Neural Networks And Learning Machines

The third edition of this classic book presents a comprehensive treatment of neural networks and learning machines. The book has been revised extensively to provide an up-to-date treatment of the subject.

Key Features Include :

On-line learning algorithms rooted in stochastic gradient descent; small-scale and large-scale learning problems.

Kernel methods, including support vector machines and the representer theorem.

Information-theoretic learning models, including copulas, independent components analysis (ICA), coherent ICA, and information bottleneck.

Sequential state-estimation algorithms, including Kalman and particle filters.

Recurrent neural networks trained using sequential-state estimation algorithms.

Insightful computer-oriented experiments.

Stochastic dynamic programming, including approximate and neurodynamic procedures.
ISBN: 9788120340008
Author: Haykin, Simon
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Tulanatmak Rajniti

Author: C B Gena
ISBN: 9780706982275
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Theories Of International Relations

Prakash Chandra obtained his Ph.D. from Lucknow University. He has been a reader and head of the Department of Political science, BSM (PG) College, Meerut University. This book, together with the author´s ´International Law´ and ´International Relations´ forms the trilogy of international affairs. Apart from these, Dr Chandra has written ´History of the Indian National Movement" and ´Modern Indian Political Thought´.

The book serves as an introduction to the theoretical aspects of international relations. Besides being a valuable text for postgraduate students of political science, it also serves as a useful guide to those who aspire for higher services or who have an interest in the dynamics of international relations. The entire subject is divided into 5 units as per the latest UGC guidelines:Unit I deals with the development of the study of international relations, various theories on the subject, evolution of the nation-state system, concepts of nationalism sovereignty and national power.Unit II focuses on the instruments that are employed for the promotion of national interests and power, like foreign policy, diplomacy, propaganda, economic instruments, imperialism, colonialism and war.Unit III discusses the mechanism of management of power and control of inter-state relations. The devices used being balance of power, collective security, international law, international Unit IV makes an assessment of regional organisations, like NATO, EU, OAS, OAU (AU), SAARC and ASEAN and their impact on international politics.Unit V covers disarmament and arms control, non-alignment, and impact of globalisation on international relations.

CONTENTS

• Unit I: Introduction
  
  
  
  • Divergent Approaches to the Study of International Politics
  
  
  • Political Realism—Morgenthau’s Theory of International Politics
  
  
  • Emergence of the Nation-State System
  
  
  • National Power and its Elements
  
  
  
  


• Unit II: Foreign Policy as Instrument for the Promotion of National Interest
  
  
  
  • Propaganda and Political Warfare as Instruments of National Policy
  
  
  • Diplomacy as an Instrument of Foreign Policy
  
  
  • Economic Instruments of Foreign Policy
  
  
  • Imperialism and Colonialism as Foreign Policy Instrument
  
  
  • War as an Instrument of Foreign Policy
  
  
  
  


• Unit III : Balance of Power
  
  
  
  • Collective Security
  
  
  • International Law
  
  
  • International Organisations: World Community in Transition
  
  
  • Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms


• Unit IV: Regionalism and World Politics


• Unit V: Disarmament and Arms Control
  
  
  
  • Non-Alignment and World Politics
  
  
  • Impact of Globalisation on International Relation

ISBN: 9788125916567
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Indian Government And Politics

Author: D C Gupta
ISBN: 9780706987782
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Ash and Tara and the Emerald Dagger

Jeanne Perrett has a BA Hons in English Literature from the University of Sussex. She has taught English for over twenty-five years and is the author of several international course books for children. Jeanne lives in Greece with her husband and their four children.

Magesh’s eyes snapped open. He raised his head, then with a terrible roar he tugged the cords from his hands and legs and leapt to his feet. He kicked Kirit and Bansi out of the way, hit Tara, sending her flying, and grabbed Ash from the back around the neck, holding the boy against his body. He held the emerald dagger to Ash’s soft throat…

It is the year 1568. Emperor Akbar is on the throne and all is well in Hindustan.

Or is it?

Meet Ash and Tara, two feisty kids who battle the vilest villains in Akbar’s court.

Devious minds are at work, planning to steal Akbar’s precious emerald dagger, which the emperor believes brings him good luck. Ash and Tara, twin brother and sister, growing up in a village across the Yamuna land up in Agra Fort and get to know of the conspiracy. Can they stop the ruthless Magesh and his accomplices from carrying out the plan? Or will they get framed for the theft and end up on the wrong side of the world’s most powerful monarch?

The breathless adventure twists and turns its way through the magnificent Agra Fort, the bylanes of medieval Agra and the dark, stormy forests across the Yamuna. Each story in the brand new Ash and Tara series will keep you engrossed till the final action-packed ending even as you get to know and love Akbar, Birbal, Ash, Tara and their friends like never before.
ISBN: 9780143330943
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Mr Oliver`s Diary

Ruskin Bond, resident of Mussoorie, is a well-known writer of fiction and a raconteur par excellence. His Tales and Legends from India, Angry River, Strange Men, Strange Places, The Blue Umbrella, A Long Walk for Bina and Hanuman to the Rescue are also available in Rupa paperback. The Ruskin Bond's Children's Omnibus has been a firm favourite with young readers for several years. Ghost Stories from the Raj, The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories, The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure, The Rupa Book of Himalayan Tales and The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories are some of his recent books for Rupa.

A homicidal barber.

A hungry leopard and about a hundred frogs on the loose.

Boys with a talent for pranks and jokes.

Ruskin Bond’s fresh new school stories are a non-stop laugh riot.

Mr Oliver, a history teacher, arrives in Simla with a train-load of hungry boys to start a new term at the Prep School. As he records the antics of the amazing characters there, and all that they get up to, we quickly realize that there is never a dull moment. A fire, a missing Headmaster, runaway students make sure not a day goes by when Mr Oliver has nothing to report in his diary. He writes about the eccentric teachers, the girls’ school next door and the lovely Anjali Ramola, whom he secretly admires.

Laugh-out-loud funny, with a core of old-world charm that is trademark Bond, Mr Oliver’s Diary has stories and characters that have never appeared anywhere before. With his runaway wig, pet shrew and endearing dry wit, Mr Oliver is sure to become as well-loved as those other vintage Ruskin Bond characters, Uncle Ken and Rusty.
ISBN: 9780143331148
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Management Accountion

management accounting

ISBN: 9780706998979
Author: I M Pandey
Published by: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd

Essentials Of Educational Technology

J C Aggarwal started his career as a lecturer in a Teachers’ Training College in 1954 and thereafter worked in different positions in the Delhi Administration. He retired as Deputy Director of Education/Executive Director of Delhi Bureau of Textbooks. Singly or jointly he has authored some 150 books on Education, History and Current Affairs. He has written some best-selling books in education.

Specially designed as a standard text for teacher training colleges this book is essentially ´student-centred´ and ´examination-oriented´. It fully meets the needs of the students preparing for B.Ed., L.T., B.T. and B.A. (Education) examinations, and provides a comprehensive treatment of all topics on which questions are usually asked. It also helps to enable the students not only to have a complete grasp, but also obtain maximum marks in the examinations. Wherever needed, the text is supplemented by suitable diagrams and tables.

Practical approach of the book also makes it useful for in-service programmes of various categories of personnel in education and its authoritative coverage makes it relevant in the Middle-East and South-East Asian countries. Readers will find it a trustworthy friend, philosopher and guide.

The Revised Edition specially underlines the distinction between "Technology of Education" and "Technology in Education”. Role of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, EduSat, Virtual University, Dial Access, Digital Resources, Internet, Video Teleconferencing, etc. now finds place in the book. It shows how they are revolutionizing the education system and what promise they hold for the future.

Initiatives taken by some educational institutions like Gyan Vani, IGNOU, C-DAC, UGC, NIOS, etc. for furthering their objectives using technology have also been given in a separate chapter.

CONTENTS

• Educational Technology: Meaning, Scope and Uses
  
• Teaching and Teaching Technology
  
• Learning and Mastery Learning
  
• Teaching-Learning Process
  
• Principles and Maxims of Teaching
  
• Instructional/Teaching Objectives: Taxonomy
  
• Managing Teaching Learning and Teaching Strategy
  
• Motivation in Learning
  
• Programmed Instruction/Programmed Learning
  
• Teaching Models
  
• Teacher Behaviour and Interaction Analysis
  
• Micro-Teaching
  
• Teaching Skills
  
• Simulated Teaching
  
• Education and Systems Analysis
  
• Audio-Visual Aids in Education
  
• Mass Media in Education
  
• Communication, Information Technology and Computers in Education
  
• Educational Technology in India
  
• Technology of Education and Technology in Education: Allied Concepts
  
• New Educational Technologies
  
• EDUSAT (Educational Satellite)
  
• Institutional Initiatives
  
• Lesson Planning
  
• Language Laboratory, Teaching Machines and Team Teaching
  
• Task Analysis, Instructional Designs, PSI and LCI
  
• Diverse Issues
  
• Index
  ISBN: 9788125922933
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Notes From An Indian Conservative

Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao holds Master’s degrees in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and from the University of Chicago. He is the CEO of Mphasis Corporation, an IT and BPO company based in the US and India. He is currently a trustee of Sujaya Foundation and Chairman of Nasscom Foundation as well as the Indian Foundation for the Arts. He is a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad and is a regular columnist for The Indian Express. He has been conferred the ‘Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award for the Tech Sector in India as well as in New York, ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award by The Economic Times, and ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ Award by the University of Chicago. He has been Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School.

Notes from an Indian Conservative is a compilation of Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao’s eclectic writings which regularly appear in The Indian Express. The book has been written for the ‘Indians of today, both in India and in voluntary or involuntary exile who have a love for their fractured land and who have a sensibility derived from our adoption and embrace of the English language’.
ISBN: 9788129115751
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What Is Man?: Selected Writings

‘For me the ultimate questions of man’s being are appropriate questions to be asked, subject to real answers, and have a fundamental bearing on man’s practical conduct of life . . . Far from being the weakling’s escape from life’s harsh realities, the path of the Spirit is the most rigorous trial of manhood that ever challenged the adventurer. And far from being the preserve of a few eccentrics and recluses, the pursuit of the Spirit is not only the highest but also the most natural human activity, for it is in pursuit of the Spirit that man becomes most truly human.’ For anyone who has wondered ‘What is life all about? Why are we born? And does it all just end with death?’ the essays in this anthology provide profound answers.The author, Sri Madhava Ashish, was for many years the head of a remote and rather unconventional ashram in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. The ashram drew visitors from India and all over the world—people driven by just such questions about ultimate meaning and purpose.

The distilled teaching that Ashishda, as he was fondly known, offered freely and that forms the core of these essays, is intensely relevant to our lives today. It has little to do with conventional religions, but can be called secular spirituality. It points out the folly of viewing the cosmos in material terms alone, encouraging us to open our minds and see that our lives are not restricted to the closed box of purely physical existence.

Sri Madhava Ashish urges us to set out on the most urgent of all quests: the path of self-knowledge that integrates timeless inner practices—such as meditation—with a meaningful and active outer life. Using methods that include intelligent inquiry, psychological self-examination and dream analysis, his unorthodox teaching provides a road-map for the emotions, the intellect and the soul to develop in harmony—so that both individuals and society can free themselves from egoism, violence and greed, and begin to base their values on the reality of their spiritual source.
ISBN: 9780143065746
Author: Sri Madhava Ashish Foreword by Karan Singh
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The Tryst Betrayed: Reflections on Diplomacy and Development

Jagat S. Mehta was born in Udaipur in 1922 into one of the then princely state’s most prominent families. After degrees from Allahabad and Cambridge universities, he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1947. He was chargé d'affaires in China between 1963-66, launched the foreign ministry’s policy planning division in 1966, was high commissioner in Tanzania between 1970-74, becoming Foreign Secretary in 1976, a post he held till 1979.

During his career he led the ministry’s negotiations on many issues of critical importance including the Sino-Indian boundary question (1960), the financial compensation for Indians expelled from Uganda (1975), the comprehensive normalization of India-Pakistan relations (1976), the Salal Hydel project in Kashmir (1976), securing the withdrawal of the Farakka item from the UN (1976), the Farakka Agreement with Bangladesh (1977), the Separate Trade and Transit Treaties with Nepal (1978) and preventing the militarization of Pakistan after the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan (1978).

He was a Fellow at Harvard between 969-70 and again in 1980-81. He was at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington, DC in 1981-82 and was the Tom Slick Professor for World Peace at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, from 1983-1985. He later held the post of visiting professor at the university from 1986-1995.

Former Indian Foreign Secretary Jagat Singh Mehta looks back on an eventful career which began on the day after India’s independence. His life started in feudalism but tough boarding schools emancipated him.

The Tryst Betrayed gives an insider’s view of policy making. In his lucid and informative style Mehta sheds light on Jawaharlal Nehru’s prophetic assertion of ideological agnosticism (named ‘Non-alignment’ in 1946) and its distortion by the accidental overlap of decolonization with the Cold War. Partition, decades of tensions, four wars and underdevelopment have been the consequences.In marked departure from other memoirs, Mehta pulls no punches. He argues that Nehru was naïve on China, wishful on the Soviet Union and prejudiced on America. The civil servants were hypnotized by what he refers to as the ‘Panditji knows best’ syndrome. Mehta illustrates that Nehru’s bark was no doubt frightening but his bite not vicious. Mehta’s career is marked by his innovative approach to all his several diplomatic assignments—and though not in office, he forewarned against unprincipled attitudes on Afghanistan.After retirement Mehta chose academia and voluntarism—at Harvard, the Woodrow Wilson Centre for scholars and he was for fifteen years a visiting professor at the University of Texas in Austin. He remains engaged with the voluntary sector through the Udaipur-based Seva Mandir (working for development in 600 villages), Vidya Bhawan (sixteen educational institutes) and the Jheel Sanrakshan Samiti (for the protection of Udaipur’s lakes). The book gives a fascinating insight into the workings of the NGO sector and the critical importance of the actions of unselfish voluntary effort to ensuring a just democracy.
ISBN: 9780670082469
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Year of the Tiger

Sohaila Abdulali was born in Bombay. She is the author of the novel The Madwoman of Jogare, several children’s books and many shorter pieces of fiction and non-fiction. She lives in New York.

New York in the 1990s is rich, unmolested, full of hubris and joy. Zara Hussain—young, successful Wall Street trader—lives in the East Village with her twin Kabir, a free spirit and musician, and their older sister Salma, a scientist who is looking for an acceptable husband. Their best friend Sam helps them chase their extraordinary dreams when he’s not indulging his own passion for tigers.

The story begins with a crisis in Immigration at JFK Airport, which results in Zara vowing to stay in the US and Kabir deciding to return to India. As the year draws to a close, the siblings’ lives have turned upside down. Zara is involved in a snowballing financial scandal on Wall Street; Kabir is faced with the unfamiliar joys of responsibility; and Salma has found a possible and dangerous love. Along the way we meet a motley bunch— Benny, a mentally ill man desperately searching for beauty; Mildred, one of Kabir’s many lovers; Rick, the Hussains’ neighbour who wants to sail the seven seas; and the moon as it makes sudden appearances.

In elegant prose and vivid imagery, Sohaila Abdulali brings to life the rich, vibrant landscape of New York before 9/11.
ISBN: 9780143067856
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Coaching For Growth: How To Bring Out The Best In Your Team And Yourself

Founder of Bolt Peter Consultancy is a management consultant, mentor, business strategist.

This book covers every aspect of coaching from the managers point of view; the coaching process itself and the coaching session; the key skills involved; the different approaches the coach can take; the various types of individuals the coach might encounter etc. With case studies and examples of coaching in action, Coaching for Growth will be an essential guide for managers who are looking forward to develop their staff, and themselves, to their full potential.
This key topic is described in a clear, accessible and jargon-free language in this book. It demonstrates why in today’s business environment coaching is so important and so well suited.
ISBN: 9788120329331
Published by: PHI Learing

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The Scalpel:Game Beneath

Padmashree Dr H S Rissam's medi-fiction, The Scalpel, scientillates through different levels of enigmatic stories and solves the mystery of one of the most grand-scaled medical thriller written in recent times. 'When a doctor writes a novel about the medical community cavorting with the mafia, would it be a work of fiction or would it be an attempt to showcase reality without the risk of a backlash? Dr Rissam is the Senior Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Cardiac Clinical Sciences.

It is the story of four people - a pretty princess, a dreaded don, a noble physician and an evil arch-rival. Painted across a wide canvas filled with multiple hues of love, lust, lies, greed, and scandals, the four characters criss-cross continents, touching cities like Delhi, Amritsar, New York, Chicago, Paris, Istanbul, Barcelone, Manila and Sydney.
ISBN: 9788129116024
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Accounting For Management: Text And Cases

Dr S K Bhattacharya is currently working as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh. Formerly he was the Director of NITTTR, Kolkata and Principal of TTTI (Now NITTTR), Chandigarh. He acquired his ME and PhD degree from Calcutta University and BITS, Pilani, respectively. He has to his credit 36 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, and has had academic interaction with many industries and universities in UK, Netherlands, Australia, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. He has published a number of textbooks, over 150 technical papers in national and international journals and seminar proceedings. He has also prepared a large number of learning materials in different forms. Dr Bhattacharya is fellow of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers and The Institution of Engineers, India.
ISBN: 9788125905530
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Bharat Ki Videsh Niti

V N Khanna retired as Reader in Political Science at Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi. In his long career spanning more than four decades, he has been involved with student development activities and was, for some time, the Principal of his college. He participated in cooperative teaching in Political Science at the University of Delhi for a long time. He is a member of the International Political Science Association and a life member of the Indian Political Science Association. He is also associated with a number of other academic bodies. His areas of interest include Comparative Politics and International Relations. He has authored several books and attended a number of workshops, seminars and conferences.
ISBN: 9788125924050
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10 Little Rubber Ducks

Chuckedy-chuckedy-chuck

goes the rubber duck machine.

Out pop little yellow rubber ducks

one after the other...

A brand-new batch of rubber ducks is loaded on to a ship and sent off to be delivered to children everywhere. But when a storm strikes, 10 little ducks are tossed into the sea and swept away in 10 different directions – with some wonderfully unexpected adventures along the way.

Come ride the waves as legendary children''s book author and illustrator, Eric Carle, explores numbers, directions, opposites, geography, animals and more in an extraordinary interactive picture book, beautifully illustrated with his unique collage-style art. And for a final surprise, the last page contains a duck with a squeaking sound chip for a special treat at the end of the story!
ISBN: 9780007202423
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
Author: Eric Carle