Advantages: In English, in paperback Disadvantages: You tell me
Further to your comments a review update :
A History of Economics the past as the present by JohnKennethGalbraith who is Paul.M.Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus of Harvard University. He has published many books, this included.
MORE ABOUT GALBRAITH
Born in Ontario and a graduate of the University of California. He was Social Science Research Fellow at Cambridge University. During WW11 he was Director of the Office of Economic Security Policy in the Department of State. He received the Medal of Freedom. He has been closely identified with the Democratic Party (USA).
He is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He is a member for literature of the American Academy and Institute. He delivered the Reith Lectures in 1966. He is married with 3 sons.
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The paper back version I bought is 324 ...
Advantages: Mutual society means cashback, excelletn customer care Disadvantages: Savings and mortgage rates are a bit average
Britannia is a mutual building society, with branches in most towns.
I have both a mortgage and a savings account with them and have been in several branches near where I live recently, for one reason and another, so I thought I'd tell you all about it!
THE MUTUAL BUILDING SOCIETY
What this means is that Britannia are not a PLC, and beholden to their shareholders, they are a society owned by the members. so when they make a profit, they distribute a portion of that as fairly as possible to all the members. The way they have devised is a loyalty scheme, whereby once you've been a member for two years (with either a mortgage, a savings account, a credit card etc) you get your share of the profits via a points scheme. The more points you have, the more profit you get, up to a maximum of £500 a year. You accumulate points by having ...
Advantages: Very emotional writing Disadvantages: Quite slow paced
Up until now, I'd only ever heard of ''John the Revelator'' as a song. Judging from the several mentions of the song in the story and given that author Peter Murphy works in the music press, I suspect that's where the title of this novel came from as well. How much I enjoy the song depends on which version of it I hear, but with no such concerns with the book, I was able to enjoy it fully without worrying if someone had done a better version elsewhere that I was missing out on.
John Devine is a teenager stuck in a small Irish town with a single mother, no real friends and a rather worrying fascination for bodily parasites, mostly intestinal worms. His only human contact is with his mother Lily, Mrs Nagle, an elderly neighbour and Harry Farrell, a local jack-of-all-trades. His only break from the house and from school is Sunday Mass. Not ...
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