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Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs
Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums (muraqqaʿs) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums – now in Berlin, Baroda, London, Paris, and Manchester – were assembled for or collected by the Mughal nawabs of Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), local elites in Bengal and Bihar, as well as Eu…
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- 978-90-04-71583-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Islamic Manuscripts and Books, Volume: 23
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Indian Agriculture Towards 2030
This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030). The book comprises of ten…
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- 978-981-19-0763-0
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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education
"The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scient…
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- 9780262319430
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- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) :illustrations
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Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298537
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- 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The unnaming of Kroeber Hall :language, memory, and iconoclasm
"A balanced attempt to understand the controversy over renaming a building on the campus of UC Berkeley"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377263
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Turnings : Fiji Factions
Through Dr Lal’s refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian experience is the ceaseless struggle to find community in a changing world, balancing the beauty of ritual and tradition against the transcendent value of education and modern …
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- 9781922144911
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- 305.891 411 096 11 LAL t
Law and Justice in a Globalized World: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Resear…
The book consists of a selection of papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Research Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities. It contains essays on current legal issues in law and justice, and their role and transformation in a globalizing world. Topics covered include human rights, criminal law, good governance, democracy, foreign investment, and regional integration. The conference focused …
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- 9781315223292
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