If you are a learner, a professional or a consultant in the area of project or program management, whether on-site or off-site and struggling to make smart decisions that are analytical and cogent, then you are looking at the right book! Yes, DECIDE is a book in which the author expounds how to leverage Operations Research techniques in addressing various decision issues, practically faced by a project manager or an organization on the ground. Each type of decision problem, be it under cer...

CONGERIES A Collection of Key Topics in Project ManagementProjects are ‘Congeries’ of methods, uncertainties, risks, opportunities, issues, technical and management facets, and concerns, among other things. They are blended in varied proportions depending upon size, complexity, and project environment. There are key challenges and high-impact mistakes, governance and stakeholder management concerns, changing requirements of leadership traits, collaboration amongst k...

The pages in this book will give the reader an idea of the Railway organisation in India and in other countries. The efficiency of railways, and their increased revenue-earning and traffic-carrying capacity depend on good organisation. Studying the American system and applying it to Railways in Great Britain and India with such modifications as deemed necessary in each case to suit local conditions, will allow growth of the Railway business.

Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "handedness" in bilaterally symmetrical animals. This book explores the evolutionary significance and development of asymmetry. Examples of genetic control include the direction of tendril or stem coiling of many climbing plants; the so-called spiral phyllotaxy and floral taxy; and contorted petal arrangement is another kind of left- right symmetry in plants; the direction of contortion is fixed in some but not in other plants. The book will u...

Consumers create a data trail by tapping their phones; businesses can tap into this trail to harness the power of the more than three trillion dollar mobile economy. According to Anindya Ghose, a global authority on the mobile economy, this two-way exchange can benefit both customers and businesses. In Tap, Ghose welcomes us to the mobile economy of smartphones, smarter companies, and value-seeking consumers.Drawing on his extensive research in the United States, Europe, a...

Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the "merry war" of words between the reluctant lovers, Benedick and Beatrice. A closer look at the language of the play, however, reveals it to be laced with violence and charged with the desire to humiliate others. Wit is deployed as a weapon to ridicule one's opponent; much of...

'A comprehensive and gripping narrative'---Vikram Sampath, author, historian and Fellow of Royal Historical Society ***'A must-read'---***Sandeep Unnithan, managing editor, India Today There are not many Indian heroes whose lives have been as dramatic and adventurous as that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. That, however, is an assessment of his life based on what is widely known about him. These often revolve around his re...

The distraught daughter of an artist who committed suicide, Mia first meets Karna in London.Mesmerized by the charismatic young guru, she resolves to follow him to India, even if she must marry Vik, a suave corporate businessman, to do so.Once in India, Mia is drawn to Vik's mother, Indi, an accomplished, inordinately attractive woman who rages unceasingly against her blindness, her beauty, and her clinging son. Troubled by Indi's anguish, and by her own strange journey int...

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural...

"In 1932, Durgabati Ghose, an upper middle-class Bengali woman accompanied her husband on a trip across Europe. The Westward Traveller (originally Paschimjatriki) is an enchanting written record of this four-month long sojourn. Filtered through her upper middle-class upbringing and perceptions, the narrative is observant—not only emphasising on a sense of place, space and landscape, but also an aesthetic, intrinsic appreciation of every destination. The writing comes alive in the author’s eve...

This text traces developments in rational drug discovery and combinatorial library design with contributions from 50 leading scientists in academia and industry who offer coverage of basic principles, design strategies, methodologies, software tools and algorithms, and applications. It outlines the fundamentals of pharmacophore modelling and 3D Qua