01414nam a22002297a 4500 20260727143200.0 260727b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789332518216 VC Office Books 658.40 BAL Balakrishnan, Nagraj. Managerial decision modeling with spreadsheets. / Nagraj Balakrishnan. New Delhi : Pearson , 2014. 582 p. : 24cm. 00 Just looking at the first line, the setting is a place that’s threatening to tip over into the unnatural. The uncanny atmosphere is eerily present, like something terrible you can’t look away from, and in fact, want to read more of. Here’s how the description achieves this: The juxtaposition of a tourist-like welcome and the death imagery that follows Very physical descriptions of “unearthed bones” and “a city thrumming” Things are given agency that shouldn’t have agency: the city, dead children Intentions and desires are disconnected from people like bodies without a soul With carefully chosen language and imagery, the blurb transports us to a Buenos Aires that’s teeming with the dead. It’s what ties the short stories together. Managerial decision Management Science. Decision Making-Mathematical Methods. Nagra Balakrishnan. VC OFFICE 70533 70533 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-07-27 books received from VC Office 0 658.40 BAL VC384 2026-07-27 14:32:15 2026-07-27 VC OFFICE