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Automatic Summarization
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 165.00With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and automatic methods that leverage linguistic and statistical... more...
Journey from Anxiety to Freedom
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.00"By revealing her own story, Mani Feniger reminds us that our biggest fear can become our most profound teacher." ?Geneen Roth, bestselling author of When Food is Love Your heart pounds, palms sweat, eyes blur, breathing becomes difficult, and you feel dizzy or disoriented. You're in a panic, even though there is no apparent danger. Every year... more...
Bhagavad Gita
Autumn Hill Books 2010; US$ 8.95Sacred Hindu scripture is freshly presented in adventurous, contemporary English poetry, capturing the wildness of the original Sanskrit language that has been lost in generations of listless prose translations. Long considered among the most important texts in the history of literature and philosophy, the 700 verses here capture the dialogue between... more...
Aspiring to Home
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 27.95What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious,... more...
Computational Modeling of Narrative
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00The field of narrative (or story) understanding and generation is one of the oldest in natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), which is hardly surprising, since storytelling is such a fundamental and familiar intellectual and social activity. In recent years, the demands of interactive entertainment and interest in the creation... more...
Surgical Correction Of Facial Deformities
Jaypee Brothers Pvt. Ltd. 2010; US$ 95.00Surgical Correction of Facial Deformities is not just another textbook of Maxillofacial Surgery. The first chapter "Evolution of Face and Beauty Through Time" sets the tone to this remarkable volume wherein has gone a life-time of single-minded devotion to the healing of all the internal scars that external deformities can cause. In the chapter... more...
Us emene lääre Gygechaschte
Zytglogge Verlag 2013; Not AvailableBerndeutsche Chansons mit Noten, Strophen und original gesungen von Mani Matter. Inhaltsangabe: I: ds zündhölzli / dr hansjakobli und ds babettli / si hei dr wilhälm täll ufgfüert / mir hei e verein / är isch vom amt ufbotte gsy / hemmige / dene wos guet geit II: dr eskimo / d?nase / dr ferdinand isch gstorbe / alls wo mir id finger chunnt / dr bärnhard... more...
Financial Systems, Corporate Investment in Innovation, and Venture Capital
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00This book examines the role of venture capital institutions in financing technology-based ventures both in developed and developing countries. It also explores that part of venture capital activity which is hitherto vastly under-researched; namely the ability of venture capital institutions to render a whole host of value-added support functions. These... more...
Cosmopolitical Claims
University of Iowa Press 2007; US$ 29.95Cosmopolitical Claims is a profoundly original study of the works of Sten Nadonly, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Feridun Zaimoglu, and 2006 Nobel prize in literature recipient Orhan Pamuk. Rather than using the proverbial hyphen in ?Turkish-German? to indicate a culture caught between two nations, Venkat Mani is interested in how Turkish-German literature engages... more...









