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Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar
Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar (b. 1820) was one of India's greatest intellectuals and activists of the nineteenth century. He was born into a poor Brahmin family and faced poverty all through his childhood. He was known variously as an educator, academic, philosopher, reformer and philanthropist. He started his career as the principal of Fort William College at age twenty-one and then joined Sanskrit College in 1850 and became principal the following year. Through his writings, Vidyasagar raised many questions about the various ills that had permeated society like early marriage and polygamy. He advocated widow-remarriage all through his life and was considered as one of the greatest pillars of the Bengal Renaissance.
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Business @ The Speed Of Thought
Your company probably has a sizeable investment in technology but is realizing only twenty percent of system which unites all systems and processes under one common infrastructure, allowing your company to make quantum leaps in efficiency, growth and profits. Using detailed tours of Microsoft and other major corporations, Gates demonstrates how integrated technology can transform any business by energizing its three major elements; customer/partner relationships, employees and process, and offers practical suggestions on how this can be achieved. 'I have a simple but strong belief,' Gates writes. 'How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.' Business @ the Speed of Thought gives you the information to win.
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Life Lessons For Mastering The Law Of Attraction
Do you ever wonder why some people always seem to be at the right place at the right time, enjoying good fortune, health, the ideal mate, happy kids, and achieve more than the average person could ever imagine? Have you wondered what makes them so 'lucky' or well connected? People who enjoy a heightened state of living and have their dreams and goals realized to their fullest potential have tapped into one of the oldest and influential principles for living a fulfilled life--the Law of Attraction. Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction teaches you what you need to know about living the Law of Attraction and how to create your own personal success through its concepts. Master coaches and experts in the Law of Attraction Jeanna Gabellini and Eva Gregory and one of the superstar contributors to the The Secret, Jack Canfield, have come together to share with you the powerful and life changing lessons and techniques of the Law of Attraction. Filled with exercises, lessons, real-life stories, and proven key ingredients, Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction, from the creators of Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Sex And Power
As squeamish as India is today about sex, this is also the land where queens once copulated with dead horses at religious ceremonies, where the art of love-making was declared the revelation of the gods and recorded in elaborate detail in the kama sutras and prostitution was a form of sacred offering at temples adorned with erotic sculptures. Using India as a paradigm, Rita Banerji illustrates that sexual morality is not an absolute but a facet of living that undergoes periodic upheavals. She delineates four major periods in Indian history when there were significant shifts in the collective social perception of sex and sexuality, and the associated customs and beliefs. What causes this revision in sexual ethos? Examining a modified version of Nietzsche
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The Truth Almost About Bharat
An amazing saga of tender-hearted dacoits, heroic medics, gorgeous women, and assorted encounters with underwear...Bharat a.k.a. Vishwanath a.k.a. Tarzan - teenage philosopher, nearly-there general practitioner and heartbroken victim of unrequited love - takes some time off to chronicle his life.
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A Prisoner Of Birth
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend.And when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm
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Two Lives
Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up in India in the late years of the Raj, and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin
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A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle's first full length book in eight years will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement for years to come. Taking off from the introspective work he began with The Power of Now, the number one bestseller that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow. Eckhart Tolle is one of the bestselling spiritual teachers of our time. The simple message in his international bestseller The Power of Now, that of living in the present, of enjoying the journey rather than always looking to the next goal, has spread fast. A wise counsellor in this ever changing, chaotic and often violent world, Tolle draws on essential spiritual teachings of all ages and traditions to reveal a fresh evolutionary model of spiritual life for the 21st Century.
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The Choice
Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life, he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Travis
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Women On Top
Nancy Friday's phenomenal bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers broke new ground, revealing for the first time the complexity of women's secret sexual fantasies. In Women on Top, she returns to the subject that made her famous, examining the erotic fantasy lives of more than one hundred and fifty modern women. Drawn from Friday's personal interviews and letters, Women on Top contains transcripts of real sexual fantasies that will change your mind-set about women and sex. A revolutionary exploration of female eroticism, Women on Top reveals the powerful and astounding sexual attitudes that are forever changing our intimate lives.
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Doctors
Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors--what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love. From the crucible of med school's merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs--and sometimes tragedies--beyond, Doctors brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire. At the novel's heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling celebrity and unsatisfying love--until their friendship ripens into passion. Yet even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. Doctors --heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real--is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial . . . and a miracle.
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Retire Young Retire Rich
This Book Is About How we started with nothing and retired financially free in less than ten years. Find Out How You Can do the same. If You do not plan on working hard all of your life
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The Rescue
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks -- risks no-one else in the department would ever take -- to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor cannot bring himself to make. He cannot fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over, as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate. Then, one day, a raging, record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town. Denise Hilton, a young single mother, is driving through it when her car skids off the road. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities for whom she has sacrificed everything. Taylor finds her unconscious and bleeding, but when she wakes, the chilling truth is clear: Kyle is gone.
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How To Read A Person Like A Book
Head Inclined, Hand in Front of the Mouth, Open Palm, Eyes Holding Yours, Telegraph What a Person is Really Feeling Underneath the Words He-Or She-is Using. And the Body Never Lies! This illustrated, no-nonsense manual by two experts in the field of negotiation shows you how to spot the hidden social, sexual and emotional messages that we all send to each other - with our bodies. Find out how to: * detect and send messages of friendliness and flirtation * keep the upper hand in arguments and negotiations * tell whether the person you're talking to is lying * recognize and overcome boredom and defensiveness * succeed in many other delicate situations Now you can learn quickly what is always going on in every human exchange by knowing the oldest and truest vocabulary of all! A Comprehensive Handbook for Your Business, Family and Social Life.
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The Wedding
Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage,son-in-law Wilson Lewis is a man who has always found it difficult to expresshis emotions. A hardworking estate tax attorney, he has provided well for hisfamily, but now, with his daughter's upcoming wedding coinciding with histhirtieth wedding anniversary, he confronts the fact that he and his wife Janehave grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him any more. Wilson is sureof one thing: his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over theyears. With the memories of his in-laws' magnificent fifty-year love affair ashis guide - and some patient advice from Noah - Wilson struggles to find his own wayback into the heart of the woman he adores...
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To Kill A MockingBird
The unforgettable novel of a childhood ina sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy-award winning film, also a classic.Compassonate, dramatic, and deeply moving, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD takes readers t the roots of human behavior-to innocence and experience, kindnessand cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now withover 15 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regonal story simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.