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“michael kress”

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  • Grace and the Butterfly Effect

    by Jane Kelley ...
    Illustrated by Michael Kress-Russick ...
    Every time Grace tries to leap, she falls. She refuses to quit. As she practices for her ballet recital, she crashes through a fence and crushes some milkweed plants-the only place the monarch butterfly will lay her eggs. After Grace rescues a broken plant, she finds three monarch eggs. She decides to help the future butterflies grow. How hard could that be? Very-if you have teasing brothers, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The New China

    Comparative Economic Development In Mainland China, Taiwan, And Hong Kong

    by Alvin Rabushka, Michael Kress ...
    In a thoroughly researched and clearly written account of the development experiences of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Alvin Rabushka examines three societies with similar populations but very different political and economic institutions. Rejecting one-dimensional explanations of successful development, Rabushka looks at the way in which ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • China's Superbank

    Debt, Oil and Influence - How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance

    by Henry Sanderson, Michael Forsythe ...
    Series series Bloomberg
    Inside the engine-room of China's economic growth—the China Development BankAnyone wanting a primer on the secret of China's economic success need look no further than China Development Bank (CDB)—which has displaced the World Bank as the world's biggest development bank, lending billions to countries around the globe to further Chinese policy goals. In China’s Superbank, Bloomberg authors Michael ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • South Korea since 1980

    by Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig ...
    Series series The World Since 1980
    This 2010 book examines the changes in politics, economics, society, and foreign policy in South Korea since 1980. Starting with a brief description of its history leading up to 1980, this book deals with South Korea's transition to democracy, the stunning economic development achieved since the 1960s, the 1997 financial crisis, and the economic reforms that followed and concludes with the North ... Read more

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  • Inspector Flytrap (Book #1)

    by Tom Angleberger ...
    Illustrated by Cece Bell ...
    Series Book 1 - Inspector Flytrap
    A funny and clever illustrated early chapter book series in the Flytrap Files universe, from New York Times bestselling author Tom Angleberger and Newbery Honor winner Cece Bell!Meet Inspector Flytrap! He's a Venus flytrap and world-class solver of BIG DEAL mysteries.Meet Nina the Goat! She's a goat and Inspector Flytrap's trusty assistant—except when she eats the clues!Together, they're a great ... Read more

    $4.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Offshore Renminbi

    The Rise of the Chinese Currency and Its Global Future

    by Robert Minikin, Kelvin Lau ...
    The rise of the renminbi and what it means for forex marketsChinese authorities have ambitious plans to "internationalize" the renminbi, transforming it from a tightly controlled domestic legal tender into a global currency for international trade, held by both private and public sector asset managers. The Offshore Renminbi examines this impending currency revolution, outlining why the emergence ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Taiwan's China Dilemma

    Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy

    by Syaru Shirley Lin ...
    "Examines the complicated, dynamic relations between these two regions [and] offers a new perspective to understand the root cause of the dilemma." — China ReviewChina and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Book 1: Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur: USA

    by Elizabeth Singer Hunt ...
    In The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur, Jack zooms to the city that never sleeps to try to solve the mystery of the missing Allosaurus toe. Starting at the Natural History Museum, Jack's detection takes him to a competitive grade-schooler determined to win the science fair with his experiment crossing his own dog with the DNA from the bone of a dangerous, carnivorous dinosaur. Soon the gargantuan ... Read more

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  • East Asian Development

    Foundations and Strategies

    by Dwight H. Perkins ...
    Series Book 13 - The Edwin O. Reischauer lectures
    In the early 1960s fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China's per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in rural South Korea put it among the world's poorest countries. Today, these are three of the most powerful economies on earth. Dwight Perkinsdraws on extensive experience in the region to explain how Asia sustained such rapid economic growth in ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Sovereign Funds

    How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions

    by Zongyuan Zoe Liu ...
    **“A fascinating insight into the evolution of China’s financial policy and its strategic investments using leveraged foreign exchange reserves.” —Diane Coyle, *Enlightened Economist ***“[Liu] shows that Chinese sovereign funds are so different from better-known sovereign wealth funds, such as those of the governments of Abu Dhabi and Norway, that she prefers to call them ‘sovereign leveraged ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Banking Industry

    Lessons from History for Today's Challenges

    by Yuanyuan Peng ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949.Banking reform is a key area of China’s economic transformation, and this book, bringing a vast amount of material to a Western audience for the first time, provides a detailed ... Read more

    $42.99 USD