Small superheroes are relatable figures that children can easily connect with. Unlike larger-than-life heroes, they face challenges on a scale that aligns with a child's world - navigating school, solving friendship dilemmas, or standing up to a playground bully. This relatability allows children to see themselves in these characters, learning that they too can overcome obstacles with courage and determination.

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, we are grappling with the legacies of past centuries and their cascading effects upon children and all people. We realize anew how imperialism, globalization, industrialization, and revolution continue to reshape our world and that of new generations. At a volatile moment, this collection asks how twenty-first century literature and related media represent and shape the contemporary child, childhood, and youth. Because literary representations construct ideal childhoods as well as model the rights, privileges, and respect afforded to actual young people, this collection surveys examples from popular culture and from scholarly practice. Chapters investigate the human rights of children in literature and international policy; the potential subjective agency and power of the child; the role models proposed for young people; the diverse identities children embody and encounter; and the environmental well-being of future human and nonhuman generations. As a snapshot of our developing historical moment, this collection identifies emergent trends, considers theories and critiques of childhood and literature, and observes how new technologies and paradigms are destabilizing past conventions of storytelling and lived experience.

Mains exams do play a major role in a candidate's final selections as the marks of mains exam are counted in the preparation of final merit list. How you perform in the mains examination can make a big difference in your final results, in a good way or in a bad way. Many of you must be wondering what could be the best way to perform to the best of your ability in the mains level of banking examinations. The objective of "The Cracker For Bank Mains Exams" eBook is to guide the students to make the grades in the mains examinations with the help of tips and solved examples of frequently asked questions. It also incorporates the solved exercises set to encourage them to be prepared to face the toughest questions with a decent strategy. In this edition, there are special tips to solve new pattern questions, best & step by step approaches to solving lengthy questions and exhaustive study material to help candidates sail through the mains level of any examination. The book is updated as per the latest examination pattern and is suitable for all the Mains Examinations such as SBI, RBI, IBPS,NICL AO, LIC, GIC, UIIC & Others. Special Features of "The Cracker For Bank Mains Exams": - Quantitative Aptitude: 800+ questions - Reasoning Ability: 550+ questions - English language: 550+ questions - Latest pattern questions based on 2018 and 2017 examinations - 100 most important banking awareness questions - Step by step approach to solving lengthy and difficult questions

The idea of ‘New India’ has acquired a new currency. The dominant grammar of politics dilutes the critical impulse and deters the expression of alternate politics. The interpretive possibilities have been replaced by a reactive exchange. Technology is presented as a panacea, rather than just a facilitator. Legitimacy and normative dignity for these ideas is acquired by redefining the role of the institutions and also through constitutional amendments. A major intellectual effort is required to reformulate public policy, governance systems and social relations to balance the opposite claims of market efficiency and economic growth with social equity and justice. This book is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and comic art research, during which he traveled to Asia at least seventy-eight times and visited many studios and workplaces, John A. Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age of cartooning and has experienced a recent rejuvenation of the art form. As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Organized by regions of East, Southeast, and South Asia, Asian Comics provides 178 black-and-white illustrations and detailed information on comics of sixteen countries and regions—their histories, key creators, characters, contemporary status, problems, trends, and issues. One chapter harkens back to predecessors of comics in Asia, describing scrolls, paintings, books, and puppetry with humorous tinges, primarily in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan. The first overview of Asian comic books and magazines (both mainstream and alternative), graphic novels, newspaper comic strips and gag panels, plus cartoon/humor magazines, Asian Comics brims with facts, fascinating anecdotes, and interview quotes from many pioneering masters, as well as younger artists.

An adman constantly strives to connect market research data to insight on a winning campaign. Ambi Parmeshwaran has developed a fascination for how Indians are getting more religious but also more consumption driven. Combining his thirty- year experience as an adman with a lifelong passion for religious studies, Ambi seeks to answer questions like: • Why has the bindi disappeared from advertisements? • How did Akshaya Trithaya become such a big deal? • What makes Lord Shiva so cool? • How did a Chennai-based department store start the New Year's Sale phenomenon? • Are Muslims more open-minded shoppers? • Why do people who have no interest in using an MBA degree still get an MBA degree? • How did the Manusmriti do a disservice to Hindu women? • What can Harvard Business School learn from the Kumbh Mela? Ambi has filled this book with personal stories, anecdotes, lessons and excerpts from research and other publications. This book is a treat for anyone interested in how religion has evolved and how clever marketers have ridden the wave by tailoring their products and services.

iNTELLYJELLY– Intelligent reading is Fun, is a power-packed monthly magazine for kids aged 4 to 12 years. iNTELLYJELLY believes that emphasis on Holistic Empowering Education is a need for every child in today’s world and is not intended to only complement school-based learning process but also endeavours to enhance Human Development Index/HDI. Some of the iNTELLYJELLY deliverables, each month includes: Values Leadership qualities Emotional quotient Teamwork Logical thinking Knowledge Science Geography Global literature etc. At iNTELLYJELLY, we follow UNESCO’s proven methodology and implement it subtly in all our content and themes every month. The magazine offers a platter of vibrant and colourful array of comics, stories, activities to name a few to young readers. iNTELLYJELLY is ever growing and with its national and international acclamation in the first two years from its inception it is proof of our readers faith in us. iNTELLYJELLY not only gained momentum from prestigious schools across India but also signed an agreement with Reliance Jio. iNTELLYJELLY has also been appreciated by a few eminent personalities like Sir Richard Branson, The Virgin group, UK, Mr Amitabh Bachchan, and many more. The limits are truly endless. iNTELLYJELLY is committed to increasing the reading habit among kids, globally.