Download or read book Indica written by Pranay Lal and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few places have been as influential as the Indian subcontinent in shaping the course of life on Earth. Yet its evolution has remained largely unchronicled. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent fills this gap. From the oldest rocks, formed three billion years ago in Karnataka, to the arrival of our ancestors 50,000 years ago on the banks of the Indus, the author meticulously sifts through wide-ranging scientific disciplines and through the layers of earth to tell us the story of India, filled with a variety of fierce reptiles, fantastic dinosaurs, gargantuan mammals and amazing plants. Beautifully produced in full colour, with a rare collection of images, illustrations and maps, Indica is full of fascinating, lesser-known facts. It shows us how every piece of rock and inch of soil is a virtual museum, and how, over billions of years, millions of spectacular creatures have reproduced, walked and lived over and under it.
Download or read book Camera Indica written by Christopher Pinney and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy. These quiet but moving images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a topic anthropologist Christopher Pinney explores in Camera Indica. Studying photographic practice in India, Pinney traces photography's various purposes and goals from colonial through postcolonial times. He identifies three key periods in Indian portraiture: the use of photography under British rule as a quantifiable instrument of measurement, the later role of portraiture in moral instruction, and the current visual popular culture and its effects on modes of picturing. Photographic culture thus becomes a mutable realm in which capturing likeness is only part of the project. Lavishly illustrated, Pinney's account of the change from depiction to invention uncovers fascinating links between these evocative images and the society and history from which they emerge.
Download or read book Pax indica India and the world of the 21st century written by Shashi Tharoor and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian diplomacy, a veteran told Shashi Tharoor many years ago, is like the love- making of an elephant: it is conducted at a very high level, accompanied by much bellowing, and the results are not known for two years. In this lively, informative and insightful work, the award-winning author and parliamentarian brilliantly demonstrates how Indian diplomacy has become sprightlier since then and where it needs to focus in the 21st century. Explaining why foreign policy matters to an India focused on its own domestic transformation, Tharoor surveys the country's major international relationships, evokes its soft power and global responsibilities, analyses the workings of the Ministry of External Affairs and parliament and assesses the impact of public opinion on government policy. Indeed, Tharoor presents his ideas about a contemporary new grand strategy for the nation, arguing that India must move beyond non-alignment to multi-alignment. This book sets out a clear vision of an India now ready to assume global responsibility in the contemporary world. Pax Indica is another substantial achievement from one of our finest Indian authors.
Download or read book Lucian s True History written by Lucian (of Samosata.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora Indica written by Joseph Dalton Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora Indica Or Descriptions of Indian Plants written by William Roxburgh and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Materia Indica written by Whitelaw Ainslie and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Materia Indica Or Some Account of Those Articles which are Employed by the Hindoos and Other Eastern Nations in Their Medicine Arts and Agriculture written by Whitelaw Ainslie and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marijuana As Medicine written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-12-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Can marijuana ease their symptoms? Would it be breaking the law to turn to marijuana as a medication? There are few sources of objective, scientifically sound advice for people in this situation. Most books about marijuana and medicine attempt to promote the views of advocates or opponents. To fill the gap between these extremes, authors Alison Mack and Janet Joy have extracted critical findings from a recent Institute of Medicine study on this important issue, interpreting them for a general audience. Marijuana As Medicine? provides patientsâ€"as well as the people who care for themâ€"with a foundation for making decisions about their own health care. This empowering volume examines several key points, including: Whether marijuana can relieve a variety of symptoms, including pain, muscle spasticity, nausea, and appetite loss. The dangers of smoking marijuana, as well as the effects of its active chemical components on the immune system and on psychological health. The potential use of marijuana-based medications on symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and several other specific disorders, in comparison with existing treatments. Marijuana As Medicine? introduces readers to the active compounds in marijuana. These include the principal ingredient in Marinol, a legal medication. The authors also discuss the prospects for developing other drugs derived from marijuana's active ingredients. In addition to providing an up-to-date review of the science behind the medical marijuana debate, Mack and Joy also answer common questions about the legal status of marijuana, explaining the conflict between state and federal law regarding its medical use. Intended primarily as an aid to patients and caregivers, this book objectively presents critical information so that it can be used to make responsible health care decisions. Marijuana As Medicine? will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, health care providers, patient counselors, medical faculty and studentsâ€"in short, anyone who wants to learn more about this important issue.
Download or read book The Neem Tree Azadirachta Indica an Inhibitor of Insect Feeding Growth 1970 85 written by Henry Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vibgyor Indica written by Priti Pawnday and published by Let's Write Publication. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a light bedtime reading to its readers. There is a short story of a ten year old girl Manju, who's fighting hard with our education system to achieve success in our studies while poverty surrounds her. On the other side, is the story of a musician soldier, a band master, who's fighting with our system at the last leg of his life. But achieved success in his efforts due to some helping hand of the same system. The brighter side of the book brings out a life sketch of Badi Amma, the great grandma of the family, which brings out the happy side of the Indian joint family system. The colours of Holi provide the reader with brighter hues of our festivals. On the other side, the colourful weaving of IKAT style and the pearl culture brightens one corner of the book. There is also an interview with the magician P. C. Sorcar, which takes one into the world of magic. The magic of mathematics and its intricacies of Hindu maths. The reader can also enjoy the lighter side of a cocktail party attended by a novice towards the end in the form of a satire. Thus the writer tries to give different hues of our culture and society which resides in our Great country INDICA (As given its name by the Greeks)
Download or read book Megasthenes Indica written by Richard Stoneman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world. The Indica was a pioneering work of ethnography that exemplified a new direction in Hellenistic writing; India was little-known to the Greeks before the expedition of Alexander the Great in 326–325 BCE, and Megasthenes, who resided as an ambassador in the Maurya capital Pataliputra for some time, provided the classical world with most of what it knew about India. Megasthenes’ book, which became a classic in antiquity, now survives only in fragments preserved in other Greek and Latin authors. Stoneman’s work offers a reliable and accessible version of all the writings that can plausibly be ascribed to Megasthenes. His subject ranges from detailed accounts of social structure and the royal household, to descriptions of elephant hunting and Indian philosophical ideas. His book is the only written source contemporary with the Maurya kingdom of Candragupta, since writing was not in use in India at this date. This translation provides a path to clearer understanding of Greek ethnography and a valuable resource on Indian history. The book will be of value not only to classical scholars with an interest in Hellenistic history and cultural attitudes, and to their students, but also to scholars working on the early history of India, who have had to rely (unless they are also Greek scholars) on scattered and dated collections of evidence.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Indica written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palaeontologia Indica written by Geological Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flora Indica Or Descriptions of Indian Plants written by William Roxburgh and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Materia Indica Or Some Account of Articles which are Employed by the Hindoos and Other Eastern Nations in Their Medicine Arts and Agriculture Comprising Also Formulae with Practical Observations written by Ainslie and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
