BITS PILANI HYDERABAD CAMPUS LIBRARY (25 31 October, 2021)

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Acc. No : 42184Call No : 004.165 WAD-R

This easy-to-follow guide provides R and Python recipesto help you learn and apply the top languages in thefield of data analytics to your work in Microsoft PowerBI. Data analytics expert and author Ryan Wade showyou how to use R and Python to perform tasks that areextremely hard, if not impossible, to do using nativePower BI tools. For example, you will learn to scorePower BI data using custom data science models andpowerful models from Microsoft Cognitive Services. TheR and Python languages are powerful complements toPower BI. They enable advanced data transformationtechniques that are difficult to perform in Power BI in itsdefault configuration but become easier by leveragingthe capabilities of R and Python. If you are a businessanalyst, data analyst, or data scientist who wants…


Acc. No : 42198Call No : 005.258 HOR-J

Are you trying to start a career in programming, buthaven't found the right way in? Do you have a great ideafor an app, but don't know how to make it a reality? Ormaybe you're just frustrated that in order to learnAndroid, you must know Java. If so, then this book is foryou. This new and expanded second edition of AndroidProgramming for Beginners will be your companion tocreate Android Pie applications from scratch. We willintroduce you to all the fundamental concepts ofprogramming in an Android context, from the basics ofJava to work with the Android API. All examples use theup-to-date API classes and are created from withinAndroid Studio, the official Android developmentenvironment that helps supercharge your applicationdevelopment process. After this crash course, we'll…


Acc. No : 42746Call No : 153.35 DEG-J

Jeff and staney emphasize that small acts of creativitycan have huge consequences and that ordinary peoplecan do extraordinary things if they can see theopportunities in front of them.” mitch Jacobson,executive director, Austin technology incubator, UTBlackstone Launchpad, the University of Texas at Austinnearly all of today’s major innovation workshops andprograms call on organizations to drive innovation. Whatthey Miss is that innovation comes from the personalcreativity of individuals. And creativity doesn't requirean advanced education or technical Skills employees canbe creative. Often, all they lack is a fitting mindset andthe right skills. The creative mindset brings how-toadvice, tools, and techniques from two masterinnovators who have taught and worked with over…


Acc. No : 43050Call No : 174.936 CHO-R

The Bhagavad Gita needs no introduction. The universeto which it refers, on the other hand, feels like it couldwell do with one. Marked by flux, our increasinglyincomprehensible global world presents considerableethical, political and social challenges. Could the Gita,for all its philosophical abstraction, serve as anintroduction to navigating this space of capitalistmodernity? What can it tell us about global warmingand violence, inequality and suffering, pandemics andthe savage oppression of vulnerable groups? RohitChopra’s masterful examination of the Gita interrogatesthe relevance of its ideas to these questions and to thepresent moment. This book is a timely meditation for aperiod characterized by crisis while also speaking to atime beyond. It uses the Gita as a lens through which…


Acc. No : 43096Call No : 215 PAT-D

Marriage, by mythologist Devdutt Patnaik, bringstogether stories from Vedic, Puranic, Tamil, and Sanskritliterature, from regional, classical, folk and tribal lore,from oral and textual traditions, across 3000 years ofhistory and 3 million square kilometers of geography, toreveal the diversity and fluidity of Indian customs andbeliefs around marriage. In Hindu temples, gods andgoddesses get married. Marriage is as much a divine riteof passage as a human one. It marks the union ofmatter and spirit. Matter, because it brings in newwealth, status, pleasure, security, and ushers in the nextgeneration, who can inherit the family name and estate.Spirit, because it forces the couple, the family and thecommunity to accommodate new ideas, newemoticons, new problems and…


Acc. No : 42551Call No : 302.23 SEN-K

Myth of ‘Free Media’ and Fake News in the Post-truthEra reveals the story of ‘fake news’ hysteria and myth of‘free media’ in the post-truth world order, starting fromthe question of whether there has really been a ‘truth’era. The book examines how the news media is battlingfor relevance in the age of Internet. It shows how thewave of media ‘liberalization’ has weakened the basicpremise of Libertarian Media Function Theory, whichstates that the media is the ‘Fourth Estate’ that protectsthe citizens from abuse of power by the government. Itanalyses how excessive commercialization of the mediaand the commodification of news has changedjournalism globally. The book recommends a newparadigm and explains how it can be used to transformnews reporting from an adversarial model to a…


Acc. No : 42753Call No : 320.8509 JHA-S

For the first time, I was not so sure that the survival ofan idea could be taken for granted. But I was sure of onething: the battle to salvage it, whether in whole or inpart, had to be fought. Since May 2014, under aresurgent Bharatiya Janata Party, it appears that theNehruvian read liberal, secular, scientific Idea of Indiahas come utterly undone. Institutions of governancethat had weathered great turbulence in the past seem tobe disintegrating. The economy, once the celebrated‘India story’, is in shambles due to self-inflicted blows.Large sections of the media genuflect in cringe-worthysurrender to the ruling dispensation. Two hundredmillion Indians are being repeatedly reminded abouttheir irrelevance in the new political narrative.Meanwhile, the grand old party of India flounders on…


Acc. No : 42626Call No : 330.954 ACH-V

Beyond the headline-grabbing issues, the Indianeconomy is struggling to solve a critical problem: How torestore and maintain financial stability on a durablebasis. In this book titled, Quest for Restoring FinancialStability in India, Former Deputy Governor of RBI, Dr.Viral V. Acharya, talks about his quest for restoringfinancial stability in India and offers a concrete plan forsustained improvement. Dr Acharya shares a feasibleplan to address the recapitalization needs of publicsector banks, offering solutions on how to improvecredit allocation by credit intermediaries and establishviable and efficient capital markets. Elucidating theneed-of-the-hour reforms, this book also raises severalstark and unanswered questions related to the re-emergence of fiscal dominance in India, not just…


Acc. No : 35101Call No : 338.95498 MIT-S

The Kingdom of Bhutan has gone through a remarkablesocio-economic transformation over the past fivedecades. It has progressed from a traditional stage ofeconomic development with limited production rootedin one primary sector, to achieving the preconditions foran economic take-off. However, Bhutan is stillconfronted with a number of development challenges,including a narrow economic base, limited private sectordevelopment, underdeveloped credit markets and abuild-up in economic inequality with significant youthunemployment. This book chronicles Bhutan’sdevelopment story and discusses a range of policies thatcan unlock the country’s economic potential andovercome its limitations. It consolidates a body ofknowledge accumulated by the Asian…


Acc. No : 42455Call No : 362.177 SIN-D

Identifying current tools, techniques, and approaches forthe evaluation of laboratory operations, this referencereviews the latest regulatory standards and auditingpractices to test laboratory safety, quality, andperformance. Completely revised and expanded, this up-to-date source assists in the assessment of laboratoryprocedures in preparation for an external auditorreflects the impact of computers and informationtechnologies on data generation, analysis, and storageoffers a global perspective on laboratory managementand quality control and serves as a comprehensive guideto the design of an effective audit for enhancedlaboratory operation. This book is focused on analyticallaboratories that support regulated industry. Ourdefinition of regulated industry is consumer product…


Acc. No : 42797Call No : 370.115 CHA-U

In the 1980s, gender was acknowledged as a useful andnecessary category of analysis. The first generation offeminist scholars defined the new field and provided arich corpus of works; later generations of scholars andactivists then expanded it through their writings onculture, film and media, and sexuality. ThinkingGender, Doing Gender focuses on these issues, as wellas on pedagogy and classroom practice, theoreticalobstacles created by disciplinary constraints, andpractices in the performing arts from a genderperspective. This volume focuses more on doing genderrather than thinking about gender: in classrooms, inthe making of curricula, in the writing and recall ofhistory, in reading literature and cinema, and in thepractice of culture in theatre and…


Acc. No : 42943Call No : 512.72 WAG-S

This book is about the theory and practice of integerfactorization presented from a historic perspective. Itdescribes twenty algorithms for factoring and a dozenother number theory algorithms that support thefactoring algorithms. Most algorithms are describedboth in words and in pseudocode to satisfy both numbertheorists and computer scientists. Each of the tenchapters begins with a concise summary of its contents.The book starts with a general explanation of whyfactoring integers is important. The next two chapterspresent number theory results that are relevant tofactoring. Further on there is a chapter discussing, inparticular, mechanical and electronic devices forfactoring, as well as factoring using quantum physics andDNA molecules. Another chapter applies to…


Acc. No : 42219Call No : 523.8875 LEV-J

From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues andOther Songs from Outer Space - an authoritative andaccessible guide to the most alluring and challengingphenomena of contemporary science. Through herwriting, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused onmaking the science she studies not just comprehensiblebut also, and perhaps more important, intriguing to thenonscientist. In this book, she helps us to understandand find delight in the black hole - perhaps the mostopaque theoretical construct ever imagined byphysicists. Levin takes us on an evocative exploration ofblack holes, provoking us to imagine the visceralexperience of a black hole encounter. She reveals theinfluence of black holes as they populate the universe,sculpt galaxies, and even infuse the whole expanse…


Acc. No : 42044Call No : 530.14 QUI-J

This book provides the basis for a two-semestergraduate course on solid-state physics. The first halfpresents all the knowledge necessary for a one-semestersurvey of solid-state physics, but in greater depth thanmost introductory solid state physics courses. Thesecond half includes most of the important researchover the past half-century, covering both thefundamental principles and most recent advances. Thisnew edition includes the latest developments in thetreatment of strongly interacting two-dimensionalelectrons and discusses the generalization from small tolarger systems. The book provides explanations in aclass-tested tutorial style, and each chapter includesproblems reviewing key concepts and calculations. Theupdated exercises and solutions enable students…


Acc. No : 43547Call No : 610.284 TEM-J

The book covers classes of materials commonly used inbiomedical applications, followed by coverage of thebiocompatibility of those materials with the biologicalenvironment. Finally, it covers some in-depthapplications of biomaterials. It does all of this with anoverall emphasis on tissue engineering. Table OfContents Materials for Biomedical Applications ChemicalStructure of Biomaterials Physical Properties ofBiomaterials Mechanical Properties of BiomaterialsBiomaterial Degradation Biomaterial Processing SurfaceProperties of Biomaterials Protein Interactions withBiomaterials Cell Interactions with BiomaterialsBiomaterial Implantation and Acute InflammationWound Healing and the Presence of BiomaterialsImmune Response to Biomaterials and…


Acc. No : 42306Call No : 620.0023 CHA-G

Engineering can be defined as the science, skill, andprofession of acquiring and applying scientific, andpractical knowledge, in order to design and also buildstructures, machines, devices, systems, materials andprocesses. There are numerous interesting and excitingpossibilities in Engineering and it provides a highlylucrative career path. Engineering is no longer confinedto the conventional Civil, Mechanical, electrical andChemical domains, but has forged alliances with fields asdiverse as medicine, Biology, genetics, environment,Biotechnology and nanotechnology, among others. Withthe development of information Technology andComputer Science and increase in their application invarious fields of engineering not only the opportunitiesto follow engineering as a career have…


Acc. No : 42536Call No : 621.3813 KRI-V

This book is mainly intended for a semester course onBE, B.Tech, AMIE, AMIETE, and BSc., M.Tech and MScElectronics students. As the syllabi of most of the IndianUniversities are covered in this book, it is useful as atextbook for students as well as a reference to practicingengineers and for self study. The fundamental conceptsand principles of microwave engineering are explainedin a simple lucid and easy to understand language sothat the reader is able to follow them without anydifficulty. Each chapter deals with a specific topic andincludes a large number of illustrations and numericalexamples. Chapter end key points, review anddescriptive questions and exercise problems withanswers facilitate students to reinforce the concepts andprinciples easily and will enhance their problem…


Acc. No : 42709Call No : 629.45 WHI-D

Nearing half a century since the last Apollo mission,mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that isabout to change. With NASA’s Artemis programscheduled for this decade, astronomer DavidWhitehouse takes a timely look at what the next 50years of space exploration have in store. The thirteenthman and the first woman to walk on the Moon will bethe first to explore the lunar south pole the prime sitefor a future Moon base thanks to its near-perpetualsunlight and the presence of nearby ice. The firstcrewed mission to Mars will briefly orbit the red planetin 2039, preparing the way for a future landing mission.Surviving the round trip will be the greatest challengeany astronaut has yet faced. In the 2050s, a lander willdescend to the frozen surface of Jupiter’s…


Acc. No : 43211Call No : 649.1 KAL-S

Unlearning is the first step of learning some people sayparenting comes naturally to you once you become aparent. But does it? Some people think that there is onlyone perfect approach to parenting. But can oneapproach apply equally to individuals who think, feeland respond differently? Some people believe thatparenting is simply about applying the lessons we learntfrom our parents’ experience of raising us. But can weignore the fact that times have changed and ourchildren’s lives have been further complicated by pace,competitiveness and social media? Perfect parentingbreaks the myth that parenting is not something to belearnt. Drawing heavily on his experience of workingwith thousands of parents and children, Sushant Kalrahelps you unlearn set ways of thinking and…


Acc. No : 42817Call No : 651.3 ROR-S

The deconstruction of the traditional workplacehierarchy, the abandonment of performance appraisal,the impact of Millenials or generations Y and Z, all pointto a substantial revival of teams and teamwork for thefirst time in more than 20 years. Leading companies arepushing towards a team-centric model but, for manyothers, team development remains ad hoc as they fail torecognize that teams hold the answers to increasedeffectiveness. Delivering improved team effectivenessacross an organization does not have to be timeconsuming. The Team Diagnostic Profiler is amethodology and process that is easy to use, self-administering and can deliver 10 to 20% improvement inteam effectiveness when deployed in a corporate teamstrategy. This book is based on…


Acc. No : 43115Call No : 658.42 BRY-A

Despite all the effort through the years to understandwhat it takes to be an effective leader, the challenges ofleadership remain enormously difficult and elusive; eventoday, most CEOs don't last five years in the job. Thedemands to deliver at a consistently high level can beunforgiving. The loneliness. The weight of responsibility.The relentless second-guessing and criticism. Thepressure to build all-star teams. The 24/7 schedulerequires superhuman stamina. The tough decisionsoften leave no one happy. The expectation is to alwayshave the right answer when it can be hard just to knowthe right question. These challenges are brought intotheir highest and sharpest relief in the corner office, butthey are hardly unique to chief executives. All leadersface their own version of these tests, and…


Acc. No : 42808Call No : 671.35 ADI-M

The book Unconventional Machining Processes offersan in-depth study of various unconventional machiningprocesses. It aims to enable the students to understandthe various unconventional machining processes, theiradvantages and their applications in diverse areas ofproduction and manufacturing such as tool room anddie working, aerospace, nuclear and electronicsindustries. Various unconventional machining processesdiscussed in this book are: and bull; Electrical DischargeMachining and bull; Electro-Chemical Machining andbull, Electro-Chemical Grinding and bull, Electron BeamMachining and bull, Laser Beam Machining and bull,Plasma Arc Machining and bull, Ultrasonic Machiningand bull, Abrasive Jet Machining and bull, ChemicalMachining. The need for these processes, methods of…


Acc. No : 43013Call No : 712.0922 PIT-S

The world was last designed seventy-five years ago,about the same time that Sam Pitroda was born. Thisdesign has outlived its utility. Hyper connectivity and theCOVID-19 pandemic offer a unique opportunity toredesign the world to take humanity to the next level.Redesigning the world is not about looking at it from thepoint of view of liberal or conservative; left or right;capitalism or socialism; public or private; democracy,dictatorship or monarchy; open or closed systems; richor poor; urban or rural; east or west; white, brown,black or yellow. This proposed redesign of the world hasthe planet and its people at the center; it is built on thefoundations of sustainability, inclusion, equality, equityand justice so that everyone on earth can enjoy peaceand prosperity. It is not an idealist or utopian…


Acc. No : 42819Call No : 813.6 RUF-M

You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga's clinic, whereanyone can get their lips thinness, their skin bleachedand their noses narrow a complete depenalization willliberate you from the confines of being born in a blackbody-if you can afford it. In this near-future southerncity plagued by fenced-in ghetto and police violence,more and more residents are turning to thisexperimental medical procedure. Like any father, ournarrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracialboy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day.The darker Nigel becomes, the more frightened hisfather feels. But how far will he go to protect his son?And will he destroy his family in the process? Thiselectrifying, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen…


Acc. No : 42981Call No : 954.03 MUK-B

As it revisits the partition and indeed the long road to itthis book reveals some untold facts for a betterunderstanding of our past, even as it holds a messagefor the future. My ancestral roots are in Bengal, a regionthat was left bleeding by the Partition of 1947. This is anarrative about the painful division of a beloved part ofundivided India, The Partition of Bengal. I have oftenwondered if there can ever be closure to the Partition,not only in the generation who lived through theexperience, but also the later generations who seem tosubconsciously carry the burden of it. I wonder if we willever be able to finally move on, leaving this painfulNational legacy behind. Yet, to know the answer to it,We must like a time-traveler go back into the past andlook at history and historical events as they…


Acc. No : 42259Call No : FICTION BAL-D

Daylight is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercyand A Minute to Midnight featuring Special Agent AtleePine from one of the world’s most favorite thrillerwriters, David Baldacci. FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s search forher twin sister, Mercy, coincides with militaryinvestigator John Puller’s high-stakes case, leading themboth into a global conspiracy from which neither ofthem will escape unscathed. Ever since Mercy wasabducted after a brutal incident when the girls were justsix years old, Atlee has been relentless in her search forthe truth. Now, just as time is running out on herinvestigation, she finally gets her most promisingbreakthrough yet the identity of her sister’s kidnapper:Ito Vincenzo. Last known location: New Jersey. As Atleeand her assistant, Carol Blum, race to track…


Acc. No : 43340Call No : FICTION DE-S

The untamed, incandescent and battle-ready Srilaagrows up in her wealthy Marwari family’s palatial housein Calcutta. After suffering her first heartbreak at thehands of a potential suitor, she is married and packedoff to Bombay to live with her new husband. There sheexperiences womanhood and confronts her sexualcuriosities, misgivings and desires, but continues tohope daringly and love fearlessly refusing to live her lifeby the unrealistic standards society often sets onunconventional women. The young and vivacious Srilaaslowly but assuredly becomes the inimitable Srilaaji!And each time life starts crumbling around her, shemanages to pick herself up. And from the ashes of anuncertain life, a phoenix rises. Told with Shobhaa De’smatchless blend of candour, humour and…


Acc. No : 42716Call No : 305.23 BRO-B (Young Learners)

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls or so themeaningless saying goes. Because what if you're a girland you like cage fighting? Or you're a boy and you loveballet? And what if you've always dreamed of being ascientist but you can't see anyone who looks or soundslike you, and who has left a legacy in the form ofmicroscopes and Bunsen burners for you to follow? Thisis the book for children who want to know about thelives of those heroes who have led the way, changingthe world for the better as they go. Following therunaway success of Stories for Boys Who Dare to beDifferent, parents asked for a celebration of role modelsof both genders for boys and girls within the same book.Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different is the answer.These are the extraordinary stories of 100 famous and…


Acc. No : 42833Call No : 686.282092 FRI-M (Young Learners)

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager.Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in1824 he invented a reading system that convertedprinted words into columns of raised dots. Throughtouch, Braille opened the world of books to thesightless, and almost two hundred years later, no onehas ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.Examines the life and times of the nineteenth-centuryFrenchman who developed the system of raised dots bywhich blind people read and write. When Louis Braillewas three years old, he had a terrible accident that leftblind. But being blind did not stop Louis from having ahappy childhood. Living in the dark made him evenmore curious about the world around him. He was abright, good natured boy. He also had a remarkablememory. He couldn’t read to write. But at the school…


Acc. No : 42344Call No : FICTION STI-G (Young Learners)

Geronimo Stilton, was called to the Kingdom of Fantasyfor the ninth time! Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, haddisappeared, along with three powerful magical objects.The Book of a Thousand Spells, the Crystal Sphere, andthe Whispering Wand. If those objects ended up in thewrong hands, they could destroy the whole realm!Accompanied by new, magical friends, I had to crosshorrifying kingdoms full of spiders and snakes beforefacing a terrible evil wizard. Squeak! Could I make it intime to save Blossom and the entire Kingdom ofFantasy. My name is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton, and I runThe Rodent's Gazette, the most famous newspaper onMouse Island. I’m about to tell you the story of anotherone of my magical journeys to the Kingdom of Fantasy.Yes I’m talking about the…

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