EMILYA! Sebaris nama yang tidak pernah luput daripada ingatan Asrul. Dia mencari bayangan gadis itu sejak sepuluh tahun yang lalu. Dunia nan terang bagaikan gelita. Keluhan hatinya membawa derita. Di mana dan ke mana, persoalan itu tidak pernah berjawab. Harapannya terlonta-lonta sendiri mencari, sedangkan Emilya tak sekalipun kunjung menjelma. Di bawah pohon cinta mereka, Asrul mengucapkan selamat tinggal pada kenangan. Farida, dikahwininya sebagai memenuhi satu wasiat. Bagaimana dia harus membelai wanita itu sebagai isteri, sedangkan antara mereka hanya sebagai saudara? Jiwa lelakinya menangis dan Farida sendiri amat mengerti...
Bijak pandai pernah berkata, cinta boleh bertukar menjadi benci tetapi persahabatan itu akan kekal buat selama-lamanya.Benarkah? Sekian lama menyemai kasih, keakraban Iriana dan Mukhriz dimeterai dengan ikatan. Andai diibaratkan tinggi bintang di langit, tinggi lagi impian di hati. Sungguh, cinta mereka bukan sandiwara. Tiada apa yang bisa menjadi galang ganti. Tetapi entah di mana silap, bahtera kasih mula dilanda badai. Satu demi satu rahsia terbongkar. Ribut melanda, taufan bergelora. Tembelang pecah, retak menanti belah. Konfik demi konflik mencabar keimanan. Tambah rumit, lantaran seorang pemarah, seorang perasa.
In a graduate student residence at Oxford University in the early 1990s, Kevin, an Irish Montrealer, meets Leon, a London Jew from a Communist family, and Alex, a Soviet defector’s son brought up in Toronto. When Alex begins to tutor a charming yet troubled upper-class English undergraduate, the dynamics in their conflicted three-way friendship culminate in Kevin and Leon playing a prank on Alex. The act’s disastrous outcome binds the three young men together emotionally even as it dispatches them on separate courses through the 1990s. Ranging from a precisely and ironically evoked Oxford, which parodies that of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, to post-Referendum Montreal, war-ravaged former Yugoslavia, London, Moscow, Poland and Berlin, The World of After depicts the 1990s as an interlude of freedom and confused but enriching self-discovery between the rigidity of the Cold War and the stark divisions of the post-September 11, 2001 world. Kevin struggles to find love, recover a friendship he has betrayed and chart a world he no longer understands as Leon dodges his past and Alex descends into a criminal culture that leads to a confrontation with his own values.
During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga, the one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert; the sure-to-please-everyone multigenerational TV miniseries about diviners, those miracle workers who bring water to perpetually thirsty (and hungry and love-starved) humankind. Among the wannabes: Vanessa Meandro, hot-tempered head of Means of Production, an indie film company; her harried and varied staff; a Sikh cab driver, promoted to the office of -theory and practice of TV; a bipolar bicycle messenger, who makes a fateful mis-delivery; two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls; a thriller writer who gives Botox parties; the daughter of an L.A. big-shot, who is hired to fetch Vanessa's Krispy Kremes and more; a word man who coined the phrase -- inspired by a true story; and a supreme court justice who wants to write the script.A few true artists surface in the course of Moody's rollicking but intricately woven novel, and real emotion eventually blossoms for most of Vanessa's staff at Means of Production, even herself. The Diviners is a cautionary tale about pointless ambition; a richly detailed look at the interlocking worlds of money, politics, addiction, sex, work, and family in modern America; and a masterpiece of comedy that will bring Rick Moody to a still higher level of appreciation.
Contents: Integrated Water Resources Development in Andhra Pradesh and Problems Faced in Jalayagnam , Blue Revolution for Conservation and Optimal Use of Water, Integrated Irrigation Development: Andhra Pradesh, Future of Irrigation Policy in A.P., Irrigation Policy Need for Holistic Approach, Role of Groundwater Markets in Addressing Efficiency and Equity in Irrigation, Irrigation Reforms Qualitative Change in Irrigation Management, Transferring Irrigation Management Responsibility in Andhra Pradesh: Performance of the Water Users Associations, Growth and Development of Irrigation: An Overview, Irrigation of Rayalaseema Bigger Thy Neighbour Policy in Andhra Pradesh, Regional Disparities in Tank Irrigation: A Micro Analysis of Rayalaseema Districts in Andhra Pradesh, Groundwater Market Dynamics in the Villages of Andhra Pradesh, Tank Irrigation Management at the Peril: Emerging Issues and Challenges, Strategies for Participatory Irrigation Management, Irrigation Development and Agriculture Growth in Andhra Pradesh.
An illuminating portrait of an unconventional marriage by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Robert Hough. When Rose Camilleri and Scotty Larkin meet, neither expects to spend a lifetime together, navigating a sometimes turbulent marriage and scraping through the process of raising a family. When he first enters the bakery where she works, she is a new arrival from the tiny island nation of Malta, fond of rabbit stew and Hollywood cinema. He is a thoughtful printer’s assistant recently released from juvenile detention after stealing and swiftly totalling a stranger’s car. Even after years of marriage and two children together, Rose struggles to shake the idea that perhaps she should have held out for someone as voluble and optimistic as herself. But while some marriages are weakened by trauma, Rose and Scotty's union is strengthened by the act of survival, and they find their own kind of happiness along the way. In The Marriage of Rose Camilleri, Robert Hough writes his larger-than-life characters with warmth, insight and humour, displaying the masterful approach to storytelling that gained his previous novels acclaim and several prestigious award nominations. Hough transports the reader into the epicentre of an unconventional love story, where he draws out captivating details from the fabric of an ordinary shared lifetime to create a story that lives in the moment and takes seriously the small but vital details of everyday life.
A radiant, unforgettable memoir of one woman’s 450 days spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away. When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop a deep friendship over their shared passions: travel, living off the land, a bohemian life. In search of wanderlust, they embark on an epic road trip from Italy to Togo, where they will join their friend’s sustainable farming project. Upon arriving on the African continent, they change their itinerary and drive through Africa’s Sahel region, a haven for militant groups, where they are surrounded and captured. Little was known about Edith’s and Luca’s fate until they reappeared in Mali more than one year later, having mysteriously escaped their captors. Now, Edith shares her harrowing story with the world for the first time—complete with the poems that became a lifeline for her in captivity, which she wrote in secret with a pen borrowed from another hostage. Against the stunning but cruel backdrop of the desert, Edith recounts her months as a hostage: the oppressive heat, violent sandstorms, constant relocations, hunger strikes, and her eventual heart-pounding escape. Separated from Luca early on, she finds solidarity and comfort with a group of other female hostages, who lend her a pen to write poetry, a creative outlet that helps save her life. Edith is steadfast in her will to remain sane: she reveals her dedication to her art, and her striking ability to unsettle her captors and identify their vulnerabilities. A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sand is ultimately a life-affirming book and a poetic celebration of one woman’s resilience.
MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS AT NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY INTERFACES This book covers a wide range of topics including synthesis of nanomaterials with specific size, shape, and properties, structure-function relationships, tailoring the surface of nanomaterials for improving the properties, interaction of nanomaterials with proteins/microorganism/eukaryotic cells, and applications in different sectors. This book also provides a strong foundation for researchers who are interested to venture into developing functionalized nanomaterials for any biological applications in their research. Practical concepts such as modelling nanomaterials, and simulating the molecular interactions with biomolecules, transcriptomic or genomic approaches, advanced imaging techniques to investigate the functionalization of nanomaterials/interaction of nanomaterials with biomolecules and microorganisms are some of the chapters that offer significant benefits to the researchers.
