Stress can have a deleterious effect on people's mental, physical, and psychological health. There is a growing body of evidence, however, that suggests animals, both as pets and therapy partners, can help mitigate people's stress levels. This book showcases a rich collection of research papers from Human-Animal Interactions. It highlights research pertaining to pets as well as animal-assisted therapy in both school and professional settings. The book also includes a scene-setting introduc...

With over 5,500--including 150 new--accessible entries, this sixth edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Finance and Banking has been fully revised and updated to take into account the ever-developing financial landscape of the last five years. This comprehensive A-Z defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including money markets, private investments and borrowing, central banking, foreign exchanges, monetary policy, and public and government finan...

Here is a detailed and spellbinding account of the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), one of the greatest financial scandals of all time. Events and players spring to life in this sordid story involving the wealthy, heads of state, and governments. The scandal affords a rare and representative glimpse at the trillion-dollar-plus underground market of secret money that moves at will in and out of the world's most sophisticated and highly regulated economies.

We’ve all met a nosey parker – but have you met the Parker Sisters – the private detectives who’ve turned being curious into a way of life…A jilted wife, a jealous mistress and a dead banker – the Parker sisters are up to their necks in trouble.Martha Parker runs a small private detective agency in Glasgow with her two sisters, Helen and Geri. They specialise in catching cheating partners so when the Parkers are hired by the reclusive wife of a wea...

In this thought-provoking book, Jonathan McMillan dissects banking to reveal its inner workings. He cuts through the complexity of modern finance and explains how banking almost crashed our financial system. Banking is broken, and McMillan reveals why we can no longer fix it. The digital revolution turns out to be the game changer that calls for the end of banking. But McMillan refrains from merely pointing out flaws. Building on economic research and a rigorous analytical approach, he goe...

Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put today’s corporate polic...

It was me, I did it!Imagine walking into a police station with a bloodied knife, telling the Inspector you had just murdered someone and offering to bring them to the site of the crime – what reaction would expect?Now alter the above to reflect the equivalent of murder in the financial sector, a capital punishment crime if you'll pardon the poor pun.Just over nine years ago, 2007, a full year before the disastrous blanket bank guarantee, Jonathan Sugarman walked into t...

Daniel Sullivan arrived on the docks of St.John's, in the summer of 1913, a timid young man. But after a chance encounter with Charlie Pittman, and the dogged pursuits of the determined Evelyn Parsons, Daniel realizes that there is much more to life than he had previously experienced. As the months roll by, Daniel finds friendship, love, and a strength of character that he didn't know he possessed; all of which will be put to the test when war breaks out in Europe, and Daniel and his frien...

I'm really looking forward to robbing this bank!Mischief's smash-and-grab hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is a fast, fabulous comedy caper and the funniest show in the West End!Summer 1958. Minneapolis City Bank has been entrusted with a priceless diamond. An escaped convict is dead set on pocketing the gem with the help of his screwball sidekick, trickster girlfriend… and the maintenance man. With mistaken identities, love triangles and hidden agendas...

Up-to-the-minute Jonathan Banks. This book is your ultimate resource for Jonathan Banks. Here you will find the most up-to-date 139 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jonathan Banks's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: Manny Delgado - Season 2, Analysis of Cork-Based Networking - Plot, Identity Thief (film) - Plot, Puff, Puff, ...

In its first ten years, a small Midwestern cinema has attracted some of the most intriguing and groundbreaking filmmakers from around the world, screened the best in arthouse and repertory films, and presented innovative and unique cinematic experiences.Indiana University Cinema tells the story of how the cinema on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington grew into a vibrant, diverse, and thoughtfully curated cinematheque. Detailing its creation of a t...

With a review of the executive branch and congressional actions, this book provides the purposes and history of U.S. participation in the multilateral development banks and the relationship between process and goals in the formulation and application of U.S. Foreign policy.