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A brand new Indian title in the immensely popular Ladybird Favourite Tales seriesLadybird Favourite Tales are the timeless, treasured stories that generations of children have grown up with and loved. These easy-to-read retellings, enhanced by exciting, richly colourful illustrations, faithfully cap... More

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as ... More

This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relativ... More

This official MCSD TRAINING KIT teaches professional developers how to create Web applications with the Microsoft .NET framework as they prepare for MCP Exams 70-310 and 70-320 - core requirements for MCAD and MCSD for .NET tracks. Students learn through an integrated system of skill-building tutori... More

Originally published by Allen Lane in 1998, a popular science book containing material from the physics lectures of Richard Feynman on the subject of Einstein's relativity theory.... More

Freud's discovery that the dream is the means by which the unconscious can be explored is undoubtedly the most revolutionary step forward in the entire history of psychology. Dreams, according to his theory, represent the hidden fulfillment of our unconscious wishes.Freud's Revolutionary Theory This... More

Concise and authoritative, this book sets the standard for excellence in basic mechanics texts. The major emphasis is on basic principles and problem formulation. Strong effort has been made to show both the cohesiveness of the relatively few fundamental ideas and the great variety of problems that ... More

Table of contents : · Introduction to Statics · Force Systems · Equilibrium · Structures · Distributed Forces · Friction · Virtual Work Appendix A: Area Moments of Inertia Appendix B: Mass Movements of Inertia Appendix C: Selected Topics ... More

An Introduction to Software Tools for Biological Applications Bioinformatics--the application of computational and analytical methods to biological problems--is a rapidly evolving scientific discipline. Genome sequencing projects are producing vast amounts of... More

Designing & Building Distributed Applications If youre a distributed Java or Enterprise JavaBeans programmer, then youve undoubtedly heard of Javas Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Java programmers use RMI to write efficient, fault-tolerant distributed applica... More

<B><P><FONT face=Verdana color=black><FONT color=darkred></FONT> </FONT></B><FONT face=Verdana color=black>As the first modern physical chemistry textbook to cover quantum mechanics before thermodynamics and kinetics, this book provides a contemporary ... More

Since its original appearance in 1977, Advanced Organic Chemistry has maintained its place as the premier textbook in the field, offering broad coverage of the structure, reactivity and synthesis of organic compounds. As in the earlier editions, the text contains extensive references to both the pri... More

Open source technologies are providing developers with a range of more cost-effective, robust alternatives to commercial software for building dynamic, data-driven, secure Web applications. This practical guide presents a broad survey of LAMP technologies, and shows how these solutions can be implem... More

The theoretical as well as practical aspects of the strength of materials are presented in this book in a systematic way to enable students to understand the basic principles and prepare themselves for the tasks of designing large structures subsequently. The system of units, notation and convention... More

Contents List of ExamplesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionDiscrete-Time Signals and SystemsThe Z-TransformSampling of Continuous-Time SignalsTransform Analysis Linear Time-Invariant SystemsStructures for Discrete-Time SystemsFilter Design TechniquesThe Discrete Fourier TransformComputation of The... More

The shocking events in the royal palace in Kathmandu on 1 June 2001 left an entire nation bewildered and angry. Neelesh Misra, who covered the tragedy for The Associated Press, offers for the first time the true story behind the massacre. Portrayed in the book is the developing family drama, which c... More

Built on the foundations of Halliday, Resnick, and Walker's FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS 6e, this text is designed to work with interactive learning strategies that are increasingly being used in physics instruction (for example, microcomputer-based labs, interactive lectures, etc.). In doing so, it inco... More

With the newly revised fourth edition of Chemical, Biochemical and Engineering Thermodynamics, readers find a modern, applied approach to thermodynamics. The material is presented in sufficient detail that provides a solid understanding of the key principles in the field. And current information is ... More