Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Grotonian
Author: Louis Auchincloss
Author: Vincent PiketPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349213667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Mayor Erastus Corning
Author: Paul GrondahlPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791472941
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Grondahl’s classic biography of Albany’s “mayor for life,” now available in paperback.
American Ambassador
Author: Waldo H. HeinrichsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195041593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The definitive biography of Grew, who was American Ambassador to Japan in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, and Under Secretary of State during the Second World War.
Before the Trumpet
Author: Geoffrey C. WardPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804173346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world—Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continent—to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th century’s greatest president. Here, drawn from thousands of original documents (many never previously published), is a richly-detailed, intimate biography, its central figure surrounded by a colorful cast that includes an opium smuggler and a pious headmaster; Franklin's distant cousin, Theodore and his remarkable mother, Sara; and the still-more remarkable young woman he wooed and won, his cousin Eleanor. This is a tale that would grip the reader even if its central character had not grown up to be FDR.
Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century
Author: Korinna SchönhärlPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319420763
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking,constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century. It explores how the various mechanisms of bank decision taking changed over time. Chapters also analyse the types of risk management techniques used, the contributory factors to the constitution of confidence and the methods that banking historians can use to analyse and describe bankers ́ risk management and decision taking - from system theory to behavioural finance, new institutional economics to praxeology and convention theory to network analysis. The different methodological approaches are put to the test in case studies based on archive material from four hundred years of banking in order to connect banking history more closely to political and cultural history.
The Grotonian
Author: Louis Auchincloss and His Critics
Author: Jackson R. BryerPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919
Author: Bill PeschelPublisher: Peschel Press
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Welcome to 223B Baker Street The debut of Sherlock Holmes in the pages of The Strand magazine introduced one of fiction’s most memorable heroes. Arthur Conan Doyle’s spellbinding tales of mystery and detection, along with Holmes’ deep friendship with Doctor Watson, touched the hearts of fans worldwide, and inspired imitations, parodies, songs, art, even erotica, that continues to this very day. “Sherlock Holmes Great War Parodies and Pastiches II: 1915-1919” collects 37 pieces — short stories, poems, and cartoons — all published during the opening years of Conan Doyle’s literary career. Also included are much of the original art and more than 300 footnotes identifying obscure words, historical figures, and events that readers were familiar with at the time. Peschel Press’ 223B Casebook series — named because they’re “next door” to the original stories — is dedicated to publishing the fanfiction created by amateur and professional writers during Conan Doyle’s lifetime. Each book covers an era, publication, or writer, and includes lively mini-essays containing insights into the work, Conan Doyle, and those who were inspired by him.
African Textualities
Author: Bernth LindforsPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865436169
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
African literary texts can be approached in a variety of ways. They may be examined in isolation as verbal artifacts that have a unique integrity. They may be studied in relation to other texts that preceded and followed them. Or they may be seen against the backdrop of the times, traditions and circumstances that helped to shape them. In this book, all these approaches have been utilized, sometimes singly, sometimes in combination.
