October 2014

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ACADEMIC

History

Culinary Culture in Colonial IndiaA Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle Class

Utsa Ray

This book utilizes the idea of cuisine to understand theconstruction of the colonial middle-class in Bengal.Colonial transformation contextualized the culturalarticulation of a new set of values, prejudices andtastes for the colonial middle-class. This middle-classensured that cuisine was not commoditized andremained domestic and embedded in the materialculture of Bengal. One of the chief arguments of thisbook is that the middle-class in colonial Bengalindigenized new culinary experiences that came withcolonialism. This process of indigenization was anaesthetic choice imbricated in the upper caste andpatriarchal agenda of middle-class social reform.

While enabling the middle-class to soak in newculinary pleasures, the process of indigenization alsomade possible certain social practices, including theimagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminineact and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. Inthese acts of imagination, there were importantelements of continuity from the pre-colonial times,especially evidenced in the reinstitution of caste-basednorms of gastronomy. The process of indigenizing newgastronomic practices was at the same time anti-colonial yet capitalist, cosmopolitan yet gendered andcaste based. Thus, the idea of a refined taste that wasso integrally associated with the formation of themiddle class in colonial Bengal became a marker ofstandards of good and bad, acceptance of somethings, rejection of some others and in PierreBourdieu’s apt phrase ‘disgust for other tastes.’

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OCTOBER 2014

Academic 1

History 1

Politics 2

Economics & Business studies 2

Language & Linguistics 3

Mathematics 3

Statistics and Probability 5

Physics 5

Engineering 6

Computer Science 7

Earth and Environmental science 8

Life Science 9

Chemistry 9

Medicine 10

General science 10

School Books 10


Politics

Globalization and India'sEconomic IntegrationBaldev Raj Nayar

This book shows how globalization's pressuresfavoring efficiency paradoxically induced the state topush for consolidation on a pan-Indian scale in thearea of fiscal federalism and to advance the cause ofthe common market through reforming the indirect taxsystem; meanwhile, the state has pressed forward withsocial inclusiveness as never before in its economicplanning. For another, the market, too, has beeninstrumental, because of its widened scope and itsinherently expanding character, in strengtheningeconomic integration through trade expansion,diffusion of industry, and increased inter-statemigration. Nayar's groundbreaking work will intereststudents, scholars, and specialists of India, South Asia,globalization, and political economy.

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Science and Technologyin Contemporary ChinaInterrogating Policies and Progress

Varaprasad S. Dolla

Chinese science and technology (S&T) policy, as asubset of the Open Door Policy that Deng Xiaopinglaunched in 1978, marked the completion of threedecades of reform in 2008. The cumulative outcome ofthese gradualist and yet fundamental reforms in S&Tpolicy is a remarkable advancement of S&T progressin China. This book is an imperative to revisit andinterrogate the nature and scope of Chinese S&Tpolicy and progress.

The S&T policy changes in post-Mao China cannot becomplete without a historical narrative and analysis ofS&T in its pre-policy (prior to 1850) and policy (since1850 when Qing rulers began to promote S&T withfragmented policies) periods. Therefore, it discussesthe historical context of the development of S&T inChina. The text is divided into three parts. The first partconsiders both the macro and micro issues pertainingto S&T policy in general and S&T policy in particular.The second part highlights the historical narrative ofChinese S&T policy as it has a key role in the evolutionof contemporary S&T architecture. The third partdiscusses three focal components of the Chinese S&Tsystem each representing state, society andinternational systems – the organizational structurerepresenting the state; the research systemrepresenting society; and technology acquisitionrepresenting the international system with seriousimplications for China.

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China and the International SocietyAdaptation and Self-Consciousness

Jinjun Zhao & Zhirui Chen (Eds.)

What is the relationship between China and theinternational society? It is a question of historical andrealistic significance for China and the world to answer.

Since the reform and opening up, China initiated ajourney to get integrated into the international society.As an emerging power, China is trying to seekidentities, display strength, and build a goodreputation. Under various determinants andpossibilities, the relationship between China and theinternational society manifests a feature of complexityand multiple dimensions.

Following a guideline of “on China, for the world”, thisvolume intends to introduce Chinese scholars' lateststudies on China's global strategies, theories andpolicies to the outside world.

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Economics & Business studiesTEXTBOOK

Trade-Related Investment MeasuresTheory and Applications

Chi-Chur Chao & Eden S. H. Yu

This unique book makes a contribution to the deeperunderstanding of various trade-related investmentmeasures (TRIMs). The issues have been largelyinspired by the use of trade policies on foreigninvestment adopted in China and many other nationsfrom the 1960s to the 1990s. Building upon theexisting literature and the authors' own work, the 20chapters in the book examine, using several versionsof general-equilibrium frameworks, resource allocationand welfare effects of both trade-related investmentmeasures and investment-related trade/environmentalmeasures. Traditional and duality microeconomic toolsand modelling techniques have been extensivelyutilised in analysing various real-world, investment andenvironmental issues, especially those encountered indeveloping economies. Policy implications regardingoptimal trade, investment and environmental policiesthat emerged from the analyses are also provided.

This book is self-contained in applications of tradetheories and related general-equilibrium modellingtechniques. It may be used as an advanced textbookin trade theory and policy as well as a reference bookfor policy makers, professional practitioners andacademic researchers in designing trade policies.

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The Floating WorldIssues in International Trade Theory

Wilfred J. Ethier

In The Floating World, Emeritus Professor ofEconomics Wilfred Ethier collates 22 papers that delvedeep into the study on International Trade Theory.These papers are grouped into six distinct sections.Each covers an overarching research program in tradetheory — Factor-Endowments Theory, Economies ofScale, International Factor Markets, RegionalIntegration, the Political Economy of Trade Policy, andAdministered Protection. An additional section forimportant papers outside of those programs is alsoincluded. With papers originally written in the 1970s allthe way up to recent times, Ethier providescontemporary commentary for each section, referringto further sources, candid accounts on the state ofinternational trade theory at the time and how eachpaper contributed to further improvements of theirrespective research program.

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Language & Linguistics

A Descriptive Study of Bengali WordsNiladri Sekhar Dash

The book is about the study of modern Bengali wordsbased on the data obtained from a corpus of writtentexts. The corpus contains more than five million wordsof written text samples collected from hundred subjectdomains published within 1981 to 2000. The authoranalyses Bengali words from empirical point of view tounderstand their form and function in the language. Italso deals with the form and function of Bengali wordsin a systematic manner from the perspective ofstructure and use of words to understand how Bengaliwords are formed and used.

The book provides, for the first time, some importantfindings about the general patterns of use of Bengalimorpheme. It sheds new light on the form and functionof morphemes in construction of words in thelanguage. Bengali single word units (both inflected andnon-inflected) are analyzed from the perspective oftheir structure or surface forms. The book alsoprovides a solid empirical support for developing toolsand systems for morphological analysis, morphologicalgeneration, lexical decomposition and lexicalcomposition for the language for machine learning andlanguage teaching.

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Mathematics

Representation TheoryA Combinatorial Viewpoint

Amritanshu Prasad

This book examines the fundamental results of moderncombinatorial representation theory. The exercises areinterspersed with text to reinforce readers’understanding of the subject. In addition, eachexercise is assigned a difficulty level to test readers’learning. Solutions and hints to most of the exercisesare provided at the end.

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TEXTBOOK

Real AnalysisTheory of Measure and Integration

J. Yeh

This book presents a unified treatise of the theory ofmeasure and integration. In the setting of a generalmeasure space, every concept is defined precisely andevery theorem is presented with a clear and completeproof with all the relevant details. Counter-examplesare provided to show that certain conditions in thehypothesis of a theorem cannot be simply dropped.The dependence of a theorem on earlier theorems isexplicitly indicated in the proof, not only to facilitatereading but also to delineate the structure of thetheory. The precision and clarity of presentation makethe book an ideal textbook for a graduate course inreal analysis while the wealth of topics treated alsomake the book a valuable reference work formathematicians.

The book is also very helpful to graduate students instatistics and electrical engineering, two disciplinesthat apply measure theory.

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Basic Language of MathematicsJuan Jorge Schaffer

This book originates as an essential underlyingcomponent of a modern, imaginative three-semesterhonors program (six undergraduate courses) inMathematical Studies. In its entirety, it covers Algebra,Geometry and Analysis in One Variable.

The book is intended to provide a comprehensive andrigorous account of the concepts of set, mapping,family, order, number (both natural and real), as well assuch distinct procedures as proof by induction and


recursive definition, and the interaction between theseideas; with attempts at including insightful notes onhistoric and cultural settings and information onalternative presentations. The work ends with anexcursion on infinite sets, principally a discussion ofthe mathematics of Axiom of Choice and often veryuseful equivalent statements.

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Differential Operators on Spaces ofVariable IntegrabilityDavid E. Edmunds, Jan Lang & Osvaldo Mendez

The theory of Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces withvariable integrability is experiencing a steadyexpansion, and is the subject of much vigorousresearch by functional analysts, function-spaceanalysts and specialists in nonlinear analysis. Thesespaces have attracted attention not only because oftheir intrinsic mathematical importance as natural,interesting examples of non-rearrangement-invariantfunction spaces but also in view of their applications,which include the mathematical modeling ofelectrorheological fluids and image restoration.

The main focus of this book is to provide a solidfunctional-analytic background for the study ofdifferential operators on spaces with variableintegrability. It includes some novel stabilityphenomena which the authors have recentlydiscovered.

At the present time, this is the only book which focusessystematically on differential operators on spaces withvariable integrability. The authors present a concise,natural introduction to the basic material and steadilymove toward differential operators on these spaces,leading the reader quickly to current research topics.

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E-Recursion, Forcing and C*-AlgebrasChitat Chong, Qi Feng, Theodore A. Slaman,W. Hugh Woodin & Yue Yang (Eds.)

This volume presents the lecture notes of shortcourses given by three leading experts inmathematical logic at the 2012 Asian Initiative forInfinity Logic Summer School. The major topics coverset-theoretic forcing, higher recursion theory, andapplications of set theory to C*-algebra. This volumeoffers a wide spectrum of ideas and techniquesintroduced in contemporary research in the field ofmathematical logic to students, researchers andmathematicians.

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Introduction to Spectral Theory andInverse Problem on AsymptoticallyHyperbolic ManifoldsHiroshi Isozaki & Yaroslav Kurylev

This manuscript is devoted to a rigorous and detailedexposition of the spectral theory and associatedforward and inverse scattering problems for theLaplace-Beltrami operators on asymptoticallyhyperbolic manifolds. Based upon the classicalstationary scattering theory in Rn, the key point of theapproach is the generalized Fourier transform, whichserves as the basic tool to introduce and analyse thetime-dependent wave operators and the S-matrix. Thecrucial role is played by the characterization of thespace of the scattering solutions for the Helmholtzequations utilizing a properly defined Besov-typespace. After developing the scattering theory, wedescribe, for some cases, the inverse scattering on theasymptotically hyperbolic manifolds by adopting, forthe considered case, the boundary control method forinverse problems.

The manuscript is aimed at graduate students andyoung mathematicians interested in spectral andscattering theories, analysis on hyperbolic manifoldsand theory of inverse problems. We try to make it self-consistent and, to a large extent, not dependent on theexisting treatises on these topics. To our bestknowledge, it is the first comprehensive description ofthese theories in the context of the asymptoticallyhyperbolic manifolds.

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Lecture Notes on Local RingsBirger Iversen; Holger Andreas Nielsen (Ed.)

The content in Chapter 1–3 is a fairly standard one-semester course on local rings with the goal to reachthe fact that a regular local ring is a uniquefactorization domain. The homological machinery isalso supported by Cohen–Macaulay rings and depth.In Chapters 4–6 the methods of injective modules,Matlis duality and local cohomology are discussed.Chapters 7–9 are not so standard and introduce thereader to the generalizations of modules to complexesof modules. Some of Professor Iversen's results aregiven in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 is about Serre'sintersection conjecture. The graded case is fullyexposed. The last chapter introduces the reader toFitting ideals and McRae invariants.

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Theta Functions and KnotsRazvan Gelca

This book presents the relationship between classicaltheta functions and knots. It is based on a novel ideaof Razvan Gelca and Alejandro Uribe, which convertsWeil's representation of the Heisenberg group on thetafunctions to a knot theoretical framework, by giving atopological interpretation to a certain inducedrepresentation. It also explains how the discreteFourier transform can be related to 3- and 4-dimensional topology.

Theta Functions and Knots can be read in twoperspectives. Readers with an interest in thetafunctions or knot theory can learn how the two arerelated. Those interested in Chern–Simons theory willfind here an introduction using the simplest case, thatof abelian Chern–Simons theory. Moreover, theconstruction of abelian Chern–Simons theory is basedentirely on quantum mechanics and not on quantumfield theory as it is usually done.

Both the theory of theta functions and low dimensionaltopology are presented in detail, in order to underlinehow deep the connection between these twofundamental mathematical subjects is. Hence the bookis self-contained with a unified presentation. It issuitable for an advanced graduate course, as well asfor self-study.

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Statistics and Probability

Weak Convergence and Its ApplicationsZhengyan Lin & Hanchao Wang

Weak convergence of stochastic processes is one ofthe most important theories in probability theory. Notonly probability experts but also more and morestatisticians are interested in it. In the study of statisticsand econometrics, some problems cannot be solvedby the classical method. In this book, we will introducesome recent development of modern weakconvergence theory to overcome defects of classicaltheory.

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PhysicsTEXTBOOK

Crystal Symmetry, Lattice Vibrations, andOptical Spectroscopy of SolidsA Group Theoretical Approach

Baldassare Di Bartolo & Richard C. Powell

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of thetwo fundamental aspects of a solid that determine itsphysical properties: lattice structure and atomicvibrations (phonons). The elements of group theory areextensively developed and used as a tool to show howthe symmetry of a solid and the vibrations of the atomsin the solid lead to the physical properties of thematerial. The uses of different types of spectroscopytechniques that elucidate the lattice structure of a solidand the normal vibrational modes of the atoms in thesolid are described. The interaction of light with solids(optical spectroscopy) is described in detail includinghow lattice symmetry and phonons affect the spectralproperties and how spectral properties provideinformation about the material's symmetry and normalmodes of lattice vibrations. The effects of point defects(doping) on the lattice symmetry and atomic vibrationsand thus the spectral properties are discussed andused to show how material symmetry and latticevibrations are critical in determining the properties ofsolid state lasers.

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Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics andDetectors for Physics ApplicationsProceedings of the 14th ICATPP Conference:International Conference on Advanced Technologyand Particle Physics, Como, Italy,23 – 27 September 2013

S Giani, C Leroy, L Price, P-G Rancoita& R Ruchti (Eds.)

The exploration of the subnuclear world is donethrough increasingly complex experiments covering awide range of energy and performed in a large varietyof environments ranging from particle accelerators,underground detectors to satellites and the spacelaboratory. The achievement of these researchprograms calls for novel techniques, new materialsand instrumentation to be used in detectors, often oflarge scale. Therefore, fundamental physics is at theforefront of technological advance and also leads tomany applications. Among these, are the progressesfrom space experiments whose results allow theunderstanding of the cosmic environment, of the originand evolution of the universe after the Big Bang.

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Canonical Quantum GravityFundamentals and Recent Developments

Francesco Cianfrani, Orchidea Maria Lecian,Matteo Lulli & Giovanni Montani

This book aims to present a pedagogical and self-consistent treatment of the canonical approach toQuantum Gravity, starting from its original formulationto the most recent developments in the field.

We start with an innovative and enlighteningintroduction to the formalism and concepts on whichGeneral Relativity has been built, giving all theinformation necessary in the later analysis. A briefsketch of the Standard Cosmological Model describingthe Universe evolution is also given alongside theanalysis of the inflationary mechanism. Afterdeepening the fundamental properties of constraineddynamic systems, the Lagrangian approach to theEinsteinian Theory is presented in some detail,underlining the parallelism with non-Abelian gaugetheories. Then, the basic concepts of the canonicalapproach to Quantum Mechanics are provided,focusing on all those formulations which are relevantfor the Canonical Quantum Gravity problem. TheHamiltonian formulation of General Relativity and itsconstrained structure is then analyzed by comparingdifferent formulations. The resulting quantumdynamics, described by the Wheeler–DeWitt equation,is fully discussed in order to outline its merits andlimits. Afterwards, the reformulation of CanonicalQuantum Gravity in terms of the Ashtekar–Barbero–Immirzi variables is faced by a detailed discussion ofthe resulting Loop Quantum Gravity Theory. Finally, weprovide a consistent picture of canonical QuantumCosmology by facing the main features of theWheeler–DeWitt equation for the homogeneousBianchi models and then by a detailed treatment ofLoop Quantum Cosmology, including very recentdevelopments.

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Engineering

An Elementary Introductionto Queueing SystemsWah Chun Chan

The book aims to highlight the fundamental conceptsof queueing systems. It starts with the mathematicalmodeling of the arrival process (input) of customers tothe system. It is shown that the arrival process can bedescribed mathematically either by the number ofarrival customers in a fixed time interval, or by theinterarrival time between two consecutive arrivals. Inthe analysis of queueing systems, the bookemphasizes the importance of exponential service time

of customers. With this assumption of exponentialservice time, the analysis can be simplified by usingthe birth and death process as a model. Manyqueueing systems can then be analyzed by choosingthe proper arrival rate and service rate. This facilitatesthe analysis of many queueing systems.

Drawing on the author's 30 years of experience inteaching and research, the book uses a simple yeteffective model of thinking to illustrate the fundamentalprinciples and rationale behind complex mathematicalconcepts. Explanations of key concepts are provided,while avoiding unnecessary details or extensivemathematical formulas. As a result, the text is easy toread and understand for students wishing to masterthe core principles of queueing theory.

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Computation of Mathematical Models forComplex Industrial ProcessesYu-Chu Tian, Tonghua Zhang, Hongmei Yao& Moses O. Tade

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduatestudents, academic researchers and industrialpractitioners, this book provides comprehensive casestudies on numerical computing of industrial processesand step-by-step procedures for conducting industrialcomputing. It assumes minimal knowledge innumerical computing and computer programming,making it easy to read, understand and follow. Topicsdiscussed include fundamentals of industrialcomputing, finite difference methods, the Wavelet-Collocation Method, the Wavelet-Galerkin Method,High Resolution Methods, and comparative studies ofvarious methods. These are discussed using examplesof carefully selected models from real processes ofindustrial significance. The step-by-step procedures inall these case studies can be easily applied to otherindustrial processes without a need for major changes.Thus, they provide readers with useful frameworks forthe applications of engineering computing infundamental research problems and practicaldevelopment scenarios.

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Special Integral Functions Used inWireless Communications TheoryNikolay V. Savischenko

This monograph summarizes the special functionsneeded in the performance analysis of wirelesscommunications systems.

On the basis of special Gaussian and Owen functions,the methodology for the calculation of the relationshipfor symbol and bit error probabilities with coherentreception, for the two-dimensional multi-positionalsignal constructions in communications channel withdeterministic parameters and additive white Gaussiannoise (AWGN), was developed. To explain theconcepts, examples are provided after themathematical proofs to illustrate how the theoremscould be applied; this includes symbol and bit errorprobability formulas receiving for present signalconstructions (QAM, PSK, APSK and HEX), and errorprobability dependencies from signal-to-noise ratio(SNR).

There are many books in communications theorydealing with several topics covered in this monograph,but none has consolidated all error probabilitycalculations in a single book. This book thereforeserves a very niche area.

This text is written for graduate students, researchers,and professionals specializing in wirelesscommunications and electrical engineering; dealingwith probability and statistics, approximation, andanalysis & differential equations.

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Computer ScienceTEXTBOOK

Advances in Digital HandwrittenSignature ProcessingA Human Artefact for e-Society

Giuseppe Pirlo, Donato Impedovo& Michael Fairhurst (Eds.)

In the age of e-society, handwritten signatureprocessing is an enabling technology in a multitude offields in the “digital agenda” of many countries, rangingfrom e-health to e-commerce, from e-government toe-justice, from e-democracy to e-banking, and smartcities. Handwritten signatures are very complex signs;they are the result of an elaborate process thatdepends on the psychophysical state of the signer andthe conditions under which the signature appositionprocess occurs. Notwithstanding, recent efforts fromacademies and industries now make possible theintegration of signature-based technologies into otherstandard equipment to form complete solutions thatare able to support the security requirements of today'ssociety.

Advances in Digital Handwritten Signature Processingprimarily provides an update on the most fascinatingand valuable researches in the multifaceted field ofhandwritten signature analysis and processing. Thechapters within also introduce and discuss criticalaspects and precious opportunities related to the useof this technology, as well as highlight fundamentaltheoretical and applicative aspects of the field.

This book contains papers by well-recognized andactive researchers and scientists, as well as byengineers and commercial managers working for largeinternational companies in the field of signature-basedsystems for a wide range of applications and for thedevelopment of e-society.

This publication is devoted to both researchers andexperts active in the field of biometrics and handwritingforensics, as well as professionals involved in thedevelopment of signature-based solutions foradvanced applications in medicine, finance,commerce, banking, public and privateadministrations, etc. Handwritten Signature Processingmay also be used as an advanced textbook bygraduate students.

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TEXTBOOK

Modern Mathematics and Applications inComputer Graphics and VisionHongyu Guo

This book presents a concise exposition of modernmathematical concepts, models and methods withapplications in computer graphics, vision and machinelearning. The compendium is organized in four parts —Algebra, Geometry, Topology, and Applications. One ofthe features is a unique treatment of tensor andmanifold topics to make them easier for the students.All proofs are omitted to give an emphasis on theexposition of the concepts. Effort is made to helpstudents to build intuition and avoid parrot-likelearning.

There is minimal inter-chapter dependency. Eachchapter can be used as an independent crash courseand the reader can start reading from any chapter —almost. This book is intended for upper levelundergraduate students, graduate students andresearchers in computer graphics, geometricmodeling, computer vision, pattern recognition andmachine learning. It can be used as a reference book,or a textbook for a selected topics course with theinstructor's choice of any of the topics.

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Computer Vision in Robotics andIndustrial ApplicationsDominik Sankowski & Jacek Nowakowski (Eds.)

The book presents a collection of practical applicationsof image processing and analysis. Different visionsystems are more often used among others in theautomotive industry, pharmacy, military and policeequipment, automated production and measurementsystems. In each of these fields of technology, digitalimage processing and analysis module is a critical partof the process of building this type of system.

The majority of books in the market deal withtheoretical issues. However, this unique publicationspecially highlights industrial applications, especiallyindustrial measurement applications. Along with itswide spectrum of image processing and analysisapplications, this book is an interesting reference forboth students and professionals.

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Earth and Environmentalscience

Water in the Coming DecadesPolicy and Governance Issues in India

Kamta Prasad

India has a surface and ground water irrigationpotential of nearly 100 million hectares, which hasmade it a country with the largest irrigated area in theworld. This book deals with the policy and governanceissues in relation to management as well asdevelopment of water resources in India. It makes acritical review of the state of the art concerning most ofthe important aspects of the water sector and comesforward with practical suggestions to improve thesystem further. The perspective of this book is mainlysocial, economic and institutional and nottechnological.

While the focus of the book is on India, the issuesdiscussed and their implications are relevant to agreater part of the world, specially the developingworld. The book would be useful for researchers,administrators, policy-makers and those interested inwater resources in India and elsewhere.

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Geophysics for the Mineral ExplorationGeoscientistMichael Dentith & Stephen T. Mudge

Providing a balance between principles and practice,this state-of-the-art overview of geophysical methodstakes readers from the basic physical phenomena,through the acquisition and processing of data, to thecreation of geological models of the subsurface anddata interpretation to find hidden mineral deposits.Detailed descriptions of all the commonly usedgeophysical methods are given, including gravity,magnetic, radiometric, electrical, electromagnetic andseismic methods. Each technique is described in aconsistent way and without complex mathematics.Emphasising extraction of maximum geologicalinformation from geophysical data, the book alsoexplains petrophysics, data modelling and commoninterpretation pitfalls. Packed with full-colour figures,also available online, the text is supported by selectedexamples from around the world, including all themajor deposit types. Designed for advancedundergraduate and graduate courses in mineralsgeoscience, this is also a valuable reference forprofessionals in the mining industry wishing to makegreater use of geophysical methods.

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Typhoon Turning AtlasWeihong Qian, Xiaolong Shan & Haoyuan Liang

Typhoons with unusual tracks are difficult to forecastwith respect to whether, when, and where typhoonturning occurs based on traditional synoptic charts andnumerical weather forecast model products. Thistyphoon turning atlas provides an additional tool todeal with the typhoon turning question by using aphysical decomposition method together withthousands of plots. In particular, this atlas providesimportant information of 322 historical typhoons thatoccurred in the past three decades and demonstrateshow they were influenced respectively.

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Life Science

Systems Biology of ClostridiumPeter Durre (Ed.)

Systems Biology of Clostridium provides acomprehensive overview of system biologyapproaches in clostridia, especially Clostridiumacetobutylicum. Systems biology is a rapidly evolvingscientific discipline that allows us to understand andpredict the metabolism and its changes within thebacterium as a whole.

Clostridia represent one of the largest bacterial genera.This group contains organisms with metabolicproperties that hold enormous potential forbiotechnological processes. A model organism isClostridium acetobutylicum that has been, and is stillused in large-scale industrial production of the solventsacetone and butanol. Systems biology offers a newway to elucidate and understand the complexregulatory network controlling the different metabolicpathways and their interactions. All aspects from thedevelopment of appropriate experimental tools tomathematical modeling are covered, including afascinating historical account on acetone-butanolfermentation in World War II.

Written by world-class experts in their fields, SystemsBiology of Clostridium is an essential source ofreference for all biologists, biochemists, chemists, andchemical engineers working on biotechnologicalfermentations or industrial applications, as well asbiofuels.

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The Future of Food BusinessThe Facts, The Impacts and The ActsSecond Edition

Marcos Fava Neves

The Second Edition of The Future of Food Business:The Facts, The Impacts and The Acts is an updatedcollection of thoughtful articles previously published inleading newspapers around the world based on theauthor's practical life as international project leader,consultant, businessman, academic professor andworld traveller.

These articles focus on global food and agribusinessenvironment, food production trends, the structure offood chains as well as new concepts and ideas on howto increase competitiveness of food companies tocreate, capture and share value within the global foodand agricultural sectors.

This book also includes practical methods and smarttools that can be used by companies to facilitate theirstrategic planning and thinking processes, demand-driven orientation, supply chain organization,

marketing channels re-structure and mostly, how tocreate, capture and share value in innovative marketstrategies.

It is designed to be an easy-to-read business bookwith short chapters, discussion questions and groupexercises. Receiving more than 20 positiveendorsements from CEOs, the book is a must-read forentrepreneurs, researchers, executives and studentswho are active in the world's food business.

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ChemistryTEXTBOOK

Principles of Quantum ChemistryRam Yatan Prasad & Pranita

Principles of Quantum Chemistry is a textbook thatconforms to the postgraduate syllabus of chemistry atmajor Indian universities. Written in a lucid manner, itdeals with the fundamental concepts of quantumchemistry and provides rigorous and thoroughmathematical techniques. The text also answersfrequently asked questions and highlights the essentialmathematical formulae and important conclusions. Itwill be of great use to students of theoretical chemistry,molecular physics, quantum chemistry and chemicalphysics. It will also appeal to researchers to calculatevarious properties of atoms and molecules.

Key features• Provides comprehensive discussion on

mathematical techniques and quantum mechanicaloperators to solve problems

• Includes updated information on computationaltechniques

• Elucidates a structured approach for equations andmathematical derivations

• Large number of solved examples and numericalproblems for better understanding

• Model question papers for preparation of exams

PB T9789382993735 804pp ` 795.00


Medicine

The Theory of Chinese MedicineA Modern Interpretation

Hai Hong

This path-breaking book reinterprets Chinese medicineusing the approach of the philosophy of science in amanner that strikes common ground with biomedicalscience. It strips Chinese medical theory of themystique and metaphysical pretentions that too oftenplague the discipline, presenting this theory as beingderived from empirical observations and clinicalfindings. Concepts like qi and phlegm and vital organslike the shen (kidney) are interpreted, not as physicalentities with defined measurable properties, but asconstructs to facilitate the application of models fordiagnosis and therapy. The author evaluates the five-element model and the diagnostic-therapeuticparadigm of Chinese medical syndromes, andsuggests how these heuristic models can be subjectedto clinical trials. Principles governing the use of herbal,acupuncture, tuina and qigong therapies areelucidated and critically examined. Written for medicalprofessionals, philosophers of medicine and discerningreaders interested in alternative therapies, the bookalso has practical chapters on the placebo effect andChinese medical treatment of chronic illnesses, and auseful compilation of common Chinese herbs andformulations.

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General science

IndiaScience and Technology

CSIR–NISTADS

Policy-makers often come across the question of howprogress and investment in science, technology andinnovation (STI) can increase employment andupgrade skills and knowledge base in India. Theparadox is that while STI has the potential to inventnew avenues of economic growth sometimes evenwith increasing returns, the general forces unleashedby STI displace labour and automate a large part ofhuman skills and knowledge. Such a paradox has agreat impact on a country like India which is strugglingwith the ever-increasing pressure of labour force,unemployment and economic inequality. It is to benoted that the 12th Five Year Plan has made inclusivegrowth concomitant of employment generation andskill development a top priority.

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