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A wildly disarming memoir by comedian Alex Wood on how he overcame his multiple addictions.

This book offers practical and insightful advice to women on how to choose a partner for life and it restores hope that a lasting, loving, and fulfilling marriage is possible in a divorce-prone world. Here are just a few of the areas covered in Steve Wood s latest The 1 predictor of divorce How to develop communication skills The answer to the common question how far can I go? before marriage The best places to find good, eligible men Questions to ask before saying I do When are you ready to marry? How you can avoid regrets after marriage Recommended in Laura Berquist Health Steve 141, Family Life 0-9658582-4-3

First edition bound in maroon cloth. A Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. Dust soiling to the DJ's front panel. Full color photographs through-out.

"Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Woods meets a sweet, sophisticated man who owns land and businesses, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about the future with her. She falls in love. She also becomes increasingly beset by anxiety at the lavish three-act plays he offers her in the form of excuses for frequent cancellations and no-shows. She begins to wonder, who is this man? When she ends the relationship Stephanie switches back on her journalistic nous and uncovers a story of mind-boggling duplicity and manipulation. She also finds she is not alone; that the world is full of smart, sassy women who have suffered the attentions of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies, men with dangerously adept abilities to deceive. In this brilliantly acute and broad-ranging book, Wood, an award-winning writer and journalist, has written a riveting, important account of contemporary love, and the resilience of those who have witnessed its darkest sides."--Back cover.

"Experiences of paid work have shifted radically over the last 30 years with the rise of flexible scheduling and the gig economy. In this book, Alex Wood attempts to provide an updated account of power in this changing economy. With in-depth case studies of two of the largest retail businesses in the world, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom, he sheds light on a new despotic mode of domination in which managers discipline workers through reducing the quantity, stability, and sociability of their hours. In turn workers must continually strive to maintain their manager's favor in the hope of receiving 'schedule gifts', the granting of additional hours and the rearranging of schedules. Workers experience the operation of flexible scheduling as acts of kindness. As such, schedule gifts bind workers to their managers' interests through feelings of gratitude and moral obligation. In this way precarious scheduling gives rise to what is a new regime of power for the on-demand economy"--