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 Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts By R.L. Trask, Peter Stockwell 1998 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0415157412 | PDF | 2 MB Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics is an A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics. The book includes definitions of terms used in grammatical analysis from phoneme to componential analysis; branches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguistics; approaches used in studying language from discourse analysis to systemic linguistics; linguistic phenomena from code-switching to conversational implicature; and language varieties from pidgin to standard language. Each entry begins with a brief definition of the term followed by a more detailed description. Entries trace the origin of the concept, mention the key associated individuals, provide a guide to further reading and are extensively cross- referenced.
 Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook By John Mauldin 2005 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0471738735 | PDF | 10 MB In this book, John Mauldin offers an incomparable shortcut to prosperity: the personal guidance of an outstanding group of recognised financial experts, each offering the single most useful piece of advise garnered through years of investing. John Mauldin asked each contributor to share the single most useful insight gleamed from long years of experience: "just one thing". In this book you will learn: (1). How to boost returns with "the 2% alpha solution"?; (2). The risk-return fallacy; (3). Why you should use "volatility throttling" when assembling your portfolio; (4). The secret of "investing in the fog";(5). Why "the winner's rule" really works; (6). Why the best performing funds have the highest percentage of realised losses; (7). How psychology often trumps economics; and (8). The strength of a non consensus investment theme. Study and apply this book and you will get rich quickly.  Just Another Day in Vietnam by Keith M. Nightingale English | 2019 | ISBN: 1612007856 | 265 Pages | ePUB | 5.2 MB  Iain Walker, "Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros" English | ISBN: 0190071303 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 6 MB Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros prospered by exchanging slaves and commodities with Arab and Indian merchants. By the sixteenth century, the archipelago served as an important supply point on the route from Europe to Asia. The twentieth century brought the establishment of French colonial rule and a plantation economy. Since declaring its independence in 1975, the Comoros has been blighted by more than twenty coups, a radical revolutionary government and a mercenary regime. Today, the island nation suffers chronic mismanagement and relies on remittances from a diaspora community in France. Nonetheless, the Comoros is largely peaceful and culturally vibrant- connected to the outside world in the internet age, but, at the same time, still slightly apart.
 Jonathan N Lipman, "Islamic Thought in China: Sino-Muslim Intellectual Evolution from the 17th to the 21st Century" English | ISBN: 1474402275 | 2016 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienating themselves from either? Muslims have lived in the Chinese culture area for 1400 years, and the intellectuals among them have long wrestled with this problem. Unlike Persian, Turkish, Urdu, or Malay, the Chinese language never adopted vocabulary from Arabic to enable a precise understanding of Islam's religious and philosophical foundations. Islam thus had to be translated into Chinese, which lacks words and arguments to justify monotheism, exclusivity, and other features of this Middle Eastern religion. Even in the 21st century, Muslims who are culturally Chinese must still justify their devotion to a single God, avoidance of pork, and their communities' distinctiveness, among other things, to sceptical non-Muslim neighbours and an increasingly intrusive state.  Brian Kettell, "Islamic Finance in a Nutshell: A Guide for Non-Specialists" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0470748613 | 360 pages | EPUB | 4.9 MB The recent turbulence in the global financial markets has drawn attention to an alternative system of financial intermediation: Islamic banking and finance, which has so far remained on the sidelines of the unrest.
 Aswath Damodaran, "Investment Philosophies: Successful Strategies and the Investors Who Made Them WorkInvestment Philosophies, 2nd Edition" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1118011511 | 608 pages | EPUB | 5.4 MB The guide for investors who want a better understanding of investment strategies that have stood the test of time  Interval Reachability Analysis: Bounding Trajectories of Uncertain Systems with Boxes for Control and Verification by Pierre-Jean Meyer
 Frank J. Fabozzi, "Institutional Investment Management: Equity and Bond Portfolio Strategies and Applications" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0470400943 | 856 pages | EPUB | 7 MB The most comprehensive coverage of institutional investment management issues  In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts By Jerry Weissman 2005 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 0131855174 | PDF | 6 MB This was a helpful, complement of a book for my corporate, adult course. I ordered one to have in the classroom as they learn to respond to tough questions from their audience. They liked it, too, and some will order their own copy. Good stuff. Thanks. |
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