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  • My Beloved Life

    A novel

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life, starting from his 1935 birth in a small village in India.Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Immigrant, Montana

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA singularly smart, engaging, and moving novel about a young immigrant in search of himself, and love, in the wider world.Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. His new friends in New York City teasingly call him Kalashnikov, then AK-47, then AK. He takes it ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Every Day I Write the Book

    Notes on Style

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    Amitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the book's pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Time Outside This Time

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana, a one-of-a-kind novel about fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own.When a writer named Satya attends a prestigious artist retreat, he finds the pressures of the outside world won't let up: President Trump rages online; a dangerous virus envelopes the globe; and the 24-hour news ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Lunch With a Bigot

    The Writer in the World

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft of writing, and a portrait of the struggles of a Bollywood actor. The title essay is Kumar's ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Matter of Rats

    A Short Biography of Patna

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of his hometown. We accompany him through many Patnas, the myriad cities locked within the city—the shabby reality of the present-day capital of Bihar; Pataliputra, the storied city of emperors; the dreamlike ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. courts on terrorism-related charges: Hemant Lakhani, a seventy-year-old tried for attempting to sell a fake missile to an FBI informant, and Shahawar Matin Siraj, baited by the New ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Nobody Does the Right Thing

    A Novel

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journalist is hired by a movie director to write a Bollywood screenplay about the murdered poet. Research for the script takes the writer, Binod, back to Bihar, where he and his cousin Rabinder were raised. While the high-minded Binod struggles to turn the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Bombay--London--New York

    by Amitava Kumar ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of exiles that preceded him, he found that once we leave our past, we are defined by it: in the U.S. he is pigeonholed by his appearance and quizzed about saris and arranged marriages."There is no beginning ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD

  • Cyber-Physical Systems Security

    A Multi-disciplinary Approach

    Edited by Amitava Choudhury, Keshav Kaushik, Vinay Kumar, Binod Kumar Singh ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book is a comprehensive and cutting-edge exploration of the complexities surrounding the protection and resilience of cyber-physical systems. It delves into the critical interplay between physical components and computer systems in various domains, such as transportation, health care, manufacturing, and energy systems. The technical content of the book is divided into multiple sections, each ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Agroforestry Solutions for Soil Restoration and Sustainable Land Management

    Edited by Ram Prakesh Yadav, Prakash Kumar Jha, Amitava Rakshit, Vijay Singh Meena ...
    Series series Agricultural Soil Degradation and Restoration
    Agroforestry Solutions for Soil Restoration and Sustainable Land Management, a volume in the Agricultural Soil Degradation and Restoration series, offers a rigorous, cross-disciplinary assessment of tree–crop integration as a driver of resilient landscapes and livelihoods around the world. Rooted in edaphic science, agroecology, and development studies, it analyzes contemporary pressures, ... Read more

    $252.79 CAD

  • Drought and Heat Stress in Agriculture

    Implications, Mitigation and Policy Approaches

    Edited by Rachana Dubey, Kumari Shubha, Amitava Rakshit, Sanjeev Kumar, Anup Das ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited book provides critical insights into changing climate's impact on agriculture and innovative strategies for building resilience.The agricultural sector is highly dependent on climatic conditions, is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of drought and heat stress. It has been notices that crop yields in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are reduced by 15–35% when temperatures rise by ... Read more

    $280.99 CAD