This fourth edition of Financial Services Marketing firmly reinforces the book’s role as a leading global educational resource, combining appropriate conceptual principles with practical insights on how financial products and services are marketed in the real world. The authors draw upon their extensive international experience marketing some of the world’s best known financial brands including Lloyds TSB and Barclays. Readers will gain a firm understanding of how financial produc...

Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?What if, in the summer of 1940, Nazi Germany had invaded the United Kingdom? Nearly eighty years on, images of swastikas on Whitehall still resonate and horrify in the popular imagination.But what would that invasion look like, even if it were doomed to fail? What sacrifices would occupation mean for the people of Britain, and what might be the lasting cultural effects of collaboration?In this collection of stories, the au...

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, but the most popular of them all will be, without doubt, the play with which he first made his name, Waiting for Godot. It opened the gates to the theatre of the absurd as four men appear on the st...

In 1460, when clan feuds were rife, and the threat of English invasionwas ever-present, James III, one of Scotland's weakest monarchs, came tothe throne.Before long, John, Lord of Douglas, a born leader and a man ofconscience and vision, found himself wishing that James' wise andstrong-minded sister Princess Mary had succeeded in her brother's place.A fact compounded by the feeble king's habit of ignoring high-bornnobles, and succumbing in...

Sex is awesome. So why would anyone want to wait until marriage? Everyone is aware of the risks with pregnancy and STDs. But is that it? Is the only reason to avoid negatives? The truth is there are many benefits for guys who wait until marriage for sex. This book explores the nature of sex and why waiting until marriage provides the most optimal sex life for young men.The draw of sex is extremely strong. The physical pleasure is perhaps the highest there is, and the act is thought...