Arjun: 58 books
Spirit of the West
The Art of Don Brestler
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
A beautifully illustrated tribute to a remarkable, self-taught artist of the Canadian West. The 81 oil paintings by Brestler featured in this volume depict perennial and endearing aspects of the West – ‘A Cowboy’s Life’, ‘Wildlife’, and ‘Home on the Range’.
by Arjun Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Emotion and Reason in Consumer Behavior provides new insights into the effects that emotion and rational thought have on marketing outcomes. It uses sound academic research at a level students and professionals can understand.
Mugger
Crime. Corruption. Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
If you realized that the MLA you voted is a muscular, liquor-mafia, you must feel yourself accused. Had you knew earlier about him, what could your have been done. Nothing. He had to win, as he had muscles power, money-power and an organized party. One day you came to know that the public transport...
Peace is Everybody's Business
A Strategy for Conflict Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Peace is Everybody's Business is about conflict prevention, hope and peace for the oppressed and alienated, and the imaginative use of soft-power to win back estranged communities into the social and political mainstream.
Past strategies in managing alienated societies have been derived from...
The Ocean in a Drop
Inside-Out Youth Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The Ocean in a Drop explores how young people have contributed significantly to society in the past, and suggests ways in which they can take centre stage again. Traditionally, society has legitimized four spaces for young people: the family, friends, education/careers, and leisure. The book introduces...
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily...
A Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation,...
A History of the Jana Natya Manch
Plays for the People
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
A History of the Jana Natya Manch chronicles the birth and growth of the Jana Natya Manch (Janam), a Delhi-based radical theater group which has been active since 1973.
Beginning in the early 1970s, when a group of young students in Delhi sought to continue the legacy of the Indian Peoples'...
The Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Life
Fascinating. Unique. Enchanting
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
His poems have a unique blend of psychological insights, concise and effective communication of the thoughts, feelings and experiences in life presenting the same with holistic perceptions to view life in all its pristine glory. This wide and all inclusive collection of verses gives a wholly new way...
by Amal Mattu, Arjun S. Chanmugam, Stuart P. Swadron
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In a conversational, easy-to-read style, Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, 2nd Edition, discusses 365 errors commonly made in the practice of emergency medicine and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these pitfalls. Chapters are brief, approachable, and evidence-based,...
Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities
Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Archives and special collections departments have a long history of preserving and providing long-term access to organizational records, rare books, and other unique primary sources including manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and artifacts in various formats. The careful curatorial attention to...
Feeding Anorexia
Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2003
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender,...
by Arjun Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
An elegantly illustrated book with accessible text on the Art of the European Reformation and its links to the social and industrial revolution of the times.
by Arjun K. Gupta, Tamas Varga, Taras Bodnar
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Elliptically Contoured Models in Statistics and Portfolio Theory fully revises the first detailed introduction to the theory of matrix variate elliptically contoured distributions. There are two additional chapters, and all the original chapters of this classic text have been updated. Resources in...