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Product Description: Grimsby was a Victorian phenomenon. In the space of 100 years, from 1800 to 1900, its population soared from 1,000 to 63,000 and went on rising until the town became the premier fishing port in the world. This is its story. The town was created by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company from nothing and it rose to become the world's premier fishing port...read more

On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a boat from Germany. Soon after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his brother Emanuel established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers. On September 15, 2008, Dick Fuld, the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, filed for corporate bankruptcy amid one of the worst financial crises in American history. After 164 years, one of the largest and most respected investment banks in the world was gone, leaving everyone wondering, "How could this have happened?" Peter Chapman, an editor and writer for The Financial Times, answers this question by exploring the complete history of Lehman Brothers between those two historic Septembers. He takes us back to its early days as a cotton broker in Alabama, and then to its glory days as one of the leading corporate financiers in America. He also provides an intimate portrait of the people who ran Lehman over the decades-from Henry Lehman, the founder, to Bobbie Lehman, who led the company into the world of radio, motion pictures, and air travel in first part of the 20th century, to Dick Fuld, who allowed it to morph into a dealer of shoddy securities. Throughout his account of this imperiously rich firm, Chapman examines the impact Lehman Brothers had not only on American finance but also on American life. As a major backer of companies like Pan American Airlines, Macy's, and RKO, Lehman helped lead the country into major new industries and helped support some of its most intrepid entrepreneurs. He then shows how, starting in the 1980s, Lehman's increased focus on short-term gain investments led the firm down the dangerous path that would eventually lead to its demise. In the end, the story of Lehman Brothers is not only the story of a truly important American company but a cautionary tale of what happens when leaders lose sight of their core mission in their quest for something too good to be true.

From its niineteenth-century origins, to its rise to success via the mass-marketing of the banana as the original fast food and its links to the U.S. government, an account of the rise and fall of United Fruit Company shows how the corporation blazed the trail of global capitalism while documenting its devastating impact on Central America's 'banana republics.'

The Goalkeeper's History of Britain is a captivating mixture of anecdote and observation from the streets of Islington to international arenas, which charts the changing nature of Britain, and the country's peculiar visceral attachment to its goalkeepers. His search takes him from Hackney Marshes to the North Cape, from auditing the public conveniences in the Holloway Road to his selection for a Brazil XI led by Rivelino that had forgotten to include a goalkeeper. Acutely perceived, with all the angles narrowed, this is a delightful blend of personal crusade, intrepid search for the root of the national character, and unique understanding of the country's postwar history. It is the world viewed through the utterly individual perspective of the lone guardian of football's precious estate: the goalkeeper.

Shows how the example of the banana importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of multinational companies. This book tells the tale of big business, lies and power to show how United Fruit pioneered the growth of globalization and - in doing so - has helped farm the banana to the point of extinction.

Product Description: Grammar and Writing is a practical book designed to be used by writers of all kinds who want to improve their knowledge of language in order to develop and improve their writing skills. Introduces the components of language, syntax, clause and phrase structure and punctuation to teach the link between grammar and writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Que's Administering SAP R/3: MM-Materials Management Module is a valuable reference tool for companies implementing SAP R/3's MM methodology and software. It focuses on the business and technical decisions that need to be made before, during, and after administration of the MM module, explains how the Enterprise Data Model carries your company's data, and how the SAP R/3 Business Engineer maximizes your system's performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a manual of emergency first aid for flight attendents, and it provides step-by-step guidelines for the diagnosis and management of emergency situations which are likely to be encountered in flight. The book begins with a section on the structures and properties of the atmosphere, and on the cabin environment...read more

Product Description: Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains...read more

Product Description: Volume I: 1820-1832. Boyes was a highly respected New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land civil servant, as well as being a talented painter and an observant and waspishly amusing diarist.