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Empire's Tracks

Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

By: Manu Karuka

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Empire's Tracks

Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

By: Manu Karuka

Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.

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University of California Press

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0520296621

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Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

The Case of India

By: Manu V. Mathai

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Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

The Case of India

By: Manu V. Mathai

Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question is whether that political economy can helpfully engage with the challenge of addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet. For developing countries like India, who are presently making infrastructure investments which will have long legacies, it is imperative that these investments wrestle with such questions and prove themselves capable of sufficiency, greater equality and inclusiveness. This book offers a critique of civilian nuclear power as a green energy strategy for India and develops and proposes an alternative "synergy for sustainability." It situates nuclear power as a socio-technical infrastructure embodying a particular development discourse and practice of energy and economic development. The book reveals the political economy of this arrangement and examines the latter’s ability to respond to the environmental crisis. Manu V. Mathai argues that the existing overwhelmingly growth-focused, highly technology-centric approach for organizing economic activity is unsustainable and needs to be reformed. Within this imperative for change, nuclear power in India is found to be and is characterized as an "authoritarian technology." Based on this political economy critique the book proposes an alternative, a synergy of ideas from the fields of development economics, energy planning and science, technology and society studies.

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Routledge

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1136229906

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9781136229909

Producing India

From Colonial Economy to National Space

By: Manu Goswami

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Producing India

From Colonial Economy to National Space

By: Manu Goswami

When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of methodological nationalism that has accorded an exaggerated privilege to the nation-state as a dominant unit of historical and political analysis. Manu Goswami locates the origins and contradictions of Indian nationalism in the convergence of the lived experience of colonial space, the expansive logic of capital, and interstate dynamics. Building on and critically extending subaltern and postcolonial perspectives, her study shows how nineteenth-century conceptions of India as a bounded national space and economy bequeathed an enduring tension between a universalistic political economy of nationhood and a nativist project that continues to haunt the present moment. Elegantly conceived and judiciously argued, Producing India will be invaluable to students of history, political economy, geography, and Asian studies.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226305104

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9780226305103

The Philosophy of Disruption

From Transition to Transformational Change

By: Alexander Manu

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The Philosophy of Disruption

From Transition to Transformational Change

By: Alexander Manu

The Philosophy of Disruption provides a structural understanding of how disruption differs from regular change, presenting methods for conceptualizing beneficial responses into products, services, or experiences.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1802628517

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Disruptive Business

Desire, Innovation and the Re-design of Business

By: Alexander Manu

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Disruptive Business

Desire, Innovation and the Re-design of Business

By: Alexander Manu

Disruptive Business is a provocative and insightful redefinition of innovation as an outcome of human behaviour, a dynamic in constant change requiring the shaping of new responses in business and the economy. Alexander Manu believes that organizations must treat innovation not as a process to be managed but as an outcome that changes people's lives. In Disruptive Business he explains how innovation is the moment when human behaviour is changed by a particular invention, discovery or event. This position challenges the current understanding of innovation, as well as the current ecology in which innovation operates in organizations: its management, methods, tools, language, focus and metrics. The challenge extends to some of the labels currently applied to innovation typologies, such as 'disruptive innovation', seen today as addressing purely the technological side of an invention, rather than the more complex motivational and behavioural side. Alexander Manu considers that a disruption is not manifest in the moment a new technology is introduced. The disruption is the human being and manifest only when human motivation embraces the technology and uses it to modify and improve everyday life. Our acceptance and appropriation of new technologies creates the business disruption. Manu makes the case that successful innovation outcomes are answers to conscious or subconscious goals residing in human motivation, and motivation starts in desire. This position is consistent with the history of innovations that have changed, improved and reshaped human life, and also consistent with their roots and ethos. Humans are a 'perpetually wanting animal', bound to desire, to seek media for a better self and to need innovation. In this dynamic, innovation is the constant and business is the variable. The role of business is to create the tools, objects and services through which people can manifest what they want and who they are. The book provides a new perspective of current behavioural disruptions which are relevant to the continuity of business, as well as a set of practical methodologies for business design, aimed at creating innovation outcomes of value to users.

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CRC Press

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1317149475

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9781317149477

Educators for Diverse Classrooms

A Case Study Approach to Equity and Inclusion in Education

By: Manu Sharma,Amanda Zbacnik

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Educators for Diverse Classrooms

A Case Study Approach to Equity and Inclusion in Education

By: Manu Sharma,Amanda Zbacnik

Given the constantly changing student demographics in our public schools, teacher educators are tasked with preparing teacher candidates with reflective and critical teaching insights for reaching the needs and identities of all of our students. The authors contend that teacher educators can use controversial case study narratives to help encourage reflective thought on the ethical decision-making teachers face in complicated and sensitive issues. Reflection can also help with practical insights on classroom management techniques, and development of problem-solving steps, that may need to be implemented. Outside of the classroom environment, these case studies provide an opportunity to reflect on professionalism and relational aspects of collaboration amongst colleagues. Thus, we wish to offer this short collection of 28 case studies for teacher educators. We will also include critical case study questions that follow the narrative, along with the additional resources such as two or three research-based articles that teacher educators can utilize to further support their teacher candidate students.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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147585112X

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9781475851120

Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By: Manu Herbstein

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Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By: Manu Herbstein

I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, here and here, I am still a free woman." During a period of four hundred years, European slave traders ferried some 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. In the Americas, teaching a slave to read and write was a criminal offense. When the last slaves gained their freedom in Brazil, barely a thousand of them were literate. Hardly any stories of the enslaved and transported Africans have survived. This novel is an attempt to recreate just one of those stories, one story of a possible 12 million or more.Lawrence Hill created another in The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows my Name in the U.S.) and, more recently, Yaa Gyasi has done the same in Homegoing. Ama occupies center stage throughout this novel. As the story opens, she is sixteen. Distant drums announce the death of her grandfather. Her family departs to attend the funeral, leaving her alone to tend her ailing baby brother. It is 1775. Asante has conquered its northern neighbor and exacted an annual tribute of 500 slaves. The ruler of Dagbon dispatches a raiding party into the lands of the neighboring Bekpokpam. They capture Ama. That night, her lover, Itsho, leads an attack on the raiders’ camp. The rescue bid fails. Sent to collect water from a stream, Ama comes across Itsho’s mangled corpse. For the rest of her life she will call upon his spirit in time of need. In Kumase, the Asante capital, Ama is given as a gift to the Queen-mother. When the adolescent monarch, Osei Kwame, conceives a passion for her, the regents dispatch her to the coast for sale to the Dutch at Elmina Castle. There the governor, Pieter de Bruyn, selects her as his concubine, dressing her in the elegant clothes of his late Dutch wife and instructing the obese chaplain to teach her to read and write English. De Bruyn plans to marry Ama and take her with him to Europe. He makes a last trip to the Dutch coastal outstations and returns infected with yellow fever. On his death, his successor rapes Ama and sends her back to the female dungeon. Traumatized, her mind goes blank. She comes to her senses in the canoe which takes her and other women out to the slave ship, The Love of Liberty. Before the ship leaves the coast of Africa, Ama instigates a slave rebellion. It fails and a brutal whipping leaves her blind in one eye. The ship is becalmed in mid-Atlantic. Then a fierce storm cripples it and drives it into the port of Salvador, capital of Brazil. Ama finds herself working in the fields and the mill on a sugar estate. She is absorbed into slave society and begins to adapt, learning Portuguese. Years pass. Ama is now totally blind. Clutching the cloth which is her only material link with Africa, she reminisces, dozes, falls asleep. A short epilogue brings the story up to date. The consequences of the slave trade and slavery are still with us. Brazilians of African descent remain entrenched in the lower reaches of society, enmeshed in poverty. “This is story telling on a grand scale,” writes Tony Simões da Silva. “In Ama, Herbstein creates a work of literature that celebrates the resilience of human beings while denouncing the inscrutable nature of their cruelty. By focusing on the brutalization of Ama's body, and on the psychological scars of her experiences, Herbstein dramatizes the collective trauma of slavery through the story of a single African woman. Ama echoes the views of writers, historians and philosophers of the African diaspora who have argued that the phenomenon of slavery is inextricable from the deepest foundations of contemporary western civilization.” Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book.

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Moritz HERBSTEIN

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150804080X

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The Pharmacotherapy of Common Functional Syndromes

Evidence-Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice

By: Peter Manu

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The Pharmacotherapy of Common Functional Syndromes

Evidence-Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice

By: Peter Manu

Get up-to-date with this invaluable guidebook! The four major functional disorders--chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and premenstrual syndrome--plague a sizable portion of humanity. In the past, they have been ignored, misdiagnosed, or treated with folk remedies (usually with less-than-optimum results), or inappropriate or ineffective medications. Now, The Pharmacotherapy of Common Functional Syndromes: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice delivers a critical presentation of drug therapies for each of these disorders. This volume evaluates all of the best available research in this field to determine effective therapeutic approaches for these conditions. This thorough and lucid review discusses these four major functional disorders: chronic fatigue syndrome fibromyalgia irritable bowel syndrome premenstrual syndrome Here you can examine diagnostic criteria and treatment regimes that reveal what medicines and treatments had positive and negative responses for patients and the known risks and benefits of the drugs used in each case. This informative book gives medical professionals and their patients a concise and current source that contains the latest research on these topics. The Pharmacotherapy of Common Functional Syndromes: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice is the single volume that will give you insight into each of these syndromes to help you decide what course of action to take with your patients and what medications are right for them.

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CRC Press

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0789005883

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9780789005885

A Prehistory of Hinduism

By: Manu V. Devadevan

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A Prehistory of Hinduism

By: Manu V. Devadevan

This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics that governed them. In the light of this prehistory, a compelling framework is suggested for a revision of existing perspectives on the making of Hinduism in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311051737X

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9783110517378

Nietzsche and Psychotherapy

By: Manu Bazzano

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Nietzsche and Psychotherapy

By: Manu Bazzano

Drawing on over a century of international Nietzschean scholarship, this groundbreaking book discusses some of the unexplored psychological reaches of Nietzsche’s thought, as well as their implications for psychotherapeutic practice. Nietzsche’s philosophy anticipated some of the most innovative cultural movements of the last century, from expressionism and surrealism to psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology and phenomenology. But his work on psychology often remains discarded, despite its many insights. Addressing this oversight, and in an age of managerialism and evidence-based practice, this book helps to redefine psychotherapy as an experiment that explores the limits and intricacies of human experience. It builds the foundations for a differentialist psychology: a life-affirming project that can deal squarely with the challenges, joys and sorrows of being human. Nietzsche and Psychotherapy will be of great interest to researchers interested in the relationship between psychotherapy and philosophy, Nietzschean scholars, as well as to clinicians grappling with the challenges of working in the so-called "post-truth" age.

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Routledge

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0429787944

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9780429787942

The ‘Early Medieval' Origins of India

By: Manu V. Devadevan

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The ‘Early Medieval' Origins of India

By: Manu V. Devadevan

India is generally regarded as a civilization with a set of intrinsic attributes that emerged in the age of the Vedas or, better still, in the Harappan times. In recent decades, historical studies have moved away from rigid perspectives of singularity in origin and expansion; the emphasis now is on pluralities and long-term processes spanning centuries and millennia. There is also an influential school of thought which rejects antiquity claims such as these and holds that India is a construct of the colonial and nationalist imagination. In his radical reinterpretation of India's past, Manu V. Devadevan moves away from these reifying assessments to examine the evolution of institutions, ideas and identities that are characterized, typically, as Indian. In lieu of endorsing their Indianness, he traces their emergence to specific conditions that developed in India between 600 and 1200 CE, a period which historians now call the 'early medieval'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108857876

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9781108857871

Productive Failure

Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing

By: Manu Kapur

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Productive Failure

Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing

By: Manu Kapur

Design for and turn your failures into meaningful learning experiences Written by a leading global expert on human cognition, productive failure, and learning methods, Productive Failure shows you how to design the experience of failing. Research shows that repeated experiences of intriguing, constructive failure can help students (and our own children, and anyone else we lead) develop creativity and learn more deeply. When carefully curated, failure can become a signal for learning, not the noise detracting from it. The result? Learners gain a lifelong readiness to push themselves outside of their comfort zones, using setbacks as launchpads for learning and innovation. The evidence-based principles in this book are powerful, not only in formal schooling contexts, but also for anyone taking charge of and designing their own lifelong learning. From learning a new language or skill to setting up goals that push you past your limits, this book unpacks the science of Productive Failure and describes design principles—and specific strategies built upon them—that let you harness Productive Failure for your own benefit. Learn and understand the science of failure Apply the research-based Productive Failure framework in classrooms, teams, groups, and organizational settings Learn techniques like retrieval practice, generative problem-solving, motivational hacking, culture building, and so on to deepen learning experiences Reach new levels of critical thinking, innovation, and success by making failure the norm, not the exception, and learning how to cope with it This fascinating and actionable book is a must for educators, parents, managers, leaders, and anyone who needs to help others (or themselves) learn how to learn.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394220014

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Behavior Space

Play, Pleasure and Discovery as a Model for Business Value

By: Alexander Manu

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Behavior Space

Play, Pleasure and Discovery as a Model for Business Value

By: Alexander Manu

Behavior Space proposes that corporations do not design products or services anymore: they design behavior spaces. Facebook is not a product, not a technology, but a behavior space. Innovation is the creation of a new behaviour space. The product or service is simply the catalyst that enables a new behavior space to emerge. The size of the behaviour space footprint, represents the potential value a product or service offers; the greater the value potential, the greater the monetization potential. Alexander Manu illustrates how these new concepts are transforming design and product development so that the process changes from a static and product-centred approach to one that is entirely centred on the user and their behaviours that emerge as they interact with what they have bought. He provides a new language to describe the way in which the physical, intellectual and emotional features of products and services achieve a relationship between the user and the brand. And he explains the concept of Play Value, which underpins the attraction for customers and depends on compelling experiences that are challenging, rewarding and absorbing; that never frustrate and that encourage repeated use. Designers and brand managers seeking to understand and exploit commercially the fundamental changes in consumers that are driven by technology, experience and social interaction will find Behavior Space a wonderful place to start.

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1317175638

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Friction Based Additive Manufacturing Technologies

Principles for Building in Solid State, Benefits, Limitations, and Applications

By: Sandeep Rathee,Manu Srivastava,Sachin Maheshwari,T.K. Kundra,Arshad Noor Siddiquee

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Friction Based Additive Manufacturing Technologies

Principles for Building in Solid State, Benefits, Limitations, and Applications

By: Sandeep Rathee,Manu Srivastava,Sachin Maheshwari,T.K. Kundra,Arshad Noor Siddiquee

Currently, most of the major commercial metal additive manufacturing (MAM) techniques rely on liquid phase processing. The liquid to solid phase transformations in these techniques results in microstructural issues and defects which in turn tantamount to inferior properties of fabricated build. Friction based additive manufacturing technologies are solid state processing techniques which work on the principles of friction based joining processes and layer by layer additive manufacturing. This book primarily addresses the basic understanding of seven friction based additive manufacturing techniques. These techniques include additive manufacturing methods based on rotary friction welding, linear friction welding, friction deposition, friction surfacing, friction stir additive manufacturing, friction assisted seam welding and additive friction stir. The principle of operations, benefits, limitations and recent developments of each technique has been described. It covers potentional and probable applications of each technique through review of various experimental studies. Features Targets friction based solid state additive manufacturing of metallic materials Describes principle of operation of seven friction based additive manufacturing techniques Reviews latest trends of these processes via experimental studies Describes benefits and limitations of each technique Covers current and probable applications of these techniques

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1351190857

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9781351190855

MongoDB Complete Guide

Develop Strong Understanding of Administering MongoDB, CRUD Operations, MongoDB Commands, MongoDB Compass, MongoDB Server, MongoDB Replication and MongoDB Sharding (English Edition

By: Manu Sharma

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MongoDB Complete Guide

Develop Strong Understanding of Administering MongoDB, CRUD Operations, MongoDB Commands, MongoDB Compass, MongoDB Server, MongoDB Replication and MongoDB Sharding (English Edition

By: Manu Sharma

Master MongoDB - The widely used modern database in a step-by-step, practical, and easy-to-understand approach covering all major topics KEY FEATURES ● In-depth practical demonstration of MongoDB concepts with numerous examples. ● Includes graphical illustrations and visual explanations for MongoDB commands and methods. ● Covers advanced topics such as MongoDB Compass, MongoDB Security, Backup and Restore, and Replication and Sharding. DESCRIPTION MongoDB Complete Guide book starts with the basics of MongoDB, what exactly is MongoDB, and how to use it practically. You will understand how MongoDB is different from the traditional RDBMS. Topics such as installation and configuration of the MongoDB server, MongoDB commands, MongoDB Shell methods, and data types in MongoDB are covered in detail. You will practice how to perform MongoDB CRUD operations, indexing, MongoDB query selectors, projection in MongoDB and projection operators as well as aggregation in a very detailed and step-by-step manner. You learn how to work with MongoDB Compass and some of the advanced MongoDB topics like managing and administering MongoDB, managing the MongoDB process, monitoring and diagnosing MongoDB, backup and restore, MongoDB security, replication and sharding. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Perform write operations, search documents, and define complex queries in MongoDB. ● Perform indexing, aggregation, and data replication. ● End-to-end MongoDB administration along with authentication and authorization. ● Running backups, restoring, and monitoring of MongoDB database enterprise-wide. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is designed for software developers and server administrators who want to quickly learn MongoDB basics and start applying the knowledge of MongoDB in their business systems. TABLE OF CONTENTS MongoDB Basics 1.Introduction to MongoDB 2. MongoDB Installation and Setup on Windows 3. MongoDB Installation and Setup on Linux (Ubuntu) 4. MongoDB Installation and Setup on macOS 5. Getting started with MongoDB 6. Storage Engines in MongoDB 7. Managing and Administering MongoDB 8. MongoDB Shell Methods 9. Data Types in MongoDB MongoDB Intermediate Level Topics 10. Introduction to MongoDB CRUD Operations 11. MongoDB Intermediate Concepts 12. Introduction to MongoDB Indexes 13. MongoDB Query Selectors 14. Projection in MongoDB and Projection Operators 15. Aggregation in MongoDB 16. MongoDB Data Manipulations Using MongoDB Compass MongoDB Advanced Level Topics 17. Managing and Administering MongoDB (Advanced Level) 18. Replication in MongoDB 19. Sharding in MongoDB

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BPB Publications

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9389898862

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9789389898866

Three Kilos of Coffee

An Autobiography

By: Manu Dibango

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Three Kilos of Coffee

An Autobiography

By: Manu Dibango

In 1948, at the age of fifteen, Manu Dibango left Africa for France, bearing three kilos of coffee for his adopted family and little else. This book chronicles Manu Dibango's remarkable rise from his birth in Douala, Cameroon, to his worldwide success—with Soul Makossa in 1972—as the first African musician ever to record a top 40s hit. Composer, producer, performer, film score writer and humanitarian for the poor, Manu Dibango defines the "African sound" of modern world music. He has worked with and influenced such artists as Art Blakey, Don Cherry, Herbie Hancock, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and Johnny Clegg. In Africa, he has helped younger musicians, performed benefit concerts, and transcribed for the first time the scores and lyrics of African musicians. The product of a "mixed marriage" (of different tribes and religions) who owes allegiances to both Africa and Europe, Dibango has always been aware of the ambiguities of his identity. This awareness has informed all of the important events of his life, from his marriage to a white Frenchwoman in 1957, to his creation of an "Afro-music" which joyfully blends blues, jazz, reggae, traditional European and African serenades, highlife, Caribbean and Arabic music. This music addresses the meaning of "Africanness" and what it means to be a Black artist and citizen of the world. This lively and thoughtful memoir is based on an extensive set of interviews in 1989 with French journalist Danielle Rouard. Richly illustrated with photographs, this book will be a must for readers of jazz biographies, students of African music and ethnomusicology, and all those who are lovers of Manu Dibango's unique artistry and accomplishments.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226144909

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51 Pioneer Scientists of India

By: Prakash Manu

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51 Pioneer Scientists of India

By: Prakash Manu

Like religion and spirituality, India has also been a top country in mathematics and science. And today again it is marking a different identity on the map of the whole world. There is amazing achievement in IT i.e. Information Technology and today India has become a superpower in the world in this field. In ancient times India's physicians like Charaka, Sushruta, Jivaka and amazing alchemists like Nagarjuna were world famous and scientists like Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya made astonishing discoveries in science as well as mathematics. Today everyone accepts India's great contribution in this direction. Similarly, the invention of 'zero' is a discovery of India, which opened the door to the latest discoveries in science and mathematics. In this book, well-known litterateur and science-thinker Prakash Manu has told about the life and great contribution of such epoch-making scientists of India, by reading which child and adolescent readers will know about the great scientific tradition of their country. At the same time, a dream and a new courage Will arise within them to come forward and do something new in this field.

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Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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9356846472

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9789356846470

Building Search Applications

Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate

By: Manu Konchady

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Building Search Applications

Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate

By: Manu Konchady

Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate are popular open source tools to build powerful search applications. Building Search Applications describes functions from Lucene that include indexing, searching, ranking, and spelling correction to build search engines. With this book you will learn to: Extract tokens from text using custom tokenizers and analyzers from Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate. Construct a search engine index with an optional backend database to manage large document collections. Explore the wide range of Lucene queries to search an index, understand the ranking algorithm for a query, and suggest spelling corrections. Find the names of people, places, and other entities in text using LingPipe and Gate. Categorize documents by topic using classifiers and build groups of self-organized documents using clustering algorithms from LingPipe. Create a Web crawler to scan the Web, Intranet, or desktop using Nutch. Track the sentiment of articles published on the Web with LingPipe.

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Lulu.com

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0615204252

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9780615204253

Trekonomics

The Economics of Star Trek

By: Manu Saadia

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Trekonomics

The Economics of Star Trek

By: Manu Saadia

Manu Saadia has managed to show us one more reason, perhaps the most compelling one of all, why we all need the world of Star Trek to one day become the world we live in." — Chris Black, Writer and Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: Enterprise What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backwards — through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist. Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it. What are the prospects of automation and artificial intelligence? Is there really no money in Star Trek? Is Trekonomics at all possible?

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Inkshares

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1941758762

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9781941758762

Brown Romantics

Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century

By: Manu Samriti Chander

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Brown Romantics

Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century

By: Manu Samriti Chander

Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic notions of authorship to such poets as Henry Derozio (India), Egbert Martin (Guyana), and Henry Lawson (Australia), using the work of these poets, each prominent in the national cultural of his own country, to explain the crucial role that the Romantic myth of the poet qua legislator plays in the development of nationalist movements across the globe. The first study of its kind, Brown Romantics examines how each of these authors develop poetic means of negotiating such key issues as colonialism, immigration, race, and ethnicity.

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Transforming Organizations for the Subscription Economy

Starting from Scratch

By: Alexander Manu

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Transforming Organizations for the Subscription Economy

Starting from Scratch

By: Alexander Manu

The emerging present is a fast-changing context for incumbent organizations, especially in market segments where online behavior is replacing physical proximity, and users engage with digital platforms for the acquisition of products and services. These are platforms that allow users to behave, to leave a mark, and to participate in the community of others, which are the values people now seek. Transforming Organizations for the Subscription Economy: Starting from Scratch aims to prepare executives for a world in which everything is social, augmented and autonomous; objects and spaces will have multiple purposes, capabilities and meanings. This is a new territory full of opportunity which is generally discussed only at the level of technology involved instead of the intellectual level, where the real understanding of the need for transformation resides. The book reveals ideas about what is possible if we transform the present. The narrative is organized around what is actual and what is potential; what is the probable future that we can arrive at through change, and what is the possible future that we can build through transformation. When engaging in transformation, the following strategic question develops: if you were designing your organization today, how would you design it? In other words, how would you go about it starting from scratch? This book provides the intellectual framework that empowers organizations to understand and navigate the emerging present, and to develop and deliver products and services of intrinsic value to users.

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Routledge

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1351983733

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Essentials Of Human Genetics Fifth Edition

By: Manu L. Kothari,Lopa A. Mehta

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Essentials Of Human Genetics Fifth Edition

By: Manu L. Kothari,Lopa A. Mehta

Genetics has become an integral part of medical teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a science where conceptual and terminological changes occur every day. This book provides information about various aspects of human genetics in a brief, simple, comprehensive and yet interesting manner so as to sustain and drive the interest and enthusiasm of the reader. The two main parts of the book, Principles of Genetics and Applications of Genetics strive to provide current, relevant information in a clear and concise form. With updated text detailing new advances in DNA replication and gene expression, detailed illustrations and examples, chapter summaries and a comprehensive glossary, this book attempts to help the reader learn about and keep abreast with the changes in the fascinating field of genetics.

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Universities Press

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8173716471

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9788173716478

The Law Code of Manu

By: Manu (Lawgiver)

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The Law Code of Manu

By: Manu (Lawgiver)

Manu was seated, when the great seers came up to him: "Please, Lord, tell us the Laws of all the social classes, as well as of those born in between..."' The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for two thousand years it still generates controversy, with Manu's verses being cited in support of the oppression of women and members of the lower castes. A seminal Hindu text, the Law Code isimportant for its classic description of so many social institutions that have come to be identified with Indian society. It deals with the relationships between social and ethnic groups, between men and women, the organization of the state and the judicial system, reincarnation, the workings ofkarma, and all aspects of the law.Patrick Olivelle's lucid translation is the first to be based on his critically edited text, and it incorporates the most recent scholarship on ancient Indian history, law, society, and religion.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192802712

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Subversion and Desire

Pathways to Transindividuation

By: Manu Bazzano

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Subversion and Desire

Pathways to Transindividuation

By: Manu Bazzano

This book presents the importance of subversion in psychotherapy and revaluates the positive role of desire as an integrating force in the individual and collective psyche. The text provides a solid philosophical frame which helps to expand the scope of contemporary psychotherapy at a time when it is being curtailed by a reductionist neoliberal zeitgeist. The latter emphasizes cognition over motivation, behaviour over emotion, consciousness over the unconscious, the self over the organism, and tends to reframe psychotherapeutic practice as a reprogramming of individuals. In response, this book outlines concerted acts of "soft subversion" which can undermine the status quo and open new possibilities of individual and collective transformation. The author also retraces and reassesses some of the more inspiringly subversive legacies in psychoanalysis, with a view to sketching a life-affirming psychology wedded to broadminded political engagement. Covering psychotherapy, politics, art and literature, and social and cultural theory, this book will appeal to anyone interested in understanding how psychotherapy and philosophy can be more radical and subversive endeavours.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000884376

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9781000884371

Akosua and Osman

By: Manu Herbstein

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Akosua and Osman

By: Manu Herbstein

Akosua Annan is a confident and fiercely intelligent student at a posh girls' school in Cape Coast, Ghana. There she comes under the influence of a charismatic feminist teacher. Osman Said's background is very different. Upon the death of his parents, a police sergeant and an unschooled market trader, immigrants to the capital, Accra, from the impoverished north of the country, he is adopted by a retired school teacher, Hajia Zainab. After a spell as an apprentice in an auto workshop, he returns to school. There, finding the teaching inadequate, he becomes an avid reader and educates himself. Akosua and Osman are thrown together by chance in the course of a school visit to the slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle. Their paths cross again as finalists in the national school debating competition where the subject is "The problem of poverty in Ghana is insoluble." They meet for the third time as students at the University of Ghana and as we leave them, it looks as if their relationship might develop into something permanent. This story won a Burt Award for African Literature in 2011. The judges commented: "This fascinating novel tells the story of how these two young people from disparate backgrounds are brought together as if by an unseen hand, in a process that teaches us about our history, our common humanity despite ethnic differences, the need to pursue our ambitions, the strength of human sexuality and the need for self-discipline, and, above all, the power of love.

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Moritz HERBSTEIN

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9988243189

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9789988243180

The Road Less Travelled

By: Frederick Osei-Manu

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The Road Less Travelled

By: Frederick Osei-Manu

In This Book You Will Discover:  The need to stay young at heart and chase your dreams.  How to navigate from nowhere between two somewheres.  How to harness your potential to achieve great results.  The importance of keeping your passion alive.  The value of hard work.  How to stay ahead of the crowd.  The role friends play in our lives.  The importance of pursuing excellence. This book is a must read and needs to be shared with family and friends

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Lulu.com

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035978609X

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9780359786091

Sepsis, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

By: Mervyn Singer,Manu Shankar-Hari

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Sepsis, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

By: Mervyn Singer,Manu Shankar-Hari

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, edited by Mervyn singer and Manu Shankar-Hari, includes: Sepsis 3.0 Definitions; Epidemiology and Outcomes; Pathophysiology of sepsis; Pathophysiology of Septic shock; Mechanism of organ dysfunction in sepsis; Endocrine and metabolic alterations in sepsis: challenges and treatments; The immune system in sepsis; Nutrition and Sepsis; Common sense approach to managing sepsis; Biomarkers for sepsis and their use; Personalizing sepsis care; Novel interventions - What’s new and the future; and Long term outcomes following Sepsis.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323566340

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9780323566346

A Walk With The Holy Spirit

By: Frederick Osei-Manu

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A Walk With The Holy Spirit

By: Frederick Osei-Manu

In this book, you will discover:  How to have the anointing.  What the sevenfold Spirit of God is.  How to make room for the gifts of Holy Spirit.  Learn about the roles of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer.  Who the Sons of Oil are.  How to demonstrate the miracle-working power to your generation. Enjoy this great and must-read book "A Walk With The Holy Spirit.

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0359741185

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9780359741182

The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes

Neurobiology and Illness Behavior in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Illness, Irrit

By: Roberto Patarca-Montero,Peter Manu

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The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes

Neurobiology and Illness Behavior in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Illness, Irrit

By: Roberto Patarca-Montero,Peter Manu

Learn how a patient’s behavior can factor into the prognosis of medically unexplainable illness! The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines the link between mental illness and physical syndromes that lack organic disease explanations, including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, premenstrual dysphoria, irritable bowel, and Gulf War illness. The author has evaluated the best research work of the past 20 years to determine the association between psychopathology and functional illness, the biological gradient between somatic and psychological symptoms, and the manifestations of dysfunctional coping. The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes challenges recent conceptualizations of functional somatic syndromes as brain disorders connected to affective spectrum disorder, serotonin deficiency, cerebral hypoperfusion or abnormal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and highlights the importance of abnormal illness behavior, sexual victimization, and maladaptive coping for the production and maintenance of these disorders. The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes explores observations on the neurobiology and the personality abnormalities of patients made from structured data collected over a period of several years. It describes modern perceptions of functional somatic syndromes and how they have evolved into a tightly knit family of self-standing syndromes with a common core. The book examines the correlation between the burden of psychopathology and the physical features of these illnesses; reviews advances made in the appraisal of the neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, and neurochemistry of functional syndromes; and focuses on the connection between measurable dimensions of personality, coping, and illness behavior and the prognosis of medically unexplainable illnesses. The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines: psychiatric morbidity brain perfusion post-traumatic stress in Gulf War illness the spectrum of mood disorders the hypothalamatic-pituitary-adrenal axis the sexual victimization of patients and much more! The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes is an essential resource for psychiatrists and psychologists working in outpatient practice.

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258

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Routledge

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1000156753

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9781000156751

Inherent and Contemporary Challenges to African Security

By: Manu Lekunze

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Inherent and Contemporary Challenges to African Security

By: Manu Lekunze

This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa. The author provides a comprehensive review of the key security issues in Africa and offers a contemporary investigation into what security in Africa will mean for the future of Security Studies. It focuses on contemporary yet inherent security challenges facing the continent. It engages with International Relation theories, security literature and primary data from Cameroon (related to other African case studies), to situate African Security Studies in International Relations and develop a concept of security for African Security Studies. It will be essential reading for students, analysts and policy makers specializing in International Relations, Sociology, African Studies and Development Studies.

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Springer Nature

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3030269256

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9783030269258

You: Rebranded

Be Seen, Be Heard, Get Noticed

By: Richie Manu

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You: Rebranded

Be Seen, Be Heard, Get Noticed

By: Richie Manu

This book will inspire and enthuse you and change the way you think about yourself and your career. You: Rebranded delivers a distinct, provocative and abstract perspective in a compelling practical guide, with indispensable creative elements to improve your career prospects, opportunities and networks, whether you are at the start of your career or finding new paths and direction in your current career. It also serves as a sign post to other essential material, with links and pointers to unique interviews, stories, anecdotes and references. It also puts the reader in full control with digestible, and manageable, tasks and actions which have proven results. Key subjects and features include: Know your Industry: Know yourself Building and nurturing important relationships Key interviews and perspectives New mode of engagement for 21st Century thinking Differentiating Yourself Breaking career myths and misconceptions Vocabulary, codes and clues Wellbeing Manageable Actions and Tasks putting you in control

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Crown House Publishing

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178135216X

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9781781352168

Value Creation and the Internet of Things

How the Behavior Economy will Shape the 4th Industrial Revolution

By: Mr Alexander Manu

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Value Creation and the Internet of Things

How the Behavior Economy will Shape the 4th Industrial Revolution

By: Mr Alexander Manu

Value Creation and the Internet of Things describes value delivery and consumption, exploring the mechanisms by which new value is captured and created in enterprises dedicated to competing and prospering in this new environment. Manu revisits existing theories and frameworks of intrinsic motivation, explores their validity in the age of co-creation, and synthesizes a new framework to capture the changes in the mind-sets of individuals and organizations. The book provides a context in which the Internet of Things will soon become mainstream, forcing organizations to re-evaluate their value creation methodologies in light of new consumer behavior and expectations.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472451813

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9781472451811

Manu's Code of Law

By: Manu,Patrick Olivelle

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Manu's Code of Law

By: Manu,Patrick Olivelle

Manu's Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civilization. It paints an astoundingly detailed picture of ancient Indian life-covering everything from the constitution of the king's cabinet to the price of a ferry trip for a pregnant woman-and its doctrines have been central to Indian thought and practice for 2000 years. Despite its importance, however, until now no one has produced a critical edition of this text. As a result, for centuries scholars have been forced to accept clearly inferior editions of Sanskrit texts and to use those unreliable editions as the basis for constructing the history of classical India. In this volume, Patrick Olivelle has assembled the critical text of Manu, including a critical apparatus containing all the significant manuscript variants, along with a reliable and readable translation, copious explanatory notes, and a comprehensive introduction on the structure, content, and socio-political context of the treatise. The result is an outstanding scholarly achievement that will be an essential tool for any serious student of India.

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Oxford University Press

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0195171462

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9780195171464

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