Orient Blackswan Private Limited: 195 books

Channel 1-9, a set of nine books for Classes 1-9, closely follow the English syllabus for schools, and are concerned with language practice workgrammar, composition and vocabulary.Some of the chief recommendations in the new syllabus are providing plenty of scope for practice, and relating the exercises...

"""Channel 1-9, a set of nine books for Classes 1-9, closely follow the English syllabus for schools, and are concerned with language practice workgrammar, composition and vocabulary.Some of the chief recommendations in the new syllabus are providing plenty of scope for practice, and relating the exercises...

Open Sesame is a series of activity-based environmental studies books. Book 2 is for Class/ Grade 2. The books integrate science, social studies, handicrafts and language teaching in a number of popular primary school topics such as living and non-living things, people, animals, homes and transport.

This is a series of eight story books for 38-year-olds. The stories are set in modern India and the situations will be familiar to most children growing up today. Each story focuses on one or more children who live in Ajanta Apartments. These stories also raise some serious issues such as jealousy, loneliness,...

This book is divided into three major sections—The Art of Writing, Comprehension, and Language Exercises. The exercises provided give a firm grasp of modern English as it is written and used today.

Medical Parasitology is a branch of Microbiology which deals with parasites and their relationships with their hosts. This edition is a detailed study and includes a discussion of the diseases caused by parasites and their treatment. New in this edition: Six pages of colour photographs have been included....

Medical Pluralism in Contemporary India questions the dominant view of indigenous systems of medicine as cultural remnants of a traditional past. It points out that their practitioners greatly outnumber those of biomedicine (allopathy) and explores the reasons behind the enduring presence and importance...

The Primal Land is the story of the Bonda tribe inhabiting a mountainous portion of Orissa. The novel includes faint glimmers of political awakening among the semi-literate Bondas about their exploitation, even though the only incorruptible outsider who works for the betterment of the Bondas, a women schoolteacher, is suspended, there is hope for the Bondas yet.

In 1966 New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, “hero” of Everest, built a small hospital for the celebrated Sherpas of Himalayan mountaineering. Throughout much of the world foreign aid and health care became deeply entwined during the second half of the twentieth century. Despite all the money that was...

The People’s Linguistics Survey of India tries to give an idea of the extant and dying languages of India. It is the outcome of a nationwide survey of languages that has been documented by linguists, writers, social activists, and members of different speech communities.This volume attempts to bring...

Open Sesame contains activities, games, stories, experiments and graph work which make learning practical and enjoyable.  Books 3, 4 and 5 cover the science syllabus for classes (grades) 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

As a crucial component of the global smallpox eradication programme, which has been widely hailed as one of the greatest public health successes in the twentieth century, the Indian experience has some important stories to tell. Expunging Variola reveals these as it chronicles the last three decades...

Open Sesame contains activities, games, stories, experiments and graph work which make learning practical and enjoyable.  Books 3, 4 and 5 cover the science syllabus for classes (grades) 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

Was Western medicine a positive benefit of colonialism or one of its agents of oppression? This question has prompted a vigorous historical and political debate and is explored here in the context of the 'model' British colony of Ceylon. In this study, Margaret Jones emphasises the need for both a...