This is Part I of the epic saga of Adam Sneed and the years he spent among the Bedouins of Saudi Arabia observing its difficult, yet necessary, transformation into a modern society. Saudis that have not traveled abroad resent the mechanisms of industrialization and the introduction of western ways in the country. Their major complaint is that these constructions were not designed or intended to comply with the scope and limits of Islamic belief. Neverthless, well traveled and highly educat...

No one hands us a manual for this complicated life.We learn through mistakes, heartbreak, loss, and the kind of experiencesnobody warns us about. Some of life’s most important lessons arelearned the hard way.Get the Basics Right is an attempt to make those lessons easier to find.Body. Mind. Relationships. Spirituality. Education. Work. Money.Time. Resilience. Legacy. None of the...

Versatile storyteller Sumanth narrates a riveting and action packed tale of how a well settled family man transforms into a ruthless killerthe ManEater!Vishvamitra, a married and successful IT professional, working in the US, returns to India in search of love and passionin search of that mysterious and elusive excitementthadka!Through an extraordinary turn of events, Vishvamitra finds himself on the run, wanted for murder! Hot on his trail are the Indian Police, INTERPOL, ...

The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalized ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry and almost as quickly faded away. In The Ringtone Dialectic, Sumanth Gopinath charts the rise and fa...

This book explores the meanings of nationalism in a post-globalization, postcolonial context. It provides an in-depth understanding of the relationship between marginalized groups, media and politics by a focused study of the Telangana movement in India.Events like the Arab Spring, unrest in Myanmar and Ukraine, and the Brexit, Kurdish and Catalan referendums have proved how catalytic the changing media environment has been in reshaping the nature of resistance and social movements...

Memories, one of the most beautiful gift that God gave us, we all have memories connected with different people and with different situations, but there will be one single person who is there in every single memory that you collected in your life, it may be a friend or maybe your love, life would be going very happy with them, but just imagine what if the person you love the most forget you, and this is what Meera a lovely and a pretty girl faces when she comes to know that she is no more ...

REFRACTION OF LIGHT THROUGH PLANE SURFACESBy the end of this e-book you will become thorough with the following topics:INTRODUCTION TO REFRACTIONREFRACTIVE INDEX =>i) ABSOLUTE REFRACTIVE INDEXii) RELATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEXTYPES OF OPTICAL MEDIARELATION BETWEEN ANGLE OF INCIDENCE AND ANGLE OF REFRACTION(SNELL’S LAW)CRITICAL ANGLERELATION BETWEEN CRITICAL ANGLE AND REFRACTIVE INDEXT.I.R (TOTAL INTERNAL REF...

By reading this E-book you will become familiar with the following topicsOPTICS (INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT)RECTILINEAR PROPOGATION OF LIGHT (PINHOLE CAMERA)REFLECTION OF LIGHTTERMS RELATED TO REFLECTIONLAWS OF REFLECTIONFERMAT PRINCIPLEIMAGE FORMATION BY PLANE MIRRORTYPES OF IMAGESINTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL MIRRORSTERMS RELATED TO SPHERICAL MIRRORSMIRROR FORMULARULES TO DRAW RAY DIAGRAMSSIGN ...

A gripping expose of the murky underbelly of the Indian healthcare system95 per cent of healthcare facilities have less than five workers30 million people are pushed into poverty by healthcare costs9 lakh C-sections are preventable7.04 lakh children under the age of five die of pneumonia and diarrhoea every yearFor Dr Sumanth C. Raman, the numbers don't lie. Decades of witnessing the inner workings of India's healthcare industry first-hand have given...

Some unique contributions of Family By the Bible are:Instead of the traditional, hit-and-miss success of self-help Christian and secular books on managing families, this book offers a more-sure, proven approaches to creating and sustaining successful and strong families, because it draws on the infinite wisdom of God through His Scripture –the Bible.Practical and proven tools and methods of the Bible are presented here to help make American families grow strong agai...

Described by music critic Alex Ross as "the most original musical thinker of our time" and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary composer. His music, however, remains largely underresearched. Rethinking Reich redresses this imbalance, providing a space for prominent and emerging scholars to reassess the composer's contribution to music in the twentieth century. F...

This book presents select proceedings of the 2nd Asian Conference on Indoor Environmental Quality (ACIEQ-2023) and explores the current research in the field of indoor environmental quality which includes indoor air quality, adaptive thermal comfort, productivity and health, indoor lighting, and acoustics. These themes include exposure assessment in various microenvironments, i.e., commercial, residential, and institutional and its effect on human health and performance for better well-bei...