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Public Administration Reformation
Market Demand from Public Organizations
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
In an attempt to instil trust in their performance, credibility, integrity, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and good governance, many public organizations are in effect viewing tax-paying citizens as consumers. Little research exists to explore synergies between the market economy, public...
To Be Published November 17th 2013 by Routledge
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Social Protection Policies in South Asia
This book offers a comparative analysis of social protection policies in five countries of South Asia — India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh — where economic transformation impelled by globalisation and liberalisation has, on the one hand, caused an unprecedented expansion of the...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge India
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Rock Mechanics
An Introduction
Rock mechanics is a multidisciplinary subject combining geology, geophysics, and engineering and applying the principles of mechanics to study the engineering behavior of the rock mass. With wide application, a solid grasp of this topic is invaluable to anyone studying or working in civil, mining,...
Published January 17th 2013 by CRC Press
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Rise of the Plebeians?
The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies
Series: Exploring the Political in South Asia
For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of the ‘world’s largest democracy’ started with the rise of peasants’ parties and the politicisation of...
Published March 8th 2009 by Routledge India
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Fundamentals of Geosynthetic Engineering
Fundamentals of Geosynthetic Engineering provides an overview of the basic concepts of this subject, especially meeting the requirements of students in civil engineering as well as of practising civil engineers who have not been educated in geosynthetics during their university training. All major...
Published April 27th 2006 by Taylor & Francis
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Distributed Computer-Aided Engineering
Series: Computer Aided Engineering
Networking of personal computers and workstations is becoming commonplace in academic and industrial environments. A cluster of workstations provides engineers with a familiar, cost-effective environment for high performance computing. However, workstations often have no dedicated link and...
Published October 27th 1998 by CRC Press