Kaul r k (52 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Contents: R.K. Kaul: a biographical sketch. Preface. I. Ideas and movements: 1. The Anglo-Saxon view of future and fate: an essay in grammar and theology. 2. Donne and Webster: the air of reality. 3. Johnson and James as writers of travelogues. 4. Byron and the Burlesque tradition. 5. The Hellenism of Arnold and Nietzsche. 6. Henry James on the creative process. 7. Henry James as an art critic. 8. The case for realism in Henry James's the art of fiction'. 9. The provincialism of F.R. Leavis. 10. The classicism of Irving Babbit. 11. How reliable is our memory of early childhood? II. Text and context: 12. Heathcliff through feminine eyes. 13. The sacramental view of marriage and Isabel Archer. 14. The sanity of Alice James. 15. John Fowles: two novels. 16. Rhyme and blank verse in drama: a note on Eliot. 17. Arthur Miller as a critic of Ibsen. 18. Albee and the theatre of cruelty. 19. The origins of Osborne's Pacifism. III. Homeland and flights of fancy: 20. Towards on understanding of India. 21. Edward Said's Orientalism and Abbe Dubois. 22. Ashis Nandy on decolonisation. 23. Ghalib and the Lay Reader. 24. Nirad Chaudhuri: in defence of the empire. 25. The comic vision of R.K. Narayan. 26. A society Gone Sour: Naipaul's portrayal of India. 27. V.S. Naipaul and the demythologizing of EI Dorado. 28. Naipaul: the renegade. 29. Anantha Murthy's Samskara: a poetic novel. 30. Men, monsters and archangels. 31. Rushdie and revivalism: a note on the Moor's Last Sigh. 32. Vassanji as an expatriate writer. "The present volume of thirty-three essays brings to the reader a sampling of Kaul's scholarship. Ranging over a period of three centuries, they explore political ideas, Utopian vistas, modes of satire, generic developments and fictional flights. History and philosophy rub shoulders with each other as eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries unfold themselves in different ways. The writer's grounding in his home culture has leaped across languages and geographies; the sharp penetrative vision and the argumentative mind led him to spot the 'out of ordinary', the slip which is not noticed by the ordinary reader. The distance from the thesis in question is balanced and objective. There is a refusal to be seduced by the sheer popularity or wide acceptance of a critical opinion. The volume is divided into three sections: History, ideas and movements, Texts and contexts and homeland and Flights of Fancy, signifying the journey of the writer from theoretical formulation to a close focussing on text, to a final arrival in the home culture and the diasporic writer, engagement with postcolonial frameworks and literary experiments. Together they supply substance to argument, provoke thought and invite a dialogue." (jacket).…

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Wetlands are transitional areas between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems where the water table is usually at or near the surface, or the land is covered by shallow water. Wetlands are among the most productive life support systems in the world and are of immense socio-economic and ecological importance to mankind. In India wetlands are distributed in different geographical regions. Wetlands play critical role in the improvement of water quality through the arrest of pollutants (organic inorganic) from direct release to the natural water bodies and by removal of sediments, production of oxygen, recycling of nutrients, and treatment of wastewater by removing nitrogen, phosphorus, bacteria and viruses. The wetlands act as habitat for fish shellfish, and for birds, mammals, reptiles amphibians, many of which are of economic value in terms of subsistence and commercial fishing, hunting and trapping. Non-consumptive uses of the wetlands, viz. bird watching, recreation, aesthetics, educational activities, and scientific research are also well recognized. Population pressures in the past few decades led to rapid utilization of natural resources for land based development. In this process wetlands were treated with contempt. Ignoring their importance, wetlands were considered obstacles in the path of progress and reservoirs of diseases. Wetlands were hence drained, filled and reclaimed for more economic gains. The rivers were dammed, regulated and channellized leading to modification or elimination of floodplains. This led to a considerable alteration of wetland habitats and the composition of associated flora and fauna. A select list of activities that affected wetlands is presented in Table - 1. In the recent past importance of wetlands has been realized by the policy makers worldover and efforts are being made to protect the wetlands from further deterioration and loss. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is potentially one of the most valuable, inter-disciplinary and objective decision-making tools with respect to alternate routes for development, process technologies and project sites. It is an anticipatory mechanism which establishes quantitative values for parameters indicating the quality of the environment and natural systems before, during and after the proposed developmental activity, thus allowing measures ensuring environmental compatibility and economic efficacy. EIA is designed to present a clear and concise picture of all benefits and costs associated with alternative courses of action, and thus provides a mechanism for merging concerns for ecology and economics in the process of decision-making. In many cases developmental activities adversely affect wetland benefits which are of value to communities and natural processes. EIA can provide very useful information on how wetlands will be affected by the proposed developmental activities to ensure effective management of wetlands. EIA can help planners make rational decisions about resource allocation and ensure that the wetland benefits required for sustainable development are maintained. The objective of this manual is to assist project proponents, conservation activists and decision makers to identify the wetland benefits present at a particular site as also benefits which are likely to be adversely affected by a particular project activity. This would enable assessing the extent and cost of the management plan required to mitigate these impacts. With the backdrop of international conventions for wetland protection and initiatives of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, manual delineates step by step procedure for EIA of developmental activities affecting wetland benefits. Worksheets that could enable preparation of case studies are included in the manual. Four casestudies prepared by the institutions that participated in the March 1995 workshop organized by the British Council, at Calcutta, have been included in the manual.…

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Hardcover. Condición: New. Contents: Preface. I. Introduction: 1. Concept of EIA. 2., Hierachy in EIA. 3. Major issues in EIA. 4. Scope for use of computers in EIA. 5. Scope of current research. II. Literature review: 1. Evolution of EIA worldwide. 2. Evolution of EIA in India. 3. Classification of environmental impacts. 4. Project screening. 5. Methodology of site selection. 6. EIA methodologies. 7. Computer aided EIA. 8. Impact quantification techniques. 9. Mathematical models for EIA. 10. Indicators of biological and socio-economic environment. 11. Environmental indices. 12. Enlarged scope of EIA of industrial projects. 13. Conclusion. EIA-Aid : a software package for computer aided EIA: 1. Package organization. 2. Screening of projects. 3. Ranking of site alternatives. 4. Impact identification. 5. Prediction of impacts. 6. Impact evaluation. 7. Sensitivity analysis in impact evaluation. 8. Design of green belt. IV. Discussions and conclusions.…

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. v + 123 pages : 21 cm.

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