The vendetta with Robin Hood has cost too much: blood shed, lives lost, friendships severed.Guy of Gisburne, knight and agent of the crown, has had enough, and wishes to enjoy a little quiet on his own land. But Hood grows ever more troublesome, and if the barons of the North will not convince Guy to resume the hunt – nor even the rightful King Richard, returned from long imprisonment – then perhaps the simple plea of a missing daughter's father, and a promise to r...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Imagine a world where your home anticipates your needs, your appliances communicate with each other, and your health is monitored around the clock. This isn't science fiction; it's the reality of the Internet of Things (IoT). This transformative technology connects everyday devices, from your refrigerator to your car, creating a network of interconnected intelligence. But how does it work, and what impact does it have on your life? This...

Add this collectible thought-provoking shorty story to your collection. The Smartest Guy in the Hood is about an unsuspecting man that has created a unique mathematical theorem using the principles of chemistry (proportions, stoichiometry, equilibriums, qualitative and quantitative research) to achieve extraordinary gains on the stock market. He incurs no losses and becomes one of the richest men to ever live, yet he remains living in a modest inner-city neighborhood where no one ...

The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washington's work, on Paul Rosier's study of Native American ...

The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and consequences of the rewards of high public office, having some of the most generous and most meagre reward packages in the world.There are a range of economic, political and cultural explanati...