Author: Padma Desai
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: asia, argentina, containment, contagion, crisis, financial
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-04-21
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0691113920
ISBN-13: 9780691113920

This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia’s "Crisis Five"--Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand--Padma Desai argues that the region’s imprudently fast-paced opening to the free flow of capital was pushed by determined advocates, official and private, in the global economy’s U.S.-led developed center. Turmoil ensued in these peripheral economies, the Russian ruble fal

Author: Padma Desai
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: putin, yeltsin, reform, russia, conversations
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2006-04-13
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195300610
ISBN-13: 9780195300611

Much of the discussion of Russia’s recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views. In contrast, Padma Desai’s conversations with influential, intelligent participants and observers provide the reader with a broad, nuanced view of what has and has not happened in the last fourteen years, and why. Conversations from Russia will thus serve as a much-needed reference volume, both for academics who study Russia and for laypeople who only have vague perceptions of what has occurred in

Author: Tejal Desai Mauro Ferrari;Tejal Desai;Sangee
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: nanotechnology, biomems, biological, biomedical
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-11-02
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0387255656
ISBN-13: 9780387255651

This will be the first comprehensive treatment of the emerging area of therapeutic micro- and nanotechnology. Subjects covered include: cell-based therapeutics, regenerative medicine - merging cells with micro- and nanosystems, and integrating MEMS with cells and tissues; Drug delivery - intravascular nanoparticles for drug targeting and nonvascular delivery (implantable, oral, inhalable); molecular surface engineering for the biological interface, biomolecule patterning and cell patterning

Authors:David Quinto, Deven Desai, Deven R. Desai,
Publisher: Aspen Law & Business Publishers
Keywords: disputes, internet, law
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2001-07-23
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0735525927
ISBN-13: 9780735525924

Author: Padma Viswanathan
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: lemon, toss
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0547247877
ISBN-13: 9780547247878

Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow’s whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children. Sivakami dutifully follows custom, except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband’s house to raise her children. There, her servant Muchami, a closeted gay man who is bound by a different caste’s rules, becomes her public face. Their singular relationship holds three generat

Author: R. Padma Sree; M. Chidambaram
Publisher: Alpha Science Intl Ltd
Keywords: systems, unstable, control
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 1842652877
ISBN-13: 9781842652879

The present work is concerned with the design of PID controllers, calculation of set point weighting parameter and identification of transfer function models for unstable systems with time delay and without or with a zero. Synthesis method, IMC method and Equating coefficient method are proposed for design of PID controllers. Three methods are proposed to calculate the set point weighting parameters. Closed loop reaction curve method and optimization method are proposed for identifying transfer function models. Several simulation examples on transfer function models of FCC reactor, distillatio

Authors:Osho,  Ma Deva Padma,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: zen, game, transcendental, tarot, osho
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1995-04-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0312117337
ISBN-13: 9780312117337

When life seems to be full of doubt and uncertainty we tend to look for a source of inspiration: what will happen in the future? What about my health, the children? What will happen if I make this decision and not that one? This is how the traditional tarot is often used, to satisfy a longing to know about the past and future. This Osho Zen Tarot focuses instead on gaining an understanding of the here and now. It is a system based on the wisdom of Zen, a wisdom that says events in the outer world simply reflect in the outer world simply reflect our own thoughts and feelings, even though we our