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    But this attitude is a relatively recent development in the sweep of history. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack — a former Presidential Speechwriter for Bill Clinton, and winner of the world pun championship — explains how punning revolutionized language and made possible the rise of modern civilization. Integrating evidence from history, pop culture, literature, comedy, science, business and everyday life, this book will make readers reconsider everything they think they know about puns.

    An exceptionally accessible book+audio (CD) course for beginning-level learners of Korean, helping them gain practical communication skills.

    So why aren't students laser-focused on taking practice exams before attempting the real thing? Reflects the current PMP exam format and the PMBOK(r) Guide - Fifth Edition! The practice tests in this book are designed to help students adjust to the pace, subject matter, and difficulty of the real Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. Geared towards anyone preparing for the exam, all tests include clear solutions to help you understand core concepts. If you plan on passing the PMP exam, it's time to test your knowledge. It's time for PMP Exam Prep - Questions, Answers, & Explanations. Now packed with Over 1,000 realistic PMP sample questions to help you pass the exam on your FIRST try. In this book: 1000+ detailed PMP exam practice questions including 18 condensed PMP mock exams that can be completed in one hour; 11 Targeted PMBOK Knowledge Area tests, and detailed solution sets for all PMP questions which include clear explanations and wording, PMBOK Knowledge Area and page references, and reasoning based on the PMBOK Guide - Fifth Edition. Includes FREE PMP exam formula reference sheet! ** For PMP exams AFTER March 2018 **

    

    It emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the subject and examples have been drawn from various engineering disciplines to illustrate the basic system concepts. In particular, the book deals with the modeling of practical systems involving various hardware. Time and frequency domain techniques of the analysis and design of control systems have been discussed at length. Consisting of 16 chapters, this new edition has been improved by the addition of numerous real-world examples, and by the inclusion of PID controller design, a comparison table of long/lead compensators, industrial OPAMP compensating networks and a design example using root-locus technique."Control Systems Engineering 5e" is an outstanding text book which can be used at advanced undergraduate or post graduate level on diverse courses within the broad scope of engineering and will be a valued addition to any engineering library.

    She lost her parents at a young age of ten and then she lost her property to her uncle and aunt who now treat her as the maid of the house. As if life hadn’t snatched enough from her, that she lost her only dream when her uncle sold her to be the wife of a heartless man. Emily’s life took a huge turn when she became ‘His Purchased Wife.’ LK in the business world is short for Liam Knight. A Heartthrob king, who has achieved a lot of fame and controversies at a young age of twenty four. An egoistic hunk who will purchase Emily just to satisfy his ego and to take revenge from her. Hiding a big secret from others. Will Emily and Liam fall in love? Why is Emily being purchased by Liam? What’s Liam’s secret? "You’re such a bitch! I will not leave you this time.” I hear my cousin, Tia’s, angry voice and I begin to shiver in fear. I don’t know what I have done today to make her so angry but now it has become my daily routine to face the anger of Tia. No one, literally no one stops her when she beats me so bad. Once she nearly broke my ribs and still no one came to my rescue to protect me, I am just a waste in this house. Tia starts pulling my hair, “You whore.” I look into her eyes and all I see is disgust and hatred towards me. “You bitch; again because of you I had a breakup. What’s so special in you that everyone wants to make you their girlfriend?” I am not the reason that her boyfriends ditch her, she herself is the reason. Who would like to be the boyfriend of this whore who loves them for their bank balance? I want to shout all this to her face but here I am the weak one. Soon my aunt walks into the room, Tia is still pulling my hair and my aunt looks at me with same disgust Tia does. “Tia baby what happened? Why are you making your hand dirty by pulling her hair?” Wow! Great! Here, my aunt is worrying about her daughter’s hand which will get dirty after touching me instead of feeling bad for my pain which her daughter is giving me by pulling on my hair so harshly. “You know mom, Jacob ditched me just because of her. He said that my sister is more beautiful than me. It’s the fifth time that my boyfriend has ditched me because of her. This time I will not leave her alone.” Saying this Tia throws me against the wall and place her hands around my throat choking me. She starts pressing my throat harshly with an evil smirk on her face. I feel suffocated. It feels like I will die in a minute. Big fat tears stream down from my eyes due to pain and suffocation. “Lee...ave...Leave...meeee” I request Tia to leave me as the pain is enough. I don’t know for how long I would be able to survive this torture. “Leave her Tia and it’s an order.” Tia leaves me hearing the order and I fall on the ground breathing heavily, my face filled with tears due to Tia’s torture. “What is this Dad? Why did you stop me from murdering this Bitch?” She looks in my direction and throws a killing glare. Even I am shocked as, in this family no one cares for me. So why today did my uncle save me from his princess’s wrath? “You can take your revenge from her later princess” he says lovingly to Tia then glares in my direction. “And you, Emily. I need you to be ready in next thirty minutes. Mr.

    The objective of the book is to help students understand the architecture, programming, and interfacing of commercially available programmable DSP devices, and to effectively use them in system implementations. Throughout the book, the authors utilize a popular family of DSP devices, viz., TMS320C54xx from Texas Instruments. In the end, students will be comfortable in using both hardware and software for designing with the programmable DSP devices.

    These essays, which found a well-deserved home within the pages of Reader's Digest as the column "My Planet," detail the inner workings of hypochondriacs, hoarders, and compulsive cheapskates. (Did we mention neurotic interior designers and professional list-makers?) For Roach, humor is hidden in the most unlikely places, which means that nothing is off limits. Whether she is dwelling on her age or talking about the pros and cons of a bedroom night light -- "A married couple can best be defined as a unit of people whose sleep habits are carefully engineered to keep each other awake" -- Roach finds a lesson, a slice of sarcasm, or a dash of something special that makes each day comical and absolutely priceless.In keeping with our mission -- curating the best reads in the land -- Reader's Digest editors neatly packaged these timeless (and hilarious) Roach essays together for the first time. Whether you read this cover-to-cover or during spare moments over morning coffee, flip to a page in this volume and try not to smile.

    This is the English village of Fairacre: a handful of thatch-roofed cottages, a church, the school, the promise of fair weather, friendly faces, and good cheer -- at least most of the time. Here everyone knows everyone else's business, and the villagers like each other anyway (even Miss Pringle, the irascible, gloomy cleaner of Fairacre School). With a wise heart and a discerning eye, Miss Read guides us through one crisp, glistening autumn in her village and introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters and a world of drama, romance, and humor, all within a stone's throw of the school. By the time winter comes, you'll be nestled snugly into the warmth and wit of Fairacre and won't want to leave.

    Dating my best friend's little sister...Why not?I'm the boss.Cassidy wasn't what I remembered from twenty years ago.But we were just kids then.I guess we've both changed.But she's working for me now.And as much as I want to dominate her...She probably still sees me as a jerk.The situation screams do not touch.But I've always been the one to break rules.

    This title provides essential practice in all four modules of the IELTS examination: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.

    They travel where they will and take to themselves humans to be their eternal companions.One such creature, a vampire with the appearance of a young man, finds himself in a small, dusty town in Ohio in 1837. There the Blood Moon, an ancient force spoken only in legends, forces him to take an unwilling young woman as his eternal companion. They are bound by their blood relationship, and he must now protect her as her Blood Guardian against those who seek to do them harm.The first part to the four-part Young Adult paranormal romance Blood Guardians series. The first part is set in the United States of the 1830s.