This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. To escape debt and summonses, Lord Exford is sent abroad in 1788 with Winstanley, a prudish clergyman, and Higgins, a truculent artist.Shipwrecked on the island of Negropont—modern Euboea—then ruled by a Turkish pasha, they encounter Amelia, a botanist, feminist, and intrepid explorer, and her camel, Rousseau.Amid pirates, renegades, minstrels, djinn, and star-crossed lovers, the travellers are drawn into a world of political intrigu...

From the best-selling author of It's All Greek to Me! comes a wild tale of life and business in the brave new Russia. John Mole went to seek his fortune in the New Russia revolution with his Big Idea of setting up British baked potato restaurants to rival McDonald's and Pizza Hut, and came back with the rights for a revolutionary biotechnology for cleaning air pollution. In between he tangled with fantasists and scientists, Stalinists and Tolkeinists, hopeful oligarchs and hopeless biznism...

Praised by Business Week as 'invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality...a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves' and named a Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Mind Your Manners has become a 50,000-copy bestseller and the standard guide to European business cultures for over a decade. Now in a fully expanded and updated third edition, this practical guide contains a further fifteen country chapters including all the additional countr...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An ordinary man. An extraordinary journey.In 1394 Nicola Martoni made a dangerous journey from a small town in Italy to Jerusalem. He was a little, short-sighted, middle-aged provincial lawyer. He sailed through Aegean storms to Egypt, walked across the desert in high summer, climbed Mount Sinai with malaria, and finally made it to the Holy Places. Five companions died on the way. Desperate to get home and running out of money, he wandered...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Three Christmas Tales is a powerful and imaginative collection of modern Christmas stories that explore injustice, generosity, and love.Hunted street kids, child slavery, an explorer lost in the Frozen North. these stories re-imagine the meaning of Christmas beyond comfort and tradition. Each tale blends realism with symbolism, compassion with darkness, and hope with the Christmas messageWritten in a clear, lyrical style, these stori...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Three Christmas Tales is a powerful and imaginative collection of modern Christmas stories that explore injustice, generosity, and love.Hunted street kids, child slavery, an explorer lost in the Frozen North. these stories re-imagine the meaning of Christmas beyond comfort and tradition. Each tale blends realism with symbolism, compassion with darkness, and hope with the Christmas messageWritten in a clear, lyri...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1599, English musician and organ builder, Thomas Dallam, traveled to Constantinople to deliver a magnificent self-playing organ and clock to Sultan Mehmed III. The Sultan’s Organ is the diary of his remarkable adventure, put into modern English by John Mole.Follow Dallam’s journey through the Ottoman Empire, as he navigates the Sultan’s harem, political intrigues, and the extraordinary challenge of transporting and installing the Sultan’...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For some, Greece is marble ruins and crested helmets. For others, whitewashed houses and the slow rhythm of island life. Between these two visions lies three thousand years of history — and a country still negotiating its past with its present.John Mole explores this layered landscape on Harley — a twenty-five-year-old 50cc motorcycle — moving between ancient sites and cheap hotels, refugee camps and Byzantine monasteries, roadside chapels ...

This exciting new edition of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture gives a clear, detailed, and accessible presentation of the main features of constitutional Five Element acupuncture. It covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory. After examining the Elements themselves and the functions of the Organs, the book explores the basis of diagnosis in Five Element acupuncture, possible blocks to treatment and the treatment itsel...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers.**Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through her city: the electric nightclubs and ...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strat...

The Touch of Healing offers readers the means to greater health, vitality, and self-understanding through the practice of an ancient oriental healing art and practical holistic philosophy called Jin Shin Jystsu. Gentle touching similar to acupressure is used to release tension that accumulates and is at the root of dysfunction, disease, and imbalance. The authors explain the natural life force that runs through the body and demonstrate with case studies, detailed analysis, and mor...