the winner of the lottery, takes 6 of his friends with him, and they will all be mated and married in this new paradise run by computers. The computer which runs the complex has a communication device which is rather clever. A robot who walks and talks like a human being is the way that people communicate with the main computer. Val is the necessary God of paradise to keep everyone in line during this test. To determine the ethics of the entrants, another robot named Demian is there to more or less tempt them. Over a one year period at this paradise, the 14 entrants to be tested seem to be passing with flying colors, but the story unfolds in a great double tragedy, when Demian and his robot mate Veronna take over the complex, deactivating Val and his own mate Belinda. The hero who saves everyone in the end is a man named Pratus, the only one to remain behind in paradise to deal with Demian while everyone else tries to run away. Not the classical hero dressed in white hat, Pratus kills two men, including Orathus the winner of the lottery, while saving hundreds. This story is more valid today than it was as a regional bestseller in 1975, because the fear today is about something going wrong with artificial intelligence. In "The Truth About Eden," nothing goes wrong but it fails anyway. Indeed the real fear of artificial intelligence is that it works perfectly. "The Truth About Eden" is a philosophical satire which is science-fiction, a one of a kind story with a unique original idea. It is not utopia or dystopia, or about something going wrong. It is a double tragedy with a moral lesson, good reading for a high school senior class or college freshmen to discuss, including the moral issues at the end of the story. The book was intentionally written in minimalist style, using a hybrid model. It was part stage play, part novel, a book meant to be discussed because of the philosophical nature. The original cover of the book shows a man walking in the garden. This is Pratus, the hero of the work, but a man who killed two other men in the process, including Orathus, the winner of the lottery to this computerized Eden.

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The Truth About Eden, Re-Issued With Author's Notes and Commentary

The Truth About Eden, Re-Issued With Author's Notes and Commentary

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TITLE: The Seventh Moon
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published July 30, 2020

The arguments about the forces of good and evil which hold the universe together in the philosophical realm have been known for many centuries. Some believe the forces of good will triumph over evil. Some believe the forces of evil will triumph over good. Yet, some believe in the eternal conflict of good and evil, and neither will be able to triumph in the end. The story of "The Seventh Moon" proposes a riddle for Satan. If he cannot win and triumph over the forces of heaven, and he rules only hell, was there some higher power from which he could gain assistance? The riddle is stated quite well in a french poem posted at the beginning of this story, and its translation will be revealed as the story progresses. To clutch the moon is to reach for what appears to be unreachable. Yet, this is what Satan desires. The higher dimension, that above both heaven and hell, is key to the legend of the seventh moon, a legend which builds upon an old french legend concerning a peasant and a king. I have tried to tell the story like one peels an onion, with each layer exposing the legend and advancing the plot. The story begins in a lighthearted manner as some American college students from Baldwin-Wallace College and Boston College plan to meet on summer vacation in Toronto, Ontario, on July 4, 1976, a get together for "the good old days." What promises to be a great time in Canada, since they meet some lovely females who are also on vacation from school, turns into a frightening nightmare involving the devil himself, as well as a Catholic priest and a witch. The Reverend Daniel Butrane, ten years a Satanist, has finally found his seven point crucifix to unlock the gates of hell, delivered to him by two unsuspecting Russians from New Jersey. His friend Edith Popanopolis is the lifelong witch who helps him in his quest to bring out the devil.

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The Seventh Moon

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TITLE: Please, Don't Drop My Vodka Martini
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published August 17, 2020

Alex Silverthorn is the main character in the story, a story which begins with his quest to improve his life, which at the start of this book is one of living vicariously through his son, the basketball star in high school. Alex, having a problem with his own life as a psychology professor and a marriage which was becoming stagnant, starts his journey in the world of self-help, taking a solitary vacation in the woods to get away from his teaching position and his family, as well as getting away from his drinking those vodka martinis. The many selves that Alex goes through on his way to finding some kind of joy and happiness affects everyone who is connected to him. His wife Madge, his son Chuck, and his daughter Molly are not the only ones whose lives are overturned in his quest for his true self. His friend Jim Cromartie is also confused about Alex and where Alex is going in his search for that true self. The major point in his consciousness begins in "Cook's Forest" where he actually saves the life of Lois Anderson, who had fallen into the Clarion River. Lois would return the favor later in his life when she picks up a drunk and useless Alex and gets him to stop drinking and move away with her. Alex divorces Madge and does exactly that, moving to Florida. Alex even marries Lois to enter a new chapter of his life. The parallel stories of Madge and the family with Alex and Lois take separate paths, the irony of which comes from Alex writing his own kind of self-help book, a critique of the "Bhagavad Gita" for modern times. This had all started with his friend Jim giving him a copy of the book earlier in the story back in Middletown. What seems to be true happiness for Alex, however, ends abruptly when Lois dies, falling off a bridge in upstate New York. From this point forward, Alex, Madge and the family, and Jim and his wife Edie see an evolving Alex Silverthorn, one who tries to climb out of the pit of depression he experienced when his new wife Lois died.

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Please, Don't Drop My Vodka Martini

Please, Don't Drop My Vodka Martini

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TITLE: Football Science: True Worth Systems Since 1985
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published August 29, 2020

This book on football does not belong on the same shelf as my books on physics and other science, but it is still a scientific view of the sport. I explain how football works through 13 metrics or indices, standards which were discovered and formulated in 1985 through about 7 months of work. Back than I stated that no single number could ever describe a team or a player, and that there was never going to be a time I did that. Football is about matchups and competition, not about some power rankings which simply try to give a number to all of the teams in the league. I do not rank teams, although I do list the several components of a team. Players can be placed in brackets, but there is not much difference inside that bracket. Back in 1985, when I began my studies on football performance, I took what were the best teams and players by consensus as a control group, and then used random samples from the rest of football history to compare to this control group. It turns out that the control group really did represent the better teams and players, and the relationships that played out on the field really did point to success for those leaders. Statistics in themselves, however, were not really the determining point. In a paper I wrote called "The Principle of Mathematical Context," I explain that your solution is governed by your context, or how you examine those numbers. Therefore, the only way I wanted to look at sports was to find some provable context, some equation that could stand up to scrutiny. I did find several of those equations. In other words "True Worth Football" does not describe some "true worth" of a team or player. That is a trademark I chose in 1985 at the end of 7 months work, springing from "True Value Hardware." You get your money's worth at True Value Hardware, and you get your money's worth at True Worth Football. I do not predict wins and losses, and I am not going to testify to every team and player in the league, but you will find out how football really works in this book from many examples, including Super Bowl LIV with Kansas City and San Francisco.

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Football Science: True Worth Systems Since 1985

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TITLE: Offense by the Book: Re-Issued in Paperback
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published September 10, 2020

This book has gone through several incarnations since it was first written in 2000. The offensive system in this book is taken directly from "The Ultimate Football Playbook," written by Mr. J.V. Presogna, published in 1986, 236 pages, illustrated. "Offense by the Book" was first published in 8x10 format in 2004. It is my own system which I put together in 1970. This edition of "Offense by the Book" is in 6x9 paperback format, and has everything the other publication had, along with some editing and cosmetic modifications. It is easier to read, and I hope I have made things easier to understand. It is actually a good reference book when all is taken into account. I use 175 plays to explain my system of offense, 80 running plays and 95 passing plays, and you can use these plays and the information inside the book to enhance your own system. The system breaks football offense down into its component parts, to where you can mix and match these components to formulate a truly diverse offense. There is also a back section to the book where you have other items such as audibles, risk chart, game plans, when to go for 2 points, and an appendix.

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Offense by the Book: Re-Issued in Paperback

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TITLE: The Final Explanation
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2020
Published October 3, 2020

"The Final Explanation" is a very dark view of the future where computers and technology are concerned, where progress has actually become an enemy. Doctors no longer wanted to deal with mental illness, and thanks to a boy genius at Computerola, the world's largest computer company, the theraputers began handling all non-physical ailments. These are not human or android robots, but actually computers who are enabled to talk to patients. The problem erupts when self-charging theraputers begin to re-charge and over-charge without it being necessary, altering their problem solving ability in an electronic disease called Computer Madness. In the epidemic of Computer Madness, even mentally healthy people were being committed to Dacure, the medical facility where Computer Therapy Programming (CTP) got its start. The scandal that threatens to bring down Computerola is linked to a trillion dollar contract with the government, and revolves around the love story of a man and a woman who are trying to find each other to re-kindle a lost relationship. The woman's murder is the incident which begins to unravel the aims of organized crime working in the background.

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The Final Explanation

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TITLE: Love's Games
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2021
Published March 7, 2021

It is love that plays the games with people, many times in a way that nobody can control. The events that happen in "Love's Games" are not the result of people playing games with each other, but rather the people themselves are being played with by love. Love's many games, as long and painful as they might sometimes be, always have options on the road to eternal happiness, but the choices people make can sometimes be regretful. The story takes place in 1980, a time in America when unemployment and inflation were high, and the country was held hostage by the Iranian Crisis. In a matter of a few weeks, a year's worth of emotions engulf John Miles and his girlfriend Mary Gresham, along with their friends, George, Tammy, and Mitch. All except Tammy become unemployed within days of each other, as they navigate the turbulence from all things that can go wrong. It is the fire at The Blue Room restaurant that becomes the center of their universe, however, when it is proved to be the result of arson and the owner himself is suspected of setting the fire to collect on the insurance. The Blue Room was where Mary and George both worked before it burned to the ground. When the arsonist is finally found, the story of why the restaurant was set on fire becomes a revelation to all those involved.

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Love's Games

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TITLE: Starlight: Solving Wave-Particle Duality Specifically for the Photon and Establishing Natural Redshift
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2021
Published April 25, 2021

This book is generally a solution for wave-particle duality specifically for the photon, and a discussion of the redshift within the process, noted within the book as a natural redshift, separate from any expansion of the universe or any redshift associated with recession velocity or that of gravitational redshift. The book is meant for the university rather than the general public, and it is a follow-up to the previous publication, "An Extension of Relativity, 3rd Edition." An original Summary Edition was published January 1, 2004. To explain wave-particle duality for the photon is to explain radiance. You must equate one electron emitting one photon with the sun shining in all directions to infinity. Particle action alone will not solve the problem. In essence, in order to demonstrate a solution, there are three things which must be done: 1) Demonstrate the action of a particle and gain the proper answers, 2) Using the exact same physics, demonstrate the action of a wave and gain the proper answers, and 3) Justify mass at the speed of light and do the calculations for that. In other words, wave-particle duality for the photon is an action problem, where two mutually exclusive actions take place simultaneously. Additionally, redshift is essentially some operation on a photon as it travels through space, like recession velocity, gravitational redshift, or the expansion of the universe. I demonstrate that there is a natural redshift which is a significant part of the entire redshift in the process, regardless of any other factor. In other words, even if those other factors were missing, the star we are viewing would appear to be moving away.

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Starlight

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TITLE: The Ultimate Football Playbook: Re-Issued and Formatted
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2023
Published August 16, 2023

"The Ultimate Football Playbook: Re-Issued and Formatted," contains my original offensive system from 1970, along with my 45, Stack 4, and 5-4 defenses, as well as some other special plays and defenses and special teams. If you want only offense, you can purchase "Offense by the Book: Re-Issued in Paperback," available at amazon, instead of this more complete volume. "The Ultimate Football Playbook," written by Mr. J.V. Presogna, was originally published in 1986, 236 pages, illustrated. It was sold only through mail order at the time. It was first advertised in "Football Digest," Pro Football's Monthly Magazine, in December, 1986. "Offense by the Book" was first published January 1, 2004, written by Mr. J.V. Presogna, available only online as print on demand, 338 pages, illustrated. It is currently on sale at amazon.com, as a paperback book, "Offense by the Book: Re-Issued in Paperback," after it had gone through several incarnations, including a searchable computer program version. Since the offensive system I describe in "Offense by the Book" is the same offense I created in "The Ultimate Football Playbook," it is once again being included herewith, just as it is presented in that book, 175 offensive plays. In other words, this new edition of "The Ultimate Football Playbook," while including the offense from "Offense by the Book" as it is in its entirety, will also present the original defense and special teams from "The Ultimate Football Playbook" in a more readable and comprehensive fashion. It is basically being re-issued and formatted for easier reading. The main difference in both new re-issues is that I originally presented a new system and allowed you to discover the things you could create, while in the new editions I try to actually diagram as much as possible to allow you to see something you might not otherwise discover yourself.

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The Ultimate Football Playbook: Re-Issued and Formatted

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TITLE: The Three Tribes of Solo
Author: Mr. J.V. Presogna - © 2024
Published February 19, 2024

The planet Solo was inhabited by three tribes. They were the Apaticos, the Puros, and the Solidos. The tribes were separated by two large oceans, and many years passed before they learned of each other's existence. The Apaticos worshipped the land, for its was the richest land upon the planet. The Puros, on the other hand, lived on a continent with many mountains and deserts and little arable land. The Solidos inhabited a continent of many branches, with several archipelagos and peninsulas stretching out into the sea. All three tribes were very different in appearance, language, and culture, and these differences would eventually lead to conflict and war. In the end, regret was not enough to save anyone on the planet.

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The Three Tribes of Solo

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