Stephan took a job as a night watchmen in a museum, but the adventure of his life begins just a few minutes after he arrives! A mysterious boss, cryptic exhibits and dangerous intruders; he will need all his wits about him if he and his friend Jessica are to make it through the night?

Stephan took a job as a night watchmen in a museum, but the adventure of his life begins just a few minutes after he arrives! A mysterious boss, cryptic exhibits and dangerous intruders; he will need all his wits about him if he and his friend Jessica are to make it through the night?

Generally, but certainly not always. Kinseys research showed that 8 per cent of men and 3.5 per cent of women had had xxx with an animal, and that in rural areas the figure for men was closer to 50 per cent. Yet bestiality is almost universally condemned. While our love for animals is extolled as noble and natural, all erotic elements in the relationship between humans and other species are villified and proscribed, thus consigning them to the realm of exotic xxxxxography or crude innuendo. Even so, something remains of physical love for animals. In different forms, sublimated or occasionally celebrated, its traces can be found throughout art and popular culture: in Leda and the Swan, Beauty and the Beast or the Lorelei; in a lubricious menagerie of satyrs and centaurs, wolfmen and vampires, all the way through to King Kong and Fritz the Cat, pony clubs and amorous dolphins, or even advertisements for luxury catfoods. Dearest Pet uncovers and explores those traces, illuminating the ambivalence of human attitudes to cross species xxxuality. Its author, the biologist and broadcaster Midas Dekkers, has analyzed bestiality in all its aspects physical, psychological and legal and examined its representations in religion and mythology, art and literature, xxxxxography and advertising. Beautifully and sometimes bizarrely illustrated, his book is neither drily academic nor pruriently trivial, but erudite, witty and challenging: the first history of the last taboo. A book for animal lovers, and for those who are just their good friends.

This is the extraordinary story of a beautiful mathematical formula that changed the world, the financial markets, and indeed capitalism itself. It could do the unthinkable - it took the risk out of playing the money-markets. To its inventors it brought the Nobel Prize for economics. To those who used it, it brought great wealth. But this glittering tale would end in tragedy.

Most everyone is familiar with the tale of King Midas and his accursed golden touch, but how might Grimm's unique view change this classic tale? There's only one way to find out!