Tag: Iceland

Iceland and the International Financial Crisis Boom, Bust and Recovery


Free Download Eirikur Bergmann, "Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust and Recovery "
English | ISBN: 1137331992 | 2014 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 334 KB
Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland’s fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.

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DK Eyewitness Iceland (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides), 2024 Edition


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English | August 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 0241682142 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 190.42 MB
A soak in the surreal Blue Lagoon. Salmon and lobster feasts in Reykjavík. Witnessing the Northern Lights in midwinter. Iceland offers enough bucket-list experiences to fill a lifetime.

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Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland This Spattered Isle


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English | ISBN: 0198866046 | 2021 | 374 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject ‘violence’ itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category ‘violence’ in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature.

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Meltdown Iceland How the Global Financial Crisis Bankupted an Entire Country


Free Download Roger Boyes, "Meltdown Iceland: How the Global Financial Crisis Bankupted an Entire Country"
English | ISBN: 1408803089 | 2010 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 566 KB
The inside story of the bankrupting of Iceland It is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable epidemic of financial ill health all over the world. All European countries were affected, and the developing world also felt a chill. However it was Iceland, a tiny volcanic outcrop in the North Atlantic whose population of 300,000 had the highest per capita GDP and counted itself the happiest in the world, which caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them. Written with panache and colour, and drawing on interviews with everyone from the prime minister, Sir Phillip Green, the governor of the central bank, Bjork and the local fisherman, Meltdown Iceland is an authoritative account of the financial destruction of this tiny, icy but vibrant country.

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Laws of Early Iceland Gragas I


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English | ISBN: 0887556957 | 2007 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 799 KB
The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

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Iceland – Ireland Memory, Literature, Culture on the Atlantic Periphery


Free Download edited by Fionnuala Dillane, "Iceland – Ireland Memory, Literature, Culture on the Atlantic Periphery "
English | ISBN: 9004502866 | 2022 | 222 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This volume offers the first comparative account from contemporary and historical perspectives of Irish and Icelandic memory cultures and addresses the broader dynamics of trans-cultural memory that are surfaced in such comparative approaches of geographically peripheral islands.

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The Mini Rough Guide to Iceland


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English | May 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1839057718 | 144 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
This pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around Iceland. It covers top attractions like the magical capital city of Reykjavik, whale-watching off Húsavik and the spellbinding blue lagoon, as well as hidden gems, including the verdant island of Heimaey, the dramatic wilderness of Thórsmörk and the staggering power of the Goðafoss waterfall. This will save you time, and enhance your exploration of this fascinating country. This title has been fully updated post-COVID-19.

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