Climate change is an intensifying reality of the present, reshaping land systems, ecosystems, and human livelihoods across the globe. Its impacts are most clearly manifested through changes in land cover and land use, degradation of ecosystems, loss of biodiversity, and growing risks to food systems, water security, and rural and urban livelihoods. Changing Climate–Land–Life Interplay: Spatial Approaches for Biodiversity, Agriculture, and Land Resilience in Emerging E...

In this gripping thriller, Hari Vandra, a restless crime reporter, joins Indian intelligence to uncover a sinister plan known as TUPAC II. Orchestrated by a secret alliance between China's Eight Elders and Pakistan's Compact, the plan involves supplying biological weapons to Maoist insurgents in India. Hari's mission takes him to Somalia, where he must locate the hidden weapons in a Coptic monastery. As he navigates a dangerous world of piracy, Yemen's Houthi movement, Al Shabaab warlords,...

The book aspires to do for Indian poetics what Hudson’s book, An Introduction to the Study of English Literature did for English literature, though in a totally different manner and style. It provides the student with the essential knowledge about almost all aspects of Indian poetics. Based on the original Sanskrit sources, it presents the necessary information lucidly in precise and clear terms. Each chapter is self-contained and complete in itself, with explanatory notes, and a bibliogra...

A police sharpshooter with Asperger's syndrome is tasked with cleaning up the streets of Mumbai in this "gripping thriller" ( Booklist).In recent decades, ostensibly to combat the rising tide of criminality in Mumbai's underworld, the Indian Police Service has carried out many hundreds of extrajudicial assassinations of suspects. Karan, an expert sharpshooter in an elite branch dispensed with dishing out this vigilante justice, has a difficult choice: shou...

It was raining that day. He had just returned from his office, drenched and dead-tired, and was about to open the door of his third-floor apartment when he heard a hoarse voice from behind. However, before he could turn his head in that direction and find out who was there, someone stuck something sharp into his left thigh from behind. He immediately drew back in panic. But by then, it was too late. The object was a sharp-edged knife. It had done its work; his blue Levi jeans had become dr...

This cookbook is essential reading for every ambitious IBM DB2 application developer. With over 70 practical recipes, it will help you master the most sophisticated elements and techniques used in designing high quality DB2 applications.Key FeaturesLearn to design secured and robust database applications with this book and ebook.Get to grips with all the important aspects of the DB2 application development life cycle starting with design and planning, m...

This ebook contains all the books, lecture, discussions, prose, poetry, and letters written by Swami Vivekananda, a spiritual teacher from India at the end of the 19th century who brought Vedanta to the United States and Europe. Vivekananda was a disciple of realized and awakened saint Sri Ramakrishna.CONTENTSIntroductionVolume IAddresses at The Parliament of ReligionsKarma-YogaRaja-YogaLectures and DiscoursesVolume IIWork ...

The 4-volume proceedings set CCIS 2090, 2091,2092 and 2093 constitute the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing, ANTIC 2023, held in Varanasi, India, during December 20-22, 2023.The 87 full papers and 11 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 487 submissions. The conference papers are organized in topical sections on:Part I - Advanced Network...

Hari Vandra is drawn into a covert mission to locate a vanished cache of weaponised pathogens hidden inside a remote monastery on Somalia's fractured coast. From New Delhi to the Gulf of Aden, he navigates a deadly world of pirates, mercenaries, and geopolitical conspiracies shaped by the Houthi insurgency of 2024.As betrayals mount and hidden agendas emerge, Hari uncovers secrets powerful enough to destabilise governments. Gritty and fast-paced, Lodhi Road is a geopolitical espionage thri...

This book provides an extensive discussion of the most current techniques and applications of nanomaterials in processes that produce bioenergy. In view of the necessity of protecting the environment and rising global energy requirements, bioenergy has gained enormous and escalating attention as an eco-friendly substitute for conventional fuels. Biomass typically yields biogas, bio-oil, biodiesel, bio-alcohol, biohydrogen, biofuel, and several other bioenergy outputs. The generation of the...

Rock Mechanics: An Introduction, Second Edition introduces rock mechanics fundamentals in a simple way with a strong practical bias, assuming no prior knowledge in the subject. It is essential text for students at the graduate level who are facing careers as professional geotechnical engineers. The book is also suitable for undergraduates and engineering professionals in civil, mining, petroleum and geological engineering.This new edition brings in a completely new...

The uncovering of an unnoticed and unpredicted serial killer by a new Inspector who has just joined the Police Force after graduating from the academy. The journey starts in a village, and how the history of serial killing comes to light for the first time. How the journey continues with the investigation process to identify the murderer and bring the culprit behind bars is the main story.