Eduard Qualls was in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas and, having been raised there in a religious household in which the only things to read were the newspaper, the Bible, a hymnal and a 1956 set of encyclopedias, he found refuge within that multivolume set. An early learner, before starting the second grade he had already read through the encyclopedias once, and was starting again to go through his "favorite letters": 'C' for California and China (and Chinese), 'G' for Greece (and Greek), 'U' for United Kingdom and United States, and 'W' for both World and World War II. This early start in education, augmented by a remarkable set of public school teachers, culminated in his testing out of an entire year of college. He had started speaking French at age 11, followed by Latin, Spanish, and more French in high school. At the same time he had started studying German and Chinese on his own, and pursued Modern Greek with tutoring by the mother of the local Greek Orthodox priest. A college degree in German and Music, with minor in French, was followed by graduate work in German, Latin, and Musicology, culminating in a switch to Graduate Business. A shock to someone whose life had been totally immersed in Humanities, he adapted to this move into business studies by understanding accounting as the 'language' on which business is based, and by realizing that all business activities are rooted in humans, their communities and in human endeavor. A Master of Science degree in Business Administration was followed by almost thirty years of successful productivity within the software industry, specializing in computer graphics, internationalization and text processing and localized formatting. The late economic downturn has given him the opportunity to put into writing a culmination and aggregation of the insights derived from his academic training, his long-term studies in the Humanities and his observations of the human condition and its development throughout history. Mr. Qualls is the author of several books, the latest being the historical novel, "David, My David", with its German translation, "David, mein David".