This book traces the development of China’s banking system through the first 25 years of China’s socialist market economy up to the present. It examines how China’s leaders have chosen their own path for reforming and regulating the banking sector and shows how this approach has differed significantly from the neoliberal approach promoted by the West. The book demonstrates the effectiveness of the Chinese approach, contrasting China’s relative success in weathering the Asian financial cris...

Call of Duty meets Diablo _in this fast-paced, action-packed LitRPG novel from the co-creator of Galaxy's Edge universe. Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat sport arena where megacorporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-of-the-art weaponry to wipe each other out. But times are tough, and the re...

A boy named Calek lives in the town of Refuge on a quaint island in the northern Great Lakes. Growing up, he constantly heard stories about what happened on the Mainland before he was born, a huge conflagration that engulfed the entire world. All that remained were the Forsaken - drooling, mindless monsters who found their way to the island in boats, killing and maiming like rabid dogs. The people of Refuge fought them off with much loss of life, surviving as the last remn...

William Guy Carr (June 2, 1895 to October 2, 1959), born in Lancashire, England, and educated in Scotland, was an English-born Canadian naval officer, author and conspiracy theorist. He served during World War I as an English submarine officer and, in World War II, as a naval officer for Canada. Though he first came to notice with books about his military experiences as a submariner, Carr later turned to writing about the American Illuminati, which he alleged to have uncovered. The followi...

Wayne Faust is the author of "The Calek's Tale Trilogy." He has had over 50 short stories published worldwide in various places. "Tales From the Road" is his first anthology and it features 21 of of those stories, strung together in the form of a 42 hour road trip from Denver to Key West, with interludes after each story, describing stops along the way. The stories are read by the incredible Guy Williams, with Faust himsel...

After fleeing the island on the northern Great Lakes where he was born and raised, 12 year old Calek finds himself on The Mainland for the first time. He discovers that he has been lied to, and that the Old World is far different than he'd been told.There are still Forsaken there, drooling, mindless monsters that have haunted his nightmares ever since he was a toddler. But there are also people that are not Forsaken and they believe something very ...

In the thrilling climax to the Calek's Tale Trilogy, Wayne Faust weaves all the elements together from the first two books, and introduces new and fascinating characters, while fleshing out existing ones. The War is not only a physical battle between the people on the Mainland, who are desperate to rescue Calek and his twin brother John, vs. the people on the Island, most notably Hezekiah, the spiritual leader, who is desperate to hang onto his waning power. It's a...

THE LYNDONIAD is a poem or a succession of poems or a congeries of poems containing history. It treats of Lyndon Johnson in pieces, throws up facet-flashes of his life and of his epoch. The historians have had and will continue having their voluminous say about the throes and the tumult of the 1960s but here is a counter-approach to the same material: the 1960s as a kaleidoscopic epic poem with Lyndon Johnson at the center of it speaking for himself, and others speaking for him and about h...

A Travelers Education is a collection of essays which in the manner of 19th century writers like James and Ruskin reflect the authors intense hunger of the eye, his relish of the unpredictability of travel and of the unexpected ways in which it changes ones store of life experience. The education which this book describes has taken place in the jungle villages of Honduras, around the banquet table of a Palladian villa in the Veneto in Italy, among the ghosts of Berlin, within the opera hou...

Christopher Reed, a young minister in his first job, receives much-needed seasoning, is necessarily disillusioned. How? On one level by having an affair with Becky Grierson, one of his teen-aged parishioners. But the affair is begun on a theological dare so to speak, in order to test an intriguing vision of the freedom of the Gospel which Dr. Buttrick, the senior pastor under whom Reed works, a truly Christ-like man (though it depends, of course, on what your image of Je...

The brutal wrath of Akhilleus and what follows from it. The Ur-text and the Ur-tragedy of Western literature. Homers ILIAD is both the simplest and also the most complex and beautiful poem ever written about war and about those who engage in it. Wars pity, wars desolation, wars stupidity and (some would say) wars glory. A mirror of human conduct. A necessary primer for statesmen. The cautionary image of what it means to send young people off to war and have them blow each other to pieces. ...

William Guy (when he is not traveling) lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Gravitys Revolt, a novel; Defunctive Music, a book of poems;A Travelers Education; Magic Casements; and Something Sensational, three books of travel essays. With William Orr he is the author of Living Hope: a Study of the New Testament Theme of Birth from Above. He has completed a translation of The Iliad. He is presently at work on The Lyndoniad, a book of interrelated poems about the ...