Is national well-being higher in countries where men have larger penises than average? How much money does an unappealing bloke need to have to attract as many women via an online dating site as a hot man? Why hasn't a male birth control pill made it to the chemists? Does raising the price of beer reduce risky sex? Why does a spike in the sale of sex toys predict an upcoming recession while an increase in the number of breast lifts indicates a perkier economy is on the way? Which comes first: a prosperous nation or a promiscuous one? When professor of economics Marina Adshade decided to skip the guns & butter & talk about the market for sex courtship love & marriage she became an international media sensation. Now she pulls the covers off a suite of provocative questions about the supply & demand of our most intimate deeds. Adshade's answers reveal that our decisions in matters of sex & love are made with a firm grasp of economics (whether we realize it or not)
- though for best results perhaps refrain from bringing Adam Smith to bed.
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Set in Brixton 20 years after the race riots The Dirty South" follows the adventures of Bricky teenager Dennis Huggins as he drifts into the easy dangerous life of the shotta
- or drug dealer
- & discovers that hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is the struggle for love is harder still. At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends have no guidance other than that offered by their fellow shottaz or the dubiously motivated black Muslims. Wheatle brilliantly evokes the temptations of the thug life for young black men growing up in Londons Dirty South
- a fast compelling novel that offers no easy answers but refuses to shy away from asking the difficult questions."


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THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN is the first in a new set of fantasy-fuelled thrillers from the author George R. R. Martin cites as one of the major inspirations behind Game of Thrones: Tad Williams international bestselling author of The Dragonbone Chair. BOBBY DOLLAR ISN'T YOUR AVERAGE ANGEL. Sure he takes the occasional trip to Heaven but his job as an advocate
- arguing the fate of the recently deceased
- keeps him pretty busy on Earth & he's more than happy to spend the rest of his time propping up the bar with his fellow immortals. Until the day a soul goes missing presumed stolen by 'the other side'. A new chapter in the war between heaven & hell is about to open. & Bobby is right in the middle of it with only a desirable but deadly demon to aid him.

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This title is perfect for long-distance relationships these tips will add spice to your romance wherever youre located! When the mood strikes you can reveal fantasies & sexy thoughts while youre out of town at work or even across the dinner table from him... It doesnt matter if you dont know your TDTM (Talk Dirty To Me) from your TMIs (Too Much Information) or youre so plugged in that you dont even consider a relationship official until its on your Facebook profile you still need to sort through the subtext & figure out how
- & what
- to send & reply. Here youll learn how to get him hot & bothered in 15 words or less keep the flirtexting alive once youve been together for a while solve bad connections & use emoticons & punctuation to highlight your messages all in way thatll get him texting back for more.

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Sex in the City" or Sex in the Country? Saffron loves the London party & fashion scenes. So shes extra nervous about abandoning it all for six months in the country to Write Her Novel. Of course shell miss gorgeous boyfriend Tom but at least his supermodel twin brother will be there to keep her company. So when does keeping her company cross the line? Harriet has swapped her country life for a London career & a part time job at a community centre desperately in need of saving. Here she meets Zack.. .but what secrets lurk behind those sexy blue eyes of his? New lives new temptations. Have both girls bitten off more than they can chew?" ...

The world is a battlefield. In this remarkable story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield by units that do not officially exist in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged. From Afghanistan & Pakistan to Yemen Somalia & beyond Scahill speaks to the CIA agents mercenaries & elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of the many wars America is fighting. He goes deep into al Qaeda
- held territory in Yemen & walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of U.S. night raids & drone strikes
- including families of U.S. citizens targeted for assassination by their own government
- who reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggles to keep hidden.


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Two women in a room. One is bleeding to death. The other just sits back & watches. For both there is everything to lose. Surgeons are meant to save lives but Nancy is a special kind of surgeon. Doctors are meant to be good at reporting the truth but Nancy's is an untellable story. A mistake made in the operating theatre changes all of this. Summoned to explain herself to a tribunal appointed by the General Medical Council Nancy is forced to consider what it means to be a doctor who has killed as well as cured. & to realise that her own redemption can only come through telling a tale that nobody wants to hear. Gabriel Weston author of the acclaimed Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story" winner of the 2010 PEN/ Ackerley Prize has written an extraordinarily moving & powerful novel about a female doctor who performs abortions." ...

A guide to benefits & services for all disabled people their families carers & advisors. The Disability Rights Handbook is written by benefits specialists & provides information & guidance on benefits & services to advisors disability organisations & disabled people Leading on benefits advice for 38 years Explains in plain English the biggest changes in benefits since the introduction of the welfare state Focus on new Personal independence payment (PIP) informing you how it works & how to claim it This Handbook is easy-to-use accurate packed with vital information & is an invaluable aid to any front-line worker who needs to keep up-to-date with the ever-changing welfare system". Gary Vaux
- Money Advice Unit"
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Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates.. . Two missing students. One sinister cover-up. Two young British students Nazim Jamal & Rafi Hassan vanish without a trace. The police tell their parents that the boys had been under surveillance that it was likely they left the country to pursue their dangerous new ideals. Seven years later Nazim's grief-stricken mother is still unconvinced. Jenny Cooper is her last hope. Jenny is finally beginning to settle into her role as Coroner for the Severn Valley; the ghosts of her past that threatened to topple her banished to the sidelines once more. But as the inquest into Nazim's disappearance gets underway the stink of corruption & conspiracy becomes clear.. . As the pressure from above increases a code of silence is imposed on the inquest & events begin to spiral out of all control pushing Jenny to breaking point. For how could she have known that by unravelling the mysteries of the disappeared she would begin to unearth her own buried secrets? ...

From her parents' 1970s tenement council flat ten-year-old Robyn soon becomes so skilled at shoplifting her reputation spreads. She takes her punishment at school but is much more scared of the vicious threats of her father; & as frightened for her mother's safety as for her own. Her fun-loving grandmother offers her comfort wisdom & hope that Robyn might be different from her parents. But as her father's random cruelty intensifies she has to seek refuge in her nan's flat & in the homes of friends even joining her mother in a women's shelter to escape her 'father'. All this time she is learning more about the unpredictable ways of the people around her & her own potential. She'll need all of this precocious wisdom & the assistance of Nan to face up once & for all to the twisted violence in her home & engineer a way out of this childhood to reach a place of safety & freedom. This moving story is told in a wonderfully vivid child's voice
- her resourcefulness & courage will break your heart""
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