Urban Computing Av Yu (senior Research Manager Of Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Asia) Zheng

<P>This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India¿s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation...

Providing detailed illustrations using cases from pioneering schools around the globe at both the primary and secondary level, this book demonstrates how a relational orientation to evaluation in education can enhance learning processes, foster students'...

During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal succession and marriage into other royal and princely families. Michael Questier shows that while this secured political power, it also...

This book provides a brief, accessible overview of the Qur'an in question-and-answer format. Jane McAuliffe, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Qur'an, introduces readers to this important text by discussing its origins, structure,...