Books by S. Chandrasekhar

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A history of the world birth control movement and how it helped the women's movement. It includes the writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on reproductive physiology and birth control, an account of the Bradlaugh-Besant trial, and two of Besant's pamphlets on birth control.

Deals with the problem of international tensions arising from demographic and fertility differences, with special reference to such thickly populated Asian countries as China, Japan and India.

A systematic treatment of the physics of thermotropic liquid crystals, describing their structure, thermodynamical, optical and mechanical properties, behaviour under external fields, as well as the principles underlying their applications in display technology and thermography.