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My Beloved Life

A novel

By: Amitava Kumar

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An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, starting from his 1935 birth in a small village in India. Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He meets the sherpa who first summited Everest. He befriends poets and politicians. He becomes a historian. And he has a daughter, Jugnu, a television journalist with a career in the United States—whose perspective sheds new light on Jadu. All the while, currents of huge change sweep across India—from Independence to Partition, Gandhi to Modi, the Mahabharata to Somerset Maugham, cholera to covid—and buffet both Jadu and Jugnu’s lives. Piercing, fleet-footed, and undeniably resonant, here is a novel from a singularly gifted writer about how we tell stories and write history, how individuals play a counterpoint to big movements, how no single life is without consequence.

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Penguin

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0735246386

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9780735246386

The Yellow Book

A Traveller's Diary

By: Amitava Kumar

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The Yellow Book

A Traveller's Diary

By: Amitava Kumar

One day passes. Then another. A whole succession of days turning into months and years. How to mark our separate days? The places we have been. Our individual passions, our pain. Against the blurring of years, the clarity of a record. And even amidst crises, how to keep creativity alive? Also, how to stop time? After the first wave of Covid had passed, the lockdown was lifted and travel resumed in earnest. Amitava Kumar found himself in London with a group of American students on a study tour-in the midst of the Omicron wave. A year later, he was in India, in his native Motihari among other places. Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine and Rushdie was assaulted with a knife in upstate New York. Amitava kept a journal-to record the times he was living through and how he would like to remember them. In these pages, through words and drawings, an acclaimed author and artist reveals how a writer observes the world around us-and the world inside us. The Yellow Book, like The Blue Book, shows us how we can put together not just a journal or a book, but also how we assemble a life; and, in our troubled times, why we must plant memories and continue to believe in spring.

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Harper Collins

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9356996032

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9789356996038

A Time Outside This Time

A novel

By: Amitava Kumar

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A Time Outside This Time

A novel

By: Amitava Kumar

A blistering novel about a writer’s creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction “An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment” —Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies When Satya, a professor and author, attends a prestigious artists' retreat to write, he finds the pressures of the outside world won’t let up: the president rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and the twenty-four-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. For most of the retreat fellows, such stories are unbearable distractions, but for Satya, who sees them play out in both America and his native India, these Orwellian interruptions begin to crystallize into an idea for his new novel, Enemies of the People, about the lies we tell ourselves and one another. Satya scours his life for instances in which truth bends toward the imagined and misinformation is mistaken as fact. Mixing Satya’s experiences—as a father, husband, and American immigrant—with newspaper clippings, the president’s tweets, and observations on famous works of art, A Time Outside This Time captures a feverish political moment with intelligence, beauty, and an eye for the uncanny. It is a brilliant interrogation on life in a post-truth era and an attempt to imagine a time outside this one.

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Knopf

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0593319028

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9780593319024

Immigrant, Montana

A novel

By: Amitava Kumar

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Immigrant, Montana

A novel

By: Amitava Kumar

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes under the indelible influence of a charismatic professor, and also finds his life reshaped by a series of very different women with whom he recklessly falls in and out of love. Looking back on the formative period of his youth, Kailash’s wry, vivid perception of the world he is in, but never quite of, unfurls in a brilliant melding of anecdote and annotation, picture and text. Building a case for himself, both as a good man in spite of his flaws and as an American in defiance of his place of birth, Kailash weaves a story that is at its core an incandescent investigation of love—despite, beyond, and across dividing lines.

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Vintage

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0525520767

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9780525520764

Passport Photos

By: Amitava Kumar

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Passport Photos

By: Amitava Kumar

Passport Photos, a self-conscious act of artistic and intellectual forgery, is a report on the immigrant condition. A multigenre book combining theory, poetry, cultural criticism, and photography, it explores the complexities of the immigration experience, intervening in the impersonal language of the state. Passport Photos joins books by writers like Edward Said and Trinh T. Minh-ha in the search for a new poetics and politics of diaspora. Organized as a passport, Passport Photos is a unique work, taking as its object of analysis and engagement the lived experience of post-coloniality--especially in the United States and India. The book is a collage, moving back and forth between places, historical moments, voices, and levels of analysis. Seeking to link cultural, political, and aesthetic critiques, it weaves together issues as diverse as Indian fiction written in English, signs put up by the border patrol at the U.S.-Tijuana border, ethnic restaurants in New York City, the history of Indian indenture in Trinidad, Native Americans at the Superbowl, and much more. The borders this book crosses again and again are those where critical theory meets popular journalism, and where political poetry encounters the work of documentary photography. The argument for such border crossings lies in the reality of people's lives. This thought-provoking book explores that reality, as it brings postcolonial theory to a personal level and investigates global influences on local lives of immigrants.

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Univ of California Press

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0520922689

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9780520922686

The Blue Book

A Writer's Journal

By: Amitava Kumar

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The Blue Book

A Writer's Journal

By: Amitava Kumar

In those terrible days of the lockdown during the pandemic, we were all waiting. We were waiting for things to be all right. And one day, they will indeed be all right. But the dead will never come back. The businesses that have closed and will not reopen; the dreams dashed; the families and relationships that could not withstand the strain. This is why it is important to note down all the changes in our lives. Write them down in a journal. When we do that, we are recording our own history.' - Drawing as a way of keeping a diary, writing down thoughts in a journal as a way of maintaining a historical record - in watercolours and also in words. These were resources that Amitava Kumar had been using even before the pandemic arrived. But the task gained urgency just when he felt most isolated and afraid. The Blue Book is a writer's artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a flood of fake news, but also love in the face of loss, travels through diverse landscapes, and - if we care to notice - visions of blazing beauty. From one of the acclaimed and accomplished authors of our time, this writer's journal is a panoramic portrait of the experience, both individual and collective, of the pandemic. - 'To mull over a beautiful line while looking upon a beautiful painting is the sublime pleasure offered by Amitava Kumar's The Blue Book. This painted diary is a collage of the personal and the political, of terrifying news, the fleeting seasons, everyday pleasures, precious conversations, families and friendships-and on every page, the solace of art.' -- KIRAN DESAI 'A lovely homage to--and extension of--the tradition of writer-artists such as John Berger.' -- GEOFF DYER 'It's not good to read another person's diary. But Amitava Kumar makes the experience so intimate in The Blue Book that you don't feel guilty. You feel like it is your own.' -- GULZAR

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Harper Collins

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9354893821

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9789354893827

Lunch With a Bigot

The Writer in the World

By: Amitava Kumar

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Lunch With a Bigot

The Writer in the World

By: Amitava Kumar

To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft of writing, and a portrait of the struggles of a Bollywood actor. The title essay is Kumar's account of his visit to a member of an ultra-right Hindu organization who put him on a hit-list. In these and other essays, Kumar tells a broader story of immigration, change, and a shift to a more globalized existence, all the while demonstrating how he practices being a writer in the world.

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Duke University Press

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0822375397

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9780822375395

Husband of a Fanatic

By: Amitava Kumar

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Husband of a Fanatic

By: Amitava Kumar

In The Summer Of 1999, While The Kargil War Was Being Fought, Amitava Kumar Married A Pakistani Muslim. That Event Led To A Process Of Discovery That Made Kumar Examine The Relationship Not Only Between India And Pakistan But Also Between Hindus And Muslims Inside India. The Result Is This Fiercely Personal Essay On The Idea Of The Enemy. Written With Complete Honesty And With No Claims To Journalistic Detachment, This Book Chronicles The Complicity That Binds The Writer To The Rioter. Unlike Both The Fundamentalists And The Secularists, Kumar Finds Or Makes Utterly Human Those Whom He Opposes. More Than A Travelogue Which Takes The Reader To Wagah, Patna, Bhagalpur, Karachi, Kashmir, And Even Johannesburg, This Book, Then, Becomes A Portrait Of The People The Author Meets In These Places, People Dealing With The Consequences Of The Politics Of Faith. With A Writer'S Eye For Detail, Kumar Has Drawn A Map Of Violence. Informed More By A Traveller'S Sense Of Observation Than A Safe, Academic Moralism, Husband Of A Fanatic Refuses To Monumentalize Suffering Instead, It Presents Tragedy As Ordinary, And Hence, More Difficult To Accept Easily. In A Village Beside The Ganges Near Bhagalpur, In A Psychiatric Ward In Srinagar, In A Classroom In Ahmedabad ... Everywhere That The Author Goes, The Reader Is Compelled To Accompany Him On A Journey To The Heart Of Hatred.

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Penguin Books India

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0143031899

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9780143031895

Bombay--London--New York

By: Amitava Kumar

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Bombay--London--New York

By: Amitava Kumar

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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041594211X

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9780415942119

A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb

By: Amitava Kumar

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A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb

By: Amitava Kumar

Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. courts on terrorism-related charges: Hemant Lakhani, a seventy-year-old tried for attempting to sell a fake missile to an FBI informant, and Shahawar Matin Siraj, baited by the New York Police Department into a conspiracy to bomb a subway. Lakhani and Siraj were caught through questionable sting operations involving paid informants; both men received lengthy jail sentences. Their convictions were celebrated as major victories in the war on terror. In Amitava Kumar’s riveting account of their cases, Lakhani and Siraj emerge as epic bunglers, and the U.S. government as the creator of terror suspects to prosecute. Kumar analyzed the trial transcripts and media coverage, and he interviewed Lakhani, Siraj, their families, and their lawyers. Juxtaposing such stories of entrapment in the United States with narratives from India, another site of multiple terror attacks and state crackdowns, Kumar explores the harrowing experiences of ordinary people entangled in the war on terror. He also considers the fierce critiques of post-9/11 surveillance and security regimes by soldiers and torture victims, as well as artists and writers, including Coco Fusco, Paul Shambroom, and Arundhati Roy.

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Duke University Press

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082239135X

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9780822391357

World Bank Literature

By: Amitava Kumar

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World Bank Literature

By: Amitava Kumar

World Bank literature is more than a concept -- it is a provocation, a call to arms. It is intended to prompt questions about each word, to probe globalization, political economy, and the role of literary and cultural studies. As asserted in this major work, it signals a radical rewriting of academic debates, a rigorous analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a consideration of literature that deals with new global realities. Made more relevant than ever by momentous antiglobalization demonstrations in Seattle and Genoa, World Bank Literature brings together essays by a distinguished group of economists, cultural and literary critics, social scientists, and public policy analysts to ask how to understand the influence of the World Bank/IMF on global economic power relations and cultural production. The authors attack this question in myriad ways, examining World Bank/IMF documents as literature; their impact on developing nations; the relationship between literature and globalization; the connection between the academy and the global economy; and the emergence of coalitions confronting the new power. World Bank Literature shows, above all, the multifarious and sometimes nefarious ways that abstract academic debates play themselves out concretely in social policy and cultural mores that reinforce traditional power structures.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816638365

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9780816638369

Every Day I Write the Book

Notes on Style

By: Amitava Kumar

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Every Day I Write the Book

Notes on Style

By: Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the book's pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. Communication, engagement, honesty: these are the aims and sources of good writing. Storytelling, attention to organization, solid work habits: these are its tools. Kumar's own voice is present in his essays about the writing process and in his perceptive and witty observations on the academic world. A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book will interest and guide aspiring writers everywhere.

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Duke University Press

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1478007192

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9781478007197

Hunger: Theory, Perspectives and Reality

Assessment Through Participatory Methods

By: Amitava Mukherjee

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Hunger: Theory, Perspectives and Reality

Assessment Through Participatory Methods

By: Amitava Mukherjee

Hunger is an issue which has been subject to much rigorous intellectual examination by economists, philosophers, sociologists, NGOs and governments. This volume provides a critical overview of current academic and political perspectives and then compares these views from thenon-hungry people with those of thehungry particularly from a broad range of poor communities in India. Their views are gathered using participatory rural appraisal techniques and the scale of the material presented is unprecedented. Not surprisingly, the comparisons show that the perceptions of the hungry are fundamentally different from those of the non-hungry. It makes compelling suggestions about how best policy makers can attempt to eliminate hunger based on what the hungry themselves suggest. The book also draws attention to the critical role of Common Property Resources and women in the fight against under-nutrition, which have so far been largely ignored.

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Routledge

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1351156187

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9781351156189

Every Day I Write the Book

Notes on Style

By: Amitava Kumar

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Notes on Style

By: Amitava Kumar

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Empowering Panchayats

Handbook for Master Trainers : Using Participatory Approach

By: D. Bandyopadhyay,Amitava Mukherjee,Mitali Sen Gavai

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Empowering Panchayats

Handbook for Master Trainers : Using Participatory Approach

By: D. Bandyopadhyay,Amitava Mukherjee,Mitali Sen Gavai

This Book Will Be An Invaluable Handbook For Administrators, Trainers, Training Institutions And Scholars Engaged In Building Capacity Of Pri Functionaries. Twenty Coloured Posters Depicting 29 Disciplines Of A Panchayati Raj, As Incorporated In Eleventh Schedule Of Indian Constitution, Also Form A Part Of This Book.

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180690415

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9788180690419

Pocket Antioxidants

By: Amitava Dasgupta

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Pocket Antioxidants

By: Amitava Dasgupta

What are antioxidants and why are they so importance to our health? Pocket Antioxidants delivers current, medically proven knowledge about the power of antioxidants and how you can use them to find better health. Dr Amitava Dasgupta has an extensive background in antioxidant research and in this book he separates fact from fiction providing a simple yet scientifically sound guide to incorporating antioxidants into the everyday diet. What are free radicals? And how can we harness the power of antioxidants to live better for longer? In the modern world we don’t drink enough water. We eat the wrong kinds of food and we don’t get enough sleep or exercise. However, in this pocket-sized guide, Dr. Amitava Dasgupta tells you how even chocolate and alcohol can be good for you.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922190535

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9781922190536

Participatory Learning And Action: Monitoring And Evaluation And Participatory Monitoring And Evaluation (essays In Honour Of Robert Chambers)

By: Amitava Mukherjee

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Participatory Learning And Action: Monitoring And Evaluation And Participatory Monitoring And Evaluation (essays In Honour Of Robert Chambers)

By: Amitava Mukherjee

Robert Chambers, 1802-1871, Scottish publisher and popular writer.

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8180691063

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9788180691065

Clinical Chemistry, Immunology and Laboratory Quality Control

A Comprehensive Review for Board Preparation, Certification and Clinical Practice

By: Amitava Dasgupta,Amer Wahed

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Clinical Chemistry, Immunology and Laboratory Quality Control

A Comprehensive Review for Board Preparation, Certification and Clinical Practice

By: Amitava Dasgupta,Amer Wahed

Clinical Chemistry, Immunology and Laboratory Quality Control: A Comprehensive Review for Board Preparation, Certification and Clinical Practice, Second Edition presents core topics and 70 case studies that illustrate the application of clinical chemistry knowledge to everyday patient care. This succinct reference offers practical examples of how things function in the pathology clinic with useful lists, key points, case studies and a bullet point format ideal for quick pre-board review. While larger textbooks in clinical chemistry provide highly detailed information regarding instrumentation and statistics, this book is designed to educate senior medical students, residents and fellows on how tests are performed. This second edition successfully helps pathology residents gain command of clinical chemistry, toxicology, immunology, and laboratory statistics in an effort to help them prepare for the American Board of Pathology examination. Clinical chemistry is a topic in which many senior medical students and pathology residents face challenges. - Includes chapters on drug-herb interaction and pharmacogenomics, topics not covered by textbooks in the field of clinical chemistry or laboratory medicine - Presents seventy case studies that highlight clinical relevance and errors to avoid - Covers important clinical information found in larger textbooks in a more succinct and easy-to-understand manner

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Elsevier

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0128159618

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9780128159613

Modern Inertial Sensors and Systems

By: AMITAVA BOSE,SOMNATH PURI,PARITOSH BANERJEE

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Modern Inertial Sensors and Systems

By: AMITAVA BOSE,SOMNATH PURI,PARITOSH BANERJEE

Modern inertial sensors and systems cover more than five decades of continuous research and development involving various branches of science and engineering. Various technologies have emerged in an evolutionary manner surpassing the earlier ones in performance and reliability. The subject is still growing with proliferation in newer cost effec-tive applications, while its wider usage in aerospace systems continues. This book exposes the readers to the subject of inertial navigation, the inertial sensors and inertial systems in a unified manner while emphasizing the growth areas in emerging technologies such as micro-electromechanical inertial sensors, satellite navigation, satellite navigation integrated inertial navigation, hemispherical resonator gyro, vibrating beam accelerometer, interferometric fibre optic gyro, inertial sensor signal processing, redundant inertial systems and the quite recent emergence of cold atom interferometer based inertial sensors. The contents are imaginatively designed that will of interest to a wide spectrum of readers. The book has been written with utmost lucidity and clarity and explanations provided with a large number of illustrative figures. Besides being an ideal introduction to the principles of inertial sensors and systems for undergraduate and postgraduate students of aerospace engineering, the topics dealt with will also be of benefit to practising engineers and can assist the researchers to locate excellent references for research work. The authors have had three decades of design and application research experience in premier research institutions and have made use of their experience in giving a user-friendly shape to the book.

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PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

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8120333535

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9788120333536

75 Years 75 Films

India’s Cinematic Journey

By: Amitava Nag

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75 Years 75 Films

India’s Cinematic Journey

By: Amitava Nag

This book is an enthralling journey through time, exploring the Golden Age, the rise of Bollywood, the Parallel Cinema movement, global acclaim, and technological advancements that shaped one of the world's most prolific film industries.

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Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

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9354099696

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9789354099694

Perspectives of the Silent Majority

Air Pollution, Livelihood and Food Secuity - Indepth Studies Through PRA Methods on Community Perspectives in Urban and Peri-urban Areas of Varanasi and Faridabad, India

By: Amitava Mukherjee

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Perspectives of the Silent Majority

Air Pollution, Livelihood and Food Secuity - Indepth Studies Through PRA Methods on Community Perspectives in Urban and Peri-urban Areas of Varanasi and Faridabad, India

By: Amitava Mukherjee

This title was first published in 2001. This text is an exercise in learning from the voices of the communities living in Indian villages near urban areas. It is concerned, primarily, with learning what these communities have to say on their well-being and livelihoods and is, therefore, an attempt to record and register as much as possible of what these communities say. Agriculture in urban areas of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh plays an important role for livelihoods and in supplying foodstuffs to communities and markets. It constitutes a major source of income both for landowners and labourers. The study then looks at the relationship between agriculture and urban areas, and the phenomenon of industrialization/urbanization. In presenting these perspectives, the farmers gave insights into some related issues such as the role of agriculture in their livelihoods, the nature of agricultural constraints and the the impact of air pollution on quality of life.

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Routledge

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1351761099

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9781351761093

New Issues in Panchayati Raj

By: Debabrata Bandyopadhyay,Amitava Mukherjee

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New Issues in Panchayati Raj

By: Debabrata Bandyopadhyay,Amitava Mukherjee

Papers In The Volume Address Issues Like-Assessment Of Current Situation In Panchayats Participation Of Women In Local Governance, Implementation And Deviations Of Seventy Third Amendment. Self-Help Groups In Rural Development, Appropriation Of Power By Legislations, Officials Etc. Has Seven Papers By Senior Officers And Well-Known Persons.

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180690733

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9788180690730

Industrial Power Systems

Evolutionary Aspects

By: Amitava Sil,Saikat Maity

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Industrial Power Systems

Evolutionary Aspects

By: Amitava Sil,Saikat Maity

Industrial Power Systems: Evolutionary Aspects provides evolutionary and integrated aspects of industrial power systems including review of development of modern power systems from DC to microgrid. Generation options of thermal and hydro power including nuclear and power from renewables are discussed along with concepts for single-line diagram, overhead transmission lines, concepts of corona, sag, overhead insulators and over voltage protective devices. Subsequent chapters cover analysis of power systems and power system protection with basic concept of power system planning and economic operations. Features: Covers the fundamentals of power systems, including its design, analysis, market structure and economic operations Discusses performance of transmission lines with associated parameters, determination of performance and load flow analysis Reviews residual generation/load imbalance as handled by the automatic generation control (AGC) Includes different advanced technologies including HTLS overhead conductor, XLPE cable, vacuum/SF6 circuit breaker, solid state relays, among others Explores practical aspects required for field level work such as installation of cable network for power distribution purposes, types of earthing and tariff mechanism This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and professionals in power engineering, load flow and power systems protection.

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CRC Press

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1000567338

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9781000567335

Genetics and Epigenetics of Breast Cancer

By: Madhumita Roy,Jaydip Biswas,Amitava Datta

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Genetics and Epigenetics of Breast Cancer

By: Madhumita Roy,Jaydip Biswas,Amitava Datta

This book discusses the contribution of genetics and epigenetics alterations in the initiation, development, and recurrence of breast cancer. It also reviews the potential of translating the epigenetic alterations into diagnosis, prognosis, and breast cancer therapy. The initial chapters explore the epigenetics, etiology, and conventional treatment strategies for breast cancer. The subsequent chapters discuss the genetic landscape and cover three main epigenetic modulation mechanisms; histone modification, DNA methylation, and miRNA silencing. Further, the book explores the potential of epigenetic drugs in treating breast cancer. Lastly, it covers the phytochemicals targeting epigenetic modulators in breast cancer treatment. This book is an essential source for researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the potential of epigenetics modulators in breast cancer treatment.

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Springer Nature

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9811999252

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9789811999253

Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

Focus on Phytochemicals

By: Madhumita Roy,Amitava Datta

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Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics

Focus on Phytochemicals

By: Madhumita Roy,Amitava Datta

The book discusses cancer and the potential use of phytochemicals as cancer therapeutics. It begins with the basics of cancer, including the definition, types, etiology and molecular mechanisms involved, before discussing the fundamentals of diagnosis, treatment and associated problems as well as remedial measures. Since cancer is not a single disease, and the mechanisms of carcinogenesis are different for different cancers, it examines the genes and proteins involved in carcinogenesis, and signal transduction pathways for each individual cancer type. Further, the book reviews the latest research on phytochemicals for cancer treatment, highlighting their anti-cancer properties, sources, structure, active biomolecules and probable mechanisms of action, and describing their biochemical properties in the context of cancer prevention and treatment.

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9811394717

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9789811394713

Management of Hemostasis and Coagulopathies for Surgical and Critically Ill Patients

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Andy D. Nguyen,Amitava Dasgupta,Amer Wahed

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Management of Hemostasis and Coagulopathies for Surgical and Critically Ill Patients

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Andy D. Nguyen,Amitava Dasgupta,Amer Wahed

Management of Hemostasis and Coagulopathies for Surgical and Critically Ill Patients: An Evidence-Based Approach offers a concise guide to a sub-specialty of transfusion medicine from the clinical laboratory perspective. It focuses on the clinical tests that may be done during preoperative assessment, intraoperative, and postoperative assessment and management of surgical or critically ill patients. Management of hemostasis and coagulopathies is approached from an evidence-based perspective—the coagulation status of a patient according to the laboratory test results. Algorithms and decision-support software, designed by the authors, guide clinicians with an additional tool to base transfusion dosage on specific laboratory results, including the use of an artificial neural network for predicting more accurate blood use. Chapters reflect the experience of all three authors who have successfully applied the algorithm for better patient management as well as decreased wastage of expensive blood products, from both the clinical laboratory/pathology and clinical medicine perspective. This book will appeal to a broad section of clinical laboratory and medical practitioners from hematopathology, to internal medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology. For hematopathologists and pathologists who are involved in laboratory medicine and transfusion medicine, this book will help them understand the proper utilization of blood products and how to avoid unnecessary waste and costs for the hospital. For general surgery practitioners, this book will provide practical guidelines on how to use blood products rationally for best medical practice. Internists will also gain insight from this book, learning which patients are at higher risk of bleeding during surgery so that they can alert their clinical colleagues. - Focuses on the clinical tests that may be done during preoperative assessment, intraoperative, and postoperative assessment and management - Explains new decision-support software developed by the authors as a tool for the management of bleeding patients - Reviews common coagulation based tests (indication and interpretation) that are used to assist in the management of bleeding patients - Provides an overview of various blood products, pharmacotherapeutic agents, antiplatelets, and anticoagulants, their usage strategy, indications, and therapy goals

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0128035692

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9780128035696

Effects of Herbal Supplements on Clinical Laboratory Test Results

By: Amitava Dasgupta

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Effects of Herbal Supplements on Clinical Laboratory Test Results

By: Amitava Dasgupta

Herbal supplements are available without prescription in many countries throughout the world and accounting for over $30 billion U.S dollar in sale. A majority of U.S population (25-40%) use herbal supplements while alternative medicines are major forms of therapy in third world countries used by as much as 80% population. Contrary to the popular belief that herbal remedies are safe and effective, many herbal supplements have known toxicity and unexpected laboratory test results may be the early indications of such toxicity. In addition, some herbal products such as St. John’s wort can interact with many Western drugs causing increased clearance of such drugs and hence treatment failure. This monograph would provide information on how herbal supplements affect laboratory test results thus patient’s safety. This monograph would provide a comprehensive and concise practical guide for laboratory professionals, physicians and other health care professionals. The emphasis of this monograph is to provide clinically relevant information rather than discussing in detail mechanisms of such effect, although brief explanations would be provided for such unexpected test results.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110245620

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9783110245622

Antioxidants in Food, Vitamins and Supplements

Prevention and Treatment of Disease

By: Amitava Dasgupta,Kimberly Klein

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Antioxidants in Food, Vitamins and Supplements

Prevention and Treatment of Disease

By: Amitava Dasgupta,Kimberly Klein

Antioxidants in Food, Vitamins and Supplements bridges the gap between books aimed at consumers and technical volumes written for investigators in antioxidant research. It explores the role of oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of various diseases as well as antioxidant foods, vitamins, and all antioxidant supplements, including herbal supplements. It offers healthcare professionals a rich resource of key clinical information and basic scientific explanations relevant to the development and prevention of specific diseases. The book is written at an intermediate level, and can be easily understood by readers with a college level chemistry and biology background. - Covers both oxidative stress-induced diseases as well as antioxidant-rich foods (not the chemistry of antioxidants) - Contains easy-to-read tables and figures for quick reference information on antioxidant foods and vitamins - Includes a glycemic index and a table of ORAC values of various fruits and vegetables for clinicians to easily make recommendations to patients

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0124059171

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9780124059177

Empowering Women Panchayat Members

Handbook for Master Trainers Using Participatory Approach

By: Debabrata Bandyopadhyay,Amitava Mukherjee

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Empowering Women Panchayat Members

Handbook for Master Trainers Using Participatory Approach

By: Debabrata Bandyopadhyay,Amitava Mukherjee

This handbook attempts to address the political and social learning needs of women in Panchayati Raj Institutions in India. It develops thematic gender focused training modules on a range of subjects, including social mobilization and use of social capital formation for ushering development of a network of women PRIs at the grassroots level.

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180693031

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Prescription or Poison?

The Benefits and Dangers of Herbal Remedies

By: Amitava Dasgupta

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Prescription or Poison?

The Benefits and Dangers of Herbal Remedies

By: Amitava Dasgupta

From echinacea to ayurvedics, this book explains how toxic these remedies are alone or in combination with other widely prescribed drug treatments. For example, one should avoid most herbal remedies when pregnant because of pesticides and preservatives required in growth and storage of the herbs; a widely used herbal antidepressant called kava does damage to the liver; most ayurvedic medicines contain unacceptable levels of lead and other heavy metals; St. John's Wort is not recommended if you are taking a medication for any chronic medical condition. Dr. Dasgupta explains in simple, engaging prose what drug interactions are and why they are dangerous. Most educated people see herbal remedies as "natural" and therefore "safe." Dr. Dasgupta tells us that one of his first pharmacology professors taught him that "medicine" is just another word for "poison" and should be treated with the same respect. He will present a balanced account of efficacy and safety of herbal medicines with discussion on potentially unsafe and toxic remedies. This book will be written in layman’s language for the consumer health market but will be based on solid medical research and published reports in the medical literature.

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Turner Publishing Company

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0897935977

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9780897935975

Alcohol and Its Biomarkers

Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination

By: Amitava Dasgupta

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Alcohol and Its Biomarkers

Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination

By: Amitava Dasgupta

Alcohol and Its Biomarkers: Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Determination is a concise guide to all currently known alcohol biomarkers, their clinical application, and the laboratory methods used to detect them. Pathologists can use this resource to understand the limitations and cost factors associated with each method for determining certain alcohol biomarkers. In addition, interferences in these determinations are discussed, so that clinicians can understand the causes of falsely elevated biomarkers and pathologists and laboratory scientists can potentially eliminate them. The book focuses on the analytical methods used to detect alcohol in blood and urine, the limitations of alcohol determination using enzymatic methods, and the differences between clinical and forensic alcohol measurement. Chapters also cover cutting-edge alcohol biomarkers for potential use. - Focuses on the analytical methods used for detecting alcohol in blood and urine along with the pitfalls and limitations of alcohol determination using enzymatic methods - Explains the difference between clinical and forensic alcohol measurement - Includes a brief overview of the benefits of consuming alcohol in moderation and the hazards of heavy drinking

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0128004096

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