This upbeat and accessible picture book biography makes math fun with the true story of record-breaking Indian mathematician Shakuntala Devi taking on the world’s toughest math problems.Little Shakuntala loved to race all over her small town, against her siblings and cousins—and even chickens! But she wasn’t just speedy on her feet. She raced against numbers in her mind. Shakuntala would count up all the animals at her father’s circus, multiply the times her mother...

A lyrical picture book biography of India's boxing champion Mary Kom--a young girl who followed her insticts and left her beloved village and family to pursue a career that would take her farther from home than she ever imagined.Mangte Chungnejang Kom (Mary Kom for short) was born to a poor family of tenant farmers in the tiny village of Kangathei, in Manipur, India. Before and after school, Mary hauls bags of rice and buckets of water, and she plows rice fields wi...

The Disaster Squad is ready to save the day in this USA Today bestselling early chapter book series perfect for fans of the Magic Tree House series, or for kids who aren't quite ready to read I Survived!Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost r...

Management Musings is not about management theories or frameworks. It is about the human side of management — where intuition meets intellect, and where leadership is tested not in seminars or boardrooms, but in everyday decisions that affect people’s lives.Through these essays and reflections, the book has captured the essence of what truly drives effective management: clarity of purpose, courage to act, empathy to understand, and humility to learn. Whether drawn from the author’s ...

T.S.S. Rajan (1880–1953) was many things—an acclaimed surgeon, a selfless patriot, a perceptive traveler, a shrewd politician and a conscientious minister. Rising from a poverty-stricken childhood shaped by religious orthodoxy, he emerged as a fearless freedom fighter under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari.Waves of Memory gathers Rajan’ reflections on the people, incidents and turning points that defined his remarkable life. From Srirangam and Madras...

Why do dreams feel like lived experience? What is the brain doing when it builds a world in the dark—and what does that same faculty have to do with planning, longing, fear, creativity, and the futures we try to make real?In The Imagined Life, Mayone Maha Rajan follows the dreaming brain from the measurable mechanics of sleep and REM through the unsettled science of why we dream, the strange cases that expose the mind's generative machinery, and the emerging parallels betw...

In a magical forest where flowers change colors and butterflies dance through the sky, kindness is the greatest magic of all.Princess Varna is unlike every other fairy—she has no wings and no special powers. Yet her brave heart and gentle spirit make her beloved by everyone. Her baby brother, Prince Vinay, possesses a miraculous gift: wherever he goes, beautiful flowers bloom.But when a jealous Spider King and his cunning cockroach minister steal the forest's sacred flower ...

Revolution is all about Change. At its core, it's when people collectively refuse the old order and bring a new regime; new rule. Silent revolution is when a change happens through the ballot, not the bullet, well within the constitutional limits. The beauty is nobody, the rulers, with all their government machinery, the poll pundits, analysts, and psephologists fathom the undercurrent of the TVK victory in Tamil Nadu. Even after the poll results, many of them were in a denial mode as if a...

This book masters the critical skill of selective data removal from AI systems—essential for regulatory compliance and ethical AI development. This comprehensive book bridges the gap between theoretical foundations and practical implementation, offering clear pathways through both exact and approximate unlearning methodologies. Designed for machine learning engineers, privacy specialists, researchers, and policymakers, it uniquely integrates technical depth with legal and ethical frame...

Materials Informatics: Molecules, Crystals and Beyond discusses the role of information science in aiding the discovery and interpretation of multiscale relationships that are critical for materials discovery, design, and optimization. The book covers key challenges in applying information science methods to materials science, including the multidimensional nature of structure-property relationships, data sparsity, and the nature and sources of uncertainty, along with a brief overview of t...

Design, Build, and Secure Dependable AI Systems Across the Enterprise LifecycleAI is rapidly becoming part of core enterprise systems but most security programs were not designed for systems that are probabilistic, adaptive, and increasingly autonomous. AI Security Engineering provides a foundational, engineering-first playbook for designing, operating, and scaling secure AI systems across the enterprise lifecycle.Written by Ashish Rajan, a CISO ad...

For decades, supply chains were engineered for efficiency—lean, optimized, and predictable. Stability was assumed. Disruption was considered an exception. Then, disruption became part of the operating environment.Visibility alone does not create resilience.Supply chains could be disrupted, but they often cannot respond or adapt quickly enough to changing conditions. Systems remained fragmented, decisions remained reactive, and coordination across partners remained difficult.