The Trouble Is the Banks

The Trouble Is the Banks
Author: Mark Greif
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0982597770

The Trouble is the Banks collects 150 letters that Americans (and one Canadian) wrote directly to executives and directors of five big banks in fall 2011, at a time when protests were emerging in Occupy Wall Street camps across the United States. These writers speak as citizens to citizens, making an unprecedented portrait of ordinary Americans' experiences of the financial crisis since 2007. Here is the speech of the People, not any authority above them.

By the Banks of the Holly

By the Banks of the Holly
Author: B. M. Mollohan
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0595347231

The land was called "Virginia" by Sir Walter Raleigh. A region of natural beauty, governed by temperamental weather, the western slopes of the Alleghenies beckoned a sturdy stock of early hunters, explorers, and settlers. This is the story of how those early residents forged a home, a nation, and finally, a state, along these rocky slopes.

Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820 / Journals, Letters and Documents

Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820 / Journals, Letters and Documents
Author: Anna Agnarsdóttir
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2017-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351899953

Sir Joseph Banks was one of the great figures of Georgian England, best known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71), as a patron of science and as the longest-serving President of the Royal Society (1778-1820). This volume brings together all Banks's papers concerning Iceland and the North Atlantic, scattered in repositories in Britain, the United States, Australia and Denmark, and most published here for the first time. A detailed introduction places them in historical context.