Percy Jackson And The Last Olympian

Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world.

That''s how it is when you''re the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. According to an ancient prophecy, bad things will happen when I turn sixteen - because I''m the one who gets to decide the fate of the entire world. But no pressure.

This is the one where Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is beginning his attack on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Oh, and the dreaded (and not to mention enormous) monster Typhon is also heading our way. So it''s me and forty of my demigod friends versus untold evil . . .

ISBN: 9780141321288
Published by: Penguin Books India

A Leaf Out Of My Book

A journalist by profession, Benita Sen has been a prolific writer for children. Her stories have appeared in Women's Era, Chatterbox, Target, Amrita Bazar Patrika and Reader's Bulletin, amongst others. Paro Anand encouraged Sen to write more stories for children. Sen presently lives in Delhi.

A delightful collection of short stories, touching upon myriad aspects of childhood. The characters seem surprisingly familiar-as if they are straight out of one''s own neighbourhood! As the author herself says, ''There is no perfect ''hero'' or ''heroine'' of my stories. Most of them have shortcomings, much as I would. They can be mischievous, eccentric or plain quirky-but they are people who add colour to our otherwise humdrum lives''.

Lively, lucid and humorous, the stories subtly address serious social issues as well.

ISBN: 8129101009
Published by: Rupa Publications

Management Information Systems

Professor INDRAJIT CHATTERJEE is presently the Vice Principal of IIAS School of Management, Siliguri Campus, West Bengal. He has eight years of experience in industry, especially in the areas of manufacturing, information management and management information systems (MIS). He taught for eight years in business schools in various capacities. He is also a consultant in the area of higher education.

This introductory book on Management Information Systems (MIS) is designed to serve as a text for the students of management (BBA and MBA) and computer applications (BCA and MCA). Today, many management information systems are in widespread use by the managers at operational, middle and senior levels. This book will be equally useful to working executives and professionals who wish to grasp the essentials of management information systems.

This book discusses all the major areas in information systems with contemporary issues and their effects on business and organization. The main focus is on practical orientation and application of information systems and the emphasis is on real business scenarios. Each chapter provides spotlights on organization, technology or management related to the topics discussed.

The book provides a broad treatment of the core topics of MIS, namely databases, data communication, e-commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management, decision support systems, knowledge management, and also the ethical and social issues involved in information systems. It also discusses the development methodologies of system analysis and design which enable the actual information systems to be built to meet the needs of an organization. Case studies based on management of business information provide the students with insight into the actual processes involved.

ISBN: 9788120340237
Published by: PHI Learning

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
Published by: PHI Learning

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Electric Motors : Applications And Control

Late (Prof.) M. V. DESHPANDE, B.E. (Elec.), B.E. (Mech.), M.S. (Illinois), F.I.E.E. (London), L.S.I.E.E.E. (U.S.A.) and F.I.E. (India) served as Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad and College of Engineering, Pune. He also served as the Director of Technical Education, Maharashtra for three years, Director of Training, Maharashtra State Electricity Board for two years and represented India at World Power Conference in Canada, Australia, Japan and erstwhile USSR. With about five decades of experience in various positions, the author published numerous papers in reputed journals in India and abroad. Professor Deshpande was a prolific writer and authored seven books in Electrical Engineering.

This book provides a practical introduction to the various types of motors used in industrial drives. While selecting suitable motors for industrial applications, a good knowledge of the mechanical and electrical elements involved and a thorough understanding of the load and motor characteristics is essential. The book describes the load requirements of some typical drives, the type of motors used, their characteristics, duty cycles and specifications.

The starting, braking and speed control of dc motors, induction motors and synchronous motors are dealt with. The solid state speed control methods for dc and ac motors are discussed. The criteria for selection of motors for various industrial drives are explained in detail. Finally, electric energy conservation in the use of electric motors and drives is emphasized.

ISBN: 9788120336438
Published by: PHI LEarning

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A Tiger at Twilight and Cyclones

‘Manoj Das . . . [will] take a place on my shelves beside the stories of Narayan’—Graham Greene

This volume presents two celebrated novels by Manoj Das, one of India’s most illustrious authors, who has been writing in English and Oriya for over six decades.

In A Tiger at Twilight the erstwhile raja of Samargarh returns to his abandoned palace in Nijanpur, after years of self-exile, with his sick daughter and his supposed half-sister, and immediately assumes the responsibility of killing a man-eating tiger. Assisting him are a few noted men of the valley including Dev the owner and manager of a resort. But as the hunt intensifies Dev realizes that things aren’t as they seem: Heera, the raja’s sister, has an inexplicable power over the men in the hunting party and a strange connection with the tiger. As the men get closer to killing the beast, bizarre things begin to happen, hinting at the influence of the supernatural.

Cyclones is set in Kusumpur, a small coastal village, during the struggle for Independence. The village is devastated by a cyclone and Sandip, the scion of the zamindari family, helps restore it. The war-time colonial government, though, wants to turn the sleepy hamlet into a busy port town. They plan to fill up the river that flows by it, in the process angering all the villagers, including Sandip. But when the contractor for the project is found murdered, Sandip is accused of the crime, forcing him to flee from the authorities. This is the start of a series of adventures that take him from a remote ashram in a forest to the city where communal violence is rife. Cyclones is a powerful novel about the metaphorical storms that gripped the nation during the most turbulent period of its modern history.

Author: Manoj Das
ISBN: 9780143068556
Published by: Penguin Books India

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
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

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Don`t Sprint The Marathon

V. Raghunathan's first career was as an academic – as Professor of Finance at IIM, Ahmedabad, for nearly two decades, until early 2001. His second- a corporate one- started in 2001, first as President, ING Vysya Bank for about four years, and then with the GMR Group – an infrastructure major. He is currently CEO, GMR Group Varalakshmi Foundation. Also, since 1990 he has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bocconi, Milan, lecturing in behavioral finance.

Raghu has published over 400 academic papers and popular articles, and six books. He is the author of the best-seller Games Indians Play – Why We Are the Way We Are( Penguin, 2006), and Stock Exchange, Investments and Derivatives (Tata McGraw Hill,2007). He also writes a regular guest column in The Economic Times and monthly pieces in Mint and is a busy public speaker.

He has probably the largest private collection of old locks in the country, has been a cartoonist with a national daily, has played chess at all-India level, and sketched competitively in the past.

Life mimics a marathon more than it does a sprint

Obvious as that may appear, as proud and ambitious parents, we often push our children to excel in ways that may help them achieve some early successes – but may sap their stamina to endure the more difficult challenges which life may throw at them. What is more, our obsessive rush to get our children off to a good start overlooks the fact that in life, as in a marathon, an early lead hardly matters, but being too intent on coming first may leave our children lacking in many of the life skilld that a normal childhood would teach them.

V. Raghunathan, best-selling author of Games Indians Play, offers an alternative approach that can be even more rewarding: life, he avers, is not a sprint, and it does not in the long run matter very much if you missed out on the best school, college or job as starters. As long as you give yourself the time to develop your personality and skills, you will still get where you want, at your own pace and perhaps far more happily. To illustrate, based far more happily. To illustrate, based on first-hand interactions, he gives numerous examples of many achievers, famous and not-so-famous, among them N.R. Narayana Murthy, Dr Kallam Anji Reddy, Dr. P.D.K. Rao, V. Mani, Ashwini Nachappa, Ila Bhatt and G.M. Rao. For those helping their children along for success in life, or rethinking their children along for success in life, or rethinking their own approach to it, Don’t Sprint the Marathon will prove an invaluable guide.

ISBN: 9788172238575
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati

Born in France in 1956, Michel Danino has lived in India since the age of twenty-one, studying Indian civilization and culture. He has authored books in French and English, lectured widely and contributed studies to aspects of Indian archaeology.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Michel Danino worked for the protection of a Shola forest in the Nilgiris, and this has led to the creation of Tamil Nadu’s first joint forest management group.

The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as ‘Sarasvati’ in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early nineteenth century through topographic explorations by British officials. Recently, geological and climatological studies have probed its evolution and disappearance, while satellite imagery has traced the river’s buried courses and isotope analyses have dated ancient waters still stored under the Thar Desert.

In the same Northwest, the subcontinent’s first urban society—the Indus civilization—flourished and declined. But it was not watered by the Indus alone: since Aurel Stein’s expedition in the 1940s, hundreds of Harappan sites have been identified in the now dry Sarasvati’s basin. The rich Harappan legacy in technologies, arts and culture sowed the seeds of Indian civilization as we know it now.


Drawing from recent research in a wide range of disciplines, this book discusses differing viewpoints and proposes a harmonious synthesis—a fascinating tale of exploration that brings to life the vital role the ‘lost river of the Indian desert’ played before its waters gurgled to a stop.

ISBN: 9780143068648
Published by: Penguin Books India

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
Published by: PHI Learning

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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: PHI Learning

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The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces

Amitav Ghosh is one of India`s best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986. The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of France`s top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001. The Hungry Tide won the Hutch Crossword Book Prize in 2006. In 2007 Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Turin, Italy. Amitav Ghosh has written for many publications, including the Hindu, The New Yorker and Granta and he has served on the juries of several international film festivals, including Locarno and Venice. He has taught at many universities in India and the USA, including Delhi University, Columbia, the City University of New York and Harvard. He no longer teaches and is currently writing the next volume of the Ibis Trilogy.

The Imam and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh’s non-fiction writings. Sporadically published between his novels, in magazines, journals, academic books and periodicals, these essays and articles trace the evolution of the ideas that shape his fiction. He explores the connections between past and present, events and memories, people, cultures and countries that have a shared history. Ghosh combines his historical and anthropological bent of mind with his skills of a novelist, to present a collection like no other.

The Imam and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh’s non-fiction writings. Sporadically published between his novels, in magazines, journals, academic books and periodicals, these essays and articles trace the evolution of the ideas that shape his fiction. He explores the connections between past and present, events and memories, people, cultures and countries that have a shared history. Ghosh combines his historical and anthropological bent of mind with his skills of a novelist, to present a collection like no other.

ISBN: 9780143068730
Published by: Penguin Books India

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May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss!

Arnab Ray also known as Greatbong (http://greatbong.net) is one of India’s most widely read bloggers, having won the publicly voted Indibloggies ‘Blog of the Year’ in 2006 and 2008. He has written for the Washington Post, Outlook and Indiatimes. He graduated from Jadavpur University as a Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering and went on to finish his PhD in Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is presently employed as a research scientist and resides in the suburbs of Washington DC.

The wave of liberalization in the 1990s changed forever the face of India. It bolstered the economy. It raised the stock index. It raised hem lines of skirts even more. It led to the growth of the fashion police And also the moral police. Numbered items became item numbers. To the twenty-two scheduled languages were added C, Cobol, Java. You were either watching sitcoms or starting dotcoms. News became entertainment. Entertainment became news. Terror struck the country – sometimes in the form of gunmen from across the border and sometimes in the form of Bollywood movies.

To SMS-ize – ‘It wuz da best of tyms, it wuz da wrst of tyms’

Having been a part of this chaotic revolution in popular culture, blogger Arnab Ray of greatbong.net takes a funny, sarcastic, politically incorrect and totally irreverent look at assorted random stuff including Bollywood C-grade revenge masalas, ribald songs of the people, movie punching, fake educational institutes, stubborn bathroom flushes, unreal reality shows, the benefits of corruption, opulent weddings, brains in toaster ovens, seedy theatres and pompous non-resident Indians.

Nothing here is off-limits and no cow too holy.

We guarantee it

ISBN: 9788172239374
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling

Discover the best ways to use Office Excel 2007 for data analysis and business modeling and master the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use to transform data into bottom-line results. Award-winning professor and statistician Wayne Winston shares practical examples. How to create best, worst, and most-likely scenarios for sales, estimate a product''s demand curve, forecast using trend and seasonality, and determine which product mix will yield the greatest profit; how to interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales and how to assign a dollar value to customer loyalty are a few things that you will learn. CD includes practice files.

Author: Winston
ISBN: 9788120332621
Published by: Winston

Monkey-man

Usha K.R. has been writing fiction for over two decades, beginning with short fiction. Her short story 'Sepia Tones' won the Katha Award for short fiction in 1995.

Sojourn, her first novel, was published in 1998 and the second, The Chosen, in 2003. A Girl and a River is her third novel.
Usha lives and works in Bangalore.

A brush with a strange creature would change his life forever.

3 January 2000. It is the start of the new millennium. On Ammanagudi Street in Bangalore, a strange creature is spotted. As the beast seizes the imagination of the city, the first people to sight it—Shrinivas Moorty, a teacher in a local college, Pushpa Rani, who works in a call centre, Neela Mary Gopalrao, secretary to an influential man, and Sukhiya Ram, her office boy—are invited to talk about it on Bali Brums’s hugely popular radio show. What was it that they saw? A bat? A malevolent avatar? A sign of the displeasure of the gods? The grotesque mascot of a city that is growing too fast and crumbling too soon? Or merely a monkey that has lost its way?

Using evocative prose that reflects her profound understanding of human nature, Usha K.R. delves into the lives of her characters and their unexpectedly linked destinies in a city that has grown from a ‘Pensioner’s Paradise’ to the frenetic hub of the country’s IT industry

ISBN: 9780143068563
Published by: Penguin Books India

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
Published by: PHI Learning

Simplified Lean Manufacture : Elements, Rules, Toolls And Implementation

N. GOPALAKRISHNAN is President of Projects India, Bangalore, a company specializing in training and implementing lean manufacture globally. He has trained over 3000 personnel in lean manufacturing and has helped set up 32 plants using the principles of lean manufacture.

This compact and concise text, based on the rich and vast experience of the author gathered while training thousands of individuals, discusses what lean manufacture is and its elements, rules and tools. It shows how any manufacturing industry, irrespective of its size and the kind of products it manufactures, can adapt to lean manufacturing. The book explains in easy to understand language that, with the help of lean manufacture, an organization can improve its delivery time to the customers, reduce the cost of manufacture, minimize inventory, and raise profitability.

The book introduces the concept of value and waste and details the symptoms which indicate the necessity for an organization to adapt to lean manufacturing. It also shows how seven types of wastes are identified globally and how they can be eliminated. In addition, the book examines the primary tools and the secondary tools of lean manufacture.

ISBN: 9788120339439
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Globalization In India : New Frotiers And Emerging Challenges

Swapan Kumar Pramanick (Ph.D.) is a very well known sociologist of the region who is presently the Vice Chancellor of Vidyasagar University in Midnapore, West Bengal, India. He specializes in Indian Sociological Thought and Theory, Marxist Sociology, and Indian Stratification System, and has published numerous papers and three books. In the field of higher education and sociology in the state of West Bengal (India) his contribution as administrator and organizer has been relentless and inspiring. He has been associated with Indian Sociological Society for many years, and is one of the founder member and former President of Sociological Association of West Bengal.
Ramanuj Ganguly (Ph.D.) is a sociologist specializing in Sociology of Religion and contemporary Indian social issues, presently working as Reader and Head of the Department of Sociology, West Bengal State University, Barasat, West Bengal (India). He has numerous articles and two books to his credit. His forthcoming books are on sociological theory, concepts, and on B.R. Ambedkar. He is the Managing Editor of Bharatiya Samajik Chintan, and one of the Assistant Editors of West Bengal Sociological Review. He also performs the duties as one of the Joint Secretary of Sociological Association of West Bengal (SAWB) and Treasurer of Sociology Alumni Association, Calcutta University.

Since the last decade of twentieth century, India has strived for an experienced and unprecedented economic turn-around. The country has witnessed a structural shift in GDP growth, propelled largely by new investments and the growth of the value enhancing services sector. Globally, these efforts are not only source of appreciation but also of assumption for many that India increasingly being seen as part of new axis of influence in the world. Long established three-headed social problem—poverty–illiteracy–unemployment—remains the biggest stumbling block for a post-colonial country like India. New sets of problems have taken shape in the last quarter of twentieth century when policy makers and market participants have prioritized economic activities for short-term gains.

In context of the above, Center of Associates for Sociological Studies and Action undertook to bring out to the fore oft-neglected inter-disciplinary discussions and analysis in fifteen articles to examine the process of globalization in India taking insights from economics, political science and international relations, sociology, cultural anthropology, social ecology, management and cultural studies. It discusses the impact of the process of globalization on social institutions like marriage, family, economy, politics, education and religion.

The book is intended for postgraduate students and research scholars. It provides readers with a clear perspective about creating economics, environmental and social capital that can produce multiplier effect for making national progress more inclusive and sustainable.

ISBN: 9788120340381
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Modern Control Engineering

KATSUHIKO OGATA is Professor at the University of Minnesota.

This text is designed for the undergraduate students of electrical, mechanical, or chemical engineering for a course in CONTROL SYSTEMS. It is a comprehensive treatment of the analysis and design of continuous-time control systems. The basic concepts involved are emphasized and all the material has been organized towards a gradual development of control theory. Throughout the book, computational problems are solved with MATLAB. The text features an abundance of examples and solved problems that help the student gain a basic understanding of system behaviour and control.

ISBN: 9788120340107
Published by: PHI Learning

An Introduction To Reactive Power Control And Voltage Stability In Power Transmission Systems

A. K. MUKHOPADHYAY, Ph.D., is former Vice Chancellor of Tripura University and former Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Applied Physics of Calcutta University. Being recipient of several awards, Mukhopadhyay has published 120 research papers in national and international journals and also published books in various fields of electrical engineering.
D.P. KOTHARI, Ph.D., is Professor, Centre for Energy Studies, and Deputy Director (Administration), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has also been the Head of the Centre for Energy Studies (1995-97), and Principal (1997-98) of Visvesvaraya Regional Engineering College, Nagpur. Earlier (1982-83 and 1989), he was a visiting fellow at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
ABHINANDAN DE, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. Actively involved in research and consultancy work, he has published more than 30 research papers in peer reviewed international journals.
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.

This text, intended for the students pursuing postgraduate programmes in Electrical Engineering, focuses special attention on the implications of reactive power in voltage stability of transmission systems. The basic concepts of power system stability and other operational aspects have been discussed. Both the advanced and the practical aspects have been highlighted. Modern concepts and applications, theoretical as well as simulated study, have been presented wherever necessary. In brief, the text presents a complete overview of the research and engineering aspects of the problem of stability, suitable both for academics and practising engineers, along with a brief historical review of the concerned topics.

In some instances the authors have included some of their own research results while maintaining the uniformity of overall treatment of the book. The text is replete with examples and is backed up by analytical derivations and physical interpretations, wherever considered necessary.

ISBN: 9788120340503
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Interoduction To Algorithms

This internationally acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of computer algorithms. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and presents an algorithm, a design technique, an application area, or a related topic. The algorithms are described and designed in a manner to be readable by anyone who has done a little programming. The explanations have been kept elementary without sacrificing depth of coverage or mathematical rigor.

The third edition has been revised and updated throughout. It includes two completely new chapters, on van Emde Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms, and substantial additions to the chapter on recurrences (now called “Divide-and-Conquer”). It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks. Many new exercises and problems have been added in this edition.

The text is intended primarily for students studying algorithms or data structures. As it discusses engineering issues in algorithm design, as well as mathematical aspects, it is equally well suited for self-study by technical professionals.

“Introduction to Algorithms, the ‘bible’ of the field, is a comprehensive textbook covering the full spectrum of modern algorithms: from the fastest algorithms and data structures to polynomial-time algorithms for seemingly intractable problems, from classical algorithms in graph theory to special algorithms for string matching, computational geometry, and number theory. The revised third edition notably adds a chapter on van Emde Boas trees, one of the most useful data structures, and on multithreaded algorithms, a topic of increasing importance.”

Author: CORMEN, ET AL
ISBN: 9788120340077
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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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The Dynamic Earth System

A. M. PATWARDHAN (Ph.D.) has been Professor of Geology and Head, Department of Environmental Science, University of Pune. He has also been Director, Interdisciplinary School (Science), University of Pune.

Addressed to students and teachers of Earth Science as well as professional enthusiasts exploring the spectrum of the subject through applied disciplines, this second edition of the well-received text presents an insight into the Earth’s unique internal structure and composition. It facilitates easy comprehension of the complex dynamic mechanism of Plate Tectonics and processes, involving mantle–crust interaction, surface modification and biogeochemical cycles. The book also interconnects the magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary processes within the framework of Plate Tectonics.

The final chapter is devoted to the causes of natural disasters and environmental threats and their management.

The second edition spreads the subject matter into 14 chapters, putting more focus on the dynamic processes operating inside and on the surface of the Earth. It is replete with examples from the Indian geological record, making the book useful and stimulating for students, researchers, teachers and professionals alike.
ISBN: 978812034052
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