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  • Ayya's Accounts

    A Ledger of Hope in Modern India

    by Anand Pandian, M. P. Mariappan, Veena Das ...
    "An absorbing exploration of one man's life" —as an orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather—through a century of upheaval in India ( Library Journal).Born in colonial India into a despised caste of former tree climbers, Ayya lost his mother as a child and came of age in a small town in lowland Burma. Forced to flee at the outbreak of World War II, he made a treacherous 1,700-mile journey by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

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  • 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

    $39.00 USD

  • 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

    $28.09 USD

  • 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

    $38.69 USD

  • 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

    $14.39 USD

  • Strategies for Sustainable Growth in Modern Organizations

    Edited by Ashu Sharma, Veena Vohra, Rose Antony ...
    Organizations today are navigating challenging contexts by tinkering with structures, supply chains, technology, and by adopting new ways of working. Management practices are being recalibrated on the go to develop modern, new age organizations that can better deliver on the required speed and agility. Crises, disruptions, and wicked problems have become a part of the business landscape. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Introduction to Python Programming

    by Gowrishankar S, Veena A ...
    Introduction to Python Programming is written for students who are beginners in the field of computer programming. This book presents an intuitive approach to the concepts of Python Programming for students. This book differs from traditional texts not only in its philosophy but also in its overall focus, level of activities, development of topics, and attention to programming details. The ... Read more

    $244.99 USD

  • Data Science for Agricultural Innovation and Productivity

    by S. Gowrishankar, Hamidah Ibrahim, A. Veena, K. P. Asha Rani, A. H. Srinivasa ...
    Data Science for Agricultural Innovation and Productivity explores the transformation of agriculture through data-driven practices. This comprehensive book delves into the intersection of data science and farming, offering insights into the potential of big data analytics, machine learning, and IoT integration.Readers will find a wide range of topics covered in 10 chapters, including smart farming ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Land for Fatimah

    by Veena Gokhale ...
    Series Book 152 - Essential Prose
    Four strong women: Anjali, an Indo-Canadian single mother who eagerly accepts an African posting with her non-profit organization; Grace, her dedicated but dominating colleague, who opposes her; Fatimah, a farmer ousted from her home and fertile farmland, whom Anjali befriends; and Mary, Anjali's kindly maid, who must secure the future of her son, Gabriel. In Land for Fatimah, Anjali involves ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anti-Witch

    by Jeanne Favret-Saada ...
    Translated by Matthew Carey ...
    Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France’s most brilliant anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject is blurred—if not erased—The Anti-Witch develops the contours of an anthropology of therapy, while deeply engaging with what it means to be caught in the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Ground Between

    Anthropologists Engage Philosophy

    Edited by Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Bhrigupati Singh, Michael Jackson ...
    The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the discipline—including notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of human life—are ... Read more

    $28.79 USD