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The book is designed for graduate students and researchers and can serve as material for a two-semester core course on real analysis. The material is mostly about measure and integration over a finite measure space, developing a general mathematical framework for handling uncertainty in quantitative... More

Structure And Properties Of Engineering Materials.....Designed for the first level course on Materials Science, the book exhaustively covers all the topics taught to the students of engineering. The book benefits from an updated treatment of the subject and emphasises on common characteristics of en... More

In an elegant and concise fashion, this book presents the concepts of functional analysis required by students of mathematics and physics. It begins with the basics of normed linear spaces and quickly proceeds to concentrate on Hilbert spaces, specifically the spectral theorem for bounded as well as... More

V.S.Naipaul has gone back more than once to the illuminations of this startling and original book. It is the most human kind of history, done with a novelist's eye. Living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative - about the New World, empire, Af... More

In Half A Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willies is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to th... More

Naipaul's first travel book - travelling from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean Naipaul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is both a journey to the familiar and to the strange and Naipaul recor... More

Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous account of the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Beginning in rich and evocative ... More

It is literally the last word on India today, witness within witness, a chain of voices that illustrates every phase of Indian life ... with a truthfulness and a subtlety that are a joy to read. Something like love enters the narrative - a real feeling for the land and its people' Paul Theroux, Lite... More