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Book SynopsisTested in classes at Michigan and elsewhere and successively improved for over twenty years, the teaching materials in the book offer an effective tool to learn and teach Sanskrit. The book aims to teach Sanskrit as a language, rather than as a religious or mystical entity.

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Book SynopsisPowerful and incisive, good governance: never on India''s radar offers an insightfulook into the problems plaguing Indian politics today. India is clearly divided into two worlds, the much touted shining India Signifying the glossy, superficial, highly westernized sections of society with their extravagantifestyles and the left-behind India Or Bharat, which consists of the poor, deprived, malnourished, under-fed, neglected and marginalised sections of society, residingargely in rural areas and in slums and hutments in urban areas. There is an ever widening gap between these two India''s. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Madhav God Bole delves into what he considers the root of India''s socio-political problems, Theack of good governance which, he asserts, has never been a focus of governments in our country. Godbole traces the rise and fall of politics and policy in independent India from the time of Jawaharlal Nehru''s prime Minister ship to present day through a careful exploration of several issues, from defining the concept of good governance as understood universally, to identifying the highly problematic areas of governance that need urgent action and emphasising how changes in polices can make a marked difference to governance in our country.

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Book SynopsisA Murder is Fixed is a rollicking murder mystery that takes readers on a ride through the posh Colonial clubs, tapris and chawls of Mumbai into the murky depths of an nefarious scandal.

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Book SynopsisThis is a critical edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of sections of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda available in six rare manuscripts found in Pune, India. As these variations are no longer available in the surviving oral tradition in India, the texts provide rare access.

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Book SynopsisA detailed discussion by the editor complements this critical edition and translation of the phonetical treatise (Pratisakhya) of the Saunaka Samhita, one of two versions of the second oldest Indian text, the Saunaka Atharvaveda. This contemporary reevaluation helps to re-establish the textual tradition of the Atharvaveda.

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Book SynopsisMadhav Khosla describes the remarkable work of the founders of independent India. All at once they built a democratic system in the midst of illiteracy and poverty enforced by a century of imperial domination and neglect. They crafted a constitution aimed at creating democratic citizens through democratic politics.Trade ReviewIn demonstrating how India’s democratic tendencies were founded by the constitution rather than vice versa, [Khosla] succeeds in his aim of placing the Indian constitution at least on a par with that of the U.S. * Financial Times *Couldn’t [be] timelier. It delves into the mystery of how some 400 men and women who had spent their lives as colonial subjects went on to create a charter of such breathless ambition…Deeply interesting. -- Sonia Faleiro * Foreign Policy *A punchy reminder of the success of India’s birth as a democratic republic. The genius of its constitution kept the country on course for seven decades of peace and (slow) growth; but it has suffered erosion in the era of Narendra Modi. * The Economist *By grounding Indian constitutional debates in political philosophy, Khosla has given an entirely novel perspective to India’s democratic origins. Perhaps now political philosophers will have reason to more intimately engage with India’s constitutional ideas. -- Ashutosh Varshney * Boston Review *I recommend it to anyone with an interest in India, in the challenges that democracies face, in global constitution-making, or in all three…A fascinating window into the framing of the Indian Constitution. -- Cheryl Saunders * Constitutional Commentary *Democratic citizenship, for India’s founders, meant individual freedom for all, regardless of religion, caste, class, or culture. In this insightful analysis of one of the most significant postcolonial constitutions in the world, Madhav Khosla provides an essential framework for understanding current challenges to the fundamental principles upon which the country was built. -- Bruce Ackerman, author of Revolutionary ConstitutionsErudite, analytically dazzling, and with a rare understanding of both India's and democracy’s challenges, Madhav Khosla’s India’s Founding Moment gives readers unparalleled access to the ideas behind India’s radical experiment in democratic constitution-making. As that noble vision is now under assault from sinister forces that Gandhi, Nehru, and Ambedkar knew well, we all should ponder Khosla’s all-too-timely book and do whatever we can to prevent the demise of India’s constitutional order. -- Martha C. Nussbaum, author of The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal and The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s FutureThis brilliant and challenging book shows how political choices—what to put in a constitution, the locus of effective power, and the forms of representation—can create citizens who can and must govern themselves in a modern democracy while facing deep challenges caused by poverty, caste, and illiteracy. It is at once a contribution to Indian constitutional history, constitutional theory, and political theory, and is a ‘must read’ for everyone in those fields. -- Mark Tushnet, author of Taking Back the ConstitutionKhosla’s superb study of the almost miraculous emergence of Indian democracy is an exceptional interweaving of complex and subtle insights from jurisprudence, political theory, and intellectual history. -- Sudipta Kaviraj, author of The Enchantment of Democracy and IndiaThis is a sensitive analysis of the moral imagination behind the Indian Constitution, a document intended to free the democratic process from sectarian identities and to strengthen centralized state power. As Indian democracy struggles to stay on the rails, Khosla’s book is a timely reminder of what it was meant to be. -- Partha Chatterjee, author of The Black Hole of EmpireFinely written…Khosla’s work forms an important basis of the second moment of Constitutional scholarship which seeks to connect to the idea of constitution as a manifesto of social transformation. -- Suhas Palshikar * Economic & Political Weekly *Insightful…[Khosla’s] sophisticated analysis concentrates on the Assembly’s vision of a constitution that would produce a functioning democracy. -- Michael H. Fisher * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *A deep and thoughtful account of the framing of India’s Constitution. It locates the Constitution within a history of democracy, democratic ideas and democratic contestations. It is an invaluable contribution to the history of constitutionalism. -- Gautam Bhatia * Rechtsgeschichte-Legal History *

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an interpretative ecological history of the Indian subcontinent. Using a general theory of ecological history, the authors provide a fresh interpretation of India's history, including an ecological account of the caste system and a sociological analysis of resource use. The Second Edition comes with a new Preface by the authors.Table of ContentsPREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE: PRUDENCE AND PROFLIGACY; PART ONE: A THEORY OF ECOLOGICAL HISTORY; 1. HABITATS IN HUMAN HISTORY; PART TWO: TOWARDS A CULTURAL ECOLOGY OF PRE-MODERN INDIA; 2. FOREST AND FIRE; 3. CASTE AND CONSERVATION; PART THREE: ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL CONFLICT IN MODERN INDIA; 4. CONQUEST AND CONTROL; 5. THE FIGHT FOR THE FOREST; 6. BIOMASS FOR BUSINESS; 7. COMPETING CLAIMS ON THE COMMONS; 8. CULTURES IN CONFLICT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. The Manager and Management Accounting 2. An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes 3. Cost–Volume–Profit Analysis 4. Job Costing 5. Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management 6. Master Budget and Responsibility Accounting 7. Flexible Budgets, Direct-Cost Variances, and Management Control 8. Flexible Budgets, Overhead Cost Variances, and Management Control 9. Inventory Costing and Capacity Analysis 10. Determining How Costs Behave 11. Data Analytic Thinking and Prediction 12. Decision Making and Relevant Information 13. Strategy, Balanced Scorecard, and Strategic Profitability Analysis 14. Pricing Decisions and Cost Management 15. Cost Allocation, Customer-Profitability Analysis, and Sales-Variance Analysis 16. Allocation of Support-Department Costs, Common Costs, and Revenues 17. Cost Allocation: Joint Products and Byproducts 18. Process Costing 19. Spoilage, Rework, and Scrap 20. Balanced Scorecard: Quality and Time 21. Inventory Management, Just-in-Time, and Simplified Costing Methods 22. Capital Budgeting and Cost Analysis 23. Management Control Systems, Transfer Pricing, and Multinational Considerations 24. Performance Measurement, Compensation, and Multi-national Considerations

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Book SynopsisThe acclaimed full-color clinical manual and review of TEE --- completely updated to reflect the fieldâs latest breakthroughs and developmentsDoody's Core Titles for 2021!Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, Third Edition is written to be the fieldâs go-to resource and the standard reference textbook on the topic. It offers concise yet comprehensive coverage of the key principles, concepts, and developing practice of transesophageal echocardiography. Completely updated, reorganized, and expanded, this Third Edition features a sectional format, each containing chapters that were reviewed and revised to provide a comprehensive discussion of physiology, pathophysiology, and echocardiographic approach for normal and common disease states. Where possible, important clinical information has been aligned with the principles of cardiovascular physiology and echocardiographic techniques.  Narrative text, ch

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