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  • THE CONTEMPORARY SOVIET CITY
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    THE CONTEMPORARY SOVIET CITY
    HENRY W. MORTON / ROBERT C. STUART
    This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition. ...

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  • LITERATURE, MIGRATION AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
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    LITERATURE, MIGRATION AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
    TOLAN, FIONA / MORTON, STEPHEN / VALASSOPOULOS, ANASTASIA / SPENCER, ROBERT
    This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much mainstream political and media debate since the attacks on America in 2001 and t...

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  • MULTI-ASSET RISK MODELING: TECHNIQUES FOR A GLOBAL ECONOMY IN AN ELECTRONIC AND ALGORITHMIC TRADING ERA
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    MULTI-ASSET RISK MODELING: TECHNIQUES FOR A GLOBAL ECONOMY IN AN ELECTRONIC AND ALGORITHMIC TRADING ERA
    GLANTZ, MORTON / KISSELL, ROBERT
    Multi-Asset Risk Modeling describes, in a single volume, the latest and most advanced risk modeling techniques for equities, debt, fixed income, futures and derivatives, commodities, and foreign exchange, as well as advanced algorithmic and electronic risk management. Beginning with the fundamentals of risk mathematics and quantitative risk analysis, the book moves on to discus...

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  • A LIFE OF SIR HARRY PARKES
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    A LIFE OF SIR HARRY PARKES
    ROBERT MORTON
    Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain’s relations with the Far East from the start of his working life at fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. Orphaned at the age of five, he went to China on his own as a child and worked his way to the top. God-fearing and fearless, he believed his mission was to bring trade and ‘civilisation’ to East Asia. In his day, he was seen as both...

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  • SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK
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    SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK
    ROBERT MORTON
    The son of a village doctor, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a major career shift, he entered the consular service, went to China, and ended up as British Minister (the equivalent of today’s ambassador) to Japan and then China. This progression was unique, indeed b...

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  • A.B. MITFORD AND THE BIRTH OF JAPAN AS A MODERN STATE
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    A.B. MITFORD AND THE BIRTH OF JAPAN AS A MODERN STATE
    ROBERT MORTON
    Mitford (later to become the first Lord Redesdale) was an urbane aristocrat, had charm, looks and excellent manners. He was always in the right place at the right time, almost drowned, could have burned to death, was shot at, and was nearly cut down by samurai swords. But 'Bertie', as he was known, was never fazed by events. He stood face-to-face with the new, teenage Emperor w...

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