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  • Computing in the Age of Decolonization

    India’s Lost Technological Revolution

    by Dwaipayan Banerjee ...
    Series series Princeton Modern Knowledge
    How Cold War geopolitics and domestic capitalism changed the trajectory of India’s computing industryIndia today is widely recognized for producing world-class tech talent and Silicon Valley leaders, yet captures only a fraction of the global tech industry’s profits, primarily providing skilled but inexpensive labor for Western corporations. Computing in the Age of Decolonization uncovers the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Enduring Cancer

    Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi

    by Dwaipayan Banerjee ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Owing to long wait times, most urban poor cancer patients do not receive a diagnosis until it is too late to treat the disease effectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Hematologies

    The Political Life of Blood in India

    by Jacob Copeman, Dwaipayan Banerjee ...
    In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices.Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood ... Read more

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  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Outsourcer

    The Story of India's IT Revolution

    by Dinesh C. Sharma ...
    Series series History of Computing
    A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to less than $100 million in 1990, and today come close to $100 billion. But, as Dinesh Sharma explains in The ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

    Edited by Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy ...
    Series Book 6 - Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social, and cultural consequences. Contributors draw on theory and empirical research to offer diverse perspectives on the local, national, regional, and global forums in which policy debate occurs. ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Geofusion

    Mapping of the 21st Century

    by Norbert Csizmadia ...
    We live in a unique “geo” ages, in the first decade of the 21st century, a geoeconomic era where geography is appreciated again. The 21st century encompasses political and economic games where the multi-polar world, a new world order and a new value system develop new actors and new industries, in a boundless world, where technology an innovation generates new boundaries. The location of the ... Read more

    $17.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Embedded Autonomy

    States and Industrial Transformation

    by Peter B. Evans ...
    In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Political Economy of Malaysia’s Industrial Policy

    Institutional Capacity and the Automotive Industry

    by Firdausi Suffian ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the national automotive policy in Malaysia to help readers gain an understanding of the country’s industrial policy-making processes. Addressing a gap in analysis of the political economy of the national automotive policy, the research presented combines the new institutional theory and the developmental state approach to provide new insights into elite policymakers’ measures to ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple

    Global Discord in the New Millennium

    by Randall L. Schweller ...
    Mixing myth, entropy, and Angry Birds, Randall Schweller brings a novel perspective to international studies.Just what exactly will follow the American century? This is the question Randall L. Schweller explores in his provocative assessment of international politics in the twenty-first century.Schweller considers the future of world politics, correlating our reliance on technology and our ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy

    Edited by Masami Onoda, Oran R Young ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations in solving large-scale environmental problems. The book showcases the results of engaging distinct communities to enhance our ability to identify emerging ... Read more

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  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD