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Free Download F. Tomasson Jannuzi, "India's Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy Of Agrarian Reform"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367016761 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.5 mb
This study shows that the failure of successive Indian governments to effect meaningful agrarian reforms has led to a political economy in rural India that is shaped, as it was prior to independence, largely by the interests of an elite minority of landholders. This group, Jannuzi argues, has worked both to deny the socioeconomic changes promised by modern India's own founders and to thwart the needs and interests of the rural majority who continue to lack secure rights in land. Examining the government's inability to establish a coherent national program for agrarian reform, the author focuses on the failure of a process that, on the one hand, has guaranteed India's landholding elites strong and continuous representation in the shaping of such agrarian reforms as were legislated and partially implemented and, on the other, has given no meaningful voice to the people at the base of what he calls "the hierarchy of interests in land" in rural India. The author skillfully interweaves three major themes: (1) the remarkable continuity in the thinking of policy makers in both colonial and independent India as they struggled to articulate and promote agrarian policies; (2) the persistence of economic arguments for agrarian reform that emphasize the idea that large units of cultivation offer inherent productive efficiency advantages over small holdings; and (3) the role of both British and Indian decision makers in maintaining a conceptual dichotomy between the issue of increasing productivity and the issue of distributive justice. Noting the expanding political participation of India's rural poor as well as the continuing need for increased agricultural productivity, Jannuzi asserts that future Indian leaders must emphasize the complementarity of the goals of productivity growth and distributive justice. As they seek to form a political nexus with the rural majority, future leaders will be challenged to implement agrarian policies that actually transform the political econ

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Free Download India's Near East: A New History by Avinash Paliwal
English | November 1, 2024 | ISBN: 0197794696 | 480 pages | PDF | 9.83 Mb
India's near east encompasses Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian states of the 'Northeast'-Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. Celebrated as a theatre of geo-economic connectivity typified by India's 'Act East' policy, the region is key not only to India's great-power rivalry with China, which first boiled over in the 1962 war, but to the idea(s) of India itself. It is also one of the most intricately partitioned lands anywhere on Earth. Rent by communal and class violence, the region has birthed extreme forms of religious and ethnic nationalisms and communist movements. The Indian state's survival instinct and pursuit of regional hegemony have only accentuated such extremes.

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Free Download K. P. Stoller MD, "Incurable Me: Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice"
English | ISBN: 1510707980 | 2016 | 216 pages | AZW3, MOBI | 2 MB + 2 MB
In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine's most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K. P. Stoller also explains how to treat some of the most worrisome diseases and conditions afflicting humans todayincluding Lyme disease, brain trauma, dementia, and autism.

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Free Download Incredible Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of Unbelievable True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers by Bill O'Neill
English | November 11, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CN5P6SQ8 | 167 pages | EPUB | 5.92 Mb
Are you ready to have your mind wander while you discover some of the craziest and most interesting true stories ever told?

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Free Download Ben P Robertson, "Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance: Little Histories and Neutral Territories"
English | 2009 | pages: 259 | ISBN: 1851966277 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Explores the connections between British and American Romanticism, focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). This study argues that Inchbald and Hawthorne are representative of a larger British/American cultural confluence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Free Download Matt Cook, "In The Small Of My Backyard"
English | ISBN: 0916397785 | 2002 | 96 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Spoken word artist Matt Cook tackles life perceptively in bars, his neighborhood, and at work. His poems are a shrewd blend of cracker-barrel philosopher and an over-caffeinated Groucho Marx. Quirky and humorous, his writing is perfect for people who think they hate poetry (and those who love it, too).

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Free Download In Defense of Barbarism: Non-Whites Against the Empire by Louisa Yousfi, translated by Andy Bliss
English | January 21, 2025 | ISBN: 180429442X | True EPUB | 112 pages | 0.3 MB
A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African roots

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Free Download In Case of Loss by Lutz Seiler, translated by Martyn Crucefix
English | April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1913505782 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 1.5 MB
In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from the last twenty-five years, revealing essays that are different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's anecdotal and associative pieces throw fascinating light on literature and his background, not least the environmental and human catastrophe of the Soviet-era mining in the community he grew up in, 'the tired villages . . . beneath which lay the ore, uranium'. Other essays focus on poetry, including his awakening to it while waiting in an army truck on his military service, and there are pieces on German poets such as Ernst Meister, Jürgen Becker and Peter Huchel. The title essay describes the poet Huchel's notebook, a kind of dictionary of images organised by mood and location.

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Free Download Improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop production (Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science, 150) by Professor Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Professor Brent Kaiser, Professor Nandula Raghuram
English | March 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1801464707 | 454 pages | PDF | 9.51 Mb
"This book is a jewel, its many facets revealing the full range of advanced technical and technological data and innovative strategies in nitrogen management aimed at improving agricultural productivity and supporting sustainable and resilient agriculture, while also minimizing negative environmental impacts in line with sustainable development goals." (Book Review Published in International Journal of Environmental Studies - Professor Nadia Boutaleb, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco)

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Free Download Beat Kümin, "Imperial Villages "
English | ISBN: 900434506X | 2019 | 292 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Hundreds of rural communities tasted political freedom in the Holy Roman Empire. For shorter or longer periods, villagers managed local affairs without subjection to territorial overlords. In this first book-length study, Beat Kümin focuses on the five case studies of Gochsheim and Sennfeld (in present-day Bavaria), Sulzbach and Soden (Hesse) and Gersau (Switzerland). Adopting a comparative perspective across the late medieval and early modern periods, the analysis of multiple sources reveals distinct extents of rural self-government, the forging of communalized confessions and an enduring attachment to the empire. Negotiating inner tensions as well as mounting centralization pressures, Reichsdörfer provide privileged insights into rural micro-political cultures while their stories resonate with resurgent desires for greater local autonomy in Europe today.

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