This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change.
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the ''dismal science'' of economics as a practical art.
Jack Fletcher faces his toughest challenge yet. After a snowstorm forces him to take shelter, Jack comes across a village in need of protection from raiding mountain bandits. Torn between moving on or helping, Jack is persuaded to stay and fight the villagers' cause. But Jack is the first and only samurai to do so. Now he must enlist other warriors to the villagers' aid before the bandits return to steal their harvest. No easy task when the reward is so little and he is a foreigner. If only he had his friends to call on...Using the Ring of Fire, can Jack overpower the bandits and win?
Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croatian villagers discover the identity of the Englishman who they believe betrayed them by welching on a deal to supply arms.
Join Jasper, the leprechaun and his friend Liam, and visit magic Rainbow Land. With them the angry villagers search for gold, but in the end they find something much more valuable.
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Robin Hood
Episode Two
Sheriff Got Your Tongue?
Complete & Unabridged 2CDs
Read by Richard Armitage
The Sheriff of Nottingham is determined to punish Robin for his defuabce if his authority.
He holds the villagers of Locksley hostage, threatening to cut out a villager's tongue every hour until Robin is found.
Robin has no choice but to give himself up to protect them. But with his band of outlaws on his side, all is not lost...
An action adventure read by Richard Armitage, who plays Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood.
