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Disasters

By: Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta

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In Disasters Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta examines the many kinds of natural phenomena and environmental disaster that impact the Earth, drawing upon his first hand experience and years of research gathered while working and travelling as a medical doctor with a scientific interests. Dr. Dasgupta has got a life-long fascination with the natural environment and mans impact upon it developed. The results of Dr. Dasguptas explorations are considered in several case studies that both describe and examine all kinds of disasters and their context within the Earths environment. Combining scientific fact with first-hand observations, conclusions are drawn that may help future response to disasters. An additional chapter detailing the science and experience of climate change draws conclusions on the way forward for mankind. The book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Earths environment and mans place within it.

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303

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Partridge Publishing

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1482800020

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9781482800029

Income Distribution, Market Imperfections and Capital Accumulation in a Developing Economy

By: Asim K. Dasgupta

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Income Distribution, Market Imperfections and Capital Accumulation in a Developing Economy

By: Asim K. Dasgupta

The book explains the problem of insufficient capital accumulation and growth in a less developed country. In conventional analyses, such explanations are often found exogenised in terms of factors such as socio-cultural attitudes towards saving and investment, irrationality of peasant behaviour, technological aspects of externalities and demographic parameters. This book provides an alternative explanation in terms of distribution of income and assets. Focusing on the agricultural sector of a developing economy, it describes how this approach can be extended to cover the industrial sector as well. Further, it develops a model that is then used to analyse the specific problem of capital accumulation in agriculture.

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Springer

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9811316333

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9789811316333

ARTS,CRAFTS AND TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIES

By: DR. ASIM K. DASGUPTA

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ARTS,CRAFTS AND TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIES

By: DR. ASIM K. DASGUPTA

In his second book of Arts and Crafts, Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta takes us on another fascinating voyage of discovery, exploring some of the most important achievements of human ingenuity across many centuries and many thousands of miles. In these pages you can learn some of the secrets of bee-keeping, and thrill to the dangerous adventure of wild-honey gatherers; find out how to get salt from seawater; and penetrate some of the secrets of the whisky distillers. You can visit the little-known worlds of the jute-miller and the silk-weaver, and find out how an umbrella, a comb, a clock or a cork is made. You can follow a hardwood tree from forest to wood work, and a stone from quarry to carving. This book tells us how hand-made cards, mosaic, fine jewellery, gemstones and many other crafts are created or produced. In addition, Dr. Dasgupta provides an expert guide to the health risks attending each craft. The book is illustrated throughout with superb photographs showing how the arts and crafts are practised in various parts of the world.

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1496977440

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9781496977441

STRANGE ADVENTURES

SEVEN SHORT STORIES

By: Dr Asim K Dasgupta

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STRANGE ADVENTURES

SEVEN SHORT STORIES

By: Dr Asim K Dasgupta

STRANGE ADVENTURES: In this children’s book Dr Asim K Dasgupta takes young readers on a series of short stories from around the world, mainly animal and ghost stories. In each story, the characters venture from more familiar places and situations into world of unexpected wonder, sometimes amusing, sometimes sad, sometimes eerie, but always a challenge to our imagination. Would you like to chat with a green turtle on a beach of black sand, or be invited to a Jackal’s wedding? In Dr Dasgupta’s world it might happen. When night comes, you better beware! Perhaps you are a doctor on night duty and there’s a power cut. It might be just a nuisance, but what if the lift goes on working even when the power has gone? And who is the mysterious lady who is beckoning to you so urgently? Or what if you’re a boarding -school boy and you need to take a river ferry to get to your home village? You may have done the trip a hundred times, but is it really safe to embark in a thunderstorm? And where is the usual ferryman, and why does the new one not utter a word? Or again, have you ever wondered if there is any truth in dreams? Can a dead loved one reach out to you in a dream that seems more real than the everyday world? What happens if you keep a squirrel as a pet? Sometimes, the wonderful thing may be just outside, in your back garden. You just never know what may happen, or when. But there is one thing that will surely happen to all of us, if we get what most people want: a long life. Dr Dasgupta’s story ‘Last quarter’ is a sensitive and compassionate exploration of old age: not only its sorrows, but also the comfort to be drawn from human companionship.

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