Building Research Universities in India (Jalote Pankaj)(Pevná vazba)

Building Research Universities in India (Jalote Pankaj)(Pevná vazba)

With the emergence of global university rankings, there is increased interest in research universities. The focus of the higher education system in India has traditionally been on educating students and not on research. However, in the last decade or so, there has been a growing appreciation of

Social Sector Development in North-East India (Pankaj Ashok)(Pevná vazba)

Social Sector Development in North-east India is the first comprehensive book that makes a strong case for people-centric social sector development of North-east India. This book argues that human capital formation through social sector development should be the strategic goal of development of

Improving Quality of Care in Family Planning: A Research and Advocacy Agenda for India (Satia Jay)(Pevná vazba)

Louis I. Kahn (Rosa Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901–1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his

The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education (Crow Michael M.)(Pevná vazba)

America's research universities lead the world in discovery, creativity, and innovation--but are captive to a set of design constraints that no longer aligns with the changing needs of society. Their commitment to discovery and innovation, which is carried out largely in isolation from the

Encyclopaedia of Research Methods for Business: A Skill Building Approach (3 Volumes)(Pevná vazba)

Architecture Research Building - ICD/ITKE 2010-2020 (Menges Achim)(Pevná vazba)

How can the fundamental digital change taking place in design and construction be actively used to bring about cultural change in architecture? By exploring robotic production methods and innovative material developments, Achim Menges and Jan Knippers have succeeded in developing genuine digital

India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India (James Rajesh)(Pevná vazba)

India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize the engagement of independent documentary filmmakers with the postcolonial India and its discourses with a focus on their independent documentary practices. Structured as an interview

First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939 (Waghorne James)(Pevná vazba)

Strontium Contamination in the Environment (Pathak Pankaj)(Pevná vazba)

Strontium: Source, occurrence, properties and detection.- Isotopes of strontium: Properties and applications.- Strontium extraction from the geo-environment.- Biosorption of strontium from aqueous solutions.- Plant response under strontium and phytoremediation.- Uptake, transport, and remediation

The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance (Williams Thomas D.)(Pevná vazba)

A research-based approach to achieving long-term profitability in business What does it take to guarantee success and profitability over time? Authors Christopher G. Worley, a senior research scientist, Thomas D. Williams, an executive advisor, and Edward E. Lawler III, one of the country's leading

Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects (Bhaskaran S.)(Pevná vazba)

Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts

Lost Homestead - My Mother, Partition and the Punjab (Wheeler Marina)(Pevná vazba)

Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their

Research Methods in Biomechanics (Robertson D. Gordon E.)(Pevná vazba)

Research Methods in Biomechanics, Second Edition, demonstrates the range of available research techniques and how to best apply this knowledge to ensure valid data collection. In the highly technical field of biomechanics, research methods are frequently upgraded as the speed and sophistication of

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research (Karim Khondkar E.)(Pevná vazba)

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research promotes research across all areas of accounting, incorporating theory from, and contributing knowledge to, the fields of applied psychology, sociology, management science, ethics and

The Beatles in India (Saltzman Paul)(Pevná vazba)

In 1968, the Beatles went to Rishikesh, India, studied transcendental meditation, and wrote music. These intimate photos are the only record of their time in this sacred retreat. This new edition of The Beatles in India brings intimate images of the group, taken at an ashram in Rishikesh, India, to

Financial Markets and Financial Services in India (Kunjukunju Benson)(Pevná vazba)

Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative (Wieman Carl)(Pevná vazba)

Too many universities remain wedded to outmoded ways of teaching science in spite of extensive research showing that there are much more effective methods. Too few departments ask whether what happens in their lecture halls is effective at helping students to learn and how they can encourage their

Women and Work in Rural India (Ramachandran V.)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six sections; the first section explores conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues with respect to understanding women's work. The second, third, and fourth sections

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (Buckley M. Ronald)(Pevná vazba)

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management is designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources

Passage To India (Forster E. M.)(Pevná vazba)

Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged assault of Adela Quested even the strongest inter-racial friendships come under

Research in Economic History (Hanes Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions. The volume looks across a range of issues. Two papers address the political economy of the

Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research (Smythe Suzanne)(Pevná vazba)

In Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research, six educational researchers explore together the potentialities of transdisciplinary research that de-centres human behaviour and gives materiality its due in the making of educational worlds. The book presents accounts of what happens when

Practical Building Conservation: Concrete (England Historic)(Pevná vazba)

A great deal of research and literature has been produced on repairing concrete structures, but very little aimed at conserving the character or appearance of historic examples. This volume, Concrete, offers guidance as to how that should be done. It includes a brief history of the use of the