Shankar: 111 books
Desi Land
Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Desi Land is Shalini Shankar’s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or “Desis,” define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology....
Advertising Diversity
Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of fieldwork she conducted over four years at Asian American ad agencies in New York, San Francisco, and Los...
by E.S. Shankar
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This is the A-Z of the 2006 murder by C4 plastic explosives of Mongolian national Altantuya who became embroiled in the Malaysian government's US$2.3 billion Scorpene Stealth Submarines procurement contract with France. Author E.S. Shankar makes it clear that the slaying of Altantuya Shaariibuu was not...
by Mani Shankar Mukherji
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Anni Cinquanta: Calcutta si chiama ancora Calcutta e vive gli ultimi splendori del suo recente passato coloniale. Nella «striscia d'oro», la zona della città che gli inglesi chiamano Esplanade e gli indiani Chowringhee, il centro della vita mondana e dei grandi alberghi, si aggira Shankar, un ex...
Flesh and Fish Blood
Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of...
Fundamentals of Physics
Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Professor R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this concise and self-contained...
Fundamentals of Physics II
Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this second book based on his online...
by Shankar Electronics
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A collection of all our favourite sweet recipes from our Recipe Tuesdays for you to indulge in and enjoy!
Beeline
What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for success
At first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on...
And They All Sang
Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian talks with some of twentieth century’s most iconic musicians—“Riveting . . . Just about every interview has a revelation” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Through the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted the legendary radio show...
by Geetu George, Joseph Martin, Linto Mathew
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Are Entrepreneurs born? Have you, like millions, thought of being an Entrepreneur but was never sure if you can ? Are you an Entrepreneur who has learnt the hard way the good, bad and ugly of being an Entrepreneur ?In this book Entrepreneurs from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, share...
The Hidden Brain
How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin...
Andal
The Autobiography of a Goddess
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Ninth century Tamil poet and founding saint Andal is believed to have been found as a baby underneath a holy basil plant in the temple garden of Srivilliputhur. As a young woman she fell deeply in love with Lord Vishnu, composing fervent poems and songs in his honour and, according to custom, eventually...
Creating a New Consensus on Population
The Politics of Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, and Women's Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Population growth, reproductive health and reproductive rights are amongst the most pressing issues facing governments and the international community. Since the world's governments agreed for the first time on far-reaching and enlightened population policies at the 1994 International Conference on...