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What if the Bible was only half the story? In 1945, a sealed jar was unearthed in the Egyptian desert. Inside: a set of ancient texts that no one was supposed to read. Known now as the Nag Hammadi Library, these 1,600-year-old writings include lost gospels, secret revelations, and alternative takes on Jesus, God, creation, and reality itself. This book walks you straight into the fire. Not with dogma — but with myth, metaphor, and the actual words the early Church buried. You’ll meet the Demiurge, a false god who thinks he’s the real one. You’ll hear Jesus speak in riddles.

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.

A sacred herb. A stoner joke. A billion-dollar industry. A criminal offense. Cannabis has worn a thousand masks — medicine, menace, miracle, meme — depending on the era, the culture, and who was holding the power. In High Society, JJ delivers a sharp, surprising, and deeply human history of the plant that refuses to stay in one box. From ancient rituals in India and burial rites in Scythian tombs to jazz clubs, sweat lodges, courtrooms, and dispensary chains, this book follows weed's journey through the world's empires, religions, revolutions, and contradictions.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She wore black for forty years. And ruled a world in mourning. Queen Victoria didn’t just wear the crown — she became it. Through grief, silence, and sheer symbolic power, she turned herself into the emotional architecture of an empire that never stopped expanding. While others fought, conquered, and colonized, she sat — cloaked in black — and let the myth do the work. Victoria: The Widow Who Ruled the World is not a sentimental biography.

He was sick, alone, and laughed at by every polite thinker of his day. Then he broke the world. This is the life and madness of Friedrich Nietzsche — the man who declared God dead, tore morality out by the roots, and invented the Übermensch before collapsing in a foreign street, hugging a horse and signing letters as Dionysus. Nietzsche: The Man Who Saw Too Much is a mind-melting biography of the firebrand who rewired philosophy from the ground up.

He changed the world — but do you actually know what happened? Forget what you were told in school, on the news, or through secondhand rumor. This is the real story — no fluff, no fear-mongering, and no preaching. Who was Muhammad? What did he actually say? Why did his message spark the rise of one of the most powerful civilizations in history? From the lonely caves of Mecca to the conquest of empires, this book tells the story of one man who refused to back down — and built a movement that still shapes the world today.

You’ve heard about it. Quoted. Misquoted. Feared. Revered. But have you ever actually seen what the Quran says? No filter. No theology. No translator’s footnotes. Just the story — as it unfolds, from the first prayer to the final warning. What the Quran Actually Says walks you through Islam’s most controversial and least understood book in twelve direct chapters. It doesn’t preach. It doesn’t apologize. It doesn’t pull punches. Fire. Mercy. Law. Warning. That’s what’s in here. You don’t need to believe it. But you should know what it says.

You’ve seen the movie. You laughed. You moved on. But what if Groundhog Day wasn’t just a comedy? What if it was a subconscious training manual? What if it was you? In Looped: The Groundhog Day Problem, JJ pulls back the curtain on the greatest Trojan Horse ever snuck into theaters — a romantic comedy that quietly teaches surrender, transformation, and what it really means to change. This isn’t a film analysis. It’s a map out of your own loop. Funny, unfiltered, and weirdly spiritual, Looped is the wake-up call you didn’t know was playing on repeat. Same day. New eyes. Break the loop.

Everything’s a Sign is the definitive deep-dive into the life, madness, and legacy of Freud—from his Jewish upbringing in imperial Vienna to the invention of psychoanalysis, the breakups with Jung and Adler, and his final escape from the Nazis with a rotting jaw and a typewriter still hot.