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  • The Burning Earth

    An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

    by Sunil Amrith ...
    **Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for NonfictionLonglisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardOne of The New Yorker's "Essential Reads" of 2024 • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024"[An] epic exploration of human innovation and destruction." —Josie Glausiusz, NatureA brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Unruly Waters

    How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

    by Sunil Amrith ...
    From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its watersAsia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas -- and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Burning Earth

    A History

    by Sunil Amrith ...
    Narrated by Esh Alladi ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 36 min

    One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Reading from the South

    African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work

    by Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall, Sunil Amrith, Gabeba Baderoon, Karin Barber, Rimli Bhattacharya, Antoinette Burton, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Carolyn Hamilton0, Khwezi Mkhize1, Danai S Mupotsa2, James Ogude3, Christopher EW Ouma4, Ranka Primorac5, Madhumita Lahiri6, Meg Samuelson7, Lakshmi Subramanian8 ...
    This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr’s path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations in the Indian Ocean world.This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Crossing the Bay of Bengal

    by Sunil S. Amrith ...
    For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human migration. Integrating environmental history and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil S. Amrith offers insights to the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • OpenStack Trove Essentials

    Build your own cloud based Database as a Service using OpenStack Trove

    by Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar ...
    Build your own cloud based Database as a Service using OpenStack TroveKey Features\[\*\] Familiarize yourself with the concept of Database as a Service and make your existing system scalable and efficient with OpenStack Trove\[\*\] Minimize the administrative tasks and complexities of managing your cloud infrastructure\[\*\] This is a fast-paced guide to datastore management on the OpenStack ... Read more

    $27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

    by Sunil S. Amrith ...
    Series Book 7 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Histories of Health in Southeast Asia

    Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century

    Edited by Tim Harper, Sunil S. Amrith ...
    Series series China Medical Board Centennial Series
    Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with China and India. In this volume leading scholars provide a new approach to the history of health in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Raiders, Rulers, and Traders

    The Horse and the Rise of Empires

    by David Chaffetz ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 56 min

    No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade routes, and ended up acquiring deep cultural and religious significance.Over time, horses came to power ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    $48.99 USD