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Soft cover. Zustand: New. The book motivates you never to give up. Though life may break you and shatter you to pieces, you always have the option to turn it around. The courage, the strength which you get by facing the challenges thrown by life at you makes you stronger and makes you "Unbreakable". Your self-confidence, strength and extra-ordinary determination have the power to change your life. This book provides you powerful insights on how to handle difficulties in life and face life head-on. You can take the help of the divine and become the best version of yourself. It is a book of powerful breakthroughs and life's learning which can be implemented directly in your personal and professional life when you just want to give up on yourself when things get tough. This book lets you know that you are tougher than your problems and no matter how many times life knocks you down you have the power to rise and shine brightly like the sun and show the world who you are. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This book provides a critical analysis of important essays written by leading theorists in the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies. These essays are an essential component of English Studies curriculum in most universities in India and abroad. The book includes detailed commentary on path-breaking writings by Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Walter Benjamin, Stephen Greenblatt, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Arjun Appadurai and others. It explains major ideas, trends and applications, bringing out the text s affiliation to politics, culture and society. While locating each text in its own time and place, the commentary also shows its relevance by citing examples from the contemporary world. It is written in a lucid style that will be easily understood by the specialist as well as the lay reader. The book will be immensely helpful to students, teachers, research scholars, and those interested in cultural studies.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The works of fiction and life narratives by Iranian diasporic writers have proved to be successful in creating a space in-between, blending Iranian and American cultures and commenting on both from a unique position and perspective. The growing literary production of the Iranian diaspora was a way to reflect on the changes in Iran and in the lives of those who left the country. The changed conditions in the life of women after the revolution of 1979 brought a new attitude in narratives written in the form of memoirs that offer insight into the history, memories and feelings of an individual. Memoirs written by Azar Nafisi, Azadeh Moaveni and Shirin Ebadi, though differ in terms of generation, class, diaspora , ethnicity and placement, depicts women experiences living in Iran during the years surrounding the 1979 Islamic Revolution. They have spoken clearly and strongly for their native Iran but their voice has resonated far beyond its borders.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Ruskin Bond is one of the favourite writers of contemporary Indian literary scenario. Reading Bond is like inhaling a lung full of fresh air, because it is steeped in the salubrious backdrop of the mighty and serene Himalayas. Another factor that makes him a distinguished writer is the qualities of innocence and sincerity that underlie his writings. Going through his books provide us with a panoramic view of India's small town localities. That is why this book is titled 'Vistas.' More than these places, it is the people of these small towns that capture Bond's eyes; their aspirations, troubles and their achievements like the rustics of Wordsworth. Bond is able to discern something extraordinary in their ordinary day-to-day life. The present book is an attempt to critically study his early books. The choice of his early books is because, this writer wants to present here that, initially, Bond's journey towards becoming a writer was not an easy one. But today, he is a celebrated writer and much sought after writer by millions of his reading public, students and academicians. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. It is hoped that this booklet will provide the workable keys for identification of families of dicot plants of Nagpur district and satisfy the needs of botany students of graduate, post-graduate, M. Phil. and Ph. D. and also other research students who depend on the subject including horticulturists, foresters, pharmacist, plant/nature lovers and others.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This book aims to raise awareness among youth of the ills that exist in society, which have been elaborately laid down into Sustainable Development Goals. This book further profoundly explores how the young generation of today who have a keen interest in Space contribute to sustainable development simply through Space4SDGs. Through remote sensing and satellite communication technology, Space contributes significantly to sustainable development. Remote sensing deals with analysing earth data as observed from satellite platforms. This is something Gen-Z possesses a real zeal for, i.e. Space. Sustainable development goals have targets and indicators. The targets are the overall vision in a particular SDG, and indicators specify the benchmark for when a particular target is said to be accomplished. SDGs can directly contribute to the targets like equity in education, and satellite internet can bridge a huge gap. This is an example of a contribution to a target by Space. Similarly, a target of SDG 1 seeks to build the resilience of the poor in natural disasters. Remote sensing by providing critical analysis can predict disasters or elaborate the severity and spread of a particular disaster. In addition, remote sensing can specifically aid in checking sustainable development progress through the indicators. This book outlines the various ways in which space technology contributes and can contribute to sustainable development. This book also contains two case studies at the end to give an in-depth analysis.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 'Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing' exhorts --Benjamin Franklin. Following this precept ,I decided to experiment with the first 'Write something'. This book somersaults from the essential item like Coriander in the kitchen to the hilarious idea of demanding Legal siestas at workplaces, from dwelling on universal thirst for praise to presenting sarcastic life skills for survival in this manipulating world. This book is a fun voyage from idealism to sarcasm, from irony to didacticism, from narrative bliss to philosophical cliffs, from utter confusion to matters of delusion, from phobia to euphoria with some chronological stoppages like Corona fantasies. This journey goes on with the fuel of humor and the engine is powered by the fervent appeals to re -contour the universal traits like love, adjustment, honesty, anger to keep the humanism in humans alive.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This book is a critical application of theory to recent literary, social, and cultural phenomena. It deals with a range of ideas, acts, and practices that define who we are, what we think, and how we live our lives. The chapters are incisive explorations on illness, viruses, and modernity; wars, protests, and terrorism; babies, bodies, and technologies; nations, borders, and citizenship; films, comics, and the postcolonial; myths, market, and the national imaginary; and other topical subjects. The analysis focuses on some of the most searching cultural questions that have been hotly contested on the grounds of race, gender, class, caste, and national identity. These have been examined through the lens of critical theory. The essays enrol the ideas of a number of key thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Haraway, Zizek, Appadurai and Dipesh Chakrabarty. The book is written in a lucid style and promises to be an interesting read for those in the academia as well as for general readers. …

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Rozin, a middle school girl, is excited and all set to visit her summer home at Ashberg. This is the best place to spend her summer vacations every year, as it allows her some good quality time with her parents. Her visit to Ashberg in Glamshire town each year, adds many new stories in her book of happy voyages. She is all praises of her home town and loves to narrate these tales to her friends on returning to the school in the city. But on this visit, she has some mysterious events showing up. There is an upswing of new occurrences happening during her stay there at Ashberg. Will she be able to unravel this complex maze created in her life.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Physics is the foundation of many important disciplines and contributes directly to others as it concerns with matter, energy and their interactions. Learning physics can be an enjoyable experience for a curious student as it fulfils the thirst for knowledge of nature. This book entitled 'Components of Applied Physics' has been written keeping in view the need of undergraduate students of Engineering and Science colleges of various universities in India as well as around the globe. The book is written in a very simple and concise way to understand the subject, its basic concepts and principles. The book communicates wave optics, quantum physics, wave structure, optical fibre and electron optics in an explicit way. To clarify the concepts and make the topic interesting, a number of solved examples, questions and exercises are incorporated in proper places. A list of Activities to be done by the students is also given in this book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Nine not ten that's the number of stories in the book. Not a perfect ten and not attempting perfection. The stories roller coast into and out of the pearls and perils of the buried emotions that resurface at the first available opportunity. Each life in these stories talk of the lives around us now. Eclectic, complicated, unapologetic.neither to judge nor to justify but an earnest attempt at an impartial glance through the times. (jacket).…

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. "Is the interaction between Income Tax Department and tax evader is always serious, difficult and clandestine for the outer world?" In fact, it is very funny and hilarious when different people of variety of flavours mingle and interact with each other. Sometimes very interesting cocktail of situation does arise when two forces collide and it always involves many difficult and funny episodes of exchange between the two parties, the department and tax evader. The income tax raids and surveys are huge exercises where management of people is one of the main components. The handling of seasoned tax evaders with gentle attitude and softness is tough task for officers, where game of lies is played between participants and the officer, as in the game of chess. The department as the ultimate winner accumulates tax for the government, the tax evader becomes cleaner and whiter, and the officer gains the experience worth sharing and writing. 'Chhapa- The fairy tale of raids' is a fictional effort made to take the readers into an interesting world of unknown territory.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The book is a significant intervention in the study of literature, culture and pedagogy. A variety of subjects are covered ranging from trauma theory, petro fiction, cyber culture, popular fiction, comic books, to digital humanities. Broadly, the essays fall into two categories teaching of culture and culture of teaching. The first section provides a probing analysis of the fascinating ways in which literature and culture are enmeshed in politics, ideology, and technologies of power. It also includes chapters on the rise of pulp fiction and the emergence of new millennial genres like campus novel, chick lit and crick lit in Indian Writing in English. The second section looks at the disruptive impact of Covid-19 crisis on higher education in India. It analyzes what 'to teach' means when pandemic and infodemic together cause seismic shifts to our ecosystem. Interdisciplinary in approach and written in a lucid style, the book will definitely engage the attention of both the serious scholar and the general reader.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Transnational feminism is a response to the global feminism that locates women's positioning from a global perspective. In literature it include works on the transnational engagements of people who remain in the home country, migrate to another, intersect with the political and social factors that has its impact on gender, class and race both in host and home countries. This literature explores how the crossing of boundaries, real and conceptual, affects personal and overarching histories- national, ethnic and cultural identities by examining how powers of colonialism, modernity, post-modernity and globalization construct gender norms among the subaltern, the Third World, and the colonized. The presentation of female experiences in works of authors from South Asia and beyond explore diverse and unavoidable themes of migration, diaspora, national and religious interventions and patriarchal oppression that are fundamental in shaping women's lives. Their writings, inspired by a global network of influences reaches audiences throughout the world, enabling constant and pervasive interaction. This book adopts the transnational lens in examining differences in culture and female experiences in home and host countries. The scholarly papers in this anthology focus on the theme -Transnational Feminism: South Asia and beyond.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This book aims to educate children on their health, nutrition and betterment. For a healthier planet, our youngsters have to be educated to understand the nutritional value of the food they eat on a regular basis. Teenage kids have dreams shining in their eyes. From a sports person to an engineer, to a scientist, to a teacher, to a beautician, to a doctor, to a politician, to a film star, to a writer; the ambitions and the aspirations are umpteen. To achieve these dreams, the kids need a healthy body and a healthy mind. The food the kids consume in their growing years give them the strength, the energy, the health and beauty that will make them emerge as a winner in their life. 'A healthy mind resides in a healthy body' hence this book shall act as a bible to let the young minds make the right food choices for a healthy mind and a well-balanced body.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The idea of writing this book is to share with you all, my thoughts, ideas and opinions on the subject of Global warming, consequent climate change, diminishing biodiversity and impacts of all these phenomena on life on earth and in particular life of human beings. It is strongly felt that if we continue to do business as usual ignoring the warning signals being sent out at growing frequency by Mother Nature, ultimately survival of our planet is at stake and we could be on an irreversible path to extinction the sixth one in the history of our planet. The book also tries to address some of the corrective actions we all need to take to achieve sustainability by reversing the current trend. The latter part of the book tries to study the relationship between sustainability and leadership as it is felt that the quality of leadership is very crucial for the journey of humanity towards achieving sustainable growth which is essential for eradication of poverty.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Slightly scuffed hardcover with lightly bumped spine ends and faded foot of spine. Minor scores on lower leading corner of front board. Slightly grubby and scuffed dust jacket has faded spine and creased and worn upper and lower edges. Some superficial scores and scratches on jacket. Minor traces of pencil on upper edge of FEP; otherwise pages are clean, text remains clear, and binding is tight throughout. T. Used. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. To a wide spectrum of youth, serving and retired people, this highly beneficial, meaningful, noble-intentioned, self-addressed and self-help type self-guide book is of immense use to make their entire life comfortable, healthy, prosperous, dignified and respectful. By reading this book, they shall be able to consolidate their position by making continuous advancement in the young, adult and retired phases of their life by effectively adopting well-structured management skills and techniques. As a result, they would be able to work and perform in well- balanced and harmonious manner in each phase and more importantly in their adult phase after completing unblemished and spotless service and finally enter retired phase of their life and lead it happily, peacefully and contentedly. Some of the distinct, salient features of the book are as under: - 1. Holistic view of your entire life activities and performance covering its three important phases such as youth, adult and retired is projected in this book for its effective and fruitful management 2. Concept of management and application of its skills and techniques for advancement of personal career prospects and peacefully and happily leading retired life has been comprehensively projected in this book for giving you real direct benefits. 3. The book has a unique chapter on the x- power factor of your inner self. The secret of driving you to do and perform in an outstanding manner and achieve remarkable success against heavy odds and hardships in your service career is revealed through this chapter. 4. It projects human life as the most precious divine gift and emphasizes your basic obligation to manage it for advancement in life. 5. It projects the holistic picture of happiness in an objective manner along with the technique given for assessing it in a realistic manner.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The primary aim of literature is to bring forth the issues the individuals or society is dealing with. Trauma is one of the most horrific experiences faced in different manners in varied situations and circumstances and this has been reflected by eminent writers through their point of views. Prominent writers like Amrita Pritam, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri and many others have discussed the themes resulting out of traumatic experiences. The study of Trauma through the Psychoanalytic Theory of Sigmund Freud is highlighted to develop a fair understanding about Trauma Studies. The co-relationship between Trauma Studies and Dalit Literature has also been shown Baby Kamble's 'The Prison We Broke'. Recent terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda have also resulted into trauma. The writers, from India and abroad, have been constantly depicting not only such horrific experiences but suggesting appropriate remedial measures. It can be seen in the book that the remedial measures suggested are according to the prevailing circumstances in a particular geographical area. The Topic has been studied from different approaches like race, sex, gender, nationality, terrorism and ethnicity to show how these factors affect differently in a particular geographical area. The book voices views of those radical writers who want to put an end to mental and physical torture so that nobody falls prey to Trauma. It is a unique collection of scholarly papers which will prove to be extremely helpful to Teachers, researchers and students interested in Trauma Studies.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Communication skills are an essential element for an enthusiastic communicator no matter what the role played by an individual, be it a teacher/facilitator or a student/learner. They must be able to speak clearly and listen well to establish effective collaborative relationships and to align set goals intelligently. In an era of knowledge explosion, scientific advancement and technological development, it is imperative that besides creative thinking, critical thinking and inarguably the skills of communicating the knowledge acquired with excerpts from the previous knowledge and training the mind to enhance the mental power to compare and contrast data, opinions, theories, proposed solutions, clearer propaganda techniques, to ascertain their relevance and applicability as per suitability is the gamut of the exercise that students must be trained to train their faculties and chisel and hone their communicative skills to stay tuned to the process of learning. Each moment in life is immortalized by seeing, believing, observing, listening to sounds - words, speeches, music; reading, understanding, learning; retaining and then recalling and recounting at the opportune moment the appropriate words. This is what is distinctive and distinguishes between the evolved man and animals and/or other living organisms/life forms. It is the understanding that comes from language and its use as a tool of communication.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The notion of diaspora generally indicates creating a home outside the homeland. This has often obscured other aspects of the diaspora - failure, conflicts, internal exclusion and fragmentation of the group along various lines such as ideologies, class, gender, local identification and cause of migration. This has collided with identities that are fragmented by immigration, displacement, and diasporic living. The moment of pain and suffering forms an integral part of memory in diaspora; memory that is bonded with past and present together. The past resonates in the hearts and the present is hopeful of positive adaptation. The book Fragmented Diaspora: Memory and Resilience focuses on various issues of diaspora- from identities that are fragmented by immigration to positive adaptation.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. This book presents a critical study of diasporic literature of Indian writers! Diaspora Literature helps people to understand the background history of their native land. Each society has a different cultural and historical background and it depends on the dominant society. Diaspora is not a new genre; it has its root in history and religion. Diasporic literature is a broad concept. It consists of all literary works written by the authors, who have settled outside their native country and have written on the culture and tradition of their homeland. We have different aspects regarding diasporic sensibility in literary works. Migration is one of the most important aspects of it. It denotes movement of living beings and human migration of people to different space. Diaspora literature also seeks the idea of cultural hybridity and multiculturalism. It perceives ethnic qualities inside a particular geographical habitation. It draws others to be benefited by the commitments to society made by individuals from various ethnic foundations. This book is intended for university level students and teachers, researchers and other informed readers with an interest in the above subject, and serves as both a survey of the field and an intervention within it. …

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Children love to have fun.They like teasers, challenges, mystery, wonder and magic.They enjoy suspense.They are fascinated by visual images. This treasure is just that! On straight side of each page of this 'Upside Down' book, children see the image of an animal easily recognized due to its simplicity. The story continues building up the suspense. The fun begins when they turn the page upside down. A picture of a new animal emerges, like magic! Their faces light up with awe, surprise and laughter. A novel concept that guarantees giggles! From here on, the book keeps rotating upside down in those little hands. The book is designed to help students to visualise, to infer, to ask questions, make connections and understand character traits. Unwittingly, children will gather knowledge of various animals of the tropical forest, including the significance of their behavior. The story also touches some important current issues in our world Leadership, security, health, diet etc - with a desirable conclusion. The author believes that learning should be a joyful experience. This new form of art should arouse curiosity and love for drawing in children of all ages, in all countries, of all languages all the time because visual art is the universal language.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Present book is a selective collection of eleven research papers on various topics written over a period of ten years. It is like a scholar's apprenticeship. The book covers a wide range of subjects dealing with literature and society. It is an honest attempt to deal with different literary and social topics from critical and research point of view. Some of these papers are presented in different seminars and conferences. Some papers are also published in conference proceedings. These critical essays are collected in the form of a reference book for scholars and academicians and hope it would provide an intellectual enrichment to the readers.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 'Modern Mineral Exploration Practices andTechniques 'is an outcome of the vast experience of Late Shri S. C. Ghoshal, an Economic and Mining Geologist of high repute, with an astounding 300 mineral deposit appraisals covering a variety of minerals over a span of 35 years with the Indian Bureau of Mines, to his credit. The book discusses the various stages involved in the exploration of a mineral prospect, right from its identification up to maturing it into a working deposit through a working mine, with particular emphasis on the essential aspects of geological mapping, exploration by pitting, trenching, drilling, sampling and beneficiation with the introduction of computer application in Geology. Assessment of reserves and grade of the mineral deposit constitutes a critical stage in the evaluation of the prospect and its proposed scale of working, particularly in a global context. Therefore, discussions on this topic, along with the United Nations Framework Classification of Mineral Resources (with an emphasis on economic parameters for its clear understanding by the international community), is a special feature of this book. The in-depth, precise and conclusive analysis of all issues by the author reflects his vast experience in this field, and truly elevates the science of mining to an art. This book provides a handy guide to geologists as well as mining engineers working in the field and also to the student community in general.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. A multispectrum person, William Dalrymple (b.20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a broadcaster and critic. Throughout his literary career, Dalrymple has been able to carefully investigate moments of a country's past with the precision of a skilled historian, while at the same time drawing important parallels to more recent events. His passion for India and the surrounding region has brought to Western readers an insight that had previously not been achieved, and so his place among the world's top travel writers is surely assured. In this book an attempt is made to trace the elements of travel literature and history in various works of William Dalrymple. Dalrymple, in all his books, has intertwined his observations, memoirs, interviews, and historical facts which he assimilated through different archives and institutional libraries. He has carefully portrayed his personality in his jovial, humorous, informative, and free narrative. He has also worked meticulously against the faulty generalizations regarding India by some of the western writers and travelers especially in the mid 70s and 80s. The most important privilege he enjoys is that of being an insider and outsider at the same time. His works encompass the issues which perhaps would never have got to the attention and under the scholastic discussions, had he not presented them through his well researched and well pursued interests.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. As is commonly understood, a pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance, multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people. Throughout human history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as plague, smallpox, and tuberculosis. The most fatal pandemic in recorded history was the Black Death, which killed an estimated 75200 million people in the 14th century. The term 'Pandemic' was not used yet but was used for later pandemics including the 1918 influenza pandemic. Current pandemics include Coronavirus disease COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and HIV/AIDS. The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event in human history. Never before has human existence been so consumed by a single disease, bringing life to a halt for months on end and forcing human beings to question their future and ponder deeply over their own mortality. Pandemics have been the theme of many literary works, penned by different celebrated authors. This book brings to fore the various pandemics as the theme/plot of popular books. This book would be of immense interest to faculty, students and research scholars of English Literature and even to a general reader interested in the subject of 'Pandemic Literature'.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. This book takes an insight into the women employees working on managerial level of Hotels. The author firstly has ascertained the benefits of women employees and their added advantage to the human based hospitality industry. They bring their own value to the hotel work force due to their soft skill, expertise in Human Relationship, flexibility, and democratic style of leadership. It further takes an in-depth study of the reasons for which women tend to leave their job due to various personal, family and organizational issues. The expert opinions from Human Resource Managers were also gathered to get the managerial view point on the same.…