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 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 ...
This book on education aims at bringing out the benefits of revising the curriculum suitably to suit the changing needs of society so that the learner may derive maximum benefit from the education he receives and in turn serve the society in a better way. Innovation in education is the need of the hour. Things have changed radically over the past few decades in this age of knowledge explosion curriculum has not. The work aims at discussing the subject of ...
The information and communication technologies have opened new avenues of information and education with additional dimension of interactivity. The new technologies can transform education to meet the needs of mass education as well as individualization of education. They enhance training of teachers, provide different modes of learning and increases the pace of research. This book address the potential and role of technologies in contributing to improvement in ...
A teacher's role in a society is one of tremendous responsibility and importance. If a child is future. In such circumstances, teacher education becomes very important. It is a process that needs elaborate planning followed by action. Training of teachers today has assumed more importance than even before. And it has become a contnous process that goes on even during the service period of a teacher. This book discusses different dimension of varied importance ...
Biotechnology is the term for a group of technologies that pursue the understanding the use of organisms and biological processes for health, social, environmental or economic applications or outcomes. Modern biotechnology includes techniques ranging from molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry and immunology through to biological applications of information technology. The present book provides and indepth analysis of the trends and principles of modern ...
This three volume work on minorities picks out problems of different kinds of minorities and analyses them in great detail. Volume one focuses on certain major issues faced by racial and ethnical minorities. Second volume deals with the social conflict that arise to the disadvantage of minorities. Issues of human rights and protection of minorities etc. also find description. In third volume, we come to know about how some minorities are fighting for survival, ...
Water is source of life on earth. It also causes diseases if not managed in the right way. Water resource management and sanitation is a major health issue. Issue related with water and sanitation are examined in depth in this book. Community development, issues like sources of food supply, management of irrigation water, hygiene promotion programmes role of government and NGOs, UNICEF related implication etc, form the core of subject matter of this work. The ...