This book is for you if you would like to be involved in your school-going kid's math education and need to get your own basics right, or if you decided to extend your education, may be involving some computer programming, or statistics and want to be up to speed in junior high school math before taking the next step. This is not on teaching techniques.This is by no means comprehensive. It highlights some of the topics that are either easily forgotten or have been recently included ...

What would be the truth value of the statement, "Time has no beginning?" What existed a minute before the beginning of time? Are the past and the future alike? We know about fundamental particles near us. But beyond our universe, quadrillions of light years beyond the farthest heavenly body that exists, where there is neither matter nor light how far does space extend? Can infinity be covered? Can things which actually exist have an uncertain number or quantity? Why does time appear to flo...

শৈশবে শুনেছি ঊটি নাকি চিরবসন্তের দেশ। কিন্তু বড় হয়ে জানলাম শীতে উটিতে জল জমে বরফ হয়। তবে কিছু দূরে এমন একটা জায়গা আছে যেখানে বসন্ত চিরবিরাজমান। সেই ইয়েরকাড ভ্রমণেরই কাহিনী পেশ করলাম। সময়টা ছিল ২০০৬ সালের আগস্ট মাস। আমরা তিন জন যাত্রী উত্তরপাড়া থেকে ইয়েরকাডের অভিমুখে রওনা হলাম …

"When I was a kid dad told me that Ootacamund a.k.a. Ooty is the land of eternal spring in India. But when I opened the Lonely Planet India Travel Guide, I found that water freezes in Ooty in winter. Surely Ooty couldn't be the land of eternal spring! However not very far from Ootacamund there is a place in Tamil Nadu named Yercaud where the temperature sticks to the 13 to 30 degrees Celsius range forever! This combined with the fact that Yercaud has no proper rainy season makes it possibl...

A collection of 51 poetic expressions (shayari) of various experiences in Love, in Hindi with a flavour of Urdu and transliteration in English. It takes one through the various shades of Love, Union, Separation, Waiting, Longing, Friendship, Pain, etc.This book “Ae Dil” is a remarkably honest book. Honestly written, deserve a read and comment too. IMTEYAZ HUSSEINRenowned playwright and Bollywood’s screenplay writer,Leading figure for Urdu literature“Love Eac...

A Masterful, Time-spanning Doorstopper—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture"A dizzying, occasionally nausea-inducing masterwork that defies categorization or prurient interest . . . The flashes of insight about [Datta's] characters are brilliant, and frightening . . . the depictions of grief in Nebraska border on the transcendent."—Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Book ReviewAnna Chatterjee has just been relea...

New to cooking?Working and have hardly any time for the kitchen?Well, you have laid your hands on just the right book. This book is based on the culinary journey of three women. It has ample recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, dessert and even weekend delicacies. All you need to do is pick and choose from them and set your menu for each day of the week. Weekday recipes are short and simple while the weekend delights may be a little elaborate to comfort you after a s...

The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, ...

Contemporary India: The Basics provides readers with a clear and accessible guide through the richness, diversity and complexity of twenty-first century India. It explores the reality of the country’s cultural diversity which creates both harmony and tension. Covering issues the country faces both domestically and on the global stage, this book analyzes the political, social, cultural and economic landscape of India and investigates how the future might look for India. The book ad...

This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive, digital and globalized business landscape.An integrative framework, ‘The Four Rs of Competitive Success’, is introduced, which covers the four core pillars of global strategy: resources and capabilities, technology and innovation (recombination), internationalization and international markets (reach), and physical and virtual location (roots). It then explains how competitive advantage is achieved throu...

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This book provides an explanation of the nature of the Indian university system, including its specificities and its peculiarities as well as exploring how they developed. It offers a historical and institutional perspective by singling out the forces that have shaped the present Indian higher education system. Bridging the pre-independence and the post-independence eras, the book illustrates the continuities as well as the differences between the two epochs. It makes a compelling case for...