Posts under ‘The Book Shelf’

This is the perfect software for people who love reading. I’m sure that many of you must have faced problems such as not being able to find the eBook versions of books which we can’t seem to find in printed versions or which are simply too expensive to buy. In situations as these, we wish that [...]

Wordle
Meaning – a piece of text which has been rearranged into a visual pattern of words. Also referred to as word clouds or text clouds.
Example - 
‘Here’s a wordle of the G20 communique, with support, financial and agreed especially prominent.’

Author : Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern is the same teenage author who has penned amazingly beautiful and imaginative books like “Where Rainbows End” and “If you could see me now”. But her number one bestselling book so far has been the deeply romantic, “P.S. I Love You”. Yes the same book which is the base for [...]

Algid
Meaning – cold or chilly
Example – “a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure”

Fantod
Meaning – A state of nervous irritability; Nervous movements caused by tension.
Example – “Of course, when we cranked the 70-horse Evinrude into life to go ripping to another part of the lake, Mr. (Izaak) Walton might have the fantods.” — Ned Crabb, Bugs, Bass and Loons in Moonlight, The Wall Street Journal (New York), Aug [...]

“The Knowledge Grid is an intelligent and sustainable interconnection environment that enables people and machines to effectively capture, publish, share and manage knowledge resources. It also provides appropriate on-demand services to support scientific research, technological innovation, cooperative teamwork, problem solving, and decision making.”
The above definition of Knowledge Grid is given by Professor Hai Zhuge, China’s [...]

Obscurity
Meaning – not clear, the condition of being unknown; opposite to transparent; hidden motives.
Example – “The obscurity of purpose behind his visit was what confused me”.

Was the secret to Stairway to Heaven’s success the fact that it gave DJs the chance to nip out for a cigarette? That’s the theory of Led Zeppelin biographer Charles R Cross, who claims that 100 radio presenters “literally … swore” that they aired the now classic tune because it was the “perfect length” for [...]

The story of a playboy Communist party official who castrates himself after he is banished to live on a river barge has won celebrated Chinese author Su Tong the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Su, by far the best known of the five shortlisted authors, is the second Chinese writer to win the three-year-old prize, which is [...]

From Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland to JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth, CS Lewis’s Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK’s most enduring literary creations. Now a £2.5m donation from an anonymous private benefactor means the first steps have been taken towards the creation of a [...]