Nirmala: 26 books
The Planets
Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly discovered...
Stargazing
Photographs of the Night Sky from the Archives of NASA
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
This collection of photographs illuminates the darkness of space in a whole new way. Images from the archives of NASA reveal the night sky's most extraordinary phenomena, from the radiant aurora borealis to awe-inspiring lunar eclipses. Science geeks, photography fans, and stargazers will pore over...
From Oppression to Assertion
Women and Panchayats in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The book explores the experiences, impact and responses of women in village panchayats in India after a Constitutional Amendment in 1992 made it mandatory to reserve one-third positions for women. Based on extensive field research with interviews of 1,200 panchayat representatives and community members...
The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka
From Communalism to Secession
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Among the examples of civil wars, armed secessionist movements and minority uprisings in the world today, many involve conflict between a minority group’s aim for political self-determination, and the nation state’s resistance to any diminution of sovereignty. With the expansion of the international...
India And Bay of Bengal Community the Bimstec Experiment
Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Techno Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a sub regional grouping. It is positively perceived as a bridge between the SAARC and the ASEAN regional groupings, as it embraces fier SAARC members viz., Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan and two...
by Nirmala Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System is a unique enterprise that should be viewed as an important contribution to our understanding of dark matter, neutrinos and the solar system. It describes these issues in terms of links, between cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, as well as between...
Remapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon
Remap, Reimagine and Retranslate
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts to understand the postcolonial condition. The author addresses the non-representation of Indian literature in theory, and the inadequacy...
Teaching in Primary Schools in China and India
Contexts of learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents’ beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children’s attainment.
This...
by Nirmala Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
This book is based on the latest syllabus prescribed by Rajasthan Technical University, Kota for B.Tech. V semester computer engineering, V semester Information Technology.
Reshaping City Governance
London, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
India’s cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion. While India is acknowledged as a rising power, poised to emerge into the front rank of global economies, the pace and scale of its urbanisation calls for more effective metropolitan management if that growth is not to be constrained...
Love, Life and Tea
Wacky Wise Tales for Mind Body and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2018
The best gifts in life are given freely.
Welcome to this enticingly overgrown backyard, where by the glow of a comforting campfire you will meet The Old Lady who shares with you her liberating secrets.
Sipping on aromatic tea, freshly picked from the wild surrounds, be regaled with fantastical...
by Kelum Jayasinghe, Nirmala Nath, Radiah Othman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This volume aims to contribute to the substance of this debate by looking at how the NPM ideas have been conceptualised, implemented and affected the accounting, accountability and auditing practices in emerging economies characterised by different ideologies, economic, social and political factors....
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