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An incredibly large number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are active in India, and more than 50,000 of them are working internationally. Millions of Indians are associated with voluntary work in some form or the other. This book brings together a whole range of topics - theoretical, legal, and practical - related to NGO work in India. The book looks at the challenges and successes in this field, beginning with a brief history of voluntary work, along ...
The book New Dynamics of Urban Sociology is a serious attempt to understand the forces and factors determining the parameters of urban sociology. The very first chapter introduces urban sociology. The next chapter deals with contemporary urban sociology.Globalisation definitely is a major force of social change. The study of the relationship between urbanization and social change has been made in the third chapter. Issues and challenges for the urban family and ...
The book entitled Sociology of Religion is a serious attempt to understand religion in a social framework. In the introductory chapter, study of religion by Emile Durkheim and Max Weber has been made to focus the role of religion in a modern society. The history of sociology of religion has been covered in the second chapter. The evolution of religion has been studied is the second chapter.The study of the process of secularisation constitutes the part of the ...
This book is a systematic presentation of the concepts and principles essential for understanding Engineering Thermodynamics, Engineering Mechanics and Strength of Materials. Textbook covers the complete syllabus of compulsory subject of Mechanical Engineering of Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow in particular and other Universities of the country in general for undergraduate students of engineering and technology.
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New Issues: New Approaches is an important attempt to answer the needs of changing perceptions in changing times. Indian scholar of English literature cannot remain bonded to British literature and language. He seeks to expand his horizon by including not only whatever is written in English in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Africa but also literature in other major languages like Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali. Besides established theories ...
The Fictional Art of Arun Joshi: An Existential Perspective examines the achievements of Arun Joshi as a novelist from a new perspective. Divided in six chapters followed by "Overall Evaluation." it analyses the entire corpus of Arun Joshi's novels and demonstrates that there is a pattern in his works. The innate urge to determine life's meaning in positive terms leads Joshi's protagonists to wage an incessant war against challenging situations. The ...
Fresh perspectives on fiction is a new kind of book. It incorporates principles of semiotics in the appreciation of a literary text, largely ignored by literary critics. The semiotic approach brings greater precision and distances ambiguity from literary criticism. It makes the whole exercise easy and pleasant.
Authors realized the need to write a book on “Clinical Anatomy in Ayurvedaâ€, when they were involved in teaching Anatomy to the post graduate students of Sharir Rachna at state Ayurvedic College, Lucknow. They not only felt the need to write this book but also felt nice to write a book on the subject. Having realized this fact, they started tracing the insight vision concerning Clinical Anatomy available in Ayurvedic literature ...
Your life is filled with choices. Everyday you make choices related to clothes, shoes-- and sometimes even about marriage proposals and jobs, for your sons and daughters, if not for yourself. Some seem trivial, while others are important. But apart from these, there is one choice which can have a major impact on your health and your life. That choice is of food. It is not a trivial matter. This choice affects not only your individual life but also the life of ...