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After the credit crisis, supervisors enacted a range of financial reforms. In particular, they radically changed the nature of the OTC derivatives market via a number of measures, notably mandatory central clearing. This book discusses the market before the crisis, explains what central clearing is, and outlines the consequences of the new rules.

Originally contracted by wealthy Italian city states to protect their assets during a time of ceaseless warring, many condottieri of the Italian peninsula became famous for their wealth, venality and amorality during the 14th and 15th centuries.Some even came to rule cities themselves. Lavishly illustrated with contemporary depictions and original artwork, this title examines the complex military organization, recruitment, training and weaponry of the Condottieri.

Google pioneered the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), applying reliability to the entire user journey for consumer, enterprise, and infrastructure systems. In the years since, many organizations have followed suit, guided by the tenets laid out in the bestselling first edition of this practical book. Now, a fully revised edition brings Site Reliability Engineering up-to-date with fresh insights on engineering techniques, organizational processes, and case studies ...

An informative study exploring the Soviet invasion of Finland, a fascinating David vs Goliath type struggle.On 23 August 1939, a secret protocol was appended to the German–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact; as part of this, Finland was assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence. On 30 November that year, in an effort to protect against renewed German aggression in the East, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, beginning what became known as the Finnish-Soviet Winter War. Th...

Ministers David Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy, along with an all-star cast of Bible scholars and top church teachers, provide a primer to a church movement that encourages every Christian to “live the questions” instead of “forcing the answers.” Based on the bestselling DVD course of the same name, Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity includes commentary from such bestselling authors as Diana Butler Bass, John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Brian ...

Murder and mystery in the mountains!With the wealthy, Machiavellian, feuding family dynamics of Game of Thrones, the wintry sense of entrapment of Murder on the Orient Express, and the suspenseful implications of technology gone awry of Jurassic Park, The Murders in the Endicott Hotel is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you turning pages.Thanks to a scientific advance, Daniel Larch's company, Pioneer Medical Technolo...

This historical analysis of the ill-fated Franco-British operation reveals how it nearly spelled defeat for the Triple Entente in WWI.In December of 1916, General Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. A national hero, he had enjoyed a meteoric rise to high command and public acclaim since the beginning of the Great War. In return, he proclaimed he 'had the formula' that would ensure victory a...

For lovers of Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and Pablo Neruda comes a poetry book about the beauty of nature and people. The Natural World focuses on euphony, imagery, and form. Among those forms are free verse, blank verse, the sestina, sonnet, villanelle, ode, and rondeau. This slim volume is one to luxuriate with by a fire on a winter's night, to read time and again, and to draw you from routine.

This book introduces Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD), an evidence-based and NICE recommended therapy for depression available within the UK National Health Service (NHS). The book provides:- The knowledge base needed to work with this model.- A step-by-step guide to the core competencies and skills applied to the phases of therapy.- In-depth case studies illustrating the model in practice.- The evidence-base supporting this m...

Derivatives Regulation - Rules and Reasoning from Lehman to Covid provides an indepth examination of the changes made to the regulation of derivatives that were enacted following the global financial crisis of 2008, considering the motivations behind these changes and including insights from the Covid pandemic. Key areas of derivatives regulatory reform are examined, including bank capital and leverage rules, the clearing mandate, uncleared margin rules, and the principles for the...

This book shines a light on Lawrence's military achievements, his major campaigns and the impact that his influence had on shaping the war in the Middle East.Thomas Edward Lawrence, more popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, is remembered today more for his immortalization on stage and screen rather than for his dramatic exploits in the Middle East during the First World War.Lawrence quickly rose to prominence following the outbreak of the Arab Revolt in 1...

"As its title suggests, many of the poems in Drowning in the Desert concern themselves with the condition of being helpless beyond circumstance. A secret regret…and a motif of the drowned and the unsaved threads through the book like a nagging guilt. The author's life is presented like a tourist's pilgrimage in poems that are shaded with displacement – the poet is a sojourner in every place he rests. This collection is a journey that asks to be taken." – John W Sexton