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Bounce
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics , award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success?in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you?d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell?s The Tipping Point will find many interesting and helpful insights in... more...
The Myth of the Lazy Native
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95The Myth of the Lazy Native is Syed Hussein Alatas? widely acknowledged critique of the colonial construction of Malay, Filipino and Javanese natives from the 16 th to the 20 th century. Drawing on the work of Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge, Alatas analyses the origins and functions of such myths in the creation and reinforcement... more...
The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00In a series of paradigmatic readings of René Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status. more...
Precambrian Continental Crust and its Economic Resources
Elsevier Science 1990; US$ 150.00Since 1964, the time when the Upper Mantle Project was started, the Precambrian continental crust has been studied in considerable detail in many areas. Multidisciplinary studies, using modern tools and techniques have resulted in increasing levels of accuracy. The Precambrian continental crust has been subjected to several thermal events and multiple... more...
Home Boy
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableMeet the Metrostanis, three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn-of-the-millennium: AC, a gangsta rap spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun deejay from the streets of Jersey City; and Chuck, a wide-eyed, off-the-boat kid, searching for himself and the American Dream. In a city where origins matter less than the talent for self... more...
Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability
Wiley 2013; US$ 124.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series . Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability provides a synthesis of current knowledge on Indian Ocean biogeochemistry and ecology and an introduction to new concepts and topical paradigm challenges. It also reports on the development of... more...
Home Boy
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.00?Naqvi?s fast-paced plot, foul-mouthed erudition and pitch-perfect dialogue make for a stellar debut.? ? Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) They are renaissance men. They are bons vivants. They are three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn of the millennium: AC, a gangsta-rap-spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun DJ from the... more...
Handbook of Photomask Manufacturing Technology
CRC Press 2005; US$ 199.95It used to be simply "photolithography"; now we have "nanolithography." The 31 chapters here have been written by those who ushered in the change, along with those whose research will place even more features on an ever-smaller space. General topics cover the design, processes and equipment created for production in such topics as mask writing (inc more...
WiMAX Standards and Security
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 94.95As the demand for broadband services continues to grow worldwide, traditional solutions, such as digital cable and fiber optics, are often difficult and expensive to implement, especially in rural and remote areas. The emerging WiMAX system satisfies the growing need for high data-rate applications such as voiceover IP, video conferencing, interactive... more...
WiMAX Technologies Performance Analysis and QoS
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 94.95As the demand for broadband services continues to grow worldwide, traditional solutions, such as digital cable and fiber optics, are often difficult and expensive to implement, especially in rural and remote areas. The emerging WiMAX system satisfies the growing need for high data-rate applications such as voiceover IP, video conferencing, interactive... more...









