The top 1 percent have the best houses the best educations the best doctors & the best lifestyles but there is one thing that money doesnt seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn
- too late. In this timely book Joseph Stiglitz identifies three major causes of our predicament: that markets dont work the way they are supposed to (being neither efficient nor stable); how political systems fail to correct the shortcomings of the market; & how our current economic & political systems are fundamentally unfair. He focuses chiefly on the gross inequality to which these systems give rise but also explains how inextricably interlinked they are. Providing evidence that investment
- not austerity
- is vital for productivity & offering realistic solutions for levelling the playing field & increasing social mobility Stiglitz argues that reform of our economic & political systems is not just fairer but is the only way to make markets work as they really should.


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America currently has the most inequality & the least equality of opportunity among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy our democracy & our system of justice. Stiglitz explains how inequality affects & is affected by every aspect of national policy & with characteristic insight he offers a vision for a more just & prosperous future supported by a concrete program to achieve that vision. ...

When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys & backstreets of his mind he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case
- dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs young girls on the game. & a killer on the loose. In addition to the brand new novella that fills in the gaps in Bankss life before Yorkshire Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant & eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK. The Eastvale Ladies Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a mans head on a plate? & tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love.. .
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The Price of Passion" is the eagerly awaited sequel to Carla van Raays international bestselling memoir " Gods Callgirl". A former nun & prostitute Carla van Raay thought she had come to terms with her traumatic past. But then she received a phone call that threatened to upset the balance once again. Carla had first met Aaron at a tumultuous time in her life. She had left a convent after 13 years of bitter cruelty lost her virginity in a brutal fashion to a man she barely knew & then hastily got married before giving birth to a beautiful daughter. Now Aaron was back. & whats more he wanted to resume a relationship that had been intense yet short-lived. But so much had happened since then. Carla had left her husband & after years of repression in the convent had turned to prostitution. " The Price of Passion" is a very personal story written with honesty & raw emotion. It is the story of two people who have tried to overcome abusive pasts embarking on a new yet equally challenging journey; but neither could have foreseen what lay ahead." ...

This is an autobiography of former Morton & Celtic footballer & all round fans favourite Andy Ritchie. Retired by the age of 28 Ritchie still managed to make his mark on Scottish football not only for his amazing ball skills but also for his larger than life personality & colourful personal life. AT 22 Andy Ritchie had the footballing world at his feet. Scotlands disastrous World Cup campaign in Argentina left the nation crying out for an entertainer & Mortons Idle Idol filled the void. A former Celtic prospect his spectacular goals close control dead ball genius & dazzling skills made him Scotlands player of the year & the nations top goalscorer three years running. But by the age of 28 Ritchie dumped his boots in a bin & quit football for good. Plagued by depression panic attacks & attitude problems one of the Scottish games biggest ever characters tells with brutal honesty of the match-day drinking the gambling the indiscipline & the casual drug abuse which cut short his playing days & drove the late Jock Stein to despair. Celtics chief scout under Tommy Burns he expresses his regrets at the failure to patch up a rift with his lifelong friend before he died & of the spell of homelessness he survived following a breakdown & the break-up of his marriage. ...

In 2002 three English bankers became involved in the Enron fall-out when they heard on television that the US government would seek their extradition under laws designed for terrorists. The US government only needed to identify them but not provide evidence of the crime committed. In a very public battle supported by The Times Daily Telegraph & Daily Mail
- with incidental support from Tony Blair then Prime Minister
- they fought their extradition. They lost in 2006 & were put on trial in a court in Texas for actions that are legal in the UK. In this book David Bermingham tells for the first time since their release in August 2010 the full story from the summons in 2002 to his return to Britain.

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Discover the many wonders of the hedgehog: a funny charming creature of the countryside. Carrying its secrets beneath patterned spinesand roaming our fields parks & gardens why is it that the hedgehog fascinates so many of us? In A Prickly Affair" Hugh Warwick
- life member of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society
- explores the quirky humour misunderstanding & affection that characterises our feelings for this marvellous beast going all out to explain the charm of the hedgehog. Although hedgehog psychics & the International Hedgehog Olympics may be too much even for him..."

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Pride & Passion in Bury" tells the story of the author's life growing up in a time when things seems simpler & how being approached as a fifteen year old by Manchester City almost changed the course of his life. Beginning with life as one of a family of ten living on a large council estate the friendships formed & the many comical events that occurred that still tickle me. Being approached by Manchester City FC as a fifteen year old school boy. Eventually having to accept failure but also going on to enjoy playing the beautiful game in semi-pro & amateur form. Reaching an age when life's dilemmas were asking questions that the answers to proved elusive to me
- religion marriage & health among them. The shared events that go hand in hand with family life. The book for the most part portrays a lad enjoying life to the full at a time when life seemed simpler. Like any life portrayed at length it

Includes:: some sad times which if anything makes the good times even better. There will be many situations you will immediately relate to leaving you to wonder if you would have taken the same course."


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Meet Tilly Redbrow who doesn't just love horses
- she lives breathes & dreams them too! When Tilly sees Angela the owner of Silver
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Pride & Pleasure
- the classic erotic romance
- by Sylvia Day
- author of the sensational international bestselling Bared


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