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

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

Public Sector Enterprises in India: Evolution, Privatisation and Reforms (Bhattacharjee Govind)(Pevná vazba)

Public Sector Enterprises in India is the first comprehensive and authoritative work covering the entire public sector in India, including public sector enterprises such as banks, insurance companies, railways and so on. The book begins with the philosophy behind the public sector and traces its

Women Walking: Freedom, Adventure, Independence (Sagner Karin)(Pevná vazba)

Women of the 1920s presents gorgeous illustrations and text on women whose work and lifestyle created a new female image, and who introduced new styles in their area of expertise. Among them are fashion gurus and designers like Lee Miller, Sonia Delaunay or Elsa Schiaparelli; writers and artists

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

Textiles of Japan (Murray Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

From rugged Japanese firemen's ceremonial robes and austere rural work-wear to colorful, delicately-patterned cotton kimonos, this lavishly illustrated volume explores Japan's rich tradition of textiles. Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life

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

Daily Rituals: Women at Work (Currey Mason)(Pevná vazba)

Avedon at Work: In the American West (Wilson Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers--but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the

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

Noncooperation in India - Nonviolent Strategy and Protest, 1920-22 (Hardiman David)(Pevná vazba)

The Partition of India (Talbot Ian)(Pevná vazba)

The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells the story of partition through the events that led up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and

Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (Gold David)(Pevná vazba)

Women at Work presents the field of rhetorical studies with fifteen chapters that center on gender, rhetoric, and work in the US in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Feminist scholars explore women's labor evangelism in the textile industry, the rhetorical constructions of leadership within

Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Sandberg Sheryl)(Pevná vazba)

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 'A landmark manifesto' (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women

Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 - Texts and Contexts(Pevná vazba)

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Ramachandran V. S.)(Paperback)

In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases--from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller's eye for compelling case studies and a researcher's flair for new approaches to age-old questions, Ramachandran

Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Collins Caitlyn)(Pevná vazba)

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is

From Infrastructure to Services (Schouten Ton)(Pevná vazba)

This book outlines the current trends and challenges in monitoring rural water and sanitation services, in particular at country level. From Infrastructure to Services reveals important breakthroughs in country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies. It presents a

Phantoms in the Brain (Ramachandran V. S.)(Paperback)

Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech

Scotland's Rural Home: Nine Stories about Contemporary Architecture (Brennan John)(Pevná vazba)

The nine building stories told in this book show how rural households and communities define themselves, and the role architecture plays in

African American Rural Education: College Transitions and Postsecondary Experiences (Chambers Crystal R.)(Pevná vazba)

Despite comprising the largest minority in rural settings, the literature to date largely subsumes African American rural students into a broader set of Black and African American students, with a primarily urban focus. This volume focuses on the higher education pathways of rural African American

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

Why Democracy Deepens: Political Information and Decentralization in India (Sadanandan Anoop)(Pevná vazba)

'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected -

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

China's Vanishing Worlds: Countryside, Traditions, and Cultural Spaces (Messmer Matthias)(Pevná vazba)

Photographs and text document disappearing cultural landscapes and lifestyles in rural China, capturing poignant scenes far from Beijing or Shanghai.Just a few kilometers from the glittering skylines of Shanghai and Beijing, we encounter a vast countryside, an often forgotten and seemingly