Such a series of bets is called a Dutch Book (hence the name 'Dutch Book Argument').
For her a fate tantamount to death is a blank date book; hence she's constantly scheming to find new gigs.
A sense of being on the fringe is also important to the book – hence his penchant for writing in Skye, the campervan at the water's edge.
Da Vinci was a friend of Pacioli's and almost certainly would have read the book, hence the claim that he painted the face of the Mona Lisa to fit inside a hypothetical golden rectangle.
As you note, other people are waiting for the book, hence the library's decision not to let you renew it.
And dishy, long-haired Oliver Martinez is the French seducer - a book dealer, allegedly, hence all the books in his gigantic bohemian flat.
The original image is from a book running sequentially, hence the unusual numbering but it was thought easiest to stick with this numbering for clarity.
Barbara Kingsolver's fine novel "Prodigal Summer" adds a touch of class to the American list, which excludes children's books—hence no Harry Potter, popular as he is in America.
Khal's Lebanese publishers, Al Saqi, told me this happens with all his books – hence the euphemism that they are "unavailable" in the kingdom, which allows the government wriggle-room to deny that books are banned or confiscated.
Nobody wants to buy these books (hence, they are out of print).
