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Building on both established and emerging discussions of literature and finance, Finance Fictions takes the measure of the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel. Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, this book considers that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of finance novel that in the face of an ongoing economic crisis, ever more frequent market crashes, and the politics of austerity, pursues a more realist...

Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Scandinavian identities could seem mutable and constructed at moments, while at other times they were deployed as representatives of an essential, biological, and natural category. As Northern European Protestants, Scandinavian immigrants and emigres assimilated into the mainstream rights and benefits of white American identity with comparatively few barriers or obstacles. Yet Arne Lunde demonstrates that far from simply manifesting a...

Merry Christians shows how and why Christianity is the world's foremost happy philosophy - once its eternal essence is fully appreciated and applied.

The author outlines how to easily become a happy Christian in today's challenging world by gently guiding the reader through 20 simple yet effective steps leading to 54 merry realizations. The book is further illustrated by hundreds of carefully selected bible verses and other words of wisdom by history's greats.

"May God protect me from gloomy saints." St. Teresa of Avila

Merry Christians is dedicated to already merry...

Das Eis kennt alle Geheimnisse. Jetzt gibt es sie preis.

Er wird es wieder tun. Am Fünften jedes Monats findet die Stockholmer Polizei in den Schären eine Leiche. Doch die Todesursachen unterscheiden sich, und so glaubt niemand an eine Verbindung zwischen den Morden. Niemand außer Kommissarin Desiré Rosenkvist, die Sam Berger und Molly Blom mit dem Fall beauftragt. Obwohl die Ermittler im Verborgenen agieren müssen, erkennen sie: Wer auch immer die Toten deponiert, will gefunden werden. Nur warum gerade jetzt? Berger und Blom setzen sich auf die Fährte eines...

The present monograph lists all species and varieties of Greek vascular plants described by Theodor von Heldreich, based on his collections or named after him.
Theodor von Heldreich (1822 1902) was the leading explorer of the Greek flora in the 19th century, living in Athens from 1843. His collections are represented in many European herbaria with the largest sets in Geneva (G and G-Boiss) and Vienna (W and WU).
The monograph starts with a short biography of Heldreich with emphasis on his scientific collections, followed by a long annotated list of taxa. Some of the more...