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Incorporating the authors' experience in both industrialised and developing countries, with public and private organisations, with managers and administrators, farmers and teachers, rural development workers and members of cooperatives, this book is the most comprehensive work in the field of training and organizational development.

The Third Edition, now published under this new title, is divided into two volumes. This first book looks at the new and wider concept of training in which strategic concerns and decisions about training have moved into the boardroom. Targeted at those charged with development overall, this volume addresses developers, founders, and managers of training policy, strategy and systems.

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This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to explore what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Focusing on local-level agricultural practices in India since the “green revolution” of the 1960s, Akhil Gupta challenges the dichotomy of “developed” and “underdeveloped,” as well as the notion of a monolithic postcolonial condition. In so doing, he advances discussions of modernity in the Third World and offers a new model for future ethnographic scholarship.
Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in rural north India from the early 1980s through the 1990s, Postcolonial Developments examines development itself as a post–World War II sociopolitical ideological formation, critiques related policies, and explores the various uses of the concept of the “indigenous” in several discursive contexts. Gupta begins with an analysis of the connections and conflicts between the world food economy, transnational capital, and technological innovations in wheat production. He then examines narratives of village politics in Alipur to show how certain discourses influenced governmental policies on the green revolution. Drawing links between village life, national trends, and global forces, Gupta concludes with a discussion of the implications of environmentalism as exemplified by the Rio Earth Summit and an examination of how global environmental treaties may detrimentally affect the lives of subaltern peoples.
With a series of subtle observations on rural politics, nationalism, gender, modernization, and difference, this innovative study capitalizes on many different disciplines: anthropology, sociology, comparative politics, cultural geography, ecology, political science, agricultural economics, and history.

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a huge success - no more famines.......2006-06-28

The book is fundamentally one of a huge historical success. For the first time in its history, India was able to adequately feed its huge population. There have not been famines for decades.

The text has details about how agriculture developed, after the British left. Most of the population lived in rural areas, and government policies for the most part proved effective and supportive. These included electrification and the building of agricultural surpluses for years of bad harvests. Plus, of course, there was the deployment of Green Revolution, with its higher yielding rice crops.

Which is not to say that deep poverty and malnutrition do not still exist. Or corruption in the government, for that matter. But famines seem to be confined to a distant part.

New Visions of the State. (book review): An article from: Social Analysis

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New Visions of the State. (book review): An article from: Social Analysis
Michael Humphrey , Mark T. Berger , Clive Kessler , and Souchou Yao
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Postcolonial Developments : Agriculture in the Making of Modern India

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Postcolonial Developments : Agriculture in the Making of Modern India
Akhil Gupta
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Many physicists and astrophysicists are searching for information about the highest energy and therefore rarest cosmic rays. This has motivated efforts to instrument larger and larger volumes of material, leading to a resurgence of radio detection techniques. Particle-astrophysicists from around the world gathered to share recent results, simulations, hardware techniques, and historical reminiscences.

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The topic of the inverse problems is of substantial and rapidly growing interest for many scientists and engineers. The second edition covers most important recent developments in the field of inverse problems, describing theoretical and computational methods, and emphasizing new ideas and techniques. It also reflects new changes since the first edition, including some corrections. This edition is considerably expanded, with some concepts such as pseudo-convexity, and proofs simplified. New material is added to reflect recent progress in theory of inverse problems.

This book is intended for mathematicians working with partial differential equations and their applications, and physicists, geophysicists and engineers involved with experiments in nondestructive evaluation, seismic exploration, remote sensing and tomography.

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Unreadable.......2007-04-21

One would think that Springer-Verlag would be able to afford an editor
for the second edition of a book they charge $80 for. Apparently not.
This book is so full of typos, misspellings, and bad grammar that it is
essentially unreadable. The completely stochastic sprinkling of "the"'s
and "a"'s throughout the text (a particular grammar difficulty of native
Russian speakers) suggests that no editor has ever read this manuscript.

On the positive side, the mathematical expertise of the author in PDE
theory is not in question, and the book does contain useful technical
information on inverse problems once you strip away the typos and
decipher the grammar.

finding interiors of objects.......2006-07-28

Isakov describes various ways to solve the inverse problem. In simplest form, one might have, say, Poisson's equation. But whereas the conventional problem is to find the potential, given the source, the inverse problem involves knowing the potential, or its gradient, and having to find the source.

The book draws together many results which thus far have mostly resided in maths journals. Isakov explains common themes to these research papers. Plus, and more importantly to some readers, he also gives the practical contexts in which the problems might arise. Such include determining the inside of a portion of a person's body, given various external measurements. Or finding structural data of a machine from external probes. The basic situation is that we are often outside something, and cannot physically go inside that object in a non-destructive manner.

The level of maths is broadly accessible to a reader with an undergrad major in maths or physics.

Asymptotic Analysis of Soliton Problems: An Inverse Scattering Approach (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

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Asymptotic Analysis of Soliton Problems: An Inverse Scattering Approach (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
Peter Cornelis Schuur
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Coefficient Inverse Problems for Parabolic Type Equations and Their Application (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series)

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Coefficient Inverse Problems for Parabolic Type Equations and Their Application (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series)
P. G. Danilaev
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Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart (Monographs in Computational Science and Engineering)

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Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart (Monographs in Computational Science and Engineering)
Joakim Sundnes , Glenn Terje Lines , Xing Cai , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen , Kent-Andre Mardal , and Aslak Tveito
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ASIN: 3540334327

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This book describes mathematical models and numerical techniques for simulating the electrical activity in the heart. The book gives an introduction to the most important models of the field, followed by a detailed description of numerical techniques for the models. Particular focus is on efficient numerical methods for large scale simulations on both scalar and parallel computers. The results presented in the book will be of particular interest to researchers in bioengineering and computational biology, who face the challenge of solving these complex mathematical models efficiently. The book will also serve as a valuable introduction to a new and exciting field for computational scientists and applied mathematicians.

Direct Methods Of Solving Multidimensional Inverse Hyperbolic Problems (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series, V. 48)

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Direct Methods Of Solving Multidimensional Inverse Hyperbolic Problems (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series, V. 48)
S. I. Kabanikhin , A. D. Satybaev , and M. A. Shishlenin
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Forward and Inverse Problems for Hyperbolic, Elliptic and Mixed Type Equations (Inverse and III-Posed Problems, 40)

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Forward and Inverse Problems for Hyperbolic, Elliptic and Mixed Type Equations (Inverse and III-Posed Problems, 40)
A. G. Megrabov
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ASIN: 9067643793

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The field of inverse problems is an important and rapidly developing direction in mathematical physics, differential equations and various applied technologies. This volume in the Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series focuses on direct and inverse problems for partial differential equations. The type of equations considered are hyperbolic, elliptic and mixed (elliptic-hyperbolic). The direct problems arise as generalizations from the inhomogeneous layer (or from the half-space). The inverse problems are those of determining medium parameters by giving the forms of incident and reflected waves or by giving the vibrations of certain points of the medium. The research method used of all inverse problems is spectral-analytical, consisting in reducing the considered inverse problems to know inverse problems for the Sturm-Liouville equation or for the string equation. Discrete inverse problems are also considered in this volume. In these problems an arbitrary set of point sources (emissive sources, oscillators, point masses) are determined. This volume will be of value and interest to researchers and scientists in mathematical physics, geophysics and biophysics.

Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems and PDE Control (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)

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Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems and PDE Control (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)

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ASIN: 0387405291

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This volume contains a selection of articles based on lectures delivered at the IMA 2001 Summer Program on Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems and PDE Control . The articles are focused around a set of common tools used in the study of inverse coefficient and control problems for PDEs and related differential geometric problems. This book will serve as an excellent starting point for researchers wanting to pursue studies at the intersection of these mathematically exciting and practically important subjects.

Ill-Posed Problems with A Priori Information (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems)

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Ill-Posed Problems with A Priori Information (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems)
V. V. Vasin , and A. L. Ageev
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Inverse Methods in Action: Proceedings of the Multicentennials Meeting on Inverse Problems, Montpellier, November 27Th-December 1st, 1989 (Inverse Problems and Theoretical Imagining)

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Inverse Methods in Action: Proceedings of the Multicentennials Meeting on Inverse Problems, Montpellier, November 27Th-December 1st, 1989 (Inverse Problems and Theoretical Imagining)

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Inverse Nodal Problems: Finding the Potential from Nodal Lines (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)

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Inverse Nodal Problems: Finding the Potential from Nodal Lines (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)
Ole H. Hald , and Joyce R. McLaughlin
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Can you hear the shape of a drum? No. In this book, the authors ask, "Can you see the force on a drum?"

Hald and McLaughlin prove that for almost all rectangles the potential in a Schrödinger equation is uniquely determined (up to an additive constant) by a subset of the nodal lines. They derive asymptotic expansions for a rich set of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Using only the nodal line positions, they establish an approximate formula for the potential and give error bounds.

The theory is appropriate for a graduate topics course in analysis with emphasis on inverse problems.

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The formulas that solve the inverse problem are very simple and easy to state.

Nodal Line Patterns--Chaldni Patterns--are shown to be a rich source of data for the inverse problem.

The data in this book is used to establish a simple formula that is the solution of an inverse problem.

Irish green and Union blue: The Civil War letters of Peter Welsh, color sergeant, 28th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers
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Irish green and Union blue: The Civil War letters of Peter Welsh, color sergeant, 28th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers
Peter Welsh
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This is the first full-scale biography of Nathan Smith -- medical pioneer, founder of Dartmouth Medical School and cofounder of three other medical schools (Yale, Vermont, and Bowdoin), and progenitor of a long line of physicians. Smith was a central figure in early American medical education, from 1787 when he began practicing in New Hampshire, to his death in New Haven in 1829. In his day, Smith was probably the nation's leading physician, surgeon, and medical educator, and well ahead of his time in insisting that doctors practice "watchful waiting" and emphasizing patient-centered care. In the process of telling Smith's life and story, authors Hayward and Putnam fill out in new ways the picture of medical treatment and medical education in post-Colonial America.

The tale of Smith's remarkable career unfolds in New England, where the authors create a sense of time and place through an exhaustive study of primary and secondary sources, and especially Smith's own letters and lecture notes taken by his students. Readers become immersed in Smith's life and the spirit of the times as they examine early Victorian notions of disease, how medical students were taught (the chapter on body snatching is especially lively), the politics and economics of founding professional medical schools in early America, and other topics. The book provides a vivid description of what it was like to study and practice medicine, and be the recipient of the ministrations of physicians, during this critical period.

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