Book Review: "Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal 1814-87"

Sir James Paget (1814-1894).

Sir James Paget (Fig. 1) formed with William Fergusson (1808–1862) and Sir Benjamin Brodie (1783–1762) a triumvirate of surgical ‘greats’ in England in the nineteenth century w1x. Paget was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, and until 20 yr of age had not ventured further than a few miles from his birthplace. His father, Samuel, was a prosperous businessman who unfortunately went bankrup...

Book Review: The Teaching Gap by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert

Whose Homeland? Territoriality and Religious Nationalism in Pre-partition Bengal

Scholarly inquiries into communalism in South Asia have often exclusively focused on politically constructed religious and ethnic identity categories. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that territoriality and the designation of homelands played an important, but largely unrecognized, role in developing social and political boundaries in the region. By analyzing the writings o...

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Book Review: Speech and Language Processing (second edition) Daniel Jurafsky and Martin, H. James

Speech and Language Processing is a general textbook on natural language processing, with an excellent coverage of the area and an unusually broad scope of topics. It includes statistical and symbolic approaches to NLP, as well as the main methods of speech processing. I would rank it as the most appropriate introductory and reference textbook for purposes such as an introductory fourth-year un...