Ritu Sharma

An empowering anthology featuring 33 women from 5 continents sharing their phenomenal stories of transformation. The stories within this book illustrate how the women became broken and in their journey of repair, they have found golden threads that have made them whole again. As they transform, they are even more beautiful and have learned to know their value, just like the increased beauty and value of the Kintsugi bowls. Featuring: Ritu Sharma, Illa Khagram, Tiffany Henkel, Andrea Malam, Hafiza Khatun, Jenni Harris, Azmina Jiwa, Donna Joseph, Mirabel Ngong, Maureen A Lewis, Nina N, Sangeeta Patel, Ruth Cyster-Stuettgen, Samantha Pearce, Poonam Karwal, Sonal Dave, Jaswinder Challi, Yvette Pearce, Sophie Kemoko, Suman Manghra, Saboohi Gill, Bal Heer, Jemma Rosenthal, Susanne Virtanen, Maxine Palmer-Hunter, Diksha Chakravarti, Delcie Hopley, Rajee S, Shazia Nawaz, Raj Rana, Sandhya, Jayasri Banala and Monika Bammi.

This book presents device design, layout design, FEM analysis, device fabrication, and packaging and testing of MEMS-based piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters. It serves as a complete guide from design, FEM, and fabrication to characterization. Each chapter of this volume illustrates key insight technologies through images. The book showcases different technologies for energy harvesting and the importance of energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks. The design, simulation, and comparison of three types of structures – single beam cantilever structure, cantilever array structure, and guided beam structure have also been reported in one of the chapters. In this volume, an elaborate characterization of two-beam and four-beam fabricated devices has been carried out. This characterization includes structural, material, morphological, topological, dynamic, and electrical characterization of the device. The volume is very concise, easy to understand, and contains colored images to understand the details of each process.

Khushwant Singh is generally known for his achievements in journalism but his success in writing novel is proved by this novel Train to Pakistan. Khushwant Singh can be described as the man about town with a merry heart and a comic view of life, if he was ever upset by any tragic event; it was the mass killing that preceded the partition of the continent. This is well reflected in his outstanding work Train to Pakistan, which is rightly regarded as an epic of modern India. This novel is a study of anatomy of communal riots. This is a hallmark of Khushwant Singh's style that he shows exactly what happens in communal riots and how it affects people both physically and mentally. This novel attracts the interest of every kind of reader. It contains love scenes, sensual scenes, horror scenes, pathetic scenes, comic scenes, violence scenes and all these scenes together make a landmark in the history of Indian writing in English. Khushwant Singh wrote this novel from the very core of his heart. He was very much disturbed from the physical and mental violence at the time of partition. Even after so many years, this novel has same craze among its readers as it had at the very beginning.