“An unforgettable book, A Life in Trans Activism will leave the reader questioning the ‘safe’ and ‘comfortable’ binaries of male/female that so many of us take for granted.” – Feminism in India Born in Southern India to a conservative family of modest means, it wasn’t long before Revathi noticed she wasn’t comfortable participating in life as a man. This realisation set her on a long and winding search for survival and for a life on her terms. From the supportive yet strict—and at times ex...

When Revathi’s powerful memoir, The Truth About Me, first appeared in 2011, it caused a sensation. Readers learned of Revathi’s childhood unease with her male body, her escape from her birth family to a house of hijras (the South Asian generic term for transgender people), and her eventual transition to being the woman she always knew she was. This new book charts her remarkable journey from relative obscurity to becoming India’s leading spokesperson for transgender rights and an in...

This book is intended to support the students of undergraduate engineering in the related fields of Electronics and Communication Engineering as well as Telecommunication Engineering courses for practicing laboratory experiments. It gives relevant information on the basic understanding of circuit configurations and connectivity of BJT and FET Amplifiers and Study of frequency response. It presents the design and test of analog circuits using OPAMPs, understand the feedback configurations o...

In providing an in-depth exploration of cutting-edge technologies and how they are used to support data-driven marketing strategies and empower organizations to make the right decisions, Predictive Analytics and Generative AI for Data-Driven Marketing Strategies includes real-world case studies and examples from diverse marketing domains. This book demonstrates how predictive analytics and generative AI have been successfully applied to solve marketing challenges and drive tangible results...

Leverage the power of machine learning on mobiles and build intelligent mobile applications with easeKey FeaturesBuild smart mobile applications for Android and iOS devicesUse popular machine learning toolkits such as Core ML and TensorFlow LiteExplore cloud services for machine learning that can be used in mobile appsBook DescriptionMachine learning presents an entirely unique opportunity in software development. It allows s...

This is the story of Tsip a little female sparrow . Tsip , is rejected as a fledgling ,after an accidental fall from the nest and is saved by the Bakers daughter .Granma sparrow takes Tsip into her nest , she grows up with the other little sparrows ,Pip ,Puff ,Hob ,Aloe and Pisum . Tsip plays with acorn Tops , Palm carts ,Fruit games and hops around schools along with Pip ,Puff and Hob .One day ,Tsip is forcibly taken back to her parents nest and decides to fly away .On her way back to Gra...

The Smile Syrup is a mirror book in which the readers could see themselves validating their attitudes with their children. It gives a clear insight about how the everyday conversations with children shapes their personality and how to convey things in an appealing way so that children listen actively to understand the world better.

This book attempts to generate awareness among primary level teachers on what to teach and how to do it. The book pays attention to activity based learning. It is aimed to train teachers in the four language components: teaching handwriting, teaching nursery rhymes, techniques of storytelling and developing oral communication skills. This book is prepared for the teachers of vernacular medium elementary schools. For non English speaking countries, it is an excellent handbook.

This book is a collection of seven stories based on the history of 26 letters of the English alphabet. The appearance of the letters of the English alphabet has evolved over the centuries, as they travelled across many countries.The Roman alphabet was copied from the Etruscan alphabet, which in turn, was copied from the Greek alphabet. The letters of the English alphabet came from the Roman alphabet, which only had 23 letters. The remaining three letters W, V and W were only added ...

Due to the increasing availability of affordable internet services, the number of users, and the need for a wider range of multimedia-based applications, internet usage is on the rise. With so many users and such a large amount of data, the requirements of analyzing large data sets leads to the need for further advancements to information processing. Big Data Processing With Hadoop is an essential reference source that discusses possible solutions for millions of users working with a varie...

A story of friendship between a big bear and a small cat. Friendship,kindness, sharing, patience and tolerance are conveyed through these six stories. Ideal for children who enjoy simple, sweet and easy to read stories.

My name is Kavya. That I can live with. My brother’s name is Dhrittiman. That I’m still trying to come to terms with. And I get the feeling he has a tough time coping with it too. But we’ll survive his name. We’ll survive the mortification of giving out an address that goes: 708, Kansas, Grand Canyon, Bangalore, India. I’ll survive the company of friends who think I’m a vampire at best and an axe murderer at worst. I’ll survive Kiran. I'll survive swimming sinking drowning in his blue eyes...