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In the course of working with students across various disciplines, Claire Odogbo realized that many students have problems with their studies because they do not understand the basic principles of learning.
Learning to learn is an attempt to correct this problem and aid those who really wish to learn, along the path of true learning, to attain self-development and higher achievements in life. This manual is designer as a handbook for the person who wants to be a more effective learner.

The book critically examines the pattern of employment of rural people involved in non-farm sector as their primary source of income. Are they driven away from the farm sector in despair or is it the pull attraction of the non-farm sector that promises greener field to them? The book seeks to explore the forces that underlie the prevailing trend among the workers to shift from the farm to the non-farm sector. The study focuses on the state of Uttar Pradesh that has received scant attention in literature. It makes use of both micro-level data collected at the household level as well the latest available macro-level data. The book should appeal to both the professional economist and the general reader interested in issues and problems in rural India.

Our mission in this world is to empower human values and our success is in transforming our aspirations for prosperity in unity to all mankind without any limitation. A Society cannot Co-exist or flourish if conflicts prevail in any form, in the backdrop of drastically differing cultural and economic conditions.

The time has come to believe that there is a trend in present generation once again to return to barbaric and brutal ways of invasions on the human civility in the name of religions and cast feelings when the world had advanced this far, even if not in its ultimate sense, in the field of knowledge in all areas including scientific and technical fields as well as in upholding Human Rights which is internationally acclaimed.

This book contains 100 pathways for microbial catabolic metabolism of primarily xenobiotic organic compounds. It includes information on most known microbial catabolic reaction types and the organic functional groups they transform. The purpose of this book is to provide a thorough overview of research and developments being carried out in the field of microbial degradation of xenobiotics compounds which are causing harm to the global environment and human race in general. This book also aims in creating an interest amongst diligent readers who may find new avenues for research. Each section provides an overview of a metabolic pathway of a particular compound that is a central component of the human use in a particular area. Due to its organization, the handbook can be used as a reference book by researchers of related field and can be read for individual sections or chapters. This compilation can also be used as a book for advanced courses in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Environmental sciences, Enzymology and Metabolic engineering.

A memoir of the days of yore.

What are stories? A piece of imagination or an escapist look at reality? I believe they are both. Reality in itself is way too mundane to arouse any feeling. Life, if evaluated just the way it happened, will appear way too ordinary and common place to give a feeling of being special. So we connect events, fill non-existent details through our imagination and here it is; a tale worth telling and thus worthy of living.

George was a liberal long before the word became fashionable and long after it fell into disrepute. In this anthology of his writing, he reflects on growing up as the eldest son of the eminent Professor Armando Menezes, a life spent between Goa and Bombay, his closest relationships, youthful experimentations with marijuana, joining the BJP, and being an outspoken LAy conscience of the CAtholic Church. With exclusive access to photographs, private letters and unpublished family memoirs, we encounter a family history of nationalism and activism.

In recent years, theatre in India, both of the Indian English and the regional variety has received greater attention. However, there does not seem to be a matching effort in the form of easy to handle manuals and handbooks of theatre for students, researchers and members of the public

Many questions about the intricacies of the universe are critically examined in this book. This is not just another text book. Rather, it is a record and an explanation of a quest to dicover some of the truths about the universe and an important contribution to the literature on cosmic science.