Dr Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist & running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. Fearing for his life he immersed himself in AA rehab & therapy. Nothing worked. So he did the only thing he could; he took his treatment into his own hands. Searching for a cure for his deadly disease he happened upon baclofen a muscle relaxant that had been used safely for years as a treatment for various types of muscle spasticity but had more recently shown promising results in studies with laboratory animals addicted to a wide variety of substances. Dr Ameisen prescribed himself the drug & experimented with increasingly higher doses until he finally reached a level high enough to leave him free of any craving for alcohol. That was more than six years ago. Baclofen as prescribed under a doctors care could possibly help many addicts. But as long as the medical & research establishments ignore a cure for one of the most deadly diseases in the world we wont be able to understand baclofens full potential. This book is a plea for research that can rescue millions from the scourge of addiction. ...

Id never have guessed that when your worlds tumbling down you can carry on as usual. But it wasnt like I had a big sign on my back saying Ive been raped." Nobody noticed a thing. Emma was just 13 when her happy childhood came crashing down. She had no idea the young lads she & her friends met every Saturday in the shopping mall werent all they seemed. The boys were part of an organised gang targeting innocent young girls grooming them for prostitution. Captivated by the ring leader Emma didnt see the first brutal rape coming. From then on her life was never her own... This is the harrowing true story of how a nice girl from a good home found herself drawn into a trap of degradation & violence frightened for her life & not knowing where to turn. But it is also the story of finding the courage & inner strength to risk everything & escape." ...

Uncover the truth behind our food addiction
- & learn how to break the cycle. Many of us find ourselves powerless in front of a
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The west is in crisis. Governments have grown too big living beyond their means
- & ours. The true costs of extra officialdom have
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Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling & inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy & explains why over the past 200 years wealth & poverty have diverged & evolved across the planet & why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty. Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia Poland Russia India China & Africa to bring readers with him to an understanding of the different problems countries face. In the end readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are but how solvable they are & why making the effort is both our moral duty & in our own interests. ...

This title is presented with an introduction by Monica Ali. The love affair between Maurice Bendix & Sarah flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz ends when she suddenly & without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love & jealousy two years later Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah & slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. ...

Glossy television images of happy industrious & increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively researched book. Lemos conducted hundreds of interviews with Chinese men & women in non-westernized areas distant from such cities as Beijing & Shanghai. He reports that the lives his subjects describe belie the myth of a harmonious cohesive Chinese society. Much as the government promotes such a positive image everyday people in China are beleaguered by immense social & community problems as well as personal family & financial anxieties. Lemos investigates a China beyond the tourist trail. He offers a revealing account of the thoughts & feelings of Chinese people regarding all facets of their lives from education to health care unemployment to old age politics to wealth. Taken together the stories of these men & women bring to light a broken society one whose people are frustrated angry sad & often fearful about the circumstances of their lives. The author considers the implications of these findings & analyzes how Chinas community & social problems threaten the ambitious nations hopes for a cohesive future. ...

When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate & soon discovers that there is more to Sarahs murder than it first seems. On the other side of town Thomas Anderson is called into the headmasters office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father
- a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession
- has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother & sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead yet their initial reaction is not that of grief but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work & home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.

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Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what shes reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the same books so they can have something to talk about in the hospital waiting room. Their choices range from classic (Howards End) to popular (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) from fantastic (The Hobbit) to spiritual (Jon Kabat-Zinn) with many in between. We hear their passion for reading & their love for each other in their intimate & searching discussions. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between a child & parent & the power of reading in our lives. A wonderful book about wonderful books & mothers & sons & the enduring braid between them.
- Mitch Albom author of Tuesdays With Morrie a true meditation on what books can do.
- Edmund de Waal author of The Hare with Amber Eyes

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The Great Recession is more than four years old
- & counting. Yet as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley Nations rich
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