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Home to a fifth of the world's population and the largest democracy in the world, India holds a prominent place in current events yet remains misunderstood in many ways by students, professionals and others who seek a single, authoritative source for information on this important region. The Encyclopedia of India meets this need, encompassing the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day. Across the four volumes of the Encyclopedia, readers are invited to explore India in a comprehensive reference work of more than 600 alphabetically arranged, illustrated articles. As India's role in global politics and economics continues to grow, readers will find the historical and cultural information contained within this work an indispensable tool to gaining a greater appreciation of India and its place in our modern world. |
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Lucid Waking: The Answer to the Problem of Consciousness
There is no problem more baffling to the academic world than the problem of consciousness. It’s fair to say that no academic has any clue at all about what consciousness is. In fact, academics have totally confused it with something radically different, namely sentience. The problem that faces the academic world is the insurmountable one... | | | | |
Concepts, Applications, Experimentation and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks: Concepts, Applications, Experimentation and Analysis (Signals and Communication Technology)
Writing a book is tempting, many ideas and topics, idea after idea, topic upon topic,
what to elaborate, which one to mention, the reader must find a satisfying answer,
enough knowledge; and overlooking or going-by topics is a painful choice for the
author, as space is limited, a hard decision is to be made without compromising... | | | | Room AcousticsWe all know that a concert hall, theatre, lecture room or a church may have good or poor ‘acoustics’. As far as speech in these rooms is concerned, it is relatively simple to make some sort of judgement on their quality by rating the ease with which the spoken word is understood. However, judging the acoustics of a concert hall or an... |
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