Fundamentals Of Food Engineeringa

D.G. Rao, Ph.D., Scientist and Head, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) Resource Centre, Hyderabad. With three decades of teaching and professional experiences, Dr. Rao has published 38 research papers in national and international journals in the field of chemical engineering. A life member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers and Oil Technologists Association of India, he has 7 patents to his credit in the area of food processing.

Food technology is the application of food science to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution and use of safe nutritious and wholesome food. The amalgamation of food technology with engineer-ing operations has given birth to the discipline of food engineering.

Divided into four parts, the book begins with a brief introduction to food technology and its historical importance and development in the first part. The second part covers the basic principles, materials and energy balance concepts that prepare a solid ground for easy comprehension of the technology involved.

The third part, which deals with unit operations in food processing, is the core component of the book. It includes all the transport phenomena, mechanical operations, size reduction, grinding and milling. A separate chapter is devoted to microwave heating in view of its importance in food processing. Dehydration, solvent extraction, distillation, crystallization and mechanical operations have been discussed extensively. The fourth part deals with food industry management, and the peripheral and integrated food engineering operations.

Key Features :

Provides numerous worked-out examples

Explains the concepts without excessive mathematical expressions and derivations

Covers all engineering principles that are needed for a successful operation of a food processing plant

Includes an extensive set of review questions at the end of each chapter

The present textbook is designed for students of BTech (Food Technology/Food Engineering) and MSc (Food Technology). Besides, the students of Biochemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology will find it immensely useful.
ISBN: 9788120338715
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The Financial System And The Economy Principles Of Money And Banking

MAUREEN BURTON, Professor of Economics California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
BRUCE BROWN, Associate Professor of Economics California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

“The fifth edition of The Financial System and the Economy is an excellent text for undergraduate courses in money and banking, and would also be suitable for related courses such as ‘financial institutions and markets.’ The text presents the standard material covered in such courses, but it is also rich in institutional and historical material, which I see as its distinguishing characteristic. The chapters on financial innovation and the interactions between profit seeking, innovation, regulation, and financial instability are particularly well done.”

— Christopher Niggle
University of Redlands

The fifth edition of this classic text covers the origins and causes of the ongoing financial crisis, including excessive risk-taking and the erosion of lending standards, the securitization of mortgages and other assets and the development of credit derivatives. Expanded coverage of financial instability, including the theories of Hyman Minsky are also included. It

gives students an understanding of how the financial system works, how it affects the economy, and the role of policy makers and regulators.

captures the recent changes in the financial system, some of which have contributed to the ongoing financial crisis, and some of which result from the crisis.

presents an analytical framework that enables students to understand and anticipate changes in financial markets and institutions as the financial system continues to evolve.

The text is suitable for an introductory undergraduate course in banking or financial markets analysis taught in economics or finance. It is also useful for financial markets course in MBA
ISBN: 9788120339583
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Production Of Hot Metal By Smelting Reduction Of Iron Oxide

A metallurgical engineer from Banaras Hindu University, AMIT CHATTERJEE was awarded the Doctorate of Science (Engineering) Degree by the University of London in 1988 for his outstanding work on coal-based direct reduction and oxygen steelmaking. He had earlier obtained his PhD in process metallurgy from the prestigious Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, of which he is also a Fellow.
He started his professional career in the steel industry in Germany, followed by over 35 years of distinguished service in Tata Steel. At present, he is an Adviser in Tata Steel.
Dr. Chatterjee is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, England, The Indian Institute of Metals, India, as well as The Indian National Academy of Engineers, India. He has over 500 publications to his credit and is the recipient of several awards from India and overseas, including the National Metallurgist Award (1977), Visvesvaraya Gold Medal (1981 and 1996), SAIL Gold Medal (1982), Bhoruka Gold Medal (1992), Tata Gold Medal (1997), Platinum Medal (2002) and many others.
Dr. Chatterjee has authored several books: Ironmaking and Steelmaking—Theory and Practice and Sponge Iron Production by Direct Reduction of Iron Oxide (both published by PHI Learning, New Delhi) as well as two other books entitled Beyond the Blast Furnace and Metallics for Steelmaking—Production and Use besides a number of Monographs on Cokemaking, Sintermaking, Ironmaking, Continuous Casting, etc.

This book offers a comprehensive treatise on smelting reduction of iron oxide—an emerging alternative method of producing hot metal without using coke. This technique is gaining increasing importance in the field of hot metal production, which has till date, been dominated by the traditional blast furnace method. Shortage of coking coal, high cost of coke and the recent enforcement of stricter environmental regulations have resulted in the advent of smelting reduction as a supplementary method of hot metal production.
The book covers the details of this rapidly developing technique that holds particular promise for countries like India, endowed with relatively large reserves of high grade iron ore that are unfortunately not matched by the availability of coking coal. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of smelting reduction. It begins by acquainting the readers with the current worldwide status of ironmaking, followed by the classification of the various smelting reduction processes. It then focuses on explaining the fundamentals of smelting reduction before proceeding with a critical appraisal of the various smelting reduction processes that are currently available. The future of this methodology in India and in the rest of the world is discussed in the concluding chapter. The book contains numerous illustrations to provide a clear understanding of the different processes, equipment and quality parameters relevant to smelting reduction-based ironmaking.
The book is intended mainly for undergraduate and postgraduate engineering (particularly metallurgical engineering) students seeking an insight into this emerging ironmaking technique. It would also be of immense interest to researchers and technologists engaged in this subject of smelting reduction of iron oxide. A variety of chapter-end references would assist teachers and students to get acquainted with the extensive knowledge already available in this field.
ISBN: 9788120339361
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Object - Oriented Programming Using C++

N.P. GOPALAN, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli. He has more than twenty-five years of teaching and research experience. He has over one hundred research papers to his credit in conferences and journals of repute. He is also the author of four other books: TCP/IP Illustrated (with B. Sivaselvan), Web Technology: A Developer’s Perspective (with J. Akilandeswari), A Beginner’s Guide to UNIX (with B. Sivaselvan) and Data Mining: Techniques and Trends (with B. Sivaselvan), all published by PHI Learning, New Delhi.
His research interests include distributed computing, knowledge engineering and information retrieval.
B. SIVASELVAN, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, IIT Madras Campus, Chennai. Recipient of AICTE’s National Doctoral Fellowship (NDF) and Early Faculty Induction Programme (EFIP) Fellowship, Dr. Sivaselvan has over eight years of teaching and research experience. He has about eight publications to his credit in conferences and journals. He is the co-author of three other books with Professor N.P. Gopalan, all published by PHI Learning, New Delhi.
His areas of interest are data mining, formal methods, artificial intelligence and data structures.

C++ is a popular object-oriented programming (OOP) language for developing high-performance computer applications. This text explores the various key concepts of object-oriented programming such as encapsulation, abstraction, overloading, inheritance, polymorphism, virtual functions, templates and exception handling. Since C++ is an extension of standard version of C, a detailed treatment of C is also given to address the needs of the first-time programmers not acquainted with the features set of C.

The book discusses in detail certain concepts that have remained grey for some time now. In this context, the notion of header files inclusion and its internals, and data structures that support features such as polymorphism are explained in detail. Equal emphasis is placed on syntaxes and the semantics behind the working of each feature of the language. Programming is not just syntaxes and the book attempts to present programming features in the right way by laying emphasis on concepts, internals, and illustrating such features by real-time programming examples as well. Programming is an art much like mathematics and is best appreciated and understood only if the conceptual side of the features is put forth as opposed to the conventional view of syntax emphasis.

This book will be useful for the students of :

All engineering disciplines

Computer Applications

Information Communication Technology (ICT)
ISBN: 9788120339231
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The New American Diet: How secret "obesogens" are making us fat, and the 6-week plan that will flatten your belly for good! (Hardcover)

STEPHEN PERRINE is the Editor of Children’s Health and Editor-at-Large for Men’s Health. The former Editor-in-Chief of Best Life magazine, he resides in Manhattan with his wife and three children.

HEATHER HURLOCK is the former Health Editor of Best Life. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their daughter, Iris.

EVERYTHING YOU’VE BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT WEIGHT-LOSS IS WRONG.
DISCOVER THE REVOLUTIONARY NEW PLAN THAT WILL STRIP AWAY POUNDS FROM YOUR BELLY FIRST—AND CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK, FEEL & LIVE!
A hamburger that fights heart disease and depression?
An apple that can make you fat?
Pork chops that help take off the pounds?
Salad dressing that makes you crave dessert?
Water that causes weight gain?

Unbelievable, impossible—but true! Based on the latest nutritional and environmental science, The New American Diet will turn modern weight-loss thinking on its head, and the NEW AMERICAN DIET Superfoods will change the way you eat, look and live—for good!
In this groundbreaking new 6-week weight-loss plan, based on the latest research and test-driven by 400 people—men and women who lost an average of 15
pounds in just 6 weeks!—authors Stephen Perrine and Heather Hurlock expose
the truth about scores of recently discovered obesity-causing chemicals lurking in the American diet, chemicals so hazardous to our weight that researchers have coined a new phrase for them: “Obesogens.”

The New American Diet unveils the first diet plan to reverse “the obesogen effect” and strip off 10, 20, 30 pounds or more! Discover why your weight isn’t your fault, and why calories eaten and calories burned are only the beginning of the story. Learn how to lose weight while eating all your favorite foods—steak, pasta, ice cream and even chocolate—by breaking free of these “Old American Diet” myths that are keeping us fat:

OLD AMERICAN DIET: It’s always better to order the fish instead of the steak.
NEW AMERICAN DIET: Some fish can make you fatter and may even contribute to heart disease. Learn why steak is often the better choice in Chapter Four.
OLD AMERICAN DIET: A fruit salad is a great way to lose weight.
NEW AMERICAN DIET: Many fruits (and vegetables!) contain chemicals that cause your body to gain fat, shed muscle and even diminish your sex drive. But you can rid your body of 80 percent of these “obesogens” in just five days (see Chapter Three!).
OLD AMERICAN DIET: Ice cream and chocolate are sinful.
NEW AMERICAN DIET: Learn why both are among the NEW AMERICAN DIET Superfoods, and how they can help fight weight gain and disease.
OLD AMERICAN DIET: Weight loss is about eating low-fat, low-carb, low-cal.
NEW AMERICAN DIET: Wrong! Eating low anything is bad for you. The New American Diet isn’t low in anything—it’s just high in nutrition and flavor.
OLD AMERICAN DIET: What you feed your body is what counts in dieting.
NEW AMERICAN DIET: Eating for your emotional health has been proven to help strip away pounds. We’ll show you how eating to boost your mood and bolster your brainpower will help you lose weight faster. (Discover the nutrients that demolish depression in Chapter Six!)
OLD AMERICAN DIET: Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are always a smart, lean-body choice.
NEW AMERICAN DIET: Today’s skinless chicken breasts contain 223% more fat than they did just 30 years ago—but a simple swap can have you eating chicken, beef and pork that will actually trigger weight loss.

Based on hundreds of studies and interviews with the leading experts in the fields of nutrition, endocrinology and environmental studies, the authors reveal how dozens of
“healthy” foods in your pantry right now may have unexpected fat-promoting properties; how “obesogens” may be changing your body and undermining your family’s physical, emotional and sexual health; how the Old American Diet has stripped nutrients from our meals (and how you can obliterate depression and mental fatigue by adding them back); and why many of the foods we crave, like bacon, peanut butter and even chocolate can (and should!) be part of an easy-to-stick-to weight-loss plan.
ISBN: 9781605294643
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Made In India – An Autobiography

Biddu was born in India, where he started his career playing in a pop band whose influences lay in the classic repertoire of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Following his early success, he decided to head West and move into the international music arena. He quickly struck gold, signing the unknown Carl Douglas and producing Kung Fu Fighting which went on to decome a hit all over the world. He also wrote and produced hits for Tina Charles and soul legend Jimmy James.

Around this time, Biddu became involved in Indian music; he composed the cult ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’ for the film Qurbani, which set a new landmark for sales in India. He followed this up with a pop album Disco Deewane, with Nazia Hassan, which became the largest-selling pop album in Asian history, and was the first Indian album to hit the charts in the fourteen countries. In 1995, Biddu wrote and produced the three-million-selling album Made in India with singer Alisha Chinai. To date, Biddu has sold over thirty-eight million records worldwide.

The amazing story of the boy from Bangalore who followed his dream and lived it too Biddu left India when he was in his twenties and ended up hitchhiking across the Middle East after being cheated of all his money. Eventually he arrived in London with just the clothes on his back and his trusty guitar. What followed were years of hardship and struggle, but also wonderful music and gathering fame. From the nine-million-selling Kung Fu Fighting to the iconic youth anthem of Made in India and the numerous hits in between, Biddu’s music made him a household name in India and elsewhere. In this first public account of all that came his way— the people, the events, the music tours and companies—he writes with a wicked sense of humour about his remarkable journey with its fairy-tale ending.
ISBN: 9788172239213
Punlished by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Open: An Autobiography

ANDRE AGASSI played tennis professionally from 1986 to 2006. Often ranked number one, he captured eight Grand Slam singles championships, tying him for seventh on the all-time list, and he’s the only man to win a career “Golden Slam” – all four Grand Slam singles titles plus the Olympic gold medal. He also compiled one of the best records ever by an American in the Davis Cup. As founder of the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, he has raised more than $85 million for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, an acclaimed school for underprivileged children in his hometown, Las Vegas. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Stefanie Graf, and their two children.


He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court – but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game. Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in primary school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict that would define him. Now, in his beautiful, haunting autobiography, Agassi tells the story of a life framed by such conflicts, a life balanced precariously between self-destruction and perfectionism.
Agassi makes us feel his panic as an undersized seven-year-old in Las Vegas, practising all day under the obsessive gaze of his violent father. We see him at thirteen, banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a drop-out, he rebels in ways that soon make him a 1980s icon. And by the time he turns pro at sixteen, his lightning-fast return promises to change tennis forever.
Yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world’s best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. Then, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by winning the 1992 Wimbledon Championship. Overnight he becomes a fan favourite and a media target.
Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every public relationship. Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely described. Alongside vivid portraits of rivals from several generations – Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer – Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields.
He reveals the depression that shatters his confidence, and the mistake that nearly costs him everything. Finally, he recounts his spectacular resurrection. In clear, taut prose, Agassi evokes his loyal brother, his wise coach, and his gentle trainer; all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf. Entering his last tournament in 2006, he’s hailed for completing a stunning metamorphosis. And still he’s not finished. At an unforgettable US Open, he makes a courageous last stand, then delivers one of the most stirring farewells ever heard in a sporting arena.
With its breakneck tempo and raw candour, Open will be read and cherished for years. A treat for ardent fans, it will also captivate readers who know nothing about tennis. Like Agassi’s game, it sets a new standard for grace, style, speed and power.
ISBN: 9780007281428
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