There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated.

Now the best shooters in the world fired the best rifle in the world, one-shot/one-kill out to one thousand meters.

There is no acknowledgment—because there is no understanding—that sometimes historical fiction departs from facts in order to reach for more abstract, thematic, or complexly intuitive truths that even the most diligently fact-checked histories and biographies can fail to illuminate.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.