Quirky StoriesWicked Funny, Twisted, Warm & TrueIn this second collection of quirky stories, Bins explores everything from relationships to the future with insight, panache and humor. Some will leave you breathless, others laughing or in tears. But be careful — most are notfor children, and a few could keep you awake.Quirky Stories is divided into sections so you can just dive in:Wicked Funny. Try not to snicker at this list of characters: Barbie & Ken (and T...

This book is about many things-real and fictionalized recollections about growing up, pleasure and pain, good and evil, as well as quirky insights into human nature. It includes stories and poems for children, teens and adults. Most stories are under 600 words, so it's perfect for the coffee or night table, bathroom or flight bag.Quirky Stories & Poems is divided into three sections, so dive in where you wish and revisit often:Backwards. Stories and poems about childhood an...

This book is about many things – real and fictionalized recollections about growing up, pleasure and pain, good and evil, as well as quirky insights into human nature. It includes stories and poems for children, teens and adults. Most stories are under 600 words, so it’s perfect for the coffee or night table, bathroom or flight bag.Quirky Stories & Poems is divided into three sections, so dive in where you wish and revisit often:Backwar...

The time has come for nondualism. As a fundamentally unifying concept, nondualism may seem out of place in an age of rising nationalism and bitter deglobalization, but our current debates over tribalism and universalism all grant nondualism an informative relevance. Nondualism rejects both separation and identity, thereby encouraging unity-in-difference. Yet “nondualism” as a word occupies a large semantic field. Nondual theists advocate the unity of humankind and God, while nondual atheis...

"May I ask where the path is? It is where you take your first step." This book contains some articles during my graduate level. All articles selected to this book are pertinent to international relations in different fields such as political science, economic development, and cultural exchange, which include liberalism and international organizations, globalization, development of urbanization, as well as bilateral and multilateral relationship between China and other major countries in th...

This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution. The book draws on economics, political science, public choice, philosophy and the law to probe in depth into the evolution of Britannia from an impoverished feudal and then post-feudal autocracy into a constitutional monarchy with limited suffrage that pro...