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Product Description: In This Volume: Take the war to the enemy - Bharat VermaINDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW COMMENT: • Islam and its many trends - Anand K Verma • Is this how we treat our military? - RSN SinghDEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: • India's Mission to Moon - G Madhavan Nair • Indian Air Force of the Future - Air Marshal BK Pandey • Way to a credible deterrent - Arun S Vishwakarma • Shourya/Sagarika Missile - Arun S Vishwakarma • Indian Defence Procurement Regime: Dissuasive Features - Maj Gen Mrinal SumanEmerging Asian Security Environment - Kanwal Sibal • Intelligence Reform - Vikram Sood • The Chinese Conundrum: Friends and Foes - Air Marshal Narayan Menon • The killers' mace of the dark visitors - Claude Arpi • Technologies and National Security - Ajey Lele • Dealing with Pakistan - Lt Gen HC Dutta • Air Power and Irregular Warfare: In the Indian Context - Air Cmde Arjun SubramaniamDEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: • Maritime Security - Commodore G Sharma • Alternative Power Source for LCA • BEL • MBDA • CONTROP • Terrorist Attacks From Sea: Role of Offshore Patrol Vessels - Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath • Defence procurements sans competition - Maj Gen Mrinal SumanCoastal and maritime security: Two Sides of the Same Coin - Vice Adm PS Das • India's sea-blindness - Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana • India and China in Space - Jagannath P Panda and Ajey Lele • From Kashmir to Mumbai: Terror Comes Full Circle - RohIt SinghON THE SPOT REPORT: • Gaps in Maritime Security - VK ShashikumarUlfa's niche war - Colonel Rajinder Singh • The Poonch Fiasco: A Time to Ponder - Rohit SinghEXECUTIVE SUMMARY BY B RAMAN: • Pakistan banks on perceived Indian amenability to US pressure • Why Miliband tries to rationalize LeT's terrorist attack in Mumbai?DEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: • Eurofighter • EADS DandSVIEWPOINT: • Solution to the Pakistani terrorist quagmire - Vijaykumar S Kas...read more

Product Description: Infectious Complications in Transplant Patients has been uniquely designed and formatted to address issues and trends pertaining to pathogens deemed important in critically ill transplant patients. The chapters have been carefully selected so as to direct the focus of the book towards current approaches to controversial, emerging or topical problems in these patients...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves." - Kahlil Gibran(1883-1931) Poet and artist My Miracle Angel. All my wishes came True is an inspirational account of a miraculous event, its outcome and effect on the life of the author, her family and many others...read more

Product Description: This beautifully illustrated book with photographs by photojournalist Sati Sahni captures the many moods of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister, and his love affair with Kashmir and its people...read more

A defense of late French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault reveals the political significance of his work for today's gay activists and intellectuals, provides a current survey of work in gay and lesbian studies, and berates recent criticism of Foucault. UP.

Product Description: A major work in the ongoing science of headache treatment. “Not Tonight I Have a Headache” is the most comprehensive and exhaustive book to date integrating both Western and Eastern treatments of this widespread malady. Within you will find all categories of headache identified, with treatments that have helped people find comfort and relief from this devastating and life interrupting condition...read more