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Acc. No : 42203Call No : 004.16 TAH-M

This book presents the use of a microprocessor-baseddigital system in our daily life. Its bottom-up approachensures that all the basic building blocks are coveredbefore the development of a real-life system. Theultimate goal of the book is to equip students with allthe fundamental building blocks as well as theirintegration, allowing them to implement theapplications they have dreamed up with minimumeffort. The book starts with a description of the generalconcepts related to microcontrollers. The overallobjective of ARM Microprocessors systems Cortex-Marchitecture programming, and interfacing is tofamiliarize students with the effectiveness ofmicrocontrollers so that they can design and developtheir own embedded systems for many different…


Acc. No : 40672Call No : 005.133 MAT-P

Gain practical skills in machine learning for finance,healthcare, and retail. This book uses a hands-onapproach by providing case studies from each of thesedomains: you’ll see examples that demonstrate how touse machine learning as a tool for businessenhancement. As a domain expert, you will not onlydiscover how machine learning is used in finance,healthcare, and retail but also work through practicalcase studies where machine learning has beenimplemented. Machine Learning skills in machinelearning applications using python is divided into threesections, one for each of the domains. Each sectionstarts with an overview of machine learning and keytechnological advancements in that domain. You'll thenlearn more by using case studies on how…


Acc. No : 41171Call No : 006.31 MIC-U

Work with advanced topics in deep learning, such asoptimization algorithms, hyper-parameter tuning,dropout, and error analysis as well as strategies toaddress typical problems encountered when trainingdeep neural networks. You’ll begin by studying theactivation functions mostly with a single neuron, seeinghow to perform linear and logistic regression usingTensor Flow, and choosing the right cost function. Thenext section talks about more complicated neuralnetwork architectures with several layers and neuronsand explores the problem of random initialization ofweights. An entire chapter is dedicated to a completeoverview of neural network error analysis, givingexamples of solving problems originating from variance,bias, overfitting, and datasets coming from different…


Acc. No : 42084Call No : 006.31 MAR-S

This bestseller helps students understand thealgorithms of machine learning. It puts them on a pathtoward mastering the relevant mathematics andstatistics as well as the necessary programming andexperimentation. Along with improved Python code,this second edition includes two new chapters on deepbelief networks and Gaussian processes. It incorporatesnew material on the support vector machine, randomforests, the perceptron convergence theorem, filtersand more. All of the code is available on the author’swebsite. Reflects recent developments in machinelearning, including the rise of deep belief networks.Presents the necessary preliminaries, including basicprobability and statistics. Discusses supervised learningusing neural network…


Acc. No : 42460Call No : 206.1 SIM-A

For professionals navigating negative corporate karmas,Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita offers a wayforward for overcoming self-defeating habits andmanaging the mind’s negative chatter that is often themain obstacle to effective leadership. By promoting aleadership approach of caring for followers, stakeholdersand future generations, the book offers hope forharmonious workplace relations and a protectedenvironment. Based on leadership by inspiration asopposed to leadership by control, Leadership Lessonsfrom the Bhagavad Gita provides an alternative toconventional leadership. Particularly, in the times welive, where there is a crisis of faith in leadership, theinsights from this book presents a vision of linked-leadership leaders who are linked through…


Acc. No : 42130Call No : 300.72 COG-D

Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization is theessential resource for anyone embarking on a researchproject in their own organization or as part of a workplacement programme whether in business, healthcare,government, education, social work or third sectororganizations. The authors provide an easy-to-follow,hands-on guide to every aspect of conducting an actionresearch project and have added in the third edition,more on politics and ethics to help researchers negotiategaining access and permission, and building andmaintaining support from peers and relevantsubsystems within an organization, more on writing anaction research dissertation, and treatment of sensitiveissues such as: giving feedback to one’s superiors andpeers, disseminating the research to the wider…


Acc. No : 42121Call No : 332.1 BEA-P

The internet is dramatically transforming the waybusiness is done, particularly for financial services.Digital Finance takes a thoughtful look at how theindustry is evolving, and it explains how to integrateconcepts of digital finance into existing traditionalfinance platforms. This book explores what successfulcompanies are doing to maximize their opportunities inthis context and offers suggestions on how to introducedigital finance into a firm’s structure. Specific strategiesfor a digital future are presented, alongside numerouscase studies that explore key attributes of success. Inrecognition of the rapidly evolving nature of financetoday, Digital Finance is accompanied by a websitemaintained by the author, as well as links to othercontent with insightful articles, analyses, and…


Acc. No : 42120Call No : 332.4 FOC-S

By enabling the storage and transfer of purchasingpower, money facilitates economic transactions andcoordinates economic activity. But what is money? Howis it generated? Distributed? How does money acquirevalue and that value change? How does money impactthe economy, society? This book explores money as asystem of "tokens" that represent the purchasing powerof individual agents. It looks at how money developedfrom debt/credit relationships, barter and coins into asystem of gold-backed currencies and bank credit and onto the present system of fiat money, bank credit, near-money and, more recently, digital currencies. The authorsuccessively examines how the money circuit haschanged over the last 50 years, a period of stagnantwages, increased household borrowing and…


Acc. No : 42195Call No : 512.009 SES-J

This book does not aim to give an exhaustive survey ofthe history of algebra up to early modern times butmerely to present some significant steps in solvingequations and, wherever applicable, to link thesedevelopments to the extension of the number system.Various examples of problems, with their typicalsolution methods, are analyzed, and sometimestranslated completely. Indeed, it is another aim of thisbook to ease the reader's access to modern editions ofold mathematical texts, or even to the original texts; tothis end, some of the problems discussed in the texthave been reproduced in the appendices in their originallanguage with explicative notes. The first witness thesolution of equations and systems of the first andsecond degrees to the second is associated…


Acc. No : 42061Call No : 530 DIE-H

The aim of this book is to provide the fundamentals ofstatistical physics and its application to condensedmatter. The combination of statistical mechanics andquantum mechanics has provided an understanding ofthe properties of matter leading to spectaculartechnological innovations and discoveries in acondensed matter which have radically changed ourdaily life. The book gives the steps to follow tounderstand fundamental theories and to apply these toreal materials. Statistical mechanics provides generalmethods to study properties of systems composed of alarge number of particles. It establishes generalformulas connecting physical parameters to variousphysical quantities. When parameters of a system suchas interaction between particles and temperature are…


Acc. No : 42046Call No : 530.12 LVO-A

This textbook is intended to accompany a two-semester course on quantum mechanics for physicsstudents. Along with the traditional material covered insuch a course, it offers in-depth discussion of theHilbert space, the nature of measurement,entanglement, and DE coherence concepts that arecrucial for the understanding of quantum physics andits relation to the macroscopic world, but rarelycovered in entry-level textbooks. The book uses amathematically simple physical system photonpolarization as the visualization tool, permitting thestudent to see the entangled beauty of the quantumworld from the very first pages. The formal concepts ofquantum physics are illustrated by examples from theforefront of modern quantum research, such as…


Acc. No : 41125Call No : 571.8 GIL-S

A classic gets a new coauthor and a new approach:Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition, keeps theexcellent writing, accuracy, and enthusiasm of theGilbert Developmental Biology book, streamlines it,adds innovative electronic supplements, and creates anew textbook for those teaching. DevelopmentalBiology to a new generation. Several new modes ofteaching are employed in the new Gilbert and Barresitextbook. The videos explaining development as well asthose from Mary Tyler's Vade Mecum are referencedthroughout the book, and several other valuable newelements have been added. Additional updates include,An increased emphasis on stem cells, which are coveredextensively and early in the book. Sex determinationand gametogenesis, instead of being near the…


Acc. No : 42035Call No : 572.7 GAR-E

The first comprehensive coverage of this unique andinterdisciplinary field provides a complete overview,covering such topics as chemo enzymatic synthesis,microbial production of DNA building blocks,asymmetric transformations by coupled enzymes andmuch more. By combining enzymatic and syntheticorganic steps, the use of multi-enzyme complexes andother techniques opens the door to reactions hithertounknown, making this monograph of great interest tobiochemists, organic chemists, and chemists workingwith/on organometallics, as well as catalytic chemists,biotechnologists, and those working. In nature, enzymesare able to catalyze reaction sequences and cascadeswithout the need for purification and isolation ofintermediates. This is one essential…


Acc. No : 42148Call No : 620.136 SAN-J

3D Concrete Printing Technology provides valuableinsights into the new manufacturing techniques andtechnologies needed to produce concrete materials. Inthis book, the editors explain the concrete printingprocess for mix design and the fresh properties for thehigh-performance printing of concrete, along withcommentary regarding their extrudability, workabilityand buildability. This is followed by a discussion of threelarge-scale 3D printings of ultra-high performanceconcretes, including their processing setup,computational design, printing process and materialscharacterization. Properties of 3D-printed fiber-reinforced Portland cement paste and its flexural andcompressive strength, density and porosity and the 3D-printing of hierarchical materials is also…


Acc. No : 42108Call No : 621.381 RAM-R

The following pages are meant for those who wish touse thyristors. The details of the physics ofsemiconductor materials or the design of thyristorsthemselves are unnecessary here but a generaldescription of the device may help to avoid pitfallsduring electric circuit design. Thyristor is theinternationally recognized name for a particular semiconductor device. The name is derived from the Greek,the first part meaning switch and the second part anassociation with the transistor family. It has a tradename, Silicon controlled rectifier and it got this nameprincipally because it is a silicon device and it is used asa rectifier which can be controlled. As a controlledswitch it forms a group together with theelectromagnetic relay, the thyratron and…


Acc. No : 42143Call No : 628 RED-K

This book contains detailed information aboutsustainability and resiliency principles and applicationsin engineering practice, and provides information onhow to use scientific tools for sustainability assessmentthat help engineers select the best alternative for eachproject or activity. Logically organized around the threepillars of sustainability environment, economy, andsociety it is a primary resource for students andprofessionals alike. Sustainable Engineering: Drivers,Metrics, Tools, and Applications offers numerous waysto help engineers contribute towards global sustainabledevelopment while solving some of the grand challengesthe world is facing today. The first part of the bookcovers the environmental, economic, and social impactsassociated with project product development…


Acc. No : 42116Call No : 658.15 RAU-R

The Short Introduction to Corporate Finance provides anaccessibly written guide to contemporary financialinstitutional practice. Rau deploys both his professionalexpertise and experience of teaching MBA and graduate-level courses to produce a lively discussion of the keyconcepts of finance, liberally illustrated with real-worldexamples. Built around six essential paradigms, hebuilds an integrated framework covering all the majorideas in finance over the past half-century. Ideal forstudents and practitioners alike, it will become corereading for anyone aspiring to become an effectivemanager. Finance is generally considered one of themost intimidating of the business areas, fit only forextremely quantitative people who are very comfortablewith numbers. That belief is reinforced by…


Acc. No : 42254Call No : 658.4012 BAL-S

The book covers important aspects of DevisingSuccessful Strategies and implementing Innovationthrough novel concepts and approaches. It stresses apractical approach based on the author’s learnings fromHeading Corporate Strategy at large Indianconglomerates such as the Vedanta and the Zee Groups.It covers important new management concepts or newways of looking at existing concepts giving many actualexamples and illustrations which both mid-and senior-level professionals would associate with. The emphasisthroughout is on practical challenges and examplesrelevant to the Indian context, outlining approacheswhich executives in various companies can adopt toensure they are more successful and effective in theirwork. In such a fast changing world, how does one…


Acc. No : 42118Call No : 808.02 DEN-P

Early careers researchers and academics receive little tono on-going training for providing support to doctoralstudents. In light of this, this book addresses the needsof prospective and current supervisors of doctoralstudents, by providing you with guidance on Engagingwith the process of selecting researchers and developingreliable expectations, Identifying the most effectivesupervisory style and your role in shaping students’skills. How you can contribute to your students’progress and reflective practices. Your role in the finalassessment stages, and how your support can extendbeyond their studies. Through a wide range ofmultidisciplinary case studies, you will find valuableguidance on how to support your students, and beempowered in the…


Acc. No : 42127Call No : 808.066364 HOU-S

As part of the SAGE Guide to Writing series, The SAGEGuide to Writing in Corrections,1e, by Steven Houglandand Jennifer Allen, focuses on teaching students how towrite in the academic setting while introducing them toa number of other professional writings specific to thecorrectional profession, such as the pre-sentenceinvestigation report, contact sheets, court status reports,incident reports, rehabilitation and therapy. Coveringcorrectional institutions as well as communitycorrections, the goal is to interweave professional andtechnical writing, academic writing, and informationliteracy, with the result being a stronger, more confidentreport writer and student in corrections. This text willbe a concise supplemental writing book in coursesfocused on writing in the criminal justice…


Acc. No : 42387Call No : 808.51 BOW-J

In 2010, award-winning journalist John Bowe learnedthat his cousin Bill, a longtime extreme recluse living inhis parents’ basement, had, at the age of fifty-nine,overcome a lifetime of shyness and isolation and gottenhappily married. Bill credited his turnaround toToastmasters, the world's largest organization devotedto teaching the art of public speaking. Fascinated by thepossibility that speech training could foster the kind ofpsychological well-being more commonly soughtthrough psychiatric treatment, and intrigued by thenotion that words can serve as medicine, Bowe set outto discover the origins of speech training and to learn forhimself how to speak better in public. From the birth ofdemocracy in Ancient Greece until two centuries ago,education meant, in addition to reading and…


Acc. No : 42123Call No : 820.71 KRO-T

From literary studies to digital humanities, IntroducingEnglish Studies is a complete introduction to the manyfields and sub-disciplines of English studies for majorsstarting out in the subject for the first time. The bookcovers topics including, history of English language andlinguistics, literature and literary criticism, cinema andnew media Studies, composition and rhetoric, creativeand professional writing, critical theory, digitalhumanities. The book is organized around the centralquestions of the field and includes case studiesdemonstrating how assignments might be approached,as well as annotated guides to further reading tosupport more in-depth study. A glossary of key criticalterms helps readers locate essential definitions quicklywhen studying and writing and revising…


Acc. No : 42245Call No : 820.9954 DOD-J

Contemporary Indian Writings in English is a uniquecollection of some scholarly essays on the works ofsome eminent Indian Writers in English. This augustgroup of Indian Writers includes Kamala Das, AnitaDesai, Khushwant Singh, Salman Rushdie, RohintonMistry, C.D. Irene, and Arundhati Roy. The bookrepresents a wide spectrum of critical responses toContemporary Indian Writings in English, and is acollection of some good papers which were presented atthe National Seminar on Contemporary Indian Writingsin English organized by the Department of English,Shardagram Arts and Commerce College, Mangrol, andthe Shakespeare Society of Mangrol. The contributors tothe Volume comprises an august group of scholars andacademies like Dr. Suresh K. Shukla, Dr. P.K. Nayar and…


Acc. No : 42028Call No : 823.92 GHO-A

Jungle Nama is Amitav Ghosh's verse adaptation of anepisode from the legend of Bon Bibi, a tale popular inthe villages of the Sundarban, which also lies at theheart of the novel The Hungry Tide. It is the story of theavaricious rich merchant Dhona, the poor lad Dukhey,and his mother; it is also the story of Dokkhin Rai, amighty spirit who appears to humans as a tiger, of BonBibi, the benign goddess of the forest, and her warriorbrother Shah Jongoli. The original print version of thislegend, dating back to the nineteenth century, iscomposed in a Bengali verse meter known as dwipodipoyar. Jungle Nama is a free adaptation of the legend,told entirely in a poyar-like meter of twenty-four syllablecouplets that replicate the cadence of the original. Thefirst-ever book in verse by…


Acc. No : 41553Call No : 954.042092 MAD-K

In October 1947, two months after he becameindependent India s first prime minister, JawaharlalNehru wrote the first of his fortnightly letters to theheads of the country s provincial governments atradition he kept until a few months before his death.This carefully selected collection covers a range ofthemes and subjects, including citizenship, war andpeace, law and order, governance and corruption, andIndia s place in the world. Visionary, wise and reflective,these letters are of great contemporary relevance forthe guidance they provide for our current problems andpredicaments. I was not much of a politician, JawaharlaNehru wrote in the Discovery India, although politicshad seized me and made me its victim. A key figure inthe freedom struggle and nationalist…


Acc. No : 39392Call No : Fiction ANE-K

You don’t find true love. You build it. Paarth has justturned 18, and instead of celebrating, he is driving hisfather’s taxi to make ends meet. When he picks upUpasna from the Delhi airport, little did he know thattheir drive to Chandigarh will be so adventurous.Upasna is studying Automobile Engineering in Germany,and has come back home for a short holiday. When shestumbles upon a little secret about Paarth, she is in aweof him, and love inevitably happens. However, not onlytheir social status, but the long distance between themis also a problem. Her undying faith in Paarth makeshim challenge his destiny to prove his worth to herfather, and more to himself. As he sets on a path toreinvent his identity, his friend Kartik stands by him tosee him through. In a world where relationships are…


Acc. No : 41049Call No : Fiction NAR-R

Illustrations by Artist Namboodiri. A thrilling saga ofloyalty, deceit, love and war. Seventeenth centuryMalabar. Law and order lay in shambles as thePortuguese terrorize the locals. Native kings troop inseparate camps for and against the foreign invaders. Therift is so deep that Samoothiri of Calicut, the swornenemy of the Kochi kingdom, has finally decided to joinforces with Kochi to fight the outsiders. In a dramaticturn of events, the heir to the Kochi throne, KeralaVarma and his brother, Veera Kerala Varma, go into exilein guise of sanyasis to escape the Portuguese. Duringtheir journey, Veera Kerala Verma falls in love withUnnimaya, the gorgeous niece of the army chief ofChempakassery Raja, a major Portuguese ally. Anotherstorm is brewing in the…


Acc. No : 39626Call No : Fiction BON-R

As they went on, the tilt of the floor increased so that itwas hard to keep a footing on it, and then a swing ofTrev’s torch showed that an ominous-looking crevassehad opened at its lower edge. Suddenly there was a cryfrom Judy as her foot slipped and she slid down with herlegs hanging over the black depths of the crevasse. TheGreat Retreat is an anthology of exciting short fictionwritten by some of the most popular names of thenineteenth and twentieth century. Selected by RuskinBond, stories of adventure, suspense, and horror spillout of these pages, each with a nail-biting climax thatwill set your heart racing. From R.L. Stevenson and OscarCook to Sylvia Green and Nikolai S. Leskov amongothers, this book opens up a world of fantasy wheredanger and threat lurk in every corner as…


Acc. No : 39784Call No : Fiction BON-R

This collection by Ruskin Bond has stories that aremostly autobiographical, based on the theme of nature.In these heart-warming stories, Bond talks of thevarious elements of nature as if they are members of hisfamily. He also endows the flora and fauna that heencounters with distinct personalities, and himselfrecedes into the background as a silent observer. Fromthe mountains to the trees, from the birds that fly to hiscottage, bringing a whiff of the faraway forests theycome from, to the winding paths that lead to charminggardens, Petals on the Ganga will take you to nooks andcorners, opening up scenes of myriad beauty. There’s astream near my cottage. Cold mountain water flowsdown it all year round. Many a times I have sat on therocks near it and written the odd poem, while basking…


Acc. No : 26049Call No : 508.03 BAN-G

The Kingfisher Encyclopedia of Life Minutes, months,millennia how long is a life on earth? Welcome to theKingfisher Encyclopedia of Life-a jaw-dropping look at30,000 years of biological evolution organized throughthe lens of relative lifespan. Packed with the latestscience, and created with todays highly visual reader inmind, this encyclopedia is designed to engage readersemotionally-from a sense of astonishment that themayfly can enjoy a full life in less time than it takes toread the book, to the awe that is inspired by trees over athousand years old, to a sense of humble self-reflectionwhen encountering colonies. This unique book is atreasure trove of information about the natural world,presented in a truly original and attention grabbing way.Instead of being arranged in the usual…

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