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  • Mood Indigo

    A Novel

    by Boris Vian ...
    Translated by Stanley Chapman ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond QueneauThe story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated by being surrounded by flowers; boy goes broke desperately trying to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Rise of Merchant Banking

    by Stanley Chapman ...
    Series series Economic History
    This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability, and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the most dynamic sectors of the City of London money market, of the British economy as a whole and of a major aspect of the growth of ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly Jr ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of the Federal Reserve

    by Eustace Mullins ...
    Mullins presents some bare facts about the Federal Reserve System with subjects on: it IS NOT a U.S. government bank; it IS NOT controlled by Congress; it IS a privately owned Central Bank controlled by the elite financiers in their own interest. The Federal Reserve elite controls excessive interest rates, inflation, the printing of paper money, and have taken control of the depression of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Inside the South African Reserve Bank

    Its Origins and Secrets Exposed

    by Stephen Goodson ...
    Stephen Mitford Goodson’s Inside the South African Reserve Bank Its Origins and Secrets Exposed sweeps aside the usual dust of economic theory to provide a thoroughly engaging account on the origins and purposes of the Republic’s central banking institution. Goodson does so as an “outsider” on the “inside,” a proponent of banking reform who became a non-executive director of the SA Reserve Bank. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Great Crash

    How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World into Depression

    by Selwyn Parker ...
    This is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and set in motion a series of economic, political and social events that affected many millions of people in America, Britain, Europe and Australia.The Crash rolled across the world like a tidal wave, toppling governments, spreading the wave of dictatorships in Italy and Germany, infecting ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The House of Packer

    The making of a media empire

    by Bridget Griffen-Foley ...
    'A remarkable account of the Packer family.painstakingly researched.will enthral anyone with an interest in the media'. - Kate de Brito, The Daily TelegraphAustralia's richest man, Kerry Packer, came to the helm of Australian Consolidated Press a quarter of a century ago; in recent years his son, James, has begun taking over the reins of the group. But despite the legendary reputation of Kerry ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • War and Gold

    A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt

    by Kwasi Kwarteng ...
    The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brought home by plundering conquistadors couldn't compensate for the Spanish government's extraordinary military spending, which would eventually bankrupt ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

    A Financial History of Edinburgh

    by Ray Perman ...
    It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crash Bang Wallop

    The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World

    by Iain Martin ...
    Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Memoirs

    by William Rees-Mogg ...
    Former editor of The Times, the late William Rees-Mogg was a pivotal figure of post-war Britain. Here he recounts the remarkable story of his life.As editor of The Times (his glory years), journalist, commentator, Chairman of the Arts Council, and, later, Chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Council (when he was accused of censorship), the William Rees-Mogg spent his life at the centre of events ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Dragons

    Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain

    by Liam Byrne ...
    Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men.DRAGONS tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne ... Read more

    $8.09 USD