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  • India's Power Elite

    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Secession of the Successful

    The Flight Out of New India | Why Indians Are Moving Abroad | NRI Exodus, Brain Drain, Intolerance & the Question of India’s Democratic Future

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    Why are so many of our fellow citizens disentangling from the political and economic future of India to invest in the destiny of other nations? Are Non-Resident Indians turning irreversibly into Non-Returning Indians? Is enhancing soft power a fair trade off for losing priceless human capital? And, perhaps most pertinently, is India becoming, after Russia and China, the constricting land of ... Read more

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  • Strategic Consequences of India's Economic Performance

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    In this book, Sanjaya Baru, one of India’s most respected commentators on political and economic issues, pays close attention to the strategic consequences of India’s increasingly impressive economic performance. The new turn in India's economic policies and performance in the last decade of the twentieth century; the success of Indian enterprise in the post-WTO world; the emergence of a confident ... Read more

    $70.07 CAD

  • Rage

    by Baru ...
    Series Book 1 - Rage
    Anton "Witko" Witkowski didn't pull himself by his bootstraps. He punched his way up out of the projects where he was born, to world renown as middleweight champion. He's larger-than-life, a force of nature. He gets what he wants. He taunts his opponents. He breaks up with women by leaving them a red Corvette. It's his way or the highway. With violent colors, dynamic linework, and unflagging ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A New Cold War

    Henry Kissinger and the Rise of China

    by Sanjaya Baru, Rahul Sharma ...
    In July 1971, US National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, made a secret visit to China to meet top Chinese leaders. This inaugurated a new phase not just in US-China relations but in contemporary history. That visit and the subsequent US-China relationship, including the US decision to invest in China's economic rise and admit it into the WTO, combined to firm up the foundations of China's rise ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Commercialisation of Medical Care in China

    Changing Landscapes

    by Rama V. Baru, Madhurima Nundy ...
    This book explores the changing landscapes of the commercialisation of medical care in China. It is the first work of its kind, and discusses how the rise of market socialism, coupled with decollectivisation of agriculture and autonomisation of hospitals in rural and urban China, have fragmented the health service system. The book examines public hospital reforms; the rise of the medical ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Global Health Governance and Commercialisation of Public Health in India

    Actors, Institutions and the Dialectics of Global and Local

    Edited by Anuj Kapilashrami, Rama V. Baru ...
    Series series Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    Global health governance has been the subject of wide scholarship, more recently brought to the fore by priorities for global health defined by the Sustainable Development Agenda. The health landscape itself has changed dramatically in the last two decades, shaped by cross-border flows of capital, ideas, technology intermediated through the complex interaction between global, national and local ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Geoinformatics

    Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences

    Edited by G. Randy Keller, Chaitanya Baru ...
    Advanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiatives enable manipulation, modeling and visualization of data in a consistent way, and are helping to develop integrated ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Big Data Benchmarking

    6th International Workshop, WBDB 2015, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 16-17, 2015 and 7th International Workshop, WBDB 2015, New Delhi, India, December 14-15, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Tilmann Rabl, Raghunath Nambiar, Chaitanya Baru, Milind Bhandarkar, Meikel Poess, Saumyadipta Pyne ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2015, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in June 2015 and the 7th International Workshop, WBDB 2015, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2015.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They deal with recent ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Advancing Big Data Benchmarks

    Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop Series on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB.cn, Xi'an, China, July16-17, 2013 and WBDB.us, San José, CA, USA, October 9-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Tilmann Rabl, Nambiar Raghunath, Meikel Poess, Milind Bhandarkar, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Chaitanya Baru ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint proceedings of the Third and Fourth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking. The third WBDB was held in Xi'an, China, in July 2013 and the Fourth WBDB was held in San José, CA, USA, in October, 2013. The 15 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 presentations. They focus on big data benchmarks; applications and ... Read more

    $60.19 CAD

  • Big Data Benchmarking

    5th International Workshop, WBDB 2014, Potsdam, Germany, August 5-6- 2014, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Tilmann Rabl, Kai Sachs, Meikel Poess, Chaitanya Baru, Hans-Arno Jacobson ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2014, held in Potsdam, Germany, in August 2014.The 13 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such as benchmarks specifications and proposals, Hadoop and MapReduce - in the different context ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Accidental Prime Minister

    The Making And Unmaking Of Manmohan Singh

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    Narrated by Suyash Mohan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    When The Accidental Prime Minister was published in 2014, it created a storm and became the publishing sensation of the year. The Prime Minister's Office called the book a work of 'fiction', the press hailed it as a revelatory account of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first term in the UPA. Written by Singh's media adviser and trusted aide, the book describes Singh's often troubled relations with ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD