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The stone merchant [videorecording] / by Abraham, F. Murray.(CARDINAL)341271; Bargero, Osvaldo.; Bilotta, Bruno.; Calabrò, Corrado.Stone merchant.; Campus, Favio.; Giurato, Blasco.; Keitel, Harvey.(CARDINAL)785645; March, Jane,1973-; Martinelli, Federica.; Martinelli, Renzo,1948-; Mollà, Jordi.; Scalzi, Aldo de.; Scalzi, Pivio.; Creative Partners International Ltd.; Martinelli Film Company International.; Medusa Film.; Monarch Home Video (Firm); Renegade Worldwide (Firm); Sky (Firm : Italy);
Cinematographer, Blasco Giurato ; editor, Osvaldo Bargero ; original music, Pivio & Aldo de Scalzi.Harvey Keitel, Jane March, Jordi Mollà, F. Murray Abraham, Bruno Bilotta, Federica Martinelli.After narrowly escaping a traumatic airport shooting, Leda and her husband embark on a romantic vacation. While there, they meet a charming and charismatic stone merchant named Ludovico and his business partner Shahid. Over time, Leda continues to cross paths with the secretive Ludovico until she succumbs to this charms and finds herself torn between her husband and this mysterious stone merchant. What she does not know is that she is being used as a pawn in a dark terrorist plot designed to bring the West to its knees.MPAA rating: R; for violence, sexuality, and some language.DVD; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Thrillers (Television programs); Married people; Merchants, Foreign; Terrorists; Vacations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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China bound : John Swire & Sons and its world, 1816-1980 / by Bickers, Robert A.,author.(CARDINAL)840777;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Swire Group (Firm); Merchants, Foreign; Merchants, Foreign;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The serpent of Venice [sound recording] / by Moore, Christopher,1957-; Morton, Euan,1977-;
Produced and directed by Scott Sherratt ; original music by Freddie Khaw.Read by Euan Morton.Venice, way back in the day. Three prominent Venetians await the arrival of their most hated and annoying dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy of Britain and France, widower of the murdered Queen Cordelia: the rascal-fool Pocket.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Merchants; Legislators; Navies; Avarice; Revenge; Deception; Attempted murder;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 7
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The serpent of Venice : a novel / by Moore, Christopher,1957-author.(CARDINAL)382839;
"Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia. But their invitation is, of course, bogus. The wine is drugged and the girl is not even within the city limits. Desperate to rid themselves once and for all of the man who has consistently foiled their grand quest for power and wealth, they have lured him to his death. (How can such a small man, be such a huge obstacle?). But this Fool is no fool and he has more than a few tricks (and hand gestures) up his sleeve. Greed, revenge, deception, lust, and a giant (but lovable) sea monster combine to create another hilarious and bawdy tale from modern comic genius, Christopher Moore"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Merchants; Legislators; Navies; Avarice; Revenge; Deception; Attempted murder;
Available copies: 30 / Total copies: 35
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For love of country / by Hammond, William C.,1947-(CARDINAL)486619;
In the late 18th century, Richard Cutler attempts to both save his family from Barbary pirates and his one true love and her daughters from the guillotine during the French Revolution, with help from U.S. naval commander John Paul Jones along the way.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Sea fiction.; Merchant marine; Pirates; Ship captains;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The serpent of Venice [large print] by Moore, Christopher,1957-(CARDINAL)382839;
"Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia. But their invitation is, of course, bogus. The wine is drugged and the girl is not even within the city limits. Desperate to rid themselves once and for all of the man who has consistently foiled their grand quest for power and wealth, they have lured him to his death. (How can such a small man, be such a huge obstacle?). But this Fool is no fool and he has more than a few tricks (and hand gestures) up his sleeve. Greed, revenge, deception, lust, and a giant (but lovable) sea monster combine to create another hilarious and bawdy tale from modern comic genius, Christopher Moore"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Attempted murder; Avarice; Deception; Legislators; Merchants; Navies; Revenge;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The serpent of Venice / by Moore, Christopher,1957-author.(CARDINAL)382839;
"Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia. But their invitation is, of course, bogus. The wine is drugged and the girl is not even within the city limits. Desperate to rid themselves once and for all of the man who has consistently foiled their grand quest for power and wealth, they have lured him to his death. (How can such a small man, be such a huge obstacle?). But this Fool is no fool and he has more than a few tricks (and hand gestures) up his sleeve. Greed, revenge, deception, lust, and a giant (but lovable) sea monster combine to create another hilarious and bawdy tale from modern comic genius, Christopher Moore"--"William Shakespeare meets Edgar Allan Poe in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's THE SERPENT OF VENICE! Oh, yeah, and everyone's favorite fool, Pocket of Dog Snogging, is back, too"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Attempted murder; Avarice; Deception; Legislators; Merchants; Navies; Revenge;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Unshackling America : how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution / by Randall, Willard Sterne,author.(CARDINAL)176414;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-442) and index."A Glow of Patriotic Fire" -- "Salutary Neglect" -- "Force Prevails Now Everywhere" -- "For Cutting Off Our Trade" -- "To The Shores of Tripoli" -- "The Reign of Witches" -- "Free Trade and Sailors Rights" -- "War Now! War Always!" -- "Remember the Raisin" -- "Purified As by Fire" -- "Father, Listen to Your Children" -- "You Shall Now Feel the Effects of War" -- "Destroy and Lay Waste" -- "Hard War" -- "So Proudly We Hail" -- "I Must Not Be Lost.""Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary Period of 1763 to 1783 had concluded only one part, the first phase of their ordeal. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War halted overt combat but had achieved only partial political autonomy from Britain. By not guaranteeing American economic independence and agency, Britain continued to deny American sovereignty. Randall details the fifty years and persistent attempts by the British to control American trade waters, but he also shows how, despite the outrageous restrictions, the United States asserted the doctrine of neutral rights and developed the world's second largest merchant fleet as it absorbed the French Caribbean trade. American ships carrying trade increased five-fold between 1790 and 1800, its tonnage nearly doubling again between 1800 and 1812, ultimately making the United States the world's largest independent maritime power"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Free trade; Free trade; Merchant marine; International trade; World politics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Moral contagion : Black Atlantic sailors, citizenship, and diplomacy in antebellum America / by Schoeppner, Michael A.,author.(CARDINAL)888354;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.The Atlantic's dangerous undercurrents -- Containing a moral contagion, 1822-1829 -- The contagion spreads, 1829-1833 -- Confronting a pandemic, 1834-1842 -- "Foreign" emissaries and rights discourse, 1842-1847 -- Sacrificing Black citizenship, 1848-1859 -- Black sailors, their communities, and the fight for citizenship."Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a "moral contagion" of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and British diplomatic agents protested this treatment. They wrote letters, published tracts, cajoled elected officials, pleaded with Southern officials, and litigated in state and federal courts. By deploying a progressive and sweeping notion of national citizenship - one that guaranteed a number of rights against state regulation - they exposed the ambiguity and potential power of national citizenship as a legal category. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized the robust understanding of citizenship championed by antebellum free people of color, by people afflicted with "moral contagion.""-- ǂc Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Enslaved persons; Free African Americans; Free Black people; Merchant mariners, Black; Diplomacy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Inside money : Brown Brothers Harriman and the American way of power / by Karabell, Zachary,author.(CARDINAL)266584;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-425) and index.Coming to America -- The B&O -- Everybody is speculating -- Dreams of The Arctic -- A very Civil War -- A nice sense of commercial honor -- Nothing is impossible -- The Republic of Brown Brothers -- Saving money -- The tapped -- The business of America -- From the ashes -- "We were very hard workers" -- A call to service -- The wise men -- In the valley -- When is enough enough?"From an acclaimed historian and financial analyst, the first definitive history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman - and through it, the rise to world power of the so-called American Establishment. Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the 19th century, when America was convulsed by a devastating financial panic every generation, Brown Brothers quietly went from strength to strength, propping up the US financial system at crucial moments and catalyzing successive booms, from the cotton trade and the steam ship to the railroad, while avoiding unwelcome attention. By the turn of the 20th century, Brown Brothers was at the heart of what was meant by the American Establishment. As America's reach extended beyond its shores, Brown Brothers was there, often working hand in glove with the State Department, as in Nicaragua in the 1910's, when the firm was essentially empowered to take over the country's economy. To the Browns, virtuousness was a given; in that spirit they supported the elite institutions that forged successive generations of leaders. When, during the Great Depression, Brown Brothers ensured their strength by merging with Averell Harriman's investment bank to form Brown Brothers Harriman, the die was cast for the role the firm would play on the world stage during World War 2 and thereafter. Its core leadership cadre, including Harriman, Robert Lovett, and Prescott Bush, all Skull and Bones men from Yale, played a central role in erecting the architecture of the postwar order, with the US dollar at its heart. In Inside Money, Zachary Karabell offers the first full and frank look inside this very private institution as a prime mover in the larger American story. Blessed with complete access to the company's archives and a thrillingly strong grasp of the bigger picture, Karabell has written in effect an x-ray film of American power from 1818 to the present"--
Subjects: Brown Brothers & Company; Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co.; Private banks; Private banks; Investment banking; Merchant banks; Banks and banking; Capitalism;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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