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You, Inc. - Discover the C. E. O. Within!
As founder of Beckwith Advertising and Marketing, Harry Beckwith learned early on in his career that no matter what product is being sold, the most important component of the sale is you. Here Beckwith teams up with his wife, motivational speaker and sales director Christine Clifford Beckwith, to provide tips, anecdotes, and insights based on their 30 years of selling experience. Written in a traditional homespun style, the Beckwiths offer doses of humor and practical knowledge to anyone who wants to learn how to seal the deal and thrive in business.
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India: A History
The Indian subcontinent is one of the world???s most fascinating and complicated regions, the home of a billion and a half people, several major religions, and one of the world???s oldest and most richly diverse civilizations. In India: A History, acclaimed South Asia expert John Keay spans five millennia in a sweepingnarrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh today. This book is a compelling epic of cultures and conquest, colonization and independence. It vividly re-creates the turning points of Indian history and brings to life the leaders who shaped India???s evolution, from Ashoka, the ???Caesar of Ancient India,??? who ruled the vast Mauryan empire in the third century B.C., to twentieth- century figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Along the way Keay provides fresh insights into the patterns of invasion and migration that have stirred the subcontinent???s cultures for centuries, from the ???Aryan??? invaders, to Alexander???s Macedonian armies, to the Islamic conquerors, to the coming of the East India Company and the establishment of the British Raj. He also profiles the rise of religions and philosophies that have profoundly shaped these cultures, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Throughout the book Keay synthesizes recent revelations from archaeology, anthropology, and textual scholarship to explode the myths that have plagued the highly politicized historiography of the region. He investigates the controversy surrounding the origins of the Harappan peoples who built the first cities of the subcontinent, explains the cultural and political significance of India???s architectural marvels such as the Taj Mahal, and details the bloody suppressions that characterized the ???Pax Britannica??? of the Raj.Provocative, comprehensive, and highly readable, India: A History is a panoramic portrait that is destined to become the authoritative work on the region for years to come.
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In The Flesh
In the Flesh is an evocative and unique fantasy romance from the international No.1 bestselling author of Bared to You and Reflected in You, Sylvia Day An infamous beauty. A daring warrior. Two hearts are about to collide . . . For five years, Sapphire has been the King of Sari's most treasured concubine. Independent at last, she refuses to put herself in anyone's control again. But now another's scheming has led her into the path of proud, arrogant Wulfric, Crown Prince of the rival kingdom of D'Ashier, a man who is dangerous to her in every way. The daughter of Wulfric's fiercest opponent, Sapphire is a prized warrior in her own right and highly skilled in the sensual arts - Wulfric's perfect match. A lasting union is unthinkable, but the bargain they strike - to spend one night together, and then part - proves impossible in the face of a desire powerful enough to bring two countries to the brink of war, and two hearts to the point of surrender. . . Praise for Sylvia Day's Crossfire series: 'A hundred degrees hotter than anything you've read before' Reveal 'Move over Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins, this is the dawn of a new Day' Amuse Sylvia Day is the number one New York Times and number one international bestselling author of more than a dozen award-winning novels, which have been translated into thirty-nine languages. She has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Author and her work has been honoured as Amazon's Best of the Year in Romance. She has won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award and been nominated for the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award twice. Visit the author at www.sylviaday.com, facebook.com/authorsylviaday and twitter.com/sylday.
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Undisputed Truth : My Autobiography
In this, his first autobiography, Iron Mike Tyson pulls no punches and lays bare the story of his remarkable life and career. Co-written with Larry Sloman, author of Antony Keidis's best selling memoir Scar Tissue, this is a visceral and unputdown-able story of a man born and raised to brutality, who reached the heights of stardom before falling to crime, substance abuse and infamy. Full of all the controversy and complexity that you would expect from a man who delighted as much as he shocked, this is a book that will surprise people and reveal a fascinating character beneath the exterior of violence. If you think you know all about Mike Tyson, read this book and think again. About the Author Mike Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout with 12 of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles and the only heavyweight to individually unify them.
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Deeply Odd
Later that morning, when I walked downtown to buy blue jeans and a few pairs of socks, I met a guy who offered to neuter me with a .45 pistol. In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver, Odd who has the gift of seeing the dead and the soon-to-be dead has a disturbing vision of the slaughter of three innocent children. Across California, into Nevada and back again, Odd embarks on a road chase to prevent the tragedy. But he is to discover that he is not up against a single twisted sociopath but a mysterious network of evil men and women whose resources appear supernatural. Luckily, in this world that Odd finds so beautiful and full of wonders and deeply odd as well, he meets a collection of likeminded eccentrics who will help him to take the next giant step towards his destiny.
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Love Alters
The writers of these intriguing, provocative stories come from every part of the world. Their stories are set in South Afric,Trinidad,Australia, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand and elsewhere, bringing a thrilling diversity not only of subject matter,but of style, too. These are writers who have little in common other than that they have written on lesbian themes.
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Unbreakable : An Autobiography
My years of hard work, the refusal to give up, pushing every boundary there was. The thrill the joy of winning, the successes. The Olympic bronze, my most prized possession. And boxing, the sport I gave myself to. All of it is real. I was the David who took on the Goliaths in the boxing ring and I won, most of the time. Born to parents who were landless agricultural labourers in the state of Manipur in Northeast India, Marys story is one of relentless struggle and unflagging passion for boxing. A childhood of hard labour prepared her body for the sport as well as any fitness training might have. Her own will and aggression carried her through the minefield of politics that any sport in India is. Nimble of foot and pulling no punches, the boxing ring was her domain. M.C. Mary Kom is not yet ready to call it a day, but here she tells her story so far, no holds barred her tough childhood, her rebellions and how she held her own in the male world of boxing. Its all packed into this inspiring, exhilarating tale of a woman who faced impossible odds in a mans world and won.
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I Swallowed The Moon : The Poetry Of Gulzar
Gulzar is arguably the most well known contemporary poet writing in Hindustani. As a poet he occupies a unique place being a Progressive poet in a popular culture. His poetry appeals to all strata of society, without compromising either on literary merit or on its ability to convey the most exalted thought in an accessible idiom. In He Swallowed the Moon, Saba Bashir attempts to analyse what makes Gulzar the poet he is. What is his signature style? What are the issues that concern his poetry and what are the recurrent images in it? She also draws a parallel between the poets film and non-film poetry and points out how they are used interchangeably. Including the most comprehensive list of all Gulzars poems, film and non-film songs, this is a valuable addition to the corpus of work on a great poet.
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Shobhaa - Never A Dull De
Women. Men. Women and Men. Its all about The Sexes and how to negotiate the new equations society demands in a rapidly changing, super charged gender confrontation that is throwing up fresh challenges nobody has any real answers to. but which involve us all. Shobhaa De presents a thought provoking anthology of her feminist writings. She bravely goes into sensitive terrain, raising important questions about our emotional complexities when it comes to issues that concern sexual politics in todays India. De covers it all, as she dexterously gets into the minds of contemporary Indians and candidly exposes familiar hypocrisies and hang ups. From tricky marital issues that most are scared to admit to our moral double standards while judging movie stars, politicians, Godmen and assorted celebrities. Unabashedly she debunks the use of nauseatingly old-fashioned terms like keep by an erudite judge, which in turn elicits a quick reaction from legal luminaries. Shobhaa: Never a Dull De provides tantalizing insights into the hidden lives of superstars to shocking incidents in small-town India that rarely find a spot on the front-page; poignant stories about women who silently suffer sexual violations; to the fascinating lives of women politicos who have made it big. Her writing is richly layered and insightful making it hard-hitting and socially relevant. As an important social commentator and opinion shaper, this is De at her sharpest best, fearlessly taking on prejudice and humbug, injustice and oppression,without once losing her humanity. Shobhaa Des rightful sobriquet: the Empress of the Hearts and Minds of the reading masses comes to life in Shobhaa: Never a Dull De!
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Mystic's Musings: A Profound Mystic Of Our Times
The path of a spiritual seeker can be difficult. As the introductory passages in the book point out, seekers are ignorant of where they came from, the path that they should take, and what the destination is. In this situation, how would one learn about the path to wisdom? In Mystic’s Musings: A Profound Mystic Of Our Times, Sadhguru explains the vital need for a guru - a teacher for those who want to tread the path of spirituality and enlightenment. Seekers can learn from those who have travelled the path before and more easily reach their destination. In this book, the guru for contemporary seekers, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, explains to his readers how they can walk on the path to eternal bliss in this troubled world. In the form of questions and answers, he provides answers to the doubts of all seekers. Sadhguru is forthright in his answers and pushes the readers to go beyond their comfort zones. To a question as to how to deal with fears and anxieties, he asserts that fears are unreal as they are created in the person’s mind and kept alive by them. He explains that by going beyond the physical confines of the body and connecting with the higher plane, one can get rid of fears and insecurities. The book states that once a person begins to experience life at the spiritual level, fears and anxieties begin to disappear. With this beginning, the Sadhguru expounds on many topics, from mundane facts of life to the path to enlightenment, experiences of spirituality, life, death, and what lies beyond death. He also talks about the beings in other planes, and about disembodied beings. Mystic’s Musings: A Profound Mystic Of Our Times often challenges the readers’ level of comfort, urging them to explore their limitations and conditionings. It encourages them to explore everything, to ask questions and be open minded so that they can be receptive to all aspects of existence.
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Force Of Nature
'Manhattan's Lower East side has rarely if ever been scrutinized with more snap and sympathy than in Solomita's new and memorable crime thriller, about a charismatically old-fashioned cop on the trail of a homicidal crack addict ... Fairly boils off the page with the sour fevers of a diseased city under siege ... this is easily one of the most atmospheric, moving and thrilling police novels of the year.'
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The Best Of Ruskin Bond
he essential Ruskin Bond Delhi Is Not Far brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories, and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has selections from all of his major books and also features an unpublished novella, Delhi Is Not Far.
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The Remains Of The Day
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. 'A remarkable, strange and moving book.' Independent 'A triumph ... This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, absurd, and ultimately very moving.' Sunday Times 'A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.' New York Times Book Review
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Zen In The Art OF Painting
This new study reveals all the mystery of the zen approach to painting. The impact of zen art comes from its synthesis of elementary power and meditative silence, of unaffected simplicity and unfathomable depth, of sparkling humor and a subtle feeling for the miracles of everyday life.zen painters working from the basis of religious enlightenment, see the world around them with changed eyes. this is reflected in the seven qualities of thier art - asymmetry, simplicity, naturalness, depth, freedom, repose and consistency - some of which transcend purely aesthetic values and point to lofy moral and religious ideals. zen painting is not an isolated and clearly differentiated genre of East Asian art. as this book shows, it must be seen in its proper setting of the general history of art in china and japan on the one hand, and the overall development of Buddhist art in the East on the other.
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The Narrows
He's back... Private investigator Harry Bosch confronts a villain who's long been in hiding - a fiend known as the Poet.
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Pilgrimage: One Woman's Return to a Changing India
n this vivid and perceptive book, Pramila Jayapal, an Indian-born, Western-educated woman, takes the reader with her on a journey of discovery as she returns to India and explores the complex issues of progress and development. 'A rich, beautifully narrated journey through a landscape of both geography and spirit.’ —Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country
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The Last Song of Dusk
A tale of exquisite friendships, immense sacrifices and dangerous desires Pirouetting between laughter and tears, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's technicolour debut tells the story of four extraordinary lives. Of Anuradha Gandharva, gifted with astonishing beauty and magical songs; of her husband, Vardhmaan, struggling with secret losses; of Nandini, a deviously alluring artist, with a penchant for panthers and walking on water; and of Shloka, the Gandharvas' delicate, disturbingly silent child. As their fates unravel in an old villa in 1920s' India, they learn to navigate the ever-changing landscape of love, and in doing so encounter a host of eccentrics: Mr. Bunkusdaas, the father of Bollywood cinema; Stella Dimm, 'England's first ever Tit girl'; Libya Dass, rarely seen out of her porcelain bathtub; and Percival Worthington, the aristocratically limp son of the governor of Bombay, on whom Nandini rashly sets her sights. Told with tenderness and with dazzling wit, The Last Song of Dusk will haunt you long after you have turned the final page.
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1857 – The Real Story Of The Great Uprising
1857 The Real Story Of The Great Uprising is a first hand account of India's First War of Independence. In 1857, a mutiny by the sepoys of the East India Company lead to the dissolution of the organization, and India came to be governed by the British crown. This book is Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar’s eye-witness account of the 1857 war. Bhatt, a poor Marathi Brahmin boy, travels to the north with his uncle to make a living by performing in religious rituals. However, the two of them are absolutely unaware of the bloody revolution unfolding in the rest of India. Expecting to face the usual travel issues like bad accommodation, pick pocketing, diarrhea, and bad roads, the Brahmins are shocked to learn that the army is planning a revolt over the use of cartridges greased with cow and pig fat. They try their best to steer clear of clashes, but are caught up in the Bundelkhand rising, and Rani Lakshmi Bai’s fight to defend Jhansi. 1857 The Real Story Of The Great Uprising, writing in the form of a travelogue, tells the tale of ordinary people caught in the middle of complex situations. The simple language used makes it easy to understand the author’s experiences. This book is not burdened with statistics and dates, thus giving readers an opportunity to understand the 1857 revolt from a new perspective. Bhatt’s stories are not what is found in official records or textbooks, instead it is a vibrant account of his first hand experiences of one of India’s most historic years. 1857 The Real Story Of The Great Uprising was written in Marathi, and titled Majhaa Pravaas- 1857 Chya Bandachi Hakikat. It was published in 1903, four years after the death of Bhatt. It has now been translated into English by Mrinal Pande, who deserves credit for having made Bhatt’s travelogue reachable to a much larger audience. She has also added the fascinating tale behind the publication of this book.
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25 Strokes of Kindness
Witnessing an act of kindess will always warm any person's heart. This book collects twenty five chosen stories, with an act of kindness worth telling.
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The Backbenchers - 3 Days of Summer
Ananya has never been to Summer camp before and that's exactly what school seems to be offering this time. And not just that they are offered the chance to undergo a hands on workshop with India's leading authority on digital photography. Natasha eager to rediscover herself, signs up too. The boys join in on the fun and the expedition is led by a young, vibrant new teacher. They come across two new pals. A dusky brainy-nerdy-rebel girl from Ooty and an up-top performer from Doon. But things never are what they appear to be and it soon turns out that their teacher has her own hidden agenda behind the workshop. An eccentric genius photographer tries to play the kids against each other and they find themselves square in the face of danger, in a tropical rainforest, nonetheless. In the midst of that action, Yuvraj and Ananya cross a new threshold in their relationship. Will it last? Will they prove their mettle when their ability to work as a team is questioned? Join the unbeatable, indomitable backbenchers in a trip right across the country and gaze into the wild through their docile, yet remarkably vivid lenses.
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A School Counsellor's Diary
A School Counsellors Diary aims to bridge the gap in the modern Indian parent-adolescent relationship. Aimed at parents and written in an easy-to-understand style, with numerous reallife examples, this book illustrates the genuine problems faced by modern adolescents in the classroom, family sphere and wider world. Presented through thirty-four case studies spanning a wide range of problems faced by the new generation, the book includes seldomspoken- about issues such as masturbation, homosexuality, sexual abuse, self-cutting and even attempted suicide. A School Counsellors Diary guides parents towards imparting the skills and confidence that adolescents need to protect themselves in the new world. Each chapter gently eases the reader into a new issue through anecdotes, stories and even technical knowledge presented in an easy-to-understand way. Once the reader is familiar with the topic, several case studies are reproduced as if the author and the reader are sharing a chat over coffee. Written in the first person, the accounts are refreshingly compelling because they are presented as honest, easy-toread conversational transcripts as they happened without the frills of text-bookish or technical language. They show the pain behind various problems, their manifestation and ultimately, how the problem was solved/handled through weeks or months of counselling. Each chapter ends with a list of red flags to watch out for and possible courses of action to follow in case of problems. Since there is no preaching narrative or one-size-fits-all recommendations, it is hoped that discerning parents will use the book to understand the pitfalls facing their adolescents and initiate a better connection.