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Book From a Trickle to a Torrent

Download or read book From a Trickle to a Torrent written by Geoff Childs and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education? From a Trickle to a Torrent documents the demographic and social consequences of educational migration from Nubri, a Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal. The authors explore parents’ motivations for sending their children to distant schools and monasteries, social connections that shape migration pathways, young people’s estrangement from village life, and dilemmas that arise when educated individuals are unable or unwilling to return and reside in their native villages. Drawing on numerous decades of research, this study documents a transitional period when the future of a Himalayan society teeters on the brink of irreversible change.

Book Locating Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Isaksen Leonard
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780804754422
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Locating Home written by Karen Isaksen Leonard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multisite ethnography examines the construction of personal and group identity in the diaspora by emigrants from Hyderabad, India, settling in Pakistan, the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, and the Gulf states of the Middle East at the end of the 20th century.

Book Finance Ethics

Download or read book Finance Ethics written by John R. Boatright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of the critical ethical issues in financial theory and practice Compiled by volume editor John Boatright, Finance Ethics consists of contributions from scholars from many different finance disciplines. It covers key issues in financial markets, financial services, financial management, and finance theory, and includes chapters on market regulation, due diligence, reputational risk, insider trading, derivative contracts, hedge funds, mutual and pension funds, insurance, socially responsible investing, microfinance, earnings management, risk management, bankruptcy, executive compensation, hostile takeovers, and boards of directors. Special attention is given to fairness in markets and the delivery of financial services, and to the duties of fiduciaries and agents Rigorous analysis of the topics covered provides essential information and practical guidance for practitioners in finance as well as for students and academics with an interest in finance ethics Ethics in Finance skillfully explains the need for ethics in the personal conduct of finance professionals and the operation of financial markets and institutions.

Book Journalism and Democracy in Asia

Download or read book Journalism and Democracy in Asia written by Michael Bromley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also considering journalism in print, radio and new media, in relation to such questions as the role of social, political and economic liberalization in bringing about a blooming of the media, the relationship between the media and the development of democracy and civil society, and how journalism copes under authoritarian rule. With contributions from highly regarded experts in the region examining a broad range of issues from across Asia, this book will be of high interest to students and scholars in political communications, journalism and mass communication and Asian studies.

Book The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia

Download or read book The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia written by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian history.

Book Who s Who in Canadian Business 2001

Download or read book Who s Who in Canadian Business 2001 written by Gillian K. Holmes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's Who in Canadian Business, now in its 21st year, is a comprehensive and independent guide to Canada's business elite. Listing over 5,000 corporate and entrepreneurial leaders, each with a detailed biography and contact information, this directory is an excellent resource for anyone needing information on Canada's business world. Biographies include such information as current employment, address, education, career history, publications, favourite charities, and honours. Those listed are included because of the positions they hold in Canadian business and industry, or because of the contributions they have made to business in Canada. The directory is updated annually; new and updated biographies are marked for easy reference. All biographies are indexed by company name. Included in this edition is the PROFIT 100 / Next 100 listing of Canada's fastest-growing companies, as well as a list of professional associations, each with full address, contact names, and a brief description.

Book Long Partition and the Making of Modern

Download or read book Long Partition and the Making of Modern written by Vazira Fazila and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Remarkable Study Based On More Than Two Years Of Ethnographic And Archival Research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar Argues That The Combined Interventions Of The Two Postcolonial States Were Enormously Important In Shaping These Massive Displacements. She Examines The Long, Contentious, And Ambivalent Process Of Drawing Political Boundaries And Making Distinct Nation-States In The Midst Of This Historic Chaos. Zamindar Crosses Political And Conceptual Boundaries To Bring Together Oral Histories With North Indian Muslim Families Divided Between The Two Cities Of Delhi And Karachi With Extensive Archival Research In Previously Unexamined Urdu Newspapers And Government Records Of India And Pakistan. She Juxtaposes The Experiences Of Ordinary People Against The Bureaucratic Interventions Of Both Postcolonial States To Manage And Control Refugees And Administer Refugee Property. As A Result, She Reveals The Surprising History Of The Making Of The Western Indo-Pak Border, One Of The Most Highly Surveillanced In The World, Which Came To Be Instituted In Response To This Refugee Crisis, In Order To Construct National Difference Where It Was The Most Blurred. In Particular, Zamindar Examines The Muslim Question At The Heart Of Partition. From The Margins And Silences Of National Histories, She Draws Out The Resistance, Bewilderment, And Marginalization Of North Indian Muslims As They Came To Be Pushed Out And Divided By Both Emergent Nation-States. It Is Here That Zamindar Asks Us To Stretch Our Understanding Of Partition Violence To Include This Long, And In Some Sense Ongoing, Bureaucratic Violence Of Postcolonial Nationhood, And To Place Partition At The Heart Of A Twentieth Century Of Border-Making And Nation-State Formation. A Product Of Outstanding Historical-Ethnographic Research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar'S Book Tells Like No One Has Done Before The Maddeningly Tangled Story Of How, In The Years After The Partition Of 1947, India And Pakistan Actually Came To Separate Their Territories, Properties, And Peoples Into Two Sovereign States. Zamindar'S Ability To Weave Into A Single Narrative The National And The Local, The Administrative And The Personal, The Everyday And The Epochal, Is Truly Remarkable. This Is A Path Breaking Contribution To Modern South Asian Studies. Partha Chatterjee, Author Of The Politics Of The Governed: Reflections On Popular Politics In Most Of The World A Deeply Moving Account Of The Contingent Category Of The No-Questions-Asked Natural Citizen Within The Indian And Pakistani Nation-States, At Birth And In Their Long, Postnatal Condition. The Hurriedly Fixed National Boundaries Here Both Necessitate And Entice, Contain And Penalize Crossings. Zamindar Richly Documents How For Some Minority Groups Travel, Kinship Ties, And A National Longing Have To Be Continually Bared To Lay Claim To Citizenship Within A Multireligious Dispensation. An Unsettling Work That Breaks Through The Chalk Circles Circumscribing The Retellings Of Our Separate And National Pasts. Shahid Amin, Author Of Writing Alternative Histories: A View From India A Remarkable Exercise Of Ethno-History From Below. In Addition To Official Sources, Zamindar Has Collected Testimonies In Archives And Interviewed Survivors Of Partition To Offer An Original And Significant Chronicle Of The Nation-Making Process In Both India And Pakistan. Christophe Jaffrelot, Author Of The Hindu Nationalist Movement And Indian Politics, 1925 To The 1990S This Is A Significant And Path-Breaking Book And Is Likely To Become The Standard Study Of The Subject. It Will Be Cited Authoritatively Or Be Argued With For Some Time To Come. Aamir Mufti, Author Of Enlightenment In The Colony: The Jewish Question And The Crisis Of Postcolonial Culture

Book Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel

Download or read book Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel written by Will Levington Comfort and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fate Knocks at the Door" is an ancient Historical fiction story book written by Will Levington Comfort. Set within the bustling streets of New York City, "Fate Knocks on the Door" chronicles the memories of characters created towards the backdrop of early America in the twentieth century. "Fate Knocks at the Door" is a tribute to the enduring strength of human perseverance and the unyielding spirit that propels people earlier within the face of life's unanticipated problems and turns. The story interweaves the lives of immigrants, artists, and commercial enterprise executives, ensuing in a complicated tapestry of human reports and goals. The story, that's geared at some surroundings of societal adjustments and technological improvements, presents an in-intensity depiction of the moving terrain of early American subculture in the course of the 20 th century.

Book Islamic Studies

Download or read book Islamic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Let Us Descend

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jesmyn Ward
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-09-03
  • ISBN : 1982104503
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Let Us Descend written by Jesmyn Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""'Let us descend,' the poet now began, 'and enter this blind world.'" -Inferno, Dante Alighieri. Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land-the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward's most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages"

Book D  liberations Et M  moires de la Soci  t   Royale Du Canada

Download or read book D liberations Et M moires de la Soci t Royale Du Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extra Bases

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  • Author : Jules Tygiel
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803294479
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Extra Bases written by Jules Tygiel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously published essays exploring various aspects of baseball history includes an introduction to baseball historiography and a discussion of Jackie Robinson and Jim Crow baseball.

Book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fate Knocks at the Door

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  • Author : Will Levington Comfort
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Fate Knocks at the Door written by Will Levington Comfort and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Administrator

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  • Author : United States. Rural Electrification Administration
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book Report of the Administrator written by United States. Rural Electrification Administration and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Dictionary of Indonesia

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Indonesia written by R. B. Cribb and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia is Asia's third largest country in both population and area, a sprawling tropical archipelago of some 180 million people from hundreds of ethnic groups with a complex and turbulent history. One of Asia's newly industrializing countries, it is already a major economic powerhouse. In over 800 clear and succinct entries, the dictionary covers people, places, and organizations, as well as economics, culture, and political thought from Indonesia's ancient history up until the recent past. Includes a comprehensive bibliography, maps, chronology, list of abbreviations, and appendix of election results and major office-holders. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover the events that have occurred in Indonesia's history in the past fifteen years.