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The Eternal Flame
The Eternal Flame
Tokyo 2021: The Indian Women’s Group Rhythmic gymnastics team is disgraced on while performing their routine and is shunned by their own supporters and the Gymnastic Association to a life of no hope of ever competing in future events. Paris 2024: In the build-up to the Games, Naima Nagpal must direct her tenacity and dedication to put together a crack team of misfits who she hopes will bring glory to the country. To aid her in her quest are her ex- teammate Arunima Shanghvi and ex-coach Subha Krishnamoorty, who in spite of all odds stacked against them, decide to make this dream a reality. But without a sponsor, the backing of the Gymnastic Association and bad press, will this rouge team even be able to take their first steps back into this politically connected world of sports? The team will have to look into themselves and find their Eternal Flame to change this dream into a reality.
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Tartuffe
Tartuffe
When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm, respectability and religious authority proves so irresistible that he is eventually promised the hand of Orgon's daughter in marriage. But the rest of Orgon's family have grave doubts - is there more to Tartuffe than meets the eye? When the threat of eviction for the family and imprisonment for Orgon become apparent, is it all too late to find out? This hilarious and irreverent whirlwind of lies, religious hypocrisy and family feuds features one of theatre's most perfect comedy creations, the beguiling Tartuffe.
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Linking Public Investment Programs and SPAHD Macro Models
Linking Public Investment Programs and SPAHD Macro Models
"The authors propose a "bottom up" approach to link public investment programs with a class of macro models recently developed to quantify Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD) in low-income countries. The methodology involves establishing constant-price projections of investment outlays (disaggregated into infrastructure, education, and health), spending on maintenance and other goods and services, salaries, and user charges. These estimates are incorporated in a SPAHD macro framework to calculate, under alternative scenarios, domestic financing, foreign borrowing, and aid requirements. The authors also evaluate the impact on growth and indicators associated with the Millennium Development Goals. They use illustrative applications, based on a SPAHD model for Niger, to highlight the link between tax reform and aid requirements. "--World Bank web site.
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Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook
Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook
In Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook, Second Edition, financial experts Richard DeFusco, Dennis McLeavey, Jerald Pinto, and David Runkle offer you a wealth of practical information and exercises that will further enhance your understanding of this discipline. This essential study guide—which parallels the main book chapter by chapter—contains challenging problems and a complete set of solutions as well as concise learning outcome statements and summary overviews.
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The Monsters of Mithi
The Monsters of Mithi
Bombay has transformed from seven sleepy islands to the bustling metropolis of Mumbai. Rivers that were once the lifeblood of the city have now turned into toxic dumps. The most infamous being – the Mithi River. Chocked with sewage and chemicals, it would seem that nothing could survive this stinking hell – but something did and have now awakened. Something much more terrifying than climate change. Something so prehistoric and carnal that modern technology does not know how to stop its rampage. But not all involved want to stop these monsters. There are some who want to harness them to gain power, others to use the creatures for their own personal gain, while some are in it to avenge past monsters of their own. Whatever their reason to take sides, the question is – will anyone be able to contain the Monsters of Mithi before it’s too late?
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Quantitative Investment Analysis
Quantitative Investment Analysis
In the Second Edition of Quantitative Investment Analysis, financial experts Richard DeFusco, Dennis McLeavey, Jerald Pinto, and David Runkle outline the tools and techniques needed to understand and apply quantitative methods to today's investment process. Now, in Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook, Second Edition, they offer you a wealth of practical information and exercises that will further enhance your understanding of this discipline. This essential study guide--which parallels the main book chapter by chapter--contains challenging problems and a complete set of solutions as well as concise learning outcome statements and summary overviews. If you're looking to successfully navigate today's dynamic investment environment, the lessons found within these pages can show you how. Topics reviewed include: The time value of money Discounted cash flow Probability distributions Sampling and estimation Hypothesis testing Multiple regression Time-series analysis And much more
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Quantitative Investment Analysis, Workbook
Quantitative Investment Analysis, Workbook
The thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of the companion workbook to Quantitative Investment Analysis is here. Now in its fourth edition, the Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook offers a range of practical information and exercises that will facilitate your mastery of quantitative methods and their application in today's investment process. Part of the reputable CFA Institute Investment Series, the workbook is designed to further your hands-on experience with a variety of learning outcomes, summary overview sections, and challenging problems and solutions. The workbook provides all the statistical tools and latest information to help you become a confident and knowledgeable investor, including expanded problems on Machine Learning algorithms and the role of Big Data in investment contexts. Well suited for motivated individuals who learn on their own, as well as a general reference, this companion resource delivers a clear, example-driven method for practicing the tools and techniques covered in the primary Quantitative Investment Analysis, 4th Edition text.?? Inside you'll find information and exercises to help you: Work real-world problems associated with the modern quantitative investment process Master visualizing and summarizing data Review the fundamentals of single linear and multiple linear regression Use multifactor models Measure and manage market risk effectively In both the workbook and the primary Quantitative Investment Analysis, 4th Edition text, the authors go to great lengths to ensure an even treatment of subject matter, consistency of mathematical notation, and continuity of topic coverage that is critical to the learning process. For everyone who requires a streamlined route to mastering quantitative methods in investments, Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook, 4th Edition offers world-class practice based on actual scenarios faced by professionals every day.
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1650-1850
1650-1850
Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special feature on playwright, critic, and literary theorist John Dennis. Edited by Claude Willan, the feature returns a major player in eighteenth-century literary culture to his proper role at the center of eighteenth-century politics, art, publishing, and dramaturgy. This celebration of John Dennis mingles with a full company of essays in the character of revealing case studies. Essays on a veritable world of topics—on Enlightenment philosophy in China; on riots as epitomes of Anglo-French relations; on domestic animals as observers; on gothic landscapes; and on prominent literati such as Jonathan Swift, Arthur Murphy, and Samuel Johnson—unveil eye-opening perspectives on a “long” century that prized diversity and that looked for transformative events anywhere, everywhere, all the time. Topping it all off is a full portfolio of reviews evaluating the best books on the literature, philosophy, and the arts of this abundant era. About the annual journal 1650-1850 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for “special features” that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 25th volume. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook
Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook
In Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook, Second Edition, financial experts Richard DeFusco, Dennis McLeavey, Jerald Pinto, and David Runkle offer you a wealth of practical information and exercises that will further enhance your understanding of this discipline. This essential study guide—which parallels the main book chapter by chapter—contains challenging problems and a complete set of solutions as well as concise learning outcome statements and summary overviews.
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