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Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:19 |
Building Local Bond Markets: An Asian Perspective IFC | 2000 | ISBN: 0821348191 | English | 291 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Building local currency bond markets has become an increasingly important topic for emerging market countries, particularly since the Asian financial crisis. This book reviews why countries should consider building local currency corporate bond markets and how to evaluate what is needed and what might be developed.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:20 )
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:16 |
Doing Business 2008 (Full Report) The World Bank | 2007 | ISBN: 9780821372319 | English | 208 pages | PDF | 2.35 MB
Doing Business 2008 is the fifth in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 178 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:18 )
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:14 |
William H. Pickering: America's Deep Space Pioneer NASA | 2007 | ISBN: 2007019158 | English | PDF | 269 pages | 4.6 MB
William Pickering first came to the attention of the world in 1958 when the media triumphantly announced the successful launch of Explorer 1, the American response to the Soviet deployment a few months earlier of the first Earth-orbiting satellite Sputnik. Along with Wernher von Braun and James Van Allen, William Pickering shared the limelight and the accolades. In that instant of time the Space Age was born, and with it the professional reputation of William H. Pickering.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:16 )
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Written by peyman
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:11 |
Rockets and People, Volume II: Creating a Rocket Industry NASA | 2006 | ISBN: 2005003441 | English | 383 pages | PDF | 3.2 MB
The NASA History Division is pleased to announce the availability of a landmark new book, "Rockets and People" by Boris Chertok. This memoir by a towering figure in Soviet/Russian space history was originally published in Russian and has now been specially translated and edited for publication in the NASA History Series. This book is the second of four volumes of Chertok's insightful reminiscences on his 60-year career in aviation and space.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:13 )
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:07 |
Realizing the Dream of Flight, 1903-2003 NASA | 2005 | ISBN: 2005000795 | English | 326 pages | PDF | 2.5 MB
WHILE GROWING UP IN CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, MILTON WRIGHT, THE WRIGHT BROTHERS’ FATHER, LIKED TO PURCHASE TOYS FOR HIS SONS THAT HE HOPED WOULD STIMULATE THEIR IMAGINATION. One of the most memorable gifts was a toy helicopter that was designed by the French aeronautical experimenter Alphonse Pénaud. Milton gave his sons this gift in 1878, and, though it was a simple device with a stick bound to a four-blade rotor set in a spindle, it had the intended effect—it caused them to dream.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:10 )
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