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CONTENTS:This reader focuses on the social economic and cultural changes experienced by the people of Punjab in the wake of agrarian developments.The process of eoconomic development and social change becomes more relevent in the regime of liberalisation and globalisation.The readings are organized ... More

Music, drugs, clubbing and travel--this is the popular image of what it means to be young. However, young people's lives are also busy with the everyday realities of home, school and work. The engaging essays in "Cool Places" explore the dichotomy of youthful lives by addressing the issues of repres... More

The essence of this bigotry is not, as its proponents and apologists often project, a core of fundamental religious beliefs and practices. It is, in fact the construction of a hated other. Bhindranwale attributed all the supposed suffering of the sikh community to the evil Brahmins who ruled from De... More

The Steam Engine has the same relationship to the Industrial Revolution as the transistor has to the Information Revolution. But the defining technologies of the former were essentially sectoral: the steam engine, internal combustion engine and electric motor were all confined to specific areas of a... More

‘Islam in seventh-century Arabia was different from what it is today, and in today’s world Islam is not the same in India, Pakistan or Iran. It is a living faith, it changes all the time.’... More

This book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, exploring how grassroots community action can spread ideas in society. It presents a "New Economics" approach based on alternative measures of wealth and value, examining how these are put into practice through local organic food systems, low... More

Dr Tom Ramsey is enchanted by the clinic's new midwife. But midwife Maria is haunted by memories that come flooding back when she meets Tom's adorable son, James. Though she resists, Tom wants to hold Maria in his arms and prove to her that they are the family she has longed for.... More