Sonic Boom is the definitive story of how technologies have brought out the best and worst in artists and consumers alike. It reveals how even as the star-marker machinery of record companies remains in the hands of the old guard, innovators are finding ways to route around it. Sonic Boom exposes the recording industry's plight as a fascinating microcosm of the vast cultural, ethical, and legal issues that all industries face in the information age

Unlike other books on the subject, this book examines why learners fail to achieve good pronunciation and seeks a solution in building their confidence through a holistic approach. This concentrates on rhythm, stress, and articulatory settings first: if these are mastered, individual sounds should follow naturally

An Owner's Manual provides fast, practical and direct advice and that's what you get with this book! The Small Business Owner's Manual is useful for newly minted entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners and can be read from cover-to-cover or to quickly lookup information in the midst of a crisis

The Asia Economic Monitor is a semiannual review of emerging East Asia's growth and policy issues. It covers the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations; People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Republic of Korea; and Taipei,China. This issue includes a special section on options for unwinding policy stimulus for emerging East Asia

The second volume of the report Global Development Finance (GDF) in 2008, contains a summary, country, statistical tables on the external debt of 134 countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt under the Reporting System (DRS)

This book underlines the importance of policy performance for attracting and benefiting from capital flows, both private and official; concludes that improved policies in both recipient and donor countries are helping to strengthen the effectiveness of aid flows

This book helps brokers train their agents, as well as helping agents who want to increase their income with listings that showed professionalism and values that made sense. And also it makes the reader aware of the numerous pitfalls one runs into in the buying and selling a business

Although the importance of infrastructure sectors in achieving economic growth and poverty reduction is well established, raising debt and equity capital for infrastructure development and service provision has been a challenge for developing countries. Risk mitigation instruments facilitate the mobilization of commercial debt and equity capital by transferring risks that private financiers would not be willing to take to third-party official and private institutions that are capable of taking such risks

The Asia Bond Monitor reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options

The ACMM reviews recent developments in emerning Asia's stock6 bondand currency markets along with their outlook, risks, and policy implications