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Books by Shareef Ali Rashada

Five books, from a visual way to learn piano to a new account of gravity. Every ISBN, edition and ordering route is on this page, with a one-page sheet for each book.

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The Portal Opens

A Revelation of the Cosmos

By Shareef Ali Rashada · Lulu · 2025

The history behind the story, as transmitted by Gabriel: Jesus, Lucifer, Caligastia, Adam and Eve, and Melchizedek. Warm and accessible, it asks what we were never told, and why every faith points to a portion of the Creator within each person.

Subjects: Religion and spirituality · Christianity and Jesus · The Urantia Book
Audience: Adult general readers; spiritual seekers; readers of The Urantia Book

EditionISBNNotes
Paperback978-1-326-60989-4301 pages
Hardcover978-1-326-56533-6
Kindle ebook—Amazon
Audiobook—AI narration, on Spotify
Why readers borrow it
  • Winner of the Literary Titan Silver Book Award: “A wild, luminous ride worth taking.”
  • Readers of The Urantia Book ask for it by name: an audience of its own.
  • Free to read online too, so a library copy reaches readers who prefer print.
One-page sheet (PDF)About the book
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The Unified Framework for the Graviton Pressure Theory

By Shareef Ali Rashada · Lulu · 2025

Gravity as a pressure from the medium of space, with a named physical mechanism, the mathematics and proposed tests, in thirty parts. An open invitation to researchers working on space as a medium, from analogue gravity to superfluid vacuum.

Subjects: Science · Physics · Gravity
Audience: Readers of popular and alternative physics; students; researchers

EditionISBNNotes
Hardcover978-1-326-48805-5
Why readers borrow it
  • A complete, testable framework with its open problems stated, not hidden.
  • All thirty parts are also free online, so the library copy serves readers who study in print.
  • By an author and researcher based in Queensland, Australia.
One-page sheet (PDF)About the book
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Learning to Play the EasyKey Way

Special Library Edition

By Shareef Ali Rashada · Lulu · 2021

A year of piano in twelve keys, written entirely in EasyKey's visual notation: no staff to decode, just the keys you press, read from top to bottom. Scales, arpeggios, chords and chord patterns, with 26 songs from beginner to advanced.

Subjects: Music · Instruction and study · Piano and keyboard
Audience: Beginners of any age, children with a parent, families, music teachers

EditionISBNNotes
Special Library Edition, paperback978-1-4709-4290-8111 pages
Special Home Edition, paperback978-1-4717-9103-1
Why readers borrow it
  • EasyKey was a 2016 finalist in the Moreton Bay Regional Council Innovation Awards.
  • A written method for the way most beginners now learn: by seeing which keys to press.
  • Works alone or with a whole family learning together.
One-page sheet (PDF)About the book

My First Book of Songs

EasyKey Visual Music Notation

By Shareef Ali Rashada · Lulu · 2021

38 songs arranged in the EasyKey Visual Music Notation System, for beginners who want to play real songs from the first day.

Subjects: Music · Songbooks · Piano and keyboard
Audience: Young beginners and families; companion to Learning to Play the EasyKey Way

EditionISBNNotes
Paperback978-1-4717-9102-4
Why readers borrow it
  • The natural companion to the EasyKey method book.
  • Songs a child can play within the first lessons.
One-page sheet (PDF)About the book
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People of the World

A novel

By Shareef Ali Rashada · Lulu · 2011

On July 11, 2012, aliens take three-quarters of humanity. The people left behind must rebuild a world where force no longer works and money loses its meaning, while a young man named Jason is shown the history of the universe.

Subjects: Fiction · Science fiction · Visionary and metaphysical
Audience: Adults only (18+): strong language, sexual content, drug use and violence

EditionISBNNotes
Paperback978-1-4477-7737-3
Kindle ebook—Amazon
Why readers borrow it
  • Speculative fiction about rebuilding society without force or money.
  • The novel that opens the reading path to The Portal Opens.
One-page sheet (PDF)About the book

Ordering

  • Print, worldwideEvery print edition is distributed through Ingram (Lulu Global Distribution). Order by ISBN from Ingram Library Services or your usual supplier.
  • Australia and New ZealandAsk your supplier to source the title by ISBN. If they can't, write to us and we'll arrange supply directly.
  • Ebooks and audiobooks for librariesLibrary editions for OverDrive, hoopla, BorrowBox and cloudLibrary are in preparation. Until then, The Portal Opens and People of the World are available as Kindle ebooks, and The Portal Opens audiobook is on Spotify.
  • Review copies, author talks and EasyKey sessionsFor review copies, or a talk or a hands-on EasyKey music session at your library (South East Queensland, or online anywhere), write to shareef@peopleoftheworld.net.
All ISBNs as plain text
The Portal Opens (Paperback): ISBN 978-1-326-60989-4
The Portal Opens (Hardcover): ISBN 978-1-326-56533-6
The Unified Framework for the Graviton Pressure Theory (Hardcover): ISBN 978-1-326-48805-5
Learning to Play the EasyKey Way (Special Library Edition, paperback): ISBN 978-1-4709-4290-8
Learning to Play the EasyKey Way (Special Home Edition, paperback): ISBN 978-1-4717-9103-1
My First Book of Songs (Paperback): ISBN 978-1-4717-9102-4
People of the World (Paperback): ISBN 978-1-4477-7737-3

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