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Global Change, Ecosystems, Sustainability
Theory, Methods, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
It is impossible to ignore the connection between economic development and ecological sustainability— overwhelming scientific evidence points to anthropogenic pressures slowly destroying life on Earth. The need for corrective action is, therefore, critical.
This edited compilation studies...
by Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Research and research methods are extremely important tools in academic scholarship. At the core of every research method lies the hypothesis. Theory Building for Hypothesis Specification in Organizational Studies focuses on developing a cogent theory that leads to the specification of a hypothesis...
by Li Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This book is an important investigation of the roles that a university plays in sustainable rural development. In doing so, the book takes an interesting approach and engages in a comparative study of two universities, located in China and Australia. The book examines that in spite of being in different...
SAS2
A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
SAS2: A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement represents a groundbreaking international effort to support the creation and mobilization of practical, authentic knowledge for social change. The guiding principle behind SAS2 (Social Analysis Systems, www.sas2.net) is that group dialogue...
Valued Daughters
First-Generation Career Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
**This book studies the transition of agency and self-identity in young women aspiring for a career.
Valued Daughters** traces the spread of ambition for lifetime careers among young women in urban India, who are effecting many changes by stepping out of their traditional roles to pursue...
Journalism through RTI
Information Investigation Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
How RTI changed the face of investigative journalism in India, forever…
The RTI Act has helped investigative journalism in getting information that otherwise would have been almost impossible to unearth despite legal provisions. Using the storyline approach, the author, through his own experiences,...
by Sanjay Kumar, Praveen Rai
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Measuring Voting Behaviour in India captures the dynamics of multiple methodologies used for measuring voting behavior in India in the past and present.
The authors elaborate on various methods that are used for measuring voters' opinions, attitudes, and perceptions. They discuss the advantages...
by N Bhaskara Rao
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Despite seven decades of planned development efforts, there remains disparity in distribution of wealth in India. More than half of the national wealth is owned by merely 1 per cent of the population. In 2050, the Indian Republic completes 100 years. A hundred years should be good enough for a country...
India's Long-Term Growth Experience
Lessons and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2007
India's rapid growth since 1980 is transforming it into a modern economic power. Measured in nominal US dollars, India's economy has risen from a low rank of 50 in 1979 to 12th position in 2003. In income-to-purchasing power parity, India ranked fourth in the world in 2003, behind only the United...
Tracing an Indian Diaspora
Contexts, Memories, Representations
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The Indian diaspora, comprising over 20 million people spread across a hundred countries, continues to grow in size and make its presence felt. This collection traces various forms of plurality within the diaspora: geographical dispersion, historical contexts, temporal frames, authorial positions...
Terrorism
Patterns of Internationalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalization provides a systematic analysis of the concepts of internationalization of terrorism. It looks into the stages and processes through which terrorism has developed in various parts of the world and binds together the facts to present a comprehensive picture...
Globalization on the Ground
New Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Unlike élite middle-class Indians, ordinary Indian men are selective in their acceptance of new meanings introduced by cultural globalization. In Globalization on the Ground: Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India, Steve Derné argues that the effects of globalization...
Drama for Development
Cultural Translation and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
How do drama serials communicate development goals and achieve dramatic impact? What is involved in translating storylines, such as those from the BBC’s longest running radio soap opera, The Archers, for diverse local cultural contexts? Can drama serials bring about positive social change? This...
Whispers of War
An Afghan Freedom Fighter’s Account of the Soviet Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
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Whispers of War: An Afghan Freedom Fighter’s Account of the Soviet Invasion is the real-life tale of a young political leader, Masood Khalili. Son of Ustad Khalilullah Khalili, the great Afghan poet, he motivated his people and led them in their fight...