Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East. It examines the East India Company’s long struggles to build up trade, leading to Britain’s political and commercial dominance of India, Asia and Africa.

This book describes the source parameters, faulting mechanism, slip distribution, rupture pattern, and aftershock behaviour of the Nepal Earthquake of 2015. This book sheds light on the damage pattern and the geodetic deformation and past seismicity and geology of the region. It also discusses empirical relations useful for assessing future earthquakes and the possible extent of damages caused by the different intensities, magnitude, and duration of aftershocks. Arguments discussed in the ...

This book explores and analyses funerary rite struggles in a nation where Christianity is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and many families have Christian and Hindu, Buddhist and Traditionalist (kiranti) members, who go through traumatic experiences at the death of their family members. The context of mixed affiliation raises questions of social, psychological and religious identity for Christian converts, which are particularly acute after a death in their family. Using empirical resea...

Military service involves exposure to multiple sources of chronic, acute, and potentially traumatic stress, especially during deployment and combat. Notoriously variable, the effects of stress can be subtle to severe, immediate or delayed, impairing individual and group readiness, operational performance, and—ultimately—survival. A comprehensive compilation on the state of the science, Biobehavioral Resilience to Stress identifies key factors and characteristics that are e...

This book is the compendium of those thoughts, ideals, principles and values which are essential for the harmonious development of man. It reflects the nature, pattern, direction and destination of the life of man. It addresses the most basic needs, desires and concerns of man. It contains both the ends of life and the means of living. It is a holistic vision that facilitates to see the entire complexities of life at a glance.The ideas contained in this book are universally applicable irrespe...

Work with Oracle database’s high-availability and disaster-management technologies. This book covers all the Oracle high-availability technologies in one place and also discusses how you configure them in engineered systems and cloud services.You will see that when you say your database is healthy, it is not limited to whether the database is performing well on day-to-day operations; rather it should also be robust and free from disasters. As a result, your database will be capable...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Creativity in Intellectual Technologies and Data Science, CIT&DS 2025, held in Volgograd, Russia, during September 22–25, 2025.The 48 full papers and 3 keynote papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Artificial intelligence for Creative tasks; Knowledge Discovery in Patent and Open Sources; Large Language Models ...

The book is on latest investigations of natural hazards like earthquakes, landslides, and glacial hazards carried out in last few years. Review papers are on the crustal structure of Himalaya based on latest studies through tomography and receiver transfer function. The seismotectonic models inferred from detailed modelling are also presented. Papers are on shallow soil/sediment structures inferred from passive seismic data, and also on estimation of strong ground motion. Several papers ar...

This book has been brought out in remembrance of Prof. DK Paul who has contributed immensely to the domain of Earthquake Engineering and Earthquake Disaster Mitigation. Prof. Paul was a leading authority in this field and has made significant contributions in Earthquake Resistant Analysis as well as Design of various special structures, which resulted in earthquake disaster reduction in India. This book comprises recent diverse topics on earthquake engineering and disaster mitigation. The ...

This collection critically examines tourism as a site of intercultural communication, drawing on the analytical tools afforded by the discipline toward better understanding contemporary tourism discourses and the broader societal structures of power and ideologies in which they are situated.The volume interrogates culture and interculturality in tourism in detailed analyses of discursive details in tourism interactions and focuses on the notion of culture as a process or phenomenon...

this e book is about birth of lord Ganesha. description of Bal Ganesh. his greatness and celebrations of his birthday by devotees explained in simple words