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Divergence in central Asia. 2.

Diversity in central Asia. 3.

Review of change: hope and despair. 4.

Xinjiang in the central Asian region: connecting the past and the present. Conclusion.

Bibliography. Appendices: 1.

China's minority nationalities. 2.

Composition of nationalities in Kazakhstan. Index.

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The inabilities of the authorities to control internal fragmentation in these two republics have also been studied by scholars. The aspect of social transformation is reflected in people's reactions to reform.

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2. Recurrence relations.

3. The principle of inclusion and exclusion.

4. Matrices and graphs.

5. Trees.

6. Mobius inversion and graph colouring.

7. Enumeration under group action.

8. Matching theory.

9. Block designs.

10. Planar graphs.

11. Edges and cycles.

12. Regular graphs.

13. Hints.

Bibliography. Index.

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Introduction. 1.

The seven instructions of causes and their effect. 2.

Exchanging oneself with others. Conclusion.

II. A meditation on compassion: Translators note.

Introduction. 1.

Preliminaries. 2.

Actual practice. Notes.

"There is no more powerful mind than Bodhicitta. There is no more joyous mind than Bodhicitta.

For the accomplishment of one's own ultimate purpose, the awakening mind is supreme, and to accomplish the purpose of all other living beings there is nothing superior to Bodhicitta. The awakening mind is the unsurpassable way to collect merit.

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