Jai Press's Books

Military Robots

Mapping the Moral Landscape

By: Jai Galliott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Military Robots

Mapping the Moral Landscape

By: Jai Galliott

Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are questions and perennial problems concerning what justifies the initial resort to war, who may be legitimately targeted in warfare, who should be permitted to serve the military, the collateral effects of military weaponry and the methods of determining and dealing with violations of the laws of war. This book provides a comprehensive and unifying analysis of the moral, political and social questions concerning the rise of drone warfare.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317096010

ISBN 13

9781317096016

Super Soldiers

The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications

By: Jai Galliott,Mianna Lotz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Super Soldiers

The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications

By: Jai Galliott,Mianna Lotz

The Spartan City State produced what is probably one of the most iconic and ruthless military forces in recorded history. They believed that military training and education began at birth. Post-World War II saw a shift to army tanks, fighter jets and missiles that would go on to fight the next huge battle in Northern Europe. Today, with the advent of unmanned systems, our hopes are attached to the idea that we can fight our battles with soldiers pressing buttons in distant command centres. However, soldiers must now be highly trained, super strong and have the intelligence and mental capacity to handle the highly complex and dynamic military operating environment. It is only now as we progress into the twenty-first century that we are getting closer to realising the Spartan ideal and creating a soldier that can endure more than ever before. This book provides the first comprehensive and unifying analysis of the moral, legal and social questions concerning military human enhancement, with a view toward developing guidance and policy that may influence real-world decision making.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

195

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317048431

ISBN 13

9781317048435

Commercial Space Exploration

Ethics, Policy and Governance

By: Jai Galliott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Commercial Space Exploration

Ethics, Policy and Governance

By: Jai Galliott

Not since man set foot on the moon over four decades ago has there been such passion and excitement about space exploration. This enthusiasm and eagerness has been spurred on by the fact that for the first time since the very beginning of the space age, space travel is no longer limited to an elite group of highly trained and well-disciplined military officers and test pilots. Instead, we must understand that the possibility of commercial space travel is already on our horizon and that it comes with a number of significant practical and moral challenges. Our level of scientific development and ability to influence international affairs and policy confers upon us an obligation to study the ethical, legal and social considerations associated with space exploration and understanding the potential consequences from the beginning is critical. This volume provides the first comprehensive and unifying analysis concerning the rise of private space exploration, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real-world decision making. The plethora of questions demanding serious attention - privatisation and commercialisation, the impact on the environment, health futures, risk assessment, responsibility and governance - are directly addressed in this scholarly work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

325

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131716377X

ISBN 13

9781317163770

Psycho-Social Analysis of the Indian Mindset

By: Jai B.P. Sinha

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Psycho-Social Analysis of the Indian Mindset

By: Jai B.P. Sinha

This volume situates Indians in the contemporary world and profiles the major facets of their thought and behaviour; then goes back to trace their roots to ancient thought to see how the past predisposes and the present guides Indians in their everyday life. The volume begins with a conceptual framework showing how the Indian worldview has encompassed and enveloped a variety of ideas and influences from divergent sources. As a result, Indians are both collectivists and individualists, hierarchically oriented while respecting merit and quality, religious as well as secular and sexually indulgent, spiritual as well as materialists, excessively dependent but remarkably entrepreneurial, non-violent in principle but violent in practice and comfortable in shifting between analytical, synthetic as well as intuitive approaches to reality. Such a coexistence of opposites often causes inaction, hesitation and perfunctory action, but also equips Indians to be innovative by continuously aligning their thought and behaviour to the demands of a milieu. The milieu has an inner layer consisting of desh (place), kaal (time) and paatra (person), which are embedded in the larger societal contexts of castes and classes, poverty, corruption, fragmenting politics, conflicts and violence and unfolding global opportunities and challenges. Cultural heritage permeates in all these. Indians function in this tiered, multifactorial, dynamic space. This volume draws evidence from ancient texts and the latest national and international research, many of which were conducted by the author and his associates. It does not, however, hesitate to indulge in anecdotal evidence, cases and speculative ideas in order to complete the picture. The author takes an in-depth view of the Indian mindset without getting the reader lost in either the intricacies of ancient philosophical abyss or the trivialities of present-day non-events.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

253

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

8132218043

ISBN 13

9788132218043

Culture and Organizational Behaviour

By: Jai B. P. Sinha

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Culture and Organizational Behaviour

By: Jai B. P. Sinha

Culture and Organizational Behaviour is a textbook for management studies that highlights the effect of the confluence of Western and Indian cultural influences. It adheres to the syllabi of the organizational behaviour courses followed in most major universities and management institutes. The book presents basic knowledge of organizational behaviour as developed in the West, adds to these the latest global research findings, and situates them in the Indian cultural perspective. It also highlights the issues that emanate from the interface of the Indian culture and organizational behaviour. Key Features: - Contains updated case studies from Indian organizations - Focuses on current and emerging strategies in organizational structures, leadership, power and politics - Covers topics like balancing work and other responsibilities, power and politics, and conflict and negotiation, which, though extremely crucial to organizational behaviour, have perhaps not got due attention in the existing literature - Presents the relatively unexplored effects of Indian culture on organizational behaviour. Provides a platform where both theoretical and practical issues can be addressed by managers, researchers, students and teachers alike.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

447

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

8178298961

ISBN 13

9788178298962

Connected Parenting

Digital Discourse and Diverse Family Practices

By: Jai Mackenzie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Connected Parenting

Digital Discourse and Diverse Family Practices

By: Jai Mackenzie

Changing practices and perceptions of parenthood and family life have long been the subject of intense public, political and academic attention. Recent years have seen growing interest in the role digital media and technologies can play in these shifts, yet this topic has been under-explored from a discourse analytical perspective. In response, this book's investigation of everyday parenting, family practices and digital media offers a new and innovative exploration of the relationship between parenting, family practices, and digitally mediated connection. This investigation is based on extensive digital and interview data from research with nine UK-based single and/or lesbian, gay or bisexual parents who brought children into their lives in non-traditional ways, for example through donor conception, surrogacy or adoption. Through a novel approach that combines constructivist grounded theory with mediated discourse analysis, this book examines connected family lives and practices in a way that transcends the limiting social, biological and legal structures that still dominate concepts of family in contemporary society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

168

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350262552

ISBN 13

9781350262553

Organic Chemistry of Explosives

By: Jai Prakash Agrawal,Robert Hodgson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Organic Chemistry of Explosives

By: Jai Prakash Agrawal,Robert Hodgson

Organic Chemistry of Explosives is the first text to bring together the essential methods and routes used for the synthesis of organic explosives in a single volume. Assuming no prior knowledge, the book discusses everything from the simplest mixed acid nitration of toluene, to the complex synthesis of highly energetic caged nitro compounds. Reviews laboratory and industrial methods, which can be used to introduce aliphatic C-nitro, aromatic C-nitro, N-nitro, and nitrate ester functionality into organic compounds Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each synthetic method or route, with scope, limitations, substrate compatibility and other important considerations Features numerous examples in the form of text, reaction diagrams, and tables.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

414

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0470059354

ISBN 13

9780470059357

Light and Photomedia

A New History and Future of the Photographic Image

By: Jai McKenzie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Light and Photomedia

A New History and Future of the Photographic Image

By: Jai McKenzie

Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding with space and time to form and inform new, explicitly light-based structures and experiences. Jai McKenzie identifies light-space-time structures throughout the history of photomedia, from the early image machines through analogue and digital image machines to the present day. She proposes that they will continue to develop in the future and takes us to future image machines of the year 2039. With the use of the theories of Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard and Vilem Flusser, featuring artists including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nam June Paik, Yves Klein, Eadweard Muybridge, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman and Michael Snow, as well as their photographic images, Light and Photomedia places the reader in a new history and future which, although mostly overlooked by the canon of photomedia theory, is an essential line of enquiry for contemporary thinking and dialogue in photography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

191

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000211703

ISBN 13

9781000211702

COVID-19, Familism, and South Korean Governance

By: Jai Chang Park

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

COVID-19, Familism, and South Korean Governance

By: Jai Chang Park

This book traces the factors that contributed to the success in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea and identifies the concept of familism as a major environmental factor. The government of South Korea has achieved remarkable outcomes in its COVID-19 response, despite the fact that South Korea usually promotes a family-focused investment of resources at the expense of broader social goals. The author eschews these western cultural biases in theories of crisis management and suggests that the key component of South Korea’s success is not self-centered egotism of individuals but a focus on family and familism, which projects state as an extension of family. He argues that while the success in managing the COVID-19 epidemic is due to a combination of factors, familism has been a key force in driving this successful response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of governance, crisis management, civil society, and citizen’s participation in public administration, international relations, Asian studies, and cultural studies and Confucianism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000505782

ISBN 13

9781000505788

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online

Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk

By: Jai Mackenzie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online

Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk

By: Jai Mackenzie

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online explores the digital interactions of parents on the UK-based internet discussion forum Mumsnet Talk, a space dominated by users sharing a common identification as women, parents and mothers. Using a qualitative approach grounded in feminist poststructuralist theory, Jai Mackenzie uncovers ‘common-sense’ assumptions about gender and parenthood, explores the construction of gender and parenthood in digital contexts and how discourses of gendered parenthood are negotiated, resisted and subverted. This is key reading for students, scholars and researchers in the field of language and gender, as well as language and digital communication.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

122

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351378570

ISBN 13

9781351378574

Multinationals in India

Managing the Interface of Cultures

By: Jai B. P. Sinha

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Multinationals in India

Managing the Interface of Cultures

By: Jai B. P. Sinha

This book examines the Indian operations of five multinational organisations from three different cultural zones151;one British150;American, two Scandinavian and two from the Pacific rim (Japan and South Korea). A comparative analysis show.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

300

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

0761932046

ISBN 13

9780761932048

High Energy Materials

Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics

By: Jai Prakash Agrawal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

High Energy Materials

Propellants, Explosives and Pyrotechnics

By: Jai Prakash Agrawal

Authored by an insider with over 40 years of high energy materials (HEMs) experience in academia, industry and defense organizations, this handbook and ready reference covers all important HEMs from the 1950s to the present with their respective properties and intended purposes. Written at an attainable level for professionals, engineers and technicians alike, the book provides a comprehensive view of the current status and suggests further directions for research and development. An introductory chapter on the chemical and thermodynamic basics allows the reader to become acquainted with the fundamental features of explosives, before moving on to the important safety aspects in processing, handling, transportation and storage of high energy materials. With its collation of results and formulation strategies hitherto scattered in the literature, this should be on the shelf of every HEM researcher and developer.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

499

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

3527802681

ISBN 13

9783527802685

Book's by Jai Press

Military Robots

Military Robots

Super Soldiers

Super Soldiers

Commercial Space Exploration

Commercial Space Exploration

Psycho-Social Analysis of the Indian Mindset

Psycho-Social Analysis of the Indian Mindset

Culture and Organizational Behaviour

Culture and Organizational Behaviour

Connected Parenting

Connected Parenting

Organic Chemistry of Explosives

Organic Chemistry of Explosives

Light and Photomedia

Light and Photomedia

COVID-19, Familism, and South Korean Governance

COVID-19, Familism, and South Korean Governance

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online

Language, Gender and Parenthood Online

Multinationals in India

Multinationals in India

High Energy Materials

High Energy Materials

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email