Kavita: 23 books
by Kavita Nalawde
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
In an ideal arranged marriage, parents choose partners for their children; boy and girl get married, have kids and live happily. However, things are much more complicated in real life.
Ria is married to Sunil. She feels that her existence is boring and routine but then suddenly things take...
As the World Ages
Rethinking a Demographic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
People are living longer, creating an unexpected boom in the elderly population. Longevity is increasing not only in wealthy countries but in developing nations as well. In response, many policy makers and scholars are preparing for a global crisis of aging. But for too long, Western experts have...
by Kavita Daswani
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD INDIE KONKIPUDDI HAS ALWAYS DREAMED OF BECOMING A FASHION REPORTER. She'd do anything to land an internship with glamorous Celebrity Style magazine -- even babysit publisher Aaralyn Taylor's two-year-old son. Indie's neurosurgeon dad can't understand why Indie would want to spend...
by Catherine M. Sleezer, Kavita Gupta, Darlene F. Russ-Eft
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment, Third Edition
For fifteen years, A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment has been the go-to text for those who are seeking useful, systematic approaches to needs assessment. Needs assessment is the first step in training, performance improvement, and community...
by Kathryn Pitkin Derose, David E. Kanouse, David P. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...
Global Cities At Work
New Migrant Divisions of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the...
by Kavita Daswani
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Can you find love when you think you already have it?
Perfect for fans of When Dimple Met Rishi, Lovetorn is a fun, romantic own voices story that proves that even if you think your destiny has already been chosen, your heart always makes its own choices.
Shalini is new to L.A. Not...
by Kavita Daswani
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Tanaya Shah longs for the wonderful world of Paris, the world that she fell in love with while watching Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina—so when a proposal comes along for an arranged marriage with a man who is living in Paris, Tanaya seizes the chance. But once she lands in the city, she shuns the match....
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Delivering Energy for Development eBook
Models for achieving energy access for the world’s poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Access to modern energy services remains low or non-existent for approximately 2.8 billion of the world’s population. Energy practitioners are facing the challenge of delivering access to modern energy services where poverty and lack of infrastructure makes it most difficult. Rising awareness about...
Violent Belongings
Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature...
The Last Plantagenet Consorts
Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.
The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America
(Spanish translation)
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...
The Electrified Mind
Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact. The chapters by distinguished mental health professionals delineate...
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