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Who invented the traffic light? What about transportation itself? Farming? Art? Modern chemistry? Who made…cats? What if I told you there was ONE answer to all of these questions? That one answer? BLACK PEOPLE! Seriously. And this book is like a mini-encyclopedia, full of more evidence than WikiLeaks and just as eye-opening! Do you know just how much Black inventors and creators have given to modern society? Within the past 200 years, Black Americans have drawn on a timeless well of inner genius to innovate and engineer the design of the world we live in today. But what of all the Black history before then? Before white people invented the Patent Office, Black folks were the original creat...
Winston Churchill defined Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”. It was still the case when Hari Kumar left southern India and went behind the Iron Curtain in the seventies to study medicine at Peoples Friendship University, Moscow, USSR. Through the eyes of a man from a very different background and culture, Hari recounts his intimate observations of the lives and habits of the Russians; their joys, troubles, ambitions and hopes. It is a true story from a fascinating period in History delightfully told with an abundance of humour. A Different Degree gives you a remarkable insight to attempt to solve the riddle, unravel the mystery and understand the enigma that was the USSR.
Amazing, Uncanny and Spectacular Short Stories is a collection containing various short stories, which have humour, mystery, romance, ghosts and more. Expect unexpected twists in many of the stories. A man starts reading a ghost story in the middle of the forest without realizing that he is part of a ghost story. A boy goes to his kitchen at night and finds a girl there. Is she a ghost? What does she want? Will a boy, who has given up on romantic love, find love again? A person starts telling a story, which is supposed to have an unexpected twist in the end. What will be the unexpected twist? All this and much more is inside this amazing book, that you will never forget.
Talks about internal medicine that is consulted by students and doctors throughout the world. The aim of this title is to explain the management of disease, based on an understanding of scientific principles, and including the developments in treatment. It is written for medical students and doctors preparing for specialist exams.
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The book is first in English language highlighting the memoirs of a world renowned powder metallurgist .The author who is widely travelled , has had intimate interactions with eminent materials scientists and technologists for many many years. Many are no more alive and the book gives a rare chance to know not only their scientific achievements , but also the social aspects of the interaction. It is written in a narrative style. In some cases many interesting episodes have been highlighted , which otherwise would have remained obscure. In all 36 Indian and 47 overseas persons of eminence are covered in the book. In addition numerous persons have been mentioned in the side line.
This book features best selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, Internet of Things and Big Data (ICMIB 2020) held at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, India, during September 2020. It comprises high-quality research work by academicians and industrial experts in the field of machine learning, mobile computing, natural language processing, fuzzy computing, green computing, human–computer interaction, information retrieval, intelligent control, data mining and knowledge discovery, evolutionary computing, IoT and applications in smart environments, smart health, smart city, wireless networks, big data, cloud computing, business intelligence, internet security, pattern recognition, predictive analytics applications in healthcare, sensor networks and social sensing and statistical analysis of search techniques.
September 19, 2006 Dear diary, I keep having flashbacks of that night. It was raining heavily. I was being dragged in the darkness, my left arm in the grip of a man whose face I couldn't see. I tried screaming, but my voice was choked already. I could feel mud all over me, and my eyelids were heavy, as though I was on drugs. He dragged me further into the tunnel and threw me on the ground. I tried to catch hold of something, but it was too slippery. I couldn’t move. He was screaming at me and kicking me, attacking me from different sides as he paced up and down. The last thing I remember was looking up as he brought a huge rock crashing down on my head. I’m still terrified. I’m safe and happy now, but the vision always comes back. I don’t know what to do…
Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world democracies, or in the various governmental systems present in Asia, can more realistically be seen as cultural events in which candidates’ campaigns are shaped, consciously or unconsciously, to appeal to the cultural understanding and practices of the electorate. The election campaign period is one in which the masses are mobilized to participate in a range of cultural activities, from flying t...