' Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one'. The banks are facing a crisis & this time it's too serious even for the old boys' club to sort it out
- this time they've sunk to government intervention. But opening the vaults to public scrutiny brings a whole host of problems for those at the top: people want to know where the money's gone they want loans reasonable interest rates & much much worse
- accountability. The fortress of high finance is crumbling & it may be time for a change of management
- before it's too late.


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Its an offer you cant refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morporks Royal Mint & the bank next door? Its a job for life. But as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. Theres something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless) it turns out that the Royal Mintruns at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend hes about to be exposed as a fraud but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh. & every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks hes making enemies. What he should be doing is.. . Making Money! ...

This book helps you learn how to combine needle-felting free-motion quilting & wet-felting techniques for an amazing finish to any quilt. Now needlecraft artists everywhere can take their designs to the next level with this superb new book. Featuring step-by-step instructions that make mastering the fundamentals quick & easy even if youre a beginner alongside 8 colour-drenched projects
- including a wrap bag & pillow
- this will become a firm favourite with all quilters.

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Kids can journey back to Ancient Egypt to learn the secrets of mummification by embalming a hot dog in an easy-to-assemble sarcophagus. The hieroglyphic curse-o-matic wheel creates warning signs for trespassers into tombs (or even bedrooms) of doom. This title also

Includes:: instructions on carving shrinking heads from apples. Possibly the most out-there Klutz" book yet is the perfect gift for the Haloween season."

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This is a 1901 novel for adults about a young woman who married a Marchioness & the melodrama that follows. Part one the original Marchioness is in the Cinderella tradition while part two called The Methods of Lady Walderhurst is an absorbing melodrama
- a realistic commentary on late-Victorian marriage. Unjustly out of print for years this neglected classic deserves its place alongside Pride & Prejudice" & " Jane Eyre"."
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A wave of internal conquest settlement & economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid & provocative book Robert Bartlett vividly shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization as much as it was later a colonizer & what this did to shape the continent & the world today. ...

This graphically compelling diversely illustrated volume is a behind-the-scenes look at Academy Award-winning director Ang Lees most ambitious film to date Life of Pi" an adaptation of Yann Martels international bestseller & Man Booker Prize-winning novel. The book

Includes:: a foreword by Martel & an introduction by Lee. This 3-D film is released on December 21 2012."

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In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question How should we live? Socialism? Fascism? Feminism?. Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of todays Britain ring from almost every page." ...

In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ' How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page." ...

The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War & to reflect recent developments in research into the period.* Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British politics* Now extended to cover the politics of the Second World War & the election of 1945* Extensively revised in the light of recent research* Looks at the Labour Partya s evolution into a national rather than sectional party*

Includes:: updated suggestions for further reading

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