This book offers a groundbreaking comparative study of Directors' and Officers' (D&O) liability insurance regulation across representative common law jurisdictions (mainly the UK and US), and the Chinese legal system, examining its legal character, regulatory frameworks, and corporate governance implications.In an era where companies are expanding across borders and operating in increasingly complex financial markets, D&O liability insurance has become an integral part of modern co...

When Su Ran loved Li Jingnian, Li Jingnian would throw her away like trash. When Su Ran didn't love Li Jingjing, Li Jingnian would treat her like a treasure. However, there were some injuries that could be done, wanting to forgive them was easier said than done …"What makes you think I'll ever forgive you for hurting me like that? Li Jingjing, you owe me three lives, my father, my child, and me! " Three years later, Su Ran was counting on her fingers. She was count...

"Nie Cheng can still remember the first time he sensed metal element with the help of the Golden Stone of Intuition." The sky was filled with countless little spirits that were emitting a golden light. These were all metal elements. They could sense Nie Cheng's Spiritual Force, and all of them were flying around him excitedly. As a result, Nie Cheng had tens of thousands of elemental Perceptual Power s."Nie Cheng's strength was precisely because of these Perceptual Power, which allowed him...

Sarah's a foul-mouthed girl from the wrong side of the tracks, hoping to convince everyone at college that she's just another nice freshman girl from a nice college family.Anthony, Marcus, and Henry have been friends for years, but now life's pulling them in different directions: Anthony and Henry are heading off to different colleges, while Marcus is trying to survive Navy boot camp.When Sarah accidentally ends up on a text chain with Anthony and Marcus, she knows she shou...

Mia loves the Passover seder at Edie Rose's apartment. All the neighbors sit around the table, talking about the journey from slavery to freedom. On Mia's birthday, Edie Rose gives her a rhinestone tiara and a map of the world. "You never know what journey might call your name," she says. When Edie Rose falls and breaks her arm, Mia looks at her map and wonders: Could a journey to help her neighbor be calling right now?

To save her friends she will have to burn.In a small town in the middle of the U.S., the only thing Seren wants to do is fit in. This proves difficult when everything about her is different and people call her freak behind her back. Things change suddenly when she gives a boy her necklace, the one her parents told her neverto take off. Next thing she know,s she's running for her life with a smart-mouth water globule with two personalities, putting out hot flashesthat burn her cloth...

Midnight could be the beginning of a dream or shatter it forever.Eliana Steelhaugh's life and the lives of her friends depend on secrecy. By day she plays servant to her stepmother. By night Ella is forced to use her unusual talents and body modifications in a 'secret identity'—a thief known as Cinder. Much of her time is spent at St. Drogo, a sanctuary for modifieds, to atone for her mother having poisoned the Thames. She has little time for dreams, let alone love.Second s...

Maggie's mother is dead, her father is broken, and all her old friends are drifting away.Now, some guy at school is starting a rock band. Maggie doesn't play an instrument, but the guy doesn't know that.What does she have to lose?

This book presents cutting-edge research on Green Intelligent Mobility Systems, guided by the overarching vision of achieving transportation that is green, intelligent, and safe. The contributions compiled in this volume aim to advance the development of sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation technologies by enhancing interconnectivity, resource sharing, flexibility, and operational efficiency.Given its interdisciplinary scope, the book will be of interest to researche...

This collection of stories runs the gamut from the award winning fantasy, "A Walk in the Park with Death and Winter", to the space opera, "Stay". There are alternate realities and distant planets, aliens, cyborgs, and queens. Fans of the science fiction and fantasy genres will find Beyond the Stars-A Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Collection by C.I. Chevron impossible to put down.

Nostalgia, learning experiences, meaningful memories… This book is filled with these from a man who grew up in a strong Irish-Catholic community in the North End of Saint John in the 1950s and 1960s, went on to practise law and then become a law professor and consultant in Toronto, and most recently, joyfully embraced RVing and living in an active retirement community. But besides dusting these memories off for enjoyment, John G. Kelly has a larger purpose. By cleverly showing how his past...

At high schools on opposite sides of town, two groups of girls showed up for the first day of soccer practice, and everyone thought they knew how the season would go.West Sycamore's team had always been pretty average. No one expected that to change.East Sycamore's team was the best in the state, with a lineup full of All-Stars. Anything less than a state championship would have been a disappointment.But in sports, things rarely go according to plan. There were new ...