You don't forget your first time. Remember yours? Of course you do.Featherstone certainly does. It happens in the 1960's, when most girls keep their knees pressed firmly together during passionate embraces. They try to hold out until they marry. That 'other kind of girl' is incredibly rare. But boy is he eager to find her.He daydreams through school, wishing his life away, waiting for weekends to come around. Casting aside grey flannels, Featherstone dons his garb of crazy ...

Many mistakes, few regrets, lessons learned and forgotten. Four men lie dead in a Bangkok morgue. Mike Dean feels it is not his fault in spite of what others might think. He holds up in his Goa hideaway craving the bliss of ignorance, hoping his troubles will somehow blow away. But he has it, and they want it. They won't go away.Mike Dean thought he'd left the seedy underworld behind in the East End of London when he moved to the East End of the World. But trouble follows wherever M...

Who could ever tire of endless sex and more money than it's possible to imagine?Featherstone does. He leaves Swinging Sixties England, allowing Fate to dictate his destiny. She leads him to Amsterdam, sin capital of the world.Seduced, robbed, rescued, nurtured. Featherstone marvels at the wonders that unfold. Cops smoking dope, Free love and white bicycles. He's easy meat for insatiable Velma Ventura.She's the owner of an exclusive brothel. Topless slave girls, Live...

The Swinging Sixties: Not all it's cracked up to be? Or the greatest time ever to be young?Featherstone thinks it is. He's an art student, past his First Time barrier, and thinks he knows it all.The Sixties are in full swing: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Featherstone does his bit to help make the slogan a legend.Not one to pass up opportunity, he chances upon a way to make big money: Porn.Soho, London. Strippers, Models, Gangsters, Sleaze; Featherstone is su...

Featherstone is lead singer with a fabulous 60's rock band. This all-round lovable rogue with no ear for music but balls that make up for it, sets out to take his friends into the big time, and it is up to him to get them there with no map.Finding sexual encounters is no longer a problem, but making money is. He gets further involved with London's criminal underworld; not a smart move, but when does Featherstone ever do 'smart'?Sex, drugs, rock and roll; Featherstone does i...

In this volume, what are thought to be some of the more important aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act are discussed from a number of perspectives, including that of industry scholars who have been actively involved in evaluating financial regulation, regulators who are responsible for implementing the reform, financial policy experts representing think tanks and banking trade associations, congressmen and congressional staff involved with developing the legislation, and legal scholars. The volum...

"Beginning would-be writers should begin with this encouraging title, which provides a collection of exercises designed to unlock creative techniques." — Midwest Book ReviewA Writer's Digest Best Book of the YearAn illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical a...

YOU KNOW BATMAN.BUT DO YOU KNOW FRANK MILLER?In Push the Wall, Frank Miller chronicles the creation of his most iconic works such as Sin City, 300, Ronin, Daredevil, Wolverine and notably, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, which, alongside Batman: Year One served as the foundation for all Batman film and animated adaptations for the past forty years.Miller reveal...

From the all-time bestselling mind behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City, Push the Wall is part memoir, part master class for budding artists and writers by one of the greatest living creators whose work has influenced pop culture for decades.Frank Miller is our greatest living comic book writer and artist.Frank Miller shares his life, and through, his artistic process. Miller’s art...

Analysing the transformation of Berlin’s former Allied border control point, "Checkpoint Charlie," into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate. This crucial case study demonstrates that an unregulated global heritage industry has developed in Berlin which capitalizes on the internationally very attractive – but locally still very painful – heritage of the Berlin Wa...

Frank Partnoy, a former high-flying derivatives salesman, gives a vivid and shocking account of the vicious competition, raw machismo and dirty tricks at work in the riskiest sector of the stock market. Billions of dollars worth of securities are traded - and lost - in this amazing arena. Derivatives trading has also played a huge part in the global credit crunch that is the biggest story in the world today. This edition includes a sensational new chapter covering this, and all the other l...

After more than three decades in the pest control and nuisance wildlife control industry, one thing became clear: trap-based rodent control is one of the fastest ways to lose time, money, and motivation.This ebook was written to address a problem most technicians live with daily—endless trap checks, fuel costs, labor drain, and legal requirements that turn profitable jobs into break-even routes. Rather than reinvent rodent control, this guide documents real...