When Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears from her home in Jeddah just days before her arranged marriage, desert guide Nayir is asked to bring her home. But when her battered body is found, Nayir feels compelled to uncover the disturbing truth, travel[...]

" A] lavishly enjoyable book." Tunku Varadarajan, "The Wall Street Journal"Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and wha[...]

Gives the fundamentals you need for modern pain practice. This title describes various commonly used procedures, using a head-to-toe organization. It features chapter that covers advanced techniques such as continuous analgesia, spinal cord and sacral stimulation, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.[...]

The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis "At last, a welcome and needed text for computer professionals who require practical, ready-to-apply techniques for performance analysis. Highly recommended!" -Dr. Leonard Kleinrock University of California, Los Angeles "An entirely refreshing text wh[...]

A book from Cengage Learning on "Design of Fluid Thermal Systems - SI Version".

Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised qualiti[...]

This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history of human health in the subcontinent has received a fair amount of attention in the last few decades, but nearly all existing texts have completely ignor[...]

The story of one woman and her nation, this novel tells the history of modern India in the years leading up to independence. Jaya Singh is born into the old, princely India and stands as a living synbol of the changes the continent struggles to make to bring itself in line with the 20th century.[...]

There are an estimated 17 million speakers of Nepali world-wide, including 11 million speakers within Nepal. Home to Mount Everest and the birthplace of the Buddha, tourism is the country's main industry and the Nepali government has named 2011 Nepal Tourism Year by launching a campaign to attract [...]

Edited by leading researchers and technologists, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Corrosion is the only book to discuss the interdisciplinary topic of non-destructive evaluation of degradation of materials due to environment.[...]