Word Power Made Easy

Word Power Made Easy

Author: Norman Lewis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 067174190X

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Exercises designed to develop vocabulary skills present words together with their pronunciations, definitions and use in sentences


Culture and the Literary

Culture and the Literary

Author: Avishek Parui

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2021-12-15

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781786615992

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A study of how cultural codes are constructed, consumed and conveyed in works of fiction and non-fiction.


PUTHI-PORA

PUTHI-PORA

Author: David M. Kane

Publisher: Sylheti Translation and Research

Published: 2017-03-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780955279188

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This book is a reproduction of David Kane's 2008 doctoral thesis on puthi-poṛa, a Bengali tradition of book and manuscript reading. Kane's thesis pursues two central aims. The first is ethnographic: to provide a documentation and description of puthi-poṛa as it was performed in Sylhet, Bangladesh, in 2005. The second is historical: to shed light on a historical mystery-how Islam spread so rapidly and pervasively in Bengal from the sixteenth century. Kane's hypothesis is that puthi-poṛa was used in this process.


Higher Education and Professional Ethics

Higher Education and Professional Ethics

Author: Satya Sundar Sethy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1351173782

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This book discusses the significance, relevance, and usefulness of professional ethics in the context of higher education. It highlights the pivotal role of professional ethics in offering teachers a better understanding of their responsibilities, duties, rights, and institutional obligations as they work to provide quality education. The volume investigates the connection between the adoption of professional ethics by individual faculty members in higher education and the development of work cultures in higher educational institutions. It explores the requisite modifications of the Teachers’ Code of Ethics in relation to the usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching–learning platforms. While examining the validity, reliability, and application of professional ethics in the higher education sector, the book also illustrates the application of codes of ethics to resolve conflicting interests and commitments. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers in higher education, the philosophy of education, applied ethics, public policy, and the social sciences.


Table for Four

Table for Four

Author: K Srilata

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 8184758561

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It is their last evening together. Maya, Sandra and Derek, graduate students at UC Santa Cruz and house-mates for three years, are preparing for dinner with Uncle Prithvi, the house-owner. It’s a cheerful and quirky household: Sandra is prone to ‘Orkut attacks’; Derek silently pines for the wistful-looking Afghan boy in the photo on his wall; Maya, who has the hots for Derek, is inexplicably terrified of the ocean; and the elusive Uncle Prithvi communicates through notes he leaves all over the place. Sad at parting, perhaps forever, and half tipsy, Maya, Sandra and Uncle Prithvi play a game of wapping stories as they wait for Derek to arrive. As the evening progresses, we learn their deep, dark secrets and hidden fears. Sandra, abandoned at birth, talks about growing up in an orphanage with her precious twin, disabled Solana, only to be separated by circumstances; Uncle Prithvi rues the loss of his beloved daughter, whom he betrayed when he sought a new life with Karen in the US. Maya, the narrator, can’t bring herself to open up—except when alone. And Derek avoids revealing himself altogether as he doesn’t turn up at all. Finely crafted and deeply felt, Table for Four is a rumination on the burden of secrets, of learning to let go and accepting the betrayals and losses in our lives.


Computational Neuroscience Models of the Basal Ganglia

Computational Neuroscience Models of the Basal Ganglia

Author: V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-21

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9811084947

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The book is a compendium of the aforementioned subclass of models of Basal Ganglia, which presents some the key existent theories of Basal Ganglia function. The book presents computational models of basal ganglia-related disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and addiction. Importantly, it highlights the applications of understanding the role of the basal ganglia to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders. The purpose of the present book is to amend and expand on James Houk’s book (MIT press; ASIN: B010BF4U9K) by providing a comprehensive overview on computational models of the basal ganglia. This book caters to researchers and academics from the area of computational cognitive neuroscience.


Liquidity and Asset Prices

Liquidity and Asset Prices

Author: Yakov Amihud

Publisher: Now Publishers Inc

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 1933019123

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Liquidity and Asset Prices reviews the literature that studies the relationship between liquidity and asset prices. The authors review the theoretical literature that predicts how liquidity affects a security's required return and discuss the empirical connection between the two. Liquidity and Asset Prices surveys the theory of liquidity-based asset pricing followed by the empirical evidence. The theory section proceeds from basic models with exogenous holding periods to those that incorporate additional elements of risk and endogenous holding periods. The empirical section reviews the evidence on the liquidity premium for stocks, bonds, and other financial assets.


Ocean Wave Mechanics

Ocean Wave Mechanics

Author: V. Sundar

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-02-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1119241634

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This is a textbook aimed at graduate students and offshore engineering practitioners that covers basic fluid mechanics and the deterministic and statistical descriptions of infinitesimal and finite amplitude water waves. It reviews the theory of wave loading on structures and closes with a chapter on the potential of ocean wave energy and devices for extracting it. Since the 1980s there has been tremendous progress in numerical and physical modelling of coastal and offshore structures in waves. This calls for a clear understanding of the phenomena of wave generation, propagation, deformation and its effects on marine structures. This book will help the reader to understand the many results and descriptions found in journals, reports and research papers. It is self-contained, and encompasses the fundamentals of the subject with sufficient description and illustrations.