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Ten full-cast vintage BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Michael Gilbert’s most enduring characters, including Mr Calder and Mr Behrens, Inspector Hazlerigg and Inspector Petrella A treat for any fan of crime dramas, this collection stars legendary voices including Prunella Scales, Maurice...

As the generating force of its plot, Twelfth Night uses a device which has since become a staple in comedy: gender confusion. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian, are shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, a country ruled by the melancholy Duke Orsino. The twins are separated and Viola is led to...

Measure for Measure is one of darkest of Shakespeare’s comedies. Written in about 1603 and first performed in 1604, it immediately preceded the composition of the major tragedies Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Duke Vincentino, the ruler of Vienna, fears that under his mild sovereignty, the...

This collection contains eight of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies. Each exhibits the vigour, humour, and optimism of the young master before he turned to the gloom and bitterness of the great tragedies. Contents A Midsummer Night’s Dream All’s Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Much Ado...

Much Ado About Nothing appears to have been written around 1599, shortly before As You Like It and Twelfth Night. The action combines two narrative threads: the spirited comedy of the courtship of Benedick and Beatrice, and the sombre tale of confused love between Hero and Claudio. The first is...

In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the pragmatic center of a movement for social and economic progress. The core tenets of a capitalist system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before...

Three wealthy men in the entertainment industry have an idea for a reality TV show. Hand-pick 12 people to travel to the Amazon rainforest, play a series of games, and the winner takes home the contents of a treasure chest recovered from a shipwreck.

Set Your Own Salary contains the latest thinking in entrepreneurship education, lean startup methodology, and a time-proven business blueprint that will lower the risk of a new venture called the "high percentage model". A quick listen, this audiobook intersperses the principles of entrepreneurship with entertaining stories about successful entrepreneurs (Michael Dell, Bill Gates, James Dyson, Henry Kaiser, Fred Smith, the Wright Bros., and others).

How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the 18th and 19th centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and Euro-American empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which in turn reflected encounter and conflict between settler states and indigenous peoples.

Luke and Flor reunite with the rest of the Caleuche's crew, and they prepare to enter Righteous Province's lair, an elaborate maze of shifting tunnels and traps. They know they will face invunches and voladoras within the cave. And they must overcome one of their greatest enemies, Corpo Seco - the man so evil that hell spat him back out.