{"title":"Books by Rajiv Shah","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781668004388","title":"Big Bets","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Encouraging…Uplifting...Meeting apparently insurmountable goals requires \u003ci\u003ethinking big\u003c\/i\u003e…this will inspire.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Raj Shah has written a practical guide to making the world a better place. He knows what he’s talking about, because he’s done it himself. Anyone who wants to make a change in the world, or their own lives, will benefit from this book.” —Bill Gates, Cochair, Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama’s United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large scale change, inspired by his own involvements with some of the largest humanitarian projects of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRajiv J. Shah is no stranger to pulling off the impossible, from helping vaccinate 900 million children at the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to a high-pressure race against the clock to stop the spread of Ebola. His secret? A big bets philosophy—the idea that seeking to solve problems rather than make incremental improvements can attract the unlikely partners with the power and know-how to achieve transformational change. Part career sweeping memoir, part inspirational playbook, \u003ci\u003eBig Bets\u003c\/i\u003e offers a master class in decision-making, leadership, and changing the world one bet at a time. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eShah animates his strategic insights with vivid behind-the-scenes stories, memorable conversations with household names that helped shape his approach to creating change, and his own personal growth as an Indian-American from an immigrant family looking for a way to belong. He distills his battle-tested strategies for creating change, arguing that big bets have a surprising advantage over cautious ones: a bold vision can attract support, collaborations, and fresh ideas from key players who might otherwise be resistant. Throughout the book, Shah traces his unlikely path to the Rockefeller Foundation across a changing world and through some of the most ambitious, dramatic global efforts to create a better world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303342485877,"sku":"9781668004388","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781668004388_7cb00cdd-671b-492c-90c5-1ea1e650ad74.jpg?v=1786024770"},{"product_id":"multimodal-analysis-of-user-generated-multimedia-content","title":"Multimodal Analysis of User-Generated Multimedia Content","description":"This book presents a summary of the multimodal analysis of user-generated multimedia content (UGC). Several multimedia systems and their proposed frameworks are also discussed. First, improved tag recommendation and ranking systems for social media photos, leveraging both content and contextual information, are presented. Next, we discuss the challenges in determining semantics and sentics information from UGC to obtain multimedia summaries. Subsequently, we present a personalized music video generation system for outdoor user-generated videos. Finally, we discuss approaches for multimodal lecture video segmentation techniques. This book also explores the extension of these multimedia system with the use of heterogeneous continuous streams.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492170834293,"sku":"9783319871684","price":129.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783319871684.jpg?v=1786528995"},{"product_id":"unjust-enrichment","title":"Unjust Enrichment","description":"This book challenges the orthodox approach to the analysis of unjust enrichment, developed by Peter Birks and adopted by the House of Lords and Supreme Court in a series of later decisions.It does so in 3 ways. First, the book argues that the Birksian model fails to fit some typical situations unless the language of the formula is stretched to the point of being artificial. For example, \"enrichment\" is now just a term of art.Secondly, the Birksian model fails to provide a normative justification for the courts awarding recovery in unjust enrichment claims. For example, it offers no explanation on the basis on which an \"unjust factor\" should be categorised as \"unjust\". Thirdly, and most fundamentally, the book rejects the Birksian approach of adopting a top-down academic theory of unjust enrichment and ignoring the authorities which pre-date its adoption by the House of Lords. Instead, the book seeks to arrive at a theoretical understanding of unjust enrichment by tracing the historical development of this area of the law through the authorities and commentaries from the 18th century onwards, and analysing the reasoning of the judges and scholars.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504999211381,"sku":"9781509932245","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-rajiv-shah.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}