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Book Review: “They’ll Cut Off Your Project”

Author: Huey Perry Publisher: West Virginia University Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Huey Perry, a successful entrepreneur, has a diverse background. He has been a farmer, (having being born into a farming family), a student and civic leader, a volunteer in numerous charitable activities and projects, a compassionate teacher, a fearless author and an astute business owner, though not necessarily in that chronological order. Seeing and reading about him on www.HueyPerry.com, we find a man who went through extreme poverty and family financial struggles in his earliest years in life and developed a strong, admirable character with enduring...

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Book Review: Old South, New South, or Down South – Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Editor: Irwin D.S. Winsboro Contributors: Abel A. Bartley, Gregory W. Bush, Marvin Dunn, Leonard R. Lempel, Connie L. Lester, Paul Ortiz, Lise M. Steinhauer, and Amy Sasscer Publisher: West Virginia University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Many casual readers and serious students as well, of the history of the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-68) seem to have formed the impression (without a close look at particular historical events) that Florida was more temperate in its relations with civil rights leaders than other southern states; that it was tolerant of, and did not resist, Blacks’ demands for equal rights....

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Wake-Up Call for the United States: 20 Indian Firms Among Top 100 Global Challengers, States Boston Consulting Group

By The Financial Express New York, Jan. 15, 2012 – Twenty Indian firms including Reliance Industries Ltd.,  Infosys and Bharti Airtel are among the 100 ‘global challengers’ that are not only reshaping their respective industries but are also outpacing established players from the West, according to the Boston Consulting Group. According to a report ‘BCG Global Challengers 2013’, released globally today, these 100 companies from the emerging markets are outshining household names in the United States and Europe and are having a “profound impact on the global economy”. These 100 companies are from 17 countries including China, Brazil, Chile,...

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Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex Touches 20k After 2 Years

By Business Standard Mumbai, January 16, 2012 – Stocks extended gains to a second straight day today, riding on optimism surrounding the delay in implementation of the controversial tax avoidance rules and hopes of policy rate cuts after lower-than-expected inflation numbers. The positive sentiments briefly pushed the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex above the 20,000 mark during the day, for the first time since January 2011, but the momentum was not strong enough to help the index close above that level. The Sensex ended the day at 19,986.82, up 80.41 points, or 0.4 per cent, over the previous close....

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Book Review: Human No More – Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End Of Anthropology

Authors: Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch Publisher: University Press of Colorado Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Most of you college graduates out there took an anthropology course in college but did you ever come across the term ‘post-human anthropology’? In short, anthropology is the study of man (look for a detailed definition below). This book is about the present and the future nature of humans, something I would describe in our current evolutionary stage as ‘cyber beings’. A good example of a cyber being I suppose would be someone who starts a Facebook account, gets a lot of...

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