Hospital Babylon" is an in-depth amusing & highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments & wards where babies are made thighs are reduced noses straightened & spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent. We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses; doctors who sleep with patients; doctors who fiddle their insurance forms; doctors who suck fat pump up breasts plump lips & lengthen penises; the doctor who specialises in flatulence; the doctor who shoots up before he operates; doctor Feelgood who will give you anything & everything you need; as well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock enlargements in the Caribbean. En route we will discover what touches them what amuses them & quite how obsessively insane you have to be to make it to the top. Why does a private room cost over GBP1000 a night? Who are the people changing your bedpan? Holding your hand as you go to sleep? What do they do to you while youre out cold? Why are drugs so expensive? How easy is it for the pharmaceutical companies to grease the good doctors palm? Who exactly is profiting from your illness embarrassing affliction or brand new nose? & of course what happens when it all goes wrong? Packed with true stories anecdotes & revelations " Hospital Babylon" is a riveting entertaining & shocking look at 24 hours in the life of a hospital. Both amusing & appalling it will make you question whether you should sign that consent form after all..." ...

This introductory textbook shows you how to apply the principles of marketing within the hospitality industry. Written specifically for students taking marketing modules within a hospitality course it contains examples & case studies that show how ideas & concepts can be successfully applied to a real-life work situation. It emphasises topical issues such as sustainable marketing corporate social responsibility & relationship marketing. It also describes the impact that the internet has had on both marketing & hospitality using a variety of tools including a wide range of internet learning activities. It offers new UK & international case studies that prepare you for work in a global industry. It

Includes:: activities for each chapter that will assess your understanding & marketing knowledge. It presents a new inside cover feature that links real-life marketing campaigns to the books case studies.

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Hospitality Supervision is the must-have guide for anyone wanting to reach the top in the hospitality industry. Covering all the essential theory with a clear focus on industry standards & including dozens of full colour images Hospitality Supervision will help learners to succeed in the hospitality industry. ...

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact & most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves
- Jared a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer & Melanie unwilling allies they set off to search for the man they both love.
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Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact & most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves
- Jared a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer & Melanie unwilling allies they set off to search for the man they both love.
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An omnibus of two of Doris Stokes' extremely successful books INNOCENT VOICES IN MY EAR & WHISPERING VOICES bestsellers in the early 1980s. Doris Stokes was a celebrated medium who confounded sceptics by the uncanny accuracy of her readings. In Australia she filled the Sydney Opera House & was mobbed in the streets. In America ' Charlie's Angels' was moved from its primetime slot to make way for her. In Britain she filled the Albert Hall & radio phone-ins caused blocked lines & an avalanche of mail. Doris Stokes possessed an amazing gift
- exceptional psychic powers that over the years of her extraordinary life brought joy & comfort to thousands of people...
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Fourteen years ago four babies were implanted with the Medusa gene
- a gene for psychic abilities. Now teenagers Nico Ketty Ed
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On 23 October 2009 British couple Paul & Rachel Chandler were kidnapped from their sailing boat in the archipelago of the Seychelles. Their yacht Lynn Rival was recovered six days later by naval forces abandoned off the central Somali coast. After the attack Paul & Rachel were taken first onto a previously hijacked merchant ship & then to Somalia where they were held for over a year enduring threats & intimidation while their captors tried to extort millions of dollars from their family. In this remarkable book the Chandlers recount their terrifying ordeal revealing the inspiring & poignant story behind the dramatic headlines. At the heart of their survival was their unshakeable belief in each other & their determination to survive making Hostage an unlikely love story; for Paul & Rachel death at times seemed preferable to being separated. ...

When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong British Intelligence turn to the one man who can get their agent out: Stratton SBS operative with a lethal reputation. It's a dangerous race against time: if the Real IRA get to the Republic before Stratton gets to the Real IRA his colleague is as good as dead. But the battle in the Northern Ireland borders is just the beginning. For there can only be one way the Real IRA knew about the British agent: someone within MI5 is tipping them off. A surveillance mission is mounted in Paris to identify the mole but ends in disaster: Hank Munro US Navy SEAL on secondment is captured. Munro's wife Kathryn is distraught & her priest Father Kinsella is very supportive. Kinsella though is not the holy man he seems & Kathryn becomes an unwitting part of a deadly Real IRA plan a terror attack the likes of which London has never seen.. . When Hank is inadvertently kidnapped by terrorists on an SBS 'safe op' Kathryn returns home to America only to be manipulated by a priest & secret IRA godfather into playing a political role in the negotiations for Hank's release. Unknown to her she is to have a key part in the most destructive terrorist assault in Irish Republican history one that holds the fate of hundreds of thousands of Londoners in its hands. ...

Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPDs SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family & then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy affluent suburb but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men fleeing a robbery burst into a home & take the family hostage. For Talley the nightmare has barely begun. Because this isnt just any house. It belongs to an accountant who launders money for LAs renegade Mafia family
- & they dont want the police involved...
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