R.K. Saxena
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The book animal Adaptations explores the most fascinating and bizarre types of adaptations acquired by animals which have helped them to live comfortably in the harsh and most hostile environments. Firstly these adaptations refer to the evolutionary mechanisms that have produced them and they secondly refer to the traits that enhance the survival and reproductive success of their bearers. These adaptations have been randomly chosen and discussed by the authors to ...
Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates is written bearing in mind that the modern trends of studies on the chordates have changed drastically from classical study of one or two commonly available representative types to rather detailed comparative account of organs and organ systems present in all available extant forms.The book provides an introduction to structure-function concept at the level of organs and organ systems, which is fundamental to the understanding ...
The rulers of Rajputana under Mughal hegemony, have been designated as Zamindars by (late) Prof. Nurul Hasan. Karkhanas, literally mean a place where a "workshop" is located for public use, but in the medieval context it carried a different connotation. The Rajput States taking clue from the medieval chroniclers applied it to include workshops of manufactures, royal household, court, royal stables, stores of articles of food and drink besides true ...
Varied are the problems in India today, that still defy their solution. Since the year of independence, enormous developments in every field have taken place in our country. India being a welfare state has tried and still trying through state intervention to remove their social evils. Alexanderowicz rightly observed "A new constitution, like the score of a new orchestral work, can not be fully understood by reading alone but waits for 'performance through ...
The articles in this book cover varied dimensions of environment protection viz. legal, constitutional provisions, generation of awareness and case studies related to specific regions. The book also highlights areas such as watershed management, promotion of sustainable use of natural resources and pollution of air, water, space, outer space, land areas and oceans.
The concept of sustainable development has been defined as a kind of development that meets the needs of the future generations to meet their own needs. The paradigm of sustainable development is an outcome of the concept of developmentalism and environmentalism. Population explosion, rapid industrialization and exploitation of natural resources is resulting into ecological imbalance, scarcity of resources, pollution and many such problems. This ecological crisis ...