War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade of turmoil.Entering the eye of the storm - from the trenches of Russian separatist-controlled Donbas to bomb disposal squads in Mosul to cattle raiders in Kenya - Russell discovers a butterfly effect of chaos in the real w...

„TEORIE CHAOSU NÁS UČÍ, ŽE SPOUŠTĚCÍ UDÁLOSTI MOHOU BÝT ÚPLNĚ NEPATRNÉ. JAKO MÁVNUTÍ MOTÝLÍCH KŘÍDEL.“Špinavé děti hrající si v ulicích iráckého Mosulu. Zanedbaní důchodci v ruinách svých domů na východě Ukrajiny. Venezuelanky podstupující sterilizaci kvůli nejisté budoucnosti… Mladý Keňan soupeřící o zdroje ve vysychající krajině… Obrázky z cest po světě 21. století.Cenové války jsou reportážním cestopisem napříč zeměkoulí a chtějí zjistit, co způsobilo vlnu chaosu, který ...

War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade of turmoil.Entering the eye of the storm - from the trenches of Russian separatist-controlled Donbas to bomb disposal squads in Mosul to cattle raiders in Kenya - Russell discovers a butterfly effect of chaos in the real w...

The legal profession, like so many other fields, has continued to reel from the deep-reaching and significant impact of the 2008 financial crisis. In the years following the crash, a general downward turn in the demand for legal services compelled firms to tighten their belts, make tough decisions, and come up with innovative strategies in order to survive. One of these was an increased focus on profitability and different means of managing and improving it, a relatively new development fo...

The purpose of The Transparency of Things is to look clearly and simply at the nature of experience, without any attempt to change it.A series of contemplations leads us gently but directly to see that our essential nature is neither a body nor a mind. It is the conscious Presence that is aware of this current experience. As such, it is nothing that can be experienced as an object, and yet it is undeniably present.However, these contemplations go much further than ...

Now for something completely different.Joe has a car accident and wakes up to be told he's dead, by two dope smoking beings. Where was the light that people spoke about? Where was the tunnel? Why was he none the wiser? There was no enlightenment or epiphany. Instead he's finds himself in a hedonistic world, where he’s constantly propositioned by beautiful people.None of this could be real, could it?

History cannot be relived, but thanks to a tradition that spans millennia, we can revisit it in the letters of the people who influenced or witnessed the moments it changed for ever. In WRITTEN IN HISTORY, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects some of the greatest letters ever written from ancient times to the twentieth century: declarations of war, petitions for peace, diplomatic entanglements, steamy love letters and beyond. In each case, he explores the significance of each...

A gripping thriller that brings together the secrets of the past and the crimes of the present in a twist that will leave you gasping - perfect for fans Patricia Gibney's The Missing Ones and Rachel Abbott's The Sixth Window.A BRUTAL ACT OF VIOLENCEA body has been found dumped on the shores of Southend. Already under scrutiny following the murder of a corrupt cop, DS Frank Pearson and DC Cat Russell of the Essex Major Investigation Team are...

This book follows on from Stoned In The Afterlife: A Possible Journey, Part One.Joe continues to question the reality and all that he's experiencing. He maintains that the only way to be sure is to find his wife, and as long as he can't find her, then everything he's experiencing is a fantasy. A creation of his mind. And his mind is quite creative.He meets and gets stoned with Yeshua and Myriam, discovers the Philosopher's Arms and the great debating halls of Aristotlopolis...

An enigmatic policeman - currently the subject of an internal investigation - is found burned to death in his car on the Southend sea front.A vulnerable young woman, fresh out of the care system, is trying to discover the truth behind the sudden death of her best friend.As DS Frank Pearson and DC Catherine Russell from the Essex Police Major Investigation Team are brought in to solve the mystery that surrounds their colleague's death, they'...

What are Chloe's parents up to? Emmeline, her mother, has gone away again without saying goodbye. Tom, her father, is always off to the Middle East. Then a posh housekeeper appears and installs military discipline. Chloe will have to step up her eavesdropping. All she knows is that something is badly wrong.Centre stage is the village of Eastlyme on Dorset's Jurassic Coast: this is the story of Chloe Belford, her secretive parents, and Muriel Mizen, manager of Cliff Towers Hotel, Ea...