While quantitative analyses of higher education in India are plentiful, informed research on higher education policy at the State level remains limited. This volume seeks to fill that gap. It is the outcome of a multi-state study sponsored by the ICSSR, examining higher education policies in four southern States—Andhra Pradesh (pre-bifurcation), Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu—and the western State of Maharashtra. Set against both historical contexts and contemporary realities, each Stat...

Knowledge.Something he had come to love—a beacon of hope, a guiding light.Power.Something he had been forced to chase—a burden he never wished to bear.Truth.A force that consumes, easy to seek but merciless in its embrace.When Claude stumbles upon a vestige of forgotten divinity, he becomes entwined with a reality far beyond his understanding. To uncover the truth, he must walk the path set befor...

Genesis 1-11:26 is part of The Christian Standard Commentary (CSC) series. This commentary series focuses on the theological and exegetical concerns of each biblical book, thoughtfully balancing rigorous scholarship with practical application.This series helps the reader understand each biblical book’s theology, its place in the broader narrative of Scripture, and its importance for the church today. Drawing on the wisdom and skills of dozens of evangelical author...

This book is designed to supplement the 2025 Doctrine and Covenants Come, Follow Me Church curriculum year. The Doctrine and Covenants beautifully illustrates that the Lord Jesus Christ lives and speaks today. By integrating both spiritual and secular understanding and insights, this volume explores how the Doctrine and Covenants teaches doctrine, principles, laws, prophecies, typologies, and gospel applications.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Innovative Methods and Practical Applications for Cognizant Transportation Systems (IMPACTS 2023). It explores the most recent methods of analysis and design of transportation systems, such as congestion, traffic safety, and high pollution levels, that can adapt to the ever-changing demands of urbanization. This compilation of research papers on the themes of traffic engineering, pavement technology and transporta...

Economic development, in its traditional formulation, ignores the impact of decisions made regarding energy, resources, and finance. The standard choices made are to use stocks of fossil fuels, stocks of resources and their linear flow, and generic finance. The implications of this are now clear. An alternative is being crafted which is based on flows of renewable energy and renewable fuels, on circular flows of resources, and on greening of financial instruments, such as equities and bond...

Do you know the event that begins the Christmas story? It happens fifteen months before the birthof Jesus.Do you know the person Mary spoke to first about her visit from the angel Gabriel? It wasn't Joseph.Did you know that Herod sided with Marc Antonyand Cleopatra against Rome in the years beforeJesus was born? Do you know how the Roman Civil Wars affected the birth of our Lord?Did you know there was a treasure hunt the nightof Chris...

This book calls for an equitable and qualitative access to education for all. It proposes paradigms of educational governance that are based on coalition building between key stakeholders, are grounded in local and cultural contexts, sensitive to the language needs of communities. It underlines the significance of gender sensitive and inclusive approaches that ensure equity for marginalized children and minorities.Based on research-based studies, the volume focuses on equity, quali...

This evidence-based guide examines the relationship between wellbeing and inclusive education. The authors argue that these fields have evolved in parallel, like tram tracks, but rarely intersect in research, whereas in practice, they are potentially deeply related.Each chapter addresses unresolved theoretical and implementation problems and research issues. The book presents a case for reimagining inclusive education through dialogic pedagogy and a critical reassessment of pre-ser...

At a moment when protectionist trade policy has returned to the centre of global economic debate, America's Neglected Protectionist Tradition recovers the deep intellectual roots of that impulse — roots that stretch back to America's founding and that represent a far more sophisticated economic tradition than is commonly understood. This work offers the most comprehensive treatment of the American protectionist school of economic thought, which originated with the ideas of Alexander Hamilt...

There once was this boy I loved very much. He would leave a rose on my doorstep on my birthdays and on the anniversary of the day we met.I don’t know what happened to him. I lost my memory and my ability to speak after a horrendous hit-and-run accident.A different boy shows up like clockwork at the bar I bartend at, but he’s not a boy. He’s all man. Tall. Imposing. Brooding. Guns for arms. Doesn’t speak a lick to me. He stares at me from his dark corner with this intensity,...

To punch a hole through two feet of solid steel tank armor, you do not need a heavier bullet; you need to understand the Munroe Effect. The shaped charge is a masterpiece of extreme fluid dynamics, fundamentally altering the way the modern military breaches impenetrable targets. Instead of a solid warhead, a shaped charge features a hollow, inverted copper cone packed with high explosives. Upon detonation, the explosive shockwave collapses the cone inward upon itself with such astonishing ...