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Chicken Soup For the soul : Just For Preteens
Youre growing up, your friends are changing, homework is harder and your life has more ups and downs than it used to. This support group in a group is just for you. You are not alone and youll find out why when you read these 101 stories about: feeling good about yourself True friends and new friends Embarrassing moments Mean girls and boys Bullies and bully payback Crushes Family issues Learning to do whats right And lots more stories about your preteen life
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India Uninc.
India Uninc. is a book on Indian Economic Development which examines the grown of the nation in relation with the smaller firms, shops and stores as opposed to large corporations. Summary of the Book Prof. R. Vaidyanathan examines how media and public perception of national growth is skewed in favor of large firms with higher capital and seemingly greater returns. Smaller firms, shops by the corner of streets selling groceries and bare necessities, he says, enjoy lesser attention. However they form the bulk of India's progress, catering to a larger bandwidth of the population. The common man's needs are fulfilled by smaller firms, which in turn give rise to the smaller jobs and roles. This book is a researched examination of Indian Economy. About R. Vaidyanathan R. Vaidyanathan is a Professor of Finance & Control at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He has also written: Indian Pension Systems Facing the Future and Pensions in Asia besides contributing to various other books. A graduate of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, Prof. Vaidyanathan completed his Fellowship at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His research interests lie in: Corporate Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Risk Management and Pensions.
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Post Haste: Quintessential India
Post Haste: Quintessential India provides a definitive account of India penned down by B. G. Verghese, one of the foremost journalists of India. This book not only unfolds the country’s glorious history but also focuses on what is integral and significant to modern and post-independent India. Summary of the Book Post Haste: Quintessential India provides an incisive look into the rich cultural and ancient heritage of India. The author writes about things which are quintessentially Indian from the classical story chronicling the love of Shakuntala and Dushyanta and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who brought the Ganpati Puja out on the streets to the time when J R D Tata flew a single engine plane from Karachi to Bombay. In this book, the author provides a deep insight into India’s diverse customs and faith. This book will make for an interesting read for those interested in re-visiting the events that constitute India’s glorious past. About B. G. Verghese Boobli George Verghese is a senior Indian journalist and was the editor of the leading newspapers–The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express. Verghese started his career with The Times of India. He was honored with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding contribution to journalism in 1975. Verghese studied Economics at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and pursued a Mater’s degree from Trinity College in Cambridge. He has authored several books including Waters of hope and Winning the future, among others.
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The Making of Exile : Sindhi Hindus and the Parti
To date, most books on partition have ignored or minimised the Sindhi Hindu experience, which was significantly different from the trials of minorities in Punjab or Bengal. The making of exile hopes to redress this, by turning a spotlight on the specific narratives of the Sindhi Hindu community. Post-partition, Sindh was relatively free of the inter-communal violence witnessed in Punjab, Bengal and other parts of north India. Consequently, in the first few months of Pakistans early life, Sindhi Hindus did not migrate and remained the most significant minority in west Pakistan. Starting with the announcement of the partition of India, the making of exile firmly traces the experiences of the community-that went from being a small but powerful minority to becoming the target of communal discrimination, practised by both the state as well as sections of Pakistani society. This climate of communal antipathy threw into sharp relief the help and sympathy extended to Sindhi Hindus by other Pakistani Muslims, both Sindhi and Muhajir. Finally, it was when they became victims of the Karachi pogrom of January 1948 that Sindhi Hindus felt compelled to migrate to India. The second segment of the book examines the resettlement of the community in India-their first brush with squalid refugee camps, their struggle to make sense of rapidly changing governmental policies and the spirit of determination and enterprise with which they rehabilitated themselves in their new homeland. Yet, not all Sindhi Hindus chose to migrate and the specific challenges of those who stayed on in Sindh, as well as the difficulties faced by Sindhi Muslims after the formation of Pakistan, have been sensitively documented in the final chapters. Weaving in a variety of narratives-diary entries and memoirs, press reportage, letters to editors and advertisements, legends and poetry, dozens of interviews and a wealth of academic literature - Nandita Bhavnanis the making of exile is one of the most comprehensive and multifaceted studies of the Sindhi experience of Partition.
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Leadership and Self-deception: Getting Out of the
Leadership and Self-Deception is the first book to reveal the foremost, critical cause of leadership failure. From the Arbinger Institute, a consortium of scholars, business leaders, and professionals, this book identifies self-deception as the disease at the core of all of the leadership shortcomings we see in today's organizations, and self-betrayal as the cause of the disease. It provides a new solution to the age-old problem of self-deception. This powerful solution shows that most people problems in organizations are the result of self-deceptiona problem that can be identified, isolated, and treated in a disciplined, results-oriented way. Through an entertaining and highly instructive story, this book presents a revolutionary new understanding of the nature of successful leadership, drawn from recent research and findings in philosophical psychology. It shows how self-betrayalthe act and then on-going state of going against one's ethical sense of what he or she should be doing for othersleads to self-deception, the central player in all leadership breakdowns, relationship issues, and performance problems in organizations. The book reveals how leaders who are self-deceived might as well be living in a boxtrapped, cut off from others, and blind to the truth. It illustrates how leaders trapped within this box cannot lead effectively no matter how hard they try and no matter how many skills and techniques they employ. Through vivid examples, the book shows what self-deception is, how it operates, and, most importantly, how it can be overcome. Leadership and Self-Deception demonstrates how when we understand self-deception we understand why its not enough to identify and treat leadership problems as if they were separate and distinct. Often that's what happens: we make an inventory of leadership skills and determine that a given leader doesn't provide enough feedback or doesn't take time to listen to people, or delegates without providing clear direction. But those who receive such feedback often fail to improve their leadership abilities. They may work to become more effective evaluators at one workshop, more practiced listeners at another, more directive leaders at another, and yet overlook completely the root cause of the problem. Frequently, they still are not transformed into leaders whom people want to follow. What will transform them? The authors assert that the key to leadership lies deeper than any particular behavior or skill. It lies in how we areour way of being. They reveal that, while we may behave in an infinite variety of ways, at the deep level of who we are, there are fundamentally two ways of being: the state of self-deception (like living in a box), and the state of being that is honest, straightforward, and genuine. The first is the source of leadership problems and the second the source of leadership success. While some books have identified the importance of state of being in leadership, this book shows how we come to enter one state or the other as leadersand how it is possible to change. Understanding and applying this principle is the key to leadership transformation; it is the key to becoming a consistent catalyst for success. Leadership and Self-Deception clearly demonstrates how people can stop undermining themselves and what amazing things happen when they dofreely and fully putting to work all the behavioral skills, systems, and techniques that will bring success to them and their organizations. While other books cover useful people skills, techniques, and systems of leadership, this one goes deeper, fully illuminating the source of what makes truly effective leadership.
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Nature Cure For common diseases
All the intellifent and wise people of the world have recognised the superiority and simplicity of maturopathy. In this book, Dr Gala has systematically presented various modes of naturopathy. Equipped with a mastery of Nature Cure methods, through this book one will be able to treat not only one's ailments, but also live a healthy life.
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QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing
In today\'s business culture, the lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization - or individual - can achieve its goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill its vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability. The solution is an entirely new approach - characterized by new thinking and behaviors - where we no longer give lip service to teamwork, but ask, \"What can I do to contribute?\" and \"How can I make a difference?\" John G. Miller helps us make this happen. This new, hard-hitting book from the author of Personal Accountability shows us all how to become more effective and successful. Using succinct, lighthearted stories and easy-to-read chapters, Miller gives us a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily action, which can bring astonishing results: Problems get solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teamwork grows, and people adapt to change more quickly. In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller presents a winning handbook you\'ll want to keep close by for situations requiring personal accountability. It\'s a terrific resource for anyone seeking to learn, grow, and change. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous value to our organizations and our lives by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination.
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The Game of Life : A Philosophy for Living in the
What is your philosophy of life? What would you do if you knew you could not fail? What are your gifts? Where does confidence come from? The Game of Life challenges you to ask such questions and find your own answers as you read through. The book is about psychology, philosophy and behavior change. It's a thrilling intellectual journey that summarizes and synthesizes five thousand years of exploration and research by brilliant philosophers, psychologists and social scientists to present a contemporary philosophy for living in the 21st century.
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The Princes In Black !
The Taj Mahal is going to be blown off and with it the visiting ex - President of USA. Or so has been impeccably planned by Major Salim Khan, an undercover ISI operative. The only clue that the intelligence agencies have is the enigmatic Object No. 27, a rare Mughal relic that they don't have much information about. History Professor Narayan Shastri, along with the best men from Indian Intelligence, try to unlock the code. And then there is Saima, the mysterious beauty who found Object No 27 in the first place. She and Professor Shastri travel through the annals of a history rich with deceit-bloody battles of conquests, the satin veil of treachery and even the elegant, imperious walls built of red sandstone and white marble-to know more of the impending attack and each other more deeply. Can they stop Major Khan from unleashing his act of terror on the marble monument of love? Precious hands of time are ticking away - Tick. Tick. Tick.
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The Hidden Letters
She is a successful author, a loving wife and the worlds best mom. Her doctor husband dotes on her, her teenage daughter idolizes her and her readers yearn for her writing. Shouldn't all that respect and love make her happy? Yet, she is devoid of inner peace. In the wee hours of the night, her slumber is disturbed by horrifying nightmares. All her harmony is abducted and lost amidst the bunch of hidden letters kept in her cupboard. Those letters were written long back by her cousin, presently a patient at a mental asylum in kolkata. Haunted by her inner demons and tired by the long-time secrecy, she decides to put end to her misery by surrendering to her husband and daughter, The hidden letters. Will she lose her husbands love and daughters respect? Can she forgive herself for her own selfishness which rendered her cousins fate malignant?
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www.Marryaghost.com
You Cannot go without me! I Know you are tired, but come, This is the way. - Rumi Maahi has lost her way. The tired, desperate young soul who remembers nothing except dying next to sea waves and a strange golden-haired man. Veru is a young, happy-go-lucky entrepreneur who creates WWW.Marry A Ghost.Com and gets pulled into an adventure when Maahi registers as the first ghost. Asmita Burman is an old, half-blind professor who finds Maahi inexplicably, can hear and see ghosts and knows way too much about them. And then theres DMello, a five-hundred-year-old ghost of a Portuguese nobleman also searching for Maahi, mysteriously appearing and disappearing. Who will help Maahi get freedom by finding her golden-haired beloved in fourteen days before she gets trapped on earth, may be forever? Joint the age-old battle between good and evil-a race between time, freedom and love that will eventually put the entire wold in danger.
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One Life Is Not Enough
Natwar Singh joined the Indian Foreign Service and served as a bureaucrat for 31 years. He joined the Congress Party in 1984, and became a Minister of State in the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s council with the portfolios of steel, agriculture, and coal and mines in 1985. In this much-awaited autobiography, the former cabinet minister talks justly about his experiences and services in various ministries. Singh has played a significant role in Indian politics for more than twenty years and has been a part of some of the most epochal events of independent India, including Indo-China talks and the formation of Bangladesh. In 2002, when the Congress party came back to power, Natwar Singh was appointed as the Minister for External Affairs. But his eventful career saw its end with the Volcker Report in the year 2005. His name appearing in the Iraqi food-for-oil scam forced him to resign from the cabinet and eventually from the Congress party. Singh talks about all these events and the ups and downs of the Congress party in One Life Is Not Enough, an account of an insider. His association with the party allowed him to observe some of the historical events closely, and he talks about Pakistan in the 1980s, under the rule of President Zia-ul-Haq, Indo-Chinese and Indo-USSR relations among other sensitive developments.
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The Radiance Of Ashes
Award-winning author Cyrus Mistrys first novel Drifter, dropout, dreamer Jingo believes he has rejected any form of class privilege in a hideously unequal society. Making a meagre living as a part-time door-to-door market researcher, he jots down notes on characters and insights for a novel. Is he serious about his self-professed vocation? Or just too laid-back, just too fond of getting high? As the story moves effortlessly from a middle-class Parsi housing colony to a far-flung slum on the outskirts of the city, memories of a bitter love affair continue to haunt Jingo, but its only when his other romance-with the city-erupts in a nightmare of horror that he realizes hed better wake up before its too late. The Radiance of Ashes is a beautifully described tale of desire, duty and dreams. It is also a story about families, about the truths we hold and the lies we tell, about the fires that burn in each of us-what is left once the flames have died away.
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99 : Unforgettable Fiction, Non - Fiction, Poetry
The definitive anthology of the work of one of our greatest and most entertaining writers. 99 collects in a single volume the finest pieces Khushwant Singh published over the course of a long and prodigiously creative life. The essays, extracts, stories and poems (one for each year of his life) have been chosen for their excellence or because they represent an aspect of the authors versatility and range. Some of the selections are well known. Others have never been published in book form. The book is divided into fifteen sections and showcases his exceptional achievement as a writer. Family Matters contains extracts from his autobiography and some personal narratives, My Beloved Country has some extraordinary writing about India. The Sikhs comprises excerpts from his books A History of the Sikhs and Ranjit Singh and essays on the community and translations of the Sikh hymns. The Uses and Abuses of Religion features his articles on the dangers of communalism and a sublime meditation on religion, Khushwant Singhs accounts of Pakistan and Pakistanis (including one of the most dazzling examples of journalism in our time, The Hanging of Bhutto) are included in Passage to Pakistan, he wrote interestingly about famous people all his life and twelve of his profiles feature in Singular People, a self-taught naturalist, he was passionate about the world of nature-The Ferocity & Flamboyance of Nature has writings on this theme. All About Sex contains some entertaining ruminations on sex, one of the subjects that he was most associated with in the popular imagination. As with sex, so with humour-a few of his funniest jokes find a place in A Merry Heart. Enthusiasms, Rants & Soliloquies has a fair representation of his electrifying polemics on a variety of subjects. A wise and honest man, his most insightful pieces on life, dealing with adversity, ageing and death find a place in How to Live, How to Die. As a novelist, he was superlative-selections from the six novels he published are to be found in The Novels, Portrait of a Lady and Other Stories features the eponymous story along with a few others, a great admirer of writers in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi, he translated many of their works, some of which can be found in Exchange of Lunatics - Fiction in Translation and A Passion for Poetry. Published on the anniversary of Khushwant Singhs birth, this is the definitive anthology of the work of one of our greatest and most entertaining writers-it will offer the reader page after page of thought-provoking pleasure.
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I.T.Hurts
Dont we all live for a few dreams? These friends did the same. Gautam, the rich brat, Subho, the corporate slave, Mudrika (Moody), the ambitious girl, Richa, the tomboy, Pritam, the dummy and Ali, the carefree genius-six people from different backgrounds enter in the IT industry with a common dream-to become rich. On the very first day of his job, Gautam falls for the gorgeous nanya. But when he admits his love to her, he gets the shock of his life-she is soon to be married. Devastated, Gautam moves out of Ananyas life and finds solace with his gang of friends and in cans of beer. Corporate life and its grind helps, too and so does a move to the States. But Gautam decides to give love a second chance and flies down to Mumbai. Will he be second time lucky? Find out in IT Hurts! a heartwarming story of new found love, old friendships and the trial and tribulations of a punishing industry. About the Author Subhasis Das is an IT professional, a music enthusiast and a fanatic cricket follower. IT Hurts is his third novel. Mahi Singla, a LLB graduate, co-owns a fashion boutique and calls herself a coffeeholic and a SRK devotee.
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Anthills Of The Savannah
In the fictional West African nation Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of democracy have been quashed by a fierce military dictatorship. Chris Oriko is a member of the cabinet of the president for life, one of his oldest friends. When the president is charged with censoring the oppositionist editor of the state-run newspaper—another childhood friend—Chris's loyalty and ideology are put to the test. The fate of Kangan hangs in the balance as tensions rise and a devious plot is set in motion to silence the firebrand critic.
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Burned A Pretty Little Liars Novel
Burned, the twelfth installment in Sara Shepard's YA Pretty Little Liars series, is packed with thrilling secrets and spicy scandals. This #1 New York Times bestselling series is also a hit ABC Family original TV show. High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have made some terrible mistakes, but nothing compares to what they did last spring break. Now the girls are packing their bags for a Caribbean cruise, hoping the trip will be a much-needed vacation from their stalker, A. But they should know by now that A won't be left high and dry. Sure enough, A shows up on deck, ready to send these pretty little liars to a watery grave. . . . .
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Dead In A Mumbai Minute
Reema Ray is a rare combination of beauty and brains. She is a brilliant sleuth who had once impressed the eccentric security professional Shayak Gupta. Reema is given a case in Mumbai – a murder case, of an Ashutosh Dhingre, a former assistant of the Bollywood superstar Kimaaya Kapoor, whose fame is on the decline. Ashutosh was found dead in Kimaaya’s private island. The suspects happen to be the house guests and Kimaaya herself. Reema also learns that Kimaaya was in a relationship with Shayak in the past. Shayak keeps disappearing very often and Reema finds this very unusual. This case is assigned to Reema by the firm Titanium, where Shayak works in. How is all this intertwined? Does Shayak have anything to do with the murder? Will Reema be able solve the case of the year? Find out the answers and more in this page-turner mystery novel.
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The Girl With All The Gifts
Years after the zombie apocalypse, which was caused by a mutant strain of fungus, scientists in a remote location in England are working on a cure by experimenting on a group of zombified children. These children retain some of their original emotions and cognitive functions. The story starts with 10-year-old Melanie's bizarre world through her narrative voice. The author has presented Melanie as an innocent, vulnerable girl, who is struggling to balance the hostile environment she calls home with her yearning for love and affection. But there is much more to Melanie than what meets the eye and this is the reason behind the harsh treatment meted out to her. Will they continue treating Melanie like the other zombified kids in the asylum?
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The Bees
Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the queens inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. But enemies are everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the hive mind and when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will lead to the unthinkable. Laline Paulls chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, the bees is the story of a heroine who, in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world.
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The Desert Spear
Arlen Bales, formerly of the small hamlet of Tibbets Brook, learnt harsh lessons about life as he grew up in a world where hungry demons stalk the night and humanity is trapped by its own fear. He chose a different path, chose to fight inherited apathy and the corelings and eventually he became the painted man, a reluctant saviour. But the figure emerging from the desert, calling himself the deliverer, is not Arlen. He is a friend and betrayer and though he carries the spear from the deliverers tomb, he also heads a vast army intent on a holy war against the demon plague and anyone else who stands in his way. Continuing the impressive fantasy series from author Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear is book two of the Demon Cycle, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes.