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 James Stewart, "Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism " English | ISBN: 1138802166 | 2015 | 224 pages | EPUB | 658 KB Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage vegetarianism and most Buddhists do not practice it. Using research based on ethnographic evidence and interviews, this book discusses this issue by presenting an investigation of vegetarianism and animal ethics within a Buddhist cultural domain.  Vegan Soul Food Cookbook: Plant-Based, No-Fuss Southern Favorites By Nadira Jenkins-El 2020 | 178 Pages | ISBN: 1646117212 | PDF | 9 MB Soul food goes vegan―101 plant-based takes on comfort food classics If you love classic soul food but are hungry for options that don't rely on meat or dairy, the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook is here to delight your taste buds. It's full of mouthwatering, plant-based versions of comforting favorites like Gumbo, Biscuits and Gravy, and Cajun Fried "Chicken" that are totally vegan but still hearty, delicious, and satisfying. This vegan soul food cookbook features: Authentic flavors for everyone―Dig in to 101 modern twists on soul food staples that use only wholesome, plant-based ingredients. Easy and accessible―These recipes only include vegan ingredients that are affordable, easy to find, and easy to prepare at home. The vegan basics―Get a crash course in what it means to go vegan, how it helps your health (and the environment), and the fundamentals of veganizing comfort foods.Savor a new take on beloved soul food favorites with the Vegan Soul Food Cookbook.  Lakshmi Subramanian, "Veena Dhanammal: The Making of a Legend " English | ISBN: 1138178748 | 2017 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866-1938), considered the embodiment of 'classicism' in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India, as a process of urbanisation ― beginning in the late nineteenth century ― resulted in Karnatik music's movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern, secular form of entertainment in the city space.  Barbara Celarent, "Varieties of Social Imagination" English | ISBN: 022643396X | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1242 KB In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent's short, informative, and analytic essays engaged with long traditions of social thought across the globe-from India, Brazil, and China to South Africa, Turkey, and Peru. . . and occasionally the United States and Europe.  Berni Kelly, "Valuing Disabled Children and Young People: Research, policy, and practice" English | ISBN: 1138687081 | 2016 | 184 pages | EPUB | 935 KB Focusing on contemporary childhood disability issues, and relevant to the lived experiences of disabled children and young people and their families, this book addresses themes such as transition, identity, education, inclusion, and service provision. It also includes insightful contributions on participatory research and practice with disabled children and young people, including an emphasis on capability, voice, and communicative spaces for those with life limiting and more severe levels of impairment.  Mahlon Brewster Smith, "Values, Self and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology" English | ISBN: 1412865565 | 2017 | 310 pages | EPUB | 592 KB In a tough opening statement, M. Brewster Smith outlines his own life course and contrasts it with the agenda of social psychology in the present professional moment. "Today's journals, textbooks, and conferences represent a vigorous but narrow scientific specialty in psychology, the practitioners of which are more closely focused on agendas that are primarily and often only intelligible within the subdiscipline than was the case when I formed my identity as a psychologist."In contrast, Smith sees himself, and has long been seen by others, as a social psychologist in the tradition of Gordon Allport, Gardner and Lois Murphy, Kurt Lewin, and Muzafer Sherif. Smith's unique ability has been to contribute to the emergence of personality as a differentiated academic field and at the same time maintain strong interdisciplinary ties to a variety of fields ranging from sociology to philosophy. In recent years, such concerns have made the author a central figure in the development of Humanistic Psychology as a part of the American Psychological Association.Because of these wide ranging concerns, the major statements of Brewster Smith have appeared in diverse places. Here, brought into a unified and uniform frame of reference, one has his work on values and selfhood, humanistic psychology and the social sciences, and humanism and social issues brought together for the first time. The picture is of a major thinker who is at home in the details of psychology and in the broad areas of public interest and social policy.Brewster Smith discusses major issues in terms of the political processes involved in the public interest. These range from the issue of advocacy within social research to conceptualizing anew familiar issues within psychology. For the generalist interested in the broader meanings of social psychology to the specialist aiming to recapture the big issues with which the field was once identified, this is a must volume.  Bibek Debroy, "Valmiki Ramayana" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0143441140 | EPUB | pages: 1440 | 8.6 mb The Valmiki Ramayana remains a living force in the lives of the Indian people. A timeless epic, it recounts the legend of the noble prince Rama and his battle to vanquish the demon king Ravana.  Antonio L Rappa, "VILLAGE AND ITS DISCONTENTS, THE: MEANING AND CRITICISM IN LATE MODERNITY" English | ISBN: 9813140062 | 2016 | 208 pages | EPUB | 701 KB The Village and Its Discontents: Meaning and Criticism in Late Modernity is a hopeful collection of essays about villages in Southeast Asia and across the world. The 'village' is an idea, a construct, and a way of organising society. Villages constitute the basic unit of analyses in the arts, humanities and the social sciences, and these issues are presented through the collection of essays featured in this book. The contributors hope to generate interest in studying villages, to understand the meanings that attach themselves to the concept of the village, and to gain greater insights into multidisciplinary knowledge and analyses in today's highly developed global society.
 Sir Richard Francis Burton, "VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE OR TALES OF HINDU DEVILRY: The popular fairy-book style, the wondrous adventures of the hero and " English | ISBN: 1079132171 | 2019 | 203 pages | EPUB | 297 KB The VIKRAM And THE VAMPIRE or Tales of Hindu Devilry book
 Judith Müller, "Urban Mountain Waterscapes in Leh, Indian Trans-Himalaya: The Transformation of Hydro-Social Relations " English | ISBN: 3031182480 | 2022 | 197 pages | PDF | 11 MB The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent years, the town has experienced high rates of urbanisation on the one hand, and tourist numbers have increased exponentially on the other, which has implications for the water supply of the people living there. Through several years of on-site research, challenges on various levels were documented and current governance approaches were analysed. This research forms the basis for future approaches to sustainable development. |
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