“atul gawande”

In gripping accounts of true cases, Atul Gawande performs exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is—complicated, perplexing and profoundly human. He offers an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge, where science is ambigu... More

Riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, and how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled professionThe struggle to perform well is universal, and nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book,... More

Hardbound... More

The work provides an authentic and comprehensive analysis of the threats of cyber crime. It is going to be a valuable tool of reference for researchers, students and several others.... More

The book, containing eleven papers written by eminent social scientists onthe traditional self-governing institutions among the hill tribes of north-eastIndia, not only describes but also critically examines the relevance of theseinstitutions to the needs of tribal society in transition. The papers ... More

How has democracy taken root in India in the face of a low-income economy, widespread poverty, illiteracy, and immense ethnic diversity? Atul Kohli brings together some of the world's leading scholars of Indian politics to consider this intriguing anomaly. They do so by focusing not so much on socio... More

Details recent advances in multimedia systems, standards, and networking, focusing on compression technology in multimedia applications in the context of two recent MPEG standards: MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. Gives background material on various standards, then describes tools and important aspects of specif... More