Uma: 57 books

The highly anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas placed a greater onus on higher education institutions to provide evidence supporting the need for affirmative action policies on their respective campuses. It is now more critical than ever that institutional leaders...

A just, fair, reasonable, and purposeful exercise of arrest and detention powers by the State is both in the interest of the individual and the society at large. However, very often individual rights are impinged by arbitrary and illegal exercise of State power to arrest and detain. The book studies...

A Practical Guide to Obstetrics is the perfect handbook for all doctors dealing with childbirth. Practitioners and postgraduates will turn to this book for evidence-based protocols and systems which will guide them in the management of obstetric problems.The coverage of topics is exhaustive and follows...

From dark dilemmas to sharp wounds. These elements are what dominate this unique collection by writers spanning a century . The stories, unflinching in style and content, focus on womens issues like abortion, rape, dowry and beyond. Each piece is reflective of a path-breaking vision that has altered the Telugu literary scene in form, style and content.

Set against the backdrop of the waning Vijayanagar Kingdom in the sixteenth century, The Temple Builder is the story of King Sevvappa Nayakas ambitious undertaking to build the monolithic Nandi sculpture in the ancient temple of Tanjore, India. His heroic deeds as a warrior earned him the Kingdom...

Abandoned in the Forest after birth by his young mother, he grew up in a coyote family. He behaved like a true canine. Conceived as an illegitimate child by a young girl, he was left in the forest to die. He was rescued by canines and grew up with them. He ran on all fours, barked and growled. He...

Poor Topaz just wants an ordinary life with her to best friends, Mark and Stacy. But suddenly her life is turned upside down when her parents are reported missing, and she's shipped off to Bermuda with her friends and an odd dog. Then she finds out her pals are really aliens with powers destined to...

Benign breast disorders and diseases are commonly encountered in clinical practice. Though reliable statistics are not available, the incidence of such disorders, is thought to exceed that of carcinoma breast by a factor of ten or more. Cultural inhibitions often prevent the woman from seeking medical...

America is called a melting pot of all cultures. As the immigration of different cultures continue to flood this land of opportunity, a revolution is taking place in the fusion of their cultures and cuisines. This transformation has been very prominent in the last 50 years and it is clearly visible...

The fruitfulness of this book offers the following: It changes you in a unique style and enhances the skills and competency into a peak level. It makes a difference in the folks as a good personality among them. It helps know the emotions and control it. It helps you utilize your time in a proper...

Sukumara Natana Thathwa, began with random thoughts, observations, reactions, being noted down for me alone, and then, very soon, it took on an existence of its own, dragging me along with it, tightly chained, so that I was pulled back to the subject in spite of the numerous deviations, where I was...

The continuous demand for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens(2003) led to this revised edition which analyses the recent socio-economic and political changes that have taken place. Caste-based marriage and control over women's sexuality have been crucial for the continuation of the caste system...

Comprehensive coverage of the entire induced pluripotent stem cell basic work flow Pluripotent stem cells (PSC) can divide indefinitely, self-renew, and can differentiate to functionally reconstitute almost any cell in the normal developmental pathway, given the right conditions. This comprehensive...

The bouquet of stories in this book is written in a very lucid manner. Mojority of stories are of bye gone eras and some are more contemporary. The underlining theme in these stories is to throw up characters possessing innerstrength and spiritual values as the title suggests. It is readable and interesting...