At first glance, you might ask who wouldn’t say yes to all of these questions. Well, for many of us, the idea of all of this positive emotion seems far-fetched to begin with. It is easy for us to just assume that with the positive comes th...

Shakespeare might have read about China in, for example, Montaigne’s essais ‘Of Coaches’ or ‘Of Experience’. In the former, the Frenchman acknowledges China as the inventor of artillery and printing a thousand years before the Euro...

Your brain’s health may be the most powerful indicator of how long you will live. It is crucial to whether that life will be rich and satisfying from youth well into old age, or something substantially less rewarding, and for less time....

We need to call for the nicety of judgment of the theme and the clarity of the logic on the ground that logic, theme and text style are the crucial elements in English. Meanwhile, there are three steps in the translation process from Chinese...

Challenges with money happen to everyone at some time or another. I know it’s not fun. In fact, I know it’s quite the opposite—it’s painful.When we experience an economic setback, whether personally or on a grander scale (like a rece...

The news of the world and the cut and thrust of London’s media were in every aspect a long way removed from my upbringing in provincial Victoria. But that upbringing made me the way I am and sharpened my natural instincts to make bold move...

When Peter was a baby ,his mother had carried him across some mountains whose name Greta kept forgetting , in order to get out of Soviet Czechoslovakia into western Europe . There were other people of course .Peter’s father was intended to...

The Nazis considered Poles subhuman and, after crushing the country “like a soft-boiled egg” in the fall of 1939, treated them with contempt. Young Poles, if allowed to live at all, were to be raised as beasts of burden, with just enough...