जब से इस धरा पर जीव हैं, इतिहास साक्षी है तभी से 'जिसकी लाठी, उसकी भैंस' सबसे महत्वपूर्ण और प्रभावशाली सिद्धांत के रूप में लागू है। बस 'लाठी' और 'भैंस' के स्वरूप बदलते रहे हैं। वर्तमान समय में विश्व में कीमती संसाधनों पर अधिकार करने की लड़ाई जारी है। शीत युद्ध, तेल के लिए खाड़ी देशों की लड़ाई इत्यादि इसके उदाहरण हैं। पराधीनता का स्तर अब भौतिक नहीं, आर्थिक और वैचारिक हो गया है। 'लाठी' के रूप में है टेक्नोलॉजी और अर्थशक्ति। क्रियान्वयन का तरीका हो गया है जासूसी और गुप्त ऑपरेशन। मई, 1998 में भार...

नितांत आरंभ में… आपको मिलेगी चित्रा। चुलबुली और चित्ताकर्षक। अपने छोटे-छोटे बालों को, माथे से झटकती हुई। ऐसे ही वो झटक लेगी शशांक का दिल। फिर कशमकश, दुनियादारी, संयोग-वियोग से होते हुए मोहब्बत सबकुछ लुटाकर भी अंत में ख़ाली हाथ रह जाती है। विनीता अपने घर की दहलीज़ पार कर जब वापस आती है तो दरवाजे उसी के लिए सदा के लिए बंद कर देती है, जिसके लिए दहलीज़ पार किया था। आगे यात्रा में, जहाँगीरगंज और बेलहिया नामक दो गाँव मिलेंगे, अपने भोले-भाले, कपटी चरित्रों के साथ, संपूर्ण नग्नता में आपके सामने खड...

Engineering Materials for 3D Printing: Synthesis, Functionalization to Applications delves into the transformative world of additive manufacturing, covering the development and characterization of polymer-based materials crafted through processes such as extrusion, sol-gel, and pulverization. Over the past three decades, 3D printing has revolutionized the creation of functional prototypes, utilizing an array of materials like thermoplastics, resins, metals, and alloys. This book explores t...

Bloomsbury presents The Golden Road by William Dalrymple, read by Ranvijay.A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcastIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient world.In the millennium and a half from c. 250 BC to 1200 AD, Indian art, religion, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathe...

Bloomsbury presents India that is Bharat by J Sai Deepak, read by Ranvijay.India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European ‘colonial consciousness’ (or ‘coloniality’), in particular its religious and racial roots, on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation and the origins of the Indian Constitution. It lays the foundation for its sequels by covering the period between the Age of Discovery, marked...

"Since time immemorial, India has been an ocean bed over which numerous stories have flowed and enriched the world. Storytellers from Tulsidas to Rohinton Mistry have added their magic to this magnificent repository. Inspired in part by Somadeva’s Kathasaritasagara, William Radice collects these timeless tales of India, and tells them anew through his unique idiom. Like itinerant storytellers, he fills these tales with emotion and wit, bringing them alive for the contemporary reader. In Vo...

Margery Reed, the accomplished daughter of Verner and Mary Reed, was “one whose life was always youth.” While she spoke German, French and Italian fluently, Margery had a love affair with the English language and wrote poetry, prose and powerful short stories filled with imagery and poetic phrasing. However, her real love was being at the University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English in 1919, published two books and met her husband. As an eager young assistant professor in ...

This book presents the use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence in advanced and new manufacturing processes, including core concepts and techniques of machine learning. It covers recent developments and research breakthroughs of tribological properties of polymer-, metal-, and ceramic-based additive manufactured components. It details the various technologies available to fortify the machine learning aspects in the advanced manufacturing processes, focusing on multidiscipli...

Sustainable manufacturing is a key component in the engineering industry, helping to decrease emissions, costs, and energy use. Through examining how to successfully implement sustainability within Industry 4.0, Sustainable Manufacturing: An Emergence in Industry 4.0 covers recent innovations in topics, including circular economy, supply chains, waste elimination, and recycling.This edited collection is a cutting-edge assessment of the barriers preventing the implementatio...

This book compiles a diverse and interdisciplinary range of scientific literature, laboratory developments, industrial implications and future prospects covering Entomophagy in 3D food printing to fight against hunger and nutritional deficiencies. Recent developments in Entomphagy in 3D printing of Drosophila based materials, and their nutritional, social, economic, scientific and environmental aspects. are comprehensively covered. Readers will also find shortcomings, guidelines, ...

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has evolved as an emerging tool for the design of customized or personalized medication that provides the maximum therapeutic benefits to patients. The manufacturing of medicines in small batches customized with tailored dosages, sizes, shapes, and drug release properties is the key prospect of using 3D printing in pharmaceutics.Handbook of 3D Printing in Pharmaceutics: Innovations and Applications provides a detailed and in-depth technical discussio...

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of breakthroughs on additive manufacturing for plastic material recycling to boost a circular economy. It offers new ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods that work as a source of information for manufacturers in making new and strategic product development plans.Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling: Efforts in Boosting a Circular Economy provides a critical, comprehensive, methodological, and strong s...