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  • Crossing the Bay of Bengal

    by Sunil S. Amrith ...
    For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human migration. Integrating environmental history and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil S. Amrith offers insights to the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead. ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • The Burning Earth

    An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

    by Sunil Amrith ...
    **A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years."[An] epic exploration of human innovation and destruction." —Josie Glausiusz, NatureOne of The New Yorker's "Essential Reads" of 2024 • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for NonfictionLonglisted ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Unruly Waters

    How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

    by Sunil Amrith ...
    From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its watersAsia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas -- and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

    by Sunil S. Amrith ...
    Series Book 7 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Reading from the South

    African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work

    by Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall, Sunil Amrith, Gabeba Baderoon, Karin Barber, Rimli Bhattacharya, Antoinette Burton, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Carolyn Hamilton0, Khwezi Mkhize1, Danai S Mupotsa2, James Ogude3, Christopher EW Ouma4, Ranka Primorac5, Madhumita Lahiri6, Meg Samuelson7, Lakshmi Subramanian8 ...
    This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr’s path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations in the Indian Ocean world.This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Histories of Health in Southeast Asia

    Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century

    Edited by Tim Harper, Sunil S. Amrith ...
    Series series China Medical Board Centennial Series
    Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with China and India. In this volume leading scholars provide a new approach to the history of health in ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • OpenStack Trove Essentials

    Build your own cloud based Database as a Service using OpenStack Trove

    by Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar ...
    Build your own cloud based Database as a Service using OpenStack TroveKey Features\[\*\] Familiarize yourself with the concept of Database as a Service and make your existing system scalable and efficient with OpenStack Trove\[\*\] Minimize the administrative tasks and complexities of managing your cloud infrastructure\[\*\] This is a fast-paced guide to datastore management on the OpenStack ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

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