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  • Analytics Engineering with SQL and dbt

    Building Meaningful Data Models at Scale

    by Rui Pedro Machado, Helder Russa ...
    With the shift from data warehouses to data lakes, data now lands in repositories before it's been transformed, enabling engineers to model raw data into clean, well-defined datasets. dbt (data build tool) helps you take data further. This practical book shows data analysts, data engineers, BI developers, and data scientists how to create a true self-service transformation platform through the use ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Pearls, People, and Power

    Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds

    Edited by Pedro Machado, Steve Mullins, Joseph Christensen ...
    Series series Indian Ocean Studies Series
    Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices of both coastal and inland areas, the overwhelming majority have confined themselves to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean

    An Ocean of Cloth

    Edited by Pedro Machado, Sarah Fee, Gwyn Campbell ...
    Series series Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
    This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Ocean of Trade

    South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c.1750–1850

    by Pedro Machado ...
    Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on the Vāniyā merchants of Diu and Daman, Pedro Machado explores the region's entangled histories of exchange, including the African demand for large-scale textile production among weavers in Gujarat, the distribution of ivory to consumers in Western ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Between Self and Sepoy

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    Series series War, Culture and Society
    In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own ... Read more

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  • Marco Polo

    The Journey that Changed the World

    by John Man ...
    "I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." — John Fusco, Creator of the Netflix original series Marco PoloGo behind the Netflix original series Marco Polo with the true story of the world’s most famous traveler.In 1271, a ... Read more

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  • Black Dragon River

    A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China

    by Dominic Ziegler ...
    “As the book’s subtitle indicates, Mr. Ziegler uses one of the world’s great rivers as a vehicle to pursue this story—and what a vehicle it is. . . . [He] writes beautifully, and with the fervor of a naturalist.” ***—*The Wall Street Journal“The writing is superb . . . a true labour of love, Black Dragon River is a triumph.” *—The SpectatorBlack Dragon River* is a personal... ... Read more

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  • Sikhism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eleanor Nesbitt ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains mysterious to many. This Very Short Introduction introduces newcomers to the meaning of the Sikh religious tradition, its teachings, practices, rituals ... Read more

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  • The Private World of Ottoman Women

    by Godfrey Goodwin ...
    Series Book 2 - Saqi Essentials
    Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary women's domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Labour Corps

    The Forgotten Chinese Labourers of the First World War: Penguin Specials

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    As the young men of Europe were fighting in the trenches, a little known contingent of Chinese labourers crossed the world to provide support vital to the Allied war effort. Largely illiterate farmers from northern China, these men were simply attempting to make a better life for themselves, ignorant of the war and its causes. Under brutal conditions many died for their efforts, and their ... Read more

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  • Reasons for the Success and Failure of Japan’s Mediation 
for Intra-State Conflicts in Aid Recipient Countries 
as Their Top ODA Donor

    Case Studies of Cambodia (1997-1998) and Sri Lanka (2002-2009)

    by ODAIRA, Takeshi, 大平剛史 ...
    Why was Japan able to successfully mediate an intra-State conflict only in Cambodia from 1997 to 1998 and not in Sri Lanka from 2002 to 2009 as their top ODA donor that had been expected to have much influence on these aid recipient countries and thus was highly motivated to mediate efficiently by using its aid?The existing literature cannot explain these contrasting results. This is because the ... Read more

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  • Fighting Ships of the Far East (1)

    China and Southeast Asia 202 BC–AD 1419

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 61 - New Vanguard
    Authored by an expert on Southeast Asian history, an illustrated addition to the hitherto small corpus of knowledge about a fascinating and little known subject.Using detailed descriptions, accurate cutaway plates and reliable historical examples, this book covers the history of Chinese ship design and naval warfare from the beginning of the Han dynasty to the first few years of the Ming dynasty ... Read more

    $13.59 USD