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  • Textures of the Ordinary

    Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Thinking from Elsewhere
    How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • A Context Aware Decision-Making Algorithm for Human-Centric Analytics:Algorithm Development and Use Cases for Health Informatics System

    by Veena A, Gowrishankar S ...
    This reference demonstrates the development of a context aware decision-making health informatics system with the objective to automate the analysis of human centric wellness and assist medical decision-making in healthcare.The book introduces readers to the basics of a clinical decision support system. This is followed by chapters that explain how to analyze healthcare data for anomaly detection ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Purple Lotus

    A Novel

    by Veena Rao ...
    2021 WINNER, AMERICAN FICTION AWARD**A 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award FinalistAward-Winning Finalist, Women's Fiction, 2021 International Book AwardsAward-Winning Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, 2021 International Book AwardsFeatured in Travel + Leisure’s "20 Most-anticipated Books for Fall”“20 Classic and New Books About Feminism That Will Get You Thinking and Talking”―Parade“A moving and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Context Aware Decision Making Algorithm for Human Centric Analytics: Algorithm Development and Use Cases for Health Informatics System

    by Veena A, Gowrishankar S ...
    This reference demonstrates the development of a context aware decision-making health informatics system with the objective to automate the analysis of human centric wellness and assist medical decision-making in healthcare. The book introduces readers to the basics of a clinical decision support system. This is followed by chapters that explain how to analyze healthcare data for anomaly detection ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • The True Happiness Company

    A Memoir

    by Veena Dinavahi ...
    A LILLY’S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK • In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman’s dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative therapist and his self-help cult.“Honest, brutal, funny, fascinating. A vital reminder of how important it is to trust ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Mitra-Varuna

    An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

    by Georges Dumézil, Veena Das ...
    Translated by Derek Coltman ...
    A classic text that develops one prong of Dumézil’s tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign.Georges Dumézil’s fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome, Scandinavia, and the Celts yielded an idea that became his most influential scholarly legacy: the tripartite hypothesis, which divides Indo-European societal functions into three classes: the sacred ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Know About "Lakshadweep" - A Tropical Paradise - A Comprehensive Guidebook

    Tourist Guide's, #2

    by Veena Singh Chauhan ...
    Series Book 2 - Tourist Guide's
    Lakshadweep is more than just a string of islands; it's a tapestry woven from sun-kissed sand, turquoise waters teeming with life, and the warmth of a people whose smiles are as bright as the coral gardens that grace their shores. Its 36 islands, nestled within 12 atolls, paint a picture of paradise untouched by the frenetic pace of the mainland. Each island is a unique brushstroke, adding its own ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Clinical Guide for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

    A Practical Handbook

    by Veena K Singh ...
    The Clinical Guide for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: A Practical Handbook offers to resident doctors and consultants a unique compilation of comprehensive and authenticated information in a format that would help them prepare for practical examinations as well as in treating cases successfully. To mirror the practical exam format, the content of its 23 chapters, comprising 5 long and 18 ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Gandhi's Ascetic Activism

    Renunciation and Social Action

    by Veena R. Howard ...
    Discusses Gandhi's creative use of ascetic practice, particularly his practice of celibacy, for nonviolent activism.More than six decades after his death, Mohandas Gandhi continues to inspire those who seek political and social liberation through nonviolent means. Uniquely, Gandhi placed celibacy and other renunciatory disciplines at the center of his nonviolent political strategy, conducting ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Concrete Flower Falls in Love

    Book Seventeen

    by Ipsita Y. Banerjee, Marta Caduhada ...
    Series series The Concrete Flower Series
    The Concrete Flower Series is a set of 20 books about nature that are designed to teach little readers about the emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual qualities and skills of amazing citizens and resilient leaders.Join the Concrete Flower as she embarks on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery, friendship, transformation, and influence! This beautifully illustrated series follows the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dharma

    The Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Traditions of India

    Edited by Veena R. Howard ...
    Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as “ethics,” “religion,” “law,” or “social order,” dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Slum Acts

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series After the Postcolonial
    This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD