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Consisting of twelve fully illustrated short stories, the volume looks at the village and the small town in India - focal points offering Premchand a fascinating stage for the interplay of diverse personalities, Human suffering, crushing poverty, and brutal exploitation by landowners and moneylenders, caste snobbery, gender discrimination, the victory of renunciation over selfish temptation, the close comnpanionship of man and animal, the unpr...

Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture. Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts such as r...

Kudaisya's biography explores all the aspects of this legendary figure. Elegantly written, it reconstructs Birla's eventful public and private life drawing upon the rich historical evidence available in his private papers. Kudaisya was the first scholar to have unrestricted access to these papers. This book is not simply a story of onr of the greatest Indians of our times, but also provides a window on the transformation which India has witnes...

This book seeks to make accessible a selection of the best pieces written on civil society and brings together theoretical and empirical material. The essays discuss the theory of civil society, civil society in South Asia in particular and ways of strengthening civil society.

Soll man eher auf die Philosophen hören oder auf die Philosophinnen? Soll man Bücher sammeln oder lesen? Oder soll man einfach nur noch ins Kino gehen? Umberto Eco, einer der markantesten und unterhaltsamsten Kommentatoren unserer Alltagswelt, betrachtet in diesen scharfzüngigen Essays und Glossen Politik, Kultur und die allgemeine Lage. Es geht um Romane, Filme und Romanverfilmungen, um neue und antiquarische Bücher, Katastrophennachrichten u...

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From Toronto to Kenora, Windsor to Fort Severn, Ontario is definitely an interesting place--home to two weather-predicting groundhogs, Wiarton Willie and Spanish Joe, and the world's longest gum wrapper chain. Read more about the province that brought you BeaverTails and the Wonderbra in this easy-to-read collection of fun facts.

Il 46 classico, Uno Zoo in Fuga è una commedia Disney irriverente e spassosa dove sarà impossibile ingabbiare le risate. Un gruppo di originali amici animali scappando dallo zoo, scoprirà che non esiste giungla più pazza della città di New York. Ricco di contenuti speciali dalla comicità incontenibile incluse le scene eliminate, le divertenti papere sul set e molto altro, Uno Zoo in Fuga è un lungometraggio dall’animazione stravolgente che coi...

German idealism is a theory about the nature of reality which maintains that what is real is in some way related to the contents of our own minds. This anthology brings together readings from classic works on the subject, including such writers as Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling.

Over the last two decades, there has been an increase in the number of natural hazards which have culminated in catastrophic consequences, severely impacting on people and livelihoods. In response to this escalation, the Swiss Natural Hazards Competence Centre (CENAT) organized a workshop entitled "RISK21" at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte VeritA, Ascona, Switzerland from 28 November to 3 December, 2004. More than 50 risk experts from nin...

Introducing globalization, this title offers coverage of globalization's dimensions. It covers the areas such as Globalization's Macro-economic Faces, Globalization's Unruly Spaces, Globalization's Geo-political Faces, Ecological Globalization, Globalization's Cultural Challenges, and, Fair Globalization.

Microscopic re-examination of geomaterials consisting of aggregates can shed light on macroscopic behaviour, including compressibility, anisotropy, yielding, creep, cyclic liquefaction and shear rupture. As a result of this process of examination, new methods of material characterization emerge, leading to a greater degree of accuracy in the specification of new constitutive models with physically-meaningful parameters. The impetus behind this...

In an era of new, composite materials and high-strength concrete, and with an increasing demand for sustainable building technologies, the importance of the role of steel in construction is being challenged.. Nonetheless, steel can successfully be used to refurbish and retrofit historical buildings, as well as being a material of choice for new building structures. Steel can effectively be combined with a variety of other materials to obtain s...

Vehement, widespread opposition accompanied the rise of the US nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s. This book examines one of the most controversial atomic projects of the period: Pacific Gas and Electric Company's decision to build its premier nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, a biologically rich part of the central California coastline.

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This book provides a fascinating re-assessment of our view of the Wilson governments of 1964-1970. This new text draws on newly available sources, across the range of British government, and for the first time looks at the whole range of political and state activity. This critical appraisal provides a fascinating case study of British government in action in this key period of British History.This book was previously published as a special iss...