MS-26 Organizational Dynamics
MS-26 Organizational Dynamics Block 1 - Group Dynamics Understanding Groups Phases of Group Development Group Cohesion and Alienation Conformity and Obedience Block 2 - Role Dynamics Concept and System of Roles Role Analysis Organizational Stress and Burnout Coping With Stress and Burnout Block 3 - Power DynamicsBases of Power The Process of Empowerment Decentralisation and Delegation Transformational Leadership Block 4 - Organisational Dynamics Organizational Culture Social Responsibilities of Organizations Organizational Ethics and Values Process of Learning Organizations Block 5 - Inter-Organisational Dynamics Cross Cultural Dynamics Management of Diversity Strategic Alliances and Coalition Formation Total-4, Solved-2, Unsolved-2 Sample Paper-I Sample Paper-II Guess Paper-I Guess Paper-II
MS-52 Project Management
MS-52 Project Management Block 1 - Project Formation and Appraisal Project Management: An Overview Feasibility and Technical Analysis Market and Demand Analysis Economic and Financial Analysis Formulation of Detailed Project Reports Block 2 - Project Planning and Scheduling Planning Time Scale-Network Analysis Materials and Equipment Human Resources Project Costing and Financing Organisation Structures In Projects Block 3 - Implementation and Control Project Management Information System Material and Equipment Human Resources Financial Aspects Block 4 - Project Completion and Evaluation Integrated Project Management Control System Managing Transition From Project to Operation Project Completion and Evaluation-Project Review Total-14, Solved-5, Unsolved-9 June (2006-2013) December (2006-2012)
The Romance of History
The Romance of History - England is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Naturalism Against Nature
'On one such occasion, he stopped in front of the mirror and looked at himself very carefully, trying to discover on his discoloured face anything, any sign that would denounce the black race. He observed himself well, separating his hair at the the roots, stretching the skin on his cheeks, examining his nostrils and teeth; finally he flung the mirror onto the dresser, consumed by an immense and fathomless dissatisfaction.'An age of freak shows, sexual pathologies and scientific racism, the late-nineteenth century saw doom-laden predictions made about the future of Europe's cultural and economic periphery, supposedly beset by endemic licentiousness and darker skin. Querying the widespread view that Naturalist literatures reinforced such prejudices, David J. Bailey charts their playful travels around the Lusophone world, where a perceived breakdown of family, nation and empire both confirmed and threatened the authority of European 'science'. Drawing on queer and postcolonial theory, contemporaneous thought, and encompassing a range of extraordinary and often humorous texts, from scandalised tales of pederasty to the biting social critiques of E癟a de Queir籀s, Bailey uncovers a dynamic, transatlantic network of Portuguese and Brazilian writers who, in compelling and remarkably similar ways, resisted the devastating implications of 'scientific' approaches to life and love at the fin de si癡cle.David Bailey is a Lecturer in Portuguese Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester.
Monday Or Tuesday
A Short Analysis of Virginia Woolf's 'Monday or Tuesday' Everyday Words Taken from Famous If you found reading 'Monday or Tuesday' a disorienting experience, don't worry you're meant to. One of the things Woolf is exploring through this short story is disorientation, distraction, the difficult and perhaps foolish quest for truthful and honest representation of the world through one's writing. Even the title hints at this confusion and uncertainty: to the narrator, and perhaps to Woolf herself, today could be either Monday or Tuesday. Perhaps it doesn't matter. The everyday occurrences her short story describes ('everyday' being a key word for Woolf; again, the title 'Monday or Tuesday' comes into play here) are at once distractions from her greater goal of trying to write 'the truth' and the very embodiment of that truth.
Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen
This book investigates the representation of property in Jane Austen's novels. Challenging the lack of legal ownership afforded to women of her time, Austen depicts female characters securing affective relationships towards property, hence unreservedly legitimising female ownership.
The Icknield Way
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Lost Illusions
In "Lost Illusions," Honor矇 de Balzac presents an intricate tapestry of 19th-century French society through the poignant story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet who grapples with his ambitions amidst the harsh realities of Parisian life. This novel, a crucial part of Balzac's larger work, "La Com矇die Humaine," employs a realistic literary style characterized by meticulous detail and psychological depth, reflecting the struggles between idealism and the gritty pragmatism of the age. The narrative navigates themes of aspiration, disillusionment, and the socio-economic forces that shape human ambition, making it a profound exploration of the costs of artistic and moral integrity in a commercially driven world. Balzac, a towering figure in the development of literary realism, drew upon his own experiences of navigating Paris's literary and social hierarchies to craft this powerful narrative. His keen observations of society, shaped by his early challenges as a writer and his profound understanding of human nature, inform his portrayal of Lucien's tumultuous journey as he interacts with both the affluent and the destitute, revealing the complexities of ambition in a rapidly changing society. "Lost Illusions" is an essential read for those interested in the intersection of literature and social criticism. It invites readers to reflect on their own aspirations and the societal structures that influence them. This timeless classic not only captivates with its rich characterizations and vivid descriptions but also serves as a cautionary tale about the cost of forsaking one's ideals in pursuit of success.
The trail
Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis-an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life-including work a
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary features works by twenty-four of Hungary's best writers who have written about what it means to be Jewish in post-Holocaust Eastern Europe. This volume includes work by Nobel Prize winner Imre Kert矇sz and other internationally known writers such as Gy繹rgy Konr獺d and P矇ter N獺das, but most of the authors appear here in English for the first time. This anthology features poetry, long and short stories, and excerpts from memoirs and novels by postwar writers. Some of these authors were well known in Hungary before World War II, some were children or adolescents during the war and began publishing in the 1970s, some were born to survivors in the years immediately following the war and grew up during the decades of Communist rule, while others started publishing chiefly after the fall of Communism in 1989. Unique among Eastern European countries, Hungary still has a large and visible Jewish population, many of them writers and intellectuals living in Budapest. This anthology introduces English-speaking readers to outstanding works of literature that show the wide range of responses to Jewish identity in contemporary Hungary. The editors' introduction provides a historical and critical context for these works and discusses the important role of Jews in Hungarian culture from the late nineteenth century to the present.
A Concordance to Conrad's Almayer's Folly
Originally published in 1978, this concordance to Conrad's Almayer's Folly includes a verbal index and field of reference, along with some notes on why they are useful. This volume is part of an experimental series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.
A Concordance to Conrad's the Nigger of the Narcissus
Originally published in 1981, this volume tabulates the vocabulary of one of Conrad's most interesting works. This volume contains a complete verbal index to the text, a table of word frequencies, and a field of reference allowing the user to locate the context of each word cited.
Concordances to Conrad's the Shadow Line and Youth: A Narrative
Originally published in 1980, the Concordances to Conrad's The Shadow Line and Youth: A Narrative provide complete verbal indexes and tables of frequency keyed to a field of reference for the text. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad's works.
A Concordance to Conrad’s a Set of Six
Originally published in 1981, this concordance to A Set of Six will assist readers in understanding the vocabulary of a group of stories of considerable artistic merit and also of importance to our grasp of Conrad's total works.
Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray
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Calthorpe
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Italy
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The Enchanted Boot
A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English. This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms there was already a rich and sophisticated tradition that included hundreds of tales, including many of those today considered "classic." The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities. The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.
The Enchanted Boot
A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English. This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms there was already a rich and sophisticated tradition that included hundreds of tales, including many of those today considered "classic." The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities. The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.
The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 2
Three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography and the experience of a live, open worldThese essays all explore Scottish subjects and the wider issues of geopetics. This volume starts with On Scottish Ground by delving into forgotten cultural resources. Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath explores more socio-political considerations before opening out to a larger space of cosmological meditation in The Wanderer and his Charts.
Essays
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Prospectus
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Three Months in Soviet Russia (1921)
Arthur Holitscher's book "Three Months in Soviet Russia (1921)" written just over a century ago offers a rare glimpse into the formative years of the Soviet Union seen through the eyes of a journalist traveler who created a new form of travelogue called "political-literary journalism". The people, places and things are brought to life through the vignettes that sketch monumental suffering of a nation at war together with an idealism that promised a better tomorrow. The story is all too human. This story, never translated into English, is an important contribution to anyone wishing to understand the Soviet Union and Russia today. The edition includes two new translations of Alexander Blok's famous poems, "The Ballad of The Twelve" (1918) written about the Russian Revolution and "On Pushkin House" (1921), his last poem.
Veronica Franco in Dialogue
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated her sexuality, an outspoken champion of women and their worth, and an important intellectual and cultural presence in sixteenth-century Venice.In Veronica Franco in Dialogue, Marilyn Migiel provides a nuanced account of Franco's rhetorical strategies through a close analysis of her literary work. Focusing on the first fourteen poems in the Terze rime, a collection of Franco's poems published in 1575, Migiel looks specifically at back-and-forth exchanges between Franco and an unknown male author. Migiel argues that in order to better understand what Franco is doing in the poetic collection, it is essential to understand how she constructs her identity as author, lover, and sex worker in relation to this unknown male author. Veronica Franco in Dialogue accounts for the moments of ambivalence, uncertainty, and indirectness in Franco's poetry, as well as the polemicism and assertions of triumph. In doing so, it asks readers to consider their ideological investments in the stories we tell about early modern female authors and their cultural production.
Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Memory is closely intertwined with the construction of identity in cultural, national, religious and gender terms. This book explores the essential relationship and interplay bewteen memory and identity in the medieval and early modern world.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication.The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.Although written in the 19th century, The Brothers Karamazov displays a number of modern elements. Dostoevsky composed the book with a variety of literary techniques. Though privy to many of the thoughts and feelings of the protagonists, the narrator is a self-proclaimed writer he discusses his own mannerisms and personal perceptions so often in the novel that he becomes a character. Through his descriptions, the narrator's voice merges imperceptibly into the tone of the people he is describing, often extending into the characters' most personal thoughts. There is no voice of authority in the story (see Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics for more on the relationship between Dostoevsky and his characters). In addition to the principal narrator there are several sections narrated by other characters entirely, such as the story of the Grand Inquisitor and Zosima's confessions. This technique enhances the theme of truth, making many aspects of the tale completely subjective.Dostoevsky uses individual styles of speech to express the inner personality of each person. For example, the attorney Fetyukovich (based on Vladimir Spasovich) is characterized by malapropisms[citation needed] (e.g. 'robbed' for 'stolen', and at one point declares possible suspects in the murder 'irresponsible' rather than innocent). Several plot digressions provide insight into other apparently minor characters. For example, the narrative in Book Six is almost entirely devoted to Zosima's biography, which contains a confession from a man whom he met many years before.
The Blind Musician
The Blind Musician By Vladimir KorolenkoThe Blind Musician is an 1886 novel by Vladimir Korolenko. Originally serialised in 2 February-13 April of that year by Russkiye Vedomosti, it then appeared in a considerably altered version in the July 1886 issue of Russkaya Mysl and a year later came out as a separate edition, again revised by the author. Korolenko stopped editing the text only after the book's sixth edition came out in 1898.Arguably his most acclaimed and best-known work, The Blind Musician caused controversy in its time and was subjected to severe criticism from the Moscow University's private docent A.M. Shcherbina, who had lost sight at the age of two and considered Korolenko's theories regarding blind people's 'intrinsic longing for light' totally groundless. "...To create a creditable treatise on blind man's psychology has never been my objective. The idea was, rather, to bring to closer examination man's longing for all things unattainable, for this ever missing fullness of life," Korolenko explained in a 10 January 1917 letter to Arkady Gornfeld.At the hour of midnight, in a wealthy family living in the southwestern part of Russia, a child was born. As the first faint, pitiful cry of the baby echoed through the room, the young mother, who had been lying with closed eyes, unconscious to all appearances, stirred uneasily in the bed. She murmured a word or two in a low whispering tone, while her pallid face, with its sweet and almost childlike features, was disfigured by an expression of impatience, - like that of a spoiled child, who resents the unwonted suffering as something new to her experience. The nurse bent low to catch the inarticulate sounds that fell from her whispering lips. "Why, why does he-?" murmured the invalid in the same impatient whisper. The nurse did not understand the question. Again the child cried out, and again the same shadow of sharp pain darkened the face of the mother, while large tears rolled down from her closed eyes. "Why, why," she repeated in a whisper. At last the meaning of her question seemed to occur to the nurse, who answered quite calmly, - "Oh, you mean why does the child cry? Babies always do. You must not agitate yourself." But the mother was not to be pacified. She started every time the little one cried, and kept repeating in tones of angry impatience, "Why-why-so dreadfully?"
Rhyme? And Reason?
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky," all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.
The Horse Stealers
(The Horse-Stealers) by Anton TchekhovA HOSPITAL assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a great braggart and drunkard, was returning one evening in Christmas week from the hamlet of Ryepino, where he had been to make some purchases for the hospital. That he might get home in good time and not be late, the doctor had lent him his very best horse. At first it had been a still day, but at eight o'clock a violent snow-storm came on, and when he was only about four miles from home Yergunov completely lost his way. He did not know how to drive, he did not know the road, and he drove on at random, hoping that the horse would find the way of itself. Two hours passed the horse was exhausted, he himself was chilled, and already began to fancy that he was not going home, but back towards Ryepino. But at last above the uproar of the storm he heard the far-away barking of a dog, and a murky red blur came into sight ahead of him: little by little, the outlines of a high gate could be discerned, then a long fence on which there were nails with their points uppermost, and beyond the fence there stood the slanting crane of a well. The wind drove away the mist of snow from before the eyes, and where there had been a red blur, there sprang up a small, squat little house with a steep thatched roof. Of the three little windows one, covered on the inside with something red, was lighted up. What sort of place was it? Yergunov remembered that to the right of the road, three and a half or four miles from the hospital, there was Andrey Tchirikov's tavern. He remembered, too, that this Tchirikov, who had been lately killed by some sledgedrivers, had left a wife and a daughter called Lyubka, who had come to the hospital two years before as a patient. The inn had a bad reputation, and to visit it late in the evening, and especially with someone else's horse, was not free from risk. But there was no help for it. Yergunov fumbled in his knapsack for his revolver, and, coughing sternly, tapped at the window-frame with his whip. "Hey! who is within?" he cried. "Hey, granny! let me come in and get warm!" With a hoarse bark a black dog rolled like a ball under the horse's feet, then another white one, then another black one-there must have been a dozen of them. Yergunov looked to see which was the biggest, swung his whip and lashed at it with all his might.
Granta 3
Is it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning - quite possibly an extremely important beginning - of British fiction.
David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture
David Jones - author of In Parenthesis, the great poem of World War I - is increasingly recognized as a major voice in the first generation of British modernist writers. Acclaimed by the likes of T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and W.H. Auden, his writing was deeply informed by his Catholic faith and Welsh blood. This book makes available for the first time a number of previously unpublished statements by Jones that open new perspectives on his own work and the religious, political, and cultural engagements of British modernism more broadly. Annotated throughout, with detailed commentaries exploring the historical context of each document, the volume presents the restored text of Jones's essay on Hitler and includes a letter to Neville Chamberlain, an unfinished essay on Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the transcript of an interview with Jones a year before his death. These reveal an unknown side of Jones and give fresh insight into the influences and assumptions of 20th-century British literary culture.
Women's Writing of the Early Modern Period 1588-1688
This multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period.
BCSL-021, BCSL-022, MCSL-017 C & Assembly Language Programming (Lab Manual)
BCSL-021, BCSL-022, MCSL-017 C & Assembly Language Programming (Lab Manual) Topics Covered BCSL-021 C Language Programming Section - 1 C Programming Lab BCSL-022 Assembly Language Programming Lab Section - 1 Digital Logic Circuits Section - 2 Assembly Language Programming MCSL-017 C and Assembly Language Programming Section - 1 C Programming Lab Section - 2 Digital Logic Circuits Section - 3 Assembly Language Programming Question Paper (Total-44, Solved-18, Unsolved-26) BCSL-021 (1) June (2012-2018) (2) December (2012-2017) BCSL-022 (1) June (2012-2018) (2) December (2012-2017) MCSL-017 (1) June (2011-2018) (2) December (2010-2017)
La Discreta Enamorada / The Cleverest Girl in Madrid
This book is a Spanish/English edition of Lope de Vega's La discreta enamorada. The core of the book consists of two texts: a critical edition of Lope's play in Spanish and Donald R. Larson's English translation/adaptation of that work. Common to the two texts are explanatory notes focusing on historical, cultural, and literary references. The Spanish text is further clarified by elucidations of difficult words or passages. The texts are preceded by a substantial introduction (discussing conventions of comedy, the comedia de capa y espada and its variation known as the comedia urbana, the political, social, and economic contexts of early 17th-century Madrid) and are followed by a critical apparatus that lists important variants that may be found in previous editions of Lope's play.
Composition-Rhetoric
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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorite to this day for its vigorous colloquial style and the earthy realism with which it exposes human hypocrisy. The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters, each vividly sketched and together revealing the corrupt world of imperial Spain. Its miseries are made all the more apparent by the candor and surprising good cheer with which young Lazarillo recounts his ever more curious fate.
Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients
Wise, witty, and immensely readable, these short but thought-provoking discourses examine life, death, and everything in between: truth, adversity, love, superstition, health, ambition, fame, and many other timeless topics. Here Bacon effectively applied his scientific approach of observation and interpretation to human behavior.
Breathturn into Timestead
2015 National Translation Award Winner in Poetry Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry gathers the five final volumes of his life's work in a bilingual edition, translated and with commentary by the award-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris. This collection displays a mature writer at the height of his talents, following what Celan himself called the "turn" (Wende) of his work away from the lush, surreal metaphors of his earlier verse. Given "the sinister events in its memory," Celan believed that the language of poetry had to become "more sober, more factual . . . 'grayer.'" Abandoning the more sumptuous music of the first books, he pared down his compositions to increase the accuracy of the language that now "does not transfigure or render 'poetical'; it names, it posits, it tries to measure the area of the given and the possible." In his need for an inhabitable post-Holocaust world, Celan saw that "reality is not simply there; it must be searched for and won." Breathturn into Timestead reveals a poet undergoing a profound artistic reinvention. The work is that of a witness and a visionary.
The Brass Bottle
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The Getting of Wisdom
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Boys and Girls from Thackeray
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The Ghost Girl
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Ariel; A Shelley Romance
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The Ghost
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The Female Gamester
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