Download or read book Mayu The Life of a Finnish Woman written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Shahzad Rizvi. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayu - A brilliant woman. A troubled past. Can she trust a man not to let her down again? Mayu, a divorced single mother, is juggling not only a career, but a defiant teenage son, a house full of dog hair, and those extra pounds that refuse to budge. Her trust has been shattered by an abusive alcoholic father and a chronically unfaithful ex-husband. Will this new man in her life break the cycle? One woman struggles to find love in a messy world.
Download or read book Woman with a Curve written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two small-town girls, lifelong friends, make it to the the top in Washington, DC in very different ways. Gentle, conscientious Minnie finds love, while scheming, ambitious Maxie's relentless pursuit of wealth and influence attracts two powerful men: a grasping Senator, no stranger to dirty tricks, and the handsome, vapid President. A satirical look at politics, power, and sex in the nation's capital.
Download or read book A Window in the Wall and Other Stories written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively collection of short stories, some set in India and some in contemporary America, explores love, loss, and the muddle between the two. In the title story, a student falls in love with his mysterious neighbor, who would be perfect... if she weren't dead. In "Rage," an actor discovers a wrenching truth about the boy he has killed in anger. And in "Break-up," a husband draws the wrong conclusion from his wife's emotional withdrawal.
Download or read book Murder in the Dorm written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Mafia princess is found dead in her dorm, her roommate Sabby, the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, is arrested for murder. Both girls were rivals for the love of the same handsome classmate. And why is Sabby so fascinated with poisons? As the action moves from Pakistan to Sicily to Hollywood, international vendettas, double-crosses, and surprises abound, involving everyone from academics to Mafia molls to the President of the United States.
Download or read book Behind the Veil written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rashida, an Indian Muslim woman with a questing spirit, falls in love with an author whose work she admires, though she's never laid eyes on him. She refuses other suitors, to the horror of her large, loving family. After years of political turmoil have convulsed India, with the author's fate unknown, he suddenly appears at her door. Rashida marries him at last, and sees him for the first time on their wedding night. His ugliness, slovenly habits, vanity--and finally, treachery--throw her emotions and her family's life into chaos. She begins a scandalous affair with a handsome teacher, defying her culture and destroying her family's honor. Rashida's story unfolds against a sweeping panorama of Indian history and culture, and a vivid, sensuous portrait of a changing India.
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Download or read book Understanding Morphology written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.
Download or read book Tanaka Kinuyo written by Irene Gonzalez-Lopez and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences spectators have when they watch a film collectively in a cinema.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century E K written by Steven Serafin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles that provide information about major authors and aspects of twentieth-century world literature, arranged alphabetically from E-to-K.
Download or read book The Modern Fairy Tale written by Paul Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique and intriguing insight into current debates concerning the relationship between nation and state as well as the political management of international image in today's Europe through an examination of debates on nation branding and the Eurovision Song Contest. Europe is a contested construct and its boundaries are subject to redefinition. This work aims to advance critical thinking about contemporary nation branding and its relationship to, and influence on, nation building. In particular it focusses on key identity debates that the Eurovision Song Contest engendered in Estonia in the run-up to EU accession. The Eurovision Song Contest is an event which is often dismissed as musically and culturally inferior. However, this work demonstrates that it has the capacity to shed light on key identity debates and illuminate wider socio-political issues. Using a series of in-depth interviews with political elites, media professionals and opinion leaders, this book is a valuable contribution to the growing field of research on nation branding and the Eurovision Song Contest.
Download or read book Turn taking in human communicative interaction written by Judith Holler and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core use of language is in face-to-face conversation. This is characterized by rapid turn-taking. This turn-taking poses a number central puzzles for the psychology of language. Consider, for example, that in large corpora the gap between turns is on the order of 100 to 300 ms, but the latencies involved in language production require minimally between 600 ms (for a single word) or 1500 ms (for as simple sentence). This implies that participants in conversation are predicting the ends of the incoming turn and preparing in advance. But how is this done? What aspects of this prediction are done when? What happens when the prediction is wrong? What stops participants coming in too early? If the system is running on prediction, why is there consistently a mode of 100 to 300 ms in response time? The timing puzzle raises further puzzles: it seems that comprehension must run parallel with the preparation for production, but it has been presumed that there are strict cognitive limitations on more than one central process running at a time. How is this bottleneck overcome? Far from being 'easy' as some psychologists have suggested, conversation may be one of the most demanding cognitive tasks in our everyday lives. Further questions naturally arise: how do children learn to master this demanding task, and what is the developmental trajectory in this domain? Research shows that aspects of turn-taking, such as its timing, are remarkably stable across languages and cultures, but the word order of languages varies enormously. How then does prediction of the incoming turn work when the verb (often the informational nugget in a clause) is at the end? Conversely, how can production work fast enough in languages that have the verb at the beginning, thereby requiring early planning of the whole clause? What happens when one changes modality, as in sign languages – with the loss of channel constraints is turn-taking much freer? And what about face-to-face communication amongst hearing individuals – do gestures, gaze, and other body behaviors facilitate turn-taking? One can also ask the phylogenetic question: how did such a system evolve? There seem to be parallels (analogies) in duetting bird species, and in a variety of monkey species, but there is little evidence of anything like this among the great apes. All this constitutes a neglected set of problems at the heart of the psychology of language and of the language sciences. This Research Topic contributes to advancing our understanding of these problems by summarizing recent work from psycholinguists, developmental psychologists, students of dialog and conversation analysis, linguists, phoneticians, and comparative ethologists.
Download or read book The Last Resident written by Shahzad Rizvi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British diplomat Nigel adores India and its culture, but not his spoiled wife, Pamela. Instead, he has fallen hopelessly in love with Mehru, a married Muslim princess. When Pamela is murdered, Nigel is imprisoned as the prime suspect, but did he do it? The only one who could help free Nigel is the state's brilliant Jewish prime minister, but he, too, is in prison!
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Download or read book Warraparna Kaurna written by Rob Amery and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga community, and interested others, to reclaim and relearn a linguistic heritage on the basis of mid-nineteenth-century materials. This study is breaking new ground. In the Kaurna case, very little knowledge of the language remained within the Aboriginal community. Yet the Kaurna language has become an important marker of identity and a means by which Kaurna people can further the struggle for recognition, reconciliation and liberation. This work challenges widely held beliefs as to what is possible in language revival and questions notions about the very nature of language and its development.
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