LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian moncrief scott

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  • HOLIDAYS 2000
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    A carefully chosen selection of holiday destinations, written in differing styles, to form a millennium time capsule for future generations. York - Traditional international favourite. Gibraltar - Emerging tourist and wedding venue. Thassos - Fresh and friendly Greek island. Atlanta - Fast paced thrills, shopping and entertainment.  ...
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    5,68 €

  • NEGOTIATE TO WIN!
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    Life itself is one huge balance. It swings one way, then the other. Keeping the scale positive demands luck, skill, and perseverance but most of all technique.  Negotiate to Win! shows you how any almost deal can be improved with a little effort and a focused approach. Tip the Balance! For years we have been conditioned that the best deals are Win-Win. Negotiate to Win! identif...
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    7,22 €

  • CURRANTS, OLIVES & COTTON
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    Languishing in the azure Mediterranean Sea, the picturesque Ionian Isles seem an unlikely venue for vast international trade and the spread of Mexican dollars. Undoubtedly, early links with Venice helped, but the influences of France, Turkey, Britain and, ultimately, Greece have left indelible marks. In 1814, occupying French forces abandoned Corfu. Soon after the Napoleonic co...
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    5,43 €

  • EURO
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    Arguably, the most significant change to the world’s money markets took place on 1 January 1999. Eleven nations of Europe replaced their currency with the new Euro. The move spelled the end of the Franc and the Mark. ...
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    5,02 €

  • THE ETERNAL OLD LADY
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    War created the Bank of England. Had King William III possessed enough money to combat France’s Louis X1V, the first public bank may have never emerged.  The Bubble burst. Sword Blade Bank went bust in 1712 and there was a run on the Old Lady. To stem the flow, staff made payments in sixpences and shillings to friends who carried them round to the Bank’s back door to enable the...
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    5,43 €

  • TAIL-LESS CATS & THREE-LEGGED MEN
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    Though tail-less cats and three-legged men inspire mystique, the Isle of Man’s financial history is an intriguing reality. Deprived of intrinsic raw materials, but fortified by ’herrin and spuds’ (sea fish and potatoes), Manxmen chose international trade for independent survival. Manx ships carried the Pilgrim Fathers and helped break the American blockade! For a time, the Isle...
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    4,52 €

  • SCRIPOPHILY
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    An essential guide to the rewarding hobby and investment of collecting historical financial documents, bonds and share certificates.Old share and bond collecting is arguably the world’s fastest-growing hobby and investment opportunity. Attracting 120,000 collectors in twenty years. Denounced financial documents are seeing a valuable renaissance. Henry Wells and William Fargo co...
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    5,12 €

  • AS GOOD AS GOLD
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    Dwarfing the first heartbeats of the infant Euro, England’s Pound spans almost an entire millennium. Even the mighty US Dollar and the vanishing Franc, Mark and Lira can only muster 800 years between them. ’Still the problems continued. In 1124, the King summoned leading minters. Determined to cease the debased silver pennies, he called them to trial. Over that Christmas at Win...
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    4,56 €

  • THE GREEN SHOOTS OF MONEY
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    THE GREEN SHOOTS OF MONEY: LET’S GET GOING! charts the start-ups of financial entities and explains how past entrepreneurship shaped futures. Interesting facts and stories emerge. War created the Bank of England.  Sterling was as Good as Gold. Straw hat making sewed the roots of De La Rue.  'Running' (smuggling) founded a financial jurisdiction.  The Euro heralded a united, wa...
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    12,13 €

  • START ANY BUSINESS
    Ian Moncrief-Scott
    According to reliable sources 60% of new start-ups go bust in the first 6 months and others say that 90% fail within the first 12 months. The author of START ANY BUSINESS can prove that official Government statistics verify 97% of attendees of the training courses he devised and delivered for 13 years were still in business more than 2 years later. Key to their survival rests i...
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    11,21 €