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This collection features some of the most interesting stories and fascinating origins behind more than 300 words, names, and terms. For any devoted "philomath" (a lover of learning), this anthology of entertaining etymology is an ideal way to have fun with language.From the creator of the popular A.... More

A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will t... More

"Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" -Barbara Wallraff Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court Praise for A Word a Day "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approac... More

An Overview of Second and Third Generation (3G) Air Interfaces Propagation and Path Loss Models Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum (DSSS) and TIA IS-95 CDMA Speech and Channel Coding, Spreading Codes and Mod... More

A strange man crash-landing his even stranger flying machine into Atisa’s home opens a world full of wonders for the fourteen-year-old boy… Atisa is waiting for his intrepid mother Gaea to get back from her undersea investigation of a labyrinth when a stranger and his flying machine crash down ... More

Faced with a childhood speech impediment, an abusive father, and two sisters whose beauty and articulation outshine hers, Tara has only her thumb to talk to… Set in a wistfully remembered and charmingly evoked Trichy of the Sixties, The Finger Puppet describes the special girlhood years  ... More

Acknowledgements,Introduction,Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women: An AnalysisWomen Workers in India,Women Wrokers in the Textile Industry,State Action for Women Workers,Women Workers: Strategies for Empowerment,Annexures: Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination ... More

This work would not lay any claim to its beingdefinitive but it certainly offers seminal insights into some current ragingquestions about postcolonialism, its special affinity with fiction, feminism andquest for identity, ethnic and linguistic, and issues of self, alterity andsubalterism.... More