Giro Credit Transfer Systems: Popular International Facilities for Economic Efficiency presents the financial, economic, and social system that has been a successful part of everyday life in nearly every West European country. This book discusses the remarkable benefits conferred by the giro system methods. Organized into six chapters, this book begins with an overview of the origin of the credit transfer principle to minimize the public's demand for coinage. This text then explains the financial system in which credit circulation takes the place of banknotes and coinage. Other chapters consider the implications of a comprehensive giro system, which is necessary to analyze the processes and costs incurred in operating British monetary transmission methods. This book discusses as well the general survey of the growth of the service. The final chapter deals with the establishment of the bank's credit transfer scheme. This book is a valuable resource for bankers and stockbrokers.
The story of the Giro d'Italia - Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many - is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself. Heroism, suffering, feuds and betrayals, tradition under threat from modernity all play out against a timeless landscape. The iconic riders, mythical stories and career defining exploits are conveyed in rich, vibrant prose.
Edited and Introduced by Carl MacDougall. The Scottish story has its roots in an oral tradition where stories were told to entertain. It is a tradition that has not diminished over the years and indeed there is today a body of young writers in the forefront of contemporary literature whose narrative voice is as compelling as that of their illustrious predecessors. The Devil and the Giro includes stories from all the major Scottish writers both famous and unsung. Hogg, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark, James Kelman and Alasdair Gray are but a few of the fifty contributors. The anthology encompasses many examples of the themes in which Scottish writers have always excelled, most notably in that archetypal twinning of opposites where the ordinary meets the fantastic, man encounters the Devil, or the real and the supernatural converge. This is the stuff of the ancient storytellers and the tradition has persisted to this day where the hard reality of urban existence still involves coming to terms with life and death. ‘A big generous anthology . . . All in all a magnificent thematic and hugely enjoyable anthology which proves that the Scottish short story has been and is a flourishing form.’ Iain Crichton Smith, Scotsman
Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected it's home country—the Giro's capricious and unpredictable nature matches the passions and extremes of Italy itself.A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters and stories that dramatize the shifting culture and society of its home. There was Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair and raced against the men in 1924, or Ottavio Bottecchia, expected to challenge for the winner's "Maglia Rosa," the famed pink jersey, in 1928, until he was killed on a training ride—most likely by Mussolini's Black Shirts. And what would a book about the Giro d'Italia be without Fausto Coppi, the metropolitan playboy with amphetamines in his veins, guided by a mystic blind masseur, who seemed to glide up the peaks. But let us not forget his arch rival Gino Bartali—humble, pious and brave. It recently emerged that he smuggled papers for persecuted Jewish Italians. Then there is the Giro's most tragic hero, Marco Pantani, born to climb but fated to lose.Halted only by World Wars, the Giro has been contested for over a century, and The Beautiful Race is a richly written celebration of this legendary race.
Giro es una novela al estilo de Romeo y Julieta y El principito, con mensajes importantes, como descubrir el valor de las cosas y estar bien con uno mismo y con nuestra vida, lo esencial de la realidad, la amistad, lo especial y únicos que somos todos y cada uno de nosotros y el triunfo del amor. Johan se va a tomar un mes de vacaciones de todo, trabajo y familia. Elije para ello la casa de Muriel, a la que conoce de siempre. Muriel tiene 86 años pero se conserva estupenda, incluso en belleza. La casa de Muriel está en San Jacinto, perdido en un mar azul y plácido. Hay dos San Jacinto, el pueblo de arriba y el de la costa. Por supuesto, los habitantes de arriba y los de abajo se llevan mal, a los de abajo les llaman «los taparrabos» pues pescan casi desnudos. No sólo hay racismo de este tipo sino de todos: las comunidades ortodoxa, católica, judía y musulmana pretende vivir separadamente, sobre todo no emparentar. Y hasta se segregan según el color de la piel. San Jacinto, pues, es un pequeño mundo de intolerancia. Aunque en el día a día se vive con tranquilidad, la zona es maravillosa: están el faro, mar, volcán, vergel, campos de cultivo, bosque, campos de flores, cuevas. Otras pequeñas miserias han hecho mucho daño. Es el caso de la historia de amor imposible de Adara y Giro. Con 12 y 13 años de edad se enamoraron, pero tenían religiones distintas y diferente piel. Giro bastante negro, ella muy blanca y rubia de ojos azules. Sus padres nunca aceptarían aquella relación... Adara creyó que Giro había muerto tras la paliza y se sintió morir. Lo que aprovechó su madre para urdir una trágica mentira. Giro, pensando que su amada estaba muerta, murió en vida. Además, comenzó a aparecer y desaparecer, a hacer maldades y hasta le llamaban el «fantasma», porque parecía muerto en vida y siempre les atemorizaba. Cuando Johan llega a San Jacinto, al primero al que conoce es a Giro. Y, en el morral de Giro, Johan descubre su diario con la historia de su amor. Ah, Johan quiere ayudar en su pena a su amigo, pero, ¿cómo ayudar a un fantasma?... Johan aprende a valorar el amor de los suyos y el valor de lo cotidiano. Regresa feliz a su antigua vida, más crecido y rico humanamente. Pero, ¿acaso Giro y Adara se reúnen tras siete años de separación para no separase ya jamás? El desgarro ante la imposibilidad del amor mata las almas... pero el amor conquista lo imposible y vence.
