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Like a dormant virus, piracy can flare-up in any part of the world where two conditions are extant; flourishing trade at sea and poor governance ashore. No sooner had the scourge of Somalian piracy been subdued, by a concerted international effort, than it erupted in the Gulf of Guinea. This unique study by retired Navy Captain (Dr) PK Ghosh brings timely focus on the festering problem of piracy afflicting, oil-rich, West African nations trapped in an unending cycle of corruption and ineffective governance. Even as exploitative Western nations pay mere lip-service to this problem, the author...

Attempts to reconstruct various parts of the heart started even before the beginning of open cardiac surgery. By the late 1950s and early 1960 s several closed and open procedures had already been described. In that era, several surgeons in Europe and the Americas were particularly prompted to develop various techniques of valve re construction because of the lack of acceptable valve prostheses and conduits which have become available subsequently. At that time, several congenital lesions still defied definitive correction, and clinical attempts at left ventricular wall replacement had not...

This book pays tribute to Professor Kirit Parikh through contemporary essays from experts on energy, climate change including mitigation and adaptation, agriculture, food procurement, water resources, and public health. The chapters use statistical methods and mathematical models to analyse questions of policy formulation and effectiveness. The book picks up important SDG topics such as – current issues and policy making in the infrastructure sector of power and their relationship to India’s climate commitments; computable models of the growth and absorption of renewable generation as...