Venkatesh: 47 books

Remembrance is a collection of poems based on the daily life experiences of a commoner. It is the perfect read for a quiet introspective evening, or when you simply want to lose yourself into the memories of those incidents of love, heartbreak, anger and hope that you have been through at some point...

The world around us is teeming with messages. Just look around you. Look at the sun, the stars, the simple flower, and the early morning dew. What do they have to give us apart from the beauty of their being? Lessons are strewn on the seekers’ path to truth. God breathes lessons into the many things...

It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical...

Life's Musings - Love's Deals - Nature's Affluence is a collection of small poems that take us through life's ups and downs.  This collection is the very definition of less is more as it sums up everyday situations in one or two sentences in such an aliquant fashion.

As stories of Indian dance’s renaissance span almost a full century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping these traditions alive and experimenting with traditional dance languages to grapple with contemporary...

The president of Egypt is helpless. The curse of the pyramid had struck again. The excavation of treasure had come to a standstill. Dr. Upen, an eminent scientist from India, offers help, relying on his research on black roses. There is only one way to revive the ten scientists from coma, the Lilbido....

Using Nobel Prize–winning examples like the transistor, laser, and magnetic resonance imaging, Venky Narayanamurti and Tolu Odumosu explore the daily micro-practices of research and show that distinctions between the search for knowledge and creative problem solving break down when one pays attention to how pathbreaking research actually happens.

From classical foundations to advanced modern theory, this self-contained and comprehensive guide to probability weaves together mathematical proofs, historical context and richly detailed illustrative applications. A theorem discovery approach is used throughout, setting each proof within its historical...

This book highlights the experimental investigations that have been carried out on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography (MRI & CT) images using state-of-the-art Computational Image processing techniques, and tabulates the statistical values wherever necessary. In a very simple and...

A practical book which will help the readers understand how the container ecosystem and OpenStack work together. Key Features Gets you acquainted with containerization in private cloud Learn to effectively manage and secure your containers in OpenStack Practical use cases on container deployment...

Ramp up your knowledge of the clinical trials and evidence that laid the groundwork for current emergency practice with Emergency Medicine Evidence: The Practice-Changing Studies. Brief, easy-to-read, and accessible, this time-saving quick-reference allows you to quickly familiarize yourself with...

This book presents the state of the art results on modeling and analysis of OBS networks. It provides researchers with new directions for future research and helps them gain a better understanding of modeling OBS networks. This book classifies all the literature on modeling and analysis of OBS networks...

GIS and Geocomputation for Water Resource Science and Engineering not only provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of geographic information systems but also demonstrates how GIS and mathematical models can be integrated to develop spatial decision support systems to support water...

“And how long, Butch? How long till the universe makes up?” “Depends Stars need darkness to shine bright.” There is one basic rule out on the streets – survival of the fittest. So how am I, a street dog who’s never been on the streets; who’s grown up in a mansion her whole life; going...