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Financial Reform and Economic Development in China

By: James Laurenceson,Joseph C.H. Chai

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Financial Reform and Economic Development in China

By: James Laurenceson,Joseph C.H. Chai

China's prospects of successfully completing the transition to a market economy and becoming the world's largest economy during the 21st Century depend on the future sustainability of high rates of economic growth. This book is a comprehensive, balanced and realistic assessment of China's financial reform program and future direction. Covering not only the banking sector but also non-bank financial institutions, stock market development and external financial liberalization, the authors examine the impact of financial reform on economic development in China during the reform period. This volume will facilitate a more accurate assessment of the Chinese approach to financial reform, and will therefore allow more informed future policy choices for both China and other developing and transitional countries.

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188

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1843767198

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9781843767190

China’s Eurasian Dilemmas

By: R. James Ferguson

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China’s Eurasian Dilemmas

By: R. James Ferguson

Providing a timely analysis of China’s engagement with Eurasia, R. James Ferguson focuses on the challenges obstructing China’s path to becoming a sustainable global power. Engagement across Eurasia presents China, its leaders and policymakers with intensified contact with regional and national conflicts, posing environmental, developmental and strategic dilemmas.

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415

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1786433826

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9781786433824

Orchestration

China's Economic Statecraft Across Asia and Europe

By: James Reilly

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Orchestration

China's Economic Statecraft Across Asia and Europe

By: James Reilly

Learning China's history lessons -- Orchestrating China's economic statecraft -- Never let a crisis go to waste : Beijing's economic statecraft across Western Europe -- Creating a region : China's economic statecraft in Central and Eastern Europe -- Engaging North Korea -- Crossing lines : China's economic statecraft in Myanmar.

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285

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197526349

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9780197526347

How China Grows

Investment, Finance, and Reform

By: James Riedel,Jing Jin,Jian Gao

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How China Grows

Investment, Finance, and Reform

By: James Riedel,Jing Jin,Jian Gao

Why investment and financial reform are essential to China's continued economic well-being Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty-five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is subject to diminishing returns, and not enough on technological change? The first book on the relation between investment, finance, and growth in China, How China Grows dismisses this concern. James Riedel, Jing Jin, and Jian Gao argue that investment has not only been the engine of growth, but also the main source of technological progress and structural change in China. What threatens future growth instead, the authors argue, are the weaknesses of China's financial system that undermine efficiency in investment allocation. Financial-sector reform and development are necessary, not only for sustaining long-term growth, but also for maintaining macroeconomic stability. Although it includes some technical economic analysis, How China Grows is accessible to noneconomists and will benefit anyone who is interested in development finance in general and in China's economic growth in particular—whether economists, political scientists, bankers, or business people.

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224

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Princeton University Press

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0691220182

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9780691220185

Portsmouth

By: James Polus

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Portsmouth

By: James Polus

Historical fiction comes to New England with the epic novel, "Portsmouth,” a classical saga reliving the story of a 1623 fictitious family and twelve successive generations that bring New England seacoast history to life. The opening scene begins with the Abenaki, the Native Indians, who inhabited the land for thousands of years until the English settlers arrived in 1623 when everything changed! "Portsmouth," the novel, marches through the city's history. Memorable characters interact with real-life personalities and historical events that shaped America. Relive our country's past and the colorful history of the New Hampshire seacoast through "Portsmouth.'' From the early Puritans to the Sons of Liberty and the Revolutionary War, up through the Great Depression and World War II, the novel brings American notables such as George Washington, Ona Judge Staines, Major General Fitz-John Porter, Frank Jones, and Celia Thaxter into the reader's imagination. The novel "Portsmouth" celebrates the 400th anniversary of the founding of this historic seaport, so reminiscent of colonial times.

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386

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Balboa Press

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ISBN 13

9798765236987

Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603

Authority, Influence and Material Culture

By: Susan E. James

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Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603

Authority, Influence and Material Culture

By: Susan E. James

Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care, create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control, catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a woman’s understanding of her own reality and the context that formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th century and reveals the seminal role women played in its development.

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387

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Routledge

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1134781016

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9781134781010

Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

By: Thomas James

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Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

By: Thomas James

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368842307

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9783368842307

Beginning Reader Classics

Six Classic Books Retold Just fro Kids

By: Erandi Huipe,James Kyle,Rosie Stine,Max James

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Beginning Reader Classics

Six Classic Books Retold Just fro Kids

By: Erandi Huipe,James Kyle,Rosie Stine,Max James

If you want to introduce your children to the classic work, then this is the perfect book. It takes the structure and plot of major literary works and puts it into a language and format that younger kids will understand. This giant book includes: Jonah and the Whale, Romeo and Juliet, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Moby Dick, and Little Women KidLit-O’s newest series helps introduce younger readers to classic works of literature by retelling them as beginning reader chapter books.

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378

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KidLit-O Press

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1629172316

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Balmerino and its Abbey

A Parochial History

By: James Campbell

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Balmerino and its Abbey

A Parochial History

By: James Campbell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752520752

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9783752520750

The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, Taken from the Most Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade

By: James MacGeoghegan,Patrick O'Kelly

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The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, Taken from the Most Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade

By: James MacGeoghegan,Patrick O'Kelly

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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3368879243

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9783368879242

The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo

By: James Boswell,William Forbes

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The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo

By: James Boswell,William Forbes

This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.

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Yale University Press

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030025038X

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9780300250381

Book's by James Laurenceson

Financial Reform and Economic Development in China

Financial Reform and Economic Development in China

China’s Eurasian Dilemmas

China’s Eurasian Dilemmas

Orchestration

Orchestration

How China Grows

How China Grows

Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603

Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603

Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

Beginning Reader Classics

Beginning Reader Classics

Balmerino and its Abbey

Balmerino and its Abbey

The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, Taken from the Most Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade

The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, Taken from the Most Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade

The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo

The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo

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