My Book:
Plagues and Miracles
Plagues and Miracles (120,000 words; 22 chapters) is a memoir of survival, transformation, and resilience across three radically different political and cultural systems. Written in response to growing political divisions in the United States and around the world, the book explores how individuals can endure—and succeed—within any system. The narrative spans war-scarred Warsaw, the intellectual corridors of Cambridge, and the Rocky Mountains of America, blending history, politics, and personal experience with insight and understated humor.
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At its core, the memoir examines perseverance in the face of overwhelming obstacles—what I call plagues—and the unexpected turning points, or miracles, that shape a life. From growing up under Soviet-style communism and witnessing the collapse of Eastern Europe to pioneering transformative engineering technologies in the United States, the story reveals the human resilience and ingenuity that quietly drive both history and innovation.​
Alongside the global themes, the book reflects on life in the Rockies—their beauty, isolation, and capacity for renewal—and offers an insider’s perspective on U.S. academia, a system often idealized from afar yet filled with its own contradictions and challenges. For readers interested in exploring further, this page includes links to a short synopsis, the preface, and the first introductory chapter and the Foreword by Dr. Paul Predecki.
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Book Wisdom Statements
Chapter 1. Role of Bananas in World Jumping
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Without bananas, Joseph Conrad and the author would not have succeeded; however, bananas can be or should be eaten just with our fingers; otherwise, Charles Darwin will become irrelevant, we will lose a banana, and the jumping evolution will cease.
​Chapter 5. Big City Communism
Bombs kill while apples feed, and even the greatest military might, supported by the most powerful social ideology, will collapse if it cannot provide food for the benefit of the people that it pretends to represent.
​Chapter 8: Transformative and Disruptive Researcher
Stay positive, creative, disruptive, and, most importantly, transformative. Otherwise, a wrecking ball will get you, and an apartment complex will be built on your grave.
​Chapter 16. Close Encounters
If we, the people of the left, right, and middle, fail in our life experiment because the unfair life rapidly increases our jumping distance and we crash-land, destroying the next generations, we can always blame the horse. If the horse breaks its neck because of our selfishness and hate, we can still sell it for whisky.
Chapter 19. Time of Plagues and Miracles
Plagues come and go, whereas miracles stay all around us, waiting to save us; however, we will never survive, and miracles will not help us if we do not practice love, friendship, tolerance, forgiveness, and, most importantly, superhuman resilience in the face of life's atrocities.​​​​
Praise from a Diverse Range of Readers
The book has been reviewed by readers from a broad spectrum of political, cultural, and social backgrounds. Four read the entire manuscript, one read a substantial portion, and about fifteen examined selected chapters. Every reviewer expressed enthusiastic support for the book’s storytelling, its quality of writing, and its continuing intellectual relevance. Several agreed to share their insights, and their testimonials are presented below.