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Global China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Global China

The global implications of China's rise as a global actor In 2005, a senior official in the George W. Bush administration expressed the hope that China would emerge as a “responsible stakeholder” on the world stage. A dozen years later, the Trump administration dramatically shifted course, instead calling China a “strategic competitor” whose actions routinely threaten U.S. interests. Both assessments reflected an underlying truth: China is no longer just a “rising” power. It has emerged as a truly global actor, both economically and militarily. Every day its actions affect nearly every region and every major issue, from climate change to trade, from conflict in troubled lands to ...

The Toda Landscape
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 543

The Toda Landscape

Co-published by Orient Blackswan Private Limited, New Delhi.

Why Life Matters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Why Life Matters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

Dr. Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison are world-renowned ecological philosophers and activists, interdisciplinary social and environmental scientists and broad-ranging, deeply committed humanists. This collection of fifty essays and interviews comprises an invigorating, outspoken, provocative and eloquent overview of the ecological humanities in one highly accessible volume. The components of this collection were published in the authors’ "Green Conversations" blog series, and pieces in the Eco News Network from 2011 to 2013 and feature luminaries from Jane Goodall to Ted Turner to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to the former head of the UN Convention on Biologica...

On the Nature of Ecological Paradox
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 894

On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological–and from an insular perspective, successful–struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we...

Sanctuary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Sanctuary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Featuring over twenty sanctuaries in twenty countries, including public and private, ancient and new, this book celebrates the sheltering of innocence in all its forms, animal, plant, insect, and human with stunning photography and intimate, lyrical prose. These pockets of Eden preserve and protect what is most precious to us and to the Earth.

ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 21: Collected Essays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 21: Collected Essays

· A Space for the Possible: Globalization and English Language Learning for Tibetan Students in China (007-032) by Clothey, Rebecca, and Elena McKinlay · An A mdo Tibetan Pastoralist Family's Lo sar in Stong skor Village by Thurston, Timothy, and Tsering Samdrup · Hail Prevention Rituals and Ritual Practitioners in Northeast Amdo (071-111) by Rdo rje don grub · Pyramid Schemes on the Tibetan Plateau (113-140) by Gonier, Devin, and Rgyal yum sgrol ma · Tibetans and Muslims in Northwest China: Economic and Political Aspects of a Complex Historical Relationship (141-186) by Horlemann, Bianca · Sacred Dairies, Dairymen, and Buffaloes of the Nilgiri Mountains in South India (187-256) by Wal...

Democracy Against Domination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Democracy Against Domination

How do realize democratic values in a complex, deeply unequal modern economy and in the face of unresponsive governmental institutions? Drawing on Progressive Era thought and sparked by the real policy challenges of financial regulation, Democracy Against Domination offers a novel theory of democracy to answer these pressing questions.

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the two of the world’s more politically sensitive and geo-strategically crucial regions of the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific. This book provides answers to broader questions that are relevant to the global emerging peace architecture. The book is divided into three parts: global, Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The first part analyses the competing world views of the U.S, China, Japan, and Korea and the evolvement of UN debates on global and regional security, with special emphasis on the Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The secon...

IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1 Last Minute Capsule 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1 Last Minute Capsule 2018

We at Disha, continuously, analyse the past papers so as to understand the Examiner’s mindset - What exactly he wants the aspirants to assess on. Based on this unique experience, “2018” vastly covers Current - Events, Issues and Ideas - thus covering Important Terms, Govt. Schemes/ Yojanas, Policies/ Plans, Missions/ Abhiyans, Projects, Summits/ Conferences, Agreements/ Accords, Committees, Organisations/ Index-Ranking, Phenomena, Symposium, Ratifications of treaties, India’s engagements abroad, etc. It is observed that 20% to 40% questions are framed in CSAT Paper 1 are based on such topics covering Current Affairs broadly since January of previous year to March of the exam year. We are sure and hopeful that the IAS capsule will play an important role in the result of its readers/ IAS aspirants.

The Future of National Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

The Future of National Intelligence

National intelligence agencies have long adjusted to the opportunities and threats from new technologies, and have created structures, concepts, and practices to best apply new capabilities. But such recent technological developments as artificial intelligence are different in kind. Increasingly affordable to nongovernmental actors, they are powerful enough to overwhelm and marginalize much of what agencies do. In The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities, Shay Hershkovitz argues that only with a new paradigm can these agencies take up this fundamentally new technological challenge.