Raj Kumar

Today, entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley start-ups, and celebrity activists are the driving force in a radical shift in the way we think about lifting people out of poverty. In this new era of data-driven, results-oriented global aid it's no longer enough to be a well-intentioned do-gooder or for the wealthy to donate an infinitesimal part of their assets to people without a home or basic nutrition. What matter now in the world of aid are measurable improvements and demonstrable, long-term change. Drawing on two decades of research and his own experiences as an expert in global development, Raj Kumar, founder and President of Devex, explores the successes and failures of non-traditional models of philanthropy. According to Kumar, a new billionaire boom is fundamentally changing the landscape of how we give, from well-established charitable organizations like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to Starbucks and other businesses that see themselves as social enterprises, to entrepreneurial start-ups like Hello Tractor, a farm equipment-sharing app for farmers in Nigeria, and Give Directly, an app that allows individuals to send money straight to the mobile phone of someone in need. The result is a more sustainable philosophy of aid that elevates the voices of people in need as neighbors, partners, and customers. Refreshing and accessibly written, The Business of Changing the Worldsets forth a bold vision for how businesses, policymakers, civil society organizations, and individuals can turn well-intentioned charity into effective advocacy to transform our world for good.

How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry

The Business of Changing the World

India Under Aurangzeb

Nilanjan Ray

Dilip Kumar Das

Tourism Marketing: A Strategic Approach presents a variety of practical application tools, skills, practices, models, approaches, and strategies that are proving themselves effective in tourism marketing. The volume considers overall infrastructure, socioeconomic conditions, and modern tourism business infrastructure in discussing the efficiency of good strategies and practices and their impact on business and economic growth. Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries, and in the next few decades, it will play a role in many fields, such human resources, national economic growth, and more.

A Strategic Approach

Tourism Marketing

The classical texts have condemned Trika (6th, 8th & 12th) houses and their lords as evil with a negative role. These are considered to represent all the anti-forces that act against a native and are held responsible for all the miseries, sufferings, calamities and diseases that befall a native. However there is nothing absolutely good or bad in the universe. All the houses are part of a divine scheme and have a definite function to perform. Trika houses represent the struggle of life and the capabilities of a native to fight back. Viewing adversity as challenge and not as loss or failure is a positive attitude and elevates one spiritually. The Trika houses denote unconscious and sub-conscious mind which are vital to understand any native. As the level of consciousness elevates, native’s perception and mode of operation drastically changes and barriers like hatred, jealousy and revenge etc. get dissolved. It is interesting to note that certain dispositions or Yogas by Trika lords in a horoscope not only shun the evil denotations but also bring fortune, wealth, health and happiness. Mars/Jupiter in 6th, Mercury/Saturn in 8th and Venus in 12th house if placed alone and unafflicted gives excellent results. Benefics and trinal lords if exalted, Yogkaraka or Mooltrikone sign in a Trika house helps a native to rise high in life. This book highlights such positive aspects of Trika houses/lords.

Charisma of Trika Houses

Bal Ram Singh

This succinct volume addresses the production of inactive, potentially toxic proteins in the absence of correct protein folding and the resultant neurodegenerative diseases. Other topics include intrinsic disorder in protein structure and function and the effects of molten globules on protein toxicity. This concise and yet thorough text also discusses using toxin structure as a model for studying structural and functional aspects of protein chemistry. Protein Toxins in Modeling Biochemistry, a SpringerBrief, is essential reading for advanced researchers, scientists and advanced graduate students interested in protein chemistry and related areas of biochemistry and molecular science.

Protein Toxins in Modeling Biochemistry

With The Fall Of Muslim Rule East India Company Took Hold Of The Administrative Affairs Of The Country. This Is A Fascinating Story How Traders Became Rulers . The Foundation And Growth Of British Dominion In India Took Place Under Peculiar Conditions. We Know That The English Came To Trade, But Remained To Rule. The Story Of That Transformation Is Not Only Of Great Interest But Also Full Of Instruction For Us Who Have To Safeguard Our Freedom. We Lost Our National Independence Because Of The Gave Shortcomings That Afforded All Foreigners Very Tempting Opportunities.This Book Attempts To Put Light On Contemporary Socio-Political Conditions Which Brought Downfall To Muslim Hegemony Which Resulted In Foundation Of British Rule In India. Topics Like: An Enquiry Into The State Of Bengal; Traders Become Rulers; Expansion Of British Dominion; Growth Of Administration; The Steel-Frame At Work; Some Unpublished Documents In The Imperial Record Department Of The Government Of India Having A Bearing On Anglo-Nizam Relations Etc. Provide Rich Information On The Theme.

Fall Of Muslim Rule And East India Company

Survey of medieval India. 11. Local governments and administration during Muslim rule in India

Survey of medieval India. 13. Fall of Muslim rule and East India Company

local governments and administration during muslim rule in India

Survey of Medieval India

The Essays, Contained In This Book Are Substantially Drawn From The Writings Of Great Historians And Authorities On The Period. Thus, As A Whole This Makes An Authentic History.The Themes Competently Discussed Herein Are: The Arab Conquest Of Sind; Sultan Mahmud Of Ghazni; Shihabuddin Of Ghur; Delhi Sultanate; Turko-Mongol Theory Of Kingship; Retrieval Of Monarchy; Hegemony Or Monarchy?; The Muslim Theory Of Sovereignty; Heritage Of The Delhi Sultans; Experiments Of The Albari Turks; The Zenith Of Despotism Or Tribals; Reaction And Collapse Etc.

Early Muslim Rule and Despotism in Medieval India

Contents: Dalit Controversy, Weaker Sections During Mauryan Period, Sudras in Ancient Hindu Law, Ambedkar s Perception of Justice, Dalit Psyche and Gandhian Response, Gandhi and the Dalit Question, Gandhiji and Untouchability, Dalit Emancipation, Gandhi and Dalits, The Politics of Conversion, The Temple Entry Movement, Empowering the Powerless, Dalits and the State, The Chandala /Maangas in Kathasaritsagara, Dalit and Power Structure, The Weaker Sections of Madhya Pradesh, The Evil of Untouchability, Ambedkar and the Dalits, Ambedkar s Quests for Social Justice through Constitutional Rights and Safeguards: An Analysis.

Essays on Dalits

Manu Sharma (Financial researcher)

Venture Capital is a form of financing provided by wealthy investors, investment banks and other financial institutions to start-ups and small- to medium-sized enterprises with strong growth potential in exchange of private equity stakes. These investors are also known as venture capitalists. With the rise of start-ups and small ventures, the market of venture capitalist and the interest of people in venture capitalism are also increasing. The valuation of the firms done by the venture capitalist at the beginning is not just a betting game. It is a thorough research done using different strategies and computing formulas. Venture Capital Investments gives a fundamental understanding of various aspects of venture capital covering the nature of investments, deal evaluation, structure, economics and fundraising. It discusses the challenges a venture capitalist faces right from raising funds to evaluating a potential deal and exit valuation. The book begins by covering the difference between the private market and the public market. Finally, it discusses fund economics and fund structure in venture capital firms. The book will be a helpful read for entrepreneurs who want to get into the shoes of a venture capitalist and understand how they valuate a firm or a start-up. It will also be an informative read for the aspiring venture capitalists who are interested to enter the venture capital market.

Venture Capital Investments

Manu Sharma

Survey of Modern India: Emergence of Congress and Indian freedom

Iain J. McEwan

Nuclear Receptors focuses on the structural analysis of nuclear receptors from the initial work using isolated protein domains to the more recent exciting developments investigating the conformational shape of full-length receptor complexes. The book also reviews the structure of key nuclear receptor co-regulatory proteins. It brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive review of nuclear receptor structure and the importance of receptor conformation underpinning allosteric regulation by different ligands (hormone, drugs, DNA response elements, protein-protein interactions) and receptor activity. The nuclear receptor superfamily, including receptors for steroid hormones and non-steroid ligands, are pivotal to normal physiology, regulating processes as diverse as reproduction, metabolism, the immune system and brain development. The first members of the family were cloned over 25 years ago, which heralded in the idea of a superfamily of intracellular receptor proteins that bound small molecule ligands: classical steroid hormones, vitamins, fatty acids and other products of metabolism. These signals are then transmitted through multiprotein receptor-DNA complexes, leading to the regulation of target genes, often in a cell-selective manner. The cloning of the receptor cDNAs also ushered in an era of unparalleled analysis of the mechanisms of action of these ligand-activated transcription factors. ​

Nuclear Receptors: From Structure to the Clinic

The correct judgement of longevity is highly complex, but is equally important and sought after. “Knowing longeity is difficult even for gods” said sage Parashar. Any prediction made without considering it may make the prediction a laughing stock of both the astrologer and astrology. The time span between birth and death of a native is called his longevity. Longevity and death are not the same but are closely related. However it is not yet clear what death is. Our scriptures have at various places equated death with different types of Mrityu Tulya agonies which are different from physical death. Again the destiny of each one of us is interlinked with our close kith and kin and our relationship with them is pre-determined, predestined and irrevocable. Death is severing of final link of a native with them. Hence a native’s death must get corroborated / confirmed in the horoscopes of his close relations. An attempt is made in this book to address all such issues. The book is a study of about 225 natives who had lived and died in different countries at different time, at different age and of different causes, applying known tools of astrology. The book is an attempt to help clear some mist and enable to have a better judgement of longevity.

Longevity: a Vedic Approach

Objective of this series of essays on Indian History and Culture is to select contributions which could interest, educate and inspire our readers. Attempt has been made to make available to our readers best literature written by renowned scholars, through the ages, to enable our students, teachers, policymakers and our general readers to analyse the themes, they are interested in, in proper historical perspectives. This will enable them to think, write and dream of a developed India of twenty first century. How far the study of our history, religion, culture, economy, philosophy, music, science, law, education, technology, trade, art, architecture, etc. can provide to us inputs for a bright brilliant and vibrant India, is one of the major concern of these volume. There is a crisis of character all around, how far this exercise in Indian History and Culture can stem the tide of corruption, criminalization of politics and ills of the consumerist culture is one of our aims in compiling this series of volumes.

Essays on Indian Philosophy

Gary Tomlinson

Grantley W Walrond

Zareer Dadachanji

Options for Developing Countries in Mining Development

1. Astronomical Background. 2. Types of retrogression- rotation and revolution. 3. Importance of Retrograde planets-views of classics & savants. 4. Karmic theory and retrogression of Mercury & Venus. 5. Retrogression of Mars, Jupiter & Saturn. 6. Dasha/ transit and retrogression. 7. Retrogression and Div. charts, Horary & Mundane affairs. 8. Retrogression and Western Astrology. 9. Six Astronomical Configurations. 10. 15 tables and 43 charts of natives/ natural calamities.

Raj Kumar

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