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A powerful, compelling novel from the critically-acclaimed author of I Am Thunder, about making friends, and breaking them too.
Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE's are looming and his teachers just won't let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don't care about any of it. There's no space in Ilyas' life to just be a teenager.
Serving detention one day, Ilyas finds a kindred spirit in Kelly Matthews, who is fed up with being pigeonholed as the good girl, and their friendship blows the social strata of high school wide open. But when Kelly catches the eye of one of the local bad boys, Imran, he decides to seduce her for a bet – and Ilyas is faced with losing the only person who understands him. Standing up to Imran puts Ilyas' family at risk, but it's time for him to be the superhero he draws in his comic-books, and go kick the moon.
Kick the Moon, is Muhammad Khan's explosive second novel, with original comic-book art from Amrit Birdi, bestselling illustrator of Username:Evie.
Is the truth as simple as black and white? Mark My Words is the
searing novel from Branford Boase Award-winner and 2020 World Book
Day author Muhammad Khan, asking who you can trust when all you see
is lies. 'A brilliant and powerful story that kept me on the edge
of my seat. The protagonist is extremely compelling and relatable,
a warrior through and through - you'll root for Dua the entire
way!' - Nikita Gill 'A bold and timely book about protest and
finding your voice.' - The Observer Fifteen-year-old Dua Iqbal has
always had trouble minding her own business. With a silver-tongue
and an inquisitive nature, a career in journalism seems fated. When
her school merges with another, Dua seizes her chance and sets up a
rival newspaper, exposing the controversial stories that teachers
and the kids who rule the school would rather keep buried. Dua's
investigations are digging up things she shouldn't get involved
with about family, friends and her community and as exams rattle
towards her, she needs to make some hard decisions about when to
leave things alone. But when she discovers that some kids at school
are being blamed for selling drugs when the real perpetrator is
right in front of their noses, she can't keep quiet any longer. 'A
voice long overdue in British fiction' - Alex Wheatle on I Am
Thunder 'Khan has created a book steeped in drama and empathy, as
well as providing two iconic superheroes' - Nikesh Shukla on Kick
the Moon
This book presents recent research on the evolution of artificial
neural development, and searches for learning genes. It is
fascinating to see how all biological cells share virtually the
same traits, but humans have a decided edge over other species when
it comes to intelligence. Although DNA decides the form each
particular species takes, does it also account for intelligent
behaviour in living beings? The authors explore the factors that
are perceived as intelligent behaviour in living beings and the
incorporation of these factors in machines using genetic
programming, which ultimately provides a platform for exploring the
possibility of machines that can learn by themselves, i.e. that can
"learn how to learn". The book will be of interest not only to the
specialized scientific community pursuing machine intelligence, but
also general readers who would like to know more about the
incorporation of intelligent behaviour in machines, inspired by the
human brain.
The subject of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is enormously
complex, involving many concepts, probabilities, and signal
processing that are woven together in an intricate manner. To cope
with this scope and complexity, many DSP texts are often organized
around the "numerical examples" of a communication system. With
such organization, readers can see through the complexity of DSP,
they learn about the distinct concepts and protocols in one part of
the communication system while seeing the big picture of how all
parts fit together. From a pedagogical perspective, our personal
experience has been that such approach indeed works well.Based on
the authors' extensive experience in teaching and research, Digital
Signal Processing: a breadth-first approach is written with the
reader in mind. The book is intended for a course on digital signal
processing, for seniors and undergraduate students. The subject has
high popularity in the field of electrical and computer
engineering, and the authors consider all the needs and tools used
in analysis and design of discrete time systems for signal
processing.Key features of the book include:* The extensive use of
MATLAB based examples to illustrate how to solve signal processing
problems. The textbook includes a wealth of problems, with
solutions* Worked-out examples have been included to explain new
and difficult concepts, which help to expose the reader to
real-life signal processing problems* The inclusion of FIR and IIR
filter design further enrich the contents
Fifteen-year-old Muzna Saleem is passionate about writing and dreams of becoming a novelist. There’s just one problem - her super-controlling parents have already planned her life out for her:
Step 1) Get educated
Step 2) Qualify as a doctor
Step 3) Marry a cousin from Pakistan. Oh, and boyfriends are totally haram.
No one is more surprised than humble Muzna when high school hottie, Arif Malik, takes an interest in her. But Arif and his brother are angry at the West for demonizing Islam and hiding a terrible secret. As Arif begins to lead Muzna down a dark path, she faces a terrible choice: keep quiet and betray her beliefs, or speak up and betray her heart?
I Am Thunder is the debut novel from stunning YA voice, Muhammad Khan, which questions how far you'll go to stand up for what you believe.
Script from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics -
General, language: English, abstract: Compiled and edited a
business terms glossary/dictionary for young entrepreneurs and
students, especially keeping the middle eastern market in mind.
Mr. Jalallar's autobiography gives us a unique insight into
Afghanistan's sociopolitical situation and the changes it went
through over the last half century, particularly during the last
thirty or so years. Having served his country under three different
regimes, his view is unique in that he not only witnessed the
changes that swept the country during that time but his accounts
help us see those changes from an entirely different perspective.
With the current turmoil plaguing the country and the pictures we
see in the media the autobiography is a breath of fresh air that
takes us back to a time when the country's leaders were forward
thinking, and focused on the country's advancement into modernity
rather than holding on to backwardness. He sheds light on how his
country, being poor and destitute, struggled toward modernization
by seeking financial aide from the West on one side and from the
USSR on the other. It is a fascinating account that shows how the
country's fragile socioeconomic and political situation on the one
hand and its geographic location, being a neighbor to the USSR, on
the other put the country in a compromising position. It is an eye
opening account of how the country's leadership struggled toward
modernization and yet was unable to balance their relationship to
the dichotomy of push and pull by the West from the one side and
the USSR from the other. The account also sheds light on how the
USSR took advantage of this fragility and invaded the country,
leaving behind decades of war, destruction, and upheaval that is
still yet to settle. In short Mr. Jalallar's autobiography is a
fascinating account of his life experiences as a public servant to
a country during a time when it was looking forward to
modernization and development. By reading the account one gets a
sense that the leadership may have tried too hard too fast to bring
on those changes leading to some not too smart decisions that
instead led the country toward destruction rather than the intended
development. In any event, the reader will find the work and the
person as extraordinary simply because while the country was going
through changes that were of enormous proportions, it chose to at
least keep one pillar in place. That pillar was Mr. Jalallar in his
leadership position as the country's economic face to the world.
Sugarcane is one of the major sugar crops of the world. In
Pakistan, it occupies a significant position in the agricultural
economy. The present investigations were carried out to examine the
genetic variability and contribution of some morphological
characters for cane yield and response of genotypes of sugar cane
toward callus formation, regeneration and screening for virus. The
results pertaining to analysis of variance elucidated highly
significant differences among the accessions for all the traits.
The tissue culture study revealed that at different treatment over
all performance of HSF-247 was better for callus induction and
genotype HSF-242 performed best at 3mg/l of 2, 4-D level. All the
investigation in the correlation study proved quite successful
because a handful increase in cane weight and plant height is
possible as they provide information regarding a suitable
combination of characters with their maximum influence on the
enhancement of cane weight and plant height. The clone will be
selected with such combinations of characters which to give maximum
improvement in their cane yield.
University-industry research collaboration is an essential,
effective and dynamic factor not only for development of social
community but also for the development of the nation. Despite the
enormous importance of this collaboration, there have been certain
problems in successful collaboration, for instance time, trainings,
differences in their perceptions, orientations and goals,
intellectual property right issues, some other technological
competency and fund and financial matters are the key constraints
that generates some how proportional to this collaboration. Thus to
tackle the basis of these problems and to analyze the strength and
weaknesses of these technological linkage, evaluation of such
collaboration is highly demanded. This book mainly focused on the
development of evaluation model, that is not only responsible for
the generation of evaluation metrics based on variables like
constraints, success criteria, evaluation parameters and tangible
outcomes but also highlights the highly influence variables. The
model generated can be utilized for any research collaboration
between university-industry to generate successive evaluation
metrics (Abeda et. al, 2012)
The study showed the prevalence of Salmonella enteritidis and
Salmonella typhimurium from poultry feed, meat and eggs and their
role in the chain of transmission of salmonellae to human beings.
The objective was to generate data to improve the quality of
poultry products and human health awareness. Salmonellosis is one
of the most wide spread food borne zoonoses. The etiological agents
S. enteritidis and S. typhimurium not only produce the disease but
during the convalescent phase remain carriers for indefinite period
of time. In this study 400 samples were tested with Polymerase
chain reaction(PCR) assay. There was no significant difference
between layers feed and broilers feed as far as identification of
salmonella enteritidis and salmonella typhimurium was concerned. It
was found that 16%, 8%, 16% and 16% egg albumin was found positive
for Salmonella enteritidis in layer egg albumin, Desi (local breed)
egg albumin, double yolk albumin and broken egg albumin,
respectively. The histo-pathology of different organs of broiler
chickens at different phases of disease was also conducted for the
better understanding of pathogenesis due to salmonellosis.
Hepatitis is a common liver disease. It is caused by hepatitis C
virus (HCV). It has a long history in humans. Jaundice is common
symptom associated with hepatitis, was first described in 5th
century BC by Hippocrates. Documentation of outbreaks of hepatitis
dates back centuries. Despite speculation in the early twentieth
century that hepatitis could be caused by an infectious agent, it
took several decades and the development of more sophisticated
methods of research and technology, scientists first identified the
hepatitis A, B, C, viruses. These discoveries were facilitated by
the recognition that many blood transfusion recipients developed
hepatitis.
The purpose of this project is to identify and analysis the ways of
increasing the volume of FDI in Pakistan. The whole work consists
of two different approaches. The first approach is the
identification of the main barrier to invest in Pakistan. In this
section, the researcher is looking for the reasons why Pakistan is
not making full use of its investment potential. Is it because of
the ineffectiveness of Government promotion and facilitation or
because of a difficult investment? Can the political and economic
situation be considered stable in Pakistan? Does the inefficiency
of the legal system establish negative impacts on the investment
climate of Pakistan? What is the level of corrupt bureaucracy, and
security situation and how does Pakistan take to improve the
investment climate in the country? On the basis of such analysis,
the researcher makes recommendations to Pakistan on how it can
reduce the barriers to increased inward FDI volume.
T S Eliot is known for his typical critical concepts in literature.
Writing on Eliot was not an easy task, nonetheless I, as a student
of literature, have tried to express myself on the use and practice
of the indigenous ideas like 'impersonality of poetry' and
'literary tradition' in an academic setting. I hope this will help
especially young students understand Eliot in a better way and will
also help and encourage me to read and work more on the writers of
his class. Eliot can be termed as 'Mirza Ghalib' regarding
sophistication and difficulties of his poetic expressions; every
time you read them, you find yet new meanings and themes between
the same lines. this timeless quality does not let them get
obsolete and this is what will keep pulling the attention of
researchers of every age to work on them from newer angles. I
gladly welcome esuggestions to improve upon my work. I thank
Lambert Academic Publishers for honouring me with publication.
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