A Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China: Centennial Reflection on China’s Revolutionary Road (Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis)

Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China presents an executive summary of Chinese academic discourse about China’s progress and achievements in the past one hundred years. Using a scientometric method to analyze bibliographic records retrieved from the largest library database in

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Finance and Economics Discussion Series: Understanding the Risk of Synthetic Cdos

Synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or synthetic CDOs, are popular vehicles for trading the credit risk of a portfolio of assets. Following a brief summary of the development of the synthetic CDO market, I draw on recent innovations in modeling to present a pricing model for CDO tranches that

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John Henry Newman's An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent: A Critical Guide

John Henry Newman's Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent is a masterpiece of religious epistemology, providing astute descriptive analysis of how the human mind actually works in addressing itself to reality, as well as a novel prescriptive vocabulary for fruitfully considering the assent involved

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The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics)

'Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.' It is impossible to be sure who Melmotte is, let alone what exactly he has done. He is, seemingly, a gentleman, and a great financier, who penetrates to the heart of the state, reaching even inside the Houses of Par

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Una Pena en Observacion (Spanish Edition)

Escrito tras la trágica muerte de su amada esposa como una manera de sobrevivir los “difíciles momentos de la medianoche”, Una Pena en Observación relata los más sinceros pensamientos de C. S. Lewis sobre los temas fundamentales de la vida, la muerte y la fe al sufrir una pérdida. Esta ob

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Performance Attribution: History and Progress

The objective of performance attribution is to explain portfolio performance relative to a benchmark, identify the sources of excess return, and relate those sources to active decisions by the portfolio manager. This review charts the development of attribution from its beginning with Fama decomposi

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A Bureaucrat Fights Back: The Complete Story of Indian Reforms

The 2G spectrum allocation scam struck a blow to the UPA-II government, and was perhaps India's biggest political scandal. The notional loss to the exchequer was a whopping Rs 1.76 trillion. Yet, it was no aberration. The 2G story is rooted in the very fabric of economic reforms in India--reforms th

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The Year of the Poet VIII ~ October 2021 (The Year of the Poet: Poets Create Bridges of Cultural Understanding Poetry Series)

Foreword The Year of the Poet/Poetry Posse is a monthly publication by Inner Child Press headed up by its founder poet laureate William Peters Sr. (innerchildpress.com) creator willing soon entering its ninth year. It features an international group of poets each offering 3 poems each. One poem is

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Modals and Conditionals: New and Revised Perspectives (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)

This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals, including "What 'must' and 'can' must and can mean," "Partition and Revision," "The Notional Category of Modality," "Conditionals," "An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought

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Determined to Succeed

We are, undoubtedly, in a time where we need to be determined to succeed. We are all aware of the challenges that we face through globalisation, an unparalleled pace of change, all of the factors that have provided the script for seemingly endless versions of 'Shift Happens'youtube videos and its co

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Grief Stages Plus Narrative Therapy: A Workbook for Healing Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

This workbook is just what it says— “work”. Merriam-Webster defines “work” as “activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result”. The work that is required to reach full mental health as an adult survivor of child abuse is not going to be easy,

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English Grammar Explained: Learn How to Speak and Write Like a Native Speaker

Are you looking for answers to all your English grammar questions? Why is there inversion on questions? - Why does the first conditional have mixed present and future verb tenses? - How can I understand and use the perfect verb tenses more intuitively You may have asked your English teacher or consu

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Financial Law in the Netherlands

The Netherlands is one of a handful of countries in which bank enterprise and national financial law give rise to a large number of international financial transactions. It is important then for practitioners in other countries to gain more than a notional understanding of the specific features of D

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Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins (African Studies, Series Number 144)

Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of th

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The Black Hand: The History of the Secret Serbian Nationalist Group Whose Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Sparked World War I

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the group's members and activities *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Although a couple of wars were fought on the European continent during the 19th century, an uneasy peace was mostly maintained across the continent for

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Louis XII

The reign of Louis XII (1498-1515) has been much neglected by historians. Falling between the conventional end of the French middle ages and Francis I's notional ushering in of Renaissance France, Louis' rule 'belongs' neither to medievalists nor to historians of the the early modern period. While n

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Authentic Art in the Age of AI: A Short Manifesto for the Creative Mind (Sentience)

Tune in to what is uniquely human about you, and channel a creativity that is beyond the reach of AI. Painter, poet, composer, performer, or prose monkey—aspiring artist or seasoned pro—if you're after a deeper perspective, this book is for you. (And may I suggest you read the somewhat longer

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Can There Be Three Persons in One God?: Why You Should Question the Trinity Doctrine (Concise Studies in the Scriptures)

This book deals with the major subject of Christianity, namely, who is God? Is God one person? This is called Unitarianism. Or, is He an essence consisting of two persons—Father and Son? This is called Binitarianism. Or, does He consist of three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is call

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Theory of Effectiveness Measurement

Effectiveness measures provide decision makers feedback on the impact of deliberate actions and affect critical issues such as allocation of scarce resources, as well as whether to maintain or change existing strategy. Currently, however, there is no formal foundation for formulating effectiveness m

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Tempting Attempts of Temperance

In Tempting Attempts of Temperance Word and Sketches give form to the unearthly, the remote, the inaccessible. Traces of a dream that stands out against symbolized paths of life taking the form either of a lyrical script or a visual contour. The mediation of the binding agreement maximizes the dista

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