Shyam: 68 books

This book is for the fan and the analyst, by two writers who consider themselves fans and analysts in equal measure. It follows the career of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, demi-god and cricketer - his rise, his peak, his dark phase, and his resurrection. It asks the tough questions asked of him, through...

Where to invest for growth can be a daunting decision for even an experienced investor. For a beginner, it can seem downright impossible. The author covers in this investment guide all kinds of investments including the stocks, treasury securities, municipal and corporate bonds, mutual funds and exchange...

Experimental economics is a rapidly growing field of inquiry, and there currently exist several textbooks and surveys describing the results of laboratory experiments in economics. This primer, however, is the first hands-on guide to the physical aspects of actually conducting experiments in economics....

For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility function defined over purchasing power. This new volume contests that even the best wisdom from the orthodox theory has not...

The most up-to-date, comprehensive guide on liquidity risk management—from the professionals Written by a team of industry leaders from the Price Waterhouse Coopers Financial Services Regulatory Practice, Liquidity Risk Management is the first book of its kind to pull back the curtain on...

The mind has three functions, to absorb information, to analyze it, and then to make a recommendation of what to do, for the self to consider. Mental health is when the mind is able to perform these three functions well, to the satisfaction of the self. Mental illness is when the mind cannot perform its task in the way that the self wants it to.

This book offers practical, task-based, and immediately usable recipes covering a wide range of advanced techniques for administering a high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 system. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations...

There is a tradition of Babaji that goes back thousands of years. Twice in the past hundred years, Babaji has appeared, lived and taught in the tiny village of Haidakhan in the Kumaon foothills of the Himalayas. In the 1890's, He built the temple on the top of the hill where the Ashram is located....

A daring daylight kidnap.A missing twelve-year old.A grieving mother.A helpless father.A ransom demand.A day gone waste.A dead end.A nudge from powers-that-be.A crack team.A proven deliverer.A prodigious child witness.A heroic canine.A faceless criminal.A ruthless gang.A criminal empire.An action-packed investigative thriller.A clock ticking.Tic, tic, tic…

Animals have a purpose, and that purpose is to serve man. They do not have a soul and hence have no purpose of their own. So, naturally, one can learn from what animals do and in this book I write about some of the things one can learn.

Since memories are by their very nature in the past, to be drawn upon or sometimes thoughts which pop back into conscience without warning, I wanted to preserve as many as possible before the list grew shorter over time.

The complete guide to building and managing next-generation data center network fabrics with VXLAN and BGP EVPN This is the only comprehensive guide and deployment reference for building flexible data center network fabrics with VXLAN and BGP EVPN technologies. Writing for experienced network...

This book will demystify Angular as a framework, as well as provide clear instructions and examples on how to get started with writing scalable Angular applications. Angular: Up & Running covers most of the major pieces of Angular, but in a structured manner that is generally used in hands-on...

The classic Hatha yoga manual for a strong, vital, beautiful body and a balanced, harmonious, happy mind • Includes instructions for many advanced Hatha yoga exercises to build strength, stamina, and good posture, the necessary basis for spiritual development • Provides detailed...