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 Inequality in Zambia by Caesar Cheelo, Marja Hinfelaar English | Jan 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1032147776 | 296 pages | PDF | 7,4 MB Coming together from across several disciplines, the contributors to this book reflect on the considerable problem of inequality in Zambia, comparing it with other countries both in the region and more broadly.  Rajiv Dogra, "India's World: How prime ministers shaped foreign policy" English | ISBN: 9389967422 | 2020 | 248 pages | EPUB | 302 KB When Narasimha Rao became the prime minister in 1991, just a billion dollars separated India from bankruptcy. He was told by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, that petrol pumps would run dry after two weeks. India was forced to ship 46.8 million tonnes of gold to secure $400 million in loans from the Bank of England and Bank of Japan. This blow to the national pride may not have been comparable to the military humiliation of 1962, but it was bad enough. Carved in riveting prose, India's World is about such trials and many triumphs of the country. Since Independence, eight prime ministers, in particular, have been the principal architects of India's rise. From Nehru, venerated as a resolute statesman and one of the great political minds of the last century, to Modi who is acknowledged as a determined doer, the book offers a crystal clear portrait of India's leaders. This lively volume celebrates the myriad ways in which they have made history. It asks and answers questions that people often debate about. Who was the great Indian prime minister, complete in every respect? If there was one, could it be Nehru, Indira or Rao? Or, is it Modi? Elegantly written by one of India's finest strategic minds, it is a must-read for those curious about India's place in the world. There are messages too for a future Indian prime minister on what to expect.  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? |
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