Are you, or a loved one, desperate to stop smoking once and for all? Do you think you will never stop? In: "Smoking - The Secret Art Of Stopping", Stephen Ross shows how he, and his friends quit after thirty years of chain smoking, with minimum drama, little effort, and absolutely no willpower! Based on the principles of Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War", this book takes everything you thought you knew about stopping smoking, and turns it upside down. Creating nothing less than a radically new wa...

Some mysteries you don't solve.You survive!Thornton Thacker had never met a girl like Caroline Greer. It was love at first sight, and trouble thereafter.Thacker is no stranger to trouble. He's a trench coat-wearing teenage detective living in a city of shadows and sirens - a concrete jungle with more secrets than streetlamps - and he's made a habit of chasing the things that bite back.A missing Egyptian mummy, cryptic hieroglyphs, and a curse older than the con...

He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands, then millions, of dollars in fraudulent loans. Despite falling deeper and deeper in the hole, Molony convinced himself he could win it all back. Before long, the mild-mannered assistant manager had bec...

A partire dalla crisi finanziaria del 2007/2008, il contesto di riferimento della corporate finance ha vissuto turbolenze fortissime. Incertezza è la parola d'ordine: i manager finanziari devono fronteggiare mercati finanziari più volatili, tassi di interesse bassissimi sino al 2021 e ora crescenti e poco prevedibili e, infine, decisioni di investimento molto più complesse rispetto al passato. I titoli pubblici hanno spesso registrato rendimenti negativi, l'inflazione è stata a lungo vicin...

From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers.In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores:· The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners· ...

Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical engagements. These engagements invariably come packaged in, and are shaped by, the language of spectrality. In its capacity to articulate a particular sort of relationship between the past, the present and the future, the spectral ...

He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands, then millions, of dollars in fraudulent loans. Despite falling deeper and deeper in the hole, Molony convinced himself he could win it all back. Before long, the mild-mannered assistant manager had bec...

An alien warrior has made me an offer I can't refuse. In exchange, he can do what he wants with me for one week.I want a child, but that's impossible now that Earth men are sterile. Then, a ping from a distant planet reaches us. Aliens are real, and they're interested in getting to know Earth women better.The Xilans fall into an insatiable urge once every three years. It's called the Slaking. There aren't enough females to give them what they need, so like ...

He has tusks and a tail and insists she's his fated mate. She's enticed, but determined not to get involved. Can a burly alien warrior and a single mom find love together on a planet far from Earth?Garek: With my clan threatened, I don't have time for romance with a pesky Earth female. Until I meet Piper. She and her youngling son are part of our planet's new settlement.Soon, I find myself helping her plan her home and talking about odd Earthling a...

He's a proud alien warlord. She's a single mom hoping to find love again. When their worlds collide, sparks fly.Bruge: I'm a serious warlord, not a youngling warrior in need of a mate. Ensuring the duskhorde don't kill us, and that the clan gathering runs smoothly, is enough to keep me busy. Court an Earthling female? Perhaps later. But when I meet Alexa, my second heart starts beating, proving she's my maelstrom mate. Now I want her, and the best way to c...

Josie: I moved to Ferlaern to find a new life with my daughter. While the other women get all hot and bothered by the alien brutes we move in with, true love is not for me. But Zetar sure makes my face—and other parts of me—zing. And despite the fact that he irks the H-E-double-hockey-sticks out of me, he also makes me dream of what might be hanging out beneath his leather clothing. When I'm kidnapped by the duskhorde, Zetar comes charging to my rescue. He claims ...

I'm determined to have a child, which means one week in one bed...with an alien.According to the Xilan-Earth agreement, I'll belong to Prince Vikar, a seven-foot-tall, scaly blue alien, for one week. In exchange for giving him whatever he needs, this cocky "prince" assures me I'll return to Earth with a child on the way. But when the space station's attacked and alien spiders try to steal me, Vikar and I must flee.Then he tells me that once we get away, he'...