The book intended exclusively for the usage of students, teachers and persons who are related to competitive exams. The book is based on our experience over the past 8 years and design on the basis of current competitive level of Engineering like IIT JEE mains/ Advanced, MHT-CET, BITSAT + NTSE, KVPY, Olympiad, IIT Foundation + CAT and other state engineering exams in India, where 1194938 i.e. around 12 Lakh of students (Year 2016) write a single engineering exam. As an educator, I understand ...

Permutation and Combinations has always been a dreaded chapter in every student’s life and they usually have confusion as to which book to follow. There is a large gap between the student’s understanding and the presentation of the numerous books available in the market today. To bridge this gap, Ramesh Chandra has come up with this book on P&C written in the best possible sequence. The book is compiled by the author to cover up the difficulties faced by the students. A No.1 success tool that...

This book explores the ideas of nine renowned economists to present the evolution of economic thought on the development and trajectory of capitalism as a system. The author shows how this diverse group of thinkers are linked by their thinking on the future role of capitalism in society and fleshes out the influences informing each economist’s work. With chapters dedicated to Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, Henry George, Gunnar Myrdal, Alfred Marshall, Allyn Young, J. M. Ke...

In recent decades, new endogenous growth theory has become popular but the ideas are not new. They go back at least as far as Adam Smith, and the subsequent contributions made notably by Alfred Marshall and Allyn Young. This book critically discusses and provides an historical perspective to the entire spectrum of endogenous growth theories starting with Adam Smith and ending with Paul Romer. It fills an important gap in the literature. While contributions of individual authors are readily...

When Lucy inherits her father's millions, the best of everything that life can offer seems to beckon for her and her younger husband, Richard. Richard, however, who has not yet learned his trade as a stockbroker, is determined to prove his masculine credentials in the running of a small engineering firm that Lucy has added to an already bulging portfolio.Richard can hardly believe his luck when an export opportunity is presented to him by a group of Kenyan businessmen. He soon disc...

Allyn Young (1876-1929) was a deep thinker and achieved fame during his lifetime. His fame owes more to his style and influence as a teacher than his published work. His greatest fame as an author rests on a single economic paper on increasing returns and economic progress but he contributed much more as a mentor to his graduate students such as Frank Knight, Edward Chamberlin, and Lauchlin Currie at Harvard and to the undergraduate Nicholas Kaldor at the London School of Economics. He sho...

What Your Face Says About You?Most of us are familiar with using palm reading to determine fame, fortune and future. How about face? Face reading, also known as physiognomy, is a science which predicts the future by reading the facial features of people. Through face reading, we can form an opinion about someone we meet for the first time. Of great importance, it is applicable to many occasions like blind date, job interview, making friends and business negotiation, and can reasonably help...

Pioneering Autonomous Technology: A Deep Dive into Hyper Automation, Volume 143 in the Advances in Computers series, showcases the transformative role of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning in creating safer, more efficient, and socially inclusive environments. This volume explores how autonomous technologies are reshaping healthcare, transportation, agriculture, and urban living. Chapters cover important topics such as a Survey on Deep Learning Based Autonomous Me...

Cerium is the most abundant metal of rare-earth elements. It can be used to make materials such as phosphors and alloys, that have applications in various applied fields (like electronics, magnetics and heterogeneous catalysis) and devices (like catalytic converters and gas mantles).Cerium-Based Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications presents detailed knowledge about cerium materials. Starting with the history of cerium-based materials, it gives an introduction to the sy...

“Festivals with Poetic Greetings” is a bouquet in which flowers of all main festivals and important days of the year have been arranged chronologically. Each of the chapters includes concise, correct and complete details about the festival it covers, followed by a few best wishes quotes in verse and with a few motivational quotes at the end. The book has two parts: the first makes it easy for a reader to know about Indian religious festivals and the second about national holidays and Inter...

The book explains elaborately the basic concept of Yoga, its origin, philosophy and aim, and also the relevance of Yoga in the present world. In fact, Yoga has an answer for every possible ailment/disease that affects the human race, including some of the deadly ones too, such as Cancer, AIDS, etc. Initially, the Yogic saints developed the Yogasanas by referring to animals, birds, trees and other creatures in order to stretch or relax. There are innumerable Yogasanas discussed in the book....

Perhaps the gentlest alternative healing therapy in the world, Reiki is a form of energy healing developed in early twentieth-century Japan, Reiki is rapidly breaking into conventional medicine because of its ease of use, its immediate benefits, and, perhaps most important, the element of care for self and others inherent in the practice. For those who seek guidance in bringing Reiki into practical use, Swami Ramesh Chandra Shukla's ‘A Handbook of Reiki’ is bound to become an indispensable...