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The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks

Author : Simone Caroti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620407
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks written by Simone Caroti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical history of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks' death. It considers Banks' origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become a published author, his eventual success with The Wasp Factory (1984) and the publication of the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas (1987). His 1994 essay "A Few Notes on the Culture" is included, along with a range of critical responses to the 10 Culture books he published in his lifetime and a discussion of the series' status as utopian literature. Banks was a complex man, both in his everyday life and on the page. This work aims at understanding the Culture series not only as a fundamental contribution to science fiction but also as a product of its creator's responses to the turbulent times he lived in.

Inversions

Author : Iain M. Banks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982156104
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Inversions written by Iain M. Banks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Orbit, 1998.

Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged

Author : Suzy Banks
Publisher : Tank Town Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780966417067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged written by Suzy Banks and published by Tank Town Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stating that "boy, have we learned a lot since then" (i.e., the 1997 edition), the authors share amusing anecdotes of their experiences as well as practical tips on collecting rainwater. Illustrations and b & w photos show the necessary equipment and set-up for becoming water-independent. They include pricing information. Banks' husband installs rainwater collection systems for a living in Dripping Springs(!), Texas. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766

Author : Averil M. Lysaght
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520017801
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766 written by Averil M. Lysaght and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of voyage on board Niger, 1766, scientific manuscripts, and detailed account of his biological collections.

Bad Paper

Author : Jake Halpern
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711240
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Bad Paper written by Jake Halpern and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become partners and go in quest of "paper"—the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Aaron and Brandon learn, the world of consumer debt collection is an unregulated shadowland where operators often make unwarranted threats and even collect debts that are not theirs. Introducing an unforgettable cast of strivers and rogues, Jake Halpern chronicles their lives as they manage high-pressure call centers, hunt for paper in Las Vegas casinos, and meet in parked cars to sell the social security numbers and account information of unsuspecting consumers. He also tracks a "package" of debt that is stolen by unscrupulous collectors, leading to a dramatic showdown with guns in a Buffalo corner store. Along the way, he reveals the human cost of a system that compounds the troubles of hardworking Americans and permits banks to ignore their former customers. The result is a vital exposé that is also a bravura feat of storytelling.

The Langston Hughes Reader

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : George Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Langston Hughes Reader written by Langston Hughes and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1958 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of writings by early twentieth-century African-American author Langston Hughes, including excerpts from novels and autobiographies, short stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays.

A Permanent Member of the Family

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062096745
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Permanent Member of the Family written by Russell Banks and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from the contemporary American master whom the New York Times declared "the most compassionate fiction writer working today." Suffused with Russell Banks’s trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try—and sometimes fail—to connect with one another, as we seek a home in the world. In the title story, a father looks back on the legend of the cherished family dog whose divided loyalties mirrored the fragmenting of his marriage. “A Former Marine” asks, to chilling effect, if one can ever stop being a parent. And in the haunting, evocative “Veronica,” a mysterious woman searching for her daughter may not be who she claims she is. Moving between the stark beauty of winter in upstate New York and the seductive heat of Florida, Banks’s acute and penetrating collection demonstrates the range and virtuosity of both his narrative prowess and his startlingly panoramic vision of modern American life.

Secret Kingdom: My Magical Story Collection

Author : Rosie Banks
Publisher : Orchard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781408330166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Secret Kingdom: My Magical Story Collection written by Rosie Banks and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet best friends Ellie, Summer and Jasmine in this wonderful collection of stories, and discover their first six magical adventures in the Secret Kingdom! With all-new gorgeous colour illustrations.

The Color of Money

Author : Mehrsa Baradaran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982304
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Money written by Mehrsa Baradaran and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates “A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.” —The Atlantic “Extraordinary...Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America.” —Ezra Klein When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than 1 percent of the total wealth in America. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. With the civil rights movement in full swing, President Nixon promoted “black capitalism,” a plan to support black banks and minority-owned businesses. But the catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. In this timely and eye-opening account, Baradaran challenges the long-standing belief that black communities could ever really hope to accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. “Black capitalism has not improved the economic lives of black people, and Baradaran deftly explains the reasons why.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A must read for anyone interested in closing America’s racial wealth gap.” —Black Perspectives

The State Of The Art

Author : Iain M. Banks
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748110070
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The State Of The Art written by Iain M. Banks and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson The State of the Art is the only collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction and includes the acclaimed Culture novella of the same name. From science fiction to horror, dark fantasy to twisted comedy, all eight stories bear the indefinable stamp of Banks's staggering talent. Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks: 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The novels of Iain M. Banks: The Culture series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata The State of the Art Other books by Iain M. Banks Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist Also now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

The Business

Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349139227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book The Business written by Iain Banks and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate is a senior executive officer in a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organization. The character of The Business seems, even to her, to be vague to the point of invisibility. Her job is to keep abreast of technological developments, but she must let go the assumptions of a lifetime.

The Banks

Author : Roxane Gay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1952203414
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Banks written by Roxane Gay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-stakes heist thriller about the most daring and successful thieves in Chicago: three generations of women from the Banks family. For fifty years the women of the Banks family have been the most successful thieves in Chicago by following one simple rule: never get greedy. But when the youngest Banks stumbles upon the heist of a lifetime, the potential windfall may be enough to bring three generations of thieves together for one incredible score and the chance to avenge a loved one taken too soon. From NY Times bestselling writer Roxane Gay (Hunger; Black Panther) and artist Ming Doyle (The Kitchen). "The Banks is the best kind of heist story: a sharp, tight robbery with escalating tensions and threats coming from every direction." - The A.V. Club "It will leave most readers smiling at the end of their journeys with the Banks family." - The Beat

Other People's Money

Author : Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Publisher : Binker North
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Other People's Money written by Louis Dembitz Brandeis and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1914 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great monopoly in this country is money. So long as that exists, our old variety and individual energy of development are out of the question. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.

Banking and Finance Collections

Author : Ash Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136800255
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Banking and Finance Collections written by Ash Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of special librarians from banking, finance, and government provide descriptive accounts of their respective collections in this comprehensive volume. They provide an introduction to some of the major library and archival resources available to bankers, financiers, and investors, as well as offer access to the historian and scholar doing research in some aspect of business. The collections represented include the Federal Reserve System, the Joint Bank-Fund Library of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Standard & Poor’s, the Wells Fargo Corporation, the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School, and more.

The Banks Did It

Author : Neil Fligstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674249356
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Banks Did It written by Neil Fligstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the mortgage-securitization industry, which explains the complex roots of the 2008 financial crisis. More than a decade after the 2008 financial crisis plunged the world economy into recession, we still lack an adequate explanation for why it happened. Existing accounts identify a number of culpritsÑfinancial instruments, traders, regulators, capital flowsÑyet fail to grasp how the various puzzle pieces came together. The key, Neil Fligstein argues, is the convergence of major US banks on an identical business model: extracting money from the securitization of mortgages. But how, and why, did this convergence come about? The Banks Did It carefully takes the reader through the development of a banking industry dependent on mortgage securitization. Fligstein documents how banks, with help from the government, created the market for mortgage securities. The largest banksÑCountrywide Financial, Bear Stearns, Citibank, and Washington MutualÑsoon came to participate in every aspect of this market. Each firm originated mortgages, issued mortgage-backed securities, sold those securities, and, in many cases, acted as their own best customers by purchasing the same securities. Entirely reliant on the throughput of mortgages, these firms were unable to alter course even when it became clear that the market had turned on them in the mid-2000s. With the structural features of the banking industry in view, the rest of the story falls into place. Fligstein explains how the crisis was produced, where it spread, why regulators missed the warning signs, and how banksÕ dependence on mortgage securitization resulted in predatory lending and securities fraud. An illuminating account of the transformation of the American financial system, The Banks Did It offers important lessons for anyone with a stake in avoiding the next crisis.

Breaking Banks

Author : Brett King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118900154
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Banks written by Brett King and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the next 10 years, we'll see more disruption and changes to the banking and financial industry than we've seen in the preceding 100 years"—Brett King Breaking Banks: The Innovators, Rogues, and Strategists Rebooting Banking is a unique collection of interviews take from across the global Financial Services Technology (or FinTech) domain detailing the stories, case studies, start-ups, and emerging trends that will define this disruption. Features the author's catalogued interviews with experts across the globe, focusing on the disruptive technologies, platforms and behaviors that are threating the traditional industry approach to banking and financial services Topics of interest covered include Bitcoin's disruptive attack on currencies, P2P Lending, Social Media, the Neo-Banks reinventing the basic day-to-day checking account, global solutions for the unbanked and underbanked, through to changing consumer behavior Breaking Banks is the only record of its kind detailing the massive and dramatic shift occurring in the financial services space today.

Monograph series

Author : Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Monograph series written by Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: