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Japan, 1562. Young Nariko finds herself on a farm for misfit girls after she narrowly survives a brutal samurai attack on her family. But the farm hides a secret: it is a training camp for a secret army of all-female ninja. Smart and brave, Nariko is a valuable spy, and she soon finds herself drawn back into the very war that tore her family apart, as she is haunted by unanswered questions about her past.

Japan, 1562. Young Nariko finds herself on a farm for misfit girls after she narrowly survives a brutal samurai attack on her family. But the farm hides a secret: it is a training camp for a secret army of all-female ninja. Smart and brave, Nariko is a valuable spy, and she soon finds herself drawn back into the very war that tore her family apart, as she is haunted by unanswered questions about her past.

Even anonymity has a voice that demands to be heard and listened to. This book is a collection of poems on women from different strata and various walks of life. They might be un-named yet their emotions and feelings narrated through the lines is not alien rather strangely familiar and near to our heart and understanding.

In today's world, Internet of Things is an attention grabbing area of research. IoT has become popular because of the evolution of entrenched and omnipresent communication, development of movable objects and countless applications. It is a network of various objects connected to one another. The connected devices are implanted with different types of sensors, circuits etc. for their functioning. Several technologies are involved in the networ...

This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless, instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital, " or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth, " or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book p...

This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless, instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital, " or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth, " or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book p...

Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta, overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger, land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. A...

Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta, overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger, land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. A...

This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless. Instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital, " or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth, " or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book p...

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From Dubai to Delhi and from Singapore to Shanghai, cities across Asia are sites of intense experiments with different ways of being global. This book intervenes in urban theory focused on established global cities, and instead argues that the urban globality is something that is continually being imagined, assembled, and contested. Greater Asia is a region of vibrant innovations in urban design, built forms, governance, aesthetics, and politi...

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people s movements, and global netwo...

From Dubai to Delhi and from Singapore to Shanghai, cities across Asia are sites of intense experiments with different ways of being global. This book intervenes in urban theory focused on established global cities, and instead argues that the urban globality is something that is continually being imagined, assembled, and contested. Greater Asia is a region of vibrant innovations in urban design, built forms, governance, aesthetics, and politi...