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• "Post-Post modernist" theory of "Cohesive development through Alternative development paradigm | Bharat Patankar
  18 October 2025

  It was a very great experience to read Prof. Sunil Ray’s upcoming book. In fact, at many instances while I was reading, I thought as if I am reading my own writing on the "Alternative development paradigm "!! This was particularly true when I was reading the beginning of the Part III which says,
  "The primary condition for cohesive development is social cohesion among individuals with a sense of community and commitment to the common objective based on collective understanding and shared (…)

• Maria Cristina Galmarini. Review of Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, The Afterlife of the ’Soviet Man’
  2 December 2023

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  Reviewed by Maria Cristina Galmarini (College of William & Mary)
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  The Afterlife of the

• Review of Goldstein & Nost eds., The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
  25 February 2023

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  The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
  by Jenny Goldstein, Eric Nost, eds.
  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2022. ix + 328 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-1715-8; (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-3250-2
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  At a time when the apparent dematerialization of economies, the hypertrophy of the digital sphere, the predominance of social networks, and the advancement of artificial intelligence value the (…)

• Teresa Huhle. Review of Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II by Rebecca Herman
  20 April 2024

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  Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
  by Rebecca Herman
  Oxford University Press
  2022. 320 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-753187-7
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  During World War II, the United States Army deployed aircrafts and troops in sixteen Latin American countries, utilizing existing defense sites, but more importantly, constructing numerous new bases. Focusing on Brazil, (…)

• Amazing Truths about Our India | M.R. Narayan Swamy
  16 September 2022, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  The Temple of Treasures: And other Incredible Tales of Indian Monuments by Storytrails
  Hachette India Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9391028179 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9391028176
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  Captain John Smith of the East India Company had already shot 99 tigers and was hunting for his 100th kill near Aurangabad in Maharashtra when he spotted a series of caves hidden behind a waterfall. He had to light a makeshift torch to beat the pitch darkness. The caves smelled. (…)

• Review of Bakhurst’s The Heart of the Matter | Corinna Lotz
  1 February 2025

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  The Heart of the Matter: Ilyenkov, Vygotsky and the Courage of Thought
  by David Bakhurst
  Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2024. 402 pp., pb
  ISBN 9798888902165
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  Reviewed by Corinna Lotz
  Bakhurst plays a kind of devil

• Maddox on Schultz and Gawne and Peregrine, ’The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects’
  9 September 2022

  Reviewed by Gregory H. Maddox (Texas Southern University) __0__
  The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects by Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne, Peter N. Peregrine, eds. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. Cambridge: MIT Press 2022. 338 pp. $75.00 (paper) ISBN 978-0-262-54320-0.
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  In this edited collection, a group of primarily evolutionary biologists examine the biological adaptations of insect species that “cultivate” primarily fungi as well as other insects (…)

• Armston-Sheret. Review of Jones, Ryan Tucker, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  28 May 2023

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  Reviewed by Edward Armston-Sheret (Institute of Historical Research)
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  The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
  by Ryan Tucker Jones. Red Leviathan
  University of Chicago Press, 2022 Illustrations. xvii + 269 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-226-62885-1
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  Red Leviathan, by Ryan Tucker Jones, is a well-researched and clearly written book of immense interest to scholars working in a variety of fields. Jones provides a detailed and insightful history of whaling in the Soviet (…)

• Review of Tripathi and Arun’s edited Volume on Democracy in Trouble | Bharat Dogra
  29 March 2024, by Bharat Dogra

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  These are difficult times for democracy and this book on democracy in Hindi has thus been published at just the right time. Although it is mainly centered on India, it also ventures from time to time to comment on the situation in other parts of the world too.
  Edited by Arun Kumar Tripathi and A.K. Arun, two names very familiar to Hindi readers, this book titled ‘Jantantra ki Jarein’ (‘Roots of Democracy’) has essays by several writers known (…)

• Review of Researching Social Media with Children | Arun Kumar Gond
  29 March 2025

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  Researching Social Media with Children: #DigitalEthnography #Storytelling by Antonio Silva Esquinas, Jorge Ramiro Perez Suarez, Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo, Julio Diaz Galan
  Routledge 2024, 105 pages, Rs 1,622 ISBN: 9781032506173
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  Reviewed by Arun Kumar Gond
  Social media is more than just a platform for connection- it shapes how young people form identities, express emotions, and navigate reality. This book explores their (…)