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Book De mystifying Translation

Download or read book De mystifying Translation written by Lynne Bowker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of translation for students of other disciplines and readers who are not translators. It provides students outside the translation profession with a greater awareness of, and appreciation for, what goes into translation. Providing readers with tools for their own personal translation-related needs, this book encourages an ethical approach to translation and offers an insight into translation as a possible career. This textbook covers foundational concepts; key figures, groups, and events; tools and resources for non-professional translation tasks; and the types of translation that non-translators are liable to encounter. Each chapter includes practical activities, annotated further reading, and summaries of key points suitable for use in classrooms, online teaching, or self-study. There is also a glossary of key terms. De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators is the ideal text for any non-specialist taking a course on translation and for anyone interested in learning more about the field of translation and translation studies.

Book Demystifying Shariah

Download or read book Demystifying Shariah written by Sumbul Ali-Karamali and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law—a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humor Through scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist wrongly that shariah is a draconian and oppressive Islamic law that all Muslims must abide by. They circulate horror stories, encouraging Americans to fear the “takeover of shariah” law in America and even mounting “anti-shariah protests” . . . . with zero evidence that shariah has taken over any part of our country. (That’s because it hasn’t.) It would be almost funny if it weren’t so terrifyingly wrong—as puzzling as if Americans suddenly began protesting the Martian occupation of Earth. Demystifying Shariah explains that shariah is not one set of punitive rules or even law the way we think of law—rigid and enforceable—but religious rules and recommendations that provide Muslims with guidance in various aspects of life. Sumbul Ali-Karamali draws on scholarship and her degree in Islamic law to explain shariah in an accessible, engaging narrative style—its various meanings, how it developed, and how the shariah-based legal system operated for over a thousand years. She explains what shariah means not only in the abstract but in the daily lives of Muslims. She discusses modern calls for shariah, what they mean, and whether shariah is the law of the land anywhere in the world. She also describes the key lies and misunderstandings about shariah circulating in our public discourse, and why so many of them are nonsensical. This engaging guide is intended to introduce you to the basic principles, goals, and general development of shariah and to answer questions like: How do Muslims engage with shariah? What does shariah have to do with our Constitution? What does shariah have to do with the way the world looks like today? And why do we all—Muslims or not—need to care?

Book Demystifying Large Language Models with Examples

Download or read book Demystifying Large Language Models with Examples written by Anand Vemula and published by Anand Vemula. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying large language models (LLMs), this book explores their inner workings, showcases their applications, and ponders their future impact. Part 1: Unveiling the LLM Landscape unveils the secrets behind these AI marvels. You'll learn how LLMs, trained on massive datasets of text and code, can understand and generate human-like language. Different LLM architectures and the key players developing them are also explored, providing a solid foundation for understanding this rapidly evolving field. Part 2: LLMs in Action brings these models to life with a showcase of their capabilities. From creating poems and code to summarizing complex information and translating languages, LLMs are transforming how we interact with machines. The book delves into how LLMs power chatbots and virtual assistants, automate repetitive coding tasks, and even assist programmers with debugging. Part 3: The Future of LLMs tackles the challenges and ethical considerations surrounding LLMs. It emphasizes the importance of mitigating bias in their outputs and ensuring transparency in their decision-making. Security and privacy concerns are also addressed, highlighting the need for responsible development practices. Looking ahead, the book explores how LLMs will revolutionize various industries. Education, customer service, and marketing are just a few examples where LLMs hold the potential to personalize experiences and streamline processes. The impact on creative fields is also discussed, with LLMs potentially serving as tools for inspiration while human creativity remains paramount. The book concludes by emphasizing the potential of LLMs and the importance of responsible development. By understanding their capabilities and limitations, we can harness the power of LLMs to shape a better future. This future hinges on ensuring LLMs are unbiased, transparent, and used for positive societal impact.

Book DEMYSTIFYING THE ODYSSEY

Download or read book DEMYSTIFYING THE ODYSSEY written by Zlatko Mandzuka and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odyssey is considered to be the most beautiful literary work of the Western civilization, and Homer the first and the greatest poet ever. The book Demystifying the Odyssey is interpreting Homer's epic in a unique and completely new way. For the first time in literature, this book explains the events and phenomena that Odysseus saw and experienced, and which were considered so far as a result of the Poet's rich imagination. So, this book reveals how Odysseus went to Hades kingdom of the dead souls; what are in reality Scylla and Charybdis; who were the sirens; how the Island of Aeolus', the ruler of the winds, actually floated; how Circa turned Odysseus's sailors into pigs and other. Besides that, this book also reveals the fallacy two and a half millennia long, dating back from the first historians Herodotus and Thucydides, according to which Odysseus was wandering the Mediterranean sea. It further provides numerous proofs that Homer's hero was actually wandering the Adriatic. For all those readers who are familiar with the ancient Greek literature this book will be great news and quite a surprise. On the other hand, for those who have not been quite aware of the old Greek world it will provide great knowledge on the first European civilization. In any case, this will surely be an interesting reading for all of them.

Book Demystifying Large Language Models

Download or read book Demystifying Large Language Models written by James Chen and published by James Chen. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive guide aiming to demystify the world of transformers -- the architecture that powers Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and BERT. From PyTorch basics and mathematical foundations to implementing a Transformer from scratch, you'll gain a deep understanding of the inner workings of these models. That's just the beginning. Get ready to dive into the realm of pre-training your own Transformer from scratch, unlocking the power of transfer learning to fine-tune LLMs for your specific use cases, exploring advanced techniques like PEFT (Prompting for Efficient Fine-Tuning) and LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) for fine-tuning, as well as RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) for detoxifying LLMs to make them aligned with human values and ethical norms. Step into the deployment of LLMs, delivering these state-of-the-art language models into the real-world, whether integrating them into cloud platforms or optimizing them for edge devices, this section ensures you're equipped with the know-how to bring your AI solutions to life. Whether you're a seasoned AI practitioner, a data scientist, or a curious developer eager to advance your knowledge on the powerful LLMs, this book is your ultimate guide to mastering these cutting-edge models. By translating convoluted concepts into understandable explanations and offering a practical hands-on approach, this treasure trove of knowledge is invaluable to both aspiring beginners and seasoned professionals. Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 What is AI, ML, DL, Generative AI and Large Language Model 1.2 Lifecycle of Large Language Models 1.3 Whom This Book Is For 1.4 How This Book Is Organized 1.5 Source Code and Resources 2. PYTORCH BASICS AND MATH FUNDAMENTALS 2.1 Tensor and Vector 2.2 Tensor and Matrix 2.3 Dot Product 2.4 Softmax 2.5 Cross Entropy 2.6 GPU Support 2.7 Linear Transformation 2.8 Embedding 2.9 Neural Network 2.10 Bigram and N-gram Models 2.11 Greedy, Random Sampling and Beam 2.12 Rank of Matrices 2.13 Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) 2.14 Conclusion 3. TRANSFORMER 3.1 Dataset and Tokenization 3.2 Embedding 3.3 Positional Encoding 3.4 Layer Normalization 3.5 Feed Forward 3.6 Scaled Dot-Product Attention 3.7 Mask 3.8 Multi-Head Attention 3.9 Encoder Layer and Encoder 3.10 Decoder Layer and Decoder 3.11 Transformer 3.12 Training 3.13 Inference 3.14 Conclusion 4. PRE-TRAINING 4.1 Machine Translation 4.2 Dataset and Tokenization 4.3 Load Data in Batch 4.4 Pre-Training nn.Transformer Model 4.5 Inference 4.6 Popular Large Language Models 4.7 Computational Resources 4.8 Prompt Engineering and In-context Learning (ICL) 4.9 Prompt Engineering on FLAN-T5 4.10 Pipelines 4.11 Conclusion 5. FINE-TUNING 5.1 Fine-Tuning 5.2 Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT) 5.3 Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) 5.4 Adapter 5.5 Prompt Tuning 5.6 Evaluation 5.7 Reinforcement Learning 5.8 Reinforcement Learning Human Feedback (RLHF) 5.9 Implementation of RLHF 5.10 Conclusion 6. DEPLOYMENT OF LLMS 6.1 Challenges and Considerations 6.2 Pre-Deployment Optimization 6.3 Security and Privacy 6.4 Deployment Architectures 6.5 Scalability and Load Balancing 6.6 Compliance and Ethics Review 6.7 Model Versioning and Updates 6.8 LLM-Powered Applications 6.9 Vector Database 6.10 LangChain 6.11 Chatbot, Example of LLM-Powered Application 6.12 WebUI, Example of LLM-Power Application 6.13 Future Trends and Challenges 6.14 Conclusion REFERENCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Book Demystifying Legal Reasoning

Download or read book Demystifying Legal Reasoning written by Larry Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common law reasoning when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practise special forms of reasoning is false.

Book Demystifying Islam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harris Zafar
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2023-06-14
  • ISBN : 1442223286
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Demystifying Islam written by Harris Zafar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A welcome correction to the politically tortured conceptions of Islam so prevalent today . . . An important, original new examination of Islam.” —Kirkus Reviews Despite heightened interest in the study of the Muslim faith, for many people Islam remains shrouded in mystery and confusion. What really is Shariah law? How is a Muslim to understand Jihad? Does Islam oppose Western values such as free speech or freedom of religion? What place do women have according to Islam? Understanding that this confusion has as much to do with the behavior and words of Muslims as it does with allegations made by anti-Islam activists, Demystifying Islam offers refreshingly bold answers to provocative questions about Islam today. Author Harris Zafar—lecturer, writer, teacher and national spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA—is forthright about issues where Muslims disagree, and he digs into history through vast research and scholarship to track the origins of differing beliefs. From the burqa to the role of Jesus in Islam, Demystifying Islam is an essential resource and concise guide to understanding the fastest growing religion in the world. “This book is less of a spiritual introduction than it is a cultural one, and an excellent starting point for people navigating interfaith relationships or working to improve understanding and representation in organizations and public discussion.” —Publishers Weekly “A significant contribution to the global conversation on peace, freedom, and justice in a world mystified and threatened by geopolitical and religious tensions.” —Paul Louis Metzger, author of Connecting Christ

Book Demystifying Large Language Models  A Comprehensive Guide

Download or read book Demystifying Large Language Models A Comprehensive Guide written by Anand Vemula and published by Anand Vemula. This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Guide" serves as an essential roadmap for navigating the complex terrain of cutting-edge language technologies. In this book, readers are taken on a journey into the heart of Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring their significance, mechanics, and real-world applications. The narrative begins by contextualizing LLMs within the broader landscape of artificial intelligence and natural language processing, offering a clear understanding of their evolution and the pivotal role they play in modern computational linguistics. Delving into the workings of LLMs, the book breaks down intricate concepts into digestible insights, ensuring accessibility for both technical and non-technical audiences. Readers are introduced to the underlying architectures and training methodologies that power LLMs, including Transformer models like GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series. Through illustrative examples and practical explanations, complex technical details are demystified, empowering readers to grasp the essence of how these models generate human-like text and responses. Beyond theoretical underpinnings, the book explores diverse applications of LLMs across industries and disciplines. From natural language understanding and generation to sentiment analysis and machine translation, readers gain valuable insights into how LLMs are revolutionizing tasks once deemed exclusive to human intelligence. Moreover, the book addresses critical considerations surrounding ethics, bias, and responsible deployment of LLMs in real-world scenarios. It prompts readers to reflect on the societal implications of these technologies and encourages a thoughtful approach towards their development and utilization. With its comprehensive coverage and accessible language, "Demystifying Large Language Models" equips readers with the knowledge and understanding needed to engage with LLMs confidently. Whether you're a researcher, industry professional, or curious enthusiast, this book offers invaluable insights into the present and future of language technology.

Book Demystifying the Sacred

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eveline G. Bouwers
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2022-09-20
  • ISBN : 3110713098
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Demystifying the Sacred written by Eveline G. Bouwers and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable relevance for today’s world: the powerful connection that exists between offences against the sacred and different forms of violence. Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing so, the volume reveals how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, were a companion to or acted as a trigger for physical action but also a form of how violence was experienced. More generally, it shows the importance of religious sensibilities in modern society and the violent potential contained in criticism or ridicule of the sacred and secular alike.

Book Demystifying Internet of Things Security

Download or read book Demystifying Internet of Things Security written by Sunil Cheruvu and published by Apress. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Break down the misconceptions of the Internet of Things by examining the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platforms. This open access book reviews the threat pyramid, secure boot, chain of trust, and the SW stack leading up to defense-in-depth. The IoT presents unique challenges in implementing security and Intel has both CPU and Isolated Security Engine capabilities to simplify it. This book explores the challenges to secure these devices to make them immune to different threats originating from within and outside the network. The requirements and robustness rules to protect the assets vary greatly and there is no single blanket solution approach to implement security. Demystifying Internet of Things Security provides clarity to industry professionals and provides and overview of different security solutions What You'll Learn Secure devices, immunizing them against different threats originating from inside and outside the networkGather an overview of the different security building blocks available in Intel Architecture (IA) based IoT platformsUnderstand the threat pyramid, secure boot, chain of trust, and the software stack leading up to defense-in-depth Who This Book Is For Strategists, developers, architects, and managers in the embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) space trying to understand and implement the security in the IoT devices/platforms.

Book Demystifying Critical Reflection

Download or read book Demystifying Critical Reflection written by Namala Tilakaratna and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), this volume reveals the knowledge practices and language of critical reflection in a range of different subjects, making clear how it can be taught and learned Critical thinking is widely held to be a key attribute required for successfully living, learning and earning in modern societies. Universities now list critical thinking as a key graduate quality and use ‘critical reflection’ as a way of teaching students how to become reflective and ethical professionals. Yet, what ‘critical reflection’ actually involves remains vague in research, teaching practice, and assessment. Studies draw on LCT, a fast-growing framework for revealing the knowledge practices that enable educational success and the individual chapters focus on a diverse range of contexts across the disciplinary map, including education, science, arts, sociology and nursing. The book further connects research and practice by presenting in-depth analyses of critical reflection and providing practical insights into how LCT can be used to design pedagogic interventions. The book offers a rich resource for both scholars and teachers who want to demystify critical reflection and prepare university students for the modern workplace.

Book Writing a Translation Commentary

Download or read book Writing a Translation Commentary written by Penélope Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential textbook is a step-by-step guide to how to write a self-reflective translation commentary, a key requirement of most courses on translation. Starting with source text analysis, it guides students in how to set out a translation strategy and goes through the most common challenging issues encountered, thus enabling students to set out their translation priorities in an informed manner. Throughout each chapter, there are boxes summarising key concepts and suggestions of tasks and activities, as well as recommendations for further reading. The book is supplemented by online resources for students and teachers on the translation studies portal. There are nine PowerPoints based on the chapters of the book that could be used for teaching or self-study. There are also downloadable versions of sample assessment rubrics, tables for example selection, and checklists. Based on real life examples of students' work in different language combinations, drawing on the author's years of experience of teaching commentary writing, this book focuses on several types of language mediation that go beyond the written word, such as interpreting, audiovisual translation, localisation, and transcreation. This is a vital textbook for students writing commentaries on translation and interpreting courses, a useful resource for supervisors providing students with guidance on how to write a balanced, articulate, and convincing commentary and a handy reference for professional translators and interpreters needing to explain their translation decisions to clients.

Book Demystifying Islam

Download or read book Demystifying Islam written by Ali Shehata and published by Dr. Ali Shehata. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with references and up-to-date statistics, this edition allows the reader to quickly and intelligently become familiar with the precepts upon which Islam stands, and to decide whether what is presented by the media is representative or biased. (World Religions)

Book Demystifying Deep Learning

Download or read book Demystifying Deep Learning written by Douglas J. Santry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to train Deep Learning models by learning how to build real Deep Learning software libraries and verification software! The study of Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is a significant subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that can be found within numerous fields: medicine, law, financial service, and science, for example. Just as the robot revolution threatened blue-collar jobs in the 1970s, so now the AI revolution promises a new era of productivity for white collar jobs. Important tasks have begun being taken over by ANNs, from disease detection and prevention to reading and supporting legal contracts, to understanding experimental data, model protein folding, and hurricane modeling. AI is everywhere—on the news, in think tanks, and occupies government policy makers all over the world —and ANNs often provide the backbone for AI. Relying on an informal and succinct approach, Demystifying Deep Learning is a useful tool to learn the necessary steps to implement ANN algorithms by using both a software library applying neural network training and verification software. The volume offers explanations of how real ANNs work, and includes 6 practical examples that demonstrate in real code how to build ANNS and the datasets they need in their implementation, available in open-source to ensure practical usage. This approachable book follows ANN techniques that are used every day as they adapt to natural language processing, image recognition, problem solving, and generative applications. This volume is an important introduction to the field equipping the reader for more advanced study. Demystifying Deep Learning readers will also find: A volume that emphasizes the importance of classification Discussion of why ANN libraries (such as Tensor Flow and Pytorch) are written in C++ rather than Python Each chapter concludes with a “Projects” page to promote students experimenting with real code A supporting library of software to accompany the book at https://github.com/nom-de-guerre/RANT Approachable explanation of how generative AI, such as generative adversarial networks (GAN) really work. An accessible motivation and elucidation of how transformers, the basis of large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, work. Demystifying Deep Learning is ideal for engineers and professionals that need to learn and understand ANNs in their work. It is also a helpful text for advanced undergraduates to get a solid grounding on the topic.

Book Breaking the Language Barrier  Demystifying Language Models with OpenAI

Download or read book Breaking the Language Barrier Demystifying Language Models with OpenAI written by Rayan Wali and published by Rayan Wali. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Language Barrier: Demystifying Language Models with OpenAI is an informative guide that covers practical NLP use cases, from machine translation to vector search, in a clear and accessible manner. In addition to providing insights into the latest technology that powers ChatGPT and other OpenAI language models, including GPT-3 and DALL-E, this book also showcases how to use OpenAI on the cloud, specifically on Microsoft Azure, to create scalable and efficient solutions.

Book Demystifying Electricity

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. L. Coleman, Jr.
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2005-01-07
  • ISBN : 1413432212
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Demystifying Electricity written by M. L. Coleman, Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This profound challenge to some of the most fundamental orthodoxies of modern nuclear physics grew from its author's discovery that, for all its success and sophistication, atomic theory has failed to provide a coherant explanation for the everyday phenomenon of electricity. M.L. Coleman located the source of the problem in the assumption that there are two different atomic particles carrying electrical charges, the electron with a negative charge and a position with a positive charge. The author boldly argues that there is, in fact, only one such particle, carrying both charges. He christens this single particle the "Eptron" A largely self educated scientist, Mr. Coleman remains a proud heir to the classical tradition stemming from Newton and clearly demonstrates how nuclear theory has failed to make sense of the basic phenomena of electricity, magnetism, and gravity which puzzled and inspired early physicists. The author reached his revolutionary conclusions by combining his mastery of both classical and modern theory with, in his own words, "A little common sense." Of course, a great deal of arduous research, creative experiment, and complex methematical thought to confirm his arguments. With rigor and clarity, he shows not only that the hypothesis of the Eptron is more elegant and economical than that of the seperate electrons and positrons, but also that it makes both direct and alternating current explicable for the first time in terms of nuclear physics. "All I have done," he explains with disarming honesty, "Is explain how electricity works." Eptron theory involves a radical new understanding not just of electricity, but of light itself. Through collisions with oneanother, Eptrons are transformed into photons and then back into Eptrons by the process of expansion and contraction which the eye perceives as light. While the higher reaches of his mathematics are addressed to the scientific community, the book as a whole is designed for laymen as well, and they will learn an enormous amount along the way, not just about Eptrons, but also about the history of Physics. "Demystifying Electricity" throws down a gauntlet to modern science that it cannot afford to ignore and reclaims nuclear theory in the name of common sense. "If my work is made available to young chemists, physicists, and electrical engineers," the author asserts with justifiable pride," I believe they will study it and find it correct."

Book Demystifying Chinese Management

Download or read book Demystifying Chinese Management written by Malcolm Warner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, with a new leadership in place, the People’s Republic of China enters a challenging new phase as an emerging economic superpower. The Chinese economy has dramatically changed over the three decades since Deng Xiaoping launched his economic reforms in 1978. It has been transformed from a command economy dominated by state-owned enterprises to a market socialist economy with a wide range of ownership forms, both public and private. In turn, its managers and management have correspondingly undergone a major sea-change. This edited collection attempts to demystify Chinese management, highlighting recent research into these significant changes and their implications in a wide range of business enterprises both in China and overseas. It points to the strategic challenges and issues in terms of realizing the managerial version of the ‘Chinese Dream’. The topics covered include business schools in China, corporate social responsibility, financial services, impression management, international human resource management, international competitive strategy choices, internationalization of firms and the role of science parks. The book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.