Author(s) : Shelagh Heffernan
Publisher : Wiley
Year : Jan 2005
ISBN 10 : 0470095008
ISBN 13 : 9780470095003
Language : English
Pages : 736
File type : PDF
Size : 3 MB
Modern Banking focuses on the theory and practice of banking, and its prospects in the new millennium. The book is written for courses in banking and finance at Masters, MBA or advanced undergraduate level. Bank practitioners who wish to deepen and broaden their understanding of banking issues may also be attracted to this book. While they often have exceptional detailed knowledge of the areas they have worked in, busy bankers may be all too unaware of the key broader issues and lack perspective.
Consider the fundamental question: what is unique about a bank? What differentiates it from other financial institutions? Answering these questions begins to show how banks should evolve and adapt – or fail. If bankers know the underlying reasons for why profitable banks exist, it will help them to devise strategies for sustained growth.
Unlike many other books in this field, the focus of the book is on the microeconomic issues related to banks, covering key areas such as what singles a bank out from other financial institutions, the diversification of banks into non-banking financial activities, different types of banks within a banking structure, bank failures, and so on.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - What are Banks and What Do They Do?
Chapter 02 - Diversification of Banking Activities
Chapter 03 - Management of Risks in Banking
Chapter 04 - Global Regulation of Banks
Chapter 05 - Bank Structure and Regulation: UK, USA, Japan, EU
Chapter 06 - Banking in Emerging Economies
Chapter 07 - Bank Failures
Chapter 08 - Financial Crises
Chapter 09 - Competitive Issues in Banking
Chapter 10 - Case Studies
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Great Musicians (DK Eyewitness Books)
DK Eyewitness Books Series
DK CHILDREN
Age Range: 12 and up
Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
Written by Robert ziegler
ISBN-13: 9780756637743
ISBN: 0756637740
72 pages {PDF}
Pub. Date: June 2008
28.4 MB
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The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
A fascinating look into some of history’s greatest music makers, from Beethoven to the Beatles.
Roots of Music:
Where did music come from? Nobody knows exactly, because there are no written records.
A good guess would be that thousands of years ago, primitive peoples used music in much the same way as we use it now: to communicate, to pass time while working, to express joy or sadness, or to mark a special occasion.
The first instrument was the one every person is born with—the body.
We have voices to sing and shout with, hands to clap, and feet to stamp.
This is enough to create melody and rhythm, the two basic elements of music.
Hunters imitated the songs of animals they chased, mothers sang their children to sleep, and tribes
rhythmically stamped and shouted to keep away evil spirits.
It is a short step from there to making sounds by banging a sticks together or blowing through a hollow
reed stalk.
So how did we get from there to symphony orchestras and rock stars?
Early Musicians:
The Middle Ages (476–1453 ce) saw the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Catholic Church
in Europe, which was crucial to the spread of music through the Western world.
The first church music was called plainsong.
It was monophonic—just a single tune sung by either one person or a group, mostly from memory before musical notation existed.
Throughout this period, secular (nonreligious) music began to flourish, but it was rarely written down.
Most of it was performed by minstrels who composed songs about courtly love and accompanied themselves on the lute, the forerunner of the guitar, and the vielle, a kind of violin.
Contents:
6 Roots of Music
8 Early Musicians
10 Palestrina
11 Claudio Monteverdi
12 George Frideric Handel
14 Johann Sebastian Bach
16 Franz Joseph Haydn
18 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
20 Ludwig van Beethoven
22 Franz Liszt
24 Richard Wagner
26 Giuseppe Verdi
28 Johannes Brahms
30 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
32 Anton?n Dvor?k
34 Richard Strauss
36 Igor Stravinsky
38 Arnold Schoenberg
40 George Gershwin
42 Duke Ellington
44 Richard Rodgers
46 Dmitri Shostakovich
48 Leonard Bernstein
50 Ali Akbar Kahn
52 Pierre Boulez
54 Toru Takemitsu
56 Philip Glass
58 The Beatles
60 Bob Dylan
61 Michael Jackson
62 Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira
63 Youssou N’Dour
64 Milestones in Music
66 A–Z of Great Performers
68 Find Out More
70 Glossary of Musical Terms
72 Index/Acknowledgments
Great Musicians (DK Eyewitness Books)
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This book is listed for children 12 years and up but I have enjoyed it, and have learned a lot, plenty of pictures and lots of interesting information.
The DK Eyewitness Books series is super and will make a great edition to your collection.
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When I was 16, back in the 1980's, my friend and I bought copies of this book to try and see what kind of explosives we could make. These recipes are dangerous, ineffective, and could potentially burn your house down. Smoking banana peels is not a good idea. Gunpowder is dangerous to home manufacture in any quantity. The recipes only partly work, the booby traps are a farce, and the whole book only makes sense to an immature mind that can picture fighting a guerilla insurgency against invading Soviet scum (moi, circa 1984). Fact of the matter is, children have access to far more dangerous ideas and images on the web than they do out of this book which if serialized and published as a blog, would have gotten the author some mild notoriety but nothing more so than young people airing ridiculous ideas and their body parts on line. As an adult with a child of my own, I can understand the why behind the book, the historical context around it, and the desire by many reviewers, including myself and the author, to just bury the book, but I don't think it needs any more attention than pictures of Barbara Streisand's house, Obama-girl, Britney-Lindsey-Paris, and leaked financial documents from a Swiss bank. Stop looking! Don't stop thinking.
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