"We are surrounded by an astounding variety of lifeforms. Over millennia, they have evolved to exploit unique niches, in the process developing features and skills that set them apart.
Have you ever wondered what price the giraffe pays for its long neck? The neck increases its blood pressure to pump blood up to its brain, which endangers its life every time it bends down to drink.
Or have you thought about how female nightingales decide which male will share the burdens of parenthood with them? They listen to prospective candidates’ songs to gauge if they’d make good fathers. And did you know that glass-frogs pee on their eggs and the gender of bearded dragons is fixed by sex chromosomes or temperature?
In Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin draws us towards the wonders of the natural world in evocative and witty words. She uncovers the surprising, sometimes bizarre but always amazing ways in which creatures breed and survive, from spiders salivating during sex and snails entombing their parasites into their shells to elephants developing immunity to cancer. After reading this book, you’ll never look at nature in the same way again."
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"This thoroughly revised and updated text, now in its fifth edition, continues to provide a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of numerical methods required in scientific and technological applications, emphasizing on teaching students numerical methods and in helping them to develop problem-solving skills.
While the essential features of the previous editions such as References to MATLAB, IMSL, Numerical Recipes program libraries for implementing the numerical methods are retained, a chapter on Spline Functions has been added in this edition because of their increasing importance in applications.
This text is designed for undergraduate students of all branches of engineering.
This book is recommended in Manipur University, Manipur, Gauhati University, Assam, Dibrugarh University, Assam, Assam University, Assam, North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, Jadavpur University, West Bengal for B.Sc. Mathematics, West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), West Bengal for M.Tech Structural Engineering, B.Tech, University of Kalyani, West Bengal.
NEW TO THIS EDITION :
Includes additional modified illustrative examples and problems in every chapter.
Provides answers to all chapter-end exercises.
Illustrates algorithms, computational steps or flow charts for many numerical methods.
Contains four model question papers at the end of the text."
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Knowledge updating is a never-ending process and so should be the revision of an effective textbook. The book originally written fifty years ago has, during the intervening period, been revised and reprinted several times. The authors have, however, been thinking, for the last few years that the book needed not only a thorough revision but rather a substantial rewriting. They now take great pleasure in presenting to the readers the twelfth, thoroughly revised and enlarged, Golden Jubilee edition of the book. The subject-matter in the entire book has been re-written in the light of numerous criticisms and suggestions received from the users of the earlier editions in India and abroad. The basis of this revision has been the emergence of new literature on the subject, the constructive ...
"A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet.
With the trademark dramatic storytelling techniques of The Planets and The Universe, Andrew Cohen and Chris Packham narrate the biography of the Earth, revealing the most epic moments from its history, from the first seconds of its existence to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us.
But humans take a back seat for this story as the Earth takes centre stage. We’ll witness those moments where our planet’s future hung in the balance in the face of massive bombardments from space, extreme changes in climate, the collision of whole continents and more, and we’ll tell the story of how Earth’s most incredible creations – life and intelligence – are set to have the same lasting impact on Earth’s story as any meteorite or earthquake.
This is the epic 4 billion year story of the place we call home."
"From shark attack survivor to the shark’s biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them.
Something happens to you the first time you dive with sharks…
We have a perennial fascination with sharks. Portrayed in the media and popular culture as killing machines, we are awed by their power and strength. But the shark is so much more – a marvel of the sea, they have evolved over 450 million years into over 500 species, from the bioluminescent kitefin to the tiny dwarf lantern shark, the sociable lemon shark to the cow shark, which can birth up to 100 pups in one litter. Bringing balance to the ocean’s ecosystem, our planet is at serious risk when these amazing creatures are threatened.
Paul de Gelder, who lost two limbs in a shark attack during a mission as an elite Australian navy clearance diver, spent time as part of his recovery learning all about sharks. He became so obsessed that, despite what happened to him, he is now an expert and has dedicated his life to helping save them. Shark is his love-letter to these unfairly vilified animals, and his warning to the world about what will happen if we don’t look out for them."
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This book is intended to serve as a basic text book for the students who attempt to pursue studies at various stages in Scientific and Engineering fields of various Indian Universities. The main aim of this book is to discuss the theory of mathematical analysis and to treat the subject matter rigorously to the beginners, keeping in view of the modern trends of examinations.
FUNDAMENTAL MATHEMATICS FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (PB 2019)
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This book is intended to be an introductory text for graph theory.
Salient features of the book
Each chapter is a culmination of theory and applications with appropriate exercises and their solutions, particularly emphasizing on self-learning. The book will be immensely useful for the students of degree and postgraduate courses in mathematics.
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Integral transform methods in science and engineering (pb 2017), Latest available information and guidelines are incorporated. Easy to understand and thorough content., pundir S.K., CBS, paperback.
It is an introductory text aimed at undergraduate and post graduate students of science and engineering. This book deals with real number systems, limit, continuity, differentiability, sequence, series, uniform convergence, R-integral, RS-integral, Improper integrals, power series, Fourier series, Lebesgue integral, functions of several variables and metric space etc. Majority of questions in this book have been designed to access the readers understanding of the subject. The readers friendly systematic presentation give the readers an idea about the model questions and help them to be focused. Professionals or those preparing for competitive examinations will also find this book useful.