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  • Floating City

    A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

    by Sudhir Venkatesh ...
    New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole city.Sudhir Venkatesh, acclaimed sociologist at Columbia University and author of Gang Leader for a ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gang Leader for a Day

    A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

    by Sudhir Venkatesh ...
    **A New York Times Bestseller"A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist"A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical TimesForeword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of** FreakonomicsWhen first-year graduate ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • The Secret Portal

    by Venkatesh ...
    The president of Egypt is helpless. The curse of the pyramid had struck again. The excavation of treasure had come to a standstill. Dr. Upen, an eminent scientist from India, offers help, relying on his research on black roses. There is only one way to revive the ten scientists from coma, the Lilbido. Mysteriously, the lone bottle of Lilbido is stealthily carted away by impostors. A thrilling ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Off the Books

    The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

    by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh ...
    In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto. From women who clean houses and prepare lunches ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • THE CARNATIC WARS

    Great Power Rivalries in Eighteenth-Century India

    by Venkatesh Parthasarathy ...
    In the mid-eighteenth century, a contest between two factions of the Deccan aristocracy for the title of the Nawab of Arcot (in modern-day Tamil Nadu) sparked a multi-decade struggle for supremacy in India known as the Carnatic Wars, which enmeshed the motivations of the two factions with those of the French and English trading companies. The military lessons learned during the conflicts at Arcot, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Multimodal AI in Healthcare

    Fusion Intelligence for Advanced Health Diagnostics

    Edited by U. Venkatesh, Mamta Mittal, Jeetendra Kumar ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is a unique guide that explores how multimodal AI is revolutionizing various domains of healthcare. It thoroughly discusses different data modalities—ranging from medical images and genomics to patient records—and techniques to combine diverse sources to create richer, more accurate insights.The book delves into the transformative role of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How It Works Out

    by Myriam Lacroix ...
    Narrated by Lucy Ellis, Anika Venkatesh ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out?When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley? What if the only cure for Myriam’s depression was Allison’s flesh? What ... Read more

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  • Mystery of her Magic

    by Venkatesh Ambati ...
    "Mystery of Her Magic" is a poetic exploration of love, heartbreak, and the mystical connections between souls. Through vivid imagery and emotive prose, the book captures the essence of a love that transcends the ordinary, describing it as something magical and otherworldly. The poems delve into themes of longing, loss, and the inexplicable bond between lovers whose souls are entwined. The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Oh's Intensive Care Manual - E-BOOK

    Edited by Jonathan M. Handy, Bala Venkatesh ...
    **Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Critical Care**Significantly revised from cover to cover, Oh's Intensive Care Manual, 9th Edition, is a must-have, quick-reference resource for ICU physicians at all levels of experience. New and updated topics cover all aspects of intensive care in sufficient detail for daily practice or exam preparation, while also keeping you up to date with the latest ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics

    7th National Conference, NCVPRIPG 2019, Hubballi, India, December 22–24, 2019, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by R. Venkatesh Babu, Mahadeva Prasanna, Vinay P. Namboodiri ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics, NCVPRIPG 2019, held in Hubballi, India, in December 2019.The 55 revised full papers 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on vision and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions

    Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Research

    by Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Jeffrey Y. Tsao ...
    Research powers innovation and technoscientific advance, but it is due for a rethink, one consistent with its deeply holistic nature, requiring deeply human nurturing.Research is a deeply human endeavor that must be nurtured to achieve its full potential. As with tending a garden, care must be taken to organize, plant, feed, and weed—and the manner in which this nurturing is done must be ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • 10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be (10s Series)

    This book talks about ten Indian languages—of the thousand-odd languages spoken in India—and their evolution, transformation and development. These languages are: Tamil Telugu Brahui Santali Khasi Kokborok Manipuri Marathi Punjabi Hindi Karthik Venkatesh traces the long and varied journeys of these languages through time, examining the cultural shifts and political and social influences that have ... Read more

    $1.99 USD