Xavier Vives is professor of economics and finance at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. His books include Information and Learning in Markets (Princeton) and Oligopoly Pricing. A distinguished economist examines competition, regulation, and stability in today's global banks Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have...

"Winner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards" "Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf" "One of China Business News' Financial Books of the Year for 2014" Eswar S. Prasad is a professor in the Dyson School at Cornell University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution....

Perry Mehrling is professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance and The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920-1970. How the U.S. Federal Reserve began actively intervening in markets Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward...

"One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2016" Peter Conti-Brown is assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the coeditor of When States Go Broke and Research Handbook on Central Banking. An in-depth look at the history, leadership, and structure of the Federal Reserve Bank The independence of the Federal Reserve is considered a cornerstone of its identity, crucial...

John L. Campbell is the Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College and professor of political economy at the Copenhagen Business School. John A. Hall is the James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University. They are the coauthors of The World of States. Why are small and culturally homogeneous nation-states in the advanced capitalist world so prosperous? Examining how Denmark, Ireland, and Switzerland...

In Yorkshire, a dried water reservoir yields the skeleton of a woman who has been dead for fifty years. Inspector Banks learns the victim was a flirtatious World War II farm girl. The area was full of Yanks and her husband was at the front.

When nude pictures of Chief Constable Jeremiah Riddle's teenage daughter turn up on a pornographic website, he turns to his rival, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks to find the man who took the pictures.

The full text of the journals of Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS, during Captain Cook's famous first great voyage aboard the HM Bark Endeavour, 1768-1771.

Have you ever had a time in your life when it seemed difficult to talk to God? Do you find it hard to hear from God when you pray? This journal will help you focus on both, speaking to God and listening to the still voice of God. Uncomfortable Conversations with God will minister to you and guide you on a 31- day spiritual journey. You'll be touched by the author's personal stories, as well as find prompts that will encourage you to communicate directly...

Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was a British botanist and one of the most influential scientific patrons of the eighteenth century. After inheriting a fortune on the death of his father in 1761, Banks devoted his life to studying natural history. His fame following his participation in Captain Cook's epic voyage on the Endeavour between 1768 and 1771 led to his election as President of the Royal Society in 1778, a post which he then held until his...