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This timely book is a comprehensive analysis of incomplete
International Investment Agreements (IIAs), featuring insights from
negotiating experiences in a number of bilateral and multilateral
investment treaties. It examines problems, causes, and solutions
surrounding this phenomenon by employing incomplete contract theory
and opens new avenues in discussing how to correct incomplete IIAs.
Throughout the book, the author challenges the fundamental
assumption that most IIAs are concluded in a complete manner and
emphasizes the importance of accounting for the fact that IIAs are
often concluded without significant investment protection articles
and are subject to renegotiation. Park applies various
interdisciplinary approaches, including incomplete contract theory
and development theory, to illustrate how countries easily postpone
their treaty negotiations and are willing to renegotiate to remedy
incomplete IIAs. Furthermore, he depicts the reality of treaty
negotiation in recent years, helping readers to understand how
countries are failing to negotiate complete IIAs and how utilizing
an economics approach could analyse and resolve this issue.
Offering a useful and practical contribution to the discussion on
the resolution of incomplete IIAs, this book will be key reading
for academics and researchers within the fields of commercial law,
international economic law, trade law and international investment
law. It is also a must-read book for both government officers and
investment treaty lawyers in all countries involved with Free Trade
Agreements.
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A Better Tomorrow (DVD)
Jin-Mo Ju, Seung-heon Song, Kim Kang-woo, Han Sun Jo, Kyeong-yeong Lee, …
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Korean director Hae-sung Song's remake of John Woo's 1986 action
blockbuster. Leaving his younger brother Cheol (Kim Kang-woo)
behind, Kim Hyeok (Jin-mo Ju) flees North Korea with his best
friend Lee Yeong-choon (Seung-heon Song), and sets himself up as an
illegal arms smuggler in South Korea. After being double-crossed in
an arms deal, Hyeok is caught and spends three years in jail. On
his release, and still guilt-ridden over leaving his brother
behind, he sets out to seek a reconciliation with Cheol, now a
police officer, only to have his advances rebuffed. Now, as Hyeok
tries to go straight, he finds himself on a collision course with
Cheol as the two opposing brothers get caught up in a gang war that
threatens to engulf them both.
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Natural City (DVD)
Ji-Tae Yu, Jae-un Lee, Rin Seo, Eun-pyo Jeong, Doo-Hong Jung, …
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Apocalyptic sci-fi thriller by Korean director Byung-Chun Min, set
in the year 2080 AD. Police detectives Agent R (Yu Ji-tae) and his
colleague Noma (Yun Chan) are responsible for eliminating cyborgs
that have expired past their lifespan. But unbenown to Noma, R has
fallen in love with beautiful android dancer Ria (Seo Rin), and is
desperately trying to find a way to dodge the law and save her
life.
It's thought that there are over ten million domestic cats in the
United Kingdom therefore Te Harrison-Best's new collection of
feline poems titled Catawall at very least should have a vast
ready-made audience among owners. If you've kept a dog and cat at
the same time you will be only too aware how different in nature
these creatures are. Basically, the faithful hound is a camp
follower, awaiting orders while the cunning kitty strolls off to do
its own thing. Does this make the cat a much more interesting and
independent creature? All the evidence would suggest so and this
colourful assortment of verse helps make the case. However, before
we get over-slushy and sentimental on the topic of cats (which is
easy to do) one or two interesting facts are worth considering.
It's thought that every year the average domestic cat kills up to
forty small feathery or furry creatures. But remember their
antecedents included the sabre-toothed tiger and apologists will
tell you they are still only doing what comes naturally. And did
you know that researchers at Bristol have found that cat owners
tend to be more intelligent than dog owners? Not because of close
contact with the wily pussies but simply because they have been
better educated, tend of work longer hours and so have less time to
spend with their pets; thus the low maintenance, independent moggie
best fits requirements.
November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by
seeing a play at the Duke's Theatre in Bristol with her maid and
confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two
opens with a body on stage-a real one. One of the cast has been
brutally murdered during the interval. When other matters get in
the way of Inspector Sunderland overseeing the case himself, he
asks the ever-resourceful Lady H to keep a watchful eye on the
suspects-and his police colleagues. Rustling up some cunning
disguises of their own, she and Flo are soon in deep cover among
the cast and crew, pulling back the curtain on some shocking
secrets and rivalries... The problem is, everyone seems to have a
motive, and everyone seems to have an alibi...In this locked-room
mystery in which nothing is as it seems, the amateur sleuths need
to put on the performances of their lives if they're to stand a
chance of shining a spotlight on the truth...
May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been
an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady
Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady’s maid Flo, at least there
are the provincial delights of the village’s inaugural art
exhibition—and bicycle race—to look forward to. But at the
exhibition opening, there’s a panicked shout of ‘Fire!’ In
the confusion, the main attraction—an extremely expensive
book—is stolen from under everyone’s nose, as is a valuable
painting lent by Sir Hector Farley-Stroud. Then the race, which
starts as a charming day out, ends in a shocking death. And to top
it all off, the Farley-Strouds reveal they’re in debt and might
lose their house. The sleuthing duo soon find themselves torn
between a murder investigation, an art theft mystery, and trying to
help their pals. All with a suspicious figure from Flo’s past, a
supercilious insurance investigator, and a pair of rather bizarre
treasure hunters on the loose…
Mihi Whan Park loves fairy tales. She wants to be a princess more
than anything, but everyone tells her she's not the princess type.
But when she and her new friends, Savannah and Reese, discover a
portal to a fairy tale realm inside the fridge in their school
library, Mihi finally gets her shot: She and her friends can learn
to be princesses! They just have to make it through a very rigorous
training program first . . . But princess training turns out to be
more than Mihi bargained for, and the fairy tale world is not the
wonderful place she imagined. Soon, Savannah and Reese decide
they're ready to go home, and Mihi has to decide where her
loyalties lie: With her friends and her future at home, or with her
princess dreams?
The new spinoff manga to the hit fantasy isekai series, developed
by original creator Fuse! Against the odds, the little slime Rimiru
has established his magical kingdom for all monsters, called
Tempest, and it's thriving. But three visitors, Phos the fox girl,
Stella the dragon girl, and Nemu the winged girl, come to pay
Tempest a visit, they're stunned at just how quickly it's
developed. Don't miss this new story in the world of Slime, just as
the second season of the anime arrives! With a concept and story by
Fuse, the creator of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,
Trinity in Tempest is the grand tour of Rimiru's world that fans
have always wanted. Through the eyes of three cute little monsters,
one from the fox clan, one from the dragon clan, and one from the
winged clan, readers will meet the residents of the utopia in Jura
Forest, and get a peek at how they live their lives. The little
group's leader, Phos, is a fox girl from the Beast Kingdom of
Eurazania. But this isn't just a pleasure trip for her... she's
visiting Tempest on secret orders from Lord Carrion. What would a
demon lord want with Rimiru's monster paradise?
Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of
Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest.
The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one
of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the
heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady's maid,
Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the
mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame?
When a second cider-related murder takes place, it quickly becomes
clear that there's more to these mysterious deaths than meets the
eye. The daring duo uncover whispers of an ancient order and
moonlit rituals. And evidence points to a macabre secret in the
village stretching back years. A secret someone will do
anything-anything at all-to keep hidden. Something is rotten,
that's for sure. With the local constabulary baffled, Lady
Hardcastle and Flo must use all their powers of wit and whimsy to
get to the bottom of the dastardly deed. But can they catch the
killer before any more people drop dead?
August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady's maid
Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H's
brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.
A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone
horribly wrong-with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death.
Harry is certain there is more to this 'tragic accident' than meets
the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking
top secret intelligence to foreign rivals. In between strolls to
the Dog & Duck and planning for the annual village show, the
daring duo dust off the Crime Board and go undercover at Bristol
Aviation. With international powers investing heavily in
aeronautics, the stakes are high-sky high-and the suspects soon
mount up. Can Lady Hardcastle find the culprit before someone else
falls down dead?
- the first interdisciplinary book dedicated to the metaverse - the
first book to focus on virtual reality in connection to digital
communication
Given the extreme variety of research issues under investigation
today and the multi-million-dollar industry surrounding research,
it becomes extremely important that we ensure that research
involving Indigenous peoples is ethically as well as
methodologically relevant, according to the needs and desires of
Indigenous peoples themselves. This distinctive volume presents
Indigenous research as strong and self-determined with theories,
ethics and methodologies arising from within unique cultural
contexts. Yet the volume makes clear that challenges remain, such
as working in mainstream institutions that may not regard the work
of Indigenous researchers as legitimate 'science'. In addition, it
explores a twenty-first-century challenge for Indigenous people
researching with their own people, namely the ethical questions
that must be addressed when dealing with Indigenous organisations
and tribal corporations that have fought for - and won - power and
money. The volume also analyses Indigenous/non-Indigenous research
partnerships, outlining how they developed respectful and
reciprocal relationships of benefit for all, and argues that these
kinds of best practice research guidelines are of value to all
research communities.
Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities Winner of the
Istvan Hont Book Prize An ambitious reinterpretation and defense of
Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of
his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism.
Plato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er—sits
uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational
philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have
sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere
regrettable embellishments, irrelevant to his main enterprise.
Others, such as Karl Popper, have railed against the deceptive
power of myth, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic
foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. Tae-Yeoun Keum
challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She
argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of
rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues
through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century,
showing how pivotal figures in the history of political
thought—More, Bacon, Leibniz, the German Idealists, Cassirer, and
others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that
Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there
is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking.
'Te-Ping Chen's Land of Big Numbers contains 10 illuminating, sharp
stories set in China, penned by a former investigative reporter who
worked in Beijing for several years' The Independent 'In this
magnificent collection of stories, the author and former
Beijing-based correspondent vividly captures the desires and losses
of a richly drawn cast while drawing on the realities of
contemporary China' Cosmopolitan A dazzling debut collection which,
deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the
biggest and most complicated country on earth. A brother competes
for gaming glory while his twin sister exposes the dark side of the
Communist government on her underground blog; a worker at a
government call centre is alarmed one day to find herself speaking
to a former lover; a delicious new fruit arrives at the
neighbourhood market and the locals find it starts to affect their
lives in ways they could never have imagined; and a young woman's
dreams of making it big in Shanghai are stalled when she finds
herself working as a florist. These are just some of the myriad
lives to be evoked in The Land of Big Numbers, a collection of
stories which - sometimes playfully, sometimes darkly - draws back
the curtain on the realities of modern China and unveils a cast of
characters as rich and complicated as any in world literature. With
virtuosic brilliance, Te-ping Chen sheds light on a country much
talked about but little understood and announces the birth of a
bright new star in the literary firmament. "A spectacular work,
comic, timely, profound. Te-Ping Chen has a superb eye for detail
in a China where transformation occurs simultaneously too fast and
too slow for lives in pursuit of meaning in a brave new world. Her
characters are achingly alive. It's rare to read a collection so
satisfying, where every story adds to a gripping and intricate
world." Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker-shortlisted Do Not
Say We Have Nothing "Te-Ping Chen shows us how much life, loss, and
quiet pleasure exists in the world, just out of view." Alexandra
Kleeman
This book presents Korea's economic strategy to meet the emerging
challenges, as it recovers from the 1997 financial crisis and moves
on into the globalization and information era. For important policy
areas, the authors evaluate existing policies, and offer proposals
for new strategic direction that can achieve sustainable and
equitable economic growth for Korea. A considerable majority of the
contributing authors are involved in formulating economic strategy
as policy advisors to the Korean government, and they bring to
their chapters extensive experience and insights regarding Korean
government policies that are rarely available to readers in such a
comprehensive form. The book therefore offers a timely, practical,
and unique analysis of all aspects of the Korean economy.
Academics, policy practitioners, and others with interests in the
Korean economy, Asian economies, development studies, and a broad
sweep of other issues concerning structural reform will find in
this volume a gold mine of detail and opinion.
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