India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life: one to which his family turn a blind eye. As he approaches adulthood, Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good school, good degree, good job, good car....

Environmental means all those circumstances, which are able to influence the living organisms as well as non-living parts. Environment includes physical, intellectual, social, moral, economic, political and cultural forces, which can singly or jointly influence the activities, behaviour, and personality characteristics of an individual....

Regarding violence against women in North East India during the year under report, the scenario was found not very different from the trend prevailed throughout the country although some differences were also observed for the state in this respect....

Nowadays the concept of development of an economy has changed totally – now development means enlargement of human capabilities, i.e., human development, which depends on the improvement of quality of life of an economy. The growth of Gross National Product (GNP) or rise in personal income alone can not fully address the issue of human development....

The Genetically Modified Foods or GMFs deriving out of the GM food crops is a unique blessing of modern biotechnology in present era. It has been pioneered by the scientific community to forgo the problems in food security in the process of revolutionizing the novel food industry ....

Consumer Durable Electronics Industry in India is playing a very crucial role in the nation’s economy and in the cultural & social changes....

Carbon in petroleum Source Rock is organic origin. The questions from the inorganic proponents are hereby answered to end on the long standing debate on organic versus inorganic origin. This gives us a new dimension on the science of source rocks. Source rock is made up of lipid rich organic matter deposited in mostly marine like environments....

In this proof of principle study, automated fluorescence Toponome Imaging System (TIS) was applied to find protein network structures distinguishing cancer tissue from normal colon tissue, taken from the same patient....

Nowadays Hilbert Transform is used not only in Communication but also in Wind Engineering. As the day progresses, the new utility of Hilbert transform is getting high.This book is basically on the fundamental concept of Hilbert Transform and its application in Engineering Sciences and Technologies....

This paper primarily looks at Greece’s massive debt crisis of 2009. Firstly, the root internal and external causes are analyzed critically to show how exactly the country reached such decadence....

The unprecedented decline in biodiversity during the past few decades calls for immediate thorough review of biological wealth and proper conservation strategies of genetic-diversity....

Tinidazole is mainly used in the treatment of colon specific diseases. The present study deals with preparation and evaluation of zinc pectin microbeads of tinidazole as a colon specific drug delivery system....

In this book, the reinforced concrete building with soft ground floor is modelled for the seismic simulation. Response spectrum method based on modal combination is adopted for the mathematical modelling. The response spectrum method is encountered under the bureaus of Indian Standard provisions....

The first edition of Theory of Valuation is a collection of important papers in the field of theoretical financial economics published from 1973 to 1986, and original accompanying essays contributed by eminent researchers including Robert C Merton, Edward C Prescott, Stephen A Ross, and Joseph E Stiglitz....

What is this book about? Red Hat Linux 9 is a powerful, flexible open source operating system. Its popularity is growing, both in home use and in corporate environments of all sizes. Its user interface makes it every bit as accessible as other operating systems, and its open source pedigree opens the doors to a mind-blowing amount of free software....