The contents of this book will open up the full spectrum of the readers' interest in knowing who are the Langleys and what is the secret the patriarch of the family left in a package after his demise. This novel paints a captivating picture of the lifestyle and history of a well-established wealthy family in Charleston, South Carolina. The family has to face the fact that the patriarch of the family, upon his death, decided to reveal, via a handwritten document to his daughter-in-law, Jennifer, the true story of the maternal and paternal bloodline of his only son, Edwin. This document was delivered to Jennifer on the wedding day of his firstborn granddaughter, Bria. The story provides the dynamic characteristics, personalities, and secrets of each family member and culminates with the son, Edwin, wondering why his father waited until after his death to reveal these truths. Edwin is left wondering how these revelations would affect him in his business and social life. More importantly, will he be able to cope with the truth about his real bloodline?

Preliminary Material -- Encounters Over the Border: The Shaping of Colonial Identities in Neighbouring British and German Colonies in Southern Africa /Ulrike Lindner -- The Colonial Order Upside Down?: British and Germans in East African Prisoner-of-War Camps During World War I /Michael Pesek -- Jack, Peter, and the Beast: Postcolonial Perspectives on Sexual Murder and the Construction of White Masculinity in Britain and Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century /Eva Bischoff -- Decolonization of the Public Space?: (Post)Colonial Culture of Remembrance in Germany /Joachim Zeller -- “Setting the Record Straight”?: Imperial History in Postcolonial British Public Culture /Elizabeth Buettner -- (Trans)National Consumer Cultures: Coffee as a Colonial Product in the German Empire /Laura Julia Rischbieter -- Transcultural Tea Times: An Overview of Tea in Colonial History /Christine Vogt-William -- Döner Kebab and West German Consumer (Multi-)Cultures /Maren Möhring -- A Cultural Politics of Curry: The Transnational Spaces of Contemporary Commodity Culture /Peter Jackson -- Knowledges of (Un)Belonging: Epistemic Change as a Defining Mode for Black Women's Activism in Germany /Maureen Maisha Eggers -- “I ain't British though / Yes you are. You're as English as I am”: Staging Belonging and Unbelonging in Black British Drama Today /Deirdre Osborne -- Muslims, the Discourse on (Failed) Integration in Britain, and Kenneth Glenaan's Film Yasmin /Silke Stroh -- The Current Spectacle of Integration in Germany: Spatiality, Gender, and the Boundaries of the National Gaze /Markus Schmitz -- Works Cited -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Index.

This book attempts to answer the question of how CoCos differ from convertible bonds, and how these instruments are suitable for contributing as core capital under Basel III. The place ability of CoCos and the challenges resulting from their use are discussed in this book. Overall a comprehensive picture of the impacts resulting from the new capital definitions will be created. The Background to the introduction of Basel III is described at the beginning of the book, in addition to a presentation of the Basel III document and the new capital definitions. To create a kind of basic understanding of the functioning of convertible bonds and CoCos, hybrid capital will then be explained. In the following part of the book the design options of CoCos and different interests of investor groups are shown. Then the Commerzbank AG is analyzed by means of an analysis of how the capital components changed in Basel II through to Basel III over the last two years. The effect of Basel III on hybrid capital will be illustrated with a practical example. At the end of the book follows a short conclusion regarding the potential impact of Basel III on hybrid capital and the new capital instrument CoCos.