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Big Girls Don't Cry

By: Francesca Clementis

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Marina has spent most of her adult life on a diet. And although big girls aren't supposed to cry, in Marina's experience, they don't have much fun either. But when scientist David Sandhurst invites her to enrol in a test for a miracle weight-loss drug, Marina thinks her prayers have been answered. Soon enough, Marina discovers that she's losing those excess pounds and gaining confidence. She's waving goodbye to her hips and hello to an exciting social life - and a whole new set of problems . . .

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1405517050

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9781405517058

Can't Buy Me Love

By: Francesca Clementis

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Can't Buy Me Love

By: Francesca Clementis

Tess and Max have lost everything. They've had to move out of their large detached house in affluent 'Nappy Valley'. They've had to take their children out of private school. They've had to close the organic deli and café that they had borrowed a small fortune to open. And now, they're forced to sell their car and move to a rented flat in an adjoining area known to smug 'Nappy Valley' residents as 'Crappy Valley'. 'Money doesn't matter', their friends all say. But money changes everything - including friendships. And while their old neighbours are still busy having lifestyles, can Tess and Max rebuild theirs?

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1405517026

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Mad About The Girls

By: Francesca Clementis

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Mad About The Girls

By: Francesca Clementis

All Lorna has ever wanted is a husband and four children. And now she has just that - except they are someone else's husband and someone else's children. But Robert Danson and his kids are practically hers. After all, Robert's wife had walked out on the family ten years earlier, and, having fallen for Robert, Lorna has been happy to step into the breach. So now Lorna has everything a real mother should have (aside from the stretch marks) and couldn't be happier, until Robert's real wife returns into their lives. She's beautiful, assured and looking for forgiveness. But is that all she wants? Lorna can't help but feel that this family isn't big enough for both of them . . .

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1405517034

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Would I Lie To You?: a laugh-out-loud romcom

By: Francesca Clementis

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Would I Lie To You?: a laugh-out-loud romcom

By: Francesca Clementis

A hilarious and heart-warming novel, perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Ali McNamara Lauren Connor doesn't usually tell lies. But when she meets Chris Fallon at a party hosted by her best friend Stella, somewhere between running out of small talk and agreeing to a date, she ends up telling a few inconsequential fibs to make herself seem more likeable. But now Lauren's going to have to deal with the consequences of her fabrications. And if that wasn't enough, she's about to get caught up in the crossfire of her well-intentioned friends and relatives. But could it be that Lauren isn't the only one telling lies . . . ?

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1405516933

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9781405516938

Strictly Business

By: Francesca Clementis

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Strictly Business

By: Francesca Clementis

Kate Harris is a high-flying executive who wants nothing more than to be liked. She never criticises, never delegates and feels guilty about asking her secretary to type letters. But when as she prepares to leave for a new job, and her workmates present her with a doormat as a parting gift, Kate decides enough is enough. From now on, she's going to be tough and ruthless. But playing Cruella de Vil by day and Julie Andrews by night is giving Kate an identity crisis. And her staff are determined to try every trick in the book to bring back the old Kate, even if it means trying to put a bit of sparkle into her love life. . .

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1405517042

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A Perfect Divorce

By: Francesca Clementis

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A Perfect Divorce

By: Francesca Clementis

Jenny and Mark have been together since they were at school, but are now going their separate ways. They are determined that their carefully planned separation will lead to the world's first truly amicable divorce. They'll divide up their possessions without any argument; each eager to show that he/she was the most reasonable party. They'll even go out occasionally, just as good friends do. But Jenny and Mark's friends and family are not so happy about their plans for a 'perfect divorce'. People say that divorce can be painless if there are no children involved. But at least children grow up, get over it and get on with their own lives. Some friends never do . . .

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1405517069

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9781405517065

The Invention of Custom

Natural Law and the Law of Nations, Ca. 1550-1750

By: Francesca Iurlaro

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The Invention of Custom

Natural Law and the Law of Nations, Ca. 1550-1750

By: Francesca Iurlaro

The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of nations. However, no scholarly monograph has, until now, addressed the relationship between custom and the European natural law and ius gentium tradition. This book tells that neglected story, and offers a solid conceptual framework to contextualize and understand the 'problematic of custom', namely how to identify its normative content. Natural law doctrines, and the different ways in which they help construct human reason, provided custom with such normative content. This normative content consists of a set of fundamental moral values that help identify the status of custom as either a fundamental feature or an original source of ius gentium. This book explores what cultural values and practices facilitated the emergence of custom and rendered it into as a source of the law of nations, and how they did so. Two crucial issues form the core of the book's analysis. Firstly, it qualifies the nature of the interrelation between natural law and ius gentium, explaining why it matters in relation to our understanding of the idea of custom. Second, the book claims that the process of custom formation as a source of law calls into question the role of the authority of history. The interpretation of the past through this approach can thus be described as one of 'invention'.

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Oxford University Press

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0192897950

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9780192897954

The Promise and Peril of Credit

What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society

By: Francesca Trivellato

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The Promise and Peril of Credit

What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society

By: Francesca Trivellato

How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.

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Princeton University Press

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0691185379

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Big Girls Don't Cry

By: Francesca Clementis

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Mad About The Girls

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Mad About The Girls

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1405517034

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Would I Lie to You?

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Would I Lie to You?

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Lauren Connor dooesn't usually tell lies. A consummate professional in her working life, it's only in social situations that she finds herself constantly saying the wrong thing.

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0749905794

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Book's by Francesca Clementis

Big Girls Don't Cry

Big Girls Don't Cry

Can't Buy Me Love

Can't Buy Me Love

Mad About The Girls

Mad About The Girls

Would I Lie To You?: a laugh-out-loud romcom

Would I Lie To You?: a laugh-out-loud romcom

Strictly Business

Strictly Business

A Perfect Divorce

A Perfect Divorce

The Invention of Custom

The Invention of Custom

The Promise and Peril of Credit

The Promise and Peril of Credit

Big Girls Don't Cry

Big Girls Don't Cry

Mad About The Girls

Mad About The Girls

Would I Lie to You?

Would I Lie to You?

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