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• Author(s): I Martin Isaacs • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOne of the challenges many mathematics students face occurs after they complete their study of basic calculus and linear algebra, and ...

• Author(s): Jothibai Pariyadath • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMayilamma (1940–2007) was an illiterate adivasi woman whose iconic leadership of her community against the unrestrained extracti...

• Author(s): Kamlesh Sadanand and Susheela Punitha • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSpoken English: A Foundation Course Parts 1 & 2 (revised editions) are intended to help develop the oral com...

• Author(s): Hoineilhing Sitlhou (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNortheast India is home to numerous ethnic communities. Considered a marginal geographical space, this region is as diverse ...

• Author(s): Victor H Moll • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNew mathematics often comes about by probing what is already known. Mathematicians will change the parameters in a familiar calculation ...

• Author(s): Chris Ogden • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNew South Asian Security recasts the interpretation of security and international relations in South Asia. Moving away from the traditiona...

• Author(s): Abhay Prasad Singh • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdRashtravaad ka Bharatnama : Bharat mein Upniveshvaad aur Rashtravaad is aimed for the students of Choice based Credit System (CBCS...

• Author(s): Vinayak Nandshankar Mehta Translated from the original Gujarati by: Radhika Jayakar Herzberger • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublished in 1916, Nandshankar Jeevan Chitra, Vinayak M...

• Author(s): Gautam Bhan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLike many cities in the global South, New Delhi has not been built by architects, engineers or planners, but by residents themselves. One ...

• Author(s): Gerald Teschl • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdQuantum mechanics and the theory of operators on Hilbert space have been deeply linked since their beginnings in the early twentieth cen...

• Author(s): Todd Kapitula • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOrdinary differential equations (ODEs) and linear algebra are foundational post-calculus mathematics courses in the sciences. The goal o...

• Author(s): Sandhya Arora and Latesh Malik • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdR is a free, open-source, adaptable, extensible language with tremendous applications in the field of statistical compu...

• Author(s): Maulana Abul Kalam Azad • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOne of the makers of modern India tells the story of the partition of India as never before, with intimate knowledge and feeli...

• Author(s): Rajakishor Mahana • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdProviding a critical ethnography of five different tribal movements fighting against the mega-industrialization projects in Odisha, ...

• Author(s): Sheetal Chhabria • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMumbai has long been notorious as a city ridden by poverty and slums. However, already by the early 1900s more than three-quarters of...

• Author(s): Robert F. Barsky • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNoam Chomsky has been praised by the likes of Bono and Hugo Chavez and attacked by the likes of Ton Wolfe and Alan Dershowitz. Ground...

• Author(s): Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Ramit Samaddar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdShyam Benegal, a trailblazing auteur who successfully redefined the contours of non-commercial Hindi language c...

• Author(s): Jagadish Prasad • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPharmacology is one of the fast-growing branches of medical science. This book deals with both basic information in the subject of Pha...

• Author(s): Maurice Cohen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOn 22 October 1947, war burst upon Kashmir in a flash. Large bands of raiders equipped with modern weapons of warfare poured across the...

• Author(s): Mariana Solanet • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNober Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America’s most powerful literary symbol. In three decades, his novel One Hundred ...

• Author(s): Ulka Anjaria • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdReading India Now is an effort to outline what literary criticism might look like when it becomes attuned to the everyday lives that peop...

• Author(s): G. N. Devy (Chief Editor), Avadhesh K. Singh (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSanskrit, along with Tamil and Pali, is an Indian language of ancient origin. Though it is no longe...

• Author(s): Aparna Bandyopadhyay • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyPower is the key element of patriarchy; and the other significant element is love. Traditional control over...

• Author(s): Shormishtha Panja • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdQuestions of truth, untruth, representation and deception were pivotal to sixteenth and seventeenth century thought. Be it Machiavel...

• Author(s): T Veerarajan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOperations Research is a discipline that uses quantitative and mathematical techniques for decision-making when the selection involved is...

• Author(s): Maciej Zworski • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSemiclassical analysis provides PDE techniques based on the classical-quantum (particle-wave) correspondence. These techniques include ...

• Author(s): R. M. M. Mattheij, S. W. Rienstra and J. H. M. ten Thije Boonkkamp • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPartial differential equations (PDEs) are used to describe a large variety of physi...

• Author(s): Rajni Kothari and James Manor (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdRejecting the prevailing dichotomy between traditional society and modern polity, Caste in Indian Politics examin...

• Author(s): S. Irudaya Rajan and P. Sivakumar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Children's StudiesMigration is a natural outcome when society faces a shortage of resources or opportuniti...

• Author(s): Suresh Babu • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPost-Independence India’s diverse economy witnessed major changes in the 1990s, most of which were aimed at changing the industrial land...

• Author(s): Binoy Goswami • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOne of the most important agrarian institutions is tenancy, and Economic Analysis of Agrarian Institutions takes a fresh look at the iss...

• Author(s): Marc Sautet • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNot only does Nietzsche for Beginners delve into the scandalous life and considerable works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also gives a clear ...

• Author(s): Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMultimedia Applications discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia document handling, programming, security, hu...

• Author(s): Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sudeshna Chakravarti and Mary Mathew • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMuch has been said and documented about the multifaceted genius of Rabindranath Tagore. Radica...

• Author(s): Krishna Kumar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOriginally published as a collection of Krishna Kumar's UGC national lectures, What is Worth Teaching? has acquired the status o f a po...

• Author(s): Sara Dickey • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Permanent Black • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyMany people still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In realit...

• Author(s): Rajdeep Konar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdRabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a prolific playwright with more than thirty plays to his credit. He is also known for his life-lon...

• Author(s): François dubet, olivier cousin, eric macé, sandrine rui • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdRacial discrimination hurts more than discrimination on the basis of class. This is because on...

• Author(s): Shimon Lev • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOver six decades after his death, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi continues to play a role in inspiring the lives, thought and philosophy of nat...

• Author(s): Gautam Pingle • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPost Independence, the state of Andhra Pradesh was created by merging the Telangana region, a part of the princely state of Hyderabad, w...

• Author(s): B A Dubrovin, A T Fomenko, Sergei Petrovich Novikov • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOver the past 15 years, the geometrical and topological methods of the theory of manifolds have ...

• Author(s): Beatrice Jauregui • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPolicing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems ar...

• Author(s): Iqtidar Alam Khan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Permanent Black • Subject: HistoryMirza Kamran (blinded and deported to Mecca in 1553) and Mun‘im Khan (d. 1575), whose political biographies this volume carries,...

• Author(s): T W Körner • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMany students acquire knowledge of a large number of theorems and methods of calculus without being able to say how they work together. Thi...

• Author(s): Mechthild Guha • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOf this short but deeply thoughtful memoir Mechthild Guha says: “It had never occurred to me that it would be possible to pack the me...

• Author(s): David C Ullrich • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPerhaps uniquely among mathematical topics, complex analysis presents the student with the opportunity to learn a thoroughly developed...

• Author(s): Anita Agnihotri,Translated by Arunava Sinha • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSabotage is a collection of short stories selected carefully from over one hundred of Anita Agnihotri’s ...

• Author(s): B Prabhakaran • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMultimedia Database Management Systems presents the issues and the techniques used in building multimedia database management systems. ...

• Author(s): Ashutosh Kumar and Yatindra Singh Sisodia • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOver the past few decades, diverse social groups in India have been politicised and mobilised for electoral ...

• Author(s): Pramod K. Nayar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLife/Writing brings together essays that represent the author’s contribution to the field of Life Writing/Studies over the last deca...

• Author(s): Michael H. Cohen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOne of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conv...

• Author(s): Achin Vanaik • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdProponents of India’s nuclear weapons programme have felt vindicated ever since the 2009 Indo–US Civilian Nuclear Deal allowed India ...

• Author(s): Reginald C Mascarenhas • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia’s Silicon Plateau is a study of the development in India of information and communication technology (ICT). The author ha...

• Author(s): V V Yaschenko • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLearning about cryptography requires examining fundamental issues about information security. Questions abound, ranging from “From who...

• Author(s): K Duraivelu and S Karthikeyan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMetrology and Measurement play an important role in many engineering fields, especially in the production, inspection an...

• Author(s): S D Joglekar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMathematical Physics: The Basics is the first of the two-volume set on Mathematical Physics written for the postgraduate students (M. Sc....

• Author(s): Lt. Gen. L. P. Sen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdOn 22 October 1947, tribal raiders from the North-West Frontier descended on the Kashmir Valley. Their attacks included plunder, ki...

• Author(s): Christian Lee Novetzke • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNamdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that ...

• Author(s): Lakshmi Kannan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLakshmi Kannan’s Nandanvan & Other Stories is a collection of 17 of her own stories originally written in Tamil. As vivid in imag...

• Author(s): Amiya P. Sen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIswarchandra Vidyasagar is remembered as one of the most distinguished educators, writers, and social reformers of nineteenth-century Ind...