Interrogating the notion of medical knowledge and public health practices in colonial India, this volume explores the complex encounters between Western medical systems and indigenous healing traditions during British rule. The book examines how colonial medical institutions functioned as instruments of both care and control, while indigenous practices retained their relevance among the masses. Through detailed case studies including W.M. Haffkine's plague vaccine campaigns, the Rockefelle...

Awakening in the Final Chapter is a deeply personal meditation on what it means to live fully in the face of impermanence. Drawing on a lifetime of inquiry into consciousness, spirituality, science, and human experience, Deepak Chopra reframes aging as an awakening into greater vitality, wisdom, love, beauty, creativity, and freedom. What many fear as an ending becomes, in these pages, an invitation to a more authentic and luminous way of being.With warmth, humility, and insight, C...

Awakening in the Final Chapter is a deeply personal meditation on what it means to live fully in the face of impermanence. Drawing on a lifetime of inquiry into consciousness, spirituality, science, and human experience, Deepak Chopra reframes aging as an awakening into greater vitality, wisdom, love, beauty, creativity, and freedom. What many fear as an ending becomes, in these pages, an invitation to a more authentic and luminous way of being.With warmth, humility, and insight, C...

Written in an outline format for quick reference, Newfield and Cottrell’s Handbook of Neuroanesthesia, Sixth Edition, provides detailed information about the anesthetic and perioperative management of elective and emergent neurosurgical and neuroradiologic procedures. It provides practical, easy to use, evidence-based guidance for clinical management and covers essential aspects of practical neurophysiology, neuropharmacology as well as various neuromonitoring modalities. Drs. Sulpicio G. ...

You are holding a book that doesn’t want to hurry you. A book that believes wisdom lives in tender, unglamorous places—in handwritten recipes, lingering goodbyes, crocheted blankets and silences that speak louder than words.Written over six years and across many countries, At the Speed of Flowers is a collection of essays that invites you to notice the life happening at the edges of your attention. With the intimacy of a friend and the clarity of a teacher, Deepak Ramola l...

Long before the first temple was built, before the first prayer was whispered, and before the first god was given a name, there was a fragile species standing beneath the stars wondering, fearing, and searching for answers.How did a creature born from evolution come to imagine immortality, create gods, and weave myths powerful enough to shape civilizations? Why does the human mind seek meaning in a universe that appears vast and indifferent?The First Hypothesis: How Hum...

He conducted India's first 3G spectrum auction and raised ₹1.06 trillion for the exchequer. He single-handedly blocked a major procurement scandal at BSNL. For four decades, IAS officer J.S. Deepak worked at the highest levels of Indian telecom, trade and diplomacy and dared to do things differently.I Dared to Dial Differently is the candid, compulsively readable memoir of J.S. Deepak, whose four-decade-long journey through the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) reads lik...

Manong Bert runs his ten-year-old Vios like a high school classroom: no loud speakerphones, no slammed doors, and absolutely no open hot coffee on Aurora Boulevard.Pia Manalo doesn’t have time for rules. She has a major client breathing down her neck, an agency deck that could make or break her career, and a family crisis involving money that was never hers to lose.When a disastrous morning ends with a two-star rating, it should have been the end of the line. Instead, the cit...

Leadership is not tested in comfort. It is tested in uncertainty. In today's volatile world, leaders are expected to make high-impact decisions with incomplete information, inspire confidence under pressure, adapt rapidly to changing circumstances, and execute with discipline when the stakes are highest. Executive Powerplay reveals a battle-tested framework for doing exactly that, via its doctrine 'The Commando Protocol'Developed by India's renowned commando trainers, Hon....

This book is inspired by various life experiences, which are felt and observed. It is an inquiry into our existence, philosophical dimensions of life, internal thoughts and feelings. This book is a culmination of actions, reactions and responses, which were imbibed over years, slowly metamorphosing and transforming consciousness. The struggles, internal and external, change something fundamental and shapes our thought process. This book is about that journey, which gives birth to a wisdom ...

Forty-three seconds. That is how long it took a bank's lending platform to reject a loyal customer who deserved approval — and nobody inside the bank knew anything had gone wrong.The dashboard was green. The audit trail was clean. Every rule had fired exactly as designed.Six months earlier, the board had voted to fix this exact problem. The fix never reached the machine. Nobody disobeyed anyone. A technical change, logged correctly under the rules as writte...

Cloud Computing Security: Methods and Best Practices equips students, professionals, cloud architects, and IT administrators with comprehensive foundations for securing cloud infrastructure and data. In today's digital environment, cloud computing has revolutionized how organizations store, manage, and access information, but with transformative power comes significant responsibility and risk. This resource systematically addresses essential cloud security topics including data encryption,...