This magnificent edition of the Gita was brought to life by a man who's own life was a living embodiment of that central archetype of the Song Celestial, the Stithaprajna, the self-governed sage. Raghavan Iyer's work is simultaneously complex and supremely detached. In a wholly fresh rendition of the timeless Hindu bible, each of the verses of the Gita are linked with a seminal thought drawn from every tradition of Humanity. This linkage serves to focus the mind upon the Gita's ancient meaning in radical new ways - bringing insight and clarity by casting the perennial philosophy in a wholly unexpected light. This rendition helps the true spiritual seeker do what Krishna himself helped Arjuna do - master the unruly torrent of life, by questions, by humility, by strong search, and by service, so that, in time, his inner light would arise spontaneously within, and guide him upon the Path. If I had only one book I could own, and live by, this would be the one.

This book offers a very good historical background and also explains key concepts in its introductory chapters. The sections which have translations of gurbani are extremely well done. Unlike other translations, they seem to still keep their important and often very deep meanings yet still flow very well.

This book, like each lecture by Narasimhan that I have had the pleasure to hear, exhibits masterful understanding and exposition of the material. His proofs are extremely elegant, and it is always clear where he is going with the material. His writing flows very smoothly, and the addition of exercises to this edition is very helpful in the process of learning to prove things in the various areas covered in the chapter. He also does a great job of allowing one to make the connections between complex analysis and other fields of mathematics, and the notes at the end of each chapter offer interesting insight into the material such as various mathematicians involved in developing the topics and other areas of interest relative to the particular chapter. It is rare that an elementary book on complex analysis goes into further topics like several complex variables and complex manifolds, so if you are interested in learning complex analysis and preparing to extend to further related topics, this is the book for you.

A refreshing treatment of alternative economic organization. In a casual and conversational manner the author saves us the sugar coated reviews of the all-but magical Kerala development story and dives right into the reality of an industrial cooperative in an Indian state that is breaking all of the capitalist rules and still winning the game! A must read for anyone interested in the struggle to transform exploitation into cooperation and voluntary participation. This book is a breath of fresh air in the sometimes stale realm of economic literature. Includes detailed analysis of organizational structure of Kerala Dinesh Beedi.

Parapolitics was written by one of the deepest thinkers of the twentieth century, and arguably, of the last millennium. This is not an easy book to read or to review. What is offered in this text is a way of thinking about politics beyond the ism's of yesterday and today. What is offered is a way of thinking about the future in ways grounded in a deep understanding of the ancient wisdom of East and West. The text explores at once the "costs of commitment" entailed in creating a more constructive future -- which the author, employing the historically neuter grammatical construction, characterizes as the "City of Man." This opening section is book-ended with a section on the "critical distance" needed, if one is truly to rethink the foundations and contours of politics for a worthwhile and viable future.

The reader is invited to rethink for him or herself foundational assumptions by drawing upon the diverse and common heritage of mankind, to explore in terms of a Platonic dialectic, the impact of these assumptions on human relations, and to self-consciously make his or her own choices for a future that is at once probing as to its assumptive base, embracing in terms of a fraternity of mankind, and ultimately founded upon firmer stuff than is offered through the prevalence of contemporary ism's -- whether those in defeat or those for an episodical moment, claiming victory. Ultimately, this is a book that challenges readers to address, rethink, and bridge the gap between theoria and praxis in politics in ways that we in the modern world have largely forgotten how to do.

Dr. Chari has given some very viable perspectives on health care from many angles. With health care reform changing and with Medicare payouts getting stingier every day, this book provides a very easily read solution to many common problems. Should you be on Medicare (especially due to age), this is a must for you.

The author reviews the body's systems and provides insight as to many alternatives that one might try before running up a large bill! (This is the latter part of the book.)

The book would be a good gift for someone who might need a little knowledge on the subject of healthcare. It is very easy to understand.

Two thumbs up to Dr. R. Chari, et al.

The book has an exoustive amount of algorithms. Not everything is proved. Sometimes the proof contains to few steps to be understood. There are many algorithms explained well. After reading this book it is easy to create your own randomized algorithms.

I've taken two CS classes that use this book and I always felt like this book was very informative. The algorithms and concepts that Motwani brings forth are extremely insightful and interesting. However, the presentation of the proofs has a lot of room for improvement. Notation is carried over from previous chapters and is sometimes unexplained, which makes it very difficult for someone who does not have a lot of familiarity with the material presented. The book presents very interesting topics and leaves a lot of open (unresolved) questions to the reader's curiosity and challenge.

This book is a jewel. It demonstrates how clever and beautifully simple probabilistic ideas can lead to the design of very efficient algorithms. I like its very verbal intuitive style,
with proof strategies being always transparently explained.
For computer scientists, this is *the* reference work in randomized algorithms, by now a major paradigm of algorithms design. For classical probabilists, this
could serve as an eye-opener on unsuspected applications of their field to important areas of computer science.

This is a good book for advanced botany and plant biology students. The author has a comprehensive literature review.

This book is a short overview of the theory of several complex variables that emphasized the elementary aspects of the subject, such as Hartogs' theory, and domains of holomorphy. The price quoted here for the book is surely a mistake, and even though it is out of print, if obtained it could still be of use for self-study. Readers should have a background of course in the theory of one complex variable, and when reading it will clearly see the differences in the theory of complex variables when raising the dimension.

In chapter 1, the author defines the basic concepts needed for a study of this subject, such as the polydisc and the definition of real analyticity. As expected, the Cauchy integral formula holds in several dimensions, with the proof easily generalized from the case of one dimension. In fact, most of the results in one dimension, such as Montel's and Weierstrass theorems, are shown by the author to hold in several dimensions. After defining what is means for a function of several complex variables to be holomorphic, he shows that such a function is not dependent on the complex conjugate of its dependent variables, just like in the one variable case. He proves the converse, namely that the vanishing of the partial derivative with respect to the conjugate variables implies the function is holomorphic, in chapter three.

In chapter two, the author immediately shows where the things begin to change in several variables, the first result being Hartogs' theorem. This theorem states that one can always find an analytic continuation of a holomorphic function defined on an open disc to the boundary of the disk. One can clearly see the origins of sheaf theory in this chapter, when the author discusses the construction of domains of existence for one or more holomorphic functions. The author proves that two holomorphic functions on a domain that agree on a nonempty open subset of this domain are identical.

Chapter three is an introduction to the study of subharmonic functions in several complex variables. The author proves the theorem of Hartogs, that shows the converse of the holomorphicity result in chapter 1. The reader familiar with elementary harmonic analysis will see it here in the context of several complex variables.

In chapter four, the author introduces analytic sets, these being essentially subsets of an open set in complex n-space on which a finite collection of holomorphic functions vanish. He shows to what extent the singularities of a holomorphic function are an analytic set.

The author studies the collection of automorphisms on bounded domains in complex n-space in chapter five. An automorphism from an open connected set in complex n-space to itself is a holomorphic map if there exists another holomorphic map whose composition with the automorphism is the identity. After putting a topology on the group of automorphisms, he characterizes all automorphisms of a polydisc. In addition, he again illustrates the differences between complex 1-space and complex n-space for n greater than 2. In complex 2-space for example, he shows that there is no analytic isomorphism from the open square onto the open disk. This is not the case in complex 1-space, where all simply connected domains are analytically equivalent. He also shows that there are no proper holomorphic maps of domains in complex n-space into any ball, and that there are "flat" directions for holomorphic maps from domains in complex n-space to products of bounded domains in complex 1-space. The latter in particular is a radical departure from the behavior in complex 1-space.

The author considers families of holomorphic functions in chapter six, generalizing the results in chapter two. Sheaf theory again makes its presence known, and the key concept introduced is that of envelopes of holomorphy. This is essentially the maximal domain such that each function holomorphic on a domain can be analytically continued to the envelope of holomorphy. Envelopes of holomorphy are shown to exist and to be unique. And, this is one of the few places in the book where the author gives examples, i.e. he details examples of envelopes of holomorphy that are not in complex n-space. The theory in this chapter is of considerable importance in some formulations of axiomatic quantum field theory.

Holomorphic convexity and domains of holomorphy are the subject of chapter seven. A domain of holomorphy is essentially the "natural" domain for at least one function. If a given domain is not a domain of holomorphy, then any function holomorphic in this domain is holomorphic in some larger domain. Any domain in complex 1-space is a domain of holomorphy, but in complex n-space this need not be the case. One can construct domains in complex n-space so that every holomorphic function on this domain extends holomorphically to a strictly larger domain containing the original. The author shows the role of holomorphic convexity in the consideration of functions that are bounded by their supremum norm. Every convex open set in complex n-space is a domain of holomorphy.

Hadamard's three domains theorem and one part of Oka's theorem are proved in chapter eight. The former is essentially an inequality (in the sup norm) for a function defined on a connected domain that has two others as successive proper subsets. Oka's theorem as stated gives that a domain of holomorphicially is holomorphically convex. The author does not prove the converse, explaining that such a proof would take an excursion into global ideal theory.

The last chapter of the book deals with automorphisms of bounded domains, wherein the author details the proof of Henri Cartan that the collection of analytic automorphisms of a bounded domain is a Lie group.

This book is definitely not a choice as a text book. It canserve as a quick reference. It contains many formatting and smalltechnical errors. In depth treatment of many aspects are not covered as expected. Think twice before investing on this book.

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I found the topics to be very technically challenging. It is also lucidly written and sure worth its value. The references are also great for me, as I am a doctoral candidate in Networks.