The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India By Lyla Mehta (editor), Hans Nicolai Adam (editor), Shilpi Srivastava (editor)
2021 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1032190795 | PDF | 7 MB
This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond.

The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey By Sam Kaplan
2006 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0804754322 | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines how interest groups in Turkey, including religious nationalists, neoliberal industrialists, and the military, promote and develop their particular worldviews through education and in school curricula. The aim is to explain how these competing groups define schoolchildren's educational experiences and how mass schooling creates the contexts in which children make sense of knowledge, power, and social change.The Pedagogical State offers an ethnographic case study that draws out the cultural and political processes by which education is reconfigured around the interests and understandings of different sectors in contemporary Turkish society. Using a wide array of sources, the author shows how a school system articulates a moral order at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class. Exploring how this articulation plays itself out in a Turkish village provides a nuanced approach to the interplay of religious heritage, secularity, economic globalization, militarism, and identity politics in society at large.

The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108837344 | 489 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are strikingly different from their closest lizard relatives, and their origins and early diversification have long challenged and enthused evolutionary biologists. The origin and early evolution of snakes is a broad, interdisciplinary topic for which experts in palaeontology, ecology, physiology, embryology, phylogenetics, and molecular biology have made important contributions. The last 25 years has seen a surge of interest, resulting partly from new fossil material, but also from new techniques in molecular and systematic biology. This volume summarises and discusses the state of our knowledge, approaches, data, and ongoing debates. It provides reviews, syntheses, new data and perspectives on a wide range of topics relevant to students and researchers in evolutionary biology, neontology, and palaeontology.

The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618-1654: A Selection By David Booy (editor)
2007 | 396 Pages | ISBN: 075465186X | PDF | 6 MB
Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious. London wood-turner and puritan, Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658) is exceptional for having compiled fifty notebooks between 1618 and 1654. Although only seven of these are extant, they not only provide a wealth of valuable information about life in seventeenth-century London, but more importantly give access to the author's personal world, both inner and outer. Providing substantial excerpts from the surviving notebooks, this edition covers the broad range of subjects that animated Wallington's everyday life. Accounts of incidents in his domestic, working and religious life sit side by side with sustained meditations on his spiritual state; reports on national events are given, along with their possible providential meanings. Particularly illuminating are Wallington's reflections on his own mental wellbeing, at times suicidal, at others ecstatic. From letters on religious matters to expressions of anxiety over the illnesses and mishaps of his wife and children, from vexed thoughts about money matters to chronicling the tumults of civil war London, this collection provides a window into everyday life in seventeenth-century England. By making the writings of Nehemiah Wallington available in a modern edited edition, fully footnoted and referenced, together with a substantial scholarly introduction, we hope that this little-known London wood-turner will soon take his deserved place besides Pepys and Evelyn as one of the authentic voices commenting on early modern England.

The New Bail-In Legislation: An Analysis of European Banking Resolution by Angela Maria Maddaloni, Giulia Scardozzi
English | EPUB | 2022 | 96 Pages | ISBN : 3030875598 | 2.8 MB
Financial stability is a pillar of well-functioning financial markets. After the last financial crisis, European policymakers harmonised banking regulation and revised the framework of banking resolution. The introduction of the bail-in legislation is a natural experiment to improve the understanding of banking resolution and how it affected the funding strategies of banks. This book assesses whether financial stability has been strengthened by the change in banks' resolution policy with a focus on the bail-in.

The Netherlands Travel Guide 2022 : The Essential Guide to The Netherlands, Discover Top Sights, Hidden Gems, and learn how to Live Like the Locals! by Pearl Prints
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9J335GY | 93 pages | EPUB | 3.47 Mb
Netherlands travel guide 2022

The Money Game Plan: A Tried and True Guide to Financial Competence and Capability by Rachel Wade
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B7NCB5L7 | 70 pages | EPUB | 0.21 Mb
Do you wish to create a budget plan that genuinely serves your needs? Are you prepared to change the way you interact with money? With the assistance of your favorite financial coach, Rachel Wade who has taught millions of individuals how to establish a regular money saving habits.

The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide: Customize and extend Bootstrap 5
with Sass and jаvascript to create unique website designs
English | 2022 | ISBN: 180107643X | 384 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 15 MB

The Middle-Tier Of The Architectural Photography: How To Handle Photo Techniques by Granville Ostorga
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09LXZHL9X | 255 pages | EPUB | 0.62 Mb
An architectural photographer uses his or her artistic talent and composition skills to capture images of structures on film. Architectural photographers have a combination of skills and experience and frequently a college degree.

The Metrics of Happiness: The Art and Science of Measuring Personal Happiness and Societal Wellbeing
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031109120 | 345 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of how happiness and wellbeing are measured. It presents an accessible summary of the philosophy, methodology, and applicability of the various measurement techniques that have been generated by the leaders of the happiness movement. It traces the history of development of the core ideas, and clarifies the unexpectedly wide range of techniques that are used. The book provides an unbiased assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and differentiates the contributions that have been made by psychologists, economists, environmentalists, and health scientists. It examines applications at a personal scale, in the workplace, at a societal scale, and on the world stage. It does so in an easy-to-read anecdotal writing style that will appeal to a wide range of academic and lay readers who enjoy popularized non-fiction that address matters of social concern.