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Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: This book explores the past and future of central bank cooperation. In today's global economy, the cooperation between central banks is a key element in maintaining or restoring monetary and financial stability, thereby ensuring a smooth functioning of the international financial system. In this book, economists, historians, and political scientists look back at the experience of central bank…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: For centuries, oligarchs were viewed as empowered by wealth, an idea muddled by elite theory early in the twentieth century. The common thread for oligarchs across history is that wealth defines them, empowers them and inherently exposes them to threats. The existential motive of all oligarchs is wealth defense. How they respond varies with the threats they confront, including how directly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major traditions in jurisprudence natural law, legal positivism, and critical legal studies that have in the past provided philosophical foundations for…

Скачать книгу (размер 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 170) Аннотация: A building cannot be good to look at if it is unplanned, with its parts totally unrelated to one another; but on the other hand if the arrangement is too regular it becomes boring and dull. The object of architectural proportion is to strike the balance between these extremes, creating an interesting visible order by the repetition of similar shapes. In this book, first published in 1958, Mr…

Скачать книгу (размер 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 106) Аннотация: This 1953 text presents the story of an appeal made by priest and poet Robert Southwell, who dared to address himself in writing to Queen Elizabeth I, to plead with her how unfair her proclamation of October 1591 against the Roman Catholics was. Southwell had spent 10 years at Douay and Rome preparing himself to be a member of the Jesuit mission in England. Five years into this, the Queen's…

Скачать книгу (размер 840 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 166) Аннотация: Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. John Brown's History of the English Bible was first printed in 1912.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: Hedge funds are among the most innovative and controversial of financial market institutions. Largely exempt from regulation and shrouded in secrecy, they are credited as having improved efficiency and add liquidity to financial markets, but also having severely destabilised markets following the Asian Financial Crisis and the near collapse of Long-Term Capital Management. Originally published in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 100 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 413) Аннотация: We have just experienced the worst financial crash the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While real economies in general did not crash as they did in the 1930s, the financial parts of the economy certainly did, or, at least, came very close to doing so. Hundreds of banks in the United States and Europe have been closed by their supervisory authorities, forcibly merged with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: Presenting a fresh approach to French organ music, David Ponsford analyses the repertory from the reign of Louis XIV by genre. The colourful French organ was so consistent in design that the very titles of pieces that were constituent parts of organ masses, Magnificats and suites prescribed the registrations: plein jeu, fugue, duo, recit, trio, fond d'orgue and grand jeu. Particular examples from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale — the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the discipline of corpus linguistics developed and surveys the major approaches to the use of corpus data. It uses a broad range of examples to show how…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: Debate about trade and culture has a long history, but the application of WTO rules to cultural products such as films, radio, and books remains one of the most divisive issues in the organization. After assessing the economic and social arguments for treating cultural products differently from things like steel or wheat, this 2007 book explains how the vastly different views of WTO members in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: This 1986 book examines some of the main issues that have characterized macroeconomics: the debate between 'monetarists' and 'Keynesians'; the response to demand shocks and supply shocks, by which the monetary authorities control aggregrate nominal income and the use and relevance of the money supply as a target; and the consumption function and the determinants of wealth. It shows that Keynesian…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: In this 1988 book, Iliana Zloch-Christy analyzes the causes and consequences of the massive Eastern European debt to the West accumulated in the 1970s. In assessing the region's convertible-currency debt problem, the author addresses five main issues: the origins of the debt; the possibility that such a debt was essential to Eastern Europe's economic development; the effects of the countries' own…

Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: Originally published in 1929, this volume was intended to draw attention to the relatively neglected area of early Anglo-Irish literature. Covering the period between the Anglo-Norman settlement of Ireland and the printing of Richard Stanihurst's translation of Virgil, the text illustrates the richness of this literature through abundant quotation from a variety of sources, both religious and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: Value-added tax (VAT) now dominates tax systems around the world. But should every country have a VAT? Is the current VAT always as good as it could be in economic, equity, and administrative terms? In developing and transitional countries the answers to such questions are critical to stability, growth, and development. But can VAT be better designed and better administered? These are the key…

Скачать книгу (размер 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 126) Аннотация: First published in 1940, E. E. Reynold's Unknown Ways is a collection of tales, intended for young readers, focusing on explorers, pioneers and travellers. Similar to Mr Reynold's book Behind the Ranges, this volume presents episodes from the lives of ten different historical figures, including Sir Martin Frobisher, Sven Hedin, Mary Kingsley, and Alexander Selkirk. Although the writing reflects…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 396) Аннотация: The enlargement that encompassed the accession of greece in 1981 and of Spain and Portugal in 1986 significantly altered the balance of the European Community, while the double shock of EC membership and 1992 could drive the economies of the new members into depression or, equally, accelerate their modernization. This important new book from the Centre for Economic Policy Research examines…

Скачать книгу (размер 667 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 132) Аннотация: Originally published in 1935, this volume marks the centenary of the University Pitt Club at Cambridge. It provides a concise history of the Pitt Club, beginning with its foundation as a Tory dining club to honour William Pitt and then moving through the key events of the next hundred years. Illustrative figures are also provided, including a floor plan of the Club Rooms on Jesus Lane, together…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: Continued economic prosperity in China and its international competitive advantage have been due in large part to the labor of workers in China, who for many years toiled in under-regulated workplaces. Now, there are labor law reforms raising the rights and standards of workers throughout China. These laws have been praised for their progressive measures and at the same time blamed for placing…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 199) Аннотация: Do you have a fear of transcription? Are you daunted by the prospect of learning and handling unfamiliar symbols? This workbook is for students who are new to linguistics and phonetics, and offers a didactic approach to the study and transcription of the words, rhythm and intonation of English. It can be used independently or in class and covers all the pronunciation details of words, phrases,…