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Despite twenty years of endeavor, it's thumbs down for the banks' approach to operational risk management. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has abandoned the flagship advanced measurement approach (AMA) - the inhouse models banks use to calculate regulatory capital - and C-suite executives wonder what possible business value can be derived from subjective, non-aggregatable, color-coded risk & control self-assessments. In his book "Wh...

This must-read brief introductory book is a richly illustrated account of Black history in Argentina that using titles as questions and educational activities to engage further.

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Adventures of The Catford Five A West Indian family, the Jacksons, (married couple and two children) living in Catford, gradually acquire five cats which come into the household as stray or unwanted outcasts of other households. Gradually the family come to warm to the animals although the two males of the Jackson family are slow to accept the cats at first. However, Jessica the daughter of the family has ambitions to be a vet and considers ca...

At the age of twenty, after obtaining a head injury, I was sent for a CT scan to check for any skull or brain damage and sent home with the all clear. I didn't know it at the time, but doctors had completely missed a brain tumour. This book is my story about the highs and lows I have experienced over this ten-year journey I have been on since then. Being misdiagnosed and then formally diagnosed with a brain tumour, understandably comes with ma...

Hanna's Story is an evocation of the life and times of the author's paternal grandmother, Johanna Loughnane. It opens a window onto a way of life that has now all but disappeared in Ireland, together with the religious certainties that circumscribed it. Widowed at thirty five she was left alone to manage the farm in Tipperary and raise her ten children during the troubled years of Ireland's fight for Independence. It is a life that vividly ill...

Discovering France's spacious countryside, its villages, towns and cities - unfolding its history and creating lasting friendships. A personal commentary, journal, guide of journeys in France.

Kindness has the power to change the world. This rhyming book offers adults and children the opportunity to discuss being on both the giving and receiving end of kindness. It's not just what we say, it's what we do too!!

tip lives in the Arctic and loves playing on the ice - but her home is getting warmer every year, and the ice is melting... One day, the melting ice causes a frightened tip to float away on her very own iceberg! Will the other animals of the Arctic be able to help tip get back home to her Mummy? A simple introduction for all children to the problems caused by the effects of climate change and how everyone can come together to save the day!

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This funky and fantastic children's book delves into the imagination of every dinosaur-loving child whose dreams come true when they find a dinosaur in their very own backyard!However, there is more to this dinosaur than meets the eye...Written in catchy rhyming verse, with a colourful fun-loving dinosaur in the starring role, children will be engaged, entertained, and left giggling at the relatable plot twist at the end.

A novelette set in a different time and space

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A young tiger named Timmy really wants to show how he stands out from the rest of the crowd. This proves to be a challenge as he realises many other animals also share what he thought made him special. Upon returning home and feeling less than unique, a comforting word from his mother helps Timmy understand that he possesses so many other qualities which show that he truly is one of a kind!A colourful, rhyming journey which is fun for parents ...

Zoë's unique experiences and detailed information will be useful to sufferers, and health professionals alike, when confronting Tuberous Sclerosis or LAM.

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This is the story of my life (so far)- 36 years of merriment and high jinks, from the cobbled streets of Canterbury to the stony shores of Brighton and onto the bright lights of London. This is a tongue-in-cheek personal account of things I wanted to record before they were forgotten. Not so much a trip down memory lane, more an insurance policy for travelling down Alzheimer's avenue.

An armed robbery in London sends ripples in the underworld and unlikely paths will cross in the hunt for an unforeseen fortune. Juice follows the story of a heist gone wrong and the paths of the various characters who become embroiled in a violent and dramatic chase from London to Amsterdam and beyond to get their hands on the potential prize that awaits them.An injured Sandhurst cadet with nothing left to lose, a pair of psychotic rave organi...

Throughout my life, spirits have guided me through some extremely hard times. I was guided through spirits after suffering from mental health and learning how to cope as a single mum. I could have gone down the wrong path but I didn't. I was guided to go down the right path. Through the help of guidance, not only does it make you realise that there is an afterlife but it makes me understand my time on this Earth is to carry on and to look forw...

This book introduces the Eigen Theory of the physical world in which the fundamental form of a particle of matter is a continuous distribution of points that forms a manifold of its own. Each of these points is the intersection of a corresponding pair of eigenvelocity vectors, which is a function of a pair of symmetric and antisymmetric tensors characteristic of generalised forms of gravitation and electromagnetism respectively. The theory dev...