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![]() ![]() ![]() Industry takes step towards harmonisation on trade credit insurance Having been profoundly shaken by the combined impact of the pandemic and Brexit, UK exporters. GTR is pleased to reveal the shortlist for this year’s Leaders in Trade awards, which.Ĭharting a new course: The future of UK exports and export finance The Leaders in Trade awards highlight excellence in the trade, commodity, supply chain and export. Natalie Chiaramonte has been appointed division president of Sovereign Risk Insurance, a political risk insurance.īNP Paribas names new Emea sustainability headīNP Paribas has appointed Nicolas Bouvier as its new head of sustainability for transaction banking. Sovereign Risk Insurance promotes Chiaramonte to president London Forfaiting Company (LFC) has appointed James Bragg to the newly created position of chief. ![]() ![]() Philip Ludvigson, a former US Department of Treasury official who recently helped lead the. Exclusive interview: HSBC’s Ramachandran outlines strategy for trade transformationĮarlier this year, Vivek Ramachandran was appointed head of HSBC’s global trade and receivables finance.įormer US Treasury official joins King & Spalding international trade team ![]() ![]() ![]() After spending 21 years of his life in South Africa, he returned to India in 1915. The idea of satyagraha appealed to him, and in 1906 he arranged a non-violent protest in South Africa against the injustice and discrimination suffered by the Indians and the Africans. The ancient wisdom in the book influenced Mohandas. Tirukkural is ancient Indian literature scripted initially in Tamil and later translated into different languages. Soon he became a leader of the Indian community there. ![]() He strived hard to improve the rights and conditions of Indians in South Africa. He later realised that it was a common occurrence, and Indians were treated in a derogatory manner there.ĭeeply affected, Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress on 22nd May 1894. It was an eye-opening and humiliating experience for Mohandas. In those days, Indians and blacks were prohibited from entering or travelling first class. Despite holding a 1st class train ticket, he was not allowed to travel in the 1st class as the compartment was reserved only for white people. He had a terrible experience of racial discrimination in South Africa. In May 1893, he left for South Africa to establish his law practice. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s more to come, and hopefully the next titles will build on the nihilistic horror chills set up in this opening salvo. Unfortunately, the truncated first installment cuts out just as the story picks up momentum, leaving questions unanswered and characters undeveloped. ![]() The page layouts disorient effectively, with panels forming concentric circles, or toppling vertiginously down the page, with the icy landscape perpetually hovering at the close of a fog-shrouded day. ![]() Could the pit be an opening into Hell itself, or an even more unthinkable horror? Sorrentino’s hyperrealistic, heavily photo-referenced art creates an eerie sense of heightened reality in which the crashing waves, looming lighthouse, and craggy faces of locals are as menacing as John’s blood-drenched hallucinations. While gauging its depths, he’s haunted by unsettling dreams about his mother, disturbing waking visions of crows and eyes, and the increasingly suspicious behavior of Sally Yandle, the stoic, antisocial lighthouse keeper. John Reed, a geologist, ventures to a remote coastal spot to study a possibly bottomless pit that’s recently formed near a lighthouse. Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway by Lemire Jeff from. ![]() Lemire and Sorrentino, the writer-artist team behind the horror hit Gideon Falls, reunite for another series that builds a chilling sense of dread, but have trouble anchoring it to a story. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fire-Breathing Bitch Queen is Backkkk!Ĭelaena-the assassin we love has returned to Rifthold with a plan to right the wrongs done to herself and to her people as she’s also embraced her heritage, both as a Fae and the rightful Queen of Terrasen, and is now Aelin Ashryver Galathynius. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But she’s at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past. “She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.”Įveryone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. ![]() Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Adventure Series: Book #4 in the Throne of Glass series ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney began a book about how to change someone’s mind in one conversation, he never expected to change his own. What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the science, and the experience, of transformation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What she chooses to do instead will astonish readers. It is only after she has unraveled the truth about Babayoff’s murder that Maisie feels able to return to England. Before long, she finds herself under scrutiny by the British Secret Service-and other interested parties.Īs she follows the evidence deep into a web of geopolitical intrigue, Maisie discovers that working again after such a long hiatus tempers her feelings of despair. Over objections from the local authorities, Maisie begins looking into his murder. Soon after her arrival on “the Rock,” Maisie stumbles upon the body of Sebastian Babayoff, a member of the town’s close-knit Sephardic Jewish community. ![]() Gibraltar is indeed perilous: this key British stronghold is a hub of clandestine activity, overrun with intelligence operatives, double agents, and refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War just across the border. She disembarks in Gibraltar, ignoring an ominous warning from the ship’s captain-she has arrived in a dangerous place. Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger. But as her ship sails closer to England, she is overcome with fear that she is still not ready to take up her past life. ![]() The year 1937 finds Maisie, reeling from recent personal tragedies-the happiest period of her life has ended abruptly, and after a period of time seeking solace in America, and once again in India, she decides to return home. ![]() ![]() ![]() (I think this is true for anything-the Bible, the American Constitution, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens. That means we need to understand a book in its original context before we start applying it to today’s world. Every book, even a masterpiece, yields a little more if its assumptions, its language, are understood” (Butler, 3-4). ![]() Next time we’ll look at Jane Austen, The Secret Radical, by Helena Kelly, which shocks readers with another approach.īoth would agree, though, that: “no book is improved by being taken out of its context. My favorite (let’s be honest-because it agrees with what I already thought!) is Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, by Marilyn Butler. I recently read two books offering very different ideas about Jane Austen’s approach to religion. “Remember that we are English, that we are Christians.” Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey Two Books on Jane Austen’s Assumptions ![]() ![]() He is a dedicated and un-ironic fan of Elvis Presley.Kyle Higgins is a New York Times best-selling writer whose work includes Batman: Gates of Gotham, Supreme Power, and Deathstroke. He lives on Long Island with his wife, Jeanie, and his sons Jack and Emmett. He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, NYU and Columbia University. Biography: Scott Snyder is the bestselling and award-winning writer of Batman, American Vampire and Swamp Thing as well as the short story collection Voodoo Heart.At present, Kyle is helming Nightwing as part of DC's The New 52. Kyle is also a co-writer of The Nightrunner (with David Hine), whose story was featured on The Daily Show with John Stewart. The film opened doors at Marvel Comics, where Kyle co-wrote his first two books with Alec Siegel (Captain America Theater of War: Prisoners of Duty, and Avengers Origins: The Vision). After spending two years at the University of Iowa, Kyle transferred to Chapman University where he co-wrote and directed a superhero noir titled The League, about the 1960's superhero labor union of Chicago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scott Snyder is the bestselling and award-winning writer of Batman, American Vampire and Swamp Thing as well as the short story collection Voodoo Heart. ![]() ![]() A third figure in the story is a resourceful, formerly enslaved African who guided the explorers through hundreds of miles of inhospitable terrain, helping negotiate physical obstacles and the demands of tribal leaders.Ĭandice Millard is a former editor at National Geographic who's written three previous books. But when they returned to London, the two men engaged in a bitter public quarrel over their discoveries, leading to moments of high drama. ![]() Their expeditions would indeed reveal the source of the world's longest river. They would share arduous journeys into East Africa in the process, getting serious injuries and suffering from fevers and afflictions that at times rendered one or another of them deaf, blind or paralyzed. ![]() The other, an aristocratic soldier and surveyor devoted to hunting big game. One was a brilliant linguist, writer and explorer with endless self-confidence and a lifelong interest in pornography. Her latest book details the efforts of mid-19th century British explorers to find the source of the Nile River. ![]() Our guest, writer Candice Millard, has a knack for burrowing into a little-explored corner of history and spinning out a page-turning yarn that illuminates a part of our past. ![]() |