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ISBN 13 : 9781440848919
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Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)
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Author : John Hughes-Wilson
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 147210384X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups written by John Hughes-Wilson and published by Constable. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war with Iraq. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyses not just the events that conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so often ignored, misunderstood or spun by politicians and seasoned generals alike. This book analyses: how Hitler's intelligence staff misled him in a bid to outfox their Nazi Party rivals; the bureaucratic bungling behind Pearl Harbor; how in-fighting within American intelligence ensured they were taken off guard by the Viet Cong's 1968 Tet Offensive; how over confidence, political interference and deception facilitated Egypt and Syria's 1973 surprise attack on Israel; why a handful of marines and a London taxicab were all Britain had to defend the Falklands; the mistaken intelligence that allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power until the second Iraq War of 2003; the truth behind the US failure to run a terrorist warning system before the 9/11 WTC bombing; and how governments are increasingly pressurising intelligence agencies to 'spin' the party-political line.
Author : Robin Banerjee
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357089403
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Who Blunders and How written by Robin Banerjee and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many big companies—famous brands, once loved and revered—often disappear into oblivion mainly due to their own follies. Look at the once invincible Kodak or the seemingly unfailing Premier Padmini cars. In the unforgiving world of modern business they failed to adapt, only to perish. Many businesses fail to address and wisdom from their trying experiences. Even the infallible Nokia, BlackBerry, Woolworths and Lehman Brothers buckled. Companies such as Bethlehem Steel, Atari, Xerox, NCR, Mafatlal and Kingfisher Airlines this basic truth. Every business is tested for endurance and accomplishment but only a few extract strength once considered as the great ones to emulate, all failed to live up to their repute. Instances of business blunders and bloopers are many. They could include compromising quality to cut costs, lack of professionalism in management, botched up mergers and acquisitions, customers being taken for granted, bad leadership, family squabbles, corporate fraud, unmanageable debts and numerous others. This book will help you understand many famous, frequent and common mistakes committed by businesses over time. The lessons learnt should enable you to run your businesses with lesser hiccups and maximize stakeholder returns.
Author : Rod Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University
ISBN 13 : 9780194371896
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Study of Second Language Acquisition written by Rod Ellis and published by Oxford University. This book was released on 1994 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up to date comprehensive introduction to second language acqusition research. Contains a general framework for the study of second language acquisition, provides a general description of learner language, accounts for the role of the linguistic environment, examines the learner's internal mechanisms, explores individual differences in language learning and reviews the expanding research on classroom second language acquisition.
Author : Melvin Allan Goodman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742551107
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Failure of Intelligence written by Melvin Allan Goodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure of Intelligence is designed to inform the debate over intelligence policy and suggest a reform agenda. The provocative mingling of historical description with contemporary political analysis and reform prescription challenges the conventional wisdom on clandestine collection and ultimately and persuasively asserts that the failure to have diplomatic relations has led to the inability to collect intelligence.
Author : Jennifer Thewissen
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2875584308
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Accuracy Across Proficiency Levels written by Jennifer Thewissen and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a corpus study of the construct of accuracy by learners of English as a Foreign Language based on the International Corpus of Learner English. It offers valuable information about the development of more than forty error types in a wide variety of domains such as grammar, lexis, lexico-grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Author : Nika Purwati et al.
Publisher : LLC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6029126237
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Research in English and Applied Linguistics (REAL) Vol 2: Beautiful World is Seen from the Eyes of Linguists written by Nika Purwati et al. and published by LLC Publishing. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Love
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846282829
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Process Automation Handbook written by Jonathan Love and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-22 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book distils into a single coherent handbook all the essentials of process automation at a depth sufficient for most practical purposes. The handbook focuses on the knowledge needed to cope with the vast majority of process control and automation situations. In doing so, a number of sensible balances have been carefully struck between breadth and depth, theory and practice, classical and modern, technology and technique, information and understanding. A thorough grounding is provided for every topic. No other book covers the gap between the theory and practice of control systems so comprehensively and at a level suitable for practicing engineers.
Author : John Hart Ely
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219591
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book War and Responsibility written by John Hart Ely and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after the signing of the Paris Accords, the constitutional ambiguities of American involvement in the Vietnam War remain unresolved. John Hart Ely examines the overall constitutionality of America's role in Vietnam; and shows that Congress authorized each new phase of American involvement without committing itself to the stated aims of intervention.
Author : Nick Miller
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135006547
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Bilingualism and Language Disability (PLE: Psycholinguistics) written by Nick Miller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society is becoming increasingly multi-lingual and this presents monolingual professionals, particularly those in special education and speech pathology, with severe problems. Is the language delay in a child from a bilingual environment a result of this background or is there a specific speech problem? Is a child’s poor performance in school due to his problems of coping with two languages, or does he need remedial teaching? Originally published in 1984, this book is not concerned with second language learning, but with speech and learning difficulties in bilingual children as they are presented to remedial teachers, psychologists and speech therapists. To this end the first group of specially written articles deals with the patterns of language usage in bilingual communities and the social and psychological factors which shape these patterns; with processes in normal bilingual language acquisition; and with the relationship between cognitive development and growing up with two languages. Management issues and methods involved in helping children with language problems are also tackled: they include taking case histories, family liaison, counselling, bilingual programmes, mother tongue teaching, curriculum development and the training of personnel to work in the bilingual-bicultural field. This book provided a great deal of practical help, in a field that was relatively new at the time of writing, and helped to enlighten readers on the issues involved and assist in crystalising thought and directing future research.
Author : Susan M. Gass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136488790
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Second Language Acquisition written by Susan M. Gass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related disciplines. To reflect current developments, new sections on using learner corpora, semantics and morphosyntax (within formal approaches to SLA), sociocultural approaches, gesture, priming research, and chaos theory have been added. Students will also find expanded discussions of heritage language learning, bilingualism, pragmatics, and much more. The redesigned fourth edition of Second Language Acquisition retains the features that students found useful in the current edition but also provides new pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners. As with previous editions, discussion questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their knowledge, and a glossary defines and reinforces must-know terminology. This clearly-written, comprehensive, and current textbook, by expert Sue Gass, is the ideal textbook for the introductory SLA course in second language studies, applied linguistics, linguistics, TESOL, and language education programs.
Author : Silke Jansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030870634
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Demystifying Bilingualism written by Silke Jansen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular “language myths”, which often manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has consistently modelled the coexistence between languages in the brain using metaphors of struggle, conflict and competition. However, an ideological shift from nationalist and monolingual ideologies to the celebration of bilingualism under multicultural and neoliberal ideologies in the course of the 20th century fostered opposing interpretations of language coexistence in the brain and its effects on bilinguals at different moments in time. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics, Cognitive and Computational Linguistics, and Critical Metaphor Analysis.
Author : Bernard J. Baars
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489911642
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Experimental Slips and Human Error written by Bernard J. Baars and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas most humans spend their time trying to get things right, psycholo gists are perversely dedicated to error. Errors are extensively used to in vestigate perception, memory, and performance; some clinicians study errors like tea leaves for clues to unconscious motives; and this volume presents the work of researchers who, in an excess of perversity, actually cause people to make predictable errors in speech and action. Some reasons for this oddity are clear. Errors seem to stand at the nexus of many deep-psychological questions. The very concept of error presupposes a goal or criterion by comparison to which an error is an error; and goals bring in the foundation issues of control, motivation, and volition (Baars, 1987, 1988; Wiener, 1961). Errors serve to measure the quality of performance in learning, in expert knowledge, and in brain damage and other dysfunctional states; and by surprising us, they often call attention to phenomena we might otherwise take for granted. Errors also seem to reveal the "natural joints" in perception, language, memory, and problem solving-revealing units that may otherwise be invisible (e. g. , MacKay, 1981; Miller, 1956; Newell & Simon, 1972; Treisman & Gelade, 1980).
Author : David Macdonald
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080480195
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Practical Hazops, Trips and Alarms written by David Macdonald and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have trips and safety interlocks in your plant? Are they good enough or are they perhaps over-designed and much more expensive than necessary? Are you or your company aware of how Hazard Studies should define risk reduction requirements? Are you actually using Hazard Studies at all? The answer is the integrated approach to safety management. New international standards combined with well-proven hazard study methods can improve safety management in your company. Practical Hazops, Trips and Alarms for Engineers and Technicians describes the role of hazard studies in risk management, and then proceeds with basic training in Hazop techniques. A number of practical exercises support the reference information and allow you to test your understanding of the material in the book. This book aims to bridge the discipline gap between hazard studies and the provision of safety-related alarm and trip systems. It provides training in hazard and operability methods (Hazops) and in the principles of safety instrumented systems as defined by international standard IEC 61508. Design an integrated safety management system to increase efficiency and reduce costs Learn how to carry out hazard and operability studies (Hazops) and find out how to convert Hazop outputs into safety requirements specifications Implement safety instrumented systems to the new IEC standards (IEC61508)
Author : Melissa A. Redford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119029147
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Speech Production written by Melissa A. Redford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Speech Production is the first reference work to provide an overview of this burgeoning area of study. Twenty-four chapters written by an international team of authors examine issues in speech planning, motor control, the physical aspects of speech production, and external factors that impact speech production. Contributions bring together behavioral, clinical, computational, developmental, and neuropsychological perspectives on speech production to create a rich and truly interdisciplinary resource Offers a novel and timely contribution to the literature and showcases a broad spectrum of research in speech production, methodological advances, and modeling Coverage of planning, motor control, articulatory coordination, the speech mechanism, and the effect of language on production processes
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309314402
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, engineering, and business have rapidly transitioned from striving to develop information from scant data to a situation in which the challenge is now that the amount of information exceeds a human's ability to examine, let alone absorb, it. Data sets are increasingly complex, and this potentially increases the problems associated with such concerns as missing information and other quality concerns, data heterogeneity, and differing data formats. The nation's ability to make use of data depends heavily on the availability of a workforce that is properly trained and ready to tackle high-need areas. Training students to be capable in exploiting big data requires experience with statistical analysis, machine learning, and computational infrastructure that permits the real problems associated with massive data to be revealed and, ultimately, addressed. Analysis of big data requires cross-disciplinary skills, including the ability to make modeling decisions while balancing trade-offs between optimization and approximation, all while being attentive to useful metrics and system robustness. To develop those skills in students, it is important to identify whom to teach, that is, the educational background, experience, and characteristics of a prospective data-science student; what to teach, that is, the technical and practical content that should be taught to the student; and how to teach, that is, the structure and organization of a data-science program. Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data summarizes a workshop convened in April 2014 by the National Research Council's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics to explore how best to train students to use big data. The workshop explored the need for training and curricula and coursework that should be included. One impetus for the workshop was the current fragmented view of what is meant by analysis of big data, data analytics, or data science. New graduate programs are introduced regularly, and they have their own notions of what is meant by those terms and, most important, of what students need to know to be proficient in data-intensive work. This report provides a variety of perspectives about those elements and about their integration into courses and curricula.
Author : Martin J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000334406
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Manual of Clinical Phonetics written by Martin J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection equips readers with a state-of-the-art description of clinical phonetics and a practical guide on how to employ phonetic techniques in disordered speech analysis. Divided into four sections, the manual covers the foundations of phonetics, sociophonetic variation and its clinical application, clinical phonetic transcription, and instrumental approaches to the description of disordered speech. The book offers in-depth analysis of the instrumentation used in articulatory, auditory, perceptual, and acoustic phonetics and provides clear instruction on how to use the equipment for each technique as well as a critical discussion of how these techniques have been used in studies of speech disorders. With fascinating topics such as multilingual sources of phonetic variation, principles of phonetic transcription, speech recognition and synthesis, and statistical analysis of phonetic data, this is the essential companion for students and professionals of phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, clinical linguistics, and communication sciences and disorders.
