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On the Ground
A bold, theoretical, and pragmatic book that looks to soil as a symbol for constructive possibilities for hope and planetary political action in the Anthropocene. Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionately among the planet’s nearly 8 billion human inhabitants. On the Ground explores how one might account for the many paradoxical tensions posed by the Anthropocene: tensions between planetarity and particularity, connectivity and contextuality, entanglement and exclusion. Using the philosophical and theological idea of “ground,” Van Horn argues that ground—when read as earth-ground, as so...
Civil Engineering Objective Type Questions -2nd Edition
The book incorporates all major topics in the civil engineering discipline and is written to serve as a refresher course with each topic presented briefly followed by an exhaustive set of objective type questions with keys for important questions at the end. It serves as a quick reference designed to help BE/B Tech undergraduate students and for practising engineers. Twenty chapters in the revised version extensively explore each key idea in civil engineering. In contrast, the questions in this book have been selected from a range of strong sources to help students learn how questions are formatted and what kinds of questions they might anticipate seeing on the test. This book is designed for students preparing for competitive exams like GATE, UPSC, IAS, IES, and SSC-JE as well as university exams. Overall the whole book has been updated, specially Chapters 3, 12, 13 & 14 on the basis of feedback received from the faculty as well as students. One new chapter “Estimation in Building Works” has been added in this new edition.
Teaching and Learning in Tibet
Comprises a literature review of research and policy publications related to basic and primary schooling and quality education in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). These have been collected from selected official Chinese sources, Tibetan NGOs outside Tibet, international news agencies and Chinese, Tibetan, and international scholars with knowledge of social and educational issues in China and Tibet. The study is in two parts: Part I: a review of research and policy publications related to basic and primary education in Tibet/China, and Part II: an annex with a list of literature, websites and journals, and other statistical information.
