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Robert Louis Stevenson\'s departure from Europe in 1887 coincided with a vocational crisis prompted by his father\'s death. Impatient with his established identity as a writer, Stevenson was eager to explore different ways of writing, at the same time that living in the Pacific stimulated a range of latent intellectual and political interests....

Jim Grant was a visionary leader on a global scale. As Executive Director of UNICEF, the United Nations Children\'s Fund, from 1980 to 1995, he launched a world wide child survival and development revolution. The practical result was that by 1995, 25 million children were alive who would otherwise have died....

This is the first biography of a world-famous pioneering development economist, Sir Hans W. Singer, who is better known throughout the developing world than any other economist, living or dead. It gives a detailed account of the way in which the \'twists of fate\' led him to becoming a leading development economist....