This book focuses specifically on education of tribal girls of Santal in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India. The book effectively describes the present scenario of Santal Tribe and addresses factors that restrict the schooling of Santal girls. In fact it critically examines the issues and dilemmas that help us to understand in a more meaningful and practical way the various links between education and social stratification. Moreover, it explores the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the State, the tribal communities and their educational ...

This funny and entertaining book will have you laughing, and thinking about your dreams at the same time.

The book focuses on the globalization of the Great War. It is based on a close research of journals, newspapers and book-publications written around the Great War that primarily deal with Lithuania, some of which are accessible via the YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research), Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe whose visual archive-material is in itself an adventurous experience. The book evidences the global implications of the Great War that are due e. g. to forced and voluntary migrations that involved cultural encounters, confrontations and challenges ...

When adults are not comfortable talking about and facing uncomfortable feelings, such as sadness, it is then difficult for their children to learn how to deal with these feelings constructively. 'Bottled' emotions increase the risk of physical and emotional health problems. Some people turn to drugs and alcohol, comfort-eating, gambling or domestic violence. It also fractures relationships and families. Vast amounts of research suggest that promoting resilience (such as constructive use of our uncomfortable feelings) reduces the risk of children later ...

Sunshine is Overrated Life with vamps is never easy. Abernathy Meyers is already mated to a vamp, Zebulon. It's just too bad that Zebulon doesn't give a darn about him. Abbie's stuck with the man for eternity-or until they die. Some days, Abbie thinks that can't happen soon enough. He's tired of being treated badly, yet he doesn't really want to make his earthly exit yet. Because he's longed for another man-another vampire-for years. Forbidden love-is anything more compelling, or more heart-breaking? There's a twisted past, a hidden story linking Abbie ...

Current book has concentrated its attention on the intellectual capital's component structural capital that is vital from the viewpoint of value creation. Its importance lies in its ability to create knowledge, which is left without attention in current management theories. Very good ways have been found how to process and manage information but the theories, which handle the amplification of knowledge, are still very young. Structural capital offers different opportunities how to keep different input and output on desired level, working as a regulator in ...

In his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect (R) , Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music. Now he shows you how to help the children in your life experience the same benefits. You don't have to be an expert on classical music to use this wise and compassionate book. Focusing each chapter on a particular age -- from prenatal through age ten -- Don Campbell explains how music is the perfect tool to improve children's language, movement, and social skills at home, school, and play. He presents dynamic, inventive ways to invigorate ...

In 1986, Vietnam initiated its extensive economic reform program, known as Doi Moi, which saved the country - then in a devastating economic crisis - from a collapse. The introduction of market system has brought back substantial changes in both people's life and the national economy. Market mechanism, commercial institutions, private properties and capital goods ownership, free trade... have since come into existence. Gradually, financial markets have grown up ...

In times of worldwide globalisation the knowledge of useful information is becoming increasingly important. Parallel to genetic engineering, the expansion of the Internet produces similar volumes of data - frequently saved in text files. One of the most relevant intersection is the usage of approximate string matching in large text data. The Internet has to face the challenge of not only to concentrating on request times but also finding more context-relevant information. Associated with this aim, further steps in this field have to take into consideration ...