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Zheng He is a historical novel by Dr Matt Buttsworth about the life of one of the most fascinating men in world history. Captured by the Chinese army as a young boy, castrated to become a eunoch and the future emperor’s playmate, he rose to become a successful general and one of the greatest admirals in the history of the world who led gigantic Chinese fleets to Vietnam, Java, Sri Lanka, India, Saudi Arabia, and the east coast of Africa at a time when China was the world leader in all aspects of maritime technology. And yet, at the peak of his unparalleled success, the decision was made ...

My name is Matt Buttsworth. I have suffered from dyslexia and dysgraphia all my life and I know how difficult it can be to learn to read or to learn how to write legibly or to type without a thousand uncontrollable errors. I also know as a teacher and from my own at times bitter personal experience how difficult it can be to get effective help, and what terrible obstacles and terrible blows people suffering from dyslexia and dysgraphia can face . But despite these disabilities, I have triumphed. I taught myself to read, to type using code systems and to use the latest voice dictation ...

The Rise of the West is a thought provoking analysis of a key event in world history - what events and factors led to the rise of the West to global supremacy when in 1200 China and the Islamic World were world leaders in science, technology and global trade and the West lagged far behind. It considers the factors that led to the decline of China and the Islamic world and in particular the impact of Genghiz Khan on World history. It concludes by examining the specific cultural and historical factors that led to the rise of the West and considers the factors that lead to the rise and fall of...

Eden and the Fall – The Fallacies of Radical Ecological History is a world history analysis book by Dr Matt Buttsworth which is a hard hitting, detailed expose of how radical ecologists uses history to recruit and motivate their followers. It shows that their models of history are profoundly anti-Western and apocalyptic varying only in who they blame for the current ecological crisis. It goes on to prove emphatically not only that their models of history are deeply flawed and factually false, but that the ancestors of this model, including Nazism, were extremely dangerous. It therefore ...

From the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa thousands of Soviet citizens wanted to ally with the German side in an attempt to overthrow the hated communist system, an alliance that many of the leaders of the Wehrmacht desperately wanted. However, in their attempt to create this alliance, they had one enemy far worse than Stalin. That was Hitler himself, who was determined to exploit, starve and kill the Slavic Untermensch no matter what this cost in terms of the willingness of the Soviet peoples to ally with the German forces. This article is a a ...

Polarshift is a fascinating book which will change the way you see the past and the profound changes that are occurring in the present. Using a unique long term historical perspective which begins with the drastic impact of Genghiz Khan upon the civilizations of Eurasia, Dr Matt Buttsworth analyzes what factors led to the rise of the West, what factors have led to its fall, and what factors are now propelling the nations of the East - China, India and the Dragon States - to world economic and technological leadership and what this means for the future of the world. This book considers the ...

The Rise Asia is a compelling investigation of one of the dramatic changes in the world economy that is occurring today - the rise to global economic dominance of the nations of Asia. Taking a long term historical perspective Dr Matt Buttsworth begins by considering the Meiji Restoration in Japan before considering the rise of the Dragon States of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore and the reawakening of the two giants of Asia - China and India. It is a well composed consideration of the profound change in economic power that is occurring in Asia today and of the implications it ...

The Dragon Wakes - The Rise and Future of China is a detailed article analyzing the factors that have led to China's amazing rise in economic power since the death of Mao and the possible widely different paths China may take in the future which will have a profound impact both on the Chinese people and nations around the world. It is a detailed and thoughtful analysis of the world's coming superpower. The Dragon Wakes is part of Polarshift - China, India and the Decline of the West

Polarshift is a thought provoking book which will change the way you see the past and the profound changes that are occurring in the present. It is a book which everyone who is interested in the profound polarshifts in world economic and technological power that are occurring today must read. Using a unique long term historical perspective considering events from the time of Genghiz Khan until now, Dr Matt Buttsworth analyzes what factors led to the rise of the West, what factors have led to its fall, and what factors are now propelling the nations of the East - China, India and the Dragon ...

Polarshift is a thought provoking book which will change the way you see the past and the profound changes that are occurring in the present. It is a book which everyone who is interested in the profound polarshifts in world economic and technological power that are occurring today must read. Using a unique long term historical perspective considering events from the time of Genghiz Khan until now, Dr Matt Buttsworth analyzes what factors led to the rise of the West, what factors have led to its fall, and what factors are now propelling the nations of the East - China, India and the Dragon ...

This collection of short stories is about an extraordinary woman who lived at the beginning of White settlement in Western Australia who had three loves, one life long which was kept secret for over a hundred years. It is a story of survival, of life defining choices, and of loyalty.

Crash - the Unknown Sustainability of a Chinese Dominated World Trading System is a piercing investigation of the disastrous effects Chinese Mercantilism is having on the world economy, and whether it will cause the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? It argues that while China's rise has bought prosperity to hundreds of millions of people from China and from resource supplying nations across the world, including Australia, parts of Africa, Kazakhstan and Russia, its use of aggressive mercantilist has bankrupted the manufacturing industries of nations across the world whose ...

The Rise and Fall of the West is a thought provoking in depth article which considers what factors and events in world history led to the rise of the West and what factors are now leading to its decline. Specifically it deals with the rise of the West in terms of the catastrophic effect of the conquests of Genghis Khan on the other civilizations of Eurasia, and of military supremacy, the knowledge revolution and the industrial revolution as laying the basis of the Western domination of the world and the transformation of nations around the world in its image. While the causes of the decline...

Pero da Covilhã was a man of mystery. A spy who could speak Castilian like a Castilian and Arabic like a Moor. But even he could never have imagined the mission that he would be given by the King of Portugal. To travel not just across Spain and Italy but further into the lands of the East than any Christian man had journeyed since Marco Polo all the while knowing that every man or woman he met on the way could be an assassin sent to kill him. Covilhã’s mission was crucial to the success of the Portuguese plan to sail to India and beyond but if he did survive what would the Portuguese ...

The Navigator is the first book in the series Spice and is the successor to the best selling novel Zheng He. It is the tale of one man, Prince Henry the Navigator, and how his dream of reaching India and the Spice Islands to make his Kingdom Portugal richer than Venice, a dream that was to change the history of the world forever. It is a tale of bravery, cowardice, fanaticism, disappointment, ambition and adventure.

China versus the US is a challenging article that argues that China, because of its belief in Mercantalism, has already begun a trade war not only against the US, but against the entire World Trading System. And China is winning! It is a thought provoking article that demands action. Dr Matt Buttsworth is an expert on Chinese and world politics. He is also the author of "Polarshift - India, China and the Rise and Fall of the West" and of the popular world history analysis work "Genghis Khan and the Creation of the Modern World".

Pero da Covilhã was a man of mystery. A spy who could speak Castilian like a Castilian and Arabic like a Moor. But even he could never have imagined the mission that he would be given by the King of Portugal. To travel not just across Spain and Italy but further into the lands of the East than any Christian man had journeyed since Marco Polo all the while knowing that every man or woman he met on the way could be an assassin sent to kill him. Covilhã’s mission was crucial to the success of the Portuguese plan to sail to India and beyond but if he did survive what would the Portuguese ...

Broken Glass is a piercing analysis by Dr Matt Buttsworth of the origins and nature of the crisis of faith in the Progress Ethos gripping Western civilisation. He traces its origins from the battlefields of the Somme and the extermination camps of the Nazis to the mushroom cloud of Hiroshima arguing that after such events it is impossible to believe that man is good, with the image of man the discover being replaced by the image of man, the destroyer of worlds. The consequences of this loss of faith for Western civilisation have been profound leading to a loss of faith in the ideal of ...

Europe is in crisis. As the leaders of France and Germany scramble to create one solution after another, the Euro is on the brink of collapse. Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy all of debts they cannot repay, and government bond interest rates have dramatically increased as bankers fears of sovereign risk and national debt default increase with every crisis and every failed solution. European and IMF funds have saved Greece, Portugal and Ireland for now, but what happens if Spain is engulfed by financial crisis? Or Italy? What nations or institutions in the world could save the third ...

In 1200 the Islamic world was on the brink of a scientific revolution while Sung China was on the brink of a technological and proto-industrial revolution which could have changed the entire history of the world. But instead of that both Islamic and Chinese civilization slipped into decline, with the scientific and technological revolutions halted by the destruction of key libraries, and by growing chauvanism, religious bigotry and ethnocentrism which prevented knowledge from outside these civilizations which would have been essential to the continuation of these scientific and ...