Vijay Kumar
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The present work aims at understanding the nature and features of ancient Indian society during different historical phases. The evolutionary approach has been applied in order to analyse the changes took place in various social institutions and refutes the claim of those who see the ancient Indian society as unchanging. Alongwith various internal and external factors responsible for the occurrence of numerous social changes, the economic developments, the role ...
Psychology is the science of individual or group behaviour. Psychology is intimately related to the biological and social sciences. Some of the divisions within psychology are applied fields, while others are more experimental in nature. The various applied fields include clinical, counselling, industrial, engineering, or personnel, consumer, and environmental. The most important of these specialities, clinical psychology, is concerned with the diagnosis and ...
The developing and underdeveloped countries are a very mixed collection of countries. They differ widely in area, population density, and natural resources. They are also at different stages in the development of market and financial institutions and of an effective administrative framework. These differences are sufficient to warn against wide-sweeping generalizations about the causes of underdevelopment and all-embracing theoretical models of economic ...
Human Rights’ is not a new coinage—though it has gained popularity in recent decades. Manu says "Just as the mother Earth gives equal support to all the living beings so also a King should give equal treatment to all the citizens in the same manner as a mother towards her children". Though all the modern nation-states has made provisions for protection of basic human rights in their constitutions, many international or world organisations have been ...
Sociological foundations of education need to be understood in terms of the role of the teachers, the community, and the administrations, the students and the historical traditions of a particular society. Areas like the school community relations, the school culture, the recruitment and the training of teachers, the history and geography of a particular community and the history of educational problems, constitute the curriculum of the sociological foundations ...
A large portion of educational research involves the measurement of human abilities and traits, therefore, the problems of measurement are fundamental and the most fundamental are those having to do with the identification and specification of the abilities and traits whose measurement is desired. Some progress has been made toward determining what general intelligence tests measure and there is some information concerning the nature of achievement in the various ...
Much work has been done on the role of dreams in the life of children Freud had tried to understand the fears and aspirations of children and has developed a very objective structure of dreams, their interpretation and their role in the development of the personality of the child.
Basically, Public Relations (PR) is the management function which evaluates public relations, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or an organization with public interest, and plans and executes a programme of action to earn public understanding and acceptance. It is the deliberate, planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain mutual understanding and acceptance. This book is encyclopaedic in nature which encompasses valuable ...
Today public administration is often regarded as including also some responsibility for determining the policies and programs of governments. Specifically, it is the planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling of government operations. Public administration is a feature of all nations, whatever their system of government. Within nations public administration is practiced at the central, intermediate, and local levels. Indeed, the relationships ...
Tribals are the original inhabitants of a particular locality. Though almost all over the world tribals are found, India is a hub of different tribal groups, bigger and smaller. Due to typical life style, hilly/ mountainous or difficult geographical terrain as their abode, they could not get the fruits of development and advancement and could not be assimilated in the mainstream of national life. Though, in case of India, the govt. has formulated and implemented ...
Aimed at students studying mycology, biotechnology, fungal biology and fungal genetics, this book fulfil all their needs. Clear explanations are given of all the principle concepts. Examples are easy-to-follow. The aim of this book is to cover different aspects of fungal biology in one volume. This book is the full text, covering all major areas of fungal biology and providing insight into many topical areas. It covers areas such as fungal structure, mechanisms ...
This book 'Gandhi : The Man, His Life and Vision' is neither a biography nor a book on Gandhian philosophy. It is in fact a book which depicts the process of the development of Mohandas into Mahatma Gandhi. The heading itself suggests that here the whole story emphasises to depict him as the journey of a simple man. The book deals with the Gandhian vision which, according to author, was imbibed by Gandhiji taking it from the Indian Hindu Tradition. The author ...
This book, one in the series of book on animal groups and endocrinology, brings within purview the subject of insects and their hormones. Insects are no exception, role in their survival, development and reproduction, as they do for other animal groups. Hormones are largely secreted by the brain, and are liberated in the blood to keep the insect actively growing, or maybe directed to specific endocrine glands via the connective nerve to control molting, heart ...
This book in the series of books on insect and their world they inhabit brings to attention on the arena of insect ecology. It takes into account the way insect interactions with members of their own species and to their environment determines the way they are both perceived and exploited, and how these interactions, essentially symbiotic, constitute both their behaviour and ecological constructions. In addition, staples of ecological studies such as life cycles, ...
The decade of 1990s and initial seven years of the new millennium that constitute the period of this history were some of the most eventful and challenging years for the Indian Audit and Accounts Department (IA and AD). The financial and economic reforms in the early 1990s, loosely called the liberalization reforms, set in motion, a momentum that is still continuing. These resulted in a massive shift in government policy from a controlled regime to a more open ...
Biochemistry plays an important role in understanding any form of organic species, and insects are no exception. It uses the methods and concepts of organic and physical chemistry to investigate living matter systems. Biochemists study both the structure and properties of all the constituents of living matter (such as fats, proteins, enzymes, hormones, vitamins, DNA, cells, membranes and organs) together with the complex relations and pathways of metabolism. This ...
The fields of biophysics, biochemistry and molecular biology have developed from physiological research. In the case of insects, which make up for a sizeable component of organic life, in addition to making visible immense diversity in biological life, physiology becomes more interesting and viable. This book, one in the series on insects and the world they inhabit, has been written as a manual which brings under discussion the principles, processes and concepts ...
Democracy without citizen deliberation and participation is ultimately an empty and meaningless concept. The understanding of politics, and many people's desire to supplement the representation they receive via elected politicians, is often the starting point for a growing number of experiments and initiatives that create new space for citizens to directly influence decisions affecting their lives. In the 1990s such deliberative and inclusionary processes (DIPs) ...
This book, one in the series of books on the world of insect, concentrates its focus on the social and auditory behaviour, defence mechanisms and flight responses of insects. It delineates the behavioural patterns of insect in all these cases, making efforts to action and responses etc., in insects, which have been classified as per their orders and families. The attention is centred upon the factors in social behaviour that insect life, the factors of ...
Care and/or protection is needed when a child (0-13 years) or young person (14-16 years) is believed to be 'at risk' because they are experiencing (or likely to experience) such things as: Physical or sexual abuse. Violence or conflict between their caregivers. Emotional or physical neglect. Behaviour which is beyond their, or their caregivers' control. Lack of stables or adequate care. Protecting children from suffering harm, ill-treatment, abuse, neglect and ...