'I love food. Even worse, I love junk food. If lard could be double deep-fried I would eat it. If I could deep-fry headache pills I would. So it's no wonder I'm now the size of a small yet economically viable continent...' When A. J. Rochester is selected to feature in a television series on obesity, she is at first appalled & then resolved. At 109 kilos (17 stone), she knows she needs to lose weight
- not because she yearns to become a twiglet but so she can keep up with her little boy & turn her life around at last. But after years of fighting a losing battle with the flab, A. J. knows she needs a miracle. So she decides to ditch the 'quick-fix' diets & the faddy exercise equipment & try a new approach
- one that involves discovering her own inner strengths. It may not be easy
- but it pays off. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter charts the highs, lows & plateaus of A. J.'s incredible journey, from overcoming an early setback
- waking up in hospital with a broken leg after a drunken binge
- to the triumph of shedding the first, & last, kilo.




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John Daniell is a rubgy mercenary. A brutal word for an often brutal game.

In 1996, when Rugby Union turned professional,

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ever wondered if declaring support for fair-trade & then chucking Kenyan beans from your shopping trolley to reduce food miles really added up? Or whether the women in Bangladeshi sweatshops really want you to stop buying the clothes from their sewing machines? Or how the system works when you dump stuff but never buy from a charity shop?

While none of us should stop trying, it was never easy being green. Mindful of his footprint, Fred goes in search of the source of the cotton in his shirt, the prawns in his curry & the people who grew, mined or made all his stuff in an attempt to discover the true story behind our everyday things. This compelling story of his travels moves green thinking on to a new, more sophisticated plane.

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Like many of us, Fred Pearce works hard from a city base, cares for his family & tries fitfully to do his bit for the planet. But travelling across the world to track his personal 'footprint', he finds himself questioning an extraordinary number of accepted truths. Perhaps his well-intentioned efforts are not so good after all. Should Kenyan green beans go right back on his shopping list? Should he stop campaigning for a clean coastline & start shouting, ' Save wildlife, sh** on the beach'? While he's at it, should he be cheering for Bangladeshi sweatshops too?

In search of the source of the cotton in his shirt, the prawns in his curry & the people who grew, mined or made all his stuff, Fred travels from rainforest to desert, up mountains & down mines, from oil field to shanty town to brothel. Yes, he finds squalor & despair. But also he finds good things in surprising places & huge opportunities just waiting to be seized. This compelling story of Fred's travels challenges a range of green assumptions, moving green thinking on to a new, more sophisticated plane.

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ever wondered if declaring support for fair-trade & then chucking Kenyan beans from your shopping trolley to reduce food miles really added up? Or whether the women in Bangladeshi sweatshops really want you to stop buying the clothes from their sewing machines? Or how the system works when you dump stuff but never buy from a charity shop?

While none of us should stop trying, it was never easy being green. Mindful of his footprint, Fred goes in search of the source of the cotton in his shirt, the prawns in his curry & the people who grew, mined or made all his stuff in an attempt to discover the true story behind our everyday things. This compelling story of his travels moves green thinking on to a new, more sophisticated plane.

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As an Economic Hitman (EHM), John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia & Saudi Arabia. As Chief Economist for the international consulting firm Chas. T. Main, he convinced underdeveloped countries to accept massive loans for infrastructure development & ensured that the projects were contracted to multinational corporations. The countries acquired enormous debt, & the US & international aid agencies were able to control their economies.

He tried to write this book four times but was threatened or bribed each time to halt. The events of 9/11
- a direct result of the activities of EHMs in the 1970s
- finally forced him to confront the role he played himself, & to reveal the truth to the rest of the world.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man has become a word-of-mouth bestseller in the US. It has been called the book that finally 'connects the dots, the book that best explains what is really going on in the world'.





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