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  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN SOUTH EASTERN NIGERIA 1841 – 1906
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    POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN SOUTH EASTERN NIGERIA 1841 – 1906
    KANNAN K. NAIR
    For nearly 500 years Calabar has had one of the longest unbroken contacts with Europe of any port on the West African coast. Originally published in 1972, this book outlines the political and social development of Calabar during one of the most crucial periods of its history. While previous studies which have peripherally touched on Calabar have seen external factors as the mos...

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  • DISPLACEMENT, ENVIRONMENTS, AND PHOTO-POLITICS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
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    DISPLACEMENT, ENVIRONMENTS, AND PHOTO-POLITICS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
    PARVATI NAIR
    Focusing on the Mediterranean region from 2015 onwards, this volume explores photography’s engagement with displacement, a process that denotes the environmental and social breakdown of places and the forced mobility of people. The ongoing proliferation of photography of the displaced plays a crucial role in shaping opinions, by sensitising the public to the despair of displace...

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  • EMERGING ENERGY MATERIALS
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    EMERGING ENERGY MATERIALS
    GOVIND NAIR, H NAGABHUSHANA, NIRUPAMA DHOBLE, SANJAY J. DHOBLE
    Emerging Energy Materials: Applications and Challenges guides the reader through materials used in progressive energy systems. It tackles their use in energy storage across solar, bio, geothermal, wind, fossil, hydrogen, nuclear, and thermal energy. Specific chapters are dedicated to energy reaping systems currently in development. This book contributes to the current literatur...

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  • CHROMOSOME WOMAN, NOMAD SCIENTIST
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    CHROMOSOME WOMAN, NOMAD SCIENTIST
    SAVITHRI PREETHA NAIR
    This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist—Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897–1984). Using a wide range of archival sources, it presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist, who was highly mobile, and a life that intersected with several significant historical events—the rise ...

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  • RELIABILITY MODELLING WITH INFORMATION MEASURES
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    RELIABILITY MODELLING WITH INFORMATION MEASURES
    N. UNNIKRISHNAN NAIR / S.M. SUNOJ / G. RAJESH
    The book deals with the application of various measures of information like the entropy, divergence, inaccuracy, etc. in modelling lifetimes of devices or equipment in reliability analysis. This is an emerging area of study and research during the last two decades and is of potential interest in many fields. In this work the classical measures of uncertainty are sufficiently mo...

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  • GHOSTS FROM THE PAST?
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    GHOSTS FROM THE PAST?
    NEETI NAIR
    Over the last few years, questions of religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities in South Asia have rarely been out of the international headlines. The position of Muslims in an increasingly nationalist India, the impact of Islamic blasphemy laws in Pakistan, the intensifying clash between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, attacks on the Muslim Rohingyas of Myanmar...

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  • OPTIMIZATION OF MULTILAYERED RADAR ABSORBING STRUCTURES (RAS) USING NATURE INSPIRED ALGORITHM
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    OPTIMIZATION OF MULTILAYERED RADAR ABSORBING STRUCTURES (RAS) USING NATURE INSPIRED ALGORITHM
    VINEETHA JOY / VISHAL G. PADWAL / HEMA SINGH / RAVEENDRANATH U. NAIR
    Stealth technology is a crucial pre-requisite in the combat zone, where swiftness, surprise and initiative are the decisive elements for survivability. The supreme goal here is to reduce the visibility of military vehicles by shaping, application of radar absorbing materials, passive cancellation, active cancellation etc. With respect to multilayered radar absorbing structures ...

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  • POWER AND DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS
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    POWER AND DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS
    K.R.M. NAIR
    This book is based on the author's 50+ years experience in the power and distribution transformer industry. The first few chapters of the book provide a step-by-step procedures of transformer design. Engineers without prior knowledge or exposure to design can follow the procedures and calculation methods to acquire reasonable proficiency necessary to designing a transformer. Al...

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  • MOVING WITH THE TIMES
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    MOVING WITH THE TIMES
    SREELEKHA NAIR
    This book is an attempt to penetrate the silence that surrounds the lives of nurses as migrant women. It offers a perceptive understanding of the trials faced specifically by women from the state of Kerala, in their personal and professional spheres, in the challenges posed to single women migrants as such, and the lower status ascribed to the job. In highlighting aspects of th...

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  • INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
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    INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
    LAXMIDHAR BEHERA / SWAGAT KUMAR / PREM KUMAR PATCHAIKANI / RANJITH RAVINDRANATHAN NAIR / SAMRAT DUTTA
    This book illustrates basic principles, along with the development of the advanced algorithms, to realize smart robotic systems. It speaks to strategies by which a robot (manipulators, mobile robot, quadrotor) can learn its own kinematics and dynamics from data. In this context, two major issues have been dealt with; namely, stability of the systems and experimental validations...

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  • MEASURE AND INTEGRATION
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    MEASURE AND INTEGRATION
    M THAMBAN NAIR
    This concise text is intended as an introductory course in measure and integration. It covers essentials of the subject, providing ample motivation for new concepts and theorems in the form of discussion and remarks, and with many worked-out examples. The novelty of Measure and Integration: A First Course is in its style of exposition of the standard material in a student-frien...

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  • THE REGULATION OF INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY
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    THE REGULATION OF INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY
    ABHILASH NAIR
    The regulation of pornography has always been a contentious issue, which has sparked wide-ranging debates surrounding the acceptability and place of pornography in society. The use of the internet to distribute and access pornography has magnified this debate and has presented a number of challenges for the law in terms of effective and proportionate regulation. Following unsucc...

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  • MICROFINANCE IN INDIA
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    MICROFINANCE IN INDIA
    TARA S. NAIR
    This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of microfinance initiatives in India. Through substantive field research and case studies ranging across the country, it examines Indian microfinance within its distinct socio-economic realities — the role of women, financial inclusion, rural entrepreneurship, and innovation — its interactions with multiple institutions, the challen...

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  • MARKETING PUBLIC POLICY
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    MARKETING PUBLIC POLICY
    BASSKARAN NAIR
    Policy analysts and policy planners should start from the premise that obstacles, uncertainties and surprises are important features of policy-making. All public policies should be treated as complex problems, from the outset. Complexity theorists start from the premise that complex policies are ill-defined and ambiguous. There is often little consensus about what the problem i...

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  • THE DISCOURSE OF ETHICS AND EQUITY IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
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    THE DISCOURSE OF ETHICS AND EQUITY IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
    SHANTA NAIR-VENUGOPAL
    This book examines the notions of ethics and equity in relation to language and communication in intercultural relations. Although these notions are often discussed, they are not always addressed with regard to specifi c subjects. Much intercultural discourse and dialogue in recent times has been coloured by the clash of civilizations (as described by Samuel Huntington), terror...

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  • THE GENUS SYZYGIUM
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    THE GENUS SYZYGIUM
    K. N. NAIR
    Syzygium is a well-known source of the globally traded clove as well as the widely cultivated jambolan, water apple, rose apple, wax apple, mountain apple, and several other underutilized species. These plants have multiple uses as edible fruits, medicine, spice, food colorants, and flavorings. The Genus Syzygium: Syzygium cumini and Other Underutilized Species provides an upda...

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  • MEASURING AND ENHANCING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
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    MEASURING AND ENHANCING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
    MAHSOOD SHAH / CHENICHERI SID NAIR / JOHN RICHARDSON
    Measuring and Enhancing the Student Experience provides insights on how student experiencemeasures could be used to inform improvements at institutional, course, unit of study and teacherlevel. The book is based on a decade of research and practitioner views on ways to enhance thedesign, conduct, analysis, reporting and closing the loop on student feedback data. While the booki...

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  • RAJA SERFOJI II
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    RAJA SERFOJI II
    SAVITHRI PREETHA NAIR
    In the early nineteenth century, the south Indian kingdom of Tanjore, which had come under the control of the East India Company, flourished as a ‘centre’ of enlightenment. This book traces the contours of the Tanjore enlightenment, which produced a knowledge that was at once modern and deeply rooted in the indigenous tradition. The chief protagonist of this first ever full-len...

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  • GERIATRIC NEUROLOGY
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    GERIATRIC NEUROLOGY
    ANIL K. NAIR
    Aging affects neurological function leading to neurological disease As society grows older, so do the neurological problems associated with aging. These can be new neurological deficits due to the aging process itself, or the effect of aging on already existing neurological conditions. Neurologists will spend increasing amounts of time managing patients with age-related neurolo...

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  • ISLAM IN MALAYSIAN FOREIGN POLICY
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    ISLAM IN MALAYSIAN FOREIGN POLICY
    SHANTI NAIR
    A case study of a multi-ethnic Muslim state and a contribution to the study of the domestic functions of foreign policy. The book also addresses the real and imagined significance of Islam as a force in contemporary global politics. ...

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  • PROBIOTIC FOODS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
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    PROBIOTIC FOODS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
    G. B. NAIR
    A blend of fundamental and applied research related to their use, this volume looks at how probiotics can enhance human health. The book covers all aspects of intestinal microflora and offers a comprehensive review of the broad array of effects that can be attributed to probiotic usage. While the focus remains on ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND STATES OF EXCEPTION
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    INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND STATES OF EXCEPTION
    BISWAS, SHAMPA / NAIR, SHEILA
    Critically but sympathetically interrogating Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of the logic of sovereign power, this volume draws attention to the multiple zones of exclusion in and through which contemporary international politics constitutes itself. Beginning from the margins and peripheries of world politics, this book emphasises the colonial processes through w...

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  • JAVA PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS
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    JAVA PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS
    PREMCHAND S. NAIR
    While Java texts are plentiful, it's difficult to find one that takes a real-world approach, and encourages novice programmers to build on their Java skills through practical exercise. Written by an expert with 19 experience teaching computer programming, Java Programming Fundamentals presents object-oriented programming by employing examples taken ...

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  • NARRATIVE GRAVITY
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    NARRATIVE GRAVITY
    RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR
    In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests t...

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  • THE AGRONOMY AND ECONOMY OF TURMERIC AND GINGER: THE INVALUABLE MEDICINAL SPICE CROPS
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    THE AGRONOMY AND ECONOMY OF TURMERIC AND GINGER: THE INVALUABLE MEDICINAL SPICE CROPS
    NAIR, K.P. PRABHAKARAN
    Turmeric has been used as a medicine, a condiment, and a dye since at least 600 B.C., while ginger has been used extensively throughout history for its medicinal purposes. The Agronomy and Economy of Turmeric and Ginger brings these two important plants together in one reference book, explaining their history, production techniques, and nutritional and medicinal properties in d...

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  • MAREK'S DISEASE: AN EVOLVING PROBLEM
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    MAREK'S DISEASE: AN EVOLVING PROBLEM
    DAVISON, FRED / NAIR, VENUGOPAL
    Marek’s disease is a form of cancer of poultry caused by an important herpesvirus (MDV). It continues to be a threat to poultry health and welfare and worldwide losses are estimated to be US$ 1 billion annually. This book provides a timely review of the problems of Marek's disease with descriptions of the complex viral life cycle, how MDV targets different types of white blood ...

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  • HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES
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    HIGH TEMPERATURE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF CERAMIC COMPOSITES
    JAKUS, KARL / NAIR, SHANTI
    High Temperature Mechanical Behavior of Ceramic Composites provides an up-to-date comprehensive coverage of the mechanical behavior of ceramic matrix composites at elevated temperatures. Topics include both short-term behavior (strength, fracture toughness and R-curve behavior) and long-term behavior (creep, creep-fatigue, delayed failure and lifetime). Emphasis is on a revie...

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  • NUTRITION AND ENHANCED SPORTS PERFORMANCE: MUSCLE BUILDING, ENDURANCE, AND STRENGTH
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    NUTRITION AND ENHANCED SPORTS PERFORMANCE: MUSCLE BUILDING, ENDURANCE, AND STRENGTH
    BAGCHI, DEBASIS / NAIR, SREEJAYAN / SEN, CHANDAN K.
    Nutrition and Enhanced Sports Performance: Muscle Building, Endurance, and Strength provides a comprehensive overview to understanding the integrated impact of nutrition on performance. The book is divided into five main themes: An introductory overview of the role of nutrition in human healthVarious types of physical exercises, including cardiovascular training, resistance tr...

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  • STUDENT FEEDBACK: THE CORNERSTONE TO AN EFFECTIVE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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    STUDENT FEEDBACK: THE CORNERSTONE TO AN EFFECTIVE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    NAIR, CHENICHERI SID / MERTOVA, PATRICIE
    In recent years, student feedback has appeared at the forefront of higher education quality. In particular, the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. Despite this, there has been a relative lack of academic literature, especially in book format...

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  • ENHANCING LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH STUDENT FEEDBACK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
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    ENHANCING LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH STUDENT FEEDBACK IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
    NAIR, CHENICHERI SID / MERTOVA, PATRICIE
    This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback. It expands on topics covered in the previous publication, and focuses on social science disciplines. The editors previously addressed this gap in their first book Student Feedback: The cornerstone to an effective quality a...

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