Bücher von Veena

This book is bound to provide food for thought and a valuable source of inspiration not only for academics wishing to obtain fresh insights into crucial attributes but also for teacher educators intent on fostering metacognition in prospective teachers and educators willing to become more reflective in their own teaching and to enhance the awareness of language and language learning in their students.

Ria Sharma unravels her mental and emotional trauma by writing letters to her imaginary therapist she created. She detailed situations and stories from her early life to adolescent years, describing the toxic and suffocating culture her parents created. The expectations of the Indian culture was just the icing on the cake. Born and raised in Toronto to Indian immigrant parents, Ria was entangled with her thoughts, wondering how to cope and understand what happened. Nothing was ever good for her parents she discovered. She was always a failure in their eyes. Her identity was a façade. Ria never received the apology she deserved. The letters take her and her fictional therapist on a journey of mixed emotions. She begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

The factors that cause flowering in bamboos remain a botanical mystery. Many causes have been attributed to trigger gregarious flowering in bamboo but it has not been possible to establish their consistency. People believe that famine, death and natural disasters are associated events of bamboo flowering. Death of large populations of bamboos spread over large tracts of forest areas in Asia-Pacific region has been a cause of concern owing to the ecological, social and economic crises that set forth following bamboo flowering. During gregarious flowering, large quantities of seeds are produced. Many animals, particularly rodents feed on these nutritious seeds and reproduce fast to increase their population sizes. Once the seeds are exhausted due to germination, the rats/rodents depend on crops in the vicinity, thus causing famine. Considering the technological, scientific, socio-economic and environmental consequences of bamboo flowering and associated growth of rodent populations, the menace of bamboo flowering remains as a challenge. The book Bamboo flowering and rodent control includes 12 papers representing different dimensions of the subject authored by well-known Indian and Taiwan scientists, is an attempt to address this scientific challenge.