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 One Currency, Two Markets: China's Attempt to Internationalize the Renminbi English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108491685 | 347 Pages | PDF | 3 MB This book is for anyone who is interested in the economic analysis of the future of the international monetary system and the USD, and the rising importance of the RMB. It points out the unsustainability of the dollar standard in the long run, that China has unique incentives to internationalize its currency, and how Hong Kong plays an important role. It explains the real reasons for China to internationalize its currency, including using external commitments to force financial sector reforms ('daobi' in Chinese). It applies economic theories accessible to laymen to establish that financial development and openness are crucial for RMB internationalization to succeed, and that greater exchange rate volatility is inevitable due to the 'open-economy trilemma'. Employing the 'gravity model', the book predicts quantitatively that the RMB is likely to be a distant third payment currency after the USD and the euro, but surpassing the Japanese yen in the next decade.  Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller by Oliver Darkshire English | October 6th, 2022 | ISBN: 1787636046 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 14.00 MB Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books and some things that aren't even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice.  On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier By Ashild Kolas; Monika P. Thowsen 2004 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0295984813 | PDF | 2 MB The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of Tibetan cultural life.Ashild Kolas and Monika Thowsen have gathered an astounding array of data to quantify Tibetan cultural activities--involving Tibetan language, literature, visual arts, museums, performing arts, festivals, and religion. Their study is based on fieldwork and interviews conducted in the ethnic Tibetan areas surrounding the Tibetan Autonomous Region--parts of the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, and Qinghai. Aware of the ambiguous nature of information collected in restricted circumstances, they make every effort to present a complete and unbiased picture of Tibetan communities living on China's western frontiers.Kolas and Thowsen investigate the present conditions of Tibetan cultural life and cultural expression, providing a wealth of detailed information on topics such as the number of restored monasteries and nunneries and the number of monks, nuns, and tulkus (reincarnated lamas) affiliated with them; sources of funding for monastic reconstruction and financial support of clerics; types of religious ceremonies being practiced; the content of monastic and secular education; school attendance; educational curriculum and funding; the role of language in Tibetan schools; and Tibetan news and cultural media.On the Margins of Tibet will be of interest to historians and social scientists studying modern China and Tibetan culture, and to the many others concerned about Tibet's place in the world.  The School of Life, "On Confidence " English | ISBN: 0995573670 | 2018 | 96 pages | EPUB | 744 KB Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn.  Office Shock by Bob Johansen, Joseph Press, Christine Bullen English | 2023 | ISBN: 1523003677 | 388 pages | True EPUB | 6.87 MB  Obstetric Anatomy: Normal and Abnormal Labor by Akmal El-Mazny English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B098KM1SFH | 102 pages | EPUB | 3.59 Mb As the mechanism of labor is essentially a process of accommodation between the fetus and the passage through which it must pass, it is apparent that obstetrics lacked a scientific foundation until the anatomy of the bony pelvis and of the soft parts connected with it was clearly understood (J. Whitridge Williams). The WHO defines normal birth as: spontaneous in onset, low-risk throughout labor and delivery, the infant is born spontaneously in the vertex position between 37 and 42 weeks of pregnancy, and after birth, mother and infant are in good condition. The three main factors associated with abnormal labor are the power (inadequate uterine contractions), the passage (abnormal pelvic anatomy), and the passenger (eg, macrosomia or malpresentation). This book provides a comprehensive review of maternal and fetal obstetric anatomy, emphasizing the mechanism and management of normal and abnormal labor, which will be of immense value for obstetricians and allied health professionals.  Jason Boyett, "O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling" English | ISBN: 0310289491 | 2010 | 224 pages | EPUB | 918 KB In O Me of Little Faith, author Jason Boyett brings you a transparent and personal account of his own of struggles with doubts and unbelief in living out his faith. With humor and frankness, Boyett uses personal anecdotes and a fresh look at Scripture to explore the realities of pursuing Christ through a field of doubt.After three decades of knowing God, understanding Christianity, and living a Christian life, Boyett has come to the place where he can voice the tough questions and travel the road of uncertainty with blinders off, candor on. The message along the way is one of encouragement: Relax. Rely on the grace of a merciful God, a kind father who realizes that his finite creatures must have doubts, should have questions, and will have trouble making sense of an infinite Creator. Ultimately, Boyett concludes that doubt and faith are not polar opposites, but actually work together, existing side-by-side. Uplifting, entertaining, hopeful, O Me of Little Faith will strike a chord with you and any Christian who's dealing with the uncertainties of living life in pursuit of a God who occasionally seems to disappear.
 Numerical Study of the Stimulation Related Thermo-hydro-mechanical Processes in Tight Gas and Deep Geothermal Reservoirs by Wentao Feng English | 2020 | ISBN: 3736961707 | 205 Pages | True PDF | 33 MB
 Sara Paiusco, "Nullum Crimen Sine Lege, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Foreseeability of the Law " English | ISBN: 3848778769 | 2021 | 491 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book investigates nullum crimen sine lege as European principle in its interpretation by the European Court of Human Rights. The research focuses on the role of foreseeability as a solution to the legality issues raising from judge-made law in criminal law. The rationale and application of foreseeability in ECtHR case-law are scrutinised, trying to extract its main development paths. Current solutions adopted by civil law States (Italy and Germany) are analysed also considering the theoretical foundations of ncsl. Moreover, the role of foreseeability in EU law is considered, as an example of an effectiveness-oriented legal order. In the end, future perspectives for the implementation of the principle of foreseeability are analysed.  Adelene Buckland, "Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology" English | 2013 | ISBN: 0226079686 | PDF | pages: 395 | 3.3 mb Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. |
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