Isha Books
211 books
Appended with an extended list of references for further reading, this book is an updated, comprehensive and highly informative reading source on Indian poverty. It deliberates upon the various facets of Indian poverty, analyses debates on methods of its measurement and more importantly focuses on the role of agriculture and rural development in poverty alleviation in India. It also covers in detail the gender aspects of Indian poverty and argues that poverty in ...
Discovering Himalaya is an informative anthology of over 30 descriptive essays, analytical articles, review papers and absorbing travelogues that portray the beauty and characteristic features of Himalayan ecosystem -- its glaciers, rivers, river basins, watershed etc., and also highlight the issues, problems and challenges related to their conservation and management. Not only that, their importance and role as an eco-tourism attraction has also been discussed ...
This book, Women?s Movement in India provides an introduction to issues related to women?s movement with focus on Indian women and its complete mapping. A critical overview of role of women in contemporary India is also given. This book attempts firstly towards understanding the relevance of sexism and sexual tights and secondly towards understanding major issues related to feminism, eco-feminism, globalization and women?s movements. An overview of history of ...
Women,Culture and Media provides an overview of issues related to women, culture and media with focus on contemporary women and gender, culture, communication and media studies. A critical overview of feminity it psychology and feminism is also given. This book attempts firstly towards understanding the relevance of sexism, gender gap and gender it apartheid and secondly towards understanding major issues related to gender sociology role and equality.
In 1876, Melvil Dewey published his research findings in Dewey Decimal System which totally changed the face of library throughout the world. Prior of the Dewey Decimal system, libraries used haphazard and unscientific ways to shelve the books in a library. Relative location and relative index are two new features in the new classification scheme by Dewey. Previously, books in libraries were numbered according to their locations on the shelves. In other words ...
With special reference to Uttar Pradesh, India.
The Encyclopaedia has been well-weaved into six volumes having deep bearing on several phases of tourism. It is now one of the fastest growing sectors of the economies of may countries. It is indeed interesting to note that several studies connected with tourism and aviation suggested that the focus of travel and tourism is gradually but deliberately shifting from Europe and North America to East/South Asia and the Pacific. Volume 1lays emphasis on concept and ...
The present publication is an up-to-date, authentic and comprehensive dictionary of astronomy, which recognizes that astronomy is a field in its own right, with its own language, and that terms and their definitions are important for professionals and students of astronomy. It aims to provide clear, concise, and correct definitions and descriptions of the terms used in astronomy. The terminology of all the branches of astronomy are included in this work. This ...
Children are the building-blocks of a nation. If they are provided the right kind of development, they contribute to the nation’s growth in a big way, when they grow old. This set in three volumes is focused on this subject and takes into account the various factors that influence a child’s development. Volume are deals with the emotional and behavioural aspect of a child’s personality and takes up the issues of child psychology and possibilities of child ...
This two-volume work discuss the implications of global environmental change and its adverse consequence. Further, it looks for solutions so that development can be achieved at a sustained level while minimising its adverse impact on humanity. First volume deals with the climate changes and causes and consequences of ozone layer depletion. Second volume deals with wide ranging aspects of climate's impact on health, sustainable development etc. Preservation of ...
The term 'social development' has come to acquire a very important and new salience in the literature and practice of development. In India visionaries, social reformers and leaders of India’s independence movement propounded a wider concept of social development. This encyclopaedia, analyses social development in India with a macroperspective, in relation to programmes initiated under the Five Year Plans. It examines Rural Development, Population and Family ...
This work in tow volumes is focused on rural life and how to make it worth living in decent manner. Volume one deals with the problem of rural education. It makes indepth analysis of various aspects of education and largely concentrated on how to make rural education meaningful and successful. Next volume deals with the development aspect of rural society. It states that more people live in rural areas than they do in urban settlements, across the globe. Thus ...
This book on educational technology gives the reader a deep insight into the need for increasing use of technology and the benefits and accrue from it. There are a number of issues that find mention in the book. The past government policy and plans and current improvements over past policies with regard to technology's use in education are discussed in detail. Teaching methods, role of information technology and computer, education of teachers, teaching aids etc. ...
The Encyclopaedia on 'Changing Trends in Health and Nutrition' has been weaved into four comprehensive volumes on various phases of diet and health by dr. Sujata K. Dass an eminent medical doctor and expert on the subject. She has laid emphasis on, good diet and nutrition which are the most essential ingredients, helpful to be the growth of the child science his early days. She is of the opinion that good and balanced nutrition during childhood helps to lay a ...
Women have been oppressed, suppressed, marginalized rather colonized by men since antiquity. Despite many positive developments in securing women’s human rights, discrimination against women continues to be embedded in the social system in many parts of the world, denying the majority of women the choice to decide how they live. Today emancipation of women and equality with man have become important issues. Existing gender inequalities and barriers to women ...
Despite modest reductions in poverty in recent decades, progress has been than hoped for, especially in low-income countries. Low educational attainment, illness, malnutrition, and high fertility are major contributors to income poverty. Different sets of factors and actors affect whether poor people achieve literacy and good health. Government policies and actions are important, but private providers of education and health services, the interactions between the ...