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The Peoples Republic of China celebrated its 60th anniversary on 1 October 2009. December 2008 marked 30 years since the Chinese Communist Partys decision to launch market reforms. The breathtakingly rapid economic growth witnessed after 1978 has attracted worldwide attention. But the condition of more...

Ecology, Economy is an elaborate argument to establish society as central in policy-making for holistic development. The book presents cases of the adverse effects of resource utilisation—water, metals, power, land—on Adivasi communities in particular. It presents an overview of the paradoxes inherent...

Drawn from the  rich archival holdings of the Economic and Political Weekly, the essays in this volume capture the intense discussions in India that were debated as problems and questions over the environment, technology and development. As a collection, this volume proposes a fresh and new analytical...

Understanding Biodiversity comes as a wake-up call at a time when the predatory practices of our 'modern' civilization have transformed nature into an exploitable resource, opened up our plant and animal life to endless expropriation and eroded the biodiversity that has made our life on earth possible....

If staying healthy, staying trim, getting your body to work at its optimum has never been optional, then this is the book for you. The Live Well Diet book will change your concept of weight loss and dieting. The Live Well diet is a lifestyle and a remedy for better living.

Geotechnical Engineering combines in a single book, the theoretical aspects (Soil Mechanics) as well as the applications (Foundation Engineering). The author, with his long experience of undergraduate teaching, felt the need for a comprehensive textbook on Geotechnical Engineering that would efficiently...

Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do...

"""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...

Dr Kalam calls for an Indian Renaissance, which he describes in seven steps involving the common people of the land, and in particular, the youth. He urges people to arise out of servitude to a vested ruling class, awake from the slumber of a passive democracy, and advance to manifest our destiny of...

In 2011, the screenwriter, lyricist and journalist Neelesh Misra started mentoring a handpicked group of writers called the Mandali. These were men and women of all ages, backgrounds and dispositions. The Mandali soon started writing radio stories in Hindi, for Misra's show Yaadon Ka Idiotbox-short,...

‘Perhaps because we called our mother Diddi, elder sister, our relationship with her was always somewhat ambivalent. More than a mother she was for us a difficult sibling, an eccentric, much older sister who belonged to a different generation.’ Attempting to unravel the enigma that was her mother,...

This collection of O. Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the uniqueness and sheer variety of one of the best and widely popular short story writers that America has produced. Though O. Henry was frequently thought of as a 'funny' writer, he did address the darker side of life in some of his...

This collection of O. Henry’s finest stories is a showcase for the uniqueness and sheer variety of one of America’s best and widely popular short story writers. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim or ironic and often had surprise endings, a device...

This book outlines the variety of cuisines, food materials and dishes that collectively form Indian Food. It draws upon a range of sourcesliterature, archeology, epigraphic records, anthropology, philology, botanical and genetical studiesto trace the history of Indian food: classification, customs,...