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Two families, one in the United States and one in North Korea, proceed through the 20th Century in parallel. Only a momentary chance encounter brings them together, yet those seconds will determine the future of human society. The players, though, have no idea of their place in history. No one does.

Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata, Fifth Edition is the essential reference and guide for researchers in all disciplines who wish to write maximum likelihood (ML) estimators in Stata. Learn about ML estimation and how to write Stata code for a special ML estimator for your own research or for a general-purpose ML estimator.

Dr Bhimrao R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of India''s greatest intellectuals and social reformers; his political ideas continue to inspire and mobilise some of the world''s poorest and most socially disadvantaged, in India and the global Indian diaspora. Ambedkar''s thought on labour, legal rights, women''s rights, education, caste, political representation and the economy are international in importance. This book explores his lesser-known period of London-based study and publication during the early 1920s, presenting that experience as a lens for thinking about Ambedkar''s global intellectual significance. Some of his later canon on caste, and Dalit rights and representation, was rooted in and shaped by his earlier work around the economy, governance, labour and representation during his time as a law student and as a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics. The Indian diaspora in the UK is the country''s single largest national minority. This volume connects Ambedkar''s influence during his lifetime, and his legacy today, to this early phase of his career and intellectual life in London, and its immediate aftermath. It contains new material on the establishment of the city''s Ambedkar Museum, explores Britain''s Ambedkarite movement, and charts the campaign to outlaw caste discrimination in the UK.

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Reuben and Miriam Sassovitch emigrate from Romania to the promised land of the Bronx in the late 1970s. Crafting a new name and hearts brimming with hope, they enroll their only child, Elliott, in public school. Though a virtuoso in chemistry lab, his gifts do not extend to the classrooms, hallways, or streets.His neuroses only deepen with time, nearly costing him his life in New York''s drug underworld. Worse, though, it poisons his bond with a blemished, but magical woman that he pursues across the world. For Elliott, life is one sharp-toothed puncture wound after another, until a flicker of light transforms him. It is a coming-of-age tale, but one that crawls at a snail''s pace. It is also the saga of a love not destined to be that succeeds.

The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia''s Partition ''hotspots'' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition''s ''hinterlands'' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and fieldwork, brings out commonalities, differences, and the mutual co-construction of the ''citizen'' in both places. It also reveals the way in which developments across the border, such as communal violence, could directly impact on minority rights in its neighbour. Questioning stereotypes of an increasingly ''authoritarian'' Pakistan and ''democratic'' India, Sarah Ansari and William Gould make a major contribution to recent scholarship that suggests the differences between India and Pakistan are overstated.

Nature Guiding is the science of inculcating nature enthusiasm, nature principles, and nature facts into the spirit of individuals. "Doing" nature-study means observing, wondering, and solving problems. It could include collecting, building, measuring, painting, planning, writing, touching, experimenting or any of a wide range of other activities. Most importantly, it allows children to be "original investigators." This book is intended as a resource for teachers and students engaged in nature study at summer camps and in schools. William Gould Vinal believed that the teacher of nature study should be "in sympathy with the simple life and the country way," that the nature study should emphasize observation of the interactions of plants and animals in their environment, and not be reduced to matters of taxonomy and anatomy. In Nature Guiding, he offers advice to camp counselors and school teachers on incorporating nature study into everyday activities, as well as suggestions for parents and others about using visits to state and national parks to teach nature lore.

The Mata Book: A Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want to Be is the book that Stata programmers have been waiting for. Mata is a serious programming language for developing small- and large-scale projects and for adding features to Stata. What makes Mata serious is that it provides structures, classes, and pointers along with matrix capabilities. The book is serious in that it covers those advanced features, and teaches them. The reader is assumed to have programming experience, but only some programming experience. That experience could be with Stata''s ado language, or with Python, Java, C++, Fortran, or other languages like them. As the book says, "being serious is a matter of attitude, not current skill level or knowledge". The author of the book is William Gould, who is also the designer and original programmer of Mata, of Stata, and who also happens to be the president of StataCorp.

This is one of the first single-author comparisons of different South Asian states around the theme of religious conflict. Based on new research and syntheses of the literature on ''communalism'', it argues that religious conflict in this region in the modern period was never simply based on sectarian or theological differences or the clash of civilizations. Instead, the book proposes that the connection between religious radicalism and everyday violence relates to the actual (and perceived) weaknesses of political and state structures. For some, religious and ethnic mobilisation has provided a means of protest, where representative institutions failed. For others, it became a method of dealing with an uncertain political and economic future. For many it has no concrete or deliberate function, but has effectively upheld social stability, paternalism and local power, in the face of globalisation and the growing aspirations of the region''s most underprivileged citizens.

Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through ''everyday'' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India. The author moves away from assumptions that the state can primarily be associated with the top levels of government, and looks at citizens'' approaches to local level bureaucracies and police. The central argument of the book is that deeply ''institutionalised'' corruption in India could only have come about through the exercise of particular long term customs of interaction between agencies of the state - government servants and police, and their interactions with local politicians. Because the social hierarchies that condition such interactions are complicated by individual and family connections to state employment, periods of traumatic state transformation lead to a reconfiguration in the meaning of corruption in the local state. Based on principal primary sources and extensive field interviews, this book will be of interest to academics working on political science and Indian and South Asian history.

In 1961, Harold Binder''s dad, Otto, did the unthinkable: defying convention, he abandoned his wife and six-year-old son to go west and take up the life of a cowboy. Now a forty-eight-year-old, successful doctor of medicine, Harold still longs to know his father and yearns to find the real Otto to replace the fantasy figure he''s created in his mind. But as he discovers the bizarre facts of Otto''s existence, personal issues derail Harold''s search. Rejected by his wife Joyce, who has recently learned that he has been having an affair with one of his patients, Harold now lives in a tent on the empty lot across the road from his home on the San Francisco peninsula. During this unsettled time, he gets to know Mario Vogelsang, a friend of his mother''s with an unnerving interest in Harold''s life. Before long, Harold realizes that coming to terms with the past, no matter what it reveals, may be the only way to come to grips with the present. A Little Score to Settle is the story of Harold Binder''s lifelong obsession to uncover what became of his enigmatic father and to find clarity-a clarity that he hopes will spread to all aspects of his life, where once was only shadow and delusion.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

William Gould (1739-1795) was a tenant of Chatsworth estate (Pilsbury, Devonshire), owned by the Duke of Devonshire, and chief land agent of the Welbeck estate (north Nottinghamshire), owned by the Duke of Portland. The diaries cover 1780-1795, detailing the administration of both estates.

Written by the creators of Stata''s likelihood maximization features, Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata, Third Edition continues the pioneering work of the previous editions. Emphasizing practical implications for applied work, the first chapter provides an overview of maximum likelihood estimation theory and numerical optimization methods. With step-by-step instructions, the next several chapters detail the use of Stata to maximize user-written likelihood functions. Various examples include logit, probit, linear, Weibull, and random-effects linear regression as well as the Cox proportional hazards model. The final chapters describe how to add a new estimation command to Stata. Assuming a familiarity with Stata, this reference is ideal for researchers who need to maximize their own likelihood functions. New ml commands and their functions: constraint: fits a model with linear constraints on the coefficient by defining your constraints; accepts a constraint matrix ml model: picks up survey characteristics; accepts the subpop option for analyzing survey data optimization algorithms: Berndt-Hall-Hall-Hausman (BHHH), Davidon-Fletcher-Powell (DFP), Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) ml: switches between optimization algorithms; computes variance estimates using the outer product of gradients (OPG)

In this book William Gould explores what is arguably one of the most important and controversial themes in twentieth-century Indian history and politics: the nature of Hindu nationalism as an ideology and political language. Rather than concentrating on the main institutions of the Hindu Right in India as other studies have done, the author uses a variety of historical sources to analyse how Hindu nationalism affected the supposedly secularist Congress in the key state of Uttar Pradesh. In this way, the author offers an alternative assessment of how these languages and ideologies transformed the relationship between Congress and north Indian Muslims. The book makes a major contribution to historical analyses of the critical last two decades before Partition and Independence in 1947, which will be of value to scholars interested in historical and contemporary Hindu nationalism, and to students researching the final stages of colonial power in India.

Defines basic terminology related to computers and introduces some of their uses, including accessing the World Wide Web.

The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in European waters pursuing Confederate ships constructed in Great Britain and France. Gould’s diary is one of only three known diaries of African American sailors in the Civil War. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone (often deliberately understated and sardonic), but also by its reflections on war, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the war. The book includes introductory chapters that establish the context of the diary narrative, an annotated version of the diary, a brief account of Gould’s life in Massachusetts after the war, and William B. Gould IV’s thoughts about the legacy of his great-grandfather and his own journey of discovery in learning about this remarkable man.

Part of a series, this book looks at the history of the Levi''s company and the characters of the people who founded it. It examines the concept of the business - the great idea that started it and the skills and industry that turned it into the massive concern that it is today.

Introduces basic business concepts, principles, and practices by focusing on Apple Computer, Inc., its background, growth, and success.

Look at this famous company to find the secret of their success. Reveals a remarkable human story, from which the author draws conclusions about the basic features of any business. He explains the importance of people and products, finance and investment, training and research, advertising and selling and many more concepts in terms that everyone can understand.

Look at this famous company to find the secret of their success. Reveals a remarkable human story, from which the author draws conclusions about the basic features of any business. He explains the importance of people and products, finance and investment, training and research, advertising and selling and many more concepts in terms that everyone can understand.

Introduces basic business concepts, using Boeing Corporation as a case study.