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...

As agriculture faces increasing pressure from climate change, soil degradation, and the overuse of synthetic inputs, this volume presents innovative and practical approaches that promote resilient and sustainable crop production systems. It explores how plant biostimulants and growth regulators are transforming modern agriculture by improving crop productivity, enhancing soil fertility, and supporting long-term environmental sustainability.Organized into five sections, the book pro...

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...

Benjie Cruz has a system for everything. Fourteen color-coded categories in his Google Calendar. A wireless mic named Celia. A van he drives to the deep provinces when clients want authenticity, which somehow always means his specific face, his voice, and his ability to make a room full of strangers feel like family for four hours.He is very good at this.He has also spent eleven years doing it for other people's lives while quietly neglecting his own.When a family r...

She planned everything.The universe had other ideas.She planned everything. The universe had other ideas.Mira Valencia does not believe in chaos. She believes in timelines, contingency plans, and emergency backups for the backups.So when a luxury wedding in Tagaytay unravels, starting with a missing groom, followed by a bride who chooses silence, a funeral that arrives uninvited, and a goat with questionable boundaries Mira does what she does best: She tries ...

Enzo has a plan for everything. His life is color-coded in a master spreadsheet: Career (Navy Blue), Health (Emerald Green), Relationships (currently blank). Every outcome is mapped. Every risk accounted for.Then a cat crashes through the ceiling during a boardroom presentation.By Tuesday, EDSA happens. By Wednesday, he boards the wrong bus.He wakes up in the mountains of Sagada, far from the polished towers of Makati, in a place that refuses to follow his rules.

Marco Santos has spent his entire career believing that life can be understood if you gather enough facts, calculate enough probabilities, and prepare for every possible outcome. As an actuary, uncertainty is simply another problem waiting to be measured.Estela Ramirez has never lived that way.She runs a small neighborhood bakery, trusts the quiet nudges that arrive without explanation, and has learned that some of life's most important decisions refuse to fit inside a spre...

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....

In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra distills the essence of his teachings into seven simple, yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life.Based on natural laws that govern all of creation, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. Instead, Chopra offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success: Once we understa...

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,...

Quantum Information Processing is a comprehensive guide bridging quantum mechanics foundations with practical information processing applications. Mathematics is the language of physics, and this book bridges abstract techniques to concrete applications essential for modern physics research and applications. Content covers quantum bits, quantum gates, quantum circuits, and quantum algorithms including Shor's and Grover's algorithms. Readers examine quantum entanglement, quantum teleportati...