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Author: Graham Hand Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781865084312 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 328
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Australia's banks have gone from being revered to reviled in a relatively short space of time. The author shows how this change can be traced to the desperation of one bank and its profit-making practices, in this insider's story of the State Bank of New South Wales.
Author: Graham Hand Publisher: Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781865084312 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
Australia's banks have gone from being revered to reviled in a relatively short space of time. The author shows how this change can be traced to the desperation of one bank and its profit-making practices, in this insider's story of the State Bank of New South Wales.
Author: Sen. Arlen Specter Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429952903 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
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A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme Court nominees, championed NIH funding, wrote watershed crime laws, always staying defiantly independent, "The Contrarian," as Time magazine billed him in a package of the nation's ten-best Senators. It all ended with one vote, for President Obama's stimulus, when Specter broke with Republicans to provide the margin of victory to prevent another Depression. Shunned by the GOP faithful, Specter changed parties, giving Democrats a sixty-vote supermajority and throwing Washington into a tailspin. He kept charging, taking the first bursts of Tea Party fire at public meetings on Obama's health care--reform plan. Undaunted, Specter cast the key vote for the health plan. In Life Among the Cannibals, Specter candidly describes the battles that led to his party switch, his tough transition, the unexpected struggles and duplicity that he faced, and his tumultuous campaign and eventual defeat in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Taking us behind the scenes in the Capitol, the White House, and on the campaign trail, he shows how the rise of extremists---in both parties---has displaced tolerance with purity tests, purging centrists, and precluding moderate, bipartisan consensus.
Author: Alix Barzelay Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763664871 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
Author: Hans Staden Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822389290 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 314
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In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinambá, an indigenous people who had a reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of the French, were hostile to the Portuguese. Staden’s True History, first published in Germany in 1557, tells the story of his nine months among the Tupi Indians. It is a dramatic first-person account of his capture, captivity, and eventual escape. Staden’s narrative is a foundational text in the history and European “discovery” of Brazil, the earliest European account of the Tupi Indians, and a touchstone in the debates on cannibalism. Yet the last English-language edition of Staden’s True History was published in 1929. This new critical edition features a new translation from the sixteenth-century German along with annotations and an extensive introduction. It restores to the text the fifty-six woodcut illustrations of Staden’s adventures and final escape that appeared in the original 1557 edition. In the introduction, Neil L. Whitehead discusses the circumstances surrounding the production of Staden’s narrative and its ethnological significance, paying particular attention to contemporary debates about cannibalism. Whitehead illuminates the value of Staden’s True History as an eyewitness account of Tupi society on the eve before its collapse, of ritual war and sacrifice among Native peoples, and of colonial rivalries in the region of Rio de Janeiro. He chronicles the history of the various editions of Staden’s narrative and their reception from 1557 until the present. Staden’s work continues to engage a wide range of readers, not least within Brazil, where it has recently been the subject of two films and a graphic novel.
Author: Neil L. Whitehead Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271037997 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 152
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"Translations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus's descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Graham Hand
Author: Graham Hand
Author: Sen. Arlen Specter
Author: Carl Lumholtz
Author: Alix Barzelay
Author: William Endicott
Author: Hans Staden
Author: Neil L. Whitehead
Author: George Stringer Rowe
Author: Alfred St. Johnston
Author: Mary Davis Wallis