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Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship

Routledge, 2020

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion,...

Bhagavad G?t? and Leadership: A Catalyst for Organizational Transformation (Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment)

Springer, 2019

This book shows how the Bhagavad G?t? (part of the great Indian epic ? the Mah?bh?rata) can be approached as a powerful tool for change management and as a catalyst for organizational transformation. It presents time-tested leadership strategies drawn from the Bhagavad G?t? that are relevant for today’s leaders. This book focuses...

Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas

Springer, 2018

A wide variety of marginal basins, ranging from polar to equatorial regions, and a few sizeable enclosed basins, can all be included among the Asian Seas. The Arctic Ocean shelf seas off Siberia; the sheltered basins along the Pacific Ocean’s western rim; the coastal seas of the northernmost Indian Ocean, including the semi-enclosed Red...

Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central...

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge

When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he...

Mathematical Programming and Game Theory (Indian Statistical Institute Series)

Springer, 2018

This book discusses recent developments in mathematical programming and game theory, and the application of several mathematical models to problems in finance, games, economics and graph theory. All contributing authors are eminent researchers in their respective fields, from across the world. This book contains a collection of selected...

Herbicide Residue Research in India (Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, 12)

Springer, 2018

Herbicides constitute about 60% of the total pesticides consumed globally. In India, the use of herbicides started initially in tea gardens and picked up in the 1970s, when the high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat were introduced. Presently, 67 herbicides are registered in the country for controlling weeds in crops including...

Nanostructured Materials and their Applications (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)

Springer, 2020

The book provides an introduction to nanostructured materials and guides the reader through their different engineering applications. It gives an overview of nanostructured materials applied in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and materials science. Materials for different applications in...

Civilization: A History of the World in 1000 Objects

DK Adult, 2020

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history book.

From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, such...

From Raj to Republic: Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India (South Asia in Motion)

Stanford University Press, 2021

BETWEEN 1946 AND 1952, the British Raj, the world’s largest colony, was transformed into the Republic of India, the world’s largest democracy. Independence, the Constituent Assembly Debates, the founding of the Republic, and India’s first universal franchise general election took place amid the violence and...

Atmosphere of Collaboration: Air Pollution Science, Politics and Ecopreneurship in Delhi

Routledge, 2021

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives. Using key debates and interventions on air pollution, it examines the trajectories of environmental politics in the Delhi region, one of the most polluted areas in the world. It highlights the administrative struggles, public...

The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (Routledge Companions to Gender)

Routledge, 2021

Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection brings together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives...

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