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Elemental India

The Natural World at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity

By: Meera Subramanian

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Elemental India

The Natural World at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity

By: Meera Subramanian

What happens in India may turn out - even more than China - to be the key to the kind of environmental future the planet faces. Very few people are qualified to tell the story with as much clarity, compassion, and character-driven power as Meera Subramanian.' - Bill McKibben, author of Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist 'Meera Subramanian has written an eye-opening and even inspiring book about a country that is so often terribly misunderstood by the West. Her serious but never morose storytelling introduces us to an India that is neither basket case nor Shangri-la, but a diverse land full of ordinary people questing for an extraordinary goal: a happier, greener future for 1.2 billion of their fellow citizens, and for the rest of us, too. We should all be rooting them on.' - Dan Fagin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation 'Elemental India is at once sweeping and intimate - a smart, informative, richly reported book full of memorable characters.' - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 'This is a necessary book. And Meera Subramanian is the perfect person to be writing it.' - Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Around the world, people are increasingly facing a future that is crowded and hot, thirsty or drowning, subject to violent weather extremes and a changing climate, where the rich and poor inhabit separate spheres and governments are unable or unwilling to confront the most vital challenges their citizens face. For India, this reality is the very tangible present.In this lyrical exploration of life, loss and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and micro-enterprises that are determined to revive India's ravaged natural world. An engineer-turned-farmer brings organic food to Indian plates. Villagers resuscitate a river that had run dry. Cook stove designers persist in their quest for smokeless fire. Biologists bring vultures back from the brink of extinction. A bold young Bihari woman teaches young adolescents the fundamentals of sexual health. Through an investigation of these five crises, Subramanian finds renewed hope for a nation that has the potential to create a sustainable and prosperous future - for itself, the Earth and all her inhabitants.

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Harper Collins

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9351365298

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A River Runs Again

India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

By: Meera Subramanian

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A River Runs Again

India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

By: Meera Subramanian

Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present. In this lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and microenterprises determined to revive India's ravaged natural world: an engineer-turned-farmer brings organic food to Indian plates; villagers resuscitate a river run dry; cook stove designers persist on the quest for a smokeless fire; biologists bring vultures back from the brink of extinction; and in Bihar, one of India's most impoverished states, a bold young woman teaches adolescents the fundamentals of sexual health. While investigating these five environmental challenges, Subramanian discovers the stories that renew hope for a nation with the potential to lead India and the planet into a sustainable and prosperous future.

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A River Runs Again

India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

By: Meera Subramanian

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India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

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A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music

By: Meera Subramanian

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A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music

By: Meera Subramanian

Presenting a comprehensive overview of some major traditional Indian rhythms, this book adopts a novel visual approach towards representing these rhythms (for example, Tāḷa/Tāl) in a graphic, tabular ICT (Information Communication Technology) format. It offers insights into structural aspects of beauty in Indian rhythms, and covers examples from ancient to contemporary music, including folk, classical and popular film songs. The tabular informative approach used in this book may also be applied to the study of other forms of traditional music across the world, such as folk music of Eastern Europe and indigenous music from other parts of Asia, the Americas, Australia, and Africa.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527588130

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A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music

By: Meera Subramanian

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Women and the Teaching Profession

Exploring the Feminisation Debate

By: Fatimah Kelleher,Francis O. Severin,Samson, Meera,De, Anuradha,Afamasaga-Wright, Tepora,Sedere, Upali M.

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Women and the Teaching Profession

Exploring the Feminisation Debate

By: Fatimah Kelleher,Francis O. Severin,Samson, Meera,De, Anuradha,Afamasaga-Wright, Tepora,Sedere, Upali M.

Examines how the teacher feminisation debate applies in developing countries. Drawing on the experiences of Dominica, Lesotho, Samoa, Sri Lanka and India, it provides a strong analytical understanding of the role of female teachers in the expansion of education systems, and the surrounding gender equality issues.

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UNESCO

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1849290725

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Finding Middle Ground

Conservations Across America about Climate Change

By: Meera Subramanian

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Finding Middle Ground

Conservations Across America about Climate Change

By: Meera Subramanian

Just as the Trump administration was stepping into the White House in early 2017, Meera Subramanian stepped into an assignment for InsideClimate News to travel to the heard of red America in search of middle ground in Americans' understanding of climate change. it seemed just the thing our polarized nation needed. From towns in Georgia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Texas, Meera wrote about the stuff of daily life-peaches and the winter chill, dogs and snow, floodwater and faith, the wind and the future. She examined what happens to people when the world they inhabit suddenly becomes unreliable-what they believe, how thy cope or seize opportunity, and how complicated their notions of climate change can be. She writes from her own middle ground, without casting judgment or fixing blame. As you read her work, you'll discover you can't help but recognize this territory in yourself.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1985828278

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The God Market

How Globalization is Making India More Hindu

By: Meera Nanda

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The God Market

How Globalization is Making India More Hindu

By: Meera Nanda

Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today’s India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwining of Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growing capitalist class. It is this “State-Temple-Corporate Complex,” she claims, that now wields decisive political and economic power, and provides ideological cover for the dismantling of the Nehru-era state-dominated economy. According to this new logic, India’s rapid economic growth is attributable to a special “Hindu mind,” and it is what separates the nation’s Hindu population from Muslims and others deemed to be “anti-modern.” As a result, Hindu institutions are replacing public ones, and the Hindu “revival” itself has become big business, a major source of capital accumulation. Nanda explores the roots of this development and its possible future, as well as the struggle for secularism and socialism in the world’s second-most populous country.

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NYU Press

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1583672508

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Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition

Atteindre fes cibles mondiales en matière de retard de croissance, d'anemie, d'allaitement maternel et d'emaciation

By: Meera Shekar,Jakub Kakietek,Julia Dayton Eberwein,Dylan Walters

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Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition

Atteindre fes cibles mondiales en matière de retard de croissance, d'anemie, d'allaitement maternel et d'emaciation

By: Meera Shekar,Jakub Kakietek,Julia Dayton Eberwein,Dylan Walters

L'ouvrage Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition: atteindre les cibles mondiales en matiere de retard de croissance, d'anemie, d'allaitement maternel et d'emaciation estime les couts et les impacts des differents scenarios de financement qui permettraient l'atteinte des cibles mondiales de nutrition adoptees par l' Assemblee mondiale de la sante en matiere de retard de croissance, danemie chez la femme, d'allaitement matemel exclusif et de mise a I'echelle du traitement de I'emaciation severe chez le jeune enfant. 11 faudra, pour atteindre ces quatre cibles, proceder a des financements mondiaux de 70 milliards de dollars sur lOans, ceci dans des interventions specifiques a la nutrition a fort impact. Ces investissements auraient toutefois des retornbees substantielles : 65 millions de cas de retard de croissance et 265 millions de cas danemie chez la femme auraient ete evites en 2025 comparati vement a I' annee de reference 2015. En outre, sur 10 ans, au moins 91 millions d' enfants supplementaires auraient ete traites pour emaciation severe et 105 millions de nourrissons additionnels auraient ete beneficiaires d'un allaitement matemel exclusif au cours de leurs premiers six mois de vie. L'atteintede l'ensemble de ces cibles permettrait d'eviter au moins 3,7 millions de mortalites infantiles. Chaque dollar investi dans ce paquet d'interventions genererait des rendements econorniques de4 a 35 dollars, ce qui fait du financement de la nutrition precoce l'une des interventions de developpement les plus rentables. Certaines des cibles - particulierement celles qui sont axees sur la reduction du retard de croissance chez l'enfant et de I'anemie chez la femmeparaissent ambitieuses et demanderont des efforts concertes de financement, de mise a l' echelle et d' engagement continu; toutefois, l' experience tiree de plusieurs pays indique que leur atteinte reste possible. Les investissements au cours des 1000 premiers jours decisifs de la petite enfance sont inalienables, transportables et porteurs de retombees tout au long de la vie - non seulement pour les enfants directement concernes, mais aussi pour nous tous - sous forme de societes plus robustes, qui agissent comme moteur des economies a venir.

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World Bank Publications

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1464811431

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Are Marriages Made In Heaven?

By: Meera

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Are Marriages Made In Heaven?

By: Meera

This is the story about a group of friends from school and how their lives unfold. On marriage, do or (k)not to, is the question that pushes them until some make the decision to finally take the plunge. Are marriages made in heaven? Is damsels’ destiny or a result of our choices? Do you ever wonder where it all comes from? They did. Which brought them together again. Cover designer : Mili Pallath

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Notion Press

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An Investment Framework for Nutrition

Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and Wasting

By: Meera Shekar,Jakub Kakietek,Julia Dayton Eberwein,Dylan Walters

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An Investment Framework for Nutrition

Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and Wasting

By: Meera Shekar,Jakub Kakietek,Julia Dayton Eberwein,Dylan Walters

An Investment Framework for Nutrition: Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and Wasting estimates the costs, impacts, and financing scenarios to achieve the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for stunting, anemia in women, exclusive breastfeeding and the scaling up of the treatment of severe wasting among young children. To reach these four targets, the world needs US$70 billion over 10 years to invest in high-impact nutrition-specific interventions. This investment would have enormous benefits: 65 million cases of stunting and 265 million cases of anemia in women would be prevented in 2025 as compared with the 2015 baseline. In addition, at least 91 million more children would be treated for severe wasting and 105 million additional babies would be exclusively breastfed during the first six months of life over 10 years. Altogether, achieving these targets would avert at least 3.7 million child deaths. Every dollar invested in this package of interventions would yield between US$4 and US$35 in economic returns, making investing in early nutrition one of the best value-for-money development actions. Although some of the targets—especially those for reducing stunting in children and anemia in women—are ambitious and will require concerted efforts in financing, scale-up, and sustained commitment, recent experience from several countries suggests that meeting these targets is feasible. These investments in the critical 1000-day window of early childhood are inalienable and portable and will pay lifelong dividends—not only for children directly affected but also for us all in the form of more robust societies—that will drive future economies.

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1464810117

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9781464810114

Introduction to Physical Education in the Contemporary Context

By: Dr. A. K. Uppal ,Dr. Meera Sood

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Introduction to Physical Education in the Contemporary Context

By: Dr. A. K. Uppal ,Dr. Meera Sood

Physical education has become an integral part of the total education system. Physical education programs are needed for the growth and development to increase the physical competence, health related fitness self responsibility and skill development. Physical education refers to the process of importing systematic instruction in physical exercise, sports, games & hygiene. It aims at the training of the body, mind and conduct. It helps to keep healthy mind within healthy body.

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Friends Publications India

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9388457684

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9789388457682

NAFTA and Climate Change

By: Meera Fickling,Jeffrey J. Schott

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NAFTA and Climate Change

By: Meera Fickling,Jeffrey J. Schott

NAFTA remains a centerpiece of US trade-policy debate, but its provisions have sacrificed environmental concerns for the sake of trade liberalization. This timely volume analyzes the national policies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The authors explain how the competing priorities of province, state, or government agendas can slow coordination measures to curtail emissions throughout North America. But, North American cooperation could serve as a model for how developed and developing countries can mutually benefit from an international climate change agreement. Emission reduction is now inextricably linked with trade and finance measures in this post-Kyoto era. The authors argue that the three NAFTA partners can work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while mitigating concerns about trade competitiveness. NAFTA and Climate Change provides a critical assessment of how NAFTA initiatives will contribute to the achievement of important climate-change goals at both regional and global levels. This thorough investigation advances potential solutions, and ideas to develop practical channels for transferring technical and financial assistance from developed to developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and further economic development.

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Peterson Institute

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0881326089

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Elemental India

Elemental India

A River Runs Again

A River Runs Again

A River Runs Again

A River Runs Again

A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music

A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music

A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music

A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music

Women and the Teaching Profession

Women and the Teaching Profession

Finding Middle Ground

Finding Middle Ground

The God Market

The God Market

Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition

Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition

Are Marriages Made In Heaven?

Are Marriages Made In Heaven?

An Investment Framework for Nutrition

An Investment Framework for Nutrition

Introduction to Physical Education in the Contemporary Context

Introduction to Physical Education in the Contemporary Context

NAFTA and Climate Change

NAFTA and Climate Change

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