BEFORE HE WAS GOD RAMAYANA: Reconsidered Recreated

Ram Varma If the killing of a swan occasioned the birth of poetry in Valmiki's heart, It was the wanton despoilation of his pristine poem, Ramayana, during Puranic times which kindled the sparks of wrath in Ram Varma's heart, which resulted in his book.

Millions of people in India and elsewhere believe that Rama, the hero of Valmiki''s ancient Sanskrit epic, Ramayana, was a historical figure like jesus Christ, and Valmiki''s timeless epic, like the New Testament, a faithful account of Rama''s life, his trials, tribulations and triumph.

ISBN: 9788129116161
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ART

Clive Bell (1881-1964), an English art critic, was best known for promoting his theory of formalism. He was a philosopher who defended abstract art and was a member of the Bloomsbury School.

In this book the noted British art critic, Clive Bell, has tried to develop the complete theory of visual art. He has advanced a hypothesis by reference to which the history of art from palaeolithic days to the present becomes intelligible. Anyone who is curious to discover why we call a Persian carpet or a fresco by Piero della Francesco a work of art, will find an answer here.

ISBN: 8171677266
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Business Process Transformation

This book provides a rich set of conceptual, empirical, and introspective studies that characterize fundamental knowledge in the area of Business Process Transformation. It covers the core challenges organizations face in their journey to higher degrees of process orientation. Processes are interpreted broadly to include operational and managerial processes within and between organizations, as well as those involved in knowledge generation.

The editors and contributing authors pay close attention to the role of IS organizations and information technologies in facilitating business process transformation. Each chapter places major emphasis on clearly articulating the “knowledge” generated, both theoretical and applied. The book incorporates case studies and tables throughout, and provides fundamental grounding for the postgraduate students of management and professionals.

Author: GROVER, VARUN, Markus, M. Lynne
ISBN: 9788120340565
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Insight Into Wavelets : From Theory To Practice

K. P. SOMAN (Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur) is Head, Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He has published over 125 papers in international journals and conferences. His areas of interest include high performance computing, Machine learning, wavelet transform, Computational Linear Algebra, Theory of Convex Optimization and Software Defined Radio. Dr Soman has co-authored two other books, Insight into Data Mining: Theory and Practice and Machine Learning with SVM and other Kernel Methods, both published by PHI Learning.

N.G. RESMI (M.Tech.) is a Research Associate in Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. Her primary research interests are wavelet theory and kernel methods.

K. I. RAMACHANDRAN (Ph.D., IIT Madras) is Professor, Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He has published several papers in national and international journals and has also co-authored a book. His research interests include computational fluid mechanics, non-linear dynamics, virtual instrumentation, wavelets and fractals.

This book in its third edition additionally explores how the ubiquitous electronic spreadsheet can be utilized for wavelet based signal and image processing. Many of the intriguing properties of wavelet and scaling functions can be easily observed in the spreadsheets.

New to this Edition :

• Inclusion of a separate and elaborate chapter on Multiwavelet theory.

• Theory of parametric wavelet filters design appended in respective chapters.

• Parametric and non-parametric biorthogonal wavelet design explained in more detail.

• Chapter on M-band wavelet included with simplified design procedures.

The accompanying CD contains worksheets that demonstrate the power of spreadsheet packages as a computational and visualization tool.

ISBN: 9788120340534
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Mergers And Acquisitions : Strategy, Valuation And Integration

KAMAL GHOSH RAY (PhD, AICWA) is Director and Professor of Finance and Risk Management, Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad. Earlier, he worked as CEO, Sapphire Global Finance, and Segment Controller, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). He has also occupied senior positions in other reputed organizations. Dr. Ray was a Visiting Professor at Groupe ESC Dijon Bourgogne (Burgundy School of Business), Dijon, France. He has presented papers on M & As at various conferences—in MIT; Syracuse University, New York; and a number of forums in India. Besides, he has presented research papers at various conferences in the UK, Australia and other countries and has published several articles in journals of international repute.

During the last couple of decades or so, mergers and acquisitions (M & As) have assumed great importance. Giant corporations and big multinational enterprises (MNEs) are constantly on the lookout for acquiring big or small companies to increase their wealth and become even bigger global giants. It is in this context that a comprehensive book on M & As such as the one authored by Professor Kamal Ghosh Ray becomes so significant.

This well-balanced and well-researched text is a harmonious blend of theoretical concepts and practical aspects on mergers and acquisitions. The book begins with an analysis of the causes of and strategic approaches to M & As. Then it goes on to give a detailed discussion on the valuation aspects—valuing the enterprise, business, brands, goodwill, HR and customer relationships, valuing synergy, valuing of private sector companies and family business besides dealing with business valuation standards in USA and India. Finally, the book concludes with a comprehensive coverage of accounting for the legal aspects of and integration in mergers and acquisitions. The text is profusely illustrated with examples, tables and case studies.

Intended as a text for PG students of management, this book would also be of immense value to students of chartered accountancy, cost accountancy and company secretaryship. In addition, it would appeal to a broad spectrum of professionals ranging from strategic planners, CFOs, CEOs, COOs, financial analysts, bankers, venture capitalists, to portfolio managers and entrepreneurs. Finally, the book would be treasured by anyone who is interested in Mergers and Acquisitions—an increasingly topical subject.

ISBN: 9788120339750
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The Mahabharata: Volume 1

The Mahabharata is one of the greatest stories ever told. Though the basic plot is widely known, there is much more to the epic than the dispute between the Kouravas and Pandavas that led to the battle in Kurukshetra. It has innumerable sub-plots that accommodate fascinating meanderings and digressions, and it has rarely been translated in full, given its formidable length of 80,000 shlokas or couplets. This magnificent 10- volume unabridged translation of the epic is based on the Critical Edition compiled at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.

Volume 1 consists of most of Adi Parva, in which much happens before the Kouravas and the Pandavas actually arrive on the scene. This volume covers the origins of the Kuru clan; the stories of Poushya, Poulama and Astika; the births of the Kouravas and the Pandavas; the house of lac; the slaying of Hidimba and Baka; Droupadi’s marriage; and ends with the Pandavas obtaining their share of the kingdom.

Every conceivable human emotion figures in the Mahabharata, the reason why the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. In this lucid, nuanced and confident translation, Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellouly accessible to contemporary readers.

Author: Bibek Debroy
ISBN: Penguin Books India
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Home Boy

H.M. Naqvi was born in 1974. A graduate of Georgetown and the creative writing program at Boston University, he has worked in finance, run a spoken word venue, and taught creative writing at B.U. He has received a Lannan fellowship, a Phelam Prize, and has read verse on NPR and BBC, and at Lollapalooza. Presently, he resides in Krachi.

They are renaissance men. They are boulevardiers. They are three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn-of-the-millennium: AC, a gangsta rap-spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun deejay from the streets of Jersey City; and Chuck, a wide-eyed, off-the-boat kid, searching for himself and the American Dream. In a city where origins matter less than the talent for self-invention, three Metrostanis have the guts to claim the place as their own.

But when they embark on a road trip to the hinterland weeks after 9/11 in search of the Shaman, a Gatsbyesque compatriot who seemingly disappears into thin air, things go horribly wrong. Suddenly, they find themselves in a changed, charged America.

Rollicking, bittersweet and sharply observed, Home Boy is at once an immigrant''s tale, a mystery, a story of love and loss as well as a unique meditation on Americana and notions of collective identity. It announces the debut of an original, electrifying voice in contemporary fiction.

ISBN: 9778817223840
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A Break In The Circle

Sharmila Kantha leads a peripatetic life as the wife of an Indian diplomat, while retaining her roots in Patna. Her previous publications include a novel, Just the Facts, Madamji (Indialog, 2002), a work of non-fiction, Building India with Partnership: The Story of CII 1895-2005 (Penguin, 2006), and two picture books for children (Children’s Book Trust). Currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka with her husband and son, she is also consultant to a leading industry association.

Kallu chacha has to arrange his daughter’s marriage. Amma has to prevent Nanni from becoming a model. Nisha mausi has to prepare for her daughter’s engagement. Gautam is visiting Patna for some mysterious purpose. The maid is pregnant again. Srijana is buying a goat. And an unknown professor is returning to Patna after twenty years.

Anuradha has to deal with these and other events in her life where everyday compulsions of expectation, duty and responsibility leave her little time for reflection and selfdiscovery. As she strikes up an unexpected online contact with the mysterious professor from America, Anu begins to see life through his eyes and becomes increasingly distanced from the world around her.

Set in small-town India, A Break in the Circle explores the relationship of an individual with her society in an India that israpidly changing, yet unable to let go of its roots.

ISBN: 9788172239312
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The Environment Emergency

TE RI is headquartered in New Delhi, India, and has several offices in various part of the country. TERI has international presence through its offices in North America in Washington, DC; TERI Europe in London; TERI South East Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; TERI Japan in Tokyo; TERI Gulf Centre in Dubai; and TERI Africa in Addis Abada, Ethipia.

The Environment Emergency is a unique compilation of discourses by the world’s most influential policy-makers and thinkers on the most critical issues that define our era: the environment, climate change, and the need for sustainable development. It is a collection of authoritative contributions on the possible strategies, solutions, and prospects, offered by leaders from around the world. It is hoped that widespread circulation and reading of this book by a range of interested individuals will galvanize informed discussion and renewed resolve to take strategic action to address the ramifications of climate change.

ISBN: 9788179932698
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Auditing and Assurance

VARSHA AINAPURE is Lecturer, Department of Accountancy, Nagindas Khandwala College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai University. She has a teaching experience of more than 20 years and is also a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). She has co-authored more than 15 books on Book-keeping, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Cost Accounting, Direct and Indirect Taxes and Auditing.

Whether it is a balance sheet of a company, a cinema hall, or of a school; auditing evaluates all! This comprehensive book, now in its second edition, is a compendium of a textbook; a handbook of Auditing Standards; a question bank, and a compilation of model answers.

This text is organized in four parts. Part 1 (Principles) enunciates the standards and the concepts, which form the bases of auditing. Part 2(Process) provides a stepwise description of the auditing process, adopted by the auditors while performing audit engagements. Part 3 (Performance) deals with the auditing engagement and shows how the verification of financial elements such as receipts, payments, purchases, sales, assets and liabilities is conducted. Part 4 (Practice) demonstrates the practical aspects of audits of specific entities such as private limited companies, charitable trusts, hospitals and so on.

This book is primarily intended for the students of Chartered Accountancy (appearing for the CA-PCC examination), Cost Accounting, Company Secretary, and postgraduate students of Finance and Accounting. Apart from that, the book is also useful for the practising Chartered Accountants and Financial officers of companies, as a reference handbook.

ISBN: 9788120339910
Published by: VARSHA AINAPURE

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Sap Hr Om, Pd And Training : Technical Reference And Learning Guide

P. K. AGRAWAL is a Program Manager at Tata Technologies Limited, Pune. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and his Postgraduate diploma in Industrial Engineering from NITIE, Mumbai.

He has over 30 years of experience in several areas of Industrial Engineering and Information Technology. He has several publications to his credit includ-ing two papers each in International Journal of Production Research and European Journal of Operational Research. He has written the following books on SAP HR:

This book explains all the concepts underpinning the Organizational Management (OM), Personnel Development (PD) and Training and Event Management modules of SAP HR. It is a comprehensive technical manual which explains every single node of the User Menu and the Configuration. The book first gives an overview of a concept explaining what it is, how it is used and how it relates to the other concepts. It then explains its properties, which are fields in a configuration node.

This book is designed to be used both as a reference manual and a learning guide. As a learning guide, it offers four views, each for a different target audience.

It can be read from the Senior Management’s perspective to gain a broad understanding of the subject and what SAP can do for them.

Business Process Owners can achieve a higher level of understanding by getting to know more of SAP concepts and how to perform different tasks in SAP.

Users can acquire a thorough understanding of different tasks and concepts underlying them.

Functional consultants and proficient users can read the book to gain a complete understanding of the system.

As a technical reference, the book can be used to locate the relevant material through the Table of Contents, Index, ‘SAP Menu’ and ‘SAP Customizing Implementation Guide (IMG)’. The last two follow the Table of Contents. If the reader is in SAP’s User Menu or Configuration, the chapter number for these nodes can be found in ‘SAP Menu’ and ‘IMG’. If a node is not covered in the book, the reason for not doing so is mentioned.

The implementation of SAP HR OM, PD and Training can also be guided by the structure of this book.

ISBN: 9788120339842
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The Scientific Indian: A Twenty-first Century Guide to the World around Us

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, b. 15 October 1931, is one of India’s most distinguished scientists. He was responsible for the development of India’s first satellite launch vehicle, the SLV-3, development and operationalization of strategic missiles and their weaponization, and for building indigenous capability in critical technologies.

As Chairman of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), he guided a number of technology projects and missions to take India into the twenty-first century. The document on Technology Vision 2020 is a blueprint to make India a developed country.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam held various positions in ISRO and DRDO and became Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India holding the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He has the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from thirty universities and the country’s three highest civilian honours—Padma Bhushan (1981), Padma Vibhushan (1990) and Bharat Ratna (1997).

He has done a short stint as Professor of Technology and Societal Transformation at Anna University, Chennai, and is at the halfway mark in meeting 100,000 high school students throughout the country.

Nuclear capability, self-sufficiency in food production, an array of indigenous satellites and missiles, an unmanned Moon mission—India’s achievements in the scientific domain in recent years have been spectacular. But, according to the country’s best-known scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and his close associate Y.S. Rajan, we’ve only just begun. In a century that many experts predict may belong to India, the realization of the vision of a better future for everyone will require a keen understanding of our needs and this can only be achieved by tailoring our research and innovations to the goal of national development.

In The Scientific Indian, the authors of the path-breaking India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium return after ten years to the core areas of scientific advancement that are crucial today: space exploration, satellite technology, missile development, earth and ocean resources, the biosphere, food production, energy and water harvesting, health care and communications, to name a few. For each aspect, the authors provide the context of recent progress on the global platform as well as Indian breakthroughs, before outlining a pragmatic vision of technological development that will propel

India to the forefront of the world in the decades to come.

The Scientific Indian will speak to every curious and adventurous mind, and especially to tomorrow’s scientists and technologists, encouraging us to dream big, and urging us to work hard to make our dreams come true.

ISBN: 9780670083442
Published by: Penguin Books India

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The Art of Costume Design

Bhanu Rajopadhye Athaiya's name is synonymous with costume design in Hindi films. She began her career in the 1940s as a fashion designer for Fashion & Beauty and Eve's Weekly. The growing popularity of her sketches led to requests by actors and producers to design costumes for their films. Thus in the early 1950s she took the decision to start on a career of film costume design.

Bhanu was the first Indian to be awarded the Oscar for her work in Lord Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. Her work has been shown at the Festival of India, New York, and she has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the South Asian International Film Festival in 2005. She was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, recognizing her contribution to the aesthetics of Indian cinema.

Bhanu spent her formative years in Kolhapur, and graduated from the Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai, where she won a gold medal. Later she went to France on a French government scholarship to study art, culture and cinema. She has traveled extensively in cities like Tokyo, Moscow, Leningrad, London, Paris, Rome, New York and Los Angeles to study the best in art and culture. She has also visited Samark and Bukhara and Tashkent to research for the joint venture films Ajooba and Ali Baba Aur 40 Chor.

''Bhanu Athaiya is the revered doyenne of Indian costume designers...
For the benefit of future generations of filmmakers, film lovers and designers, it is important to document the landmark work done by someone with such knowledge, vision and passion. To beloved Bhanu I send my heartfelt congratulations on this splendid book.''
— From the Foreword by Lord Richard Attenborough

Bhanu Athaiya began her career in costume design in 1953. Over the next 56 years she built an extraordinary body of work that defined the aesthetics of costume design in Hindi cinema. Name any iconic look and Bhanu was behind it, whether it was Waheeda Rehman in Guide, Mumtaz in Brahmachari or Zeenat Aman in Satyam Shivam Sundaram. She has to her credit an amazing repertoire of 130 films and has worked with every director and producer of consequence, including Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, B.R. Chopra, Yash Chopra, F.C. Mehra, Sunil Dutt, Dev Anand, Randhir Kapoor and Ashutosh Gowariker.

In this book, Bhanu recounts the eventful story of her life and her deep passion for creativity in design. She takes you through a fascinating journey, beginning with the classic look of the black and white era, moving on to the age of Technicolor typified by box-office hits like Sangam, Ganga Jumna and Waqt, and then to her more contemporary work in Lagaan and Swades. The book culminates in the story of the Oscar for the costume design of Gandhi – the first such distinction won by an Indian.

This is a classic work on the pioneering vision of a person who shaped the landmarks of Indian film costumes, set the fashion trend of the 1960s and 70s, and won Indian cinema the highest acclaim in the international arena.

ISBN: 9788172239435
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

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INDIA`S GREAT MASTERS : A Photographic Journey into the Heart of Classical Music

Raghu Rai’s interest in music began as a child, when he wanted to be a musician. That was not to be, but his interest in classical music deepened in the mid-1960s, when he became a photojournalist. However, it was only in the mid-1980s, as photo editor of India Today magazine, that he started a systematic exploration of classical music – an obsession that continues to this day.

A trailblazer, Rai has covered many social, political and cultural themes, and his photo essays have appeared in the world’s leading magazines and newspapers, including Time, Life, National Geographic and the New York Times .
Ashok Vajpeyi, a Hindi poet-critic, translator, editor and culture-activist, is widely recognized as an outstanding promoter of culture and an innovative institution-builder.

He has authored over twenty books on poetry, criticism and art, including two on Sayed Haider Raza. Editor of many prestigious journals and a prominent public intellectual, Vajpeyi has lectured widely abroad.

Raghu Rai, India''s best known photographer, first shot a series of memorable photo essays on the masters of Indian classical music for India Today magazine in the mid- 980s. Since then, he has ever stopped shooting them – in concerts, in their homes, with their gurus, and in special locations.

Rai profiles only thirteen masters – the greatest of the great – nayak musicians who went much beyond their gharanas and broke new ground with their approach to music. They include Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, M.S. Subbulakshmi, Mallikarjun Mansur, Kumar Gandharva, S. Balchander, Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain, Vilayat Khan, Bismillah Khan, Kishori Amonkar, Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Bhimsen Joshi. Eight of these masters have passed away, so these portraits – in turn affectionate, intense, playful, and reverent – will remain their definitive ones, a precious and unsurpassable record of Indian musical heritage.

Only a true rasik like Rai could have taken these pictures, for they required someone who possessed not only an understanding of classical music but also complete humility. Both aspects are evident in the extraordinary images that follow.

The book is accompanied by a perceptive text written by noted writer and music expert Ashok Vajpeyi, chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi. His profiles of these musicians show what makes them great, alongside giving us remarkable snapshots of their lives, on and off the stage. A fonder photographic tribute to the custodians of Indian classical music could not have been possible. This is undoubtedly a collector''s edition.

ISBN: 9788172239466
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It Rained All Night

Buddhadeva Bose was one of the most versatile Bengali writers of the twentieth century. His works include the novels Tithidore and Moner Moto Meye, the collections of poems Damoyanti and Morche Pora Pereker Gan and the short story collection Bhashao Amar Bhela. Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 for his verse play Tapaswi o Tarangini, was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1970 and posthumously received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1974 for Swagato Biday.

Clinton B. Seely is a prominent scholar of the Bengali language and literature. He has written a biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das and has translated Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Meghnadbadh Kavya into English. He has received the ‘Ashoke Kumar Sarkar Memorial’ Ananda Prize in 1993 and the Dinesh Chandra Sen Research Society’s ‘4th Annual Award for Excellence in Research in Bengali Literature’ in 1999.

‘It’s over—it happened—there’s nothing more to say. I, Maloti Mukherji, someone’s wife, and someone’s mother—I did it. Did it with Jayanto. Jayanto wanted me, and I him … How did it happen? Easy. In fact I don’t know why it didn’t happen before—I’m surprised at my self-restraint, at Jayanto’s patience.’

Banned when it was first published in the Bengali in 1967 on charges of obscenity, It Rained All Night went on to become a best-seller.

Maloti, an attractive middle-class Bengali girl, marries the bookish college lecturer Nayonangshu only to find him insecure, sexually timid and unable to satisfy her. She discovers passion in the arms of the confident, earthy journalist Jayanto whose love provides her solace from the demands of her wifely duties. Maloti and Jayanto’s growing intimacy does not go unnoticed by Nayonangshu, but his pride restrains him from reaching out to his wife.

Bold, explicit and shockingly candid, It Rained All Night is an unforgettable tale of desire, adultery, jealousy and love.

ISBN: 9780143067511
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Database Management Systems

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

ISBN: 9788182092228
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Trickster City: Writings from the Belly of the Metropolis

Shveta Sarda has been working in Sarai–CSDS since 2001. Her translations have appeared in the Sarai Readers.

Trickster City is an extraordinary composite of writings on Delhi by a group of young people who have, over several years, sustained among themselves and with others around them, a relationship of conversing about the city.

This collection chronicles the loss of home and livelihood through urban eviction; encounters with the agencies of the state; love stories gone awry; the fragility of relationships; and the sustained effort to build life in anticipation of beauty and pleasure.

The writers draw from experiences, events and biographies, part fictive, part documentary, to inscribe an image of the city that is rarely available. There is a yearning in their writings for the expression of the poetic and allegorical alongside the harshness of everyday existence.Trickster is an aphoristic and playful meander in search of a new language that expresses the profound uncertainties and delicately realised joys of urban life.

Praise for Trickster City

''Trickster City is the gentle, compassionate anti-dote to the mass of mail-fisted representations of the ‘under-class’ that has become so popular these days. The writers that make up this collection are almost amazing in their restraint, their ability to distil that perfect moment that conjures up the times they live in. Story after story evokes the ways in which people keep love alive while a kind of terror, the terror of being poor in a cruel city, lurks offstage, just a midnight knock away.

ISBN: 9780670083329
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Magnifying Data Structures

ARPITA GOPAL (Ph.D.) is Director-MCA at Sinhgad Institute of Business Administration and Research, Pune. She has over 18 years of teaching and industry experience. She has published several research papers in international and national journals. Dr. Arpita Gopal is also the author of Magnifying C published by PHI Learning.

This book, the second of the Magnifying Series, provides a comprehensive account of the various methods and techniques of represent-ing data structures. It presents all the important data structures used in system programming and application programming along with their definitions, operations, implementation and applications.

The book first introduces the students to basic programming concepts to help them build a strong foundation for understanding data structures. It then explains the mathematical and logical aspects of data in the form of abstract data types. Several types of data structures such as arrays, stacks, queues, linked list and trees are discussed with a diagrammatic approach. The text also deals with threading of a tree, AVL tree, M-ary tree as well as graphs. In addition, different common sorting and searching algorithms are discussed.

ISBN: 9788120340190
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Fundamentals Of Cryogenic Engineering

MAMATA MUKHOPADHYAY, Ph.D., is Professor Adjunct, Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Earlier, she worked with the faculties of IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi. She has more than 40 years of teaching experience at both the under-graduate and postgraduate levels in such areas as thermodynamics, cryogenic engineering, separation processes, and processing with supercritical fluids. She is credited with six patents and has published more than 170 research articles in reputed international journals and symposia proceedings. She is the author of Natural Extracts Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.

Intended as a text for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Chemical/Mechanical/Materials Engineering streams, this well-balanced book explains the fundamental principles and the applied aspects of cryogenic engineering. The author, with her vast and varied experience in teaching and allied fields, clearly enunciates the behaviour and various properties of common cryogenic fluids, methods of liquefaction, and separation and applications of cryogens with thermodynamic analysis for process selection.

This profusely illustrated study with clear-cut diagrams and process charts, should serve not only as a textbook for students but also as an excellent reference for researchers and practising engineers on design of cryogenic refrigeration, and liquefaction and separation process plants for various applications.

ISBN: 9788120330573
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Learning Machine Translation

CYRIL GOUTTE is a researcher in the Interactive Language Technologies Group at the Canadian National Research Council’s Institute for Information Technology.
GEORGE FOSTER is a researcher in the Interactive Language Technologies Group at the Canadian National Research Council’s Institute for Information Technology.
MARC DYMETMAN is a researcher in the Cross-Language Technologies Research Group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.
NICOLA CANCEDDA is a researcher in the Cross-Language Technologies Research Group at the Xerox Research Centre Europe.

The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information in languages we don''t understand. The investigation of automated or semi-automated approaches to translation has become a thriving research field with enormous commercial potential. This volume investigates how machine learning techniques can improve statistical machine translation, currently at the forefront of research in the field.

The book looks first at enabling technologies—technologies that solve problems that are not machine translation proper but are linked closely to the development of a machine translation system. The book then presents new or improved statistical machine translation techniques.

ISBN: 9788120340558
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Refrigeration And Air Conditioning

Late Dr. RAMESH CHANDRA ARORA, served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from 1987 to 2005. He joined IIT Kharagpur in 1975 as a lecturer after obtaining his Ph.D. degree in the same year from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Professor Arora was regarded as a highly competent subject matter expert in academia and industry alike. His research areas included fluid mechanics, heat transfer, refrigeration and air conditioning, and alternative refrigerants and thermodynamic cycles.

During his illustrious career, Professor Arora was the recipient of several outstanding teacher awards, national scholarships, merit awards, and graduate fellowship. He is credited with 91 research publications, 8 technical reports, 19 industrial projects and 3 pending patents.

This textbook offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging introduction to theoretical principles and practical aspects of refrigeration and air conditioning systems. Written by an outstanding teacher with 30 years of distinguished career at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, this work created by late Dr. R.C. Arora (1945–2005) is intended to lead students to a deeper understanding and a firm grasp of the basic principles of this fast-growing and exciting subject area. This text is ideally suited for undergraduate education in mechanical engineering programmes and specialized postgraduate education in thermosciences. The book is designed to typically appeal to those who like a more rigorous presentation.

The text begins by reviewing, in a simple and precise manner, the physical principles of three pillars of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, namely thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. Following an overview of the history of refrigeration, subsequent chapters provide exhaustive coverage of the principles, applications and design of several types of refrigeration systems and their associated components such as compressors, condensers, evaporators, and expansion devices. Refrigerants too, are studied elaboratively in an exclusive chapter.

The second part of the book, beginning with the historical background of air conditioning in Chapter 15, discusses the subject of psychrometrics being at the heart of understanding the design and implementation of air conditioning processes and systems, which are subsequently dealt with in Chapters 16 to 23. It also explains the design practices followed for cooling and heating load calculations.

Each chapter contains several worked-out examples that clarify the material discussed and illustrate the use of basic principles in engineering applications. Each chapter also ends with a set of few review questions to serve as revision of the material learned.

ISBN: 9788120339156
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Accountancy : For Class XII

B. K. Banerjee is a faculty member of Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, West Bengal. He is also an Academic Guide and Visiting Faculty Member to ICFAI National College, Durgapur. A life member of the Indian Accounting Association, Mr. Banerjee has more than 24 years of teaching experience. He has also authored many books, including Financial Accounting: A Dynamic Approach, published by PHI Learning. He has presented several papers in national/international conferences and seminars

Comprehensive text for Class XII as per the CBSE syllabus

Extensive coverage of the fundamental principles and applications of financial accounting including the following :

Accounting procedures for

Not-for-profit organizations

Partnership firms

Share Capital

Debentures

Reconstitution of partnership due to

Admission of a partner

Retirement or death of a partner

Dissolution of firm

Accounting statements and their analysis

Accounting ratios

Project work

ISBN: 9788120339477
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Oracle Database 11g : Hands-On Sql And Pl/Sql

SATISH ASNANI is currently Deputy Manager, Informatics Division, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Bhopal. He is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) for administration of Linux-based servers and also a Certified Internal Information Security Auditor (CIISA) from STQC, India. Mr. Asnani has more than 8 years of experience in database design, application development and implementation of several 2-tier and 3-tier projects using Oracle Database and Oracle Developer 2000. He has delivered lectures on various topics related to Oracle software in a number of renowned institutions.

The book teaches the basics of the Oracle database from a beginner’s perspective to the advanced concepts using a hands-on approach. Each and every concept has been elaborated with suitable practical examples along with code for clear and precise understanding of the topic.

Using a practical approach, the book explains how to retrieve, add, update and delete data in the Oracle database using SQL, SQL*PLUS and PL/SQL. In the process, it discusses the various data types and built-in functions of Oracle, as well as the sorting of records and the table operations. The text also includes coverage of advanced queries using special operators, Oracle security, indexing, and stored functions and procedures.

The book is suitable for undergraduate engineering students of Computer Science and Information Technology, B.Sc. (Computer Science/IT), M.Sc. (Computer Science/IT) and students of Computer Applications (BCA, MCA, PGDCA, and DCA). Besides, the book can be used as a reference by professionals pursuing short-term courses on Oracle Database and students of Oracle Certified Courses.
ISBN: 9788120340206
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Power System Anal Ysis : Operation And Control

Sunita Halder is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has published/presented several research papers in international and national journals and conferences. Her areas of interest include power system and electric circuits.
Abhijit Chakrabarti is Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah. A Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), he has published/presented 85 research papers in international and national journals and conferences and authored/co-authored ten books on electrical engineering. He has nearly eight years of industrial experience and around twenty years of teaching and research experience. Professor Chakrabarti is a recipient of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya award, and the power medal, merit and best paper awards (twice) from Central Electricity Authority, India. His areas of interest include power system, electric circuits and power electronics and drives.

This comprehensive textbook introduces electrical engineering students and engineers to the most relevant concepts and techniques relating to all dimensions of electrical power system planning, operation and control. With an emphasis on both basics and advanced topics and practical aspects, the topics are substantiated by a number of illustrations and computer programs that reinforce the analytical methods of approaches to operation and control problems of power system engineering.

Besides fundamentals of power systems, the readers can learn about power flow, economic considerations, computer-aided economic load despatch, power system stability, fault analysis, high voltage transmission systems, transient analysis, and much more from this systematic treatment of an exhaustive treatise on power system engineering.

The book is designed to cover courses in Power Systems conducted during third and fourth years of study by senior undergraduate students and to cover courses prescribed for postgraduate students as well.

The third edition includes the following eight new chapters to make the book complete from all angles of fundamental and advanced topics.

Transmission Line Parameters (Chapter 2)

Steady State Performance and Operation of Transmission Lines (Chapter 3)

Power Cables (Chapter 4)

Line Insulators (Chapter 5)

Mechanical Design of Overhead Lines (Chapter 6)

Corona (Chapter 7)

EHV AC and HVDC Power Transmission (Chapter 17)

Transient Analysis of Transmission Lines: Wave Propagation (Chapter 23)
ISBN: 9788120340152
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