I got this for Christmas and learned an amazing amount about the last 50 years of global warfare and how the AK-47 has "democratized" warfare. They're so cheap nearly anyone can afford them so poor guerillas can fight hi tech behemoths causing a lot of drawn out wars with no real winning going on. And crazy enough, Kalashnikov the inventor is still alive figuring how to make money free market style since he never did under his motherland's communist regime.

Rosetta Stone: Learn a foreign language with powerful learning software - I've been using Rosetta Stone software to learn Portuguese and absolutely love it. Most courses teach you to translate from English to another language. Rosetta Stone uses pictures and audio to connect the language straight to the concept like when you learned your native language. This is powerful learning software!