This study offers a fresh critical perspective on mystical poetry across cultures and faiths from a point of view that balances the Eastern and Western approaches. It specifically examines, in some depth and range, select verses of a fairly large number of poets in order to highlight the universal features of mysticism as it finds expression in their works. The poets chosen include  (i) Kashmiri poets : Lal Ded, Nunda Rishi, Shams Faqir, Zinda Kaul, Swami Govind Kaul and Bhavani Bhagyavaan Pandit, (ii) British poets : Coventry Patmore and T.S. Eliot and (iii) 16th century Spanish poet, St John of the Cross. In a refreshingly novel way, the author discusses mysticism and its relationship with poetry, seeking to show how the latter, through apt images and symbols, serves to convey man s experience of the Divine. His competent English translation of Kashmiri verses, well-matched by his fine critical analysis of the whole textual material, enhances further the charm and value of this scholarly work. The perceptive reader will notice that the author s approach to the subject and the critical method he employs reflect a classical mind at work equipped with sound scholarship and a thorough grasp of the essentials of Hindu, Christian and Islamic mysticism.

Mysticism Across Cultures: Studies on Select Poets & Saints

A.N. Dhar

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Hastily written in pencil and serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 as "The Heart of Darkness", and later published in book form in 1902, as Heart of Darkness, the sibylline charm of the novel has established it as one of the most important canonical texts of British literature. Critics have seen the book as an 'angry document on absurd and brutal exploitation' (Guerard), 'probably the greatest short novel in English' (Karl), 'an annunciation of the Savage God' (Cox), an adventure story, an early instance of modern fiction, an existential novel, and an early specimen of New Historicism. The novel 'turns on a double paradox' (Hillis Miller), and 'addresses itself simultaneously to Europe's exploitation of Africa, the primeval human situation, an archaic aspect of the mind's structure and a condition of moral baseness' (Parry). But at the same time the novel has elicited an angry reaction from Chinua Achebe who calls Conrad, 'a bloody racist.' The present study, one in the series of Atlantic Critical Studies, attempts to make a close reading of the novel, and examines its various aspects with lucidity and profundity, never losing, however, the touch with the reality of the academic needs of the students of English literature.

Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (The Atlantic Critical Studies)

Mohit K. Ray

Literature & Fiction

New ideas, new models of communications and newer perspectives through which communication has been studied, applied, or practiced, have evolved and changed overtime. But they all exist in juxtaposition so as to present an integrated scenario of communications per se in 2000 decades. In the book, seven salient perspectives are presented--all intertwined as a Communication Perspective. A few Communication scenarios are highlighted to address the contextual significance of the seven perspectives. We foresee that the seven perspectives from which we have analyzed communications per se may undergo several changes. The changes may occur when particular perspective's scope is widened. The change may occur due to changes in modalities of communications, both people-oriented and technology-oriented. New communication technologies may come up. Along with this, newer needs and demands may turn up; social attitudes and values may also change. In 2000 decades, the communication scholars, teachers and trainers, researchers, practitioners, professionals, and educators look forward to an integrated communication scenario for people, society and governance. The book is unique in presenting such perspectives to all those who deal in diverse areas of communications and focus on the critical issues of development, culture, globalization and information technology etc., in different world societies. Presentation of Communication from seven diverse perspectives, its associated models and the communication strategies in the book are the product of authors' four decades of association with Communication, discipline in theory and practice and publishing widely the same in the areas of development, culture and information technology. The author's communication researches in diverse communication areas, from diverse perspectives and in different geo areas have provided depth in presenting the evolutionary view of communication in cohesive and understandable pattern.

Handbook of Communication: Models, Perspectives, Strategies

Uma Narula

Business & Money

Product Description In the past two decades, several books have been written on applied social psychology, the focus primarily being on research and its interpretation in the Western countries, with a clear distinction being made between basic research in social psychology and the applicable, applicability and applied nature of the findings. This latter issue has, however, not always been appreciated by many scholars in non-Western parts of the world. As a result, scholars of social psychology in non-Western regions of the world have frequently erred in their judgment of what constitutes the "applied" nature of social psychology. Secondly, applied social psychology depends a great deal on intervention programs that not only invite work beyond the basic, applicable and applicability aspects but also are costly to implement and time consuming. Due to both these reasons, most of the books from the non-Western countries fall short of the true applied aspects of social psychology. In this respect, Applied Social Psychology: A Global Perspective is a pioneering book dealing with applied social psychology from both the Western and the non-Western perspectives. The book also points out the limits of non-western social psychological findings claimed as 'applied' though lacking the support of intervention programs. At the same time, the problems, issues and challenges in intervening at the cross-cultural level have been succinctly dealt with. In writing this book, the authors have gone beyond the topics found in traditional text books of applied social psychology, for example, applied social psychology of the environment, health, law, education, consumer behavior etc, and have also focused on two extremely important areas of our life, that have otherwise remained neglected in most books on applied social psychology. These are the realms of technology and religion. Another important addition is a chapter on aggression and non-violence. Overall, this book presents a wide range of topics that descr Review "Applied Psychology: A Global Perspective is an exceptional book in many ways. First, it is a pioneering work in covering the global issues as compared to other books on the subject that are narrowly focussed on either the western or the non-Western issues. Second, it covers many vital topics such as technology and religion that are not covered in the other available books on applied social psychology. And last but not the least important, the book deals with real "Applied" issues involving interventions, a problem in many non-Western publications that fail to distinguish between basic, applicable, applicability and applied issues of social psychology and mislabel many among them as "applied". I commend the authors for their deligence in presenting the facts collected from researches in many countries." --Omar Sayeed, Dean of Research, NITIE, Mumbai About the Author V.K. Kool is Professor of Psychology at the SUNY Institute of Technology, New York, USA, since 1991. He has held faculty positions in several universities during his four decades of teaching psychology. He has published several books and research articles. A recipient of Fulbright Senior Research Award (2005), he served the editorial board of several journals, including Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, a publication of Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.***Rita Agrawal was Reader and Head, Department of Psychology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar in India. Author of several books and research articles published in many Western and Eastern countries, she has been a consulting faculty at IIM, Ahmedabad; IIM, Indore; XLRI, Jamshedpur; IMT, Ghaziabad, etc. She received many gold medals, scholarships and faculty awards during her three decades of academic career. Her latest book is Stress in Life and at Work (2001).

Applied Social Psychology: A Global Perspective

Health, Fitness & Dieting

V.K. Kool & Rita Agrawal

Psychology & Counseling

Ever since its evolution in 1876, Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) has been the world's most widely used library classification system. It is expected from all professionals, paraprofessionals, and library students to at least have a working knowledge of cataloguing basics, particularly the DDC, owing to its extensive application in almost all the Indian libraries. In this respect, the present book is the most appropriate as it skilfully acquaints the readers with this system, which is the simplest scheme of coordinating the titles on the same subject and on related subjects by using a combination of letters and numbers and thereby facilitating location of books on the shelves of library. The present book is highly recommended for professionals and paraprofessionals seeking professional development, students wanting to supplement their courses with practical applications and library schools offering distance learning courses in cataloguing. Students and teachers of Library Science will particularly find this book useful.

Practical Handbook of Dewey Decimal Classification

Politics & Social Sciences

C.K. Sharma

Social Sciences

The present book, New History of Ancient India, is an attempt to present the Indian history in the light of recent discoveries and excavations made in this field. The history of India before the invasion of Alexander the Great in 328 B.C. has been generally considered a myth. Accordingly, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, Manu and Mandhata, Harishchandra and Bhagirath, Shri Rama and Shri Krishna, all have been treated non-historical, mythical personages. But the recent discoveries like those of Dwarika of Shri Krishna in the sea and Lanka of Ravana in Orissa as well as the authentic determining of the date of floods, that find mention in the Purana, have outrightly refuted the past presumptions. With new things coming to light, it is desirable that history be rewritten. It is with this view that the present book has been written. It aims at presenting the information in an analytic manner and also in chronological order. Beginning from the Vedic yuga, the book presents an in-depth study of Devasura yuga, Satya yuga, Dwapar yuga and Kaliyuga. All the information, both conventional and recent, provided in the book are authentic as they are taken from the authoritative sources. The book is unique in its presentation as it richly provides maps of ancient states, photographs and figures, which not only give a glimpse of the related age or Yuga but also facilitate easy understanding of information. Since miracles, exaggerations, mysteries and supernatural powers find no reference here, the book can be held a complete, authoritative text on ancient Indian history. It is hoped that the students, research scholars and even teachers of Indian History will find this book highly useful and indispensable for having a thorough and updated knowledge of ancient India. Even the general readers will find this book extremely interesting and informative.

History of Ancient India (A New Version): From 7300 BB to 4250 BC, Vol. 1

History

J.P. Mittal

Asia

History of Ancient India (A New Version): From 4250 BB to 637 AD, Vol. 2

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust (The Atlantic Critical Studies)

I.H-Shihan

The present book has highlighted the impacts of the two significant communication dynamics of innovative communication technologies and globalization process in the current decades which have transformed the world. Dynamics of mass media and interpersonal communications, viz. economics, literacy, social, technology and globalization are changing human condition. The impact and interplay of these different dynamics create the holistic communication scenario. New ideas, new models of communications and newer perspectives through which communication has been studied, applied, or practiced have evolved and changed overtime and that has changed its dynamics both in theory and practice. The book has presented the significance of these dynamics. The relevance and significance of dynamics of communications in every walk of human life is presented through vivid human stories. These stories suggest that power of communication lays in its holistic integration of various communication perspectives. That is the major contribution of the book. In 2000 decades the communication scholars, teachers and trainers, researchers, practitioners, professionals, and educators look forward to an integrated communication scenario for people, society and governance. The book is unique in presenting significance of such dynamics and impacts to all those who focus on the critical issues of development, culture, globalization and information technology etc. in different world societies. It is challenging and provocative book and essential reading for all those who care about such dynamics. The author's four decades of communication researches in diverse communication areas, from diverse perspectives and in different geo areas have provided depth in presenting the dynamic view of communication in cohesive and understandable pattern.

Dynamics of Mass Communication: Theory and Practice

Tagores English writingsoriginals and translationshave not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writings of Tagore all over the world, with just the bare, minimum information necessary for appreciating the writings, and leave the critical assessment to the readers themselves. There may be two possible reasons for the neglect of Tagores English writings. Firstly, Tagores prolific output, Shakespearean felicity and protean plasticity as a Bengali poet, who, though well-versed in English, chose to write in the medium of his mother tongue for nearly the first fifty years of his life, and there is hardly any literary form that he did not touch upon and turn into gold. His creative genius found expression in poems, plays, novels, essays, short stories, satirical pieces, textbooks for children, and songs of all kinds. The only literary form that he did not try is epic. But in his long, eventful and creative eighty years of life he virtually lived an epic. It is largely due to his mighty stature as a Bengali poet that nobody really bothered about his English writings and his own translations of his own writings. Secondly, it is owing to the supposedly poor quality of his translations subsequent to the translation of Gitanjali. It was only after Tagore received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 that there was a growing demand for his writings in the West, and as Tagore was not apparently satisfied by the translations that othersmainly his admirersmade, he began to translate his writings himself. But the tremendous haste with which he had to translate, possibly affected the quality of translations. Come what may, the point is whether Tagores English translations are good or bad, whether the translation furthered his reputation or damaged it, is immaterial. The fact of the matter is that they are his, and his own translation of whatever quality it may be is more valuable to a Tagore lover than the best translation made by somebody else, as Van Goghs one original single scratch is more valuable than the best possible copy by some other artist. The value of Tagores English writings lies here : they constitute an important part of his total oeuvre, add a new magnificent dimension to it and offer us a glimpse into the mystique of the creative anxiety that could have haunted even the greatest writer of the twentieth century, about his possible reception in an alien culture.

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, 8 Vols. Set (Vols. 1 & 2 -- Poems; Vol. 3 -- Plays, Stories; Vol. 4 & 5 -- Essays; Vol. 6 -- Essays, ... Addresses; Vol. 8 -- Miscellaneous Writings)

Rabindranath, Tagore

Introduction by Mohit K. Ray

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