Members of the middle class in colonial Malabar left behind a copious amount of writings. These are to be found, among other places, in magazines, autobiographies and diaries. This book explores the social history of the middle class in the region during the British period on the basis of these writings in combination with archival sources. It delves into how they conceptualized domesticity, forged new friendships cutting across caste, and sometimes, even racial lines, and the new forms of...

Write clean, confident React tests that eliminate bugs before they reach users.Key Features? End-to-end React testing with Jest and React Testing Library.? Hands-on coverage of hooks, async flows, Redux, routing, and CI.? Modern testing strategies using Jest, RTL, MSW, and real scenarios.Book DescriptionUltimate React Testing with Jest uses Jest as the foundation to ...

A 30 Day Challenge to Wake Up Happy and Shake Up Your LifeIf you wake up feeling tired, distracted, or already behind, you’re not alone—this book is your reset button. Magical Mornings is a curated morning ritual that blends ancient wisdom with modern science—designed to help you feel calm, clear, and energized before the world even wakes up.Told through a soul-stirring conversation between Partha, a burnt-out professional, and Achyuta, a mystical mentor he meets in the sac...

Learn how to virtualize your network and discover the full potential of a Software Defined Data Center. A smarter way to use network resources begins hereKey Features\[\*\]Experience the dynamism and flexibility of a virtualized software defined data center with NSX\[\*\]Find out how to design your network infrastructure based on what your organization needs\[\*\]From security to automation, discover how NSX’s impressive range of features can u...

This book details the temporal transformations in modernity as they have manifested in social structures and relationships. Globalization has created a new reality in the image of the new-age truth—the reality of pluralism which has transformed the way human relations have been organized. There has been a surge of new values and new ideas. All these have collectively formed a new consciousness. This book captures the said consciousness in its totality through its various manifestations in ...

Antimicrobial Peptides: Challenges and Future Perspectives covers the latest developments about antimicrobial peptides in the scenario of drug resistance. The book is divided into 16 chapters arranged in sequence and preceded by chapters on historical developments and their role as regulatory molecules in innate defense mechanism. Emphasis is given to purification techniques and characterization suitable for interdisciplinary research. Chapters provide an inventory of various antimicrobial...

This book provides perspectives on the relevance of European Studies as a disciplinary category for the Asian region. That being the primary focus, the book serves a larger purpose. First, it provides insights on European society, polity and economy (including European Integration) as they are accounted in European Studies. The epistemological character of the knowledge thus conveyed has larger credibility and reliability such that they can become policy inputs and imaginations for strengt...

This edited volume records the amazing transformations brought about by leaders in legal education and legal profession. It captures experiences and experiments in the governance of law schools and legal profession during the COVID-19 pandemic as case studies; ideas which helped in resilience and which could show the way forward; the psychological, philosophical, and sociological aspects of the transformation; and the spiritual and material sources of motivation of the leadership. The cont...

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Logic and Its Applications, ICLA 2023, which was held in Indore, India, in March 2023.Besides 6 invited papers presented in this volume, there are 9 contributed full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The volume covers a wide range of topics. These topics are related to modal and temporal logics, intuitionistic connexive and imperat...

This volume is a collection of ten essays that direct their gaze to the unfolding of contagions in the non-classical contexts of Asia and Africa. Or, to borrow from the title of one of Partha Chatterjee’s books, they are reflections on the pandemic in most of the world. Featuring many scholars (of the humanities and social sciences) in the Global South, these chapters take as their intellectual focus the political-social as well as the ethical challenges posed by the contagions in the "Eas...

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference Trending Moments and Steer Forces – Civil Engineering Today (TMSF 2019). It presents latest research in different domains of civil engineering like structural and concrete engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, and construction technology and management. The contents also include miscellaneous applications of civil engineering in a wide range of techni...

Have you ever wondered how to foster your child's curiosity and love for India? How to help introduce, or cement Indian culture, or maybe to rekindle or remind your beloved little ones of their homeland? This book will help your child cherish their heritage and hopefully inspire you to share your own stories of India.My India: A Journey of Discovery is a charming book that invites young readers of Indian descent on an exciting journey to discover their hom...