Authors:Gillian Thomas, John Harrison,
Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing
Keywords: drive, top, tours, thomas, cook, drives, guide, languedoc, amp, southwest, france
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-03-17
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1848480520
ISBN-13: 9781848480520

The best of Languedoc’s diverse and unspoiled landscape, from the beaches of the coastal resorts to the wild and remote mountain plateaux, including Cathar country, the Cevennes and the Pyrenees, and the Tarn and Gard regions.Thomas Cook Drive Around Guides are designed to provide you with a comprehensive but flexible reference source to guide you as you tour a country or region by car. This guide divides Languedoc and Southwest France into touring areas – one per chapter. Major cultural centers or cities form chapters in their own right. Each chapter provides at least a day’s worth of a

Authors:Gillian Holme, Gillian Holmes,
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: women, canadian, presents, chatelaine
Number of Pages: 1169
Published: 1999-05
List price: $153.00
ISBN-10: 0920966551
ISBN-13: 9780920966556

The definitive reference text on over 3,700 agenda-setting Canadian women from all walks of life (including the arts, business, medicine, government, activism and charity work, science and technology, medicine, government, sports and more).

Author: Dow Gillian E. (ed.)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: connections, european, mediators, interpreters, translators
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2007-07-12
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 3039110551
ISBN-13: 9783039110551

Author: Gillian Rose
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: visual, materials, interpretation, introduction, methodologies
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-05
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0761966641
ISBN-13: 9780761966647

This book is an introduction to reading visual culture. It explains which methods are available to the undergraduate student and shows exactly how to use them. The book begins with a discussion of general themes and recent debates, on the meaning of culture and the function of the visual, that offers a critical inquiry into the relation of visual images to social identities and social relations. Gillian Rose then goes on to investigate in detail the different methods for interpreting visual images. The strengths and weaknesses of each method are discussed in relation to a detailed case stu

Author: Gillian Tett
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: financial, world, made, billions, japan’s, shook, sun, wall, street, mavericks, saving
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0060554258
ISBN-13: 9780060554255

Saving the Sun tells the story of the world’s largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank. Within that business saga is the dramatic tale of Japan’s brightest financial minds, the men who made the Japanese economic miracle come to life, and their struggle against the economic failure in the 1990s. Into this climate of despair, where Japan seemed incapable of reviving prosperity, came a group of wily and determined Americans who would discover just how different the Japanese really are.

Author: Gillian Tett
Publisher: Tantor Media
Keywords: street, wall, greed, unleashed, catastrophe, corrupted, morgan, bold, gold, dream, small, tribe, fool
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1400162831
ISBN-13: 9781400162833

From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her newsbreaking warnings of a credit crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool’s Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008 meltdown.

Author: Gillian Tett
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: street, wall, greed, unleashed, catastrophe, corrupted, morgan, bold, gold, dream, small, tribe, fool
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 141659857X
ISBN-13: 9781416598572

From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her newsbreaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool’s Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008 meltdown.Drawing on exclusive access to J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a tightly bonded team of bankers known on Wall Street as the "Morgan Mafia," as well as in-depth interviews with dozens of other key players, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Tett brings to life in gripping detail how the Morgan team’s bold ideas for a whol