NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. D
Two sisters are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom. Forlag: Simon and Schuster Udgivelsesår: 2007 Sider: 230 Sprog: Engelsk
582 sider, paperback.The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes sees the return of the beloved Walsh sisters in this hilarious and heartbreaking novel. Helen Walsh doesn't believe in love, fear, depression or hot drinks...Utterly compelling, moving and very, very funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is the story of courageous, vulnerable and wasp-tongued private investigator Helen Walsh. When a missing persons case draws her into the dark, glamorous world of her dodgy-ex, Jay Parker, Helen finds she's seeing more of him and less of Artie Devlin, her sexy detective boyfriend. Caught between smart, stable Artie and chaotic, up-for-anything Jay - two different, equally enticing men - and plagued by her own black doubts, Helen finds she's beginning to believe in something - but is it fear, or is it love? Forfatter: Marian Keyes Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 507 Forlag: Michael Joseph Udgivelsesår
The first in a new series about three gorgeous sisters who disover they are the most powerful of all witches. Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell didn't think reading a mgical incantation would work, but now Prue can move things with her mind, Piper can freeze time and Phoebe can see into the future. Forfatter: Eliza Willard, Constance M. Burge Forlag: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division) Udgivelsesår: 2000 Sider: 181 Sprog: Engelsk
CD'en 'Party Party All Night Party' indeholder 80 sensationelle non-stop hits. Den er pakket i et standard CD-cover med farverigt design og angiver sange som 'Livin' La Vida Loca', 'Mambo No. 5', og 'Hot Hot Hot'. Det bageste cover har en detaljeret liste over indholdet og mix titlerne såsom 'Latin Dance Mix', 'Imagination Megamix' og 'Sisters Are Doin' It'. Tags: musik, cd, fest, hits, non-stop
Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently. To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, brought in to investigate by special request, this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career.
Izzy has always been the fearless Titan sister. But when an oil rig blows up, leaving her barely able to see, her sisters find themselves as concerned by her emotional withdrawal as by the possibility that the explosion was no accident. Are the mind games their long-lost brother Garth has been playing turning physical? Or is someone else out to get them? When her sisters enroll her in a survivor training camp, Izzy is not happy. Nick, her instructor, is determined that she won't be left in the dark. In more ways than one. But if he tells her the terrible truth behind why he's helping her, he'll never see her again. Unless they're both willing to take the biggest risk of all Forlag: HQN Udgivelsesår: 2009 Sider: 313 Sprog: Engelsk
Dette er en LP-plade med titlen 'High Energy'. Den indeholder originale 12-tommer versioner af forskellige hits. Kunstnere inkluderer Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Laura Branigan, Elton John, og flere, med numre som 'I'm So Excited' og 'Who Wears These Shoes'. Forsiden og bagsiden af coveret viser en dynamisk grafik med en rød, gul og blå farveskema.
