Industrial Energy Management Strategies
The importance of energy management has grown in recent years due to the heightened awareness of the impact of energy use on the environment and its very real impact on a company's bottom line. This book provides a detailed and knowledgeable refer...
Structure and Dynamics of Membranous Interfaces
Leading scientists review and explain the state of the science With chapters contributed by pioneers and leading scientists in the field, this carefullyedited work provides state-of-the-science reviews focusing on the structural and dynamic aspect...
War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849
This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for...
Next-Generation Cybersecurity
It covers a range of topics including the basics of AI, ML, and blockchain, the application of AI and ML in cybersecurity, the use of blockchain in cybersecurity, and the integrationof AI, ML, and blockchain in cybersecurity systems.
Reason to Be Happy
'Reason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place' Hannah Fry Why do our friends have more friends than we d...
Republic of Beliefs
A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the law In The Republic of Beliefs, Kaushik Basu, one of the world's leading economists, argues that the traditional economic analysis of the law has significant flaws...
Development, Distribution, and Markets
Development, Distribution, and Markets
Beyond the Invisible Hand
One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight ...
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category-thus rendering them invisible within...
Microstructure of Martensite
Martensites are crystalline solids that display dazzling patterns at the microscopic scales. This microstructure gives rise to unusual macroscopic properties like the shape-memory effect. Starting with the crystalline structure, this book describe...
Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
Prelude to Political Economy
Mainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry h...
Pharmocracy
Continuing his pioneering theoretical explorations into the relationships among biosciences, the market, and political economy, Kaushik Sunder Rajan introduces the concept of pharmocracy to explain the structure and operation of the global hegemon...
Multisituated
In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography with regard to contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is ...
Readings in Political Economy
Ranging from authoritative seminal pieces to striking contemporary papers, the readings in this volume explore the complex intersections between politics and economics from the perspectives of both disciplines.
Biocapital
Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy. Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan...
Improve Your Global Business English
In a business world that spans several continents, it is no longer common for everyone to speak English as a first language. Whether you speak English as a first, second or even third language, intercultural business communication means that getti...
Large Covariance and Autocovariance Matrices
Large Covariance and Autocovariance Matrices brings together a collection of recent results on sample covariance and autocovariance matrices in high-dimensional models and novel ideas on how to use them for statistical inference in one or more hig...
Chinese and Indian Warfare - From the Classical Age to 1870
This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Wester...
Hazardous Gases
Hazardous Gases: Risk Assessment on Environment and Human Health examines all relevant routes of exposure, inhalation, skin absorption and ingestion, and control measures of specifics hazardous gases resulting from workplace exposure...
Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption
Yet time and again we have seen such effort foild or diminished by corruption and leakage. The creation of good governance and institutions and structures to combat corruption require determination and passion but also intricate design rooted in d...
Implementing Qlik Sense
Become a full-fledged Qlik Sense Consultant with the help of this unique guide About This Book * Become a successful Qlik consultant with the help of this insightful guide * Build what is in line as well as exceeding your customer's expectations f...
Visual Sense
Vision is more than looking or seeing. It is integral to all human action. Visual Sense presents a series of readings which offer a range of alternatives to conventional psychological and social scientific approaches to the study of the ocular. Th...
War and State-Building in Afghanistan
The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afg...
Recent Advances In Biostatistics: False Discovery Rates, Survival Analysis, And Related Topics
This unique volume provides self-contained accounts of some recent trends in Biostatistics methodology and their applications. It includes state-of-the-art reviews and original contributions.The articles included in this volume are based on a care...
Introduction to Plasma Physics
Introducing basic principles of plasma physics and their applications to space, laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, this new edition provides updated material throughout. Topics covered include single-particle motions, kinetic theory, magnetohyd...
Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare
This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time. Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the...
Advanced Computing
This volume constitutes the third of three parts of the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, CCSIT 2010, held in Bangalore, India, in January 2011. The 46 revised full papers pr...
PET-CT
This book presents original case studies performed on dedicated PET-CT devices and showcases common and uncommon cancers and the latest PET-CT applications for neurological, pediatric, and cardiovascular disorders.
PET-CT
This book presents original case studies performed on dedicated PET-CT devices and showcases common and uncommon cancers and the latest PET-CT applications for neurological, pediatric, and cardiovascular disorders.
Bayesian Mediation Analysis using R
Delve into the realm of statistical methodology for mediation analysis with a Bayesian perspective in high dimensional data through this comprehensive guide. Focused on various forms of time-to-event data methodologies, this book helps readers master the application of Bayesian mediation analysis using R. Across ten chapters, this book explores concepts of mediation analysis, survival analysis, accelerated failure time modeling, longitudinal data analysis, and competing risk modeling. Each chapter progressively unravels intricate topics, from the foundations of Bayesian approaches to advanced techniques like variable selection, bivariate survival models, and Dirichlet process priors. With practical examples and step-by-step guidance, this book empowers readers to navigate the intricate landscape of high-dimensional data analysis, fostering a deep understanding of its applications and significance in diverse fields.
The Oxford Handbook of Neuronal Ion Channels
The Oxford Handbook of Neuronal Ion Channels
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