1. Write-up for the back cover and brochure: Volume I of Transportation Engineering provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of highway engineering: surveys for alignment; geometric design; pavement design; construction aspects that include pavement materials, drainage, roadside development and arboriculture; maintenance; and highway economics and finance. The contents have been designed with care to cover the syllabus of undergraduate programmes of all ...
Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing millions to collectively experience the endemic discomforts of third-class travel, the public opportunities for proximity and contact created by railways simultaneously compelled colonial society to confront questions about exclusion, difference, and community. It was not only passengers, however, who were affected by the ...
China’s accession to the WTO was a turning point in world economy. A relatively closed economy of the eighties and nineties was promised to be an open one in early 21st century by formally joining the WTO in 2001. The political and economic course that China followed soon after in terms of openness and reforms began to question the purpose, motive and intent of the Central leadership. Is China really open today? Has it fulfilled all its WTO commitments to ...
The book titled “ Aviation Management and Operation: Elements, Dimensions and Trends” provides readers with an introductory overview of aviation and hospitality industry. Focus lies on aircrew with highlights on pilots, flights engineers and air hostesses. Emphasis is also there on airline alliances, mergers and acquisitions. The focus also lies on flight instructor and trainer, ground instructor, aircraft maintenance engineer and technician. Emphasis ...
