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Dead As A Dodo
Mission - Dead as a Dodo Mission Brief - Somebody is on an extinction operation, stealing all the last specimens of highly endangered species. This mysterious crook has somehow managed to discover the impossible - a living specimen of Raphus cucullatus, aka, the dodo. Yes, the same flightless bird that was hunted to oblivion in Mauritius more than 300 years ago! This dodo has become the single most priceless creature on the planet and it must be rescued immediately. Without delay, Animal Intelligence Agency agents are assigned to this urgent mission. Note - The Animal Intelligence Agency is a multi-species non-governmental agency. Specially trained Animal and Human agents work undercover to save animals and save the world. Some of them have a license to kill. Agent no. 002 Species - Panthera tigris tigris Name - Bagha Currently the only agent with a license to kill. He is the most dangerous and experienced operative, with the scars to prove it. Agent no. 015 Species - Semnopithecus entellus Name - Kela this operative was formerly a disgraced agent, stripped of his number. However, after his sterling performance in mission tiger by the Tail, his number and privileges have been restored. Agent no. 11.5 Species - Homo sapiens sapiens Name - Rana One of only two people in the world who use Jungle Speak to communicate across species. Extremely good with computers and all things tech. Far from dangerous or lethal. However, his intelligence is a real contribution to a mission. His allergies are a real problem. Indications are that the mission will take the agents to Mauritius, America and as far off as the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. They must not fail, come what may. This dodo must not die.
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Thinking Strategically-The Competitive Edge in Bus
Thinking Strategically is a bestselling book that teaches its readers to face and tide over almost any adversary in professional life. This book builds itself on case studies from the fields of business, sports, politics, gambling, and even movies. What it basically does is outline the techniques of strategy making, and teach the readers the ways to apply the same. The book begins with an introduction to the subject of strategic behavior. It then deals with the subject in three different sections. The first section involves the reading and understanding of the rival's strategy. The second and third sections highlight the means of putting into place strategies and resolving problems with them. The case studies included give the readers a fair idea as to how they may expect the results to turn out in real life.
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Shake That Brain
Shake That Brain! is a collection of creative and inspiring tips and tools for finding solutions in a variety of areas -- from sales, marketing and product creation ... to ethics, innovation and the bottom line. And these are skills you can use at home, on the job, or wherever are you. The book is filled with exercises, easy-to-apply formulas, entertaining pop-quizzes, powerful graphics (like innovative credit card designs and Do Not Disturb signs) and eye-opening teaching examples from the world of business, technology, advertising and more -- all designed to make the reading experience both profitable and fun!
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The Golem Of Hollywood
A burned-out L.A. detective . . . a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems . . . a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. And for Detective Jacob Lev the mystery of how he spent last night pales in comparison the one he's about to be called upon to solve.
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No Time For Goodbye
On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her . . . Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made . . .
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The Haunting Of Sunshine Girl
In that place where you're more asleep than awake any more, I hear something else. A phrase uttered in a child's voice, no more than a whisper-night. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something about their new house is just creepy. In the days that follow, things only get stranger. Sunshine is followed around the house by an icy breeze, phantom wind slams her bedroom door shut and eventually, the laughter Sunshine hears on her first night evolves into sobs. She can hardly believe it, but as the spirits haunting her house become more frightening-and it becomes clear that Kat is in danger-Sunshine must accept what she is, pass the test before her and save her mother from a fate worse than death.
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Kevin Pietersen-The Autobiography
The fascinating life story of professional cricketer Kevin Pietersen, MBE, from his childhood in South Africa to his recent experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of International cricket. Kevin was dropped from the England squad in February 2014, seemingly calling time on an International career that began nearly ten years earlier. The decision puzzled many observers - although the England team had failed miserably in the Ashes tour of 2013 - 14, Kevin was the tourists' leading run scorer across the series and he remains the country's highest run scorer of all time across all formats of the game. Kevin reveals all in his autobiography, telling the stories behind the many other highs and lows of his incredible career. Giving readers the full story of his life, from his childhood in South Africa to his experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket, KP is an autobiography that entertains and fascinates readers in equal measure.
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The Rise And Fall Of Great Powers
9-year-old Tooly is living in Bangkok, largely left to her own devices, when she is spirited away by a seductive group of outsiders who take her from city to city across the globe. At 20, she is wandering the streets of Manhattan with a scribbled-on map, living with a ping-pong-playing, avocado-loving Russian ?migr? called Humphrey and scamming strangers for her shadowy protector, Venn. Now, aged 31, she runs a second-hand bookshop on the Welsh borders and has found a kind of peace with her strange upbringing - until she gets a message from an old flame asking her to come back to New York to see her dying father. Tooly has spent so much of her life becoming what others want her to be, she has lost all sense of herself. Warm, hilarious, moving and fizzing with intelligence, THE RISE AND FALL OF GREAT POWERS is a masterpiece about the search for identity, the people who rise into and fall out of our lives, and how to figure out what home means.
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The Good Luck Of Right Now
From the author of the silver linings playbook, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, love and Richard Gere. Bartholomew Neil is thirty-nine and lost. After the death of his beloved mum he has no idea how to be on his own and he knows it's about time he found his flock. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded learn how to fly? And what can Richard Gere, a beautiful librarian, a struggling priest and a foul-mouthed and troubled young man teach Bartholomew about finding love and happiness? Whatever it is, Bartholomew is in for a lot more than he bargained for. The Good Luck of Right Now is original, compelling and uplifting. His writing is shot through with wit and humanity Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project.
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More Than A Mouthful-Adventures Of A Dentist
We use our teeth every day to munch on an apple or carrot, to hold a pen-knife or a hairpin, we put them on display when we smile or laugh. But we rarely think about the strain we subject them to, rushing to the dentist only when our teeth cry out in pain. Or, sometimes, when they disturb the symmetry of our face. Teeth may get lost while shooting for a Bollywood fighting scene. They may shrink to half their size because of too much cola intake. A man may commit suicide because of the buzzing in his ears caused by a strained muscle in the jaw. Dr. Sandesh Mayekar has seen all this and worse. He has filled the dark cavity in a molar, fought smelly mouth odour, whitened a ladys gums for a beauty contest and sealed that wide gap between a mans front teeth for a photo shoot. More than a mouthful tells the stories behind those healthy teeth that you see on TV or on the ramp. Mayekar has stayed up nights, sometimes travelled miles, to address an emergency. He has assuaged patients fears with as much clinical care as personal concern. It is also the tale of one mans determination to master his craft and lay the foundation of aesthetic dentistry in India is a journey that has taken him from humble beginnings in a chawl in Mumbai to the swanky bandstand at Bandra. Written with compassion and laced with wit, more than a mouthful is what the doctor prescribes to rid you of that fear of the dentist.
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The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair
The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. The summer, struggling author Harry6 Quebert fell in love with fifteen year old Nola Keelergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that secured his lasting fame. Quebert is the only suspect.
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What is Life?
It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What is Life? appears here together with Mind and Matter, his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times. Brought together with these two classics are Schrodinger's autobiographical sketches, which offer a fascinating account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.
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Farewell Kabul
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong?Twenty-seven years ago, Christina Lamb left Britain to become a journalist in Pakistan. She crossed the Hindu Kush into Afghanistan with mujaheddin fighting the Russians and fell unequivocally in love with this fierce country of pomegranates and war, a relationship which has dominated her adult life. Since 2001, Lamb has watched with incredulity as the West fought a war with its hands tied, committed too little too late, failed to understand local dynamics and turned a blind eye as their Taliban enemy was helped by their ally Pakistan. Farewell Kabul tells how success was turned into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest nations on earth, the Taliban undefeated and nuclear armed Pakistan perhaps the most dangerous place on earth. With unparalleled access to all key decision-makers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, London and Washington, from heads of state and generals as well as soldiers on the ground, Farewell Kabul tells how this happened. In Afghanistan, Lamb has travelled far beyond Helmand - from the caves of Tora Bora in the south to the mountainous bad lands of Kunar in the east, from Herat, city of poets and minarets in the west, to the very poorest province of Samangan in the north. She went to Guantanamo, met Taliban in Quetta, visited jihadi camps in Pakistan and saw bin Laden's house just after he was killed. Saddest of all, she met women who had been made role models by the West and had then been shot, raped or forced to flee the country. This deeply personal book not only shows the human cost of political failure but explains how short-sighted encouragement of jihadis to fight the Russians, followed by prosecution of ill-thoughtout wars, has resulted in the spread of terrorism throughout the Islamic world.
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Amul's India- Based On 50 Years Of Amul Advertisin
The Amul campaign tells the stories of India, one hoarding at a time. In this revised and updated edition of Amul's India, the much celebrated and best-selling book on fifty years of the Amul advertising campaign, new essays and ads have been added-on topics ranging from the NaMo phenomenon to women's safety and empowerment - to captivate all those who love their daily dose of the lovable little Amul girl in polka dots. This book celebrates the Amul girl's journey through the eyes of prominent writers, public figures and the subjects of hoardings themselves, offering a potted history of the country over fifty years.
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The Real Life MBA
You can talk about theories, concepts and ideologies all you want, but when it gets right down to it, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy and everything in between. My boss is unbearable. I'm stuck in career purgatory. My team lacks enthusiasm. Our IT department is incompetent. We don't understand our Chinese partners. We're just not growing. Jack and Suzy Welch have dug deeper into the world of business than ever before, traveling the world consulting to businesses of every size and in every industry, working closely with entrepreneurs from Mumbai to Silicon Valley. Coupled with Jack's 20 years of iconic leadership at GE and Suzy's tenure as editor of the Harvard Business Review, their new database of knowledge infuses the pages of The Real Life MBA with fresh, relevant stories and equally powerful solutions.
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He Swam With Sharks For An Ice-Cream
To be wealthy and successful is the dream of everyone. To achieve this dream is given only to the very few. Yet, if one knew the secrets, the characteristics that these few people possessed, it might help others realize their dreams too. Many self-help books set out to teach readers how to achieve success in many aspects of life. This book is a self-help book that is a little different. It teaches its lessons through a story. The two protagonists are young corporate employees, Abhi and Dave. In their late twenties, they are just beginning to wear off the edges of their youthful enthusiasm with which they started their careers. One day, they are asked to meet a retired businessman, an old man who has over the course of his life managed to become a billionaire. The man has recorded his secrets in a diary which he is now willing to share with others. Haribhai learnt his lessons from Dhirubhai Ambani, the Indian industrialist who founded the Reliance group. The old man uses many incidents from Ambani's life and from other successful people like Ray Kroc, Ratan Tata and Bill Gates to impart valuable lessons. Abhi and Dave listen to Haribhai as he tells them about his own life and the business lessons he learnt. Over the course of the book, the readers also gain some wisdom on how to keep employees motivated, how to improve business profitability and how to plan well for business growth. The author refers to many successful people, but the main focus is on Ambani, an inspirational figure. A man from a humble background and with no financial backing, he built a business empire from scratch, through sheer determination, common sense and worldly wisdom. He Swam With Sharks For An Ice-Cream uses many quotes, parables and tales from around the world to illustrate many important points. The title itself is inspired by an incident that is said to have occurred in Ambani's life. Never a man to back down from challenges, he is once said to have swam through shark infested waters, just to win an ice-cream as a prize. The motivation was not the ice-cream, which he could easily have bought. It was the challenge itself that interested him.