Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
by Marmar Mukhopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
This is a completely revised version of a very successful text first published in 2001. It incorporates the author`s rich experience (at both the micro and macro levels) in the actual implementation of TQM in various educational institutions. He has deftly adapted the TQM philosophy and methodology—which...
The United States and India: A History Through Archives
The Later Years: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Declassified documents arguably offer a premier vantage for understanding global governance, current security concerns, and the international market. While the first volume dealt with India—US bilateral relations during the 'Formative Years', this two-part volume focuses on the 'Later Years': the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
This collection brings fresh perspectives to the current policy and programming initiatives concerning women teachers in South Asia. It discusses issues related to the lives and experiences of women teachers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh, providing a common framework...
The Image Trap
M.G. Ramachandran in Film and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
The Image Trap analyses the phenomenon of M.G. Ramachandran (MGR), the legendary film star-cum-politician of Tamil Nadu, as a modern-day political myth.
This book offers fascinating details about the extent to which MGR was successful in creating a stereotypical cinematic persona, and what...
Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka
Tales from Darker Places in Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
An ethnographic study on internal travel analysed through the perspectives of Sinhala tourists going from the South to the war-ravaged North.
Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka explores travellers’ narratives that reflect the experiences and interactions of those going to northern Sri Lanka, and...
Claiming India
French Scholars and the Preoccupation with India in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Most of us grew up with the knowledge that India had been a British colony—the jewel in the crown of the Raj. Even those with slightly deeper knowledge who knew that France had once been a contender for the Indian empire consider it a romantic interlude between the Mughals and their self-proclaimed...
Adult Health and Human Capital
Impact of Birth Weight and Childhood Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Today when the world is looking towards India as a human resource capital, the quality of such resource becomes a global concern. This book studies the relation between aberrant growth, adult diseases, and human capital, and recommends growth monitoring as a tool for human capital development. The...
Living the Body
Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This book explores the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women’s lives in contemporary, urban India. Through a critical analysis of gender and class, the author unravels the complexities that are intrinsic to the multi-layered and fluid construction of woman’s identity...
From Ecstasy to Agony and Back
Journeying with Adolescents on the Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
From Ecstasy to Agony and Back presents the journey of adolescent street drug-addicts-from psychological brokenness resulting from family disruption to the process of mending; from abuse, trauma and vulnerability to building up of self-esteem, talents and personality; and finally to the process of...
Learning Disabilities in India
Willing the Mind to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
This important volume, perhaps the first of its kind in India, brings together professionals from diverse fields who share their experiences of tackling the problem of Learning Disabilities (LD) in India. Highlighting the nuances and specificities of learning disabilities and disorders in the Indian...
In Custody
Law, Impunity and Prisoner Abuse in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
In Custody examines the professed and actual commitment to custodial justice on the part of six South Asian countries. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan have all been affected by the geopolitics of colonialism. Nineteenth century Europe is often simplistically seen as the...
Performance Management
Toward Organizational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Performance management when interpreted and used properly can create organizational excellence and enhance human capital value.
At the global level, organizations have wasted much time over-focusing on the unattainable (objectivity in appraisals) and ignoring the more critical (continuous improvements...
HRD Score Card 2500
Based on HRD Audit
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
HRD Score Card 2500: Based on HRD Audit ( HRD Audit was published by Response Books in 1999) presents for the first time a systematic and scientific way of measuring the maturity level of HRD, its systems and strategies, competencies, culture and values, and business impact through a score card.
Lucidly...
Communication for Behavior Change
Volume I: Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The book demonstrates how to create RADIO DRAMAS that encourage people to make positive behavioral changes to improve their lives.
It provides instructions, examples, and samples on the creation of serial or stand-alone radio dramas that will attract the attention of audiences.The book teaches...