General
28 books
This volume is comprised of forty-one well researched and illustrated papers on Cult of the Goddess. It tries to trace the origin and trajectory of the divine feminine force in art and culture for over a period of five millennia, which is a great achievement in itself. While exploring the living tradition of the Great Goddess, the book offers unique insight to the psyche of India and the Greater India.
In the multifaceted goddess cult, the goddess takes diverse ...
This book is the study of human dealings with other human beings and the adjustment of working relationship between human groups. Delhi is a historical and ancient city. Its history and institutions form an unbroken chain by which its past is linked with the present.
The battle-fields of Kurukshetra and Panipat have often decided the fate of Delhi and ultimately the whole of India. At various times the city was attacked and looted by the outside people and they ...
The book India Tomorrow --The Next Superpower has been written keeping in view the tremendous latent potential of India to rise to a level where it can voice its opinion at the world's centre stage and also get reckoning as a nation with a wider influence in the comity of nations. Of late, India has moved away from the traditional economic model of mixed economy and adopted the path of globalization, privatization, and liberalization which has resulted in rich ...
With India making great strides in the field of Information Technology and the West outsourcing its work to our talented workforce, it is time that we presented before the world a new, modern and vibrant India – an India that has beautifully integrated its own heritage with the best of the world.‘Living in India’ is an insight into how a modern, chic Indian lives – a splendorous living that evokes envy, sets aspirations and showcases to ...
This is widely accepted reference book for B.A., B.Com, B.C.A., B.C.A., L.L.B., L.L.M., M.A., M.Com, M.B.A., and M.C.A. classes of Indian universities. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of E-Research Methodology.The author has specially designed this book based on the original readings. In the present volume the author has made an effort to keep the language simple, without compromising the effectiveness of the argument or diluting the analyses.
India--a land of a billion people,a nation for a billion reasons. India continues to mesmerise and surprise the rest of the world as much as she enchants and bewilders her own people.An ancient civilisation and a young nation at once, modern India is a thriving democracy, an economic powerhouse, an increasingly assertive global political player and a world leader in science and technology. At the same time, she remains rooted in tradition - her art, culture and ...
This is a reference book for parents to name children, authors to name characters, property developers, manufacturers to name products, advertisers to name whatever they undertake to advertise, information technologists to name mushrooming websites... in fact, for anyone to name anything.
The growing demand for new services and for higher data rates in existing services, and the convergence of communications and computing networks are placing unprecedented demand on the use of Radio frequencies. The current surge of new techniques and systems being applied to telecommunications requires new radio propagation information, especially for Satellite-to-Earth paths. Short range propagation within buildings, long range propagations into buildings and ...
This book attempts to study the developmental perspectives and educational initiatives for children with disabilities. Gaining an understanding and conceptual clarity on disability, it reviews the existing models and explanations of disability.Examining the theoretical explorations of the psychosocial responses of families of children with special needs, it analyses the rights of children with disability. It also takes a close look at the philosophy, perspectives ...
Nuclear capability, self-sufficiency in food production, an array of indigenous satellites and missiles, an unmanned Moon mission—India’s achievements in the scientific domain in recent years have been spectacular. But, according to the country’s best-known scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and his close associate Y.S. Rajan, we’ve only just begun. In a century that many experts predict may belong to India, the realization of the vision of a ...
Nazrul’s works have often bring taken up for dissertations and scholarly speculations in many books and journals since his death. However, this book is more of a personal approach to understand the towering presence behind an astonishing corpus of one of the Most influential Bengali poets of the twentieth century, hence the format of a photo album. My object here is to, Primarily, inform the newer, English and Bengali-reading generation who have ...
Bagchi's first best-selling book, The High-Performance Entrepreneur, shared his story of building a company. His second bestseller, Go Kiss the World, was the story of his life, a motivation to young people that anyone can achieve. But as Subroto Bagchi says: 'Go Kiss the World did not provide a tool kit.' In The Professional he gives us his knowledge, based on his lifelong experience, of what it takes to be a professional, what qualities you need to ...
Relatively, a new disease, Swine flu, also known as Swine influenza (also called hog flu, and pig flu) is an infection of a host animal by any one of several specific types of microscopic organisms, called "swine influenza virus". In 2009, the media labelled as "swine flu", the flu caused by 2009's new strain of swine-origin A/H1N1 pandemic virus. A swine influenza virus (SIV) is an strain of the influenza family of viruses that is usually ...
Study of Civilization proves to be an interesting but complicated affair. The term 'civilization' refer to 'a society, its culture and its way of life, during a particular period of time or in a particular par of the world.' It deals at length, with the customs and traditions, prevalent in a society, ways to look at life and their views about life, here and hereafter. Food habits, clothing and ways of earning livelihood are some of the factors, ...
With one of the highest GDP growth rates in the world and an array of recent achievements in technology, industry and entrepreneurship, India strides confidently towards the future. But, in the world's largest democracy, not everyone is equally fortunate. More than 300 million Indians are still prey to hunger, illiteracy and disease, and 51 per cent of India's children are still undernourished. What will it take for India to bridge this great divide? When ...
Being a vast sub-continent, India is well-known for its charm and beauty. Culturally, its contribution is fairly rich not only in Asia, but all over the world. This vast nation is most significant for its pompous, colourful fairs and festivals. Vertually, each city, town and village celebrates its fair with much eclat in which men, women and young boys and girls participate in large numbers. Being a social gathering, normally an annual feature, the people are ...
Invaluable to every home, this book contains over five thousand names arranged alphabetically and phonetically. This book is unique in many respects. It is the first book of its kind which provides the etymology of words and gives brief biographical sketches of individuals who bear distinguished names. In his introduction Mr. Kamath, who has put in painstaking hours over two years to bring out this compilation, also tells us about the christening rituals common ...
Every young person-whether male or female-has his own concept of a dream-home.And expert-help can contribute a lot to turn this dream into a reality. Here is a perfect guide for home-makers, young men and women, who are in the throes of setting up their new homes. The author has provided from his vast experience and knowledge a wealth of money and time-saving hints on household tasks like storage, kitchen maintenance, fast cooking etc. You will find here easy ...
Dick Hills offers essential but splendid pieces of advice in this book to all couples. They are valuable to every one to sustain married life until eternity. *Do not underestimate the power of sex. *Marry a plain girl rather than a beautiful one. *Do not employ usual weak reasons to obtain divorce. *A wise man mostly seeks the favour of his in-laws.*Remember, a marrige involves cohabitation, but cohabitation does not make a marriage.
How to turn your man into a loving and caring husband! This book comes out with some down-to-earth advice on how to improve the quality of husband-wife relationships and make it a source of immense pleasure.
Bring your garden greenery indoors and breathe life into interior decoration.
Here is book for anyone intersted in increasing his awareness of English speech and usage in the lighter vein. Deft speeches which are witty, humorous, satirical and crooked have been incorporated in this book simply for the pleasure of reading as well as making use of them in routine daily expression. The book will help you in sharpening your thought and speech, giving you an edge over a party table or office meeting or even when you are required to deliver an ...
Love, like faith, is said to move mountains. Indeed, one man`s love for Helen of Troy led to the launch of a thousand warships and a ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Although the passionate moments of love are always heady, the aftermath can also be tragic, since both are inseparable elements of the same coin. While one and all would welcome love`s throbbing passion, we are all wary of its searing flame. Therefore, the book is profusely peppered ...
Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award, awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order". Unlike knights, holders of the Bharat Ratna carry no special title nor any other honorifics, but they do have a place in the Indian order of precedence. The award was established by the first President of India, Rajendra ...