This book is very useful for practitioners interested in using economy wide models for planning or in particular for the energy sector. Explanations are clear, there are many practical data and analysis and the application is elaborate. There are many scientific and economic details which will be useful for most readers. The survey of literature is still very useful.

The book consists of the following chapters: 1.British Energy Problem and its Solution; 2. A Discovery Model of Oil Reserves in the UK Sector of the North Sea; 3. The Multisectoral Econometric Model including the energy system; 4. State-Variable Form of the Econometric Model, Stochastic Simulation and Control; 5. Stochastic and Deterministic Solution of the Model.

The best parts of this book are (a) a very clear description of a number of control methods which can be used in practice; (b) very useful survey of macroeconomic models which can be used in practice. The application on India is very useful for deleopmnent planners and researchers. There are many books on useless methods which in practice can not work, but this book is a very exception. Every methods explained here are original and work in practice.

The book consists of the following chapters: 1. India's Economic Scene and the Behaviours of the Monetary-Financial Instruments; 2. Methods of Optimal Control; 3. Recent Advances in Macroeconomic Policy Analysis ands the Analytical Structure of the Control Model 4. Estimation and Analysis of the Model 5. Analysis of the Result of the Control System.

As a sample survey practitioner for over 25 years, I very highly recommend this book. It accomplishes what other books claim but fail, to be both for novices as well as the more experienced.

The author graciously understates his position as one of the luminaries of sampling, as evidenced by his professional publications from the 1960's, to his colleagues choosing him to write six entries (at last count) on various aspects of sample surveys in the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences. The author is a major contributor to the main theoretical approaches, as well as their arbitrator and conciliator. His depth of understanding of both approaches (he has "been there", after all) coupled with his clear writing style allows him to gently guide the reader through this fascinating and important area, engaging us with a seemingly whimsical but ultimately profound exercise in weighing elephants!

Even if you only buy one book on sample surveys, buy this one.

M/s Basu is a rare find. I laughed, salivated and became informed too. A must for ALL lovers of the various cuisines from the Indian Sub-Continent, Pakistan & Bangladesh.

'Elecron Microscopy in Forensic, Occupational, and EHS' is concise and intriguing. Dr. Basu is an accomplished and knowledgeable scientist; I recommend this book fully

Last summer, I stumbled across a Pema Chodron book. Thus, by serendipity, began my love affair with Buddhism and Eastern philosophy. Chodron's books are notoriously soothing and easy to read, perfect fodder for a blossoming Buddhist neophyte. Intuitively, I understood and experienced the healing power of the Buddhist outlook. It wasn't long before I graduated to more challenging material. I developed a particular interest in the Abhidharma and Buddhist psychology.

Several weeks ago, I bought "A Greater Psychology". Upon settling into the sofa for a good, long read, I felt that I was looking at an opaque mirror. The sentences flowed on and on endlessly, but I could not comprehend any meaning. I put aside the book, thinking at it was surely pure gobble-de-gook. However, I was nevertheless chomping at the bit to learn about Eastern thought, beyond Buddhism.

I picked up an amazing book by Dhruv S. Kaji, "Common Sense About Uncommon Wisdom: Ancient Teachings of Vedanta". Kaji's book seemed to start a little slow, but quite soon I became enthralled, as if I was approaching the last chapters of a great mystery novel. I had never heard of nondualism, and the unfolding concept answered some profound question I had never thought to ask.

Thereafter, I immersed myself in other Vedanta readings and similar material -- Easwaran's translation of the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads; Torwesten's "Vedanta: Heart of Hinduism"; "The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi"; Wilber's "No Boundary"; Zimmer's "Philosophies of India".

So, last week, I pulled "A Greater Psychology" from my bookshelf, and started afresh. To my amazement, Aurobindo's writing metamorphosed from opacity and pompous wordiness to subtle, sublime profundity. Never have I encountered such an insightful description of the human condition -- a supremely lucid and all-encompassing treatise shedding light on every layer of consciousness from our lower animal selves to highest reaches of spiritual realization. As each new jeweled concept flowed from the book, I found myself nodding over and over, "Yes, that rings true in my experience" or "Yes, that idea fits seamlessly with my own understanding of what it means to be human".

I have often complained that someone took the "psyche" out of psychology. Our worship of the scientific method has tended to restrict our burgeoning knowledge to what is observable and what is measurable, even despite Einstein's legacy. So psychologists get steeped in statistics and experimental design, virtually ignoring the unseen motivations, emotions, passions, and cravings of the human -- and spiritual aspect of healthy psychological development is simply a taboo topic. Except for those trudging after Freud's tradition, even the unconscious is unmentionable.

To have available Aurobindo's comprehensive, experiential psychospiritual teachings is priceless. It puts conventional Western psychology to shame. The book will not be easy reading, even for those with a background in psychology and a strong familiarity with Vedanta and Eastern philosophy. But if you have the backbone for a fearless and arduous education in the human condition, all-inclusive, with guideposts to your own place in the cosmos, then I could not recommend this book more highly.

The book is a comprehensive analysis of Japanese foreign investments and Characteristics of the Japanese multinational companies, their behaviours, investment styles, performances, strategic managements and human resources management styles. The first chapter narrates the story of the Japanese foreign investments in recent years. The second chapter describes and analysed the global environments for Japanese multinational companies. and business regulations affecting multinational companies in a number of countries. The third chapter describes and analysed the domestic environments for Japanese multinational companies, product development strategies, financial system, manufacturing process and cross-cultural managements. The fourth chapter analysed the expansions of Japanese multinational companies across the world and their performances. The fifth chapter analysed the impacts of Japanese multinational companies on their host nations and on Japan itself regarding employments, investments, production and technology. The sixth chapter analysed the strategic management styles of Japanese multinational companies and in particular the behaviours of Nissan, Toyota and Honda motor corporations. The final chapter analysed the human resources managements and in particular Japanese management philosophy in three major Japanese multinational companies and how these companies are transmitting Japanese management styles in their foreign locations. Overall all materials used in this book are derived from several years of research and analysis. Most of the materials are not readily available as these are from Jaopanese sources. This will be an important source book for students and researchers on international business.

The Opium Clerk is Hiran, born in 1857, the year of the Mutiny, the year his father is run down in the park by wild horses. Hiran's life might have been very different had his father lived, for he would have continued his education and life as Brahmin instead of becoming a clerk for the British Empire. At first Hiran did not know what the "mud" was, the dark hand-rolled balls of dreams about which he--and the hundreds of other clerks--kept such meticulous records. There were no laws "against" it, only laws the British made and enforced to ensure their own monopoly of the trade, a lively commerce which brought enormous wealth to the Empire whose motives and corruption Hiran does not judge. Hiran observes, and learns, and moves and is moved along the various paths the trade in the drug offers. He can be trusted, and his sharp eyes and deliberate thoughts preserve his life through many catastrophic moments in India's history and later in China's. He has the gift of reading palms, and his own baffle him--the lifeline in his left, or birth hand, is short, and detours passion, but his right hand, the hand of action, is creased by a much longer lifeline. High born, he is patronized and condescended to by the imperial British. His "superior" is Jonathan Crabbe, whose wife is an addict. The special work he does for Crabbe involves Hiran in every level of Indian life, and the more secrets he learns and keeps, the more important he becomes. The events and journeys in the novel spin for him the longer life his right hand foretells. His journeys have circled him back to his birthplace, and his true passion finally reveals itself to him.

Kunal Basu has used as his epigraph for the novel Krishna's line from The Bhagavad Gita: "All is clouded by desire...as fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust, as the unborn by its mother." THE OPIUM CLERK is a novel proceeding in glimpses, hints, maddening and marvelous non-linear complexities, sudden clarities, drowsy recessions. Something is going on. Some grand agitation, some wonderful pied and pitiless maelstrom. It is history, perhaps, but it is more than history. It is Time itself, the great wheel which makes everything major minor--even glutted Empires--and grants even the remotest mote a turn.

The experience of reading this novel may be characterized by the word disconcerting. The prose is seductive, vividly descriptive and intriguing. There is Mystery. Perhaps Mystery is the main character. There is a dreamlike feeling of following something just beyond comprehension and grasp. A little farther and we shall know, we shall see, we shall comprehend... Surprising jumps, sideways, in the narration move us into side streets and alleys and always with such wit and cleverness from the author we ourselves are experiencing Hiran's culture shock as our own; we feel expatriation. We know what it is to be a stranger at the mercy and whim of people whose ways we do not know, people whom it is worth our life to please. We feel the dangers. All this Kunal Basu achieves in ravishing, flexible, masterful prose with the unsettling logic of dream, of drug. The journeys and intrigues of the characters hang about us like smoke, like dust, like desire.

This book was a particularly slow read for such a short book. It was a dull story with little resolution at the end. We read this book as a book club. At our meeting, we sat mystified as to what to discuss. I did not enjoy this attempt at a novel, and would probably not recommend it unless you have time to read it more than once to try to follow the stale story.

Jay Basu keeps you mesmerized in this sad but touching story. This is Basu's first novel, and what a splendid job he's done. The story had a few twists, and it was hard to put down. Gracian is a memorable protagonist. He escapes his harsh world of working in a coal mine by wandering out into the woods at night to watch the stars, despite the constant presence of Nazi guards who could kill him. He and the other characters, including his coal mine partner, offer tremendous inspiriation to keep dreaming when life is cruel and seemingly hopeless.

Basically this is the only book available that deals with EJB and Oracle Application Server. But the book is outdated. Basically handles only EJB1.0 spec, so the deployment descriptors are old. It does not cover Entity Beans. So if you are using Oralcle 8.1.7 or Oracle 9 i App Server, this book is out dated for you. The flow of topics could have been better. Any way we dont have much choice, as this is the only book on this topic.

Last year, I found the Oracle8i SQLJ Programming book (by Morisseau-Leroy, Solomon, and Momplaisir) while surfing for a book on SQLJ. I must say that the Oracle8i SQLJ book is an excellent book indeed, and the ONLY worth reading book on SQLJ. When, I saw on amazon.com the advertising about the Oracle8i Java Component Book (by the same authors), I quickly purchased it. So far, I have read the first three chapters. The first chapter two chapters introduce the concepts ofcomponent-based applications using JDBC and SQLJ and Web applications, while the third one takes you straight in EJB. A note of caution, the Oracle8i Java Component Book is an advanced book on component concepts and assumes that the reader knows SQL, PL/SQL, Java, JDBC, SQLJ, and Oracle database. Extremely informative. I strongly recommend this book.

Geared towards Java programmers that need to access an Oracle database, this book starts with well explained concepts of what components are all about, and slowly and surely takes the reader to distributed objects using EJB and CORBA as well as JSP client-side applications that can use EJB and CORBA components. More importantly, the book allows readers to learn both JDBC and SQLJ. Very informative for Oracle DBA who needs information regarding EJB and CORBA components that can reside in an Oracle8i database. Note also, that java code presented are JDK1.x and JDK1.2 compatible. I strongly recommend this book.