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On Modern Indian Sensibilities Culture Politics History

On Modern Indian Sensibilities Culture Politics History

This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture politics and history – and their intersections – in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam Odisha Bengal and their margins the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and regional–local formations. Tracking sensibilities of time and history senses of events and persons and productions of the past and the present the volume unravels intimate expressions of aesthetics and scandals heroism and martyrdom and voice and gender. It examines key questions of the interchanges between literary cultures and contending nationalisms culture and cosmopolitanism temporality and mythology literature and literacy history and modernity and print culture and popular media. The book offers grounded and connected accounts of a large important region usually studied in isolation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of history literature politics sociology cultural studies and South Asian studies. | On Modern Indian Sensibilities Culture Politics History

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Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia Towards Inclusive Rural Development

Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia Towards Inclusive Rural Development

This book looks at agricultural systems and rural economies in Asia through the prism of alternative innovation systems alternative public policy and institutional changes. The massive shifts within the agricultural economy in Asia geared towards increasing production has had a direct effect on the livelihood of a large mass of people in rural societies causing financial and social distress. This book explores a wide range of solutions such as the role of education improving technical skills and human capital along with interactive learning in R&D harnessing ICTs and institutional innovations to see how these problems can be alleviated. The volume looks at how these methods can help formulate alternative ways to build sustainable and inclusive agricultural societies ensure food security sustainable growth and agricultural productivity. This book rich in theoretical and empirical matter will be useful for academics and researchers interested in agricultural innovation development studies and agricultural economics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and thinktanks working towards inclusive social development and sustainability in Asia and the Indian subcontinent. | Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia Towards Inclusive Rural Development

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Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

World economics and the industrial environment has recently created a fertile ground for the creation of new enterprises and start-ups. This book skilfully identifies the challenges of building a new business venture from an idea to a marketable product. It highlights • Robust methods for keeping up with innovation; • Designing new ways to grow improve and market your product; and • Managing the changes in the business environment market dynamics and other uncertainties. The volume is rich with examples and case studies of many small and large businesses. It further reflects on the business and entrepreneurship ecosystem the challenges and opportunities in India entrepreneurship and women e-commerce the new generation of entrepreneurs and exit strategies for entrepreneurs. An essential guide for entrepreneurs and professionals working in business management and marketing communications as well as scholars of business administration and financial sciences this book by an industry expert offers many new and practiced approaches examples and lessons for innovative thinking and breaking new ground in business. | Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

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Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services. Based on a three-decade-long engagement with innovation in public education this book provides an illustration of how teacher-driven innovations can be transformed into learning objects for technology-based professional development. It describes how innovations can be identified screened and validated and disseminated through two mechanisms—a clearinghouse-based approach and grassroots innovation “fairs. ” It then demonstrates how these innovations can form the backbone of a “third space ” problem-based-learning curriculum which can be delivered through a technology platform for large-scale professional development. The book offers guidance on practical ways of doing this and on evaluating the curriculum’s impact with case studies of programmes that covered thousands of teachers. This book will be of interest to teachers students and professionals in education teacher education digital education information technology communication and media studies. It will also be useful to educationists policymakers teacher educators educational institutions online education centres and practitioners involved in professional development education and training in developing countries. | Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

GBP 120.00
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Employment Growth and Development Essays on a Changing World Economy

Employment Growth and Development Essays on a Changing World Economy

This book examines the critical themes of employment growth and development to focus on challenges and opportunities both old and new in the contemporary world economy. The essential theme that runs through the book is that there is a strong relationship not only between employment and growth but also between employment and development where the causation runs in both directions. The author shows how employment transforms economic growth into meaningful development by providing livelihoods and incomes to people. While the book is primarily concerned with developing countries it considers industrialized countries as points of reference or comparison since the latter are a large part of an interdependent world in which problems faced by the two sets of countries are frequently connected and sometimes common. The ten essays in this volume also provide a macroeconomic analysis of development problems situated in the wider context of a changing world economy exploring possible solutions to understand the implications for countries and for people. A timely collection by an eminent economist this book will be useful to teachers students and researchers in economics especially those interested in macroeconomics political economy and development studies. | Employment Growth and Development Essays on a Changing World Economy

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Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Embracing sustainable management practices is important for businesses and commercial organizations wishing to responsibly contribute to the socioeconomic development of societies and communities. This book provides insights into recent trends issues and challenges in embracing these practices while promoting growth and innovation in business. The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined the necessity of implementing sustainable practices. This book looks at the process implementation and evaluation of sustainable practices in the social and commercial sectors in recent years. With case studies from different industries these chapters explore and document creative applications of effective measures to chart out financial growth for businesses while reducing carbon emissions focusing on corporate social responsibility and working toward socio-economic sustainability for workers and communities among others. They also examine how these innovative strategies can be scaled up and applied across diverse industries for small and large businesses and in different economic environments. Part of the Contemporary Management Practices series this book will be useful to practising managers researchers and students who are interested in business strategy financial strategy and social inclusion. It will be especially of use to those working in the areas of corporate governance corporate social responsibility green marketing corporate finance and organizational performance. | Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

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Kipling in India

Kipling in India

This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling’s connection with India its people culture languages and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling’s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire and made many canonize him as an emblem of the ‘Raj’. This volume highlights the astonishing social and thematic range of his Indian writings as represented in The Jungle Books; Kim; his early verse; his Simla-based tales of Anglo-Indian intrigues and love affairs; his stories of the common Indian people; and his journalism. It brings together different theoretical and contextual readings of Kipling to examine how his experience of India influenced his creative work and conversely how his imperial loyalties conditioned his creative engagement with India. The 18 chapters here engage with the complexities and contradictions in his writings and analyse the historical and political contexts in which he wrote them and the contexts in which we read him now. With well-known contributors from different parts of the world – including India the UK the USA Canada France Japan and New Zealand – this book will be of great interest not only to those interested in Kipling’s life and works but also to researchers and scholars of nineteenth-century literature comparative studies postcolonial and subaltern studies colonial history and cultural studies. | Kipling in India

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Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives concepts and theories during the 21st century. This book examines the transformations happening in global societies the economy and in politics to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic discipline as well as being a focus of social science research. It presents a reassessment of governance in heterogenous developing countries that goes beyond the traditional Weberian bureaucratic model toward new models of organization and management informed by their legal constitutional economic and political needs aspirations and ground realities. This is especially important in relation to the marginalized sections of society that primarily rely on citizen entitlements through public service delivery systems. The author looks at widening the range and scope of public administrative agencies with the gradual cooperation of multiple actors such as the civil society people at large and even the private sector in a partnering role. The author revisits the discipline to tackle intellectual dilemmas that current governance theories and practices are confronting or will have to confront in future administrative situations. There will be key discussions on mandates and challenges for the state regarding the rising South; this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics especially governance and public policy sociology and development studies. It will also be of interest to bureaucrats NGOs and government officials. | Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

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The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India’s electoral democracy and political system. It provides an in-depth analysis of the 2019 parliamentary elections to explore three crucial facts of India’s political life: the legitimacy of political competition as the only basis of power; elections as the only legitimate basis of political competition; and political parties as the only legitimate agency to conduct political competition. The book argues that the vitality and resilience of India’s electoral democracy remain high owing to large mass participation in elections that are competitive and relatively free and fair. The volume includes key theoretical empirical and comparative perspectives on parties and elections from experts and covers all major political parties of India along with the performance of many representative regional parties. It discusses themes such as elections and party competition in India; ideology interest religion and gender as they affect social mobilisation and political transaction; economic and politial change and multiparty democracy; the dynamics of the Muslim vote; fluctuating electoral fortunes; and electoral campaigns and role of social media. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political science political sociology election studies Indian politics South Asian politics and South Asian studies. It will also interest those in politics public policy and governance civil society organisations media and journalism and the general reader. | The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

GBP 35.99
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Selling IT The Science of Selling Buying and Deal-Making

Selling IT The Science of Selling Buying and Deal-Making

Information technology (IT) is an essential core of the economy today. Corporations and governments worldwide rely on it to drive their core strategy and develop and execute business models. Amounting to over 3. 7 trillion US dollars of worldwide spending the growing significance of the IT industry in the global economy is now well established. Hence it is crucial to understand the marketplace within which it exists and this book presents a systematic analysis of the processes techniques and methods involved in IT sales and marketing. In Selling IT the book: Integrates a large IT provider’s selling process with the enterprise user’s IT buying process to highlight the nuances of selling marketing and developing IT solutions that create value for customers Discusses various key concepts such as value-based IT selling business case for IT acquisition vendor evaluation and management account and customer relationship management customer segmentation and techniques for customer acquisition and retention Analyses the challenges and opportunities involved in selling digital IT and examines the evolution of jobs and careers based on the changed IT landscape Includes lesson plans case studies and chapter-wise practice questions to support teaching and learning The book boasts a robust theoretical foundation supported by a clear exposition of concepts and management theories. It will be of benefit to professionals using organisation-mandated selling processes. Young executives with a technology background looking for a sales and marketing career in the IT industry can also effectively use this book. It will also be an essential read for scholars and researchers in B2B marketing IT consulting technology sales and digital transformation. | Selling IT The Science of Selling Buying and Deal-Making

GBP 38.99
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The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare in-depth behind-the-scenes study of the making of a masterpiece taking the reader through the entire production process of a landmark Chinese science fiction film. The book brings to life how The Wandering Earth was created from words to images by a young and innovative professional team assembled by director Frant Gwo. It discusses specialized details of the filmmaking process and the collaborative work of the crew and the cast involved to present an intuitive feeling of the film’s production. A step-by-step guide on the making of a radical large-scale film this handbook critically examines its various stages such as its development and production stages – the planning preparing recruiting setting up departments and processes; writing the screenplay; creating a visual style and the production design; and the principal photography; its challenging post-production stages – the editing visual effects production color mixing; dubbing sound editing; publicity etc. Further the chapters in volume also explore how Chinese science fiction films disrupt the Western narrative context and provide the larger discourse on Chinese science fiction. Richly illustrated with exclusive first-hand visuals from the making of the film this handbook part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series will be an essential read for professionals scholars researchers and students of film and media production film studies popular culture cultural studies Chinese studies world literature and science fiction. It will also be of interest to the general reader interested in filmmaking. | The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

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