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This comprehensive reference text discusses concepts of
intelligence communication and automation system in a single
volume. The text discusses the role of artificial intelligence in
communication engineering, the role of machine learning in
communication systems, and applications of image and video
processing in communication. It covers important topics including
smart sensing systems, intelligent hardware design, low power
system design using AI techniques, intelligent signal processing
for biomedical applications, intelligent robotic systems, and
network security applications. The text will be useful for senior
undergraduate and graduate students in different areas including
electrical engineering, and electronics and communications
engineering.
This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of
government and relations between state and society. It is clear
that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation
and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in
dramatic increases in productivity and economic wealth but also
generated spectacular new forms of inequality between social
groups, regions, and sectors. Through a detailed examination of the
Indian state, the contributors - all experts in their respective
fields - explore questions such as: Have the new inequalities
resulted in greater social unrest and violence? How has the meaning
of citizenship changed? What will the long-term effects of regional
economic imbalances be on migration, employment, and social
welfare? Will increasing federalism result in new problems? Will
smaller governments be more effective in providing basic
necessities such as clothing, housing, food, water, and sanitation
to citizens? What does liberalization mean to Indians in cities and
villages, in small towns, and metropolises, in poor, middle class,
or wealthy homes? Are concepts like social capital,
decentralization, private enterprise, and grass-roots globalization
effective in analyzing the post-liberalization state, or are new
concepts needed? By focusing on what specifically has changed about
the state after liberalization in India, this volume will shed
light on comparative questions about the process of neoliberal
restructuring across the world. As such, it will be of interest to
scholars of a variety of disciplines, including sociology,
anthropology, political science, geography, international studies,
public policy, environmental studies and economics.
This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of
government and relations between state and society. It is clear
that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation
and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in
dramatic increases in productivity and economic wealth but also
generated spectacular new forms of inequality between social
groups, regions, and sectors.
Through a detailed examination of the Indian state, the
contributors - all experts in their respective fields - explore
questions such as:
- Have the new inequalities resulted in greater social unrest and
violence?
- How has the meaning of citizenship changed?
- What will the long-term effects of regional economic imbalances
be on migration, employment, and social welfare?
- Will increasing federalism result in new problems?
- Will smaller governments be more effective in providing basic
necessities such as clothing, housing, food, water, and sanitation
to citizens?
- What does liberalization mean to Indians in cities and
villages, in small towns, and metropolises, in poor, middle class,
or wealthy homes?
- Are concepts like social capital, decentralization, private
enterprise, and grass-roots globalization effective in analyzing
the post-liberalization state, or are new concepts needed?
By focusing on what specifically has changed about the state
after liberalization in India, this volume will shed light on
comparative questions about the process of neoliberal restructuring
across the world. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of a
variety of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology,
political science, geography, international studies, public policy,
environmental studies and economics.
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Caste and Outcast (Paperback)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji; Edited by Gordon Chang, Akhil Gupta, Purnima Mankekar
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A person of rare talent and broad appeal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji
(1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian
immigrant to have a successful career in the United States as a man
of letters. As the author of two dozen published volumes of poetry,
drama, fiction, social commentary, philosophy, translations, and
children's stories, Mukerji was a pivotal figure in the
transmission and interpretation of Indian traditions to Americans
in the first several decades of the twentieth century. This reissue
of his classic autobiography "Caste and Outcast," with a new
Introduction and Afterword, seeks to revitalize interest in Mukerji
and his work and to contribute to the exploration of the South
Asian experience in America.
Originally published in 1923, this book is an exercise in both
cultural translation and cultural critique. In the first half of
the book, Mukerji draws upon his early experiences as a Bengali
Brahmin in India, hoping to convey to readers "an intimate
impression of eastern life"; the second half describes Mukerji's
coming to America and his experiences as a student, worker, and
activist in California.
Mukerji's text, written in an engaging personal style, is the kind
of ethnographic writing that seeks to render intelligible and
familiar the unfamiliar and the exotic. Gordon H. Chang's
substantial Introduction locates the story of "Caste and Outcast"
within the larger context of Mukerji's life, tracing the author's
personal history and his connections to such major figures as
Jawaharlal Nehru, M. N. Roy, Van Wyck Brooks, Roger Baldwin, and
Will Durant. The Afterword, by Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta,
examines the ways in which Mukerji stretches the limits of the
autobiographical genre and provides a counternarrative to the
dominant nationalist account of American society.
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a
new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity
lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the
resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their
ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with
fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and
institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and
development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of
progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension,
between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive
location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of
infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading
anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of
Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over
more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time,
politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. A School for
Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Contributors. Nikhil Anand,
Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny
Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a
new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity
lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the
resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their
ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with
fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and
institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and
development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of
progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension,
between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive
location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of
infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading
anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of
Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over
more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time,
politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. A School for
Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Contributors. Nikhil Anand,
Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny
Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
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Final FRCA: 60 CRQs (Paperback)
Sebastian Baxter, Akhil Gupta, James O'Carroll, Kariem El-Boghdadly, Ade Ayeni, …
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R1,598
Discovery Miles 15 980
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book is a practical revision aid for postgraduates preparing
for Final FRCA (Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists)
written examinations. Presented in the style of the newly
introduced CRQ (Constructed Response Questions) format, the book
features five complete papers, each containing twelve questions.
Topics cover the entire examination syllabus. Detailed answers are
given for every question, as well as comprehensive references for
further reading. Key points Practical revision aid for candidates
preparing for Final FRCA examinations Presented in the style of the
new CRQ format Includes five papers each containing twelve
questions with detailed answers Topics cover the complete exam
syllabus
Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally
on "fieldwork"--the long-term immersion in another way of life as
the basis for knowledge. In an era when anthropologists are
studying topics that resist geographical localization, this book
initiates a long-overdue discussion of the political and
epistemological implications of the disciplinary commitment to
fieldwork. These innovative, stimulating essays--carefully chosen
to form a coherent whole--interrogate the notion of "the field,"
showing how the concept is historically constructed and exploring
the consequences of its dominance. The essays discuss
anthropological work done in places (in refugee camps, on
television) or among populations (gays and lesbians, homeless
people in the United States) that challenge the traditional
boundaries of "the field." The contributors suggest alternative
methodologies appropriate for contemporary problems and ultimately
propose a reformation of the discipline of anthropology.
Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized
society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture,
Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological
convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and
cultural difference have undergone a series of important
challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the
transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial
world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in
anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power,
and resistance. This collection of both new and well-known essays
begins by critically exploring the concepts of locality and
community; first, as they have had an impact on contemporary global
understandings of displacement and mobility, and, second, as they
have had a part in defining identity and subjectivity itself. With
sites of discussion ranging from a democratic Spain to a Puerto
Rican barrio in North Philadelphia, from Burundian Hutu refugees in
Tanzania to Asian landscapes in rural California, from the silk
factories of Hangzhou to the long-sought-after home of the
Palestinians, these essays examine the interplay between changing
schemes of categorization and the discourses of difference on which
these concepts are based. The effect of the placeless mass media on
our understanding of place-and the forces that make certain
identities viable in the world and others not-are also discussed,
as are the intertwining of place-making, identity, and resistance
as they interact with the meaning and consumption of signs.
Finally, this volume offers a self-reflective look at the social
and political location of anthropologists in relation to the
questions of culture, power, and place-the effect of their
participation in what was once seen as their descriptions of these
constructions. Contesting the classical idea of culture as the
shared, the agreed upon, and the orderly, Culture, Power, Place is
an important intervention in the disciplines of anthropology and
cultural studies. Contributors. George E. Bisharat, John Borneman,
Rosemary J. Coombe, Mary M. Crain, James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta,
Kristin Koptiuch, Karen Leonard, Richard Maddox, Lisa H. Malkki,
John Durham Peters, Lisa Rofel
"Red Tape" presents a major new theory of the state developed by
the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the
chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest
economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India
and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this
violence kills between two and three million people, especially
women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet
India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in
the democratic project. Nor is the state indifferent to the plight
of the poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs.
Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials charged
with coordinating development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh.
Drawing on that research, he offers insightful analyses of
corruption; the significance of writing and written records; and
governmentality, or the expansion of bureaucracies. Those analyses
underlie his argument that care is arbitrary in its consequences,
and that arbitrariness is systematically produced by the very
mechanisms that are meant to ameliorate social suffering. What must
be explained is not only why government programs aimed at providing
nutrition, employment, housing, healthcare, and education to poor
people do not succeed in their objectives, but also why, when they
do succeed, they do so unevenly and erratically.
An oft-repeated dictum every time a company fails to replicate its
past successes when introducing a new product or entering a new
market is that one size does not fit all. Business gurus advise
that every new situation, market and environment calls for a fresh
approach and requires 'unlearning' what one might have learnt
elsewhere, even if that had met with great success. While this
statement may appear to be obvious, it is often quoted out of
context. The fact is that certain fundamentals of
business-irrespective of line of business, geography or scale-are
universally applicable. Some Sizes Fit All is an attempt to explain
these fundamental pillars for any kind of business. An authentic
and lucid presentation of management concepts and practices-which
Akhil Gupta has tried and tested first hand through his illustrious
career-this is a must-read for anyone trying to build a robust and
financially sound business.
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