Lost in a flood around 2500 BC, Vanuvati is a doll with an enigmatic smile. She is discovered in 713 AD by Mariam, the sister of an Arab horse trader – only to disappear once more. This absorbing ‘adventure’ story covers time frames, centuries apart weaving history, mythology and mystery in one grand tale.

Introducing the readers to the flavour of the most significant debates in education, this volume will provide educationists, social scientists and policy makers a gamut of analyses on diverse themes of elementary education at one place.

Recognizing the potential of ICTs to make the classroom transaction of curriculum significantly more relevant,  and  purposeful, principals and school administrators in India need to design appropriate IT strategies and oversee the entire implementation process in their schools. This book is a guide to the use of ICT in schools, covering issues of pedagogy, curriculum and learning.

This is a complete yet pragmatic resource for social service professionals for using standard descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. This is an excellent core or supplemental text for a variety of advanced courses such as Statistics for Social Services, Human Services and vocational rehabilitation.

This book provides a well-grounded and accessible survey of the burgeoning field of material culture studies for students in sociology and consumption studies. While situating the field within the history of intellectual thought in the broader social sciences, it offers detailed and accessible case studies.

This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of modern Indian history at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It will also interest researchers, students of political science and the general reader keen to learn about the Indian nationalist movement.

This is a timely book on an exceedingly important subject at the current juncture in world affairs: the role of the UN Secretary-General, the personification of ‘the international community.’ It offers significant insights from scholars and practitioners alike, and will be required reading for Kofi Annan’s Successor.

This work provides a healthy, comprehensive counterpoint to the ethnocentrism engrained in the widespread belief that scientific knowledge about education is typically western. Stressing that the Western ‘minority’ perspective cannot hold true for the ‘majority’ of the world population situated outside Europe and North America, this edited volume explores traditional educational theories and practices developed in the majority world to study how they can improve modern schooling globally.