Chronicling the stories of fifty of India's leading Olympians for the first time ever in one comprehensive edition, Digvijay Singh Deo and Amit Bose bring you the Games through the eyes of some of the best sportspersons in the country. These first-person accounts of Olympic medallists from 1948 till 2012, such as Balbir Singh, Leander Paes, Karnam Malleswari, Abhinav Bindra and Sushil Kumar and pioneers like Milkha Singh, P.T. Usha, Anjali Bhagwat, reveal their hopes, superstitions, grit a...

Processing, Properties, and Design of Advanced Ceramics and Composites II, Ceramic Transactions Volume 261Narottam P. Bansal, Ricardo H. R. Castro, Michael Jenkins, Amit Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Bose, Amar Bhalla, J.P. Singh, Morsi M. Mahmoud, Gary Pickrell, and Sylvia Johnson; EditorsThis proceedings volume contains a collection of 36 papers (~350 pages) from the following symposia held during the 2016 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T’16) meeting held ...

This CT Volume contains 11 contributed papers from the following 2013 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T'13) symposia:Next Generation BiomaterialsSurface Properties of Biomaterials

Taking place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this CT Volume contains 17 papers from the following 2014 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T'14) symposia:Next Generation BiomaterialsSurface Properties of Biomaterials

The field of additive manufacturing is growing dynamically, with continued interest from manufacturing and other sectors. Conceptually, additive manufacturing is a method to build parts without using any part-specific tooling or dies from a computer-aided design file. This new edition of Additive Manufacturing highlights the applications in aerospace industries, biomedical devices, and construction industries, with new material on additive manufacturing at the nano- and microscale...