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Science Alive 5
Practical Experiments for Grade 5
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Science Alive (1-5) is a completely new 5-year course specially designed to make the teaching and learning of science a meaningful and truly 'aliVe' experience. The series is planned around the philosophy that science can be learnt only if the child acquires a scientific temperament — there must...
Journeys and Dwellings
Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This collection of essays makes a significant and innovative contribution to the emerging field of Indian Ocean Studies. New perspectives come into view that highlight movement and exchange across borders, travelling actors, cultures and faiths as well as processes of cultural re-localisation, mixture...
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market
The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and Unani Industry, 19802000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market explores the paradox at the heart of the ayurvedic and unani medicine manufacturing industry—to present itself as modern and traditional, common and professional at the same time. On the one hand, the natural, wholesome and authentic nature of these medicines...
by R S Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological...
by Felix Padel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Sacrificing People is a provocative anthropological study of the structures of power and authority which the British rule imposed on a tribal people of Central India, the Konds. The Konds practised human sacrifice and in the pretext of rooting out this ‘barbaric’ ritual, the British waged wars of...
From Western Medicine to Global Medicine
The Hospital Beyond the West (1 Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The hospital has for many years been the symbol of modern, scientific medicine. Indeed, it was in the hospital that modern Western medicine was born. But until recently we had little idea of how or why these iconic medical institutions developed outside the Western World. From Western Medicine to Global...
French Studies in History
Vol. II-The Departures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early years of this century saw a rapid renewal in the subject as well as the methodology of history. This process was both influenced an reoriented by a rich, but often difficult dialogue with the other social sciences. It was thus that the territory of the historian was extended to cover areas...
Modern Cookery
For Teaching and the Trade Volume 1 (Sixth Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Going into their sixth edition, Thangam Philip’s Modern Cookery Volumes I and II are one of India’s most prestigious and encyclopaedic books on cookery and have proved to be an invaluable reference and guide to both students of catering and to professionals in the food and catering industry in India....
by Balmurli Natrajan, Paul Greenough
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historical barriers still inhibit comparative frameworks to map and challenge two of the most odious forms of discrimination―racism and casteism. Both justify themselves on a principle of biological descent; they enable stigma as if it were a natural fact, refusing to see it as deleterious social...
by Shanta Rameshwar Rao
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is a collection of charmingly told tales involving animals. The themes are universal—the triumph of the seemingly weak over the mighty, the possibility of magic in daily life, etc. The language is simple but strongly evocative of both the physical and the emotional.
Higher Education in India
In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these...
by Benjamin J Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Bene Israel are a small community of Jews that have lived for many centuries on the west coast of India, just south of Bombay, in complete isolation from their co-religionists elsewhere. The studies in this volume range over the history, religious evolution, some social and demographic aspects of...
Modern Cookery
For Teaching and the Trade Volume 2 (Sixth Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Going into their sixth edition, Thangam Philip’s Modern Cookery Volumes I and II are one of India’s most prestigious and encyclopaedic books on cookery and have proved to be an invaluable reference and guide to both students of catering and to professionals in the food and catering industry in India....
by Krishna-dās-Kavirāj, Jadunath Sarkar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Man of God, Sri Chaitanya, said towards the beginning of the sixteenth century: ‘As an immoral woman constantly thinks of her illicit lover while living in the midst of her family, so do thou silently and ceaselessly meditate on Hari while doing your earthly work.’Within the next two hundred...