Though not the oldest, it is the first known civilization in the Indian sub-continent. It covers an area of two million square km.

to date around 2700 Harappan and its related sites have been reported in north-west South Asia. These papers, with notes, references and bibliographies, are well illustrated and cover a wide range in the field of archaeological research, archaeo-metallurgy, surgery and trepanation, copper, bronze and metal technologies, trade in metals and minerals, hydraulic engineering and other allied topics.

Contents: Preface; 1. Seventy Years of Harappan Archaeological Research by J.

M. Kenoyer & R.

H. Meadow; 2.

Archaeo-Metallurgy in India by A. K.

Biswas; 3. Metal Technologies of Harappan by Jonathan M.

Kenoyer and Heather M.L.

Miller; 4. Evidence of Surgery and Trepanation at Burzahom or Harappan Associated Site 66 by Anek R.

Sankhyan and George J.Weber 5.

Tin in Harappan Bronze by Dilip K. Chakrabarti 6.

Copper Bronze Alloy of Harappan by Nayan Jot Lahiri 7. Archaeo-metallurgical Tradition of the Harappan by D.

P. Agrawal & Rajan Seshadri 8.

Copper Archaeo-metallurgy in Literature by D.K.

Chakrabarti 9. Harappan Trade in Metals and Minerals by Shashi Asthana 10.

Peaceful Harappans: Absence of Warfare in the Indus Civilization by Edward Cork 11. Harappan Continuity of High Tin Copper in South Asia by Sarada Srinivasan 12.

Harappan Hydraulic Engineering by R. S.

Bisht 13. Glazed Materials from Mehrgarh and Nausharo by Blanche Barthelemy De Saizieu and Anne Bouquillon 14.

Wheeled Vehicles of the Harappan Civilization by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer 15. Copper Lead Alloy in Shahi Tump South Indo-Iranian Border Land (4000-3000 B.

C.) by M.

Sharma 16. Course of Lost Saraswati River by D.

P. Sharma and A.

K. Choudhary 17.

New Harappan Excavations in Lost Saraswati Region by D.P.

Sharma 18. Bronze Age Civilizations of Asia during 3300-1900 B.

C. by D.

P. Sharma 19.

Harappans Weights and Measures by M.V.

N. Krishna Rao 20.

Meluhha : The Land of Copper Trader by M.K.

Dhavalikar 21. Copper Metallurgy of Harappans Civilization at Dholavira by David Bourgarit, Nizamuddin Taher, Beno?t Mille & Jean-Pierre Mohen Plates (less)

Diseases of asparagus. 2.

Diseases of bean and lima bean. 3.

Diseases of beet and chard. 4.

Diseases of carrot and parsnip. 5.

Diseases of celery and parsley. 6.

Diseases of crucifers. 7.

Diseases if cucurbits. 8.

Diseases of lettuce, endive, escarole, chicory, salsify, and globe artichoke. 9.

Diseases of onion, garlic, leek, chive and shallot. 10.

Diseases of pea. 11.

Diseases of pepper and eggplant. 12.

Diseases of potato. 13.

Diseases of rhubarb. 14.

Diseases of spinach. 15.

Diseases of sweet potato. 16.

Diseases of tomato. Index.

From the preface: "This book is the outgrowth of a lithoprinted manual published originally by the author in 1939 for use in a course in vegetable diseases offered to graduate students. The number of research contributions in this field since that date is large, which alone necessitated revision.

Moreover, the extension and specialization of vegetable culture in the United States has increased the pathological (less)

Bioinformatics – an overview/S. Seshadri, K.

Kathiravan, R. Elangomathavan, S.

Prakash and S. Ignacimuthu.

2. Bioinformatics : a boon to the mankind/Yogesh T.

Jasrai, Bhavisha B. Wala, Maulik N.

Thaker and Anuja N. Dubey.

3. Bioinformatics – approaches and applications/S.

Seshadri, S. Janarthanan, K.

Kathiravan, S. Prakash, R.

Elangomathavan and S. Ignacimuthu.

4. Structural bioinformatics/Talluri Sekhar, J.

S.R.

Murthy and Adam Liwo. 5.

Protein and nucleic acid databases, their accession and searching/R. Thimmaraju and N.

Bhagyalakshmi. 6.

Agro-informatics and its strategic role in agricultural research/D.K.

Verma and N.K.

Singh. 7.

Phytotherapeutical databases/S.S.

Mandal and P. Kumar.

8. Web based programming/D.

P. Bhavani Shekhar.

9. Artificial intelligence/D.

P. Bhavani Shekhar and Azeez Ahmed Khan.

"Computers are now an integral part of the biological world and without them, advancements in biology and medicine would undoubtedly be hindered. The partnership between these non-living structures (computers) and biology has created a need for mergers in certain aspects of the (less)

Vedas. 2.

Varnashram Dharma. 3.

Hindu Samskara. 4.

Purushartha : Goals of human pursuit. 5.

Doctrine of Avatara. 6.

Sagaramanthan : Churninco of ocean mythology. 7.

Pilgrimage Tirthyatra. 8.

Panchayatana : worship of five deities. 9.

Idol worship and erotica in temples. 10.

Principal Hindu deities. Appendices.

"Indian culture has been Veda centric. It was, therefore considered necessary to make a rapid survey of what constitutes the Veda in the beginning.

Vedas are the oldest literature of the world. They are the holy books of the Hindus and are the foundation of Hindu religion (Vedo akhilo dharma mulam) and such the chief object of the nation's greatest reverence and admiration.

They have been so thoroughly and religiously preserved that despite their huge bulk and elapse of thousands of years since their codification not a single variation in the reading has been detected. No country has taken care so meticulously and tediously to (less)

1. Introduction to bioinformatics.

2. Database.

3. Sequence alignment and database searching.

4. Phylogenetic analysis.

5. Predictive methods.

6. Plasmid mapping and primer design.

7. Proteomics and genomics.

8. Insilico drug design.

9. Bioinformatics software and its applications.

10. GCG Wisconsin package.

Glossary. Appendix.

Index. "Bioinformatics is an upcoming disciplines of life sciences.

It is an integration of computer science and mathematical and statistical methods to manage and analyze the biological data. The fundamental issues that directly impact an understanding of life at structural, functional and molecular level and regulation of gene expression can be studies by using bioinformatics tools.

The Fundamentals of Bioinformatics is a comprehensive book for research scholars, who urge to learn about theoretical as well as practical aspects of this upcoming field. This pioneering book provides up-to-date information of bioinformatics and emphasizes recent topics like drug design technology, pharmacogenomics, proteomics and genomics.

The present textbook will be an (less)

These transformational changes in the military, economic and political dynamics of Asia are accelerating with the passage of time. Historically, changes in the international order and equations of power among national have been almost inevitably accompanied by conflicts and wars.

The challenge ahead of the international community in general and Asian countries in particular would be how to ensure that this is avoided, and competition, so necessary to shaping the future, is managed below the levels of armed conflict. This is crucial for most countries like India so that their comprehensive national development can progress without adverse developments.

In order towork toward such goals, it is necessary to look at security and military-related issues as objectively as possible. This volume, a resource base for the professional and the general reader, is the sixth in the series of the annual publication of the Centre for Air Power Studies under this title, which aims to fill a critical information and knowledge gap in current strategic literature dealing with military strategy, defence politics and trends in military capabilities that impact countries in Asia.

In particular, it covers some of the important areas that affect Asian countries, with a focus on China, India and Pakistan, to provide the requisite regional balance. Contents : 1.

India-China Relations: Problems And Prospects; 2. Regulating Human Activities in Outer Space ? Is Code of Conduct the Answer?; 3.

Ballistic Missile Defence; 4. Pakistan?s Desire for Strategic Depth in Afghanistan; 5.

Nuclear Waste: India?s Gordian Knot?; 6. Indigenisation of Aerospace Industry Through Jonah?s Thinking Process; 7.

Technology Advancements in the Unmanned Era; 8. India?s Next War ?; 9.

Emerging Missile Threat; 10. West Asia Today; 11.

Nuclear Forensics: An Overview (less)

Mechanics, Relativity, and Electrodynamics: I. Problems: 1.

Mechanics. 2.

Relativity. 3.

Electrodynamics. II.

Solutions: 1. Mechanics.

2. Relativity.

3. Electrodynamics.

III. Appendixes.

Bibliography. Vol.

II. Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics: I.

Problems: 1. Thermodynamics and statistical physics: i.

Introductory thermodynamics. ii.

Heat and work. iii.

Ideal gas and classical statistics. iv.

Nonideal gas. v.

Mixtures and phase separation. vi.

Quantum statistics. vii.

Fluctuations. viii.

Applications to solid state. 2.

Quantum mechanics: i. One-dimensional potentials.

ii. Harmonic oscillator.

iii. Angular Momentum and spin.

iv. Variational calculations.

v. Perturbation Theory.

vi. WKB.

vii. Scattering Theory.

viii. General.

II. Solutions: 1.

Thermodynamics and statistical physics: i. Introductory thermodynamics.

ii. Heat and work.

iii. Ideal gas and classical statistics.

iv. Nonideal gas.

v. Mixtures and phase separation.

vi. Quantum statistics.

vii. Fluctuations.

viii. Applications to solid state.

2. Quantum mechanics: i.

One-dimensional potentials. ii.

Harmonic oscillator. iii.

Angular Momentum and spin. iv.

Variational calculations. v (less)

It covers both spark ignition and compression ignition engines'''as well as those operating on four-stroke cycles and on two stroke cycles. The text covers the fundamentals of fuels, combustion, heat transfer, lubrication, and fluid mechanics as applied in the operation of IC engines.

This student friendly text is illustrated with a large number of diagrams and Figures. These along with end of chapter solved and unsolved problems, a list of frequently used notations, symbols, and abbreviations enhance its value as a text.

Table of Contents Preface. Acknowledgments.

Notation. 1.

Introduction. 2.

Operating Characteristics. 3.

Engine Cycles. 4.

Thermochemistry and Fuels. 5.

Air and Fuel Induction. 6.

Fluid Motion within Combustion Chamber. 7.

Combustion. 8.

Exhaust Flow. 9.

Emissions and Air Pollution. 10.

Heat Transfer in Engines. 11.

Friction and Lubrication. Appendixes.

References. Answers to Selected Review Problems.

Index (less)

Basic concepts of bioinformatics: 1. Bioinformatics technology: a review.

II. Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology: 2.

Biochemistry and bioinformatics. 3.

Transcription and translation. III.

Molecular genetics and their database: 4. Genomics--basics concepts.

5. Molecular genetics.

6. Genome mapping.

7. Gene identification.

8. Proteome analysis.

IV. Computers and their applications in bioinformatics: 9.

Installing bioinformatics software in a server-based computing environment. 10.

Management of a server-based bioinformatics resources. 11.

Databases. 12.

Statistics. 13.

Data visualisation. 14.

Sequence alignment and analysis. 15.

Data mining. 16.

Pattern matching. 17.

Information retrieval from biological databases. V.

Applications of bioinformatics in industry and research: 18. Innovations of bioinformatics.

VI. Predictive methods and analysis: 19.

Predictive methods using nucleotide sequences. 20.

Predictive methods using protein sequences. 21.

Phylogenetic analysis. 22.

Phylogenetic prediction. 23.

Search engines. 24.

Submitting DNA sequences to the databases. Glossary.

Appendices. References.

Index. "Bioinformatics is the application of information technology to the field of molecular (less)

Tibet monasteries open their treasure rooms; 3. Buddhist sculptures in Tibet; Addendum, Bibliography (less)

As pointed out in this volume, the word 'Hindu' is derived from 'Sindhu', the Sanskrit name for the river Indus, and the original inhabitants of the Indus Valley and beyond were so called by foreigners, especially by the Islamic invaders. Because of the lack of any fixed dogma or doctrine, the absence of any one holy book propounding any fixed doctrine and the absence of any organized church or institution that can bring its followers together, Hinduism has emerged as a complex religion based as it is, like the ancient Greek religion, on freedom of thought, belief and expression and also on tolerance and non-violence.

At the same time Hinduism presents the students of world religions with a serious difficulty of bringing together the various beliefs, doctrines, customs and institutions under the same roof called Hinduism. Various accounts of Hinduism published so far therefore, give us only partial pictures of this unique faith.

In this Volume 45 scholars representing various disciplines and in different professions, have come together to contribute 63 chapters on various colorful aspects of Hinduism covering historically a very wide area, from vedic religion to modern Hinduism. Topically they cover various basic concepts, textual studies, customs, rituals and legal institutions, studies of Hindu social organizations, various movements and cults, like Saivism, Vaisnavism etc.

, Hindu art aesthetics and architecture, response to and relation with other Indian religions, and modern Hinduism represented by great reformists like Raja Rammohun Roy, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore etc., and finally the volume concludes with a chapter on the reaction of Hinduism to science and technology.

The methodology of study as a whole is objective, balanced and unbiased, neither partisan nor unfairly critical, and no attempt has been made to defend any of the shortcomings of Hinduism or to glorify any of its merits (less)

Fundamental principles: 1. Modern accountancy.

2. Preliminary information.

3. Capital.

4. Double-entry bookkeeping.

5. Determination of capital or deficit.

II. The ledger: 6.

Classification of ledger accounts. 7.

The trial balance. 8.

Determination of profit or loss. 9.

Statement of trading and profit and loss. 10.

Statement of cash receipts and payments. 11.

The balance sheet. 12.

Statement of affairs. 13.

Realization and liquidation statement. 14.

The use of supporting schedules. 15.

The journal. 16.

Illustrative problems in journalization. 17.

The cashbook. 18.

Purchase records. 19.

Sales records. 20.

Miscellaneous cash matters. 21.

Miscellaneous purchase matters. 22.

The voucher system. 23.

Miscellaneous sales matters. III.

Miscellaneous accounting topics: 24. Controlling accounts.

25. Trade discount and cash discount.

26. Illustrative cash book entries.

27. Notes and trade acceptances.

28. Illustrative note transactions journalized.

29. Depreciation.

30. The use of subsidiary books illustrated.

31. Partnership accounting opening and current entries.

32. Partnership accounting: dissolution (less)

Like a kaleidoscope one can glean different spiritual structures in it. For some the rationalist and agnostic aspects of the early Pali Buddhism is important, others are inspired by the Mahayana texts and the Japanese tradition.

Buddhism is to be valued for its idealistic, transcendental even non-dual tendencies. Still for some others the existential tendency and phenomenology seem significant in Buddhism.

The study of Buddhist logic as preserved in Tibet and Mongolia also led to the appreciation of Buddhist philosophy as logic and epistemology with a strong ?Kantian? bias. The contribution of Buddhism went a long way in creating the essence of Indian culture, universal in its teachings.

The catholic and rational message of Buddhism made it a dynamic and expansive world religion. What seems an anti-essentialist philosophy to the modern man actually shows different levels of spiritual experiences culminating in niruana.

The study of Buddhism has attracted a host of scholars in India and abroad in all disciplines, e.g.

History, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Literature and the Arts since ancient times. The present volume covers all the aspects of Buddhism by distinguished scholars.

The topics range from archaeology and the date of the Buddha to contemporary Buddhism. The intricacies of the original Gospel, Hinayana, Mahayana, Buddhist monasticism and art, and Buddhism in relation to contemporary issues have been dealt with thoroughly (less)

2. Enzymes in Milk and Cheese Industries.

3. Enzymes in Baking Industry.

4. Enzymes in Fruit Juices and Beverages Industry.

5. Enzymes in Meat Industries.

6. Enzymes in Sugar Industries.

7. Enzymes in Fat, Oil, Flavor and Fragrance Industries.

8. Immobilized Enzymes in Food Processing.

9. Enzymes as Analytical Tools in Food Processing.

10. Novel Strategies for Designing Food Enzymes : Genomics and Proteomics Approach.

11. Index.

"This book reflects an in depth study of high academic standards dealing in a coherent and lucid way the most comprehensive and advances in application of enzymes in food processing. This indispensable treatise is the product of combined efforts of leading experts of excellent academic credentials in the area of food technology and biotechnology.

This unique volume gives a holistic view about the interventions of enzymes in food processing i.e.

• Handles different enzymes used in food processing at one platform. • Discusses (less)