This book is a classic (and was earlier published by the author himself). This book is an updated version of the older book. It consists of fifty interesting cases in Clinical cardiology, and is a useful aid for self-learning. The author plans to bring out more books in this series.
This book is a classic (and was earlier published by the author himself). This book is an updated version of the older book. It consists of fifty interesting cases in clinical cardiology, and is a useful aid for self-learning.
Hitherto, the study of India’s railways has run along a few, increasingly well-travelled tracks. The central goal of 27 Down with its nine, new, railway-related studies—and much else thanks to its enclosed CD-ROM—is to explore some of the neglected dimensions of India’s colonial and postcolonial railways. The contributors, a stimulating mix of younger and older scholars, explore vastly different aspects of India’s railways, past and present. Railways and the nineteenth century capitalist development of South Asia, porters at a twenty-first-century Mumbai station, late nineteenth-century Hindi accounts of train travel, post-1947 films and writings that represent railways during the Partition of India, railway art on Bangladeshi rikshas, railway workshop labour, financing and managing the railways of North India, an exploration of why India’s railways did not contribute more positively to colonial India’s economic development, plus much more are found in the text and on the CD-ROM. Thus, social, political, cultural and economic dimensions of India’s railways are among the new departures in Indian railway studies found within this volume. 27 Down is a train with multiple destinations. Each exploratory trip is different but the contributors share an interest in the method of travel, India’s fascinating railways.
103 Trigonometry Problems contains carefully selected problems and solutions used in the training and testing of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) team. Though many problems may initially appear impenetrable to the novice, most can be solved using only elementary high school mathematics techniques. The key features of this book are Gradual progression in problem difficulty builds and strengthens mathematical skills and techniques. Basic topics include trigonometric formulas and identities, their applications in the geometry of the triangle, trigonometric equations and inequalities and substitutions involving trigonometric functions. Problem-solving tactics and strategies, along with practical test taking techniques, provide in-depth enrichment and preparation for possible participation in various mathematical competitions. Comprehensive introduction (first chapter) to trigonometric functions, their relations and functional properties and their applications in the Euclidean plane and solid geometry expose advanced students to college level material.
This book presents thought-provoking examples designed to challenge your ability to recognise grammatical errors or style problems and actually “debug” faulty sentences. Designed for those who aren’t professional writers but for whom writing is a necessary part of the job—technical professionals, scientists, engineers, and others.
‘GOOD WOMEN should not claim a share in the inheritance, even if they have no brothers….’ Notions such as this have, in their own way and over time, given the women in the Santal Parganas the resolve to wrest what is rightfully theirs. This is a powerful book in the way in which it unfolds the lives and anxieties of Santal women in the two villages of Dumka district, Jharkhand. From the very beginning, adivasi women come alive through separate life histories. They span different situations and social patterns but all of them relate to rights in landed property, and their own troubled identities in the backdrop of harsh living conditions, social discrimination and lack of state support. Land for the Santal women is not a mere economic resource. It stands for security, social position and identity, and in this men have a distinct advantage. Soon after, writing in a personal vein, the author unfolds how these anxieties of the Santal women resonate her own. The author traces the relationship between Santals and their land from historic times to the modern era when they have access to both the modern legal system and their own customary laws. She also examines the role of external agencies in this struggle – government administrative bodies, non-governmental organizations and political leaders. As modern influences crowd out traditional mores the author asserts that development is not always a benign process of social advancement but a highly political struggle for re-negotiating power relations between men and women, and among social groups. The use of a ‘community’ identity as adivasis has also been responsible for denying women rights to land in the context of the movement for political autonomy of Jharkhand. Based on rich ethnographic material, this sensitive book lays bare the reality of being an adivasi and an adivasi woman, in all its nuances, in the modern globalized world.
Suneeta Deshpande’s bitter-sweet reminiscenes are of a life fully lived, from a student revolutionary, stage performer, writer, to being an educational administrator. Translated by Gauri Deshpande from the Marathi original (1990), it paints a vivid picture of a large repertoire of roles packed into one eventful existence. Her biography reveals varied facets of a high-principled and intensely private person—a woman who could bring an intensity of purpose not only to bomb-making and underground work, but also to poetry-reading and tribal education.
Features: • has a one-to-one relation with the Coursebooks • each worksheet reinforces and extends items in the corresponding chapter of the Coursebooks, but using new situations
Achiever’s Course in English is a complete programme for the teaching of learning of English.The CoursebooksEncourage participatory learning and purposeful group activity. Promote fluency in the spoken language. Develop reading appropriate for each level with questions that explore the depth of the learner’s understanding. Provide exercises to improve writing skills with an emphasis on accuracy and fluency. Include note-making and summarising tasks for the middle school levels. The Workbooks have worksheets which are expressly linked to the Coursebooks and reinforce and extend the language items learnt in the corresponding chapter of the Coursebook, in new situations.The Enrichment Readers include a wide range of short stories form around the world. They help the learners discover various shades of meaning that literature has to offer, by way of the variety of question types.The series comprises: Coursebooks 1 to 8 Workbooks 1 to 8 Enrichment Readers 3 to 8 Teacher’s books
Actuarial science is an interdisciplinary science comprising four subjects—mathematics, statistics, economics and finance. Statistics plays a key role in laying the foundation of actuarial calculations in the presence of uncertainty in the mortality pattern of society and under varying economical conditions. Actuarial calculations mainly involve determination of premium rates and computation of reserves. This book discusses the application of various basic concepts and statistical techniques in the determination of premiums and reserves for a variety of standard insurance and annuity products, under a variety of conditions. Topics dealt with include application of utility theory to establish the feasibility of the insurance business, short-term risk models, distribution theory related to the future life time random variable, construction of aggregate and select life table, important concepts of financial mathematics, annuities certain, terms, endowment and whole life insurance products, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual life annuities. The numerous algebraic and numerical examples dispersed throughout the book and the variety of problems at the end of each chapter illustrates the concepts effectively. The main feature of the book is the use of R software to compute various monetary functions involved in the insurance business. R commands are given for all the computations and they are also explained, so that a reader, not familiar with R can use it. The command-driven R software brings out very clearly the successive stages in statistical computations.
ISBN: 8122204309
