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    • Trusted Partner
      Corporate Social Responsibility
      Science & Mathematics
      October 2018

      Corporate Social Responsibility

      Win-win Propositions for Communities, Corporates and Agriculture

      by S P Wani, K V Raju, Anand K. Singh, Aviraj Datta, O.P. Chaturvedi, S.K. Dasgupta, Gajanan Sawargaonkar, Girish Chander, A.V.R. Kesava Rao, Kaushal K. Garg, Mukund D. Patil, G. Pardhasaradhi, K Srinivas, Raghavendra Sudi, Inder Dev, Kiran J. Petare, Nagaraju Budama, Rajesh Nune, Ramesh Singh, A. N. Rao, Prabhakar Pathak, D.S. Prasad Rao, C. Srinivasa Rao

      This book examines the design and implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in rural areas, based on collaboration between well-known corporates and an international research organization. Researchers used various scientific tools and methods to enhance rural livelihoods and improve sustainable natural resources management. Including three chapters covering the philosophy and practices of CSR, this book covers emerging policies and their implications in India. Eight case studies based on actual practices explore climate-resilient agriculture, water footprint, improving livelihoods, diversification of crop pattern, enhancing crop productivity, and sustainable development in low rainfall regions. Five further chapters cover soil health improvement, improving rural wastewater management and enhancing rural livelihoods, based on various case studies. The book offers macro and micro perspectives of CSR work and its critical benefits to both community and natural resources. This book covers: Philosophy and practices of corporate social responsibility. Impact studies on improving livelihoods and sustainable development of natural resources. Process steps across various CSR initiatives. Distinct features of each corporate agency. This book will be useful to corporates, individuals involved in CSR work as well as students and researchers focused on agricultural development and the sustainable development of natural resources.

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      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79
      Science & Mathematics
      January 2017

      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79

      by Charlotte Sleigh, Don Leggett

      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. During the middle portion of that century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and value. These changes were due in no small part to the two world wars and their associated effects, notably post-war reconstruction and the on-going Cold War. As the century went on, there were more scientists - requiring more money to fund their research - occupying ever more niches in industry, academia, military and civil institutions. Combining the latest research on twentieth-century British science with insightful discussion of what it meant to govern - and govern with - science, this volume provides both an invaluable introduction to science in twentieth-century Britain for students and a fresh thematic focus on science and government for researchers interested in the histories of science and governance.

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      Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology
      Science & Mathematics
      November 2017

      Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology

      Birds, books and business

      by Henry A. McGhie

      This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.

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      Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology
      Science & Mathematics
      November 2017

      Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology

      Birds, books and business

      by Henry A. McGhie

      This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.

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      After 1851
      History of Art / Art & Design Styles
      February 2017

      After 1851

      The material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham

      by Edited by Kate Nichols, Sarah Victoria Turner

      Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in the South London suburb of Sydenham. It brings together research on objects, materials and subjects as diverse as those represented under the glass roof of the Sydenham Palace itself; from the Venus de Milo to Sheffield steel, souvenir 'peep eggs' to war memorials, portrait busts to imperial pageants, tropical plants to cartoons made by artists on the spot, copies of paintings from ancient caves in India to 1950s film. Essays do not simply catalogue and collect this eclectic congregation, but provide new ways for assessing the significance of the Sydenham Crystal Palace for both nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies. The volume will be of particular interest to researchers and students of British cultural history, museum studies, and art history.

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      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79
      Science & Mathematics
      August 2016

      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79

      by Charlotte Sleigh, Don Leggett

      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. During the middle portion of that century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and value. These changes were due in no small part to the two world wars and their associated effects, notably post-war reconstruction and the on-going Cold War. As the century went on, there were more scientists - requiring more money to fund their research - occupying ever more niches in industry, academia, military and civil institutions. Combining the latest research on twentieth-century British science with insightful discussion of what it meant to govern - and govern with - science, this volume provides both an invaluable introduction to science in twentieth-century Britain for students and a fresh thematic focus on science and government for researchers interested in the histories of science and governance. This volume features a foreword from Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2008-13.

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      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79
      Science & Mathematics
      August 2016

      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914–79

      by Charlotte Sleigh, Don Leggett

      Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. During the middle portion of that century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and value. These changes were due in no small part to the two world wars and their associated effects, notably post-war reconstruction and the on-going Cold War. As the century went on, there were more scientists - requiring more money to fund their research - occupying ever more niches in industry, academia, military and civil institutions. Combining the latest research on twentieth-century British science with insightful discussion of what it meant to govern - and govern with - science, this volume provides both an invaluable introduction to science in twentieth-century Britain for students and a fresh thematic focus on science and government for researchers interested in the histories of science and governance. This volume features a foreword from Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2008-13.

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      Science and the politics of openness
      Science & Mathematics
      January 2018

      Science and the politics of openness

      Here be monsters

      by Brigitte Nerlich, Sarah Hartley, Sujatha Raman, Alexander Smith

      The phrase 'here be monsters' or 'here be dragons' is commonly believed to have been used on ancient maps to indicate unexplored territories which might hide unknown beasts. This book maps and explores places between science and politics that have been left unexplored, sometimes hiding in plain sight - in an era when increased emphasis was put on 'openness'. The book is rooted in a programme of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled: 'Making Science Public: Challenges and opportunities, which runs from 2014 to 2017. One focus of our research was to critically question the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts and faith.

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      Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology
      Science & Mathematics
      November 2017

      Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology

      Birds, books and business

      by Henry A. McGhie

      This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement; his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings, motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed among the leading ornithologists.

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      Industrial Enlightenment
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2009

      Industrial Enlightenment

      Science, technology and culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760–1820

      by Peter M. Jones

      Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology. ;

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      Bodies complexioned
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2019

      Bodies complexioned

      Human variation and racism in early modern English culture, c. 1600–1750

      by Mark Dawson

      Explanations for bodily contrasts - the colour or condition of hair, eyes, skin or blood, or the conformation of faces and skeletons - allowed the English to discriminate quite systematically amongst themselves as well as against non-Anglophone groups during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. People were sorted on the basis of their looks, and assumptions made about their physical, mental and moral capacities. While 'race' had not assumed its modern valence, and 'racial' ideologies were still to come, such typecasting nonetheless had mundane, lasting consequences. Grounded in humoral physiology, and Christian universalism notwithstanding, bodily prejudices inflected social stratification, domestic politics, sectarian division, and international relations.

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      Science at the end of empire
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      September 2018

      Science at the end of empire

      Experts and the development of the British Caribbean, 1940-62

      by Sabine Clarke, Alan Lester

      This book is open access under a CC BY license. This is the first account of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies - something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated. It shows that Britain's remedy to the poor economic conditions in the Caribbean gave a key role to laboratory research to re-invent sugarcane as the raw material for making fuels, plastics and drugs. Science at the end of empire explores the practical and also political functions of scientific research and economic advisors for Britain at a moment in which Caribbean governments operated with increasing autonomy and the US was intent on expanding its influence in the region. Britain's preferred path to industrial development was threatened by an alternative promoted through the Caribbean Commission. The provision of knowledge and expertise became key routes by which Britain and America competed to shape the future of the region, and their place in it.

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      Industrial Enlightenment
      Science & Mathematics
      October 2017

      Industrial Enlightenment

      Science, technology and culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760–1820

      by Peter M. Jones

      Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.

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      The freedom of scientific research
      Science & Mathematics
      October 2018

      The freedom of scientific research

      Bridging the gap between science and society

      by Simona Giordano, John Harris, Lucio Piccirillo, Rebecca Bennett

      Never has the scope and limits of scientific freedom been more important or more under attack. New science, from artificial intelligence to gene editing, creates unique opportunities to make the world a better place and presents unprecedented dangers, which many believe threaten the survival of humanity and the planet. Ironically the very discoveries which promise so much, themselves create new dangers. This book is about the opportunities and challenges, moral, regulatory and existential that now face both science and society. For example, How are scientific developments impacting on human life and on the structure of societies? How is science regulated, and how should it be regulated?Are there ethical boundaries to scientific developments in some sensitive areas? (robotic intelligence, biosecurity?) At stake is both the survival of humankind and the continued existence of our planet.

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      The freedom of scientific research
      Science & Mathematics
      October 2018

      The freedom of scientific research

      Bridging the gap between science and society

      by Simona Giordano, John Harris, Lucio Piccirillo, Rebecca Bennett

      Never has the scope and limits of scientific freedom been more important or more under attack. New science, from artificial intelligence to gene editing, creates unique opportunities to make the world a better place and presents unprecedented dangers, which many believe threaten the survival of humanity and the planet. Ironically the very discoveries which promise so much, themselves create new dangers. This book is about the opportunities and challenges, moral, regulatory and existential that now face both science and society. For example, How are scientific developments impacting on human life and on the structure of societies? How is science regulated, and how should it be regulated?Are there ethical boundaries to scientific developments in some sensitive areas? (robotic intelligence, biosecurity?) At stake is both the survival of humankind and the continued existence of our planet.

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      After 1851
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      February 2017

      After 1851

      The material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham

      by Kate Nichols, Sarah Victoria Turner

      Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in the South London suburb of Sydenham. It brings together research on objects, materials and subjects as diverse as those represented under the glass roof of the Sydenham Palace itself; from the Venus de Milo to Sheffield steel, souvenir 'peep eggs' to war memorials, portrait busts to imperial pageants, tropical plants to cartoons made by artists on the spot, copies of paintings from ancient caves in India to 1950s film. Essays do not simply catalogue and collect this eclectic congregation, but provide new ways for assessing the significance of the Sydenham Crystal Palace for both nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies. The volume will be of particular interest to researchers and students of British cultural history, museum studies, and art history.

      More
    • Trusted Partner
      Industrial Enlightenment
      Science & Mathematics
      January 2013

      Industrial Enlightenment

      Science, technology and culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760–1820

      by Peter M. Jones

      Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology. ;

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      A sonnet to science
      Science & Mathematics
      May 2019

      A sonnet to science

      Scientists and their poetry

      by Sam Illingworth

      A sonnet to science presents an account of six ground-breaking scientists who also wrote poetry, and the effect that this had on their lives and research. How was the universal computer inspired by Lord Byron? Why was the link between malaria and mosquitos first captured in the form of a poem? Who did Humphry Davy consider to be an 'illiterate pirate'? Written by leading science communicator and scientific poet Dr Sam Illingworth, A sonnet to sciencepresents an aspirational account of how these two disciplines can work together, and in so doing aims to inspire both current and future generations of scientists and poets that these worlds are not mutually exclusive, but rather complementary in nature.

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