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| | This is the story of my life! | | | THE ACCIDENTAL SCHOLAR "Jagdish’s autobiography tells a fascinating life story in a few hundred pages of what it is to be, in one person, a scholar, change agent, advisor, and entrepreneur, in other words, a Renaissance Man." —Philip Kotler The Accidental Scholar is the autobiography of Professor Jagdish N. Sheth, a renowned scholar and one of the foremost authorities in the world on marketing and consumer behaviour.Read more | SAGE Response
296 pages | ₨ 695 | Hardback | 978-93-515-0039-1 |
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| | How to leverage on time tested military practices to create a business advantage? | | LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE MILITARYLeadership Lessons from the Military articulates what lessons from military leadership can be applied to the business context and how to go about it. The book shows how executives can leverage time-tested military practices to create lasting competitive advantage. Business leaders can learn how military leaders tie individual goals with the organizational goals, resulting in a highly motivated and committed workforce, which, in turn, augments organizational efficiency and enhances employee productivity and retention. Read more | SAGE Response
180 pages | Rs 395 | Paperback | 978-81-321-1848-0 |
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| | Voices and perspectives of evaluation approaches in South Asia! | | MAKING EVALUATION MATTER
Writings from South Asia
Edited by Katherine Eve Hay and Shubh Kumar-RangeThe book covers three critical dimensions of making evaluation matter in development processes and change in South Asia: context, methods, and use. The chapters draw on a depth of experience from evaluators in several countries in South Asia to explore how the context in South Asia influences the methods that are appropriate for evaluating policies, programs and projects in this context, and the challenges to having evaluation findings used to influence and bring about change. Read more | | 312 pages | Rs 850 | Hardback | 978-93-515-0027-8 |
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| | The politics of Uttar Pradesh in the turbulent years! | | AN INDIAN POLITICAL LIFE
Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1967 to 1987
Paul R BrassThe third and final volume in the trilogy of The Politics of Northern India, begins with the dramatic political event of the fall of the Congress in the most critical state of UP and the formation of the first non-Congress government. This event was one of the utmost concern to Indira Gandhi, for she could not rule the country without a firm political base in the most populous state of the country. Insofar as Charan Singh was concerned, it marked the beginning of his rise to power in the state and the beginning also of the dramatic and complicated struggle between him and Indira Gandhi. Read more | The Politics of Northern India, Volume 3
336 pages | Rs 995 | Hardback | 978-93-515-0032-2 |
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| | An insightful perspective on suicide terror as a phenomenon and as a process! | | UNDERSTANDING SUICIDE TERRORISM
Psychosocial Dynamics
Edited by Updesh Kumar and Manas K MandalUnderstanding Suicide Terrorism delves upon the enigmatic issue of suicide terrorism. The book is an interdisciplinary multi-faceted venture that brings together scholarly work from across the world, across cultures and societies on the issue of suicide terror. The common thread weaving through all the articles is the notion of suicide terror as a complex phenomenon that defies easy explanation, prediction or controllability. Read more | | 300 pages | Rs 995 | Hardback | 978-93-515-0034-6 |
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| | What is the key to India’s success as an integrated democracy? | | CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES
The Indian Experience
Jhumpa MukherjeeIs it not interesting that at a time when the idea of a global “clash of civilizations” cultures is reverberating so mightily and so ominously, how India puts up with the challenge of forging national unity amidst its intricate diversity? What is the key to her comparative success as an integrated state? The question has assumed added significance after the disintegration of the former multiethnic Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The present study informed by a modified neo-institutionalism seeks to identify the key to India’s success as an integrated democracy amidst a whole lot of trajectories. Read more | | 192 pages | Rs 795 | Hardback | 978-93-515-0033-9 |
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| | A compilation of field-tested and ready-to-use leadership development modules! | | VISIONARY LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH
Delivering Superior Value
Jay Satia, Anant Kumar and Moi Lee LiowThis book presents a visionary leadership framework and its application toward delivering superior value in health. It provides a road map on how to create shared vision, assess vision–reality gap, identify paths to pursue, inspire, and empower stakeholders, and utilize results-based management to deliver superior value. By linking leadership and management in health rather than juxtaposing them, the book argues that the task of every health professional requires a mix of leadership and management, although their relative emphasis may vary as per the context and content of the health program. Read more | | 380 pages | Rs 995 | Hardback | 978-81-321-1320-1 |
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| | Embedding bio-innovation in anti-poverty strategies! | | BIO-INNOVATION AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION
Case Studies from Asia
Edited by Edsel E Sajor, Bernadette P Resurreccion
and Sudip Kumar RakshitThe proposed volume attempts to understand how forms of bio-innovation might be linked to the problem of poverty and its reduction through an inquiry into a number of empirical cases of present-day bio-innovations in Asia. Conditions and circumstances in countries like Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Nepal, Philippines, and Thailand are quite different and provide a mosaic of varied experiences in bio-innovation that include shrimp farming, GMO cotton, bio gas, organic farming, vaccines, and so on. Read more | | 396 pages | Rs 1,100 | Hardback | 978-81-321-1972-2 |
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| | A comprehensive literature review of e-learning in China! | | E-LEARNING IN CHINA
Zeng Haijun, Bao Huaying and Chen GengThis book presents a review of Chinese experience in e-learning. It outlines the background of e-learning in the country and charts out its development. E-learning has two forms here: the e-learning colleges in 68 regular universities and the open University system led by the Open University of China. The off-campus support systems for e-learning students include public service systems with Chinese characteristics, except for learning centers. Read more | SAGE China Studies
396 pages | Rs 1,095 | Hardback | 978-81-321-1160-3 |
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| | A fresh look at the revolt of 1857! | | MUTINY AT THE MARGINS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE INDIAN UPRISING OF 1857
Volume VI: Perception, Narration and Reinvention: The Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising
Edited by Crispin BatesPerception, Narration and Reinvention: The Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising (Volume 6) moves into the territory of hagiography and pedagogy. It covers intellectual and popular reactions to the revolt and the various ways in which historians and the wider public in India, Pakistan, and Britain have sought to understand, categorise and at times distort or exaggerate salient aspects and particular events. Read more | Mutiny at the Margins
256 pages | Rs 995 | Hardback | 978-81-321-1354-6 |
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