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Roli Books Pvt Ltd 100 Wonders of India: The Finest Treasures of
Book SynopsisBeginning with the 12,000-year-old cave paintings of Bhimbetka, up to the Bah’ai House of Worship, a blinding masterpiece of 20th-century engineering and design, the wealth of creative genius, brilliant skill and endeavour of its people are evident in India’s man-made wonders. Between the soaring medieval temples of the South and dramatically perched Buddhist monasteries of the North; the uniquely ornamented stepwells of the West and the grand Victoria Memorial, a symbol of British supremacy in the East, lie massive forts, fairy-tale palaces, tombs of Sultans, ruined ancient cities, statuesque cathedrals, and of course, the resplendent Taj Mahal. Along with these are the wonders bestowed on India by nature. In a country blessed with astoundingly diverse ecology and terrain, these range from the mighty Himalayan peaks of Nanda Devi and Kanchenjunga to the elephant-inhabited lush tropical forests of Periyar, and from the pristine-white island beaches of Lakshadweep to the tiger-infested delta of two legendary rivers: the Ganga and the Brahmaputra. Showcased in this book, in a feast of lavish colour photographs and lucid text, are 100 fabulous destinations that evoke the wonder that is India.
£23.24
HarperCollins India Pathways to Greatness
£12.08
Alpha Edition Marriage as a Trade
£11.70
Valiz Performing Mourning: Laments in Contemporary Art
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£21.38
Valiz Passivity: Between Indifference and Pacifism
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£11.78
Valiz Sensing Earth: Cultural Quests Across a Heated
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£21.38
Valiz Trust Building on Cultural Commons
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£18.90
Valiz Water Works
£26.60
Valiz Platform Brutality
£25.17
Springer Verlag, Singapore The Chinese Dream and Zhejiang’s Practice—General Report Volume
Book SynopsisThe book is the first and general report of a series of six that reviews the practice of “China Dream” policy by the Zhejiang provincial government. “China Dream” is one of the most important state policies established by the present Chinese government and how to convert this abstract national strategy to concrete practice is still much of a challenge for local governments. The book summarizes the six facets of government administrative practices in economics, politics, culture, society, ecology and construction of the Party. It serves as the skeleton of the series and outlines the whole structure. It will help scholars and political practitioners worldwide better understand the statecraft of China and the practice China has experienced.Table of ContentsChapter1: Economics: Forced Transition and Proactive Guide.- Chapter 2: Politics: The Rule of Law in Zhejing, Democracy in Grassroots and Effectiv Government.- Chapter3: Culture: Promote in Synergy and Build up Advantages.- Chapter4: Society: Justice and Tolerance, Safety and Harmony.- Chapter5: Ecology: Green Mountain and Clear Water is Treasure.- Chapter6: Construction of the Party: Strenghthen Foundation and Exert Advantage.
£42.74
Springer Verlag, Singapore ICT Infrastructure and Computing: Proceedings of ICT4SD 2022
Book SynopsisThis book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2022), held in Goa, India, on 29–30 July 2022. The book covers the topics such as big data and data mining, data fusion, IoT programming toolkits and frameworks, green communication systems and network, use of ICT in smart cities, sensor networks and embedded system, network and information security, wireless and optical networks, security, trust, and privacy, routing and control protocols, cognitive radio and networks, and natural language processing. Bringing together experts from different countries, the book explores a range of central issues from an international perspective.Table of Contents1. Survey Paper on Multi-View Object Detection: Challenges and Techniques.- 2. Exploring the Scheduling techniques for the RTOS.- 3. Grid Power Smoothing Management for Direct Drive PMSG Variable Speed Wind Energy Conversion System with Multilevel Converter.- 4. Fall Detection using Transformer Model.- 5. Survey on various IOT based irrigation techniques in India.- 6. Empirical analysis of crop-yield analysis and disease detection systems: A statistical perspective.- 7.Analysis of Public Perception of Autonomous Vehicles Based on Unlabelled Data from Twitter.- 8. DFCNNet: A Convolutional Neural Network to Detect Deepfakes.- 9. White Blood Cells Classification Using Deep Learning Technique.- 10. Comparative Analysis of Convolutional Neural Network in Object Detection.- 11. A Review of the Applications and Future Scope of Artificial Intelligence in Smart Transport.- 12.Besuited EEG Signal Analysis for Stress Monitoring Using BIONIC Sensor.- 13. Publish –Subscribe With Iot For A Smart Soil Moisture Irrigation System.- 14. An Optimized Taxonomy And Identification Of Retinal Eye Diseases For Diabetes Patients Using CNN.- 15. Axiomatically Designed Research Support Systems.- 16. Detection Of Hepatitis-B Virus Using NFC-Enabled Smartphone Based Portable Amperometric Immunosensor.- 17. Encrypto – Decrypto.- 18. Enhancing the employability of engineering graduates: An assertion on fundamental educational aspect of engineering education with proposing a hypothesis of ‘Wishing Theory’ based on prospective machine learning model.- 19. UpMove DownMove Strategy using NeuralNetwork Techniques For The Prediction Of Stock Prices.- 20. Breast Cancer Detection Using Bag Of visual Words.- etc.
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Penguin Random House SEA Rebels, Traitors, Peacemakers: True Stories of
Book SynopsisNuanced portraits of the lives of Chinese-Indian couples adn struggles to cope within a polarised world. Humourous and heart-breaking while demonstrating love's power to transform society. You shouldn’t be with a Chinese girl… that should be my girl’, a man in Singapore allegedly said this to a Chinese-Indian couple as he spat towards them. In a world brimming with such prejudice and cultural tensions, a remarkable phenomenon emerges - nearly one in five marriages in the US and in Singapore are now interracial. This book explores this phenomenon through real stories of Indian-Chinese relationships, delving into the love and turmoil in such lives, where cultural boundaries are shattered and hearts are forged against all odds.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Social Life of Health Data
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£107.99
Rimal Publications,Cyprus Jerusalemites: A Living Memory
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SHS Éditions La civilisation primitive
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SHS Éditions Ma vie
£14.25
Winco Books Public Relations: Principles & Practices
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bound by BDSM
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Bloomsbury Academic Fentanyl
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Kindred Creation
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£16.14
The University of Chicago Press Time Matters
Book SynopsisThis text focuses particularly on questions of time, events and causality. The author, Andrew Abbott, grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of social scientific analysis.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Facts on the Ground Archaeological Practice and
Book SynopsisHow and why did archaeology in Israel emerge as such a persuasive force? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? This text addresses these questions and specifies the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement and the production of historical knowledge.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Dramas of Nationhood The Politics of Television
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The University of Chicago Press The Promise of Salvation A Theory of Religion
Book SynopsisSecularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Instead of propounding abstract theories, the author focuses on the concrete realities of worship, examining religious holidays, conversion stories, prophetic visions, and life-cycle events.Trade Review"This crucial volume joins Thomas Tweed's Crossing and Dwelling in setting forth one of the most insightful and sophisticated contemporary theories of religion that students and scholars at all levels can profitably use." (Choice)"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Questioning Secularism
Book SynopsisNavigating a complex landscape between private and public domains, this book lays important groundwork for understanding the real meaning of secularism as it affects the real freedoms of a citizenry, an understanding of the utmost importance for so many countries that are now urgently facing new political possibilities.Trade Review"Questioning Secularism is an important book. The discussions of the fatwa alone would warrant praise, but there is much more: the exploration of how the secular state produces its own ambiguities is very engaging; the idea that different fora might employ related sources of legitimacy is handled with considerable deftness; the argument that the fatwa is a different sort of journey than the court proceeding is pursued with great care and insight. The overall result, then, is a work one can get one's teeth into in the best sense of the word." (Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Streetwise Race Class and Change in an Urban
Book SynopsisA portrait of city life which explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground--prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood--but for shared moral community.
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Words Discourse and Critical Agency in
Book SynopsisExplores how anthropology can come to terms with colonial library and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations.Trade Review"A counterintuitive rereading of classic anthropological texts from the colonial archive, Beyond Words proposes a brilliant solution to one of the most pressing intellectual/political issues in African studies today. Responding to trenchant critiques of anthropology's complicity with colonialism and Eurocentric thought, Apter argues that these texts - of Dogon cosmological reflection, of Tswana praise poetry - be reread as critical reflection on power and authority, as vernacular criticism that was history-making rather than history-erasing and politics-averse." - Charles Piot, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Intestines of the State
Book SynopsisThe young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. This book deals with their response to centuries of exploitation. It focuses on the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression.Trade Review"Nicolas Argenti succeeds in doing justice to the uncanny tension evoked by the youth masquerades of Oku and their haunting performances. He offers challenging contributions to the study of dance, the indeterminacy of memory, and the actuality of the slave trade." - Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam"
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The University of Chicago Press Money Myths and Change The Economic Lives of
Book SynopsisThis work explores the economic lives of gays and lesbians in the US. It debunks common stereotypical ideas about gay privilege, income and consumer behaviour. The author disproves the assumption that gay men and lesbians are more affluent than heterosexuals, and analyzes issues that affect them.
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The University of Chicago Press Sociologists Economists and Democracy Midway
Book SynopsisRationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a newor, more accurately, rediscoveredparadigm in the systematic study of politics. Brian Barry's short, provocative book played no small part in the debate that precipitated this shift. . . . Without reservation, Barry's treatise is the most lucid and most influential critique of two important, competing perspectives in political analysis: the 'sociological' school of Talcott Parsons, Gabriel Almond, and other so-called functionalists; and the 'economic' school of Anthony Downs and Mancur Olson, among others.Dennis J. Encarnation, American Journal of Sociology
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The University of Chicago Press One Discipline Four Ways
Book SynopsisFinally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States.Trade Review"This is an absorbing and much-needed volume that has considerable potential as a teaching tool. It is the first cross-national review of the history of anthropology in its Euro-American experience. This is an excellent source for anyone who might want to know how anthropology arose in different settings, where it has been, and where it might be going." - George Marcus, Rice University"
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The University of Chicago Press Balinese Worlds
Book SynopsisIn Balinese Worlds, Fredrik Barth proposes a new model for anthropological analysis of complex civilizations that is based on a fresh, synthetic account of culture and society in North Bali and one that takes full notice of individual creativity in shaping the contours of this dynamic culture.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press On the Bones of the Serpent Person Memory and
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The University of Chicago Press Doormen Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Book SynopsisDoormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually familiar with their tenants, they are also socially very distant. This book untangles this unusual dynamic to reveal the many ways tenants and doormen negotiate their complex relationship.Trade Review"With Doormen, Peter Bearman emerges as one the most original and dazzling chroniclers of urban society today. In this exceptionally readable book, he shows that everyday urban settings and workers are as interesting as the housing projects, street-corner men, and crack dealers that are the standard topics of contemporary urban studies." - Mitchell Duneier, author of Sidewalk and Slim's Table"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Temporarily Yours
Book SynopsisDespite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. This work paints a picture of the state of global sexual commerce and its relationship to a burgeoning consumer culture.Trade Review"This is an ambitious book - highly readable, compelling, and original. Bernstein's claim is that the character and organization of sex work has shifted. Whereas the signature form of sex work used to be the nonwhite streetwalker working in largely marginal neighborhoods, today, she reveals, sex work is largely private, relying heavily on the Internet, and provided by someone that is as often white and middle-class as nonwhite and poor." - Steven Seidman, author of Beyond the Closet"
£28.00
University of Chicago Press Witchcraft Intimacy and Trust Africa in
Book SynopsisOffers a range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror. This title sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft.Trade Review"Peter Geschiere presents a sensitive interpretation of witchcraft as both a discourse and a lived reality, zooming into his fine-grained fieldwork material and then zooming back out to give historical, sociological, and political-economic context. As in The Perils of Belonging, he takes what might seem to be exceptional African circumstances and puts them in conversation with comparable cases from other parts of the world, allowing him to clarify what is really at stake-not only in Africa, but all over the globe." (Mike McGovern, author of Unmasking the State)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Great American City
Book SynopsisBased on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, this title argues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped by where you live. It discovers that neighborhoods influence a remarkably wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, and teen births.Trade Review"Robert J. Sampson's analysis has critical implications for both social science and social policy, and Great American City is a must read for anyone interested in either topic." (Science) "It is simply impossible to write about cities in the same way after reading this book." (Public Books)"
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Mullahs on the Mainframe Islam Modernity Among
Book SynopsisThe values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra to show how a premodern clerical elite has embraced modernity.Trade Review"This is a groundbreaking work.... This brilliant study is both academically rigorous and a welcome introduction to the real success of this Islamic community in the modern world. Highly recommended." - Library Journal; "[A] model piece of scholarship, the kind of work you want to give to younger scholars so as to awaken them to the wonders and the variety of the world.... Here is one brilliant venture by a young, superbly trained American social scientist who delves into the world of Indian Muslims, and renders that world with artistry, precision, and detail." - Fouad Ajami, author of Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey; "[Blank's] book should be read for his portrait of a group trying to carve out a place for their practices while maintaining peaceful relations with religious activists and secularists alike, a delicate tightrope act that he chronicles well." - John R. Bowen, Washington Post Book World
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The University of Chicago Press Forgive and Remember Managing Medical Failure 2nd
Book Synopsis"Forgive and Remember" is a work about errors in the practice of surgery, written by a sociologist who spent 18 months with the surgical service of a major American teaching hospital.
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The University of Chicago Press In Defense of Disciplines Interdisciplinarity and
Book SynopsisChallenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research and effective teaching, the author contends that the promise of interdisciplinarity is illusory and that critiques of established disciplines are often overstated and misplaced.Trade Review"I congratulate Jerry Jacobs for the rigor of his research and the strenuousness of his arguments. There is revealing new information and necessary clarity and clarification in these pages. His critique of some of the most egregious assaults on the disciplines is especially noteworthy and the case studies are valuable. This is a book that we need." (Harvey J. Graff, author of The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City)"
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The University of Chicago Press Magical Criticism The Recourse of Savage
Book SynopsisWestern scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. This book brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of "the savage," they remain active.Trade Review"Bracken argues that, despite our denial, savage philosophy is very much with us today, and in an extraordinary whirl through many of today's canonized thinkers, he uncovers and explicates its strands. The depth and breadth of his purview are quite extraordinary: this book will appeal to scholars of literary criticism, anthropology, philosophy, and intellectual history. I was enchanted by it." - Vincent Crapanzano, author of Imaginative Horizons"
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The University of Chicago Press Religious Bodies Politic Rituals of Sovereignty
Book SynopsisExamines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. This book illustrates how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change.Trade Review"Religious Bodies Politic is an ethnographically detailed and theoretically ambitious work that boldly brings together three topics of anthropological inquiry that are usually kept apart: postsocialism, Buddhism, and transnationalism. Anya Bernstein succeeds in untangling the surprising ways in which Buddhism lies at the heart of the ongoing restructuring of Buryat social worlds, cultural forms, and political imaginaries in the wake of the collapse of state socialism and the rise of global market capitalism." (Morton Axel Pedersen, University of Copenhagen)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Peacocks Chameleons Centaurs Gay Suburbia and
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of American gay suburbanites, Wayne H. Brekhus demonstrates that who one is depends at least in part on where and when one is. He shows that lifestyling, and integrating occurs not only among gay men but across a broad range of social categories.
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The University of Chicago Press Things A Critical Inquiry Book
Book SynopsisThis book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; and what has been described as bourgcois longing.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Culture on Tour Ethnographies of Travel
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The University of Chicago Press Script of Life in Modern Society Entry into
Book SynopsisSocial scientists generally agree that relations between the different life stages in advanced industrial societies are changing. Far less agreement exists over how to interpret these changes. Using an innovative approach to the study of life course, Marlis Buchmann explores the changes in educational, occupational, and family careers that threaten an end to familiar life patterns characteristic of the mid-twentieth century.
£42.75
