Each of the fifty dishes featured here is accompanied by a photograph to give you a near-taste of the sumptuous food. Mohan's recipes are tried and tested and he does not believe in short cuts.

The preparations are authentic, yet easy to whip up in the contemporary kitchen. Each cuisine is organized into a composite menu covering vegetables, dals, fish, meats and dessert.

You'll find some unusual dishes too, such as palak rista (mini Kashmiri meatballs), rasgulla kadhi, papad ki sabzi, maach paturi (mustard fish wrapped in banana leaf) and goolar or fig kabab. Among the universal favourites are rogan josh, Kolhapuri mutton, prawn balchao, (less)

The book first introduces the concepts of engineering materials and their properties, measurement and quality in manufacturing and allied activities before dwelling upon the details of different manufacturing processes such as machining, casting, metal forming, powder metallurgy and joining. To keep pace with the latest advancements in technology, use of non-conventional resources, applications of computers, and use of robots in manufacturing are also discussed in considerable detail.

The text also provides a thorough treatment of topics on economy and management of production. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Manufacturing Concepts Engineering Materials Measurements and Quality in Manufacturing Theory of Metal Cutting Turning Operations Drilling and Allied Operations Shaping, Planing and Slotting Operations Milling Operations Finishing Processes Phase Change Processes for Material Property Manipulation Casting Processes Metal Forming Processes Sheet-metal Working Powder Metallurgy Mechanical Joining Processes Processing of Plastics Non-conventional Resources in Manufacturing Computer Controlled Manufacturing Systems Economics of Manufacturing Production Management Power Transmission in Machine Tools Appendices Objective Type Questions Bibliography Index (less)

Influential Leadership. Element 2.

Implementing Corporate Strategy. Element 3.

ROI of Decision Making. Element 4.

Decision & Action Model. Element 5.

Strategic Thinking. Element 6.

Creative Thinking. Element 7.

Delegation. Element 8.

Execution. Element 9.

Critical Thinking. Element 10.

Influencing Choices. References.

Organizations that want to have effective managers must be committed to facilitating management development. The age-old question of whether a leader is born or is made has the same answer today as when it was first asked.

One element for effective management is developing core skills such as thinking and decision making. A manager can have all the personality and expertise in the world but if they don't stop and think before they act, their business is at risk of not being around for the long term.

10 Elements for Effective Management is Volume 5 of the Howatt HR Consulting Talent Management Series that has been developed to promote (less)

The concept of gene. 2.

Fundamentals of proteomics. 3.

Genome structure and operating systems. 4.

Pairwise genomic sequence alignments. 5.

Bioinformatics of DNA microarrays. 6.

Microarray regression approaches. 7.

DNA arrays and gene expression. 8.

Gene expression profiling. 9.

Expressed sequence Tag (EST) databases. 10.

Protein structure prediction. 11.

RNA secondary structure prediction. 12.

Algorithms of Hidden Markov models. 13.

Sequencing of human genome. 14.

G protein-coupled receptors. 15.

Visualisation of biological structures. 16.

Proteome analysis. 17.

Capabilities of proteomics laboratory. 18.

Applications of molecular phylogenetics. 19.

Essentials of medical genomics. Bibliography.

Index. "Bioinformatics is a set of enabling technologies responsible for the annotation, storage, analysis and search/retrieval of nucleic acid sequence, protein sequence and structural information.

This includes integration of the information on the sequences and structures of nucleic acids and proteins into databases such as EMBL, as well as methods to access, search, model and analyse this information. Bioinformatics provides (less)

As new to science. 2.

As new records. Index (Botanical names--arranged in alphabetical sequence).

Index (Botanical names - arranged under each family). From the preface: "The Indian region has a large variety of flora.

The objective of the present text is to highlight the details of the additional elements from different phytological regions of explored, underexplored and unexplored areas which are also drawing attention and intensifying the interest for biodiversity in the country, now taking precedence over the other concerns. Many of the plants included here, are indicated with degree of threat in the "Red Data Book of Indian Plants.

" Thus this information on new elements is not only pioneer to more complete works but also a link of the previous and present works. "Since the communications and efforts made in earlier enumerations on the above subject are devoid of thorough information about description, distribution, (less)