Nagendra Kumar

In this textbook, 'dark comedy' is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie, and mischievous insight that exposes the carbonised scaffolding of late-capitalist life. Rather than sneering at catastrophe, the chapters anatomise the mechanics--defamiliarising punch line, carnival inversion, affective whiplash--by which humour slips past guard-dogs and rouses an anaesthetised public. The horizon against which this inquiry unfolds is the Capitalocene: a name that indicts capitalism, not "Man," as the principal geological agent of ruin. Moving from Aristophanes to Atwood, from street theatre to streaming satire, each text shows laughter doing intellectual lifting. In one moment it fractures complacent common sense; in the next it stitches together circuits of feeling in which eco-grief can transmute into civic resolve. Juxtaposed with the authority of tragic form, dark comedy proves the more permeable solvent: it dissolves cultural defences, lets paradox breathe, and leaves readers wondering how ecosystems became punch-lines. Methodologically the book is multidisciplinary. Literary tangles with environmental philosophy; humour theory quarrels with eco-Marxism; cultural studies supplies the ethnographic grit that keeps abstraction honest. By braiding those strands the argument departs from standard ecocritical curricula, insisting that jokes are not side-shows but catalytic sites where ethics, affect, and political economy collide. Designed for advanced undergraduates yet hospitable to researchers, the volume refuses the consolations of easy optimism even as it gestures toward actionable hope. Its wager is simple: teach readers to hear the subversive crackle inside dark laughter and they may also learn to re-script the damaged world that provokes it.

This book extensively elaborates the analysis of average symbol error rate (ASER) for general order cross QAM modulation schemes in closed form with the help of cumulative distribution function (CDF) based strategy. ASER of dual-hop amplify-and-forward relaying network has been analyzed for independent and non-identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channel under imperfect channel state information (CSI). The moment generating function (MGF) based approach has been used to investigate the non-coherent modulation technique. To verify the empirical and mathematical result we have taken the help of the Monte-Carlo simulation technique in our analysis.

Commercial entomology is a specialized field that falls under the broader study of entomology. Despite the longstanding knowledge of insects and their products, there is a scarcity of literature on commercial entomology. The authors of the books chapters have extensive expertise in the biology and management of insects, particularly in their respective areas of focus. Their insights are therefore invaluable for the growth and development of commercial entomology in India. The books chapters emphasize the study of Apis spp., silk worms, lac insects, and other important insects. The books first chapter, authored by Dr. Suday Prasad, covers the management of honey bees. Dr. Hari Chand and Mr. Beer Bahadur Singhs second and third chapters provide information on bee product production technology and bee pests, respectively. These chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the various bee hive products, their processing and uses, and their composition, all of which are aimed at promoting beekeeping development. The book also includes chapters on sericulture, lac culture, biological control, insect pests of medical importance, and insect pests of cattle and poultry, among other topics.