Hubert Kleinpeter, Ph.D. is the author of five books to be released: Twisted Society – Engineered Chaos, accompanied by a book supplement, The Forbidden Dictionary - A Survival Guide from A to Z, (2011); a research methods textbook, Surveillances Birthed in the Streets, (2011); an ethnography of street children in An Army of Feral Kids, (2010); followed by Oceanic Sanctuary, (2012). He is from the island of Key Biscayne, Florida and was educated in private secular and religious schools. At eighteen he earned a General Equivalency Diploma, from the Florida Department of Education, followed by an Associate in Arts in Political Science from Miami Dade Community College (1977), and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the College of Social Science, Florida State University (1979). Upon graduation, he worked as a real estate broker for ten years in Miami, Florida managing residential and commercial projects.

Faced with encircling career and personal demands he returned to academia where he earned a Master of Science in Social Science with an emphasis in Public Administration from the College of Social Sciences, The Florida State University (1997). Afterwards he enrolled in a doctorate of education social science program and was employed with the University of Miami School of Medicine as a liaison to the Florida Governor’s Office in the capacity of senior researcher for youth and tobacco use. After a political regime change, he resigned and focused his attentions on the global issue of street children which led to his working as a surrogate parent, teacher and ombudsman on their behalf in a shelter located in Mexico. He eventually wrote his dissertation on the difficult lives of the feral children he encountered, and upon the completion of his doctorate studies was awarded the Ph.D. in Foundations of Education, major in the Social Sciences (2002), followed by post doctorate studies leading to the Graduate Certificate in Educational Policy from the College of Education, Florida State University (2003).

Afterwards, he taught sociology at Florida A & M University and culture and education at Florida State University. In addition to teaching, he serves in the capacity of analyst with scholarly expertise in government, public administration, foundations of education, sociology and educational policy analysis. In practice, he is a writer and contributing scholar at the Mantis Institute, an educational society where he serves as a principal researcher, writer and ombudsman for social justice through the enlightened use in lieu of the misuse of the social sciences by institutions of governance.

Dr. Kleinpeter feels that spirituality and science co-exist in giving purposeful meaning of enduring suffering. He offers a mix of observable realities interpreted by the social sciences with psychological perspectives from religious mythologies, all which tell stories of the expression of Creative Intelligence in human affairs. As a teacher reflecting upon the institutions of family, religion, education, business and government, the spirit of a natural provocateur through his interpretations can be felt throughout his writings and teachings concerning the lack of social justice that could be assuaged by the practice of ethics in leadership that he asserts are preached, but are generally lacking in practice within the institutions of church and state: e.g., fraudulent, fearful religion and crimes of malice, negligence and incompetence committed through governance.

He is a teacher shaped by an empathic psyche birthed by “tricks of fate”. The Author feels that if one really wants to live, like a warrior with purpose, believe in a greater truth to the point of being abandoned, or at the peril of losing life and liberty. Realize one controls nothing; be strong, remain calm in trying circumstances while faced with troubled, ignorant, or unreasonable people. Careful actions that do no harm are more important than tricky words. People committing evil acts have moral purpose too; if fated, lead to protect the powerless from the sins of the powerful to redeem the self and others.

The Author is the motivating force behind several intellectual, artistic and vocational arts collaborations. As a teacher in the pursuit of knowledge, he believes education ought to be of good practical use through the experience of working hand and mind in collaboration with others. In addition to being an academician, Dr. Kleinpeter is trained in the maritime, vocational arts; skills learned through collaborating with a marine engineer and naval architect, skilled yard workers, and seafaring cultures; collaborations applied to fast, open ocean trimarans. Being involved in maritime projects has led him overseas, an adventure as the basis of his next work, Oceanic Sanctuary to be released in 2011.