The Rise and Fall of the City of Money: A Financial History of Edinburgh, Hardcover - 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...

This is the colourful story of how Edinburgh rose to be one of the top 10 financial centres in Europe - and how the crisis of 2008 decimated its ba...

Reissued with a major new chapter on the 2008 financial crisis. A history of the world through the lens of money, indicating the financial stories ...

Reducere. This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such ...

Reducere. This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such ...

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anatole KonstantinThis book is the story of the men who believed they knew how to create an ideal world, and in its name di...

Eminent Corporations. The Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation - Andrew Simms, David Boyle

Before 1990, we brought our health problems to doctors and got "care". Today health services bring us problems with our bones, lipids, breathing, g...

Reducere. Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's fi...

Publisher: De GruyterAuthor(s): Carl C. YonkerIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and whiteN...

The story of how the dollar rose to global dominance in the twentieth century - and an assessment of what the future holds for the world's most imp...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Carol LeonnigNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 235 x 43Cover type: Paperback / s...

The Rise and Fall of The British Press present a clinical and provocative overview at the past, present and immediate future of the printed newspap...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one boo...

The Last Giants explores the rapid decline of one of the world's favourite animals and the measures required to halt their extinction, through Levi...

Fresh off of X-MEN: DEADLY GENESIS, Ed Brubaker (CAPTAIN AMERICA) takes the helm of Marvel's mighty mutants! And his incredible saga won't just aff...

When Batman alone isn't strong enough to save the world...could a team of heroes-in-training help? Batman: Detective Comics Omnibus collects togeth...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 - John Darwin

Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, Berlin has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants...

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the ele...

Reducere. On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. Th...

The second thrilling omnibus lost Sci-Fi classic from the sixties the New York times called "highly detailed visions of fantastic worlds" Among the...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DANDYISM. The Rise and Fall of a Concept - Petru Stefan Ionescu

A thrilling and fun-filled introduction to the incredible creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million years, by one of the world's leading paleo...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

DescriptionThis book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egy...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angie DeboHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the...

Reducere. In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use first-hand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lur...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Before the sewing machine industry got off the ground in the middle of the 19th Century, there was a huge problem, one that would stifle, not only ...

Business memoir

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama ...

In this fully illustrated book, Simon Trowbridge tells the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He begins by making a comparison between the RSC...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurou...

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Reducere. Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the r...

Reducere. The history of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and the rise of the American sugar industry are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate them. The Ha...

This is the definitive history of the largest and dominant firm in Britain's toy-making industry in the 20th century and by its leading historian.P...

Reducere. A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first mille...

Reducere. A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis-ex-president of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln, " popularly...