It's the morning of Des's wedding in a village in the mountains of Northern Thailand. Oy looks ravishing in her traditional Thai sheath but Des feels a bit uncomfortable in his Yul Brynner sash, rope crown and tonne bag pants.When you marry a working girl, even one as big-hearted and lovely as Oy, she's bound to bring a bit of baggage from her past. Romford Sauna in particular. More especially a geezer called Lucky, the bastard boss of Romford Sauna.Big Des isn't complainin...

Hi, I'm Paul, and I've been married for 19 years to a truly wonderful woman, Leana. Having shared nearly two decades of life together, I believe we've accumulated a wealth of experiences, insights, and perhaps a few battle scars, that can shed some light on the intricate dance of maintaining a long-term relationship. Our journey, like many others, has involved a continuous process of adjustment – moving from the independent lives we knew as singles to navigating the shared reality of a com...

A DYSLEXIC CHILD DISCOVERS DANTE'S 'INFERNO' AND SAVES HER DYSFUNCTIONAL FATHER.'… The hilarious Men Going Their Own Way classic…' by Paul Lyons, winner of a London Times Book of the Year Award and a New Writer's Fellowship from the Australian Literature Board.'There's more to love than a womb and two jugs.' Paul Piles, Australian shaman, eco-warrior and anti-psychiatry campaigner sets out to prove the primacy of male love. Abducting his newborn baby's a ba...

Four voices:An autistic boy at puberty.His 'refrigerator' mother who blames herself for his autism.His psychotherapist father, frustrated with his job as a prison doctor.The paedophile child killer whose greatest crime is in his mind.Four voices weaving a story at the boundary between language and transcendence.The story of 'Eddy And The Fiend' takes place in a country town in NSW, home to a maximum security prison. It's the early nineteen-ni...

What was it like to live in a time when abortion was illegal, and not only illegal but taboo?How does a sunny Aussie family living the zip-a-dee-doo-dah life in nineteen sixties Sydney deal with a prospect as radical as abortion, particularly when their snobbish, Nietzsche-reading, high IQ son falls in love with an underage country girl knocked up by her uncle?Happiness is a precious commodity and good people will do terrible things to preserve it.

Is the beautiful Thai woman Jim meets on a freezing sidewalk a heartless home-wrecker or She Who Is Outside The Universe And Goes Upwards? Or both? The harsh realities of the London sex trade are light years distant from the esoteric doctrine of Shakti and the sexual path to Transcendence, but this is the gulf Jim and Nam Huan must cross if they are to know what love has in store for them. On the way they encounter human goodness in the shape of Cyril Wainright, the traffickers' enforcer, ...

During the scorching hot summer of 1988, Michael Dukakis leads George Bush senior in the polls. And while political conventions, campaigns continue to be in session, Hawk and the rest of the "button gang" sell their buttons first to Democrats in Atlanta, then Republicans in New Orleans. As always, the gang sells to either side of any persuasion, offering a unique underview of the American political process, amoral hucksterism, and a corrupted form of capitalism.Sought after by loan...

Obstetrics, as with all domains of medicine, is always advancing. New science leads to new practice while changes in the environment produce new and emerging challenges, such as the corona virus. The purpose of this new edition is to align this text and its state-of-the-art information with important changes that have occurred in the four years since the last edition was published.The first section of this book focuses on preconception and prenatal care. There are several crucial u...

Most books on business strategy approach the subject from a corporate perspective, covering topics such as the vision for the business, the marketplace, competition and differentiation. However, the reality is that most managers work in sub-units or subsidiaries of the business and they are not involved in corporate strategy formulation. Their strategic concerns are with the positioning and future trajectory of their own units within the complex internal ecosystem in which they exist. If t...

Obstetrical care in the family medicine setting is an ever-evolving discipline. In addition to routine updates due to the passage of time, several new developments have occurred in the field since the last edition of this book was published. Among these developments are advances in prenatal assessment and diagnosis, recommendations for vaccination in pregnancy, assessment and management of infectious disease in pregnancy, and management of chronic disease concurrent with pregnancy....

From Casablanca to The Hustler, from Moby Dick to How I Made $1,000,000 Playing Poker, these widely varied musings address the entire range of human emotion—the highs of excitement of the “juice” down to the depths of despair of losing. Covered here are gaming’s universality and history, superstition and luck, players and places, and also every game, from the lowliest back-alley crap shoot to the highest-stakes poker contest and everything in between.

At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the historic labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists quickly became the voice and conscience of their generation.The People of This Generation is the first comprehensive case study of the history of the New Left in a Northeast u...