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In this wide-ranging review, Michael Lloyd explores the potential opportunities and threats that the advent of CBDCs will have for commercial banking, business, individuals and the central banks themselves, as well as the world's monetary system.

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This book is a study of the agon, or formal debate, in Euripides' tragedies. In these scenes, two characters confront each other, often before an arbitrator or judge, and make long speeches as if they were opponents in a court of law. Most of Euripides' extant plays contain an agon, often of crucial importance to the central conflict of the play. Lloyd provides interpretations of the more important agones, giving special attention to their dra...

The UK business banking sector is unique in the EU in probiding most SME funding via bank overdrafts and credit cards rather than long-term loan finance. This book explores British banks' attitude towards SME finance and the roots of their risk aversion.

Theology made accessible with wit and humour, from Dr Michael Lloyd, Principal of Wycliffe Hall in Oxford.

Theology made accessible with wit and humour, from Dr Michael Lloyd, Principal of Wycliffe Hall in Oxford.

In this book, Michael Lloyd sets out a comprehensive analysis and counter-narrative to the neo-liberal market capitalist orthodoxy. He uses Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher's favourite adviser, as a 'stalking horse'. The aim is to argue against not only neo-liberalism, but also its philosophical and political antecedents deriving from John Locke and from Adam Smith, but reflected in Hayek and other neo-liberal advocates to the present day. A...

This book is an anthology of thirteen of the most important articles published on Aeschylus in the last fifty years. It gives roughly equal coverage to the seven surviving plays, and there is also a chapter which places them in the context of Aeschylus' work as a whole. Three articles have been translated into English for the first time, and others have a fresh foreword or postscript by the author. Greek quotations have been translated for the...

Nachdem der Gangster Walker (Lee Marvin) auf der ehemaligen Gefängnisinsel Alcatraz von seinen Kumpanen niedergeschossen und für tot gehalten wurde, will er sich an seinem ehemaligen Komplizen Mal Reese (John Vernon) rächen. Denn dieser hat ihn nicht nur hintergangen, sondern seine Frau (Angie Dickinson) hat ihn obendrein mit Reese betrogen. Walker weiß, dass Reese Mitglied eines Syndikats namens "Die Organisation" ist und will ihn und ihre M...

As a teenager, Eddie Buczynski had dreamed of becoming a Jesuit Priest. Rejected by the Church because of his questioning mind and budding homosexuality, his feet were soon set on a different path-one that would lead from his childhood home in Ozone Park to the raucous streets of '60s Greenwich Village, through the burgeoning Neo-Pagan spiritual movement of the '70s, before depositing him into the academic realm of Classical & Near Eastern arc...

This wryly funning and charming picture book is the ultimate indispensable rulebook for youngsters on how they can be the best grandkid ever. Full color.

Donna Burgess is suffering a crisis of identity, following a startling revelation made by her "mother" on her deathbed. Donna's attempts at handling this have only brought on hallucinations and delusions. The most precious things in her life, the façades of Europe's finest buildings, soon appear to be falling victim to heartless swapping over by forces unknown. She resolves to fight back, but will anybody take her seriously or even lend a help...

Grab a cappuccino and enjoy insightful theology mixed with unflinching honesty and humour.

Arthur Narone is desperate to forget one awful episode from his sorry, post-war orphan's childhood, but he simply cannot. Perhaps that is why he has taken to late-night joyriding around the streets and hillsides of Nice in expensive borrowed cars. But that largely harmless pastime has got him into far greater trouble than a caution or two from the local gendarmerie. Arthur has been talent-spotted by the lowest of the Riviera underworld, and he...

The first collection in English to give a full accounting of Schad's peculiar genius.

Previously unpublished, exceptionally relevant sermons from Lloyd-Jones, one of the twentieth century's most influential preachers.

A music student haplessly follows an aliens sirens call and is pressed into service as the illuminator for the otherworldly races observations. He is forced to take on a new identity as the Domans build their model of the Earth and search for a political leader with flawless integrity.

In the third story of the Observation series, the Domans astonishing trade proposals must be taken forward to the U.S. Congress, while Toni and the ill-at-ease Maelene tour America and repeatedly cross swords with Homeland Security. Many hearts will need to change, or be changed, if this is not to end in a sea of tears...

Observation Two: Standing Divided" is the sequel to the popular "Observation One: Singing of Promises." After touring Europe, the Domans now investigate America with a view to examining politics and setting up trade, but run afoul of Homeland Security. And once again, the music of Janis Ian plays a pivotal role.