Advances in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering


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This book presents selected peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Advanced Production and Industrial Engineering (ICAPIE 2019). It covers a wide range of topics and latest research in mechanical systems engineering, materials engineering, micro-machining, renewable energy, industrial and production engineering, and additive manufacturing. Given the range of topics discussed, this book will be useful for students and researchers primarily working in mechanical and industrial engineering, and energy technologies.




Elements of Fracture Mechanics


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Fracture Mechanics is an essential tool to evaluate whether a component is likely to fil or not. This book has been written in a simple and step-wise manner to help readers familiarise with the basic and advanced topics. Additionally it has over 185 illustrations to further reinforce and simplify the learning process. With this coverage, the book will be useful to professionals and students of engineering.




The Coalition Years, 1996-2012


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The Coalition Years begins its journey in 1996 and explores the highs and lows that characterized sixteen years of one of the most tumultuous periods in the nation's political history. It is an insightful account of the larger governance phenomenon in India-coalition politics-as seen through the eyes of one of the chief architects of the post-Congress era of Indian politics.




Concrete Technology (2022 Pictorial Booklet Vol.-3 Civil Engineering )


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2022 Pictorial Booklet Vol.-3 Civil Engineering Concrete Technology Useful for : SSC JE, UPPCL, UPRVUNL JE/AE, UPPSC AE, UPSSSC JE, UP JN, Assam PSC AE/JE, BPSC/BSPHCL JE, CHHATTISGARH PSC/CGPEB AE/JE, DSSSB JE, DDA JE, ESE, ESIC, GUJARAT/GETCO/GSSSB/GMC/GSECL/MGCVCL/BMC/PGVCL, HPSSC, HARYANA PSC/ HSSC, ISRO TA, JAMMU & KASHMIR SSB, JHARKHAND PSC, KARNATAKA PSC/ KPTCL/KPCL/BMRCL/MESCOM/HESCOM, KERALA PSC AE/JE, DMRC/NMRC/LMRC/ JMRC JE/AM, MAHARASHTRA JE, MIZORAM JE/AE, MP PEB, NAGALAND PSC, NCL OVERSEER/SERVEYOR, NLC GET, OPSC AEE, OSSC JE, PGCIL Diploma Trainee, PUNJAB PSC JE/SDE/SDO, RSMSSB JEn, RPSC AE, RRB JE, DFCCIL JE, TELANGANA PSC AEE/AE, TAMIL NADU PSC AE, UTTRAKHAND PSC/UKSSSC/UJVNL/PTCUL/UPCL AE/JE, WEST BENGAL PSC/SUB ASSISTANT ENGINEER/ JE/KMC SAE, OTHER STATE PSC JE/PSU JE




A New Approach to REASONING Verbal & Non-Verbal


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Reasoning is equally weighed section in any competitive examination. Reasoning tests the thinking power and mind applicability skills of the candidates. The questions on reasoning asked in various competitive examinations are not easy to solve without having enough practice. The revised edition of A New Approach to Reasoning will help candidates master the ‘Tricks of the Trade’ as it covers all the three types of reasoning very much comprehensively. This book has been divided into 3 Sections – Verbal Reasoning, Analytical Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning each sub-divided into number of chapters with different types of questions of multiple patterns asked in various exams. The Verbal Reasoning section covers Analogy, Clocks, Calendar, Puzzles, Coding-Decoding, Classification, Number Series, Letter Series, Blood Relations, Clerical Aptitude, etc. whereas, the Analytical Reasoning section covers Statement & Arguments, Statement & Assumptions, Course of Action, Cause & Effects, Syllogism, etc. The Non-Verbal Reasoning section covers Analogy, Classification, Completion of Figures, Cubes, Paper Folding, Mirror Image, Water Image, Figure Matrix, etc. Two Leveled Exercises have been given for practice. More than 2000 Previous Years’ Questions of different competitive examinations including MAT and other MBA entrances, Bank PO, Clerk, SSC, LIC, RBI, RRB, B.Ed. etc along with their authentic and detailed solutions have been covered in the exercises. The ample number of previous years’ questions will help the candidates get an insight into the trends and types of questions asked in the test of reasoning in various competitive and recruitment examinations.







Global Political Ecology


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The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarizes the books main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: energy scarcity and abundance; global governance of health, bodies, and genomics; the contradictions of global food; capital’s marginal product: effluents, waste, and garbage; water as a commodity, a human right, and power; the functions and dysfunctions of the global green economy; political ecology of the global climate, and carbon emissions. This book contains accounts of the main currents of thought in each area that bring the topics completely up-to-date. The individual chapters contain a theoretical introduction linking in with the main themes of political ecology, as well as empirical information and case material. Global Political Ecology serves as a valuable reference for students interested in political ecology, environmental justice, and geography.




Pirate Modernity


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Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps and bypass legal technological infrastructures (media, electricity). This pirate culture produces a significant enabling resource for subaltern populations unable to enter the legal city. Equally, this is an unstable world, bringing subaltern populations into the harsh glare of permanent technological visibility, and attacks by urban elites, courts and visceral media industries. The book examines contemporary Delhi from some of these sites: the unmaking of the citys modernist planning design, new technological urban networks that bypass states and corporations, and the tragic experience of the road accident terrifyingly enhanced by technological culture. Pirate Modernity moves between past and present, along with debates in Asia, Africa and Latin America on urbanism, media culture, and everyday life. This pioneering book suggests cities have to be revisited afresh after proliferating media culture. Pirate Modernity boldly draws from urban and cultural theory to open a new agenda for a world after media urbanism.