The Great Escape is a humorous story for children in the early grades to make reading fun for them and even spark a bit of imagination in them. Larry doesn’t know that he is a toilet paper and that his fate is to get flushed, once Larry comes to know the truth he then sets forth on a journey to escape his planned destiny and create his own destiny. Have you ever felt stuck with your destiny? At times many of us feel stuck with our destiny, even children, this can be a fun and entertaining ...

In simple terms, the book is designed to give IT professionals an extensive idea of what cloud computing is all about, the basic fundamentals, what the different options of cloud computing are for an enterprise, and how the same can be adopted to their own enterprise. This book is exhaustive and covers almost all the top cloud computing technologies and to the lowest level of details, which will help even a junior-level IT professional to design and deploy cloud solutions based on the indi...

"Remarkable . . . Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country." —Anthony Marra, New York Times–bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and TechnoWinner of the 2019 JCB Prize for LiteratureGorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize–winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the ...

The first step-by-step guidebook for successful innovation planningUnlike other books on the subject, 101 Design Methods approaches the practice of creating new products, services, and customer experiences as a science, rather than an art, providing a practical set of collaborative tools and methods for planning and defining successful new offerings. Strategists, managers, designers, and researchers who undertake the challenge of innovation, despite a lack...

**WINNER OF THE 2019 JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATUREAn elegant, epic debut novel that follows one young woman's search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that takes her from Southern India to Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political and personal reckoning.**In the wake of her mother's death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan villa...

In a world of constant noise and distraction, how do you find clarity, discipline, and purpose? In this powerful audiobook, best-selling author and thought leader Vijay Eswaran introduces a life-changing practice rooted in silence and self-reflection. Narrated in his voice, Eswaran shares the method that has guided his journey from humble beginnings to building a global enterprise. With calm authority and personal insight, he walks you through a daily discipline designed to help you take c...

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. The book contains essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ousting of Evo Morales in Bolivia. Despite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. Washington Bullets is a ...

The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the authorIn this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World—with a new preface by the author for its fifteenth anniversary—internationally renowned historian Vijay Prashad conjures what Publishers Weekly calls “a vital assertion of an alternative future.” The Darker Nations, pr...

From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. The Revolution proved that the masses could not only overthrow autocratic governments, but also form an opposing government in their own image. The new idea that the working class and the peasantry could be allied, combined with the clear strength and necessity of a vanguard party, guided multiplying revolutions across the globe.This book explains the...

"Ageing is inevitable,but growing up ?That's a choice."Don't Grow Up...It's a Trap takes you on a heartfelt journey through life's second innings:A celebration of staying young at heart while embracing the wisdom of age.Through touching stories,insightful reflections,and moments of humor,this book challenges societal norms and inspires you to rediscover the art of living joyfully.Packed with chapters exploring health,wealth,passion,a...

In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off.Since the '70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issue-based movements like Via Campesina,...

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad, under covered struggles being waged all across the world by workers in countries such as India, Kenya, Peru, Tunisia, and Arg...