The New International Monetary System

The New International Monetary System
Author: Charles Wyplosz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135163812

The New International Monetary System brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars and practitioners to a conference convened in May 2008 on the occasion of the retirement of Alexander Swoboda. The contributions are arranged in three main parts. Part I deals with the international financial architecture, Part II examines the ever-controversial role of exchange rate regimes and Part III takes stock of the conduct of monetary policy and the challenges posed by the inflation-targeting strategy. The chapters provide considered assessments of virtually all the hotly debated issues that concern monetary policies seen from an international perspective. Edited by and with an introduction from Charles Wyplosz, the collection includes contributions from some of the key international figures in the field of monetary policy, central banking and exchange rate regimes to discuss contemporary international monetary issues. Contributors include Michael Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, Ronald McKinnon and Charles Goodhart. The volume also contains tributes from Paul Volcker and Jean-Pierre Roth.

The Seasons of Trouble

The Seasons of Trouble
Author: Rohini Mohan
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781688834

For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and the resilient among them still dared to hope. But the next five years changed everything. Rohini Mohan’s searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime survival to reveal the creeping violence of the everyday. When city-bred Sarva is dragged off the streets by state forces, his middle-aged mother, Indra, searches for him through the labyrinthine Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Mugil, a former child soldier, deserts the Tigers in the thick of war to protect her family. Having survived, they struggle to live as the Sri Lankan state continues to attack minority Tamils and Muslims, frittering away the era of peace. Sarva flees the country, losing his way – and almost his life – in a bid for asylum. Mugil stays, breaking out of the refugee camp to rebuild her family and an ordinary life in the village she left as a girl. But in her tumultuous world, desires, plans, and people can be snatched away in a moment. The Seasons of Trouble is a startling, brutal, yet beau­tifully written debut from a prize-winning journal­ist. It is a classic piece of reportage, five years in the making, and a trenchant, compassionate examina­tion of the corrosive effect of conflict on a people.

Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy

Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy
Author: Richard L. Thompson
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9788120819542

The mysteries of the fifth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam have long puzzled students of Vedic cosmography and astronomy. Confronted with a description of the universe that seems much at variance with the information provided by our senses and standard astronomical calculations, foreign observers and even Indian commentators from the middle ages up to the present have concluded that the Bhagavatam`s account elaborated in other Puranas must be mythological. On the other hand the same persons have been much impressed with vedic astronomical treatises the jyotisasastras which provide remarkably accurate measurements of the solar system.

Yvain

Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987-09-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300187580

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

The Lost Meaning

The Lost Meaning
Author: Niranjan Tasnīm
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788126017966

LET US C SOLUTIONS -15TH EDITION

LET US C SOLUTIONS -15TH EDITION
Author: Yashavant kanetkar
Publisher: BPB Publications
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 8183331777

Description: Best way to learn any programming language is to create good programs in it. C is not exception to this rule. Once you decide to write any program you would find that there are always at least two ways to write it. So you need to find out whether you have chosen the best way to implement your program. That's where you would find this book useful. It contains solutions to all the exercises present in Let Us C 15th Edition. If you learn the language elements from Let Us C, write programs for the problems given in the exercises and then cross check your answers with the solutions given in this book you would be well on your way to become a skilled C programmer. I am sure you would appreciate this learning path like the millions of students and professionals have in the past decade.Table Of Contents:IntroductionChapter 0 : Before We beginChapter 1 : Getting StartedChapter 2 : C InstructionsChapter 3 : Decision Control InstructionChapter 4 : More Complex Decision MakingChapter 5 : Loop control InstructionChapter 6 : More Complex RepetitionsChapter 7 : Case Control InstructionChapter 8 : FunctionsChapter 9 : PointersChapter 10 : RecursionChapter 11 : Data Types RevisitedChapter 12 : The C PreprocessorChapter 13 : ArraysChapter 14 : Multidimensional ArraysChapter 15 : StringsChapter 16 : Handling Multiple StringsChapter 17 : StructuresChapter 18 : Console Input/ OutputChapter 19 : File Input/outputChapter 20 : More Issues in Input/OutputChapter 21 : Operations on BitsChapter 22 : Miscellaneous featuresChapter 23 : C Under Linux

A Handful of Dirt

A Handful of Dirt
Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0802786987

Discusses the nature and importance of soil and the many forms of life it supports.

Towards Extensible and Adaptable Methods in Computing

Towards Extensible and Adaptable Methods in Computing
Author: Shampa Chakraverty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2018-11-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811323488

This book addresses extensible and adaptable computing, a broad range of methods and techniques used to systematically tackle the future growth of systems and respond proactively and seamlessly to change. The book is divided into five main sections: Agile Software Development, Data Management, Web Intelligence, Machine Learning and Computing in Education. These sub-domains of computing work together in mutually complementary ways to build systems and applications that scale well, and which can successfully meet the demands of changing times and contexts. The topics under each track have been carefully selected to highlight certain qualitative aspects of applications and systems, such as scalability, flexibility, integration, efficiency and context awareness. The first section (Agile Software Development) includes six contributions that address related issues, including risk management, test case prioritization and tools, open source software reliability and predicting the change proneness of software. The second section (Data Management) includes discussions on myriad issues, such as extending database caches using solid-state devices, efficient data transmission, healthcare applications and data security. In turn, the third section (Machine Learning) gathers papers that investigate ML algorithms and present their specific applications such as portfolio optimization, disruption classification and outlier detection. The fourth section (Web Intelligence) covers emerging applications such as metaphor detection, language identification and sentiment analysis, and brings to the fore web security issues such as fraud detection and trust/reputation systems. In closing, the fifth section (Computing in Education) focuses on various aspects of computer-aided pedagogical methods.