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Coronavirus Outbreak and the Great Lockdown

Impact on Oil Prices and Major Stock Markets Across the Globe

By: Bhaskar Bagchi,Susmita Chatterjee,Raktim Ghosh,Dhrubaranjan Dandapat

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Coronavirus Outbreak and the Great Lockdown

Impact on Oil Prices and Major Stock Markets Across the Globe

By: Bhaskar Bagchi,Susmita Chatterjee,Raktim Ghosh,Dhrubaranjan Dandapat

This book captures the dynamic relationship between COVID-19 pandemic, crude oil prices and major stock indices as well as the crude oil prices and stock market volatility that have been caused due to outbreak of this pandemic. The pandemic has changed the world melodramatically and major world markets collapsed in the beginning, affecting major industries in an unprecedented way. The book will be useful to the researcher in the field of finance and economics, and policy makers both at government and private level, keeping in view the present state of economy throughout the world.

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Springer Nature

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981157782X

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Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume VI

By: John Marriott

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Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume VI

By: John Marriott

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area.

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Routledge

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1351573195

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9781351573191

Five Notes of the Raga

By: Bhaskar Dasgupta

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Five Notes of the Raga

By: Bhaskar Dasgupta

Five Notes of the Raga is about Indian music and Indian History. This short story that gives the book its name is an imagined encounter between two great personages of the sixteenth century Indian Bhakti movement: the blind musician Surdas and the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. There follows five musical plays staged in London, including the most recently staged Phool Walon ki Saira flower sellers procession that starts from a Hindu temple and ends at a Muslim shrine. Kavita K2k recounts Indian poetryancient and modern. Sheydiner Doojon is about the two bards of BengalTagore and Nazrul. T3 tells the time with timeless Indian Ragas and Tagore melodies. Lastly, Gulbagicha displays the repertoire of Nazruls creativity. The book ends with a few of Dasguptas poems.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543489605

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9781543489606

Practical Guide in Reproductive Surgery

By: Gita Ganguly Mukherjee,Gautam Khastgir,Bhaskar Pal

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Practical Guide in Reproductive Surgery

By: Gita Ganguly Mukherjee,Gautam Khastgir,Bhaskar Pal

Part of a new series on reproductive medicine, this book is a complete guide to reproductive surgery. Beginning with an overview of the role and techniques of diagnostic laparoscopy, the following chapters cover numerous surgical procedures for the management of infertility. The book presents the latest advances in the field and each chapter includes key points and references for further reading. Clinical photographs, diagrams and tables further enhance the comprehensive text. Other titles in the series include: Practical Guide in Infertility, Practical Guide in Assisted Reproductive Technology and Practical Guide in Andrology and Embryology. Key points Comprehensive guide to reproductive surgery techniques Part of new series on reproductive medicine Covers numerous procedures for management of infertility Chapters include key points and detailed references for further reading

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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers

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9352704843

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9789352704842

Mourning the Nation

Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

By: Bhaskar Sarkar

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Mourning the Nation

Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

By: Bhaskar Sarkar

What remains of the “national” when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died and ten to twelve million were displaced. Combining film studies, trauma theory, and South Asian cultural history, Bhaskar Sarkar follows the shifting traces of this event in Indian cinema over the next six decades. He argues that Partition remains a wound in the collective psyche of South Asia and that its representation on screen enables forms of historical engagement that are largely opaque to standard historiography. Sarkar tracks the initial reticence to engage with the trauma of 1947 and the subsequent emergence of a strong Partition discourse, revealing both the silence and the eventual “return of the repressed” as strands of one complex process. Connecting the relative silence of the early decades after Partition to a project of postcolonial nation-building and to trauma’s disjunctive temporal structure, Sarkar develops an allegorical reading of the silence as a form of mourning. He relates the proliferation of explicit Partition narratives in films made since the mid-1980s to disillusionment with post-independence achievements, and he discusses how current cinematic memorializations of 1947 are influenced by economic liberalization and the rise of a Hindu-chauvinist nationalism. Traversing Hindi and Bengali commercial cinema, art cinema, and television, Sarkar provides a history of Indian cinema that interrogates the national (a central category organizing cinema studies) and participates in a wider process of mourning the modernist promises of the nation form.

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Duke University Press

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0822392216

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9780822392217

The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

By: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

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The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

By: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

About the Book AN ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR EVERY CINEPHILE’S LIBRARY Satyajit Ray is the tallest Indian figure in world cinema. Retrospectives across the globe, perhaps even more than at home, have kept his legacy alive. But how do we understand his cinema in the context of a vastly different world? What keeps great cinema from becoming dated? What are the particularities of Ray’s movies that cause them to endure? Bhaskar Chattopadhyay’s literary engagement with Ray’s cinema spans years. In this book, he revisits each one of Satyajit Ray’s thirty-nine feature films, shorts and documentaries to investigate their cinematic and social context. He also speaks to a number of the master’s collaborators as well as other directors and critics to truly understand Ray and his work. Packed with delightful anecdotes and fresh insights, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray is an essential book for every cinephile’s library.

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Westland Non-Fiction

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9357761365

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9789357761369

Banaras

A journey into the heart of the city

By: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

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Banaras

A journey into the heart of the city

By: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

When a struggling freelance photographer discovers a secret window in his apartment that offers a clear view of the rooms in a shady hotel across the lane, he is lured by the dangerous obsession of voyeurism and, subsequently, blackmail. But one day, when he sees a husband murder his wife in a fit of rage in one of the rooms, the photographer turns to detective Janardan Maity to confess his own crimes, so that the killer can be brought to book. With his dear friend Prakash Ray by his side, Maity investigates this seemingly simple case, only to realize that not everything is as it seems.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357086323

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9789357086325

Fifty Year Road: A Personal History of India from the Mid-sixties Onward

By: Bhaskar Roy

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Fifty Year Road: A Personal History of India from the Mid-sixties Onward

By: Bhaskar Roy

An everyman flair makes history most authentic and intensely gripping. Nothing captures more gnawingly the acute scarcity in the wake of two successive wars—with China in 1962 and Pakistan in 1965—than the lengthening lines outside ration shops. Fifty Year Road is Bhaskar Roy’s look-back moment, but more crucially, it’s the less-focused account of India that often gets overlooked by historiographers. The Naxalbari uprising, in perspective, was the first and fiercest far-left challenge to the Indian state, born out of deep disillusion of the republic’s first generation with the robust dream come crashing. Each of the subsequent upheavals has had untold sides too: the Bangladesh Liberation War, the 1974 rail strike, the Emergency, Indira assassination, Rajiv Gandhi years, economic reforms, Ayodhya demolition, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh’s stewardship of the UPA, and Narendra Modi’s inexorable ride to power. Because it’s an ordinary man’s memoir, the narrative gets intertwined with the Indian chronicle. The big and powerful amplify their lives and achievements; a journalist captures the tone and tension of his times. The book pulsates with the author’s emotions and the nation’s pain and possibility as well.

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Jaico Publishing House

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8119792858

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9788119792856

Dynamic Linkages and Volatility Spillover

Effects of Oil Prices on Exchange Rates and Stock Markets of Emerging Economies

By: Bhaskar Bagchi,Dhrubaranjan Dandapat,Susmita Chatterjee

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Dynamic Linkages and Volatility Spillover

Effects of Oil Prices on Exchange Rates and Stock Markets of Emerging Economies

By: Bhaskar Bagchi,Dhrubaranjan Dandapat,Susmita Chatterjee

This book examines the dynamic relationship and volatility spillovers between crude oil prices, exchange rates and stock markets of emerging economies. Unfortunately very little research has been conducted to analyze the volatility spillovers and dynamic relationship between crude oil prices, exchange rates and stock markets of India.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1786355531

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9781786355539

Communication

Emergence, Evolution and it’s progression into Newspapers

By: Dr. Vijay Bhaskar

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Communication

Emergence, Evolution and it’s progression into Newspapers

By: Dr. Vijay Bhaskar

Humans are exclusively gifted by nature with some anatomical features that give humans an immense capacity to render complex speech. The book explores origin of speech right from the Hyoid bone that exalted human communication into a higher orbit, and then moves onto science and technology behind the development of communication, leading finally to the emergence of mass media, i.e., newspapers. It covers Gutenberg’s marvelous machine which printed Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, the first voice of dissent in the world against the most powerful Catholic Church. 17th century natural philosopher Francis Bacon recognized three great technological innovations: the magnetic compass, the printing press and gunpowder as the distinguishing achievements of modern man. The present book discusses in detail one of the epoch-making inventions: the printing press and its natural progression into newspapers, its impact on societies of the world, its struggle to align itself against the worst of maneuvers to silence the press in the different time spans of history. The first Indian newspaper Hicky’s Gazette by James Augustus Hicky in 1780 and from there a 200-year span has been covered in detail, which comprises the following chapters: Role of science and technology in the development of recording information from oral matrix to printed matrix Meteoric rise and mercurial fall of Hicky British control over Indian newspapers, gagging of the Indian press and Vernacular Press Act Role of Gandhi as a journalist Role of Indian newspapers in the independence struggle, including the history of nationalist newspaper GHADAR: call of mutiny in India from abroad Dubious Working of the East India Company Monitoring of Indian publications in London Emergency, when democracy was wounded

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Notion Press

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1636335888

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9781636335889

Political Economy of Public Distribution System in India

By: Bhaskar Majumder

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Political Economy of Public Distribution System in India

By: Bhaskar Majumder

Study conducted in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180696413

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9788180696411

The Service of the State

The IAS Reconsidered

By: Bhaskar Ghose

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The Service of the State

The IAS Reconsidered

By: Bhaskar Ghose

Is the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) still the most appropriate institution to govern twenty-first-century India? Should a cadre of generalists head organizations as complex and diverse as industrial units; museums and rural development boards? If it had to be replaced; what is the best alternative? Drawing on his experience of thirty-six years in the IAS; Bhaskar Ghose addresses these and other major questions regarding the role; relevance and effectiveness of India’s long-established but often controversial system of state administration in The Service of the State. Ghose argues forcefully that the IAS is still the best option and one moreover that substantially fulfils its functions—and fulfils them well. Though its once sterling reputation has been tarnished by allegations of corruption; political subservience and declining standards of efficiency; there are still sufficient numbers of dedicated public servants. These administrators; spanning diverse social backgrounds; seniorities and regional profiles; draw on established traditions of duty and of cooperation within the service to deliver—to the best of their ability and often in the face of considerable odds—the goods of development. This reflective and luminous memoir is not only a portrait of a lifetime’s service to the state; it is also a timely and persuasive argument for a system of governance that has had a critical impact on India since Independence.

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Penguin UK

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8184755759

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9788184755756

Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Indian Economy

By: Raktim Ghosh,Bhaskar Bagchi

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Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Indian Economy

By: Raktim Ghosh,Bhaskar Bagchi

As businesses, consumers, and investors make key financial decisions amid Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), there is the danger that many might freeze investment projects and hiring, leading to contractions of the economy. This book examines this and makes important recommendations.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1804559385

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9781804559383

Best Served Cold

A Janardan Maity Mystery

By: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

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Best Served Cold

A Janardan Maity Mystery

By: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

A powerful man approaches Maity on a balmy September evening, worried that someone is planning to murder him. Sometime later, a young woman arrives at the door pleading with Maity to stop her husband from murdering the very same man who visited barely a few hours ago. Maity is quick to act and travels to Manikpur Tea Estate to stop a potential murder. Assisting Maity is his friend Prakash Ray. Twenty years ago, four boys were wronged by a vicious man on this idyllic tea estate. Now, they have returned to avenge the crimes committed against them. His simplest case might just be the most challenging puzzle that detective Janardan Maity has ever faced.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357085661

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9789357085663

Gautam Adani

Reimagining Business in India and the World

By: R.N. Bhaskar

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Gautam Adani

Reimagining Business in India and the World

By: R.N. Bhaskar

Gautam Adani needs no introduction. One of the richest men in the world, he also helms a business empire that is now India's largest player in ports and renewable energy. He is also the country's largest private sector player in sectors like airports, city gas distribution, power transmission, thermal power, edible oil, and railway lines. Yet, look beyond these facts, and startlingly little is known about Gautam Adani, the maverick businessman; about his motivations and vision; about his life, and the episodes, minor and major, that propelled him to make the choices he did. This book sheds light on all that we have never known, but should know, about Gautam Adani. It delves deep, detailing a range of fascinating anecdotes from Gautam Adani's life, illuminating his early childhood, his initiation into business, and the learnings and opportunities he exploited. But beyond biography, this book is committed to analysing those business strategies of Gautam Adani that have intrigued all. It marries biography and business data, storytelling and hard numbers. Besides, it has been authored by one of India's most senior journalists who has long followed Gautam Adani's career.

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9354927637

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9789354927638

Current Conveyors

Variants, Applications and Hardware Implementations

By: Raj Senani,D. R. Bhaskar,A. K. Singh

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Current Conveyors

Variants, Applications and Hardware Implementations

By: Raj Senani,D. R. Bhaskar,A. K. Singh

This book serves as a single-source reference to Current Conveyors and their use in modern Analog Circuit Design. The authors describe the various types of current conveyors discovered over the past 45 years, details of all currently available, off-the-shelf integrated circuit current conveyors, and implementations of current conveyors using other, off-the-shelf IC building blocks. Coverage includes prominent bipolar/CMOS/Bi-CMOS architectures of current conveyors, as well as all varieties of starting from third generation current conveyors to universal current conveyors, their implementations and applications. •Describes all commercially available off-the-shelf IC current conveyors, as well as hardware implementations of current conveyors using other off-the-shelf ICs; • Describes numerous variants of current conveyors evolved over the past forty five years; • Describes a number of Bipolar/CMOS/Bi-CMOS architectures of current conveyors, along with their characteristic features; • Includes a comprehensive collection of over 400 application circuits using current conveyors; • Provides an exhaustive catalogue of current conveyor-based circuits for a variety of applications, including instrumentation amplifiers, precision rectifiers, simulated inductors, filters, sinusoidal oscillators, waveform generators, chaos generators, analog multipliers/dividers, memristive emulators and numerous others.

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Springer

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3319086847

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9783319086842

Clay Minerals

Their Antimicrobial and Antitoxic Applications

By: Bhaskar Ghosh,Dola Chakraborty

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Clay Minerals

Their Antimicrobial and Antitoxic Applications

By: Bhaskar Ghosh,Dola Chakraborty

This book provides a comprehensive description of the application of clay minerals as disinfectants and the ingredients of medicines. While the presently available literature highlights one or two aspects of medicinal clays, a comprehensive text on all their major pharmaceutical applications is lacking. This book endeavors to fill up this lacuna. It further elucidates the properties of clay minerals that facilitate their application in the protection of human health, and how these properties are related to the chemical compositions and internal structures of selected mineral groups, thus revealing to the students, teachers and researchers the underlying relationship of seemingly different disciplines like mineralogy, material science and medical science. The thought-provoking questions added at the end of each chapter will give the readers a better insight of this subject. The tangible definitions and explanations of all the relevant scientific terms provided in this book, both within the text and in a glossary list at the end, are expected to help the beginners to develop a clear-cut understanding regarding different aspects of the subject and clear any confusion resulting from the ambiguous usage of terms in the existing literature.

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Springer Nature

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3031223276

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9783031223273

Biodiesel: Feedstocks, Technologies, Economics and Barriers

Assessment of Environmental Impact in Producing and Using Chains

By: Armen B. Avagyan,Bhaskar Singh

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Biodiesel: Feedstocks, Technologies, Economics and Barriers

Assessment of Environmental Impact in Producing and Using Chains

By: Armen B. Avagyan,Bhaskar Singh

Air pollution policy is closely connected with climate change, public health, energy, transport, trade, and agriculture, and generally speaking, the Earth has been pushed to the brink and the damage is becoming increasingly obvious. The transport sector remains a foremost source of air pollutants – a fact that has stimulated the production of biofuels. This book focuses on the biodiesel industry, and proposes a modification of the entire manufacturing chain that would pave the way for further improvements. Oil derived from oilseed plantations/crops is the most commonly used feedstock for the production of biodiesel. At the same time, the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and 178 scientists in the Netherlands have determined that some biofuels, such as diesel produced from food crops, have led to more emissions than those produced by fossil fuels. Accordingly, this book re-evaluates the full cycle of biodiesel production in order to help find optimal solutions. It confirms that the production and use of fertilizers for the cultivation of crop feedstocks generate considerably more GHG emissions compared to the mitigation achieved by using biodiesel. To address this fertilization challenge, projecting future biofuel development requires a scenario in which producers shift to an organic agriculture approach that includes the use of microalgae. Among advanced biofuels, algae’s advantages as a feedstock include the highest conversion of solar energy, and the ability to absorb CO2 and pollutants; as such, it is the better choice for future fuels. With regard to the question of why algae’s benefits have not been capitalized on for biofuel production, our analyses indicate that the sole main barrier to realizing algae’s biofuel potential is ineffective international and governmental policies, which create difficulties in reconciling the goals of economic development and environmental protection.

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9811357463

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9789811357466

Sinusoidal Oscillators and Waveform Generators using Modern Electronic Circuit Building Blocks

By: Raj Senani,D. R. Bhaskar,V. K. Singh,R. K. Sharma

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Sinusoidal Oscillators and Waveform Generators using Modern Electronic Circuit Building Blocks

By: Raj Senani,D. R. Bhaskar,V. K. Singh,R. K. Sharma

This book serves as a single-source reference to sinusoidal oscillators and waveform generators, using classical as well as a variety of modern electronic circuit building blocks. It provides a state-of-the-art review of a large variety of sinusoidal oscillators and waveform generators and includes a catalogue of over 600 configurations of oscillators and waveform generators, describing their relevant design details and salient performance features/limitations. The authors discuss a number of interesting, open research problems and include a comprehensive collection of over 1500 references on oscillators and non-sinusoidal waveform generators/relaxation oscillators. Offers readers a single-source reference to everything connected to sinusoidal oscillators and waveform generators, using classical as well as modern electronic circuit building blocks; Provides a state-of-the-art review of a large variety of sinusoidal oscillators and waveform generators; Includes a catalog of over 600 configurations of oscillators and waveform generators, with their relevant design details and their salient performance features/limitations.

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3319237128

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9783319237121

Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume I

By: John Marriott,Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

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Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume I

By: John Marriott,Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay,Partha Chatterjee

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Routledge

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1000558495

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9781000558494

Human Resource Management - A Contemporary Text

Economics, Commerce & Management

By: Bhaskar Chatterjee

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Human Resource Management - A Contemporary Text

Economics, Commerce & Management

By: Bhaskar Chatterjee

The paradigm of employee management has undergone rapid transformation in the last decade, from comparative advantage to a state of continuous innovation, strategic intent and a holistic knowledge framework. This implies that to be successful, organisations have to develop and/ or seriously re-look at appropriate HRD strategies to tap the human potential within the organisation and align it with the overall corporate strategy. In an increasingly difficult global business scenario, where major decisions have gone awry plunging the world into an economic crisis, HRD professionals are compelled to grapple with progressively more complex issues. It is against this backdrop, that an attempt has been made to present the entire contemporary conceptual framework of human resource development in a refreshingly new style so as to facilitate devising of appropriate strategies for the organisation. Fortunately, there is a rich and growing base of theory, research, and practical experience in HRD efforts. This book has been written to help students, HRD professionals, and managers at all levels to take advantage of this. If they do so, they will increase their effectiveness, along with that of individuals with whom they work and the organisations of which they are a part. The book will serve primarily as a comprehensive text for undergraduate and graduate courses in business, management, public administration, educational administration, and other related fields. This, the FOURTH edition of the book, is a thoroughly revised and enlarged version that has been updated to reflect the thinking on HRD theory and practice that has taken place over the last few years. Some of the new features and improvements include: * New, contemporary case studies; * Discussion of recent thinking about the nature of managerial work, strategic management development, global management development, competency-based management education and development, and new practices in leadership and executive development; * Ideas, references and events updated right upto March, 2009; * Humorous cartoons; clearer, more explanatory diagrams. At the same time, care has been taken to maintain the elements that have made the previous editions a useful and meaningful resource to students and practitioners, including uncluttered writing, a comprehensive approach to HRD, a strong research base, and a balance between theory, research, and practice.

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