India's Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency By Suchitra Shenoy-Packer
2014 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0739184776 | PDF | 2 MB
This study investigates Indian working women's sense of the discourses surrounding work and careers. In interviews conducted with seventy-seven women across socioeconomic statuses, castes, classes, and occupational and generational categories in the city of Pune, India, women express how feeling bound by tradition confronts excitement about ongoing changes in the country. The work lives of these women are influenced symbiotically by India's sociocultural practices and the contemporary phenomenon of globalization. Using feminist standpoint theory as a theoretical lens, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer explores how women deconstruct, coconstruct, and reconstruct systems of knowledge about their worlds of work as embedded within and influenced by the intersections of society, socialization, and individual agency. The meanings that Indian women associate with their work as well as their definition of a career in twenty-first-century India will be of interest to students and scholars of feminist theory, women's studies, globalization, Asian studies, and labor studies.
India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance by Arvind Narrain
2022 | ISBN: 9390679117 | English | 342 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB
In 1975, the Indira Gandhi government declared Emergency in India, unveiling an era of State excesses, human rights violations, the centralisation of power and the dismantling of democracy. Nearly half a century later, the phrase 'undeclared emergency' gathers currency as citizens and analysts struggle to define the nature of India's present crisis.
In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North by Olle Törnquist
English | October 21, 2021 | ISBN: 0755639766, 0755639774 | 368 pages | PDF | 8,4 MB
Why is the classical social democratic vision of development based on social justice by democratic means losing ground? Why was it so difficult to renew, even in the context of the third wave of democracy in the South? How does this matter in the North too, and how might it be reinvented?
In Search of Equality: Women, Law and Society in Africa By Stefanie Röhrs, Dee Smythe, Annie Hsieh, Monica de Souza
2014 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1919895884 | PDF | 5 MB
Just over 50 years ago, several African countries drew up new constitutions that included additions such as the Protocol on the Rights of Women. Decades later, has constitutional reform brought gender equality to women in Africa? And what does gender equality mean in the everyday lives of women on the continent? The contributors to this volume provide insights into women's rights in seven African countries: Cote d'Ivoire, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. Each looks at the causes, context, and consequences of the struggle to uphold women's rights. Their case studies illustrate property-grabbing in Malawi, women's citizenship in Nigeria, and the rise of hate crimes and sexual violence against black lesbians in South Africa, among other issues.
Steve McCarty, Hiroyuki Obari, Takeshi Sato, "Implementing Mobile Language Learning Technologies in Japan"
English | 2016 | pages: 105 | ISBN: 9811024499 | PDF | 2,4 mb
This book explores theoretical and practical aspects of implementing mobile language learning in university classrooms for English as a Foreign Language in Japan. The technologies utilized, such as smartphones, iPads, and wi-fi, integrate students' hand-held devices into the campus network infrastructure. The pedagogical aims of ubiquitous mobile learning further incorporate social media, blended learning, and flipped classroom approaches into the curriculum. Chapter 1 defines mobile language learning within dimensions of e-learning and technology-assisted language learning, prior to tracing the development of mobile learning in Japan. Chapter 2 documents the sociocultural theory underpinning the authors' humanistic approach to implementation of mobile technologies. The sociocultural pedagogy represents a global consensus of leading educators that also recognizes the agency of Asian learners and brings out their capability for autonomous learning. Case studies of universities, large and small, public and private, are organized similarly in Chapters 3 to 5. Institutional/pedagogical and technological context sections are followed by detailed content on the implementation of initiatives, assessment of effectiveness, and recommendations for other institutions. Distinct from a collection of papers, this monograph tells a story in brief book length about theorizing and realizing mobile language learning, describing pioneering and original initiatives of importance to practitioners in other educational contexts.
Jeff Greenfield, "If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History"
English | ISBN: 0399166963 | 2013 | 272 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 427 KB + 723 KB
"On the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, this is the book to read. An intelligent, often haunting book about what America and the world would have looked like if John Kennedy had lived."-Fareed Zakaria
Nancy Worth, Claire Dwyer, Tracey Skelton, "Identities and Subjectivities"
English | 2016 | pages: 557 | ISBN: 9812870229 | PDF | 8,6 mb
Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children's Geographies, there's a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children's and young people's geographies.
INTO THE METAVERSE: A Beginner's guide to the NEXT BIG THING and how to invest in the new virtual world on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Digital art, NFT (Non-fungible Token) and the Virtual Land by Mark K. Blackwell
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09NJNGT8Y | 132 pages | EPUB | 0.19 Mb
✔ Have you heard about METAVERSE and Web 3.0 and want to know more?
ICT Analysis and Applications
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811656541 | 942 Pages | PDF | 26 MB
This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 6th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2021), held in Goa, India, on 5-6 August 2021. The book covers the topics such as big data and data mining, data fusion, IoT programming toolkits and frameworks, green communication systems and network, use of ICT in smart cities, sensor networks and embedded system, network and information security, wireless and optical networks, security, trust, and privacy, routing and control protocols, cognitive radio and networks, and natural language processing. Bringing together experts from different countries, the book explores a range of central issues from an international perspective.
Mariyamni Awang, Berihun Mamo Negash, Nur Asyraf Md Akhir, "ICIPEG 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences"
English | 2017 | pages: 791 | ISBN: 9811036497 | PDF | 37,9 mb
This book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences 2016 (ICIPEG 2016), held under the banner of World Engineering, Science & Technology Congress (ESTCON 2016) at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from August 15 to 17, 2016. It presents peer-reviewed research articles on exploration, while also exploring a new area: shale research. In this time of low oil prices, it highlights findings to maintain the exchange of knowledge between researchers, serving as a vital bridge-builder between engineers, geoscientists, academics, and industry.