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Making Peace With Partition
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 left a legacy of hostility and bitterness that has bedevilled relations between India and Pakistan for over fifty-five years. The two countries, both nuclear powers now, have fought three wars since Independence and have twice come to the brink of war in recent years. Each of their attempts to make peace has failed, and each failure has added a new layer of anger and mistrust to existing animosities. So what will it take for India and Pakistan to put the long shadows of Partition behind them, once and for all? Reviewing the turbulent history of their past relationship, Radha Kumar analyses the chief obstacles the two countries face and looks afresh, in particular, at the Kashmir conflict, in the light of the new opportunities and challenges that the twenty-first century presents. Kumar's comparisons with partition-related peace processes in Bosnia, Ireland, Cyprus and Israel-Palestine offer a radically different perspective on the prospects for peace between India and Pakistan, and illuminate the key elements that go into a successful peace process. Lucid, incisive and optimistic, Radha Kumar's essay, written at a time when a new peace process between India and Pakistan has begun to unfold, challenges received wisdom as it argues persuasively that the South Asian neighbours are today better placed to make peace than ever before.
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Pilgrim's Progress
The pilgrim Christian undertakes the dangerous journey to the Celestial City, experiencing physical and spiritual obstacles along the way
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$1000 Billion A Day
The money markets regularly defy policymakers, politicians and financial experts, yet few people understand how they operate, who manipulates them, how they have acquired such influence, or to whom they are accountable. In this examination of the foreign exchange markets, John Roberts delves into the dealing rooms and behind the trading desks to reveal the personalities, operations and trends of this crazy world where figures on a screen have the power to bring down governments. What is the difference between a Eurodollar and a dollar? How could Allied Lyons lose #100 million dollars of shareholders' money? Why is London the world's biggest forex dealing centre? What does this mean for us - and how long will it last? This book is aimed at the reader who understands the power that currency has over them, and wants to know why.
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Turning Point .
About the Book: Turning Point Until recenlty, our view of the physical universe had been formed, for centuries, by the mechanistic thinking of Descarles and Newlon. New scientific concepts have overturned this world view, replacing it with a more holistic and ecological one that has afforded us deep insights into the nature of matter and its relation to the human mind. About the Author: Fritjof Capra Fritjof Capra received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna and has done research in high-energy physics at several European and American universities. Capra has written and lectured extensively about the philosophical implications of modern science and is author of 'The Tao of Physics', 'The Turning Point' and 'Uncommon Wisdom'. Currently Director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, he lives in Berkeley with his wife and daughter.
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Dictionary Of Quotations
This volume of memorable quotations, old and new, will be useful for competition entries and crosswords, speeches or letters or purely to dip into for entertainment.
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Encounters With Men Of Miracles
The book is a graphic face-to-face account of encounters with unususal men and women - the faith healers,the flesh mortifiers,the mystics who materialise ash and honey,black magicians,yogis who stop their pulse and heart beat,death defiers who get buried alive and live to tell the tale,spiritual seance mediums who act as transmitters between the living and the dead,and much more. Some mysteries of the Universe are beyond man's comprehension,yet they never fail to ignite his curiousity.The very fact that these psychic phenomena can not be exibited by everyone,adds to their peculiar allure. This book is an objective sally into this realm. What gives some mortals these super powers? Science has not yet found all the answers.Hear what the mystics and miracle men say in their own versions of what exactly happens to them on the psychic,physical and metaphysical planes,when they are going through these experiences. Not many books are available on the subject of this kind and readers may find it very interesting.
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Indianomix Making Sense Of Modern India .
Why does the stock exchange dip during a lunar eclipse? Why don't cars with safety features lead to fewer injuries? Why did Nehru ignore the Chinese threat in the lead-up to the 1962 war? Why is it that a stranger might risk his life to save yours on one day and a street full of passers-by might casually watch you bleed to death on another? Why did pollsters wrongly predict a BJP victory in 2004 and what was the real reason for their defeat and why is India's Independence Day not, in fact, on the day on which it's celebrated? In pithy, sparkling, bite-sized chapters, economists Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya tackle these seeming mysteries and unearth the real reasons why 'we are like this only'. The answers are entertaining and surprising at every turn and reveal a picture of modern India as never seen before.
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A Hundred Encounters
A collection of one hundred book reviews, from Sham Lal's well-known literary column 'Life and Letters', A Hundred Encounters depicts a vivid picture of pertinent modern-day issues: how social scientists diagnose the evils of modernity, the reasons behind the collapse communism, the falsity of a liberalism which permits despots to exploit the poor and the insuperable difficulties in making a moderately successful transition to a market economy. It discusses modern-day globalism and consumerism, as well as an emerging class of pariah states. A Hundred Encounters, also includes the works of over forty poets, playwrights and novelists whose own special perspective provides a thought-provoking analysis of the very nature of change in today's times and the growing danger to the principles of truth, justice and freedom.
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Hidden Dangers Of Meditation And Yoga
Most of the millions of people practicing meditation or yoga put themselves at risk everyday by not knowing the dangers of meditation. In this unique book, Del Pe reveals secrets about the dangers of meditation not available in any other book, audio or video programs about meditation or yoga. Full of safe and practical meditations, this book will teach you how to meditate safely and effectively and "play with your sacred fires" without getting burned by applying the science and art of meditation. Learn how to awaken the 3 anchor points of your Soul in your body safely during meditation. Discover that you have 12 chakras, not 7and what it means for your meditation. Know what types of meditation are harmful for pregnant women, young children and those with hypertension, heart disease, glaucoma, AIDS and cancer. How and why you can be fried by combining meditation and yoga techniques incorrectly. Know when your child is too young to do meditation or yoga. Understand how smokers, alcoholics and drug users can be helped or harmed by meditation and yoga. How to create the right meditation space for your best meditation experience. Why you can't achieve spiritual growth or enlightenment without activating your kundalini and sacred fires and how to do it safely. 3 simple methods anyone can use to achieve Samadhi, the ultimate meditation experience
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The World Of Malgudi Mr Sampath The Financial Expe
Brings together four novels of that irrepressible master of storytelling.
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Paramhansa Yogananda A Biography
Why a biography of Paramhansa Yogananda, when he himself wrote a world-famous account of his own life in the book, Autobiography of a Yogi? The answer is, quite simply, that he wrote his book in a spirit of such humility that the reader could only intuit the author's spiritual greatness from his perfect attitude toward every life situation. The advantage of this book is that it is written from firsthand knowledge. The purpose of this book, then, is to tell you how he was perceived by others, and especially by his disciple, Swami Kriyananda. Paramhansa Yogananda was a towering giant among saints?one of those few who come from age to age, having been sent by God with the divine mission of guiding mankind out of the fogs of delusion into the clear light of divine understanding. The incredible depth of his compassion for suffering mankind is evident in these lines, from a poem he wrote, named, "God's Boatman" : Oh! I will come back again and again! Crossing a million crags of suffering, With bleeding feet I will come, If need be a trillion times, As long as I know that, One stray brother is left behind." That compassion is what Swami Kriyananda saw in his eyes every time he gazed into them deeply. About The Author: Prolific author, accomplished composer, playwright, and artist, and world renowned Spiritual teacher, Swami Kriyananda refers to himself simply as "a humble disciple" of the great God-realised Guru Paramhansa Yogananda. He has written about 100 books and composed 400 pieces of music. He founded Ananda Sangha 40 years ago to spread his Guru's teachings and established 8 communities where people live and work together based on these teachings.
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The Icfai University Press On Learning From Failur
Corporate failures and corporate scandals create a sensation in the community and people are drawn to such news like bees. In fact, scandals get noticed by more people than successes do and the former are retained in public memory for a much longer time than does the achievement of great milestones or the receipt of awards and certifications. Maintaining a positive corporate reputation is not just to do with maintaining good public relations. It has a lot to do with sound and ethical business practices, retaining a sustained focus on continuously contributing value to the community, while, at the same time, returning a profit to the shareholders, not so much to add to the shareholders??? wealth than to ensure the sustainability of the business. Based on the spate of recent corporate failures as well as a few old ones (some of which date back to three centuries), the book makes an attempt to present the key contributing factors of corporate failures. Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and students and teachers of business management may find this book interesting.
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Everyday Greatness
Every issue of Reader's Digest features a story that exemplifies people living to their best, often through adversity and challenge. This collection of inspiring stories, the best from the Reader's Digest archives, are brought together with pertinent commentary from Dr. Stephen Covey to become an inspiring and life-changing resource for anyone who wants more from life. The format lends itself to either serious study or more casual perusal. Topics include: Searching for Meaning, Taking Charge, Starting Within, Creating the Dream, Teaming with Others, Overcoming Adversity and Blending the Pieces. Includes some of the world's best known and loved writers, leaders and celebrities. Only from Reader's Digest could such a broad and deep collection of writings be collected and assembled into this cohesive work.
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The Three Trillion Dollar War The True Cost Of The
THE THREE TRILLION DOLLAR WAR will be a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from its tragic human toll - which the Bush administration has estimated at $50 billion, but which Stiglitz and Bilmes will show underestimates the real figure by approximately six times. The authors expose the gigantic expenses which have so far not been officially accounted for, including not only big ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans - for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global perspective, the authors investigate the cost in lives and damage within Iraq and the Middle East generally. With chilling precision, they calculate what the money spent on the war would have produced had it been further invested in the growth of the economy, in the US and around the world, and in infrastructure building. Stiglitz and Bilmes write in simple language, which makes the details they present, and the sums they add up, all the more disturbing. This book will change forever the way we think about the Iraq war - and about the cost of war generally.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau Restless Genius
The extraordinary life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the eighteenth-century literary genius who changed the course of history, traced with novelistic verve. Motherless child, failed apprentice, autodidact, impossibly odd lover, Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century scene as a literary provocateur whose works electrified readers from the start. Rousseaus impact on American social and political thought remains deep, wide, and, to some, even infuriating. Leo Damrosch beautifully mines Rousseaus books--The Social Contract, one of the greatest works on political theory and a direct influence on the French and American revolutions; Emile, a groundbreaking treatise on education; and the Confessions, which created the genre of introspective autobiography--as works still uncannily alive and provocative to us today. Damroschs triumph is to integrate the story of Rousseaus extraordinarily original writings with the tumultuous life that produced them. Rousseaus own words and those of people who knew him help create an accessible, vivid portrait of a questing man whose strangeness--as punishing and punished lover, difficult friend, and father who famously consigned his infant children to a foundling home--still fascinates. This, the first single-volume biography of Rousseau in English, is as masterfully written as it is definitive. Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He has written widely on eighteenth-century writers. Praise for Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Leo Damrosch's vivid biography enables us to plunge deeply into Rousseau's singular life, conjure up its crucial encounters, retrace its twisting paths, and supplement Rousseau's own claims about himself with the detailed, often contradictory testimony of the contemporaries he so unsettled and inspired." -- Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare "These pages bring to life the Europe of the ancien regime, a desiccated, sybaritic, superstitious, oppressive world about to be terribly and fatally convulsed. And they also bring to astonishing life a great agent of that convulsion, an impossible man whose books helped to make modern life possible. Leo Damrosch not only helps us understand Rousseau, his loves and his hates, his genius and his foolishness. He makes us see Rousseau. And, as he shows again and again in this immensely enjoyable and fast-paced story, that is Rousseaus special and permanent fascination--because when we see him, we are seeing ourselves."-- Louis Menand, author of The Metaphysical Club and American Studies
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Five Minds for the Future (Leadership for the Comm
We live in a time of vast changes. And those changes call for entirely new ways of learning and thinking. World-renowned for his theory of multiple intelligences, Gardner takes that thinking to the next level in this book, drawing from a wealth of diverse examples to illuminate his ideas. Concise and engaging, "Five Minds for the Future" will inspire lifelong learning in any reader as well as provide valuable insights for those charged with training and developing organizational leaders both today and tomorrow.
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Napoleon and Josephine An Improbable Marriage
No rags to riches story can compare with that of Napoleon and Josephine, two outsiders who rose to become Emperor and Empress of the French Republic. This joint biography embraces the lives not only of the two central figures, but of all the vital personalities of the revolutionary era Josephine's career led her into the world of powerful political salons and into prisons where she narrowly escaped the guillotine. Napoleon's fierce ambition raised him to prominence from the time of his first meeting with the reluctant Josephine. As his wife she was to meet the implacable hostility of the Bonaparte clan whose intigues against her provided a savage backdrop to her marriage.
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Gandhi the Man .
The Story of a Great Soul, the Power of Nonviolence. Gandhi's face is instantly recognizable. But who was he? How did this young lawyer transform into the 'great soul' who led 400 million Indians in their nonviolent struggle for independence? Easwaran, who grew up in Gandhi's India, offers answers which are important both historically and personally. He gives a moving account of the turning points and choices in Gandhi's life that made him not just a great political leader but also a timeless icon of nonviolence. Gandhi's inner transformation, the essence of this biography, contains an urgent message for us today. Non-violence, Easwaran explains, is a practical method for resolving problems, healing relationships and raising the quality of our lives. It is a skill that is essential for the evolution and perhaps even the survival, of our civilization.