This is about a remarkable collection of botanical drawings belonging to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It is also about Alexander Gibson, the East India Company surgeon who commissioned the drawings, and about the botanic gardens of the Bombay Presidency at Dapuri and Hewra where they were painted around 1820.

The book is a hard-hitting account of a people caught between the crossfire of militants and security forces; of a once-sovereign kingdom whose culture has been brutally violated; of the many voices of dissent from underground groups to the Meira Paibis, a women's movement opposed to all forms of violence whether by the state or insurgents.

Lata Mangeshkar has recorded more songs than any one else in the world and yet, despite her extraordinary fame, she is a deeply private person who has mostly shied away from glitz and glamour. This is a series of fascinating conversations between Lata Mangeskar and author, takes us into the world of India's most gifted singer and reveals the person behind the voice that has provided the soundtrack for the lives of billions.

This is the fascinating story of independent India's most complex political figure: Indira Gandhi, the enigmatic and solitary daughter of the country's first prime minister, who rose to become prime minister herself. This comprehensive biography, reissued in a revised edition on Indira Gandhi's twenty-fifth death anniversary, not only explores her career and contradictions as a consummate politician, but also her relationships as daughter, wife and mother.

The book offers an exclusive glimpse into Om Puri's private life, his struggles and anxieties, and the woes of his heart. Discover the Om Puri no one knows about the tongue-tied actor from Punjab with stars in his eyes; the incorrigible flirt in drama school; the connoisseur of food and expert cook; and the complete family man. Featuring amusing anecdotes with his family, shocking episodes with the stalwarts of Indian and British cinema, and the nail-biting suspense of his love life, the tale is complemented by rare and unusual photographs.

The author looks at the processes that led to ten centuries of decline. He also examines the powerful economic and social forces that are working together to transform India beyond recognition. These range from demographic shifts to rising literacy levels and, the most important revolution, the opening of minds and changed attitude towards innovation and risk-fundamental, if India is to take advantage of the twenty-first century. This book is about India at the crossroads, its passage to this point, the obstacles that it still needs to negotiate and the future that it may enjoy.

The book makes clear that China has now become the US's most serious challenger as a leader of tech innovation and investment opportunities. China's emergence as a technological giant is among the most interesting and important subjects in business and economics.

This innovative textbook is designed to encourage readers and mangers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in moral analysis and judgment, and to come to terms with their own definition of moral leadership and how it can be translated into action.

The book highlights the contribution of Africans to various areas of Indian society: politics, militia and architecture. This book is not intended to be a complete history of Sub-Saharan Africans in India, or even of elite Africans. Rather, it is a series of snapshots, in the form of essays by specialists in the history, numismatics, architecture, and art history of South Asia.

The author worked in Pakistan from 2006-08, the years when President Musharraf lost his power and the Taliban found theirs. During his stay, author met some of Pakistan's most wanted men, including Abdul Ghazi, the pro-Taliban leader who ran the Red Mosque, and Jamil Bugti, son of the Baluchi separatist leader Akbar Khan Bugti. The author provides a rare glimpse of these men, taking us on a journey through Pakistan, from the rioting streets of its cities, to Baluchistan, where a fiery separatist war is playing out, to the Taliban camps in the North West Frontier Province.

This concise dictionary includes mathematics of more general interest, such as fractals, game theory, and chaos theory. Appendices include lists of fields medalists, symbols, and formulae.

This concise dictionary provides helpful definitions of 1, 000 grammatical terms with examples of language in use and frequent quotations from existing grammar texts.

The author tells the fascinating stories behind many terms that are new and others that have taken on new significance. This book is entertaining and informative A-Z of the words that have defined the year. This book includes some words which have, or are asserted to have, proprietary status as trademarks or otherwise.

Management

This is the book of how, why leaders are made, not born. The author draws upon key shaping experiences of numerous leaders to illustrate how these experiences powerfully affect leaders' ability to lead and to inspire trust. This book is immensely practical and realistic while simultaneously being filled with wisdom and insight. The book is both pragmatic and insightful.

This book shows how the unilateral presidency is rooted in White House history and how the institutions of American politics have inadvertently enhanced presidential power in both domestic and foreign policy, to the point that the executive now poses a danger to democracy itself. The authors examine the motives, means, and opportunities that have led to the expansion of presidential might. This book provides both a historical backdrop and an analytical lens for evaluating contemporary presidential politics.

This volume is fully illustrated in colours and is a guide about the ten Gurus of Sikh Dharma. Prophets appearing at different times and periods have spoken of the truth which was their mission to bring to humanity, to cure the sickness of the soul. They came to show the path of integration. They said that the law of life is to love one another and in that loving to awaken the spirit of devotion and find God. The book is the record of the teachers of the Sikhs, who have handed over the mystic doctrine first taught by Guru Nanak in the sixteenth century.

The author describes the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient sources and contemporary science alike. His revelation results in this authoritative and deeply unsettling appraisal of just how close the earth, or at least humankind, might be to extinction.

This book is about power. It is about the fact that power is concentrated in the hands of people around the world. Position regularly translates into power. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalised more rapidly than any other group. Drawing on scores of exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, the book answers these questions and more. The author draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our everyday lives.

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The author has dealt with many important aspects of life and the ground realities, the truth of life, to guide the next generation. The author has tried to impress upon the students the importance of cultivating their personalities to become complete human beings, by having a balanced physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual health, so as to enable them to be an asset towards nation building and serving the cause of humanity.

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