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The Sociology of Greed

Runs and Ruins in Banking Crises

By: Prasanta Ray

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The Sociology of Greed

Runs and Ruins in Banking Crises

By: Prasanta Ray

The Sociology of Greed examines crises in financial institutions such as banks from the vantage point of the greed of the people at their helm. It offers an intensive analysis of the banking crises under the conditions of colonial capitalism in early twentieth-century Bengal that led to institutional and social collapse. Breaking new ground, the book looks at the moral economy of capitalism and money culture by focusing on the victims of banking crises, hitherto unexplored in Western empirical research. Through sociological analyses of political economy, it seamlessly combines archival records, survey and statistical data with literary narratives, realist fiction and performing arts to recount how the greed of bank owners and managers ruined their institutions as well as common people. It argues that greed turns perilous when the state and the market facilitate its agency, and it examines the contexts and histories, the indifference of the fledgling colonial state, feeble political response, and the consequences for those who were impacted and the losses, especially the refugees, the lower-middle class and women. The volume also re-composes relevant elements of Western sociological scholarship from classical theories to early twenty-first-century financial sociology. An insightful account of the social history of banking in India, this book will greatly interest researchers and scholars in sociology, economics, history and cultural studies.

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0429016581

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Semiconductor Laser Theory

By: Prasanta Kumar Basu,Bratati Mukhopadhyay,Rikmantra Basu

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Semiconductor Laser Theory

By: Prasanta Kumar Basu,Bratati Mukhopadhyay,Rikmantra Basu

Developed from the authors' classroom-tested material, Semiconductor Laser Theory takes a semiclassical approach to teaching the principles, structure, and applications of semiconductor lasers. Designed for graduate students in physics, electrical engineering, and materials science, the text covers many recent developments, including diode lasers u

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CRC Press

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1466561920

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9781466561922

Basic Statistical Physics

By: Nandita Rudra,Prasanta Rudra

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Basic Statistical Physics

By: Nandita Rudra,Prasanta Rudra

This is a masters/graduate level textbook on statistical physics. The basics of the discipline and its application in the current topics of interest like Bose-Einstein condensate, statistical astrophysics and phase transitions have been discussed with thoroughness.This is a systematic introduction and development of a course material tried successful over a number of years. Feedback from the students tells that it has immensely helped them in their later research.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813107774

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9789813107779

Silicon Photonics

Fundamentals and Devices

By: M. Jamal Deen,Prasanta Kumar Basu

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Silicon Photonics

Fundamentals and Devices

By: M. Jamal Deen,Prasanta Kumar Basu

The creation of affordable high speed optical communications using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology is a principal aim of silicon photonics research. This would involve replacing copper connections with optical fibres or waveguides, and electrons with photons. With applications such as telecommunications and information processing, light detection, spectroscopy, holography and robotics, silicon photonics has the potential to revolutionise electronic-only systems. Providing an overview of the physics, technology and device operation of photonic devices using exclusively silicon and related alloys, the book includes: Basic Properties of Silicon Quantum Wells, Wires, Dots and Superlattices Absorption Processes in Semiconductors Light Emitters in Silicon Photodetectors , Photodiodes and Phototransistors Raman Lasers including Raman Scattering Guided Lightwaves Planar Waveguide Devices Fabrication Techniques and Material Systems Silicon Photonics: Fundamentals and Devices outlines the basic principles of operation of devices, the structures of the devices, and offers an insight into state-of-the-art and future developments.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119940907

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9781119940906

Physics of Condensed Matter

By: Prasanta Misra

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Physics of Condensed Matter

By: Prasanta Misra

Physics of Condensed Matter is designed for a two-semester graduate course on condensed matter physics for students in physics and materials science. While the book offers fundamental ideas and topic areas of condensed matter physics, it also includes many recent topics of interest on which graduate students may choose to do further research. The text can also be used as a one-semester course for advanced undergraduate majors in physics, materials science, solid state chemistry, and electrical engineering, because it offers a breadth of topics applicable to these majors. The book begins with a clear, coherent picture of simple models of solids and properties and progresses to more advanced properties and topics later in the book. It offers a comprehensive account of the modern topics in condensed matter physics by including introductory accounts of the areas of research in which intense research is underway. The book assumes a working knowledge of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, electricity and magnetism and Green's function formalism (for the second-semester curriculum). - Covers many advanced topics and recent developments in condensed matter physics which are not included in other texts and are hot areas: Spintronics, Heavy fermions, Metallic nanoclusters, Zno, Graphene and graphene-based electronic, Quantum hall effect, High temperature superdonductivity, Nanotechnology - Offers a diverse number of Experimental techniques clearly simplified - Features end of chapter problems

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Academic Press

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0123849551

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Semiconductor Nanophotonics

By: Prasanta Kumar Basu,Bratati Mukhopadhyay,Rikmantra Basu

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Semiconductor Nanophotonics

By: Prasanta Kumar Basu,Bratati Mukhopadhyay,Rikmantra Basu

Nanometre sized structures made of semiconductors, insulators, and metals and grown by modern growth technologies or by chemical synthesis exhibit novel electronic and optical phenomena due to the confinement of electrons and photons. Strong interactions between electrons and photons in narrow regions lead to inhibited spontaneous emission, thresholdless laser operation, and Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons in microcavities. Generation of sub-wavelength radiation by surface plasmon-polaritons at metal-semiconductor interfaces, creation of photonic band gaps in dielectrics, and realization of nanometer sized semiconductor or insulator structures with negative permittivity and permeability, known as metamaterials, are further examples in the area of Nanophotonics. The studies help develop spasers and plasmonic nanolasers of subwavelength dimensions, paving the way to use plasmonics in future data centres and high-speed computers working at THz bandwidth with less than a few fJ/bit dissipation. The present book is aimed at graduate students and researchers providing them with an introductory textbook on Semiconductor Nanophotonics. It gives an introduction to electron-photon interactions in Quantum Wells, Wires, and Dots and then discusses the processes in microcavities, photonic band gap materials, metamaterials, and related applications. The phenomena and device applications under strong light-matter interactions are discussed, mostly by using classical and semi-classical theories. Numerous examples and problems accompany each chapter.

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Oxford University Press

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0198784694

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9780198784692

Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty

Problems of Epistemic Inference

By: Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay,Gordon Brittan Jr.,Mark L. Taper

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Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty

Problems of Epistemic Inference

By: Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay,Gordon Brittan Jr.,Mark L. Taper

This work breaks new ground by carefully distinguishing the concepts of belief, confirmation, and evidence and then integrating them into a better understanding of personal and scientific epistemologies. It outlines a probabilistic framework in which subjective features of personal knowledge and objective features of public knowledge have their true place. It also discusses the bearings of some statistical theorems on both formal and traditional epistemologies while showing how some of the existing paradoxes in both can be resolved with the help of this framework.This book has two central aims: First, to make precise a distinction between the concepts of confirmation and evidence and to argue that failure to recognize this distinction is the source of certain otherwise intractable epistemological problems. The second goal is to demonstrate to philosophers the fundamental importance of statistical and probabilistic methods, at stake in the uncertain conditions in which for the most part we lead our lives, not simply to inferential practice in science, where they are now standard, but to epistemic inference in other contexts as well. Although the argument is rigorous, it is also accessible. No technical knowledge beyond the rudiments of probability theory, arithmetic, and algebra is presupposed, otherwise unfamiliar terms are always defined and a number of concrete examples are given. At the same time, fresh analyses are offered with a discussion of statistical and epistemic reasoning by philosophers. This book will also be of interest to scientists and statisticians looking for a larger view of their own inferential techniques.The book concludes with a technical appendix which introduces an evidential approach to multi-model inference as an alternative to Bayesian model averaging.

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Springer

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3319277723

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9783319277721

Elements Of Refrigeration And Air Conditioning

By: Prasanta Kumar Satapathy

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Elements Of Refrigeration And Air Conditioning

By: Prasanta Kumar Satapathy

Elements of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning is specifically intended to provide the fundamentals of refrigeration and air conditioning derived from the first principle of thermodynamics, Heat and mass transfer and fluid mechanics. In other words this subject is an application part of the above principles. Keeping in view its wide industrial and domestic applications, this book emphasizes on physical understanding of the fundamental concepts of conventional and non-conventional refrigeration processes in a simple, yet concise manner. One chapter exclusively describes various aspects of power saving in refrigeration and air conditioning by adopting advanced techniques and new refrigerants for sustainability of refrigeration sector.

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I K International Pvt Ltd

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9390620988

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9789390620982

ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

By: PRASANTA SAHOO

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ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

By: PRASANTA SAHOO

This introductory yet comprehensive book presents the fundamental concepts on the analysis and design of tribological systems. It is a unique blend of scientific principles, mathematical formulations and engineering practice. The text discusses properties and measurements of engineering surfaces, surface contact geometry and contact stresses. Besides, it deals with adhesion, friction, wear, lubrication and related interfacial pheno-mena. It also highlights recent developments like nanotribology and fractal analysis with great clarity. The book is intended as a text for senior under-graduate and postgraduate students of mechanical engineering, production/industrial engineering, metallurgy and material science. It can also serve as a reference for practising engineers and designers.

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PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

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8120327241

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9788120327245

Theory of Optical Processes in Semiconductors

Bulk and Microstructures

By: Prasanta Kumar Basu,P. K. Basu

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Theory of Optical Processes in Semiconductors

Bulk and Microstructures

By: Prasanta Kumar Basu,P. K. Basu

Semiconductor optoelectronic devices are at the heart of all information generation and processing systems and are likely to be essential components of future optical computers. With more emphasis on optoelectronics and photonics in graduate programmes in physics and engineering, there is aneed for a text providing a basic understanding of the important physical phenomena involved. Such a training is necessary for the design, optimization, and search for new materials, devices, and application areas. This book provides a simple quantum mechanical theory of important optical processes,i.e. band-to-band, intersubband, and excitonic absorption and recombination in bulk, quantum wells, wires, dots, superlattices, and strained layers including electro-optic effects. The classical theory of absorption, quantization of radiation, and band picture based on k.p perturbation has beenincluded to provide the necessary background. Prerequisites for the book are a knowledge of quantum mechanics and solid state theory. Problems have been set at the end of each chapter, some of which may guide the reader to study processes not covered in the book. The application areas of thephenomena are also indicated.

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Oxford University Press

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0198526202

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9780198526209

The Popular Front and the Global Circulation of Marxism through Calcutta, 1920s-1970s

By: Prasanta Dhar

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The Popular Front and the Global Circulation of Marxism through Calcutta, 1920s-1970s

By: Prasanta Dhar

This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India. Building on but also revising existing approaches to global intellectual history, the book presents the circulation of Marxism through Calcutta as a historically-sited problem of mass mediation. Using tools from media studies, the book explores the way that Marxism was presented to the public, the technologies used, and the meanings of Marxism in twentieth-century Calcutta. Demonstrating how the Popular Front was split between the so-called 'people's group' and those whom were called 'intellectuals', the book argues that the people's group generally identified themselves as Marxists and preferred audio-visual media such as theatre, while the so-called intellectuals privileged academic rigour and print media, usually referring to themselves as Marxians. Thus, the author reveals a polyphony of Marxisms in the Popular Front. Tracing Marxism back to the Bengal Renaissance and the Swadeshi and Naxal movements, this book shows how debate around the meaning of 'Marxism' continued throughout the 1970s in Calcutta, and eventually engendered the historiographical movement that has come to be known as Subaltern Studies.

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Springer Nature

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3031186176

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9783031186172

Assured Self, Restive Self

Encounters with Crisis

By: Prasanta Chakravarty

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Assured Self, Restive Self

Encounters with Crisis

By: Prasanta Chakravarty

The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times. A crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected beginnings. At the most fundamental level, crisis is the disintegration of relationality among creatures. In fact, crisis is a battle of attrition with and within selfhood. It has the potential to turn into a norm in everyday interaction. It then stops being an exception and becomes the very condition of our living. Through the rubrics of the assured and the restive, the volume addresses how selfhood encounters and negotiates concentric circles of crisis in life and literature. Does the idea of crisis allow us to formulate the idea of self in a particular way? How do certain sources and resources within the self stoic or heroic, political and creative come into being during crisis? While some essays delve into questions of repose and sensuality by highlighting specific cases and trajectories from the subcontinent, others deal with questions of mythology, politics and art in a wider sense. One essay directly addresses the core literary question of the uncanny and its relation to selfhood. While specific concerns illuminate each essay, the volume speaks with a collective, global sense of crisis that faces humanity now and tentatively offers some prospects to deal with it.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9354359418

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9789354359415

Waves And Wave Interactions In Plasmas

By: Prasanta Chatterjee,Kaushik Roy,Uday Narayan Ghosh

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Waves And Wave Interactions In Plasmas

By: Prasanta Chatterjee,Kaushik Roy,Uday Narayan Ghosh

This book is written in a lucid and systematic way for advanced postgraduates and researchers studying applied mathematics, plasma physics, nonlinear differential equations, nonlinear optics, and other engineering branches where nonlinear wave phenomena is essential.In sequential order of the book's development, readers will understand basic plasmas with elementary definitions of magnetized and unmagnetized plasmas, plasma modeling, dusty plasma and quantum plasma. Following which, the book describes linear and nonlinear waves, solitons, shocks and other wave phenomena, while solutions to common nonlinear wave equations are derived via standard techniques. Readers are introduced to elementary perturbation and non-perturbation methods. They will discover several evolution equations in different plasma situations as well as the properties of solitons in those environments. Pertaining to those equations, readers will learn about their higher order corrections, as well as their different forms and solutions in non-planar geometry. The book offers further studies on different types of collisions between solitons in plasma environment, phenomena of soliton turbulence as a consequence of multi-soliton interactions, properties of large amplitude solitary waves which are discovered via non-perturbative Sagdeev's Pseudopotential Approach, as well as the speed and shape of solitons. Finally, the book reveals possible future developments of research in this rich field.

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World Scientific

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9811265356

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9789811265358

Clustering and Routing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy Efficiency Approaches

By: Pratyay Kuila,Prasanta K Jana

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Clustering and Routing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy Efficiency Approaches

By: Pratyay Kuila,Prasanta K Jana

Wireless Sensor Networks have a wide range of applications in different areas. Their main constraint is the limited and irreplaceable power source of the sensor nodes. In many applications, energy conservation of the sensor nodes and their replacement or replenishment due to the hostile nature of the environment is the most challenging issue. Energy efficient clustering and routing are the two main important topics studied extensively for this purpose. This book focuses on the energy efficient clustering and routing with a great emphasis on the evolutionary approaches. It provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction of the fundamentals of WSNs, major issues and effective solutions.

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CRC Press

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1498753833

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9781498753838

Versatile Precursors in Organic Synthesis

By: Okram Mukherjee Singh,Thokchom Prasanta Singh

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Versatile Precursors in Organic Synthesis

By: Okram Mukherjee Singh,Thokchom Prasanta Singh

This book elaborates on the synthesis of versatile precursors and their applications in organic synthesis through a systematic approach. It shows that understanding the chemical properties of different types of versatile building blocks is essential for the successful execution of organic synthesis. The text also discusses how a particular type of precursor is used in the preparation of different types of simple and complex organic compounds, depending on reaction conditions and other substrates.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152758867X

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9781527588677

Science and Engineering of Small Arms

By: Prasanta Kumar Das,Lalit Pratim Das,Dev Pratim Das

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Science and Engineering of Small Arms

By: Prasanta Kumar Das,Lalit Pratim Das,Dev Pratim Das

This book initiates with the story of the evolution of firearms to enable the reader to appreciate the sequence of the development of firearms. It discusses different classes of small arms, their mechanics, internal and external ballistics. Further, it covers the design idea of barrels and actions, various operating principles and relevant discussion on ammunition and propellants. The principle of quality in the design of the small arms is also elaborated in the desired degree. The book brings out the relevance of modern manufacturing technologies like MIM and various surface treatments, and polymers for enhancement of product quality. To appreciate the sophistication of the architecture, the book presents the anatomical details of a few small arms of reputes. Provides complete understanding of overall small weapon systems Explores mechanics and physics of small arms Discusses proper design, quality control, and manufacturing process selections for a good weapon Covers common type of weapon failures and catastrophic failure Includes relevance of manufacturing processes The book is aimed at professionals and graduate students in Mechanical Design, Armament Design, Gun Design including personnel in the military, paramilitary, police, and all other armed forces and their maintenance crews.

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CRC Press

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100045505X

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9781000455052

Sustainable Livelihoods of Tribal Communities in Odisha, India

The Case of Mayurbhanj

By: Narayan Chandra Jana,Anuradha Banerjee,Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

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Sustainable Livelihoods of Tribal Communities in Odisha, India

The Case of Mayurbhanj

By: Narayan Chandra Jana,Anuradha Banerjee,Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

In India, indigenous tribal communities are the most backward sections of the society and they have been a matter of great concern for the Government. More than 87 per cent of the country’s tribal population is confined to 11 states, among which Odisha has the largest number of tribal communities and Mayurbhanj district has the highest concentration of tribes. Throughout the history of development, tribal communities were trapped in a vicious circle of exploitation. This led to social discontent and unrest, resulting in extremist activities, which can be prevented only by more meaningful development of the tribal areas. This book is divided into 10 chapters, each dealing with very crucial and relevant issues. It will be useful for policy makers dealing with livelihood issues, social exclusion and tribal development-related projects.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527590151

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The Sociology of Greed

Runs and Ruins in Banking Crises

By: Prasanta Ray

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The Sociology of Greed

Runs and Ruins in Banking Crises

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Heavy-Fermion Systems

By: Prasanta Misra

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Heavy-Fermion Systems

By: Prasanta Misra

The book on Heavy-Fermion Systems is a part of the Book series "Handbook of Metal Physics", each volume of which is written to facilitate the research of Ph.D. students, faculty and other researchers in a specific area. The Heavy-Fermions (sometimes known as Heavy-Electrons) is a loosely defined collection of intermetallic compounds containing rare-earth (mostly Ce) or actinide (mostly U) elements. These unusual names were given due to the large effective mass (100-1,000 times greater than the mass of a free electron) below a critical temperature. They have a variety of ground states including superconducting, antiferromagnetic, paramagnetic or semiconducting. Some display unusual magnetic properties such as magnetic quantum critical point and metamagnetism. This book is essentially a summary as well as a critical review of the theoretical and experimental work done on Heavy Fermions.· Extensive research references.· Comprehensive review of a very rapidly growing number of theories.· Summary of all important experiments.· Comparison with other highly correlated systems such as High-Tc Superconductors.· Possible Technological applications.

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Elsevier

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0080554679

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Beyond Ethnic Loneliness

The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging

By: Prasanta Verma

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Beyond Ethnic Loneliness

The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging

By: Prasanta Verma

Growing up as an Indian American immigrant in white Southern culture, Prasanta Verma unpacks the exhausting effects of cultural isolation and marginalization as well as the longing to belong and the hope of finding safe friendships in community. Our places of exile can become places of belonging–to ourselves, to others, and to God.

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1514007428

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