Sage: 7203 books
by Norman Flynn, Dr. Alberto Asquer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The seventh edition of the bestselling Public Sector Management is a rich and insightful description, analysis and critique of the management of the public sector by the UK government.
NEW to the seventh edition:
Now set in an international context with comparative global examples throughout
Three...
by Jeannine Studer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Jeannine R. Studer’s The Essential School Counselor in a Changing Society offers a practical approach to helping students understand the methods and standards in contemporary school counseling. Integrating the new ASCA model as well as the CACREP Standards across all areas of school counseling practice,...
by Bernadette Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
"I found this text to be exactly what we were looking for to give our students a good understanding of the contemporary issues that affect the Events industry. I have recommended this as essential reading. It is well written and the format makes it an easy read raising key issues and challenging...
by Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Asian Americans are often stereotyped as the “model minority.” Their sizeable presence at elite universities and high household incomes have helped construct the narrative of Asian American “exceptionalism.” While many scholars and activists characterize this as a myth, pundits claim that...
Engendering Performance
Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This book is a comprehensive critical history of women artistes in Indian theatre and dance of the colonial and post-colonial periods. Its underlying premise is that one cannot evaluate such performances in the Indian context without looking at dance and theatre together, unlike the course taken by...
Gay Bombay
Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Through a multi-sited ethnography in an online-offline community, Parmesh Shahani examines how Internet technologies, the media industry, audiences and broader socio-historical contexts shape gay identity in contemporary urban India. He realizes that the identity of a gay man in the community is negotiated...
The Second Homeland
Polish Refugees in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The Second World War presents the backdrop for this riveting account of displacement, migration and resettlement. Once the Soviet forces marched into Poland, thousands of Polish citizens were deported to slave-labour camps in the USSR. As news of their inhuman condition and ordeal spread, Jam Saheb...
The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India
Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The "Punjab crisis," a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived...
by Peter Gonsalves
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Khadi: Gandhi`s Mega Symbol of Subversion investigates the power of a symbol to qualitatively transform society by studying Mahatma Gandhi’s use of clothing as a metaphor for unity, empowerment and liberation from imperial subjugation.
The book brings together historical evidence of Gandhi’s...
RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi
The Hindu Communal Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi undertakes the novel experiment of juxtaposing three apparently quite different issues, the nature of the RSS school textbooks, the murder of the Mahatma and the basic ideology of Savarkar and Golwalkar. While deeply delving into all three aspects,...
Assessing Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Preschool Children
Understanding Small Voices
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1998
Written to help frontline practitioners assess and manage cases with children aged 18 months to six years who present allegations of child abuse, this book provides concrete and easily understood information about basic child development, interview procedures, and case management theory. Extensive...
Sibling Abuse
Hidden Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 1997
Often excused by parents as `kids will be kids' behaviour, sibling abuse remains largely unrecognized. Symptoms of such abuse and its devastating effects on victims go undetected, victims do not receive appropriate therapeutic intervention, and transgressors do not come to the attention of the courts.
The...
The Southasian Sensibility
A Himal Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The Southasian Sensibility: A Himal Reader is a collection of representative, seminal articles published over the past 25 years in Himal Southasian, Southasia's first and foremost regional news and analysis magazine. The essays are fine examples of long-form journalism, a format that Himal has pioneered...
Interrogating My Chandal Life
An Autobiography of a Dalit
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Winner of The Hindu Prize 2018 (Non-fiction)
Shortlisted for the 3rd JIO MAMI Word to Screen Award 2018
If you insist that you do not know me, let me explain myself … you will feel, why, yes, I do know this person. I’ve seen this man.
With these words, Manoranjan Byapari points to...