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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour
Everyone wanted to make money in Indian stock
market................... So did Jai, a 44 year rich individual,
with academic and dreamy temperament, who entered stock market in
August 2005 and found himself staring at money running on computers
with help of internet...... Within a short span, he found himself
changing from an investor to a trader to speculator. May 2006,
Sensex crash, and he lost almost all the money earned during 8
months in 10 days. His active academic brain found the key to price
movement of stocks & Idices, which he called Sensex - Nifty
code All one needed was simple mathematical calculations and laws
of speculation to navigate the choppy waves of stock market. He
kept on making & losing money with help of young dealers, till
he found himself at the last leg of bull rally from October 2007-
January 2008...... He knew, he had to abandon stock-market before
it abandoned him. The book is an entertaining blow by blow account
of first speculative boom & bust cycle in Indian stock market
during computer trading era, with mathematical calculations that
were used to take stocks and indices to dizzying heights and ended
in inevitable bust in a precise manner. And, only survivor can tell
the tale without any hesitation.
An entertaining mini novel designed to keep your attention from the
opening scene of the na ve young pregnant army wife on a train
going to surprise her husband at Camp Rigby. Meanwhile the plot
thickens as the supernatural forces of evil verses good clash in
the heavens. Added descriptions of angels never seen before and the
humor of the baby talking from the womb entice the reader. A
healthy splash of military leadership and problem solving is
refreshing in our world of today. Ultimately the reader is rewarded
with a life changing serendipity experience as they discover My
Father The Mid-Wife. WHAT THE READERS ARE SAYING "I could not stop
reading 'My Father The Mid-Wife', I was so intrigued, and I wanted
to know what was going to happen next." M.M. - Indiana "This is the
most unique writing style I have ever seen. It stands apart from
all others. As the plot unfolds in 'My Father The Mid-Wife' it
feels as if you are present in the story." S. B. - Florida "The
book 'My Father The Mid-Wife' is an easy, uplifting read that
leaves you wanting to hear more. It is a great gift for changing
someone's life." T. S. - North Carolina "What a multi-faceted
story. 'My Father The Mid-Wife' is headed for 'The Best Seller
List'." S. H. -Tennessee
Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are
highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to (the
detection, resolution, and emotional elaboration of) incongruities,
understood as semantic violations through unexpected combinations
of oppositional information. However, theoretical and experimental
comparisons between humor and resolvable incongruities that elicit
other emotions than exhilaration have been lacking so far. To gain
more insights into the linguistic differences between humor and
horror and the cognitive real-time processing of both, a main
concern of this book is to discuss the transferability of
linguistic humor theories to a systematic horror investigation and
directly compare self-paced reading times (SPR), facial actions
(FACS), and event-related brain potentials (ERP) of normed minimal
quadruplets with frightening and humorous incongruities as well as
(in)coherent stimuli. The results suggest that humor and horror
share cognitive resources to detect and resolve incongruities. To
better distinguish humor from neighboring phenomena, this book
refines current humor theories by incorporating humor and horror in
a cognitive incongruity processing model.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Having spent 25 years as climbing bum, paid for by bouts of time
spent as a university technician, Vic found himself fighting a
different world: his very own pulmonary embolism in both lungs. The
doctors are baffled and can't understand why your man is in their
intensive care ward. On the long road to recovery, Vic recounts
some of the many odd and hilarious climbing stories which marked
his way to the doctors and nurses of University College London
Hospital. As the silent and unseen internal blood clots dissolve,
the realisation of challenges of harsh vertical winter routes in
Scotland, the Alps and British Sea cliffs plus London's transport
pollution have to be left behind. On a chance recommendation: 'the
air in Ireland is clean and it hardly ever rains, well hardly
ever'. The author exchanges his world for one of science based
academic career in Dublin and a new life in Ireland. On a very wet
day in Dublin the true love Trish comes passing by and they married
on a warm summer's day. They now spend their new lives on the
island of Crete, where they explore the eastern Mediterranean and
travel through the Euro-zone back to the British Isle's and Ireland
to visit family and beloved friends: happy ever after. Not so.
Today's (2010-2013) austerity: brought about by the European
bankers and politicians, desk clerks, managers, security measures
and incompetent airport authorities, all have made travel difficult
and arduous. Long gone are the days when you could drive across
Europe and Asia to the Far East and onto Australia. This is a book
of climbing horror stories and misplaced faith in the travel
industries. Friends cannot believe the troubles they have
encountered but dreams do some times turn in to nightmares
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