Kumar: 1628 books

This book is an exhaustive handbook on microfinance covering more than 600 concepts and ideas .Since poverty alleviation remains a top agenda for development programs and microfinance has proved the most effective approach for combating it, there was a growing demand among students, academics, journalists,...

A practical guide to obtaining, transforming, exploring, and analyzing data using Python, MongoDB, and Apache Spark About This Book Learn to use various data analysis tools and algorithms to classify, cluster, visualize, simulate, and forecast your data Apply Machine Learning algorithms to different...

A complete guide for Python programmers to master scientific computing using Python APIs and toolsAbout This BookThe basics of scientific computing to advanced concepts involving parallel and large scale computation are all covered.Most of the Python APIs and tools used in scientific computing...

This unique volume presents the scientific achievements, significant discoveries and pioneering contributions of various academicians, industrialist and research scholars. The book is an essential source of reference and provides a comprehensive overvi

This book focuses on speech processing in the presence of low-bit rate coding and varying background environments. The methods presented in the book exploit the speech events which are robust in noisy environments. Accurate estimation of these crucial events will be useful for carrying out various...

Never boiled an egg before but want to learn the magic art of cooking? Then don’t leave home without this Survival Cookbook. Be it healthy college cooking, or cooking for a single person or even outdoor cooking---this easiest cookbook on earth teaches you to survive all situations with ease.  Where...

Authors have attempted to create coherent chapters and sections on how the fundamentals of maintenance cost should be organized, to present them in a logical and sequential order. Necessarily, the text starts with importance of maintenance function in the organization and moves to life cycle cost...

This book describes the basic concepts of risk and reliability with detailed descriptions of the different levels of probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear power plants (both internal and external). The book also maximizes readers insights into time dependent risk analysis through several case...

Valuation: Theories and Concepts provides an understanding on how to value companies that employ non-standard accounting procedures, particularly companies in emerging markets and those that require a wider variety of options than standard texts provide. The book offers a broader, more holistic...

This study presents exploratory work and seeks to identify and evaluate the success and failure factors that could form a guideline for further study and to some extent help professionals to understand some critical aspects that impact project performance concerning construction in India. A total...

This book systematically introduces the theory of nonlinear analysis, providing an overview of topics such as geometry of Banach spaces, differential calculus in Banach spaces, monotone operators, and fixed point theorems. It also discusses degree theory, nonlinear matrix equations, control theory,...

**Lecturers - request an e-inspection copy of this text  or contact your local SAGE representativeto discuss your course needs. Research Methodology: A Step by Step Guide for Beginners** has been written specifically for those with no previous experience of research or research methodology....

The primary intention of this publication is to assess and describe the need for introducing vocational education with a little more seriousness than ever before and to suggest ideas for establishing a vocational university with a difference. The idea is also to summarize the present technical and...

This book attempts to capture innovation outcomes. The intent is on a holistic assessment of value creation by innovation — the societal value that it delivers to humanity, the economic value that it has the potential to endow to nations, and the monetary value that it provides to innovating firms....