Author: Kavitha Prithviraj
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1948230062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
As a student of fashion design, Swara Srivastav’s first encounter with businessman Abhay Singh Ranawat was not a pleasant one. With her youthful exuberance, she had countered his cynicism by giving him a piece of her mind. Now, three years later, Swara is dismayed when she realises that she is going to be working for Abhay . Desperate for a job, she accepts the offer to be his personal assistant although she is fully qualified to be a designer. As the duo begins to work together, over shared cups of South Indian filter coffee and monsoon rain, they find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Unfortunately, they have forgotten one tiny detail—that Abhay is not a free man! Will Swara’s love be enough to help Abhay break out of the shackles of his past or will it be sacrificed on the altar of deceit and obligation?
Monsoon Rain
Author: Kavitha Prithviraj
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1948230062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
As a student of fashion design, Swara Srivastav’s first encounter with businessman Abhay Singh Ranawat was not a pleasant one. With her youthful exuberance, she had countered his cynicism by giving him a piece of her mind. Now, three years later, Swara is dismayed when she realises that she is going to be working for Abhay . Desperate for a job, she accepts the offer to be his personal assistant although she is fully qualified to be a designer. As the duo begins to work together, over shared cups of South Indian filter coffee and monsoon rain, they find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Unfortunately, they have forgotten one tiny detail—that Abhay is not a free man! Will Swara’s love be enough to help Abhay break out of the shackles of his past or will it be sacrificed on the altar of deceit and obligation?
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1948230062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
As a student of fashion design, Swara Srivastav’s first encounter with businessman Abhay Singh Ranawat was not a pleasant one. With her youthful exuberance, she had countered his cynicism by giving him a piece of her mind. Now, three years later, Swara is dismayed when she realises that she is going to be working for Abhay . Desperate for a job, she accepts the offer to be his personal assistant although she is fully qualified to be a designer. As the duo begins to work together, over shared cups of South Indian filter coffee and monsoon rain, they find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Unfortunately, they have forgotten one tiny detail—that Abhay is not a free man! Will Swara’s love be enough to help Abhay break out of the shackles of his past or will it be sacrificed on the altar of deceit and obligation?
Monsoon Feelings
Author: Imke Rajamani
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789386906472
Category : Arts, South Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The monsoon is the season of pouring rain and intense emotions: love and longing, hope and fear, pleasure and pain, devotion and joyous excess. Through a series of evocative essays exploring rain-drenched worlds of poetry, songs, paintings, architecture, films, gardens, festivals, music, and medicine, this lavishly illustrated collection examines the history of monsoon feelings in South Asia from the twelfth century to the present. Each essay is written by a specialist in the field of South Asian arts and culture, and investigates emotions as reflections and agents of social, cultural, and political change across borders of language and religion and between different arts and cultural practices. This history of emotions in the rain is as rich, surprising, beautiful and devastating as the thundering monsoon clouds, and will delight general and scholarly audiences alike.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789386906472
Category : Arts, South Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The monsoon is the season of pouring rain and intense emotions: love and longing, hope and fear, pleasure and pain, devotion and joyous excess. Through a series of evocative essays exploring rain-drenched worlds of poetry, songs, paintings, architecture, films, gardens, festivals, music, and medicine, this lavishly illustrated collection examines the history of monsoon feelings in South Asia from the twelfth century to the present. Each essay is written by a specialist in the field of South Asian arts and culture, and investigates emotions as reflections and agents of social, cultural, and political change across borders of language and religion and between different arts and cultural practices. This history of emotions in the rain is as rich, surprising, beautiful and devastating as the thundering monsoon clouds, and will delight general and scholarly audiences alike.
Monsoon
Author: Uma Krishnaswami
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466896701
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
"An expressive story about seasons, extremes, and waiting." - Kirkus Reviews Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds to bring their gift of rain to the land. Through the observations of one young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors and the breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during the final days before the welcome arrival of the monsoon.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466896701
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
"An expressive story about seasons, extremes, and waiting." - Kirkus Reviews Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds to bring their gift of rain to the land. Through the observations of one young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors and the breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during the final days before the welcome arrival of the monsoon.
Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia
Author: Peter D. Clift
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030080
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030080
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.
Frog Hymns and Rain Babies
Author: Gautamavajra Vajrācārya
Publisher: Marg Publications
ISBN: 9788192110646
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the influence of monsoons on the art, literature, and culture of India and the South Asian region.
Publisher: Marg Publications
ISBN: 9788192110646
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the influence of monsoons on the art, literature, and culture of India and the South Asian region.
The monsoon lands of Asia
Author: Robert Rees Rawson
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202369781
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"According to the author a geographic region must satisfy the following conditions: however striking the diversity of the physical setting and the languages, religions and general appearance of the people, there must be some aspect of culture (for example, the social outlook or the organization of the economy) which pervades the area in such a way as to justify the recognition and study of that area as one entity and there must be substantial cultural differences between it and adjacent areas. Monsoon Asia, from Pakistan to Japan is more than a land area and an assemblage of countries: it is a distinctive geographical region. Its population--which includes nearly half the people in the world--is mainly rural, its economy mainly agricultural, and its peoples share a heritage of material poverty. But change is apparent everywhere in the area. This book is a compact and lucid introduction to the dynamic as well as the unchanging characteristics of the region. After an introductory section, which defines the limits of Monsoon Asia, there follow chapters on structure and relief, climate, vegetation, and soils. A discussion of the historical geography of the region leads into studies of its agriculture and industry. The concluding two-thirds of the book survey the characteristics of the constituent countries--India, Pakistan, Ceylon, China, Japan, Korea, and South-East Asia proper (Burma, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc.). Special attention is paid throughout to the political and social setting of current political problems. The book contains 17 plates, 48 maps and diagrams, a selected bibliography, and an index."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202369781
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"According to the author a geographic region must satisfy the following conditions: however striking the diversity of the physical setting and the languages, religions and general appearance of the people, there must be some aspect of culture (for example, the social outlook or the organization of the economy) which pervades the area in such a way as to justify the recognition and study of that area as one entity and there must be substantial cultural differences between it and adjacent areas. Monsoon Asia, from Pakistan to Japan is more than a land area and an assemblage of countries: it is a distinctive geographical region. Its population--which includes nearly half the people in the world--is mainly rural, its economy mainly agricultural, and its peoples share a heritage of material poverty. But change is apparent everywhere in the area. This book is a compact and lucid introduction to the dynamic as well as the unchanging characteristics of the region. After an introductory section, which defines the limits of Monsoon Asia, there follow chapters on structure and relief, climate, vegetation, and soils. A discussion of the historical geography of the region leads into studies of its agriculture and industry. The concluding two-thirds of the book survey the characteristics of the constituent countries--India, Pakistan, Ceylon, China, Japan, Korea, and South-East Asia proper (Burma, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc.). Special attention is paid throughout to the political and social setting of current political problems. The book contains 17 plates, 48 maps and diagrams, a selected bibliography, and an index."--Provided by publisher.
Monsoon as Method
Author: Lindsay Bremner
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
ISBN: 1638408041
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology and its outcomes and invites urban practitioners to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene.
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
ISBN: 1638408041
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology and its outcomes and invites urban practitioners to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene.
The Asian Monsoon
Author: Bin Wang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540406105
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
This is a timely, interdisciplinary scientific overview of the atmosphere, the ocean and the land surface as it interacts with physical, chemical and biological processes. The high level of detail sets it apart from other studies of monsoon meteorology. The text includes analysis of paleoclimate records, human influences on the monsoon climate and the economic impacts of the monsoon on economies and to human health.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540406105
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
This is a timely, interdisciplinary scientific overview of the atmosphere, the ocean and the land surface as it interacts with physical, chemical and biological processes. The high level of detail sets it apart from other studies of monsoon meteorology. The text includes analysis of paleoclimate records, human influences on the monsoon climate and the economic impacts of the monsoon on economies and to human health.
Monsoons over China
Author: Ding Yihui
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401583021
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The monsoon over China is one of the major components of the general circulation on a global basis. Its activity be ars a significant regional implication in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Recently, the remarkable relationship and teleconnection between this part of the monsoon and other regions over the world have been revealed. However, little of the overall picture of monsoons over China is known by meteorologists in English-speaking countries. This monograph provides the first opportunity to extensively introduce this subject and give a comprehensive and systematic description of the major aspects of monsoons over China, with a special emphasis on the fluctuations of the monsoon on various scales and the effects of the Tibetan Plateau on the monsoon. Much highly original material and achievements Chinese and Western meteorologists have made from the past 20 years have been incorporated with a unifying approach. In each chapter, the observational and theoretical (including modelling) treatment will be closely combined in order to fully illustrate the relevent problems. The unique thermal and dynamical effects of the Tibetan Plateau on the monsoon circulation features wh ich are one of the central problems of the Asian monsoon are highlights of this monograph. Researchers in meteorology and weather forecasters should find this book a very useful introduction to monsoons over China, not only for its systematic treatment of the subject, but also because of its considerable historical information. This mono graph is equally suitable for graduates or more advanced students in meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401583021
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The monsoon over China is one of the major components of the general circulation on a global basis. Its activity be ars a significant regional implication in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Recently, the remarkable relationship and teleconnection between this part of the monsoon and other regions over the world have been revealed. However, little of the overall picture of monsoons over China is known by meteorologists in English-speaking countries. This monograph provides the first opportunity to extensively introduce this subject and give a comprehensive and systematic description of the major aspects of monsoons over China, with a special emphasis on the fluctuations of the monsoon on various scales and the effects of the Tibetan Plateau on the monsoon. Much highly original material and achievements Chinese and Western meteorologists have made from the past 20 years have been incorporated with a unifying approach. In each chapter, the observational and theoretical (including modelling) treatment will be closely combined in order to fully illustrate the relevent problems. The unique thermal and dynamical effects of the Tibetan Plateau on the monsoon circulation features wh ich are one of the central problems of the Asian monsoon are highlights of this monograph. Researchers in meteorology and weather forecasters should find this book a very useful introduction to monsoons over China, not only for its systematic treatment of the subject, but also because of its considerable historical information. This mono graph is equally suitable for graduates or more advanced students in meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography.
Tropical Circulation Systems and Monsoons
Author: Kshudiram Saha
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642033733
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This is a book on the practical side of tropical meteorology which in its 3 Parts covered in 12 chapters reviews several current theories and ideas on tropical circulations and monsoons, offering new definitions and ideas to facilitate a systematic development of the subject. The book emphasizes the need for a system’s approach to tropical circulations in general and monsoons in particular to facilitate orderly and systematic development of the topic.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642033733
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This is a book on the practical side of tropical meteorology which in its 3 Parts covered in 12 chapters reviews several current theories and ideas on tropical circulations and monsoons, offering new definitions and ideas to facilitate a systematic development of the subject. The book emphasizes the need for a system’s approach to tropical circulations in general and monsoons in particular to facilitate orderly and systematic development of the topic.