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Values education has been found to be a more effective way of teaching spiritual moral social and cultural development than promoting any particular religious tradition Values education is a term used to name several things and there is much academic controversy surrounding it The objectives of values education depend on the people who claim to be doing the values education Religious people want to impart their specific set of values 311 pp.…

Contents Preface 1 Gender justice citizenship and development 2 Womens voices in world religions 3 The concept of welfare and the women 4 The Hindutva appropriation of female 5 The interplay of language religion and ethnicity 6 Fundamentalism and the position of women in Confucianism 7 Womens equal right to freedom of religion 8 The paradox of the new Islamic women 9 Religious reservations to the convention on the elimination of all forms of women discrimination Bibliography IndexThe term religion refers both to the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction Religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system but it is more socially defined than personal convictions and it entails specific behaviors respectively Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought unseen being person or object that is considered to be supernatural sacred divine or of the highest truthThere are several notable issues relating to gender and religion These include both religious comment on secular society and views regarding traditional forms of religious communities themselves Internal religious issues include the roles and rights of men and women in religious government education and worship They also include beliefs about the gender of deities and religious figures and about the origin and meaning of human gender The earliest documented religions and some contemporary animist religions involved deification of characteristics of the natural world These spirits are typically but not always gendered jacket 296 pp.…

Contents Preface 1 Incorporating gender into information and communication technology 2 Liberal feminism 3 Womens work in a globalized economy 4 Challenging gendered structure feminizing unions 5 The nature of technological change 6 Gender and grassroots leadership 7 An era of economic transformation 8 The development narrative and globalisation 9 Identity within cultural relativism Bibliography IndexInformation Technology IT comprises a set of technologies that actively process information rather than merely storing or transmitting it Computers the key hardware and non-material software systems form its essential core Even in nations which are in economic terms relatively poor IT substantially changes the traditional production process as well as the marketable goods and services producedIt is precisely in the context of womens autonomy and choice in poorer countries and in less affluent communities that it is now pertinent to focus on the impact of information technology on employment opportunities There are understandable misgivings even among some concerned philosophers about an emphasis on gender as it distracts attention from other elements that determine vulnerability in the world of paid work It is not just a question of women It is a much larger issue of a new technological basis of economic and cultural exploitation which is urging for a new spirit of democratic resistance against what is undoubtedly a considerably changed model of capitalist growth and integration jacket 280 pp.…

Contents Preface 1 Genetic screening 2 Embryonic stem cells 3 Technological applications of biotechnology 4 Animal cloning 5 Therapeutic cloning 6 Recombinant DNA and biotechnology 7 Criminal justice and forensic science 8 Separation methods in forensic science 9 Pathology 10 Anthropology and odontology 11 Entomology 12 Serology and bloodstain pattern analysis 13 DNA analysis 14 Forensic toxicology Bibliography IndexBiotechnology has applications in four major industrial areas including health care medical crop production and agriculture non food industrial uses of crops and other products eg biodegradable plastics vegetable oil biofuels and environmental uses Biotechnology is also used to recycle treat waste clean up sites contaminated by industrial activities bioremediation and also to produce biological weaponsBiotechnology can be used to detect prevent and remediate the emission of pollutants into the environment in a number of ways Solid liquid and gaseous wastes can be modified either by recycling to make new products or by purifying so that the end product is less harmful to the environmentThe word forensic comes from Latin forensis - meaning before the forum and refers to something of pertaining to or used in a court of law In todays day and age it almost always refers to a method of obtaining criminal evidence for purposes of using in a court of law Forensic science is typically just referred to as forensics and is the practical application of numerous sciences to solve legal system-related questions which can include either a civil or criminal action or suit jacket 272 pp. figs (illustrator).…

Contents Preface 1 Principles of molecular biology 2 Genomes and nucleic acid alterations 3 Nucleic acid techniques 4 DNA chips 5 Design and operation of a molecular diagnostics laboratory 6 Molecular methods in diagnosis 7 Pharmacogenetics 8 Molecular genetics in diagnosis Bibliography IndexMolecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry particularly genetics and biochemistry Molecular biology chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell including the interactions between DNA RNA and protein biosynthesis as well as learning how these interactions are regulatedGenetics is the area of biological study concerned with heredity and with the variations between organisms that result from it It demands an understanding of numerous terms such as DNA deoxyribonucleic acid a molecule in all cells that contains blueprints for genetic inheritance genes units of information about particular heritable traits which are made from DNA and chromosomes DNA-containing bodies located in the cells of most living things that hold most of the organisms genes jacket 288 pp. figs, tables (illustrator).…

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. Indian philosophy and religion a general introduction. 2. The Bhagavadgita an introduction. 3. Sri Aurobindo's treatment of the Gita. 4. Mahatma Gandhi's treatment of the Gita. 5. Treatment of the Gita by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. 6. Conclusion. Select bibliography. Index. The book analyses the treatment of Bhagavadgita by three important thinkers of modern India Sri Aurobindo Mahatma Gandhi and Radhakrishnan. Bhagavadgita is the essence of Indian philosophical and religious textual heritage acceptable and intelligible to vast range of readers. Through out the ages saints and scholars have commented on it. Sri Aurobindo Gandhi and Radhakrishnan have been chosen as representative thinkers of the 20th century. Sri Aurobindo was associated with the extremist wing of Indian nationalists. As a poet and essayist he exhibits rare combination of east and west. He evolved a very comprehensive philosophical system and wrote extensively on Indian scriptures. Radhakrishnan was a scholar par excellent and wrote an encyclopedic history of Indian philosophy. He had a deep understanding of both east and west. Mahatma Gandhi dominated the Indian scenario through out the freedom struggle. As a prolific writer a politician and public figure of par excellence Gandhi was innovative in his treatment of Gita. The book analyses the treatment of these three thinkers. They had different upbringing mental make up and had gone through different experiences and each developed an independent understanding of Bhagavadgita. The book provides a synthetic analysis of the treatment of the Gita by these three thinkers who represent the first half of 20th century. The book also provides a comparative picture of the three thinkers and their links with freedom struggle and independence. 304 pp.…

Contents Preface 1 Electronic voting an introduction 2 E-democracy e-governance and public net-work 3 Democracy in the information age 4 Democracy and cyberspace 5 The internet and the governance 6 Democracy and shared life 7 Digital democracy and civil society 8 Perspectives on citizen democratisation 9 The democracy network DNet 10 Transparency through technology Bibliography IndexCyberdemocracy brings with it the opportunity for a reassessment of the methods by which government services are provided Through increasing departmental utilisation of the online environment access to details of government services and initiatives could be extended to include all regardless of their geographic location and with no limitation of this access to public service working hours Numerous opportunities exist with respect to possible new dimensions of government presence in an online environmentThe internet provides a distinctive structure of opportunities that has the potential to renew interest in civic engagement and participation Civic engagement can be understood to include three distinct dimensions political knowledge what people learn about public affairs political trust the publics orientation of support for the political system and political participation conventional activities designed to influence government and the decision-making process The lower cost of information exchange on the internet as well as the high level of reach that the content potentially had made the internet an attractive medium for political information particularly amongst social interest groups and parties with lower budgets jacket 272 pp. tables (illustrator).…