About the Book:- This book is written for students pursuing undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering or post graduate studies in Chemistry, for understanding the basics of Polymer Chemistry. It is written with a progressive logic, which means that terms and concepts are defined when they are first introduced. One implication of this is that it is sensible for the students to start at the beginning and to work their way through the text and the questions. Contents :- Preface, Basic Terms and Definitions, 1. Introduction, 2. Chain Growth Polymerization, 3. Step Growth Polymerization, 4. Copolymerization 5. Polymer Properties, 6. Polymer Characterization, 7. Polymerization Practices, 8. Polymer Processing, 9. Commercially Important Polymers, Questions, Index. About the Authors:- Prof. V.K.Ahluwalia is visiting professor at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi. He has been teaching graduate and postgraduate classes for over thirty years and has delivered a number of invited lectures in India and abroad. He has published a large number of papers and is author of a number of books like, Organic Reaction Mechanism, Green Chemistry and Chemistry of Natural Products, etc. Anuradha Mishra received her Ph.D. from the department of plastic technology, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, CSJM University (Kanpur University) and has been teaching Chemistry and Polymer Engineering for the last 10 years at University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), CSJM University. Before joining UIET, she has taught chemistry at UG and PG level at DG post graduate college, Kanpur and at Government PG College, Hamirpur. Dr. Mishras research interests have focused on synthesis of polymeric hydrogels and on using new free radical initiators for polymerization reactions. She has published about 50 research papers in various reputed international polymer journals. She is a recipient of UGC Research Award (National fellowship for university teachers) 2004. She is presently working as visiting scientist (commonwealth fellow 2006-07) at Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, Clean Technology Centre, Dept. of Chemistry, University of York.

About the Book It is perhaps, the first ever motivational book based on scientific facts, principles and theories. In every chapter, part A explains certain Scientific facts or principles and part B attempts to explore what man can learn from those facts and principles in order to live his life to the full. The book contains 24 chapters including an introductory chapter on the differences between science and life. Salient features • Some examples of what Part B tries to establish on the basis of scientific facts and principles: how a person behaves depends on what he has received from the childhood; discipline is necessary to realise the full potentials of a person; stress is a gift of nature and hence do not try to eliminate it, but learn to cope with it; a tragedy can open new opportunities; man can eliminate the possibility of failure only if he can eliminate the possibility of success; talents will die unless they are actualized; there is no life without risks; evil cannot be eliminated as it does not exist; do not allow anyone to remote control your life; no one can hurt your sentiments except yourself; truth is relative.... • It promotes scientific spirit and rational thinking. It inspires, provokes and challenges. • The content of the book is very appealing, as it contains numerous meaningful stories and realistic anecdotes, and convincing to reason, as it is based on scientific facts and principles. Contents 1. Receiving Precedes Giving 2. Rules and Discipline are Necessary 3. Cooperation: The Secret to Success 4. Talents Die Unless Actualised 5. Stress: A Nature-Given Source of Energy 6. You Get What You Give 7. You Need Others to Know Yourself 8. Life: A Paradox of Good and Not-So-Good 9. Stop Blaming Others-Take Responsibility for Yourself 10. Our Perceptions are Distorted by the Mind 11. You cannot Jump over Yourself 12. Life if Like a Pendulum 13. Conflict is a Necessary Evil 14. Better Let Go than Burst 15. Accept What You Cannot Change 16. Every Individual has a Unique Rote 17. Nurture the Nature 18. What Gives Magnetism to Life? 19. Giving Versus Igniting 20. Is Truth Relative? 21. Life Begins with Risk 22. Diversity is a Pre-requisite for Unity 23. The Other Side of Tragedy is Opportunity About the Author K.D.Thomas, who has been a science teacher in St. Xaviers Senior Secondary School, Raj Niwas Marg, Delhi from where he retired, has 33 years of teaching experience. He has a Bachelors degree in Physics (as main) with Chemistry and Mathematics as subsidiaries and a Masters degree in Political Science. He has a strong foundation in the disciplines of Philosophy, Psychology and Religion as he has been a Jesuit-under formation for 12 years and has a Bachelors degree in Philosophy. As a teacher he has served as a House Moderator and as a moderator of Science Club and Quiz Club.

About the Book The book Trends in Bibliometrics and Scientometrics Studies is a compilation of 30 articles contributed by experts from China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Russia and many other countries. The book provides the trends in bibliometrics and scientometrics in context to science of science, communication in science, and science policy. It provides studies from interdisciplinary research fields to extend to almost all scientific fields. The compilations use the published works of scientists to answer the questions of policy makers, stakeholders, scientists themselves, and social scientists taking research and science as a research object. The book is a unique anthology which allows both the scholar and the general reader to experience firsthand development of scientific literature and analysis. Contents 1. The Virtues (or otherwise) of Immigrant Scientists 2. Worldwide Research Productivity in the Field of Bibliometrics (2014-2015) 3. Productivity in Science, and Team Diversity: An Exploratory Study 4. How Visible Are We Really? A Sociotechnical Exploration into the Sustainability of Digital Scholarship Collections 5. Education in Informetrics: An Overview for Germany and An Approach in an Information Retrieval Context 6. Reviewers Recommendation Using Bibliometric Networks 7. The Research Group as a Unit of Aggregation: Does much “International” Collaboration Take Place in the Same Nation? 8. Trends in Russian Domestic Scientific Collaboration by Web of Science, 2006-2013 9. A Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Researchers’ Gender from their Scientific Activities Patterns 10. Order and Symmetry in Regular Shapes of Co-author Patterns Mirrored in “Google Scholar Citations” 11. Detecting the Key Nodes in Citation Network using the Weighted Degree Centrality Measure: The Case of Astronomy Field 12. Women Researchers from Spanish Institutions in Q1 Journals of Library and Information Science: A Bibliometric Approach (2013-2015) 13. Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Google Scholar in Authors’ Information Retrieval 14. Reviewing the Status of the Evaluation of Science and Technology in Iran 15. The Relationship between iMetrics Researchers’ Productivity and Performance with Centrality Measures 16. The Proportion of Iranian University Publishing in Technology Establishment at New Emerging Topics in Comparison with Top Countries of Middle East in Terms of Scientific Productions 17. A Scientometric Analysis on Documents Associated with Iran on AGRIS 18. Presence of Iranian Scholars in COLLNETs (2003-2015) 19. Contributions in the Field of Management Science and Operations (2010-2015): A Scientometric Study 20. Salient Aspects of Indo-French Water Network: Publication based Analysis 21. Global Energy Harvesting Research Output During 2001-2014: A Scientometric Study Based on Web of Science Database 22. A Scientometric Study of Research Output of Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India 23. Global Yoga Literature: A Scientometric Study 24. Using Social Media by Users in Iran Public Libraries 25. A Scientometrics Analysis on the Data Processing: Artificial Intelligence Patent Issued by USPTO 26. Mapping and Analyzing of Inter-institutional Collaborations in Innovative and Scientific Publications of Islamic Republic of Iran: According to Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations 27. Aligarh Muslim University @ iETD Shodhganga: A Case Study 28. A Study on Co-authorship Networks in Iranian Nano Journals from 2005-2013 29. Changing Scholarly Trends and Impact of Collaboration on Indian Library and Information Science (LIS) Research: A Scientometric Mapping from 2006-2015 30. Scientometrics Analysis of Collaborative Patterns in Indian Journal of Fisheries About the Editors Dr. P.K.Jain is working as Librarian at Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), University of Delhi Enclave, India. He has published more than 30 research papers and presented at national and international conferences in India, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, France, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Oman, Sri Lanka and Philippines. He is the editor of seven books. He has received several awards including- SLA Fellow 2015. He has organized many seminars, national and international conferences. Prof. Jean-Charles Lamirel, SYNALP team, LORIA, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France Prof. Lamirel is a lecturer since 1997. He got his PhD in 1995 and his Research Accreditation in 2010. He is currently teaching Information Science and Computer Science at the University of Strasbourg. His research work and direction led to the successful presentation of more than 10 different Ph.Ds. thesis, more than 20 invited conferences and more than 150 publications in international conferences and journals. Dr. Parveen Babbar is presently Deputy Librarian at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has written about 50 papers which have been published in National and International Journals and presented in National and International Conferences. He is editor of 4 books, published as proceedings of International Conferences. He has received many awards and scholarships and IFLA grant. He is associated with several professional associations in various capacities in India and abroad including SLA, USA; SLP, India; SIS, India.