The Wild West can be a scary place as four unlikely friends discover when they stumble upon a remote town deep in the Colorado Rockies that is being attacked by big hairy creatures Sadly for this gang these hairy things may be the least of their worries! ...

The year is 2097 AD In the aftermath of a series of asteroid collisions America has fallen under Church Law the Statue of Liberty has a cross instead of a torch & the Holy Infant has replaced the tablets In the west tribes of diggers refuse conversion & are chased down by God’s marines Jesuit crusaders led by Father Elano the Church’s top enforcer In the east stuck in the Mid-Atlantic looms the Harlequin Island a floating colony of self-exiled libertarians presided over by Sir Gottfrey A maverick genius who lives with his organs outside his body Gottfrey kills time cloning the past famous (and infamous!) — the so-called replikas — for his sheer entertainment But he’s about to cross the line his next show will be a highly authentic Easter Pageant starring the J-Clone a Jesus look-alike cloned from a drop of blood off the Turin Shroud Alerted by Double-M a replika of Marilyn Monroe (and J-Clone’s girlfriend!) about the upcoming show the Pope commissions Father Elano to infiltrate the Harlequin Island kidnap the J-Clone & spoil the libertarians’ sacrilegious masquerade ...

RICHARD H THALER WINNER OF THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSShortlisted for the Financial Times & Mc Kinsey Business Book of the Year Award ECONOMIST FINANCIAL TIMES & EVENING STANDARD books of the year From the renowned & entertaining behavioural economist & co-author of the seminal work Nudge Misbehaving is an irreverent & enlightening look into human foibles Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything Behavioural economics knows better Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the notion that humans are central to the economy
- & that we're error-prone individuals not Spock-like automatons Now behavioural economics is hugely influential changing the way we think not just about money but about ourselves our world & all kinds of everyday decisions Whether buying an alarm clock selling football tickets or applying for a mortgage we all succumb to biases & make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists In other words we misbehave Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow the study of human miscalculations & their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives our businesses & our governments Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives & market behaviour Thaler enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world He reveals how behavioural economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building to TV quiz shows sports transfer seasons & businesses like Uber When economics meets psychology the implications for individuals managers & policy makers are both profound & entertaining
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A mischievous thief with a love for all things valuable & shiny Abu the monkey is Aladdin&s best friend confidante & loyal partner-in-crime & is depicted carrying the all-important magic lamp This figurine is made from resin & will make the perfect gift or self purchase for any Disney fan Unique variations are to be expected as this product is hand painted Packed in a branded gift box Not a toy or children&s product Intended for adults only ...

ON a winter's day in 1943 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight
- a pit filled with the bodies of Jews
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Appearing together for the first time Hollywood legends Al Pacino & Anthony Hopkins star alongside Josh Duhamel Alice Eve Julia Stiles & Malin Akerman in this action thriller An ambitious lawyer takes on a big case & finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive & his firm&s senior partner When the case takes a deadly turn he finds himself sinking deep into a sea of blackmail & corruption & must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play ...

In this book part of the 21st Century Standpoints series published in association with the British Sociological Association Diane Reay herself working class turned Cambridge professor brings Brian Jackson & Dennis Marsden's pioneering Education & the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century The book addresses the urgent question of why the working classes are still faring so much worse than the upper & middle classes in education & vitally
- what we can do to achieve a fairer system
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King's Classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan Misery Chastain is dead Paul Sheldon has just killed her
- with relief with joy Misery has made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers & now he wants to get on to some real writing That's when the car accident happens & he wakes up in pain in a strange bed But it isn't hospital Annie Wilkes has pulled him from the wreck brought him to her remote mountain home splinted & set his mangled legs The good news is that Annie was a nurse & has pain-killing drugs The bad news is that she has long been Paul's Number One Fan & when she finds out what Paul had done to Misery she doesn't like it She doesn't like it at all Paul Sheldon used to write for a living Now he's writing to stay alive
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Tracklist A1 Universal Untruths A2 Decline & Fall A3 The Choir Invisible A4 New Salem A5 Hammering The Nails B1 Rituals Of Power B2 They Always Come Back B3I Disavow B4 Naysayer ...

Tracklist A1 Universal Untruths A2 Decline & Fall A3 The Choir Invisible A4 New Salem A5 Hammering The Nails B1 Rituals Of Power B2 They Always Come Back B3 I Disavow B4 Naysayer ...