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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dhruv raina”
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  • Econophysics and Sociophysics: Recent Progress and Future Directions

    Edited by Anirban Chakraborti, Irena Vodenska, Dhruv Raina, Nivedita Deo, Frédéric Abergel, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Hideaki Aoyama ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the proceedings from ECONOPHYS-2015, an international workshop held in New Delhi, India, on the interrelated fields of “econophysics” and “sociophysics”, which have emerged from the application of statistical physics to economics and sociology. Leading researchers from varied communities, including economists, sociologists, financial analysts, mathematicians, physicists, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Science between Europe and Asia

    Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge

    Edited by Feza Günergun, Dhruv Raina ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well as the use ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Images and Contexts

    The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India

    by Dhruv Raina ...
    This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several strands from the corpus of writing over the past 150 years and places them within the context of their times. It analyses ideas about ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Medicine

    by F. González-Crussi ...
    Series Book 28 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and ... Read more

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  • The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

    Enriched edition. Unveiling Mujahideen's Strategic Brilliance in the Afghan War

    by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Maxwell Clark ...
    In "The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War," Ali Ahmad Jalali offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the guerrilla warfare techniques employed by the Afghan Mujahideen during the conflict with Soviet forces from 1979 to 1989. Written with meticulous attention to detail, Jalali's work combines firsthand accounts, strategic assessments, and a critical ... Read more

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  • The Seneca Effect

    Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid

    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden and often unexpected, like the proverbial "house of cards." But why are such collapses so common, and what generates them? ... Read more

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  • Conflict and Complexity

    Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence

    Edited by Yaneer Bar-Yam, Ali A. Minai, Philip Vos Fellman ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their application to addressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure and various methods of mapping and interdicting them as well as exploring the complex landscape of network-centric and irregular warfare. A variety of new models and approaches are presented here, including Dynamic ... Read more

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  • The Great Filth

    Disease, Death and the Victorian City

    by Stephen Halliday ...
    Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Britain changed from an agricultural to an industrial ecomony, people swarmed into the towns and cities where the work was; by the end of Queen Victoria's reign, almost 80 per cent of the population was urban. Overcrowding and filthy living conditions, ... Read more

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  • The Cage

    The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

    by Gordon Weiss ...
    "The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Fall of BaghdadIn the closing days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of ... Read more

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  • Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives

    Edited by Ralph Kenna, Máirín MacCarron, Pádraig MacCarron ...
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    With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and myths. It contributes significantly to recent efforts in bringing together natural scientists and ... Read more

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