B Das: 10 books

Ensuring safe and plentiful supplies of potable water (both now and for future generations) and developing sustainable treatment processes for wastewater are among the world’s greatest engineering challenges. However, sustainability requires investment of money, time and knowledge. Some parts of...

This book presents problems and solutions of the mathematical theories of thermoelasticity and magnetothermoelasticity. The classical, coupled and generalized theories are solved using the eigenvalue methodology. Different methods of numerical inversion of the Laplace transform are presented and their...

This work focuses on Islamic fundamentalism as it evolved in recent history and noticeable variant of it which often resorts to violence, terrorism and insurgency for furtherance of its aim.

•Bán's first collection to appear in English despite winning a half-dozen international awards for her writing. •Afterword by Péter Nádas (published by FSG) will appeal to a particular set of readers, especially if this is serialized in print or online. •In addition to having...

Representation Matters. Fantastic Stories prides itself on being open to underrepresented voices. Science fiction and fantasy should encompass the totality of the human experience, in all of its diversity and complexity. Fantastic Stories is determined to explore a more inclusive, realistic vision...

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...

What lies behind decision-making and improved educational and managerial performance? This book tries to answer by putting forth meaningful strategies in the context of planning and executive functions. This is based on five broad themes:  • Decisions are based on both emotions and rationality...

This book analyses new software tools and social media data that can be used to explore the attitudes of people in urban places. It reports on the findings of several research projects that have have experimented with using microblogging data in conjunction with diverse quantitative and qualitative...

​The book dwells mainly on the optimality aspects of mixture designs. As mixture models are a special case of regression models, a general discussion on regression designs has been presented, which includes topics like continuous designs, de la Garza phenomenon, Loewner order domination, Equivalence...

In this book the author has givenan idea about the various Population group of Assam and their socio-cultural bacground. He has critically examined the racial elements that have entreted into the population of Assam following the traditional approach of anthropology. The subject matter has been dealt...