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Water management and paddy production in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka / by Chambers, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Neglect of water management 2. Scope purpose and values 3. The context : the dry zone and paddy production 4. …”

On paper : the everything of its two-thousand-year history / by Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Table of Contents: “…Common bond -- Goddess by the stream -- Road trip -- Rags to riches -- Rolling on the river -- One and done -- Fiery consequences -- Papers, please -- Hard copy -- Metamorphosis -- Face value -- On paper -- Things unknown -- The drawing board -- Sleight of hand -- In the mold -- At the crossroads -- Elegy in fragments.…”

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ ගැසට් පත්‍රය - අතිවිශේෂ : අංක 1910/2 - 2015.04.16 -...

The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - Extraordinary :No.1910/2 - 16.04.2015 இலங்கைச் சனநாயக சோசலிசக் குடியரசு வர்த்தமானப் பத்திரிகை - அதி விசேஷமானது : இலக்கம் - 1910/2 - 16.04.2015

Table of Contents: “…Government Notifications - Value added tax act no.14 of 2002.…”

The challenge to Buddhism / H. G. A. Van Zeyst. by Zeyst, H. G. A. Van

Table of Contents: “…Buddhism and its role in politics 3. Are economic values relevant? 4. The basis of Science 5. Can we rise above morality? …”

The challenge to Buddhism / H. G. A. Van Zeyst. by Zeyst, H. G. A. Van

Table of Contents: “…Buddhism and its role in politics 3. Are economic values relevant? 4. The basis of Science 5. Can we rise above morality? …”

Opening the door of your heart and other Buddhist tales of happiness by Brahmawanso himi, Ajahn

Table of Contents: “…The mind and reality. 09. Values and the spiritual life. 10. Freedom and humility. 11. …”

කළමනාකරණ ගිණුම්කරණ මූලධර්ම : පළමු කොටස

Kalamanakarana ginumkarana muladharma

by වීරසිංහ, ප්‍රදීප් නීල්

Table of Contents: “…ප්‍රාග්ධන අයෛා්ජන තිරණ ගැනිම 8. Present value chart…”

Death / by Kagan, Shelly

Table of Contents: “…Thinking about death -- Dualism vs. physicalism -- Arguments for the existence of the soul -- Descartes' argument -- Plato on the immortality of the soul -- Personal identity -- Choosing between the theories -- The nature of death -- Two surprising claims about death -- The badness of death -- Immortality -- The value of life -- Other aspects of death -- Living in the face of death -- Suicide -- Conclusion: an invitation.…”

Owning our future : the emerging ownership revolution / by Kelly, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…. : extractive design -- The community bank : generative design -- Wall street : capital markets on autopilot -- Overload : the expanding house of claims -- Collapse : the eroding middle-class base -- Returning to earth -- Ecological values as the seedbed of a generative economy -- Waking up : from maximizing profits to sustaining life -- The island : from growth to sufficiency -- Bringing forth a world : from individualism to community -- Creating living companies -- The five core elements of generative ownership design -- Living purpose : creating the conditions for life -- Rooted membership : ownership in living hands -- Mission-controlled governance : humans at the helm -- Stakeholder finance : capital as friend -- Ethical networks : reinforcing shared values -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.…”

Tea and poverty : plantations and the political economy of Sri Lanka by Dawood, Nawaz

Table of Contents: “…Survey of the plantation economy 2. Strategic value & consolidation of colonial power 3. Import of goods and commodity exports 4. …”

Sinhalese Village /

Table of Contents: “…Secularization in culture and values 11. Secularization : Patterned process…”

Somebody's children : the politics of transracial and transnational adoption / by Briggs, Laura

Table of Contents: “…African American children and adoption, 1950-1975 -- The making of the Indian Child Welfare Act, 1922-1978 -- "Crack babies", race, and adoption reform, 1975-2000 -- From refugees to madonnas of the Cold War -- Uncivil wars -- Latin American family values -- Gay and lesbian adoption in the United States -- Epilogue: U.S. immigrants : the next fight over race, adoption, and foster care?…”
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Stories of Birds and Beasts : translated from the jataka or birth-stories of the Buddha by Tripitaka. Sutrapitaka. Khuddakanikaya. Jataka

Table of Contents: “…The virture Gratitude (or story of the grateful lion) 7. The value of friends in life (or story of the Hawk and She-Hawk, Osprey, Tortoise and Lion) 8. …”

Reinvent : a leader's playbook for serial success / by Hassan, Fred

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- Foreword -- Author's note -- Introduction -- Unleashing the power of me -- Be authentic -- Be purposeful -- Be connected -- Unleashing the power of we -- Keep leading -- Role model your expectations -- Keep winning -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Serial success playbook summary -- Appendix B: The concepts behind my playbook -- Appendix C: Values matter -- Appendix D: Bausch + Lomb's rating system descriptors -- Appendix E: Guidelines for expat managers -- Appendix F: Stepping-stones to transformation -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.…”

Tea planting & its history by Abeywicrama, Somadasa

Table of Contents: “…Scientific Tea growing 9. Medicinal values of tea 10. Ceylon planters association 11. …”

Essential medical statistics / by Kirkwood, Betty R.

Table of Contents: “…Using this book -- Defining the data -- Displaying the data -- Means, standard deviations and standard errors -- The normal distribution -- Confidence interval for a mean -- Comparison of two means : confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and P-values -- Using P-values and confidence intervals to interpret the results of statistical analyses -- Comparison of means from several groups : analysis of variance -- Linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression -- Goodness of fit and regression diagnostics -- Transformations -- Probability, risk and odds (of disease) -- Proportions and the binomial distribution -- Comparing two proportions -- Chi-squared tests for 2 x 2 and larger contingency tables -- Controlling for confounding : stratification -- Logistic regression : comparing two or more exposure groups -- Logistic regression : controlling for confounding and other extensions -- Matched studies -- Longitudinal studies, rates and the Poisson distribution -- Comparing rates -- Poisson regression -- Standardization -- Survival analysis : displaying and comparing survival patterns -- Regression analysis of survival data -- Likelihood -- Regression modelling -- Relaxing model assumptions -- Analysis of clustered data -- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Bayesian statistics -- Linking analysis to study design : summary of methods -- Calculation of required sample size -- Measurement error : assessment and implications -- Measures of association and impact -- Strategies for analysis -- Appendix : statistical tables.…”

Religion and development in Asian Societies : papers presented at the Seminar on Religion and Development in Asian Societies.

Table of Contents: “…Thai Buddhism and national development / Sulak Sivaraksa. 5. Asian religious values and development / Joseph J. Spae. 6. Religious, reaction and change from a Christian perspective / Charles Elliot. 7. …”

සංචාරක ආර්ථිකයට රට සූදානම් කිරීම

Samcharaka Arthikayakata rata sudanam kirima

by ගනේවත්ත, ශ්‍යාම් නුවන්

Table of Contents: “…සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරයට යුක්තිය ඉටුවීය, චීන සංචාරක වෙළදපොළ, සංචාරක පහසුකම් වැඩිකරන අතරම සංචාරක ස්ථානත් වැඩිකර ගත යුතුයි, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එන චීන සංචාරකයින් මේ රටට නැවත එන්න කැමැත්තක් දක්වනවා, ආසියානු මධ්‍යම පන්තියේ සංචාරක පාරාදීසිය, අපේ සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයේ තිරසාර සංවර්ධනය ආර්ථික විද්‍යාත්මක ඇසින්, Sri lanka Tourism numbers and value,…”

Contextual pricing : the death of list price and the new reality / by Docters, Robert G.

Table of Contents: “…The journey from product to context -- Context and the death of list price -- Why value matters less with competition -- Which contexts matter to you? …”