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The Dark Night is Over: Believe! Life is Sunshine! is a captivating book written by Dr. Amit Arun Medhekar, filled with hope, wisdom, and inspiration. Through the author's personal journey, this book offers a unique blend of pragmatic and philosophical insights that will leave readers deeply motivated and filled with wonder. With a heart overflowing with gratitude and a logical mind, Dr. Medhekar pens this book as a gift to the readers. It is meant for rumination, motivation, and self-discovery. As you embark on this enlightening read, you will find yourself immersed in the author's remarkable experiences and deep meditations, gaining access to distilled wisdom that has emerged from years of...
The Significant Anthology contains prose pieces, autobiographical vignettes, essays, short stories and poetry. The writers range from seasoned ones to new and exciting voices brimming over with talent and gusto. A veritable feast, the book combines a plethora of themes, ideas, styles, forms and voices. Never content to be mere onlookers, poets and writers have brought in their words, rivers of sorrow and winds of gladness evincing the sense of indivisiblity of all knowledge and the sameness of the human condition everywhere. This anthology stands for peace, for the spirit of resilience and as a defiant precedent of creativity resulting from an open invitation to experiment. Pakistani and Indian, old and young, woman and man, black and white, Muslim, Hindu, Jew and Christian, and people from all professions and walks of life or ones without jobs as well as from every continent - nestle together in these pages with no wars amongst them.
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With the increasing awareness that mere economic and production-based explanations do not adequately describe the motivations for governance, researchers have focused on the behavioral side of the firm performance to justify the economic rationale of their typical behaviours. This book describes the concept of corporate governance, its emergence and the contemporary thinking around it. With emphasis on "conflicts of interests" assumed to be related to the theory of separation of ownership and control, the book delves into topics such as insider trading, excessive executive compensation, managerial, expropriation of shareholders’ wealth, false reporting, accounting non-disclosures and self dealing.
Stress is the greatest killer of modern times. Almost everyone is affected by it. Some degree of stress is normal, natural and inevitable in personal, family and work life. However, the quantum of stress has a direct impact on happiness in life and excellence in professional field. Being aware and careful about it can save a person from a number of problems and help to make him happy and contended. There are evidences of happier life among people who have an understanding of stress and its possible remedies to keep it at bay. The book “Stress Management” gives an insight into the nature, types and causes of stress and discusses its possible cures and remedies. The sources of stress such as paucity of money or time, age factor, anger, poor communication, burden of studies and making of career have been critically analyzed. It has a complete set of solutions for all categories of stressed people of different age groups and backgrounds. The book is a complete treatise on stress and no aspect of it has been left unattended to. It will surely make the readers stress free and thus enable them to lead a happy and healthy life.
Social consciousness is neither corporate social responsibility (CSR) nor public relations but a mindset that understands and accepts the interconnectedness of an organization's economic, social, and natural environments. Socially conscious organizations come into existence when led by socially conscious managers. This book enables socially conscious managers to become Impact Champions through three pathways to successfully initiate and run socially responsible business innovations, CSR projects, and social entrepreneurial ventures. The book is organized into five parts. The first part sets the context and provides the readers with tools to reflect on contemporary social and environmental is...
A new workplace challenges you to pay attention to the aspects that drive your behaviour, attitudes, perceptions, and emotions. At the same time, recognizing the motives, needs, and emotions of others is imperative for personal leadership. This book will help you hone your collaborative instincts, embrace diversity, and engage effectively in a professional setting. Based on the author's experiences, and her observations over the years, Mastering Behaviour explores the main drivers of organizational behaviour. Applying popular psychology theories, the book helps in tackling difficult interpersonal and behavioural issues at work, such as personality clashes, stress, handling difficult interactions, and workplace loneliness. With rapid technological advancement changing the way we connect, this book will provide insights to the real-world challenges of developing greater trust, engagement, and collaboration within teams and the organization.
Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational significance. There is a profound, felt difference between a house as domestic space and a home as familial place or between the summit of a mountain one has climbed for the first time and the “same” rock pinnacle celebrated in ancestral narratives. Contemporary philosophical uses of the word “place” often pivot on the distinction between “space” and “place” formalized by geographer-philosopher Yi-fu Tuan, who suggested that places inco...
Drying is by far the most useful large scale operation method of keeping solid foods safe for long periods of time, and is of fundamental importance in most sectors of food processing. Drying operations need to be precisely controlled and optimized in order to produce a good quality product that has the highest level of nutrient retention and flavor whilst maintaining microbial safety. This volume provides an up to date account of all the major drying technologies employed in the food industry and their underlying scientific principles and effects. Various equipment designs are classified and described. The impact of drying on food properties is covered, and the micro-structural changes caus...
Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy. The interest in alternative conceptualizations of nature has gained significance after many thinkers pointed out that attitudes to the environment are determined to a large extent by our presuppositions of nature. This book is particularly timely from that perspective. It begins with a brief description of the concept of nature and a history of the idea of nature in Western thought. This provides readers with a context to the issues around the concept of nature in environmental philos...