What, according to you, is a family business? What are its benefits? Why do a majority of family businesses fail? Can a family business be turned to your advantage? Set around the backdrop of an enterprise that has been around for over a hundred years - the Baidyanath Group, these questions, and many more, are answered in this book on what makes family businesses tick specially beyond the third generation. As any business passes through generations and each generation passes through these ...

Mobile Internet and availability of affordable smartphones are dramatically altering how audiences consume news. People are transforming from passive recipients of news to active news explorers, commentators and activists with views that constantly fashion and demolish stories.To stay relevant in an age of volatile public opinion, corporate storytelling will have to move beyond influencing media narratives.Horses Can Fly offers powerful and insightful ways to engage with customers, investors ...

There once was a cranky watermelon with a big imagination who lived on a magic mountain. Ajay wrote this book when he was in the third grade. He was inspired to write this book as he always heard his grandmother talking about wanting to write a book.

It was 9th of February 2014, in Maa Kalkaa’s temple, when Zindagi asked me to write our story in the form of a novel. I was utterly astounded to see such a wish coming from her, but such was my love for her that it didn’t take me even seconds to say a yes. When I wanted to prove my love to her by writing this novel, nowhere in my mind had I thought that my love story would take such a tragic turn. The Heart Transplant of my Girlfriend is just a small attempt to fulfil the promise that I ma...

This new edition of a classic text is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children. This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:- 14 videos placed throughout the text providing real life examples of the developmental behaviours and assessment exercises described in the book.- Supplementary content including explanations of developmental theories such as theory of language development, and theories on the nature ...

Latex-bearing plants have been known for their contribution to human health. Latex, a complex mixture produced in some plants, acts as a reservoir of secondary metabolites with high medicinal value. This semisolid exudation from plants contains several chemical components that are synthesized via different biosynthetic pathways and acts as their first line of defense. Recently, chemical components derived from natural plant latex and their synthetic analogs have been used in medicine as an...

This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: - 17 videos placed throughout the text providing real life examples of the behaviours and assessment exercises described in the book. - Supplementary content including explanations of developmental theories. It begins with a practical framework for developmental examination, then progresses through each of the key developmental domains, offering guidance on enquiry and observation, and on how to chart typical and atypical patterns, w...

From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step ‘how to’ guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children. This book has been developed alongside the original From Birth to Five Years as a companion volume that expands on the normative developmental stages outlined in Mary Sheridan’s pioneering work in the field, by offering practical guidance for health, education and social care professionals, or anyone concerned with putting the theo...

This new edition of a classic is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children. It provides the knowledge required for understanding children's developmental progress with age and within each developmental domain.Including new sections on atypical development for each of the core domains of development and additional material on the development of attention and self-regulation, this fifth edition integrates findings from the latest ...

This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States. Given the importance of our relationship with the nonhuman world for the fate of our planet, this work gives special attention to the representation, instruction, and understanding of the relationship between the social and the natural world. It also proposes an alternative, sustainability science-based conceptual framework for ecology and environmental science topics in science educatio...

This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Britain, and the United States. The common goal of these educators is to produce more socially/ecologically just models and practices of science education. The book considers and reworks the key-terms of current social justice: agency, realism, justice, and power. Its first section explores re-inhabiting science in the quest for more just worlds ...

As early as 2014, after the fall of Mosul, maps of ISIS showing a desire to take over South Asia started to appear on social media. But how far has that borne fruit? Or has it always been more of an ill-conceived chimera?One of the shortcomings of our understanding of ISIS in India-and indeed in South Asia-is that neither the media nor the public discourse seems to know what ISIS itself is. The militant group has eclipsed Al Qaeda to become the most feared terror group in the West,...