Chapter 1: Methods to study Pedology and Edaphology of Indian Tropical Soils: An Overview -- Chapter 2: Evidence of Clay Illuviation in Soils of the Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP) and Red Ferruginous (RF) Soils -- Chapter 3: Clay Illuviation and Pedoturbation in SAT Vertisols Chapter 4: Cracking Depths in Indian Vertisols: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change -- Chapter 5: Unique Depth Dis…
1. Introduction -- 2. Mainstream Actors -- 3. Non-Mainstream Actors -- 4. Films (and Plays) -- 5. Comedians -- 6. Conclusion.This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users. Barry Spunt examines a number of hypotheses about the reasons why actors and comedians use heroin as well as the impact of heroin on performance, creativity, and career t…
Protest and Power -- Alter-globalization in Southern Europe -- Lifestyle Stereotypes -- Music and Politics, a Utopian Narrative -- A Ternary Model of Political Resistance: Subject, Action, and Object.Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and…
Chapter 1: An Insight into Mycorrhiza Involved in Building Soil Health (Swami) -- Chapter 2: Integrated Soil Fertility Management (Yadav) -- Chapter 3: Mulching: An option to Improve Sustainable Soil Health (Gopalakrishnan) -- Chapter 4: Biofertilizers -- Chapter 5: Microbiome of rhizospheric soil and vermicompost and their applications in soil fertility, pest and pathogen management for sustai…
Introduction -- Agroextractivism: the desert grows -- The economic rationality of agroextractivism -- Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness -- The government of the affects -- Agroecology in post-development settings -- Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology -- The future, behind.This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing t…
Foreword 1 -- Foreword 2 -- Foreword 3 -- Acknowledgement -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Landscape evolutions in the human-environment system -- Part III. Natural disasters and impacts on the past societies -- Part IV. Climatic factors in the transitions of social systems -- Part V. Social adaptation and resilience to environmental stresses -- Part VI. Social-culture in connection with the…
Introduction; Vida Česnuitytė, Eric D. Widmer, Detlev Lück -- PART I EXPLANATION OF FAMILY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- 1 Approaches to the study of family life: Practices, context and narrative; Julia Brannen -- 2. Family salience across nations: Configurations of morphological conditions; Eric D. Widmer, Olga Ganjour -- 3 Cultural conceptions of family as inhibitors of change in family lives: …
This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment. It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different …
1. Introduction -- 2. Popular Culture and the Sociology of Fame -- 3. The Life and Times of Lady Gaga -- 4. The Business of Lady Gaga -- 5. The Laws of Lady Gaga -- 6. Gaga Media: From Internet to Radio -- 7. The Audience of Lady Gaga: Beyond the Little Monsters -- 8. Gaga Activism: The New Ethics of Pop Culture -- 9. The Sex of Lady Gaga -- 10. Art Pop: The Styles of Lady Gaga -- 11. Conclusio…
1: Introduction -- 2: The historical and politico-military context of the border -- 3: The refugee problem from an official account -- 4: Reconstructions of social memory by refugees -- 5: Everyday life in refugee camps -- 6: Music and Art as symbols of identity and everyday resistance -- 7: Conclusion. .This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building proce…