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Shiva 3000
Two men of very different personalities make a quarrelsome journey across the vast subcontinent of India in quest of very separate destinies. Along the way, young Rakesh and Vasant, the former Royal Engineers, experience a host of bizarre and memorable encounters; with the giant wood-constructed god Jagannath carving a swath of destruction, with the Pragmatic Monks who live in a carved-out mountain to perform their miracles of meditation, with demon cranes who reduce life to counting, with six-armed goondas, the destroyer Shiva and the legendary Baboon Warrior.From this cinematic dreamscape filled with animated machines, airships of silk and ancient legends brought to life, Jan Lars Jensen conjures up an amazing and innovative fantasy.
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Without Fail
Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. This time, he's in the line of fire, protecting the Vice President of the United States.Jack Reacher walks alone.No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reacher's assistance in her new job.Her job?Protecting the Vice-President of the United States.Her problem? Someone wants the VP dead.
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Queens Of Crime
Dysfunctional families, sexual abuse, sheer greed and sometimes just a skewed moral compass. These are some of the triggers that drove the women captured in these pages to become lawbreakers. Queens of Crime demonstrates a haunting criminal power that most people do not associate women with. The acts of depravity described in this book will jolt you to the core, ensuring you have sleepless nights for months. Based on painstaking research, these are raw, violent and seemingly unbelievable but true rendition of India's women criminals.
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The Skills
‘This is the perfect guide on how to get where you want to be’ Red Whether you’re a new graduate, a working mum, returning to work after a career break or simply seeking a job change, The Skills explains: Preparation, Planning, Starting Out – how to learn from those around you and navigate your first years on the career ladder Speaking Up, Standing Up, Keeping Sharp – how to make the best first impressions, tips for public speaking and handling anxiety Owning It, Rising Up, Resilience – how to develop authority and get to grips with high-pressure scenarios Drawing on Mishal’s own experience, The Skills encourages women of all ages to make their ambitions a reality, guiding them to success in whatever field they choose.
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Instant Analysis
Now New York Times bestseller David Lieberman brings you a book Instant Analysis which answers all these questions: Why am I so easily discouraged? Why do I procrastinate? Why do I stare at myself in the mirror? Why do I keep people waiting? Why do I eat when I'm not hungry? Why do I secretly hope other people will fail? Why do I feel alone?
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The Most Important Thing
"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren Buffett Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world's leading value investors, and his client memos brim with insightful commentary and a time-tested, fundamental philosophy. Now for the first time, all readers can benefit from Marks's wisdom, concentrated into a single volume that speaks to both the amateur and seasoned investor. Informed by a lifetime of experience and study, The Most Important Thing explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Utilizing passages from his memos to illustrate his ideas, Marks teaches by example, detailing the development of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to today's volatile markets, Marks offers a volume that is part memoir, part creed, with a number of broad takeaways. Marks expounds on such concepts as "second-level thinking," the price/value relationship, patient opportunism, and defensive investing. Frankly and honestly assessing his own decisions--and occasional missteps--he provides valuable lessons for critical thinking, risk assessment, and investment strategy. Encouraging investors to be "contrarian," Marks wisely judges market cycles and achieves returns through aggressive yet measured action. Which element is the most essential? Successful investing requires thoughtful attention to many separate aspects, and each of Marks's subjects proves to be the most important thing.
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Surrounded By Narcissists
Are you overshadowed by the narcissists in your life? Are you worn out by their constant demands for attention, their absolute belief they are right (even when clearly they are not), their determination to do what they want (regardless of impact), and their baffling need to control everyone and everything around them? In this thought-provoking, sanity-saving book, Thomas Erikson helps you understand what makes narcissists tick and, crucially, how to handle them without wearing yourself out in the process. With the help of the behavioural model made famous in Surrounded by Idiots, Erikson provides all the tools you need to manage not just the narcissists around you but everyday narcissism as well - itself becoming more widespread in this age of social media. Engaging and practical, Surrounded by Narcissists will help you free yourself from narcissistic agendas so you can pursue a happier, more fulfilling and successful life.
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Surrounded By Psychopaths
Some people are exceptionally manipulative. They can convince anyone about anything and lure them with their charm. They enjoy controlling others and will do anything to get what they want. Sound familiar? The bad news is that you can’t really escape them. But here comes the good news: you can beat them at their own game. After going through the highs and lows of different personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow) in his international bestseller Surrounded by Idiots, Swedish behavioural expert Thomas Erikson will now show you how your weaknesses and personality traits can be exploited by other people and how you can stop them in their tracks. By learning more about your personality type and how you work, you’ll be able to see through any psychopath's manipulative behaviours and fend off their attempts to wreak havoc into your life. Witty, engaging and informative, this book will give you everything you need to handle life’s most skilled manipulators and identify the psychopaths in your life… before it’s too late!
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Surrounded By Idiots
Product Description Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague’s abrasive manner rub you the wrong way? You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was ‘surrounded by idiots’, communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people. Surrounded by Idiots is an international phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. It offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with - in and out of the office - based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow), and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information. Erikson will help you understand yourself better, hone communication and social skills, handle conflict with confidence, improve dynamics with your boss and team, and get the best out of the people you deal with and manage. He also shares simple tricks on body language, improving written communication, advice on when to back away or when to push on, and when to speak up or shut up. Packed with ‘aha!’ and ‘oh no!’ moments, Surrounded by Idiots will help you understand and communicate with those around you, even people you currently think are beyond all comprehension. And with a bit of luck you can also be confident that the idiot out there isn’t you! Review "A useful guide to communicating with the uncommunicable ... clearly, dynamically presented and easy to grasp."―Publisher's Weekly"Readers will be delighted. Most everyone can benefit from this book, especially those in the workplace. In addition, parents, educators, and students will find these insights valuable."―Booklist, Starred Review About the Author Thomas Erikson is a Swedish behavioral expert, active lecturer, and bestselling author. For more than twenty years he has been traveling all over Europe delivering lectures and seminars to executives and managers at a wide range of companies, including IKEA, Coca Cola, Microsoft, and Volvo. Surrounded by Idiots has been a Swedish runaway bestseller since it was first published in 2014. It has sold over 3 million copies worldwide and been translated into 42 languages.
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The Wealth Money Can't Buy
Real wealth is so much more than cash in the bank, flashy cars in the driveway and luxury vacations on exotic islands. Many financially prosperous people are very poor in the areas that truly matter for a life of happiness, healthiness, connectedness and peacefulness. There’s no point in chasing the trappings of success that society has sold to us when the truth is that they mostly lead to emptiness, frustration and lasting regret. There is a much better way to live. In The Wealth Money Can’t Buy, you will discover a life-altering system that will easily help you lead your richest life, the one that the strongest and wisest part of you knows you deserve to live, before it’s too late.
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White Coats On MBBS, Love and Life
They all aspire to become doctors and studying at Oriental Medical College is a dream come true. For Varun, Nalini, Priyanka Sanket and Amitesh, the hard work at college has been worth their while. They have earned the strips to write the initials DR. before their names. Stepping out into the world they chart their own course, facing their share of trials and tribulations. Can they keep the flag of their noble profession flying high when faced with adversity? Read on to find them....
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Goa
Pratapsingh Rane is the first chief minister (CM) of the Goa state and its longest-serving CM. As a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), he holds a formidable record of winning 11 consecutive elections and never losing a single election in 50 years as an MLA, a record matched only by very few in post-Independence India. Maker of Modern Goa: The Untold Story of Pratapsingh Rane is a dynamic and engaging biography that reveals how he brought in stability and sane, reasoned governance to Goa’s volatile and unstable politics every time he became CM. In this lucid analysis of Rane’s life, Vijayadevi Rane draws a new portrait of Goa’s most successful CM. She highlights his contributions during his decade in power from 1980 to 1990—often called Goa’s Golden Age. He built all-weather roads, dams, bridges, schools, colleges and hospitals on a war footing. He established the Goa University, started Goa’s first public bus transport service, built the iconic Kala Academy and began the process of planned development in the state. Today’s Goa owes an enormous debt to Rane’s tireless efforts. Returning as the CM in the 1990s and early 2000s, he kept up with his development drive.
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The Hindutva Paradirm
Seven decades ago, a new global order emerged. However, changing global dynamics have put those older ways of being under unprecedented stress. A new world order is taking shape—one defined by new agenda items alongside the traditional ones such as trade, commerce and defence. In a post-pandemic world, these are being edged out by issues like climate change, holistic healthcare, education for innovation and creativity, as well as the management of frontier technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain and big data. Human dignity and human rights have become critical issues in this modern reality. To represent these altered actualities of the twenty-first century, global governance needs fresh ideas and novel institutions. More than five decades ago, Deendayal Upadhyaya articulated a coherent economic philosophy, at the core of which was human-centric development. In The Hindutva Paradigm, author and thinker Ram Madhav provides clarifying insights into the reasoning of a philosopher who has remained an enigma through the decades. At the crossroads where we stand, this refreshing and stimulating philosophy could be the answer to managing the new world order.
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Rising 2.0
This collection of 20 stories brings you the account of the resilience and brilliance of iconic Indian women, who rose to be trailblazers and trendsetters against all odds. Even in this day and age, when conversations about women empowerment and equality are at the forefront, we are only scratching the surface when it comes to knowledge about women’s contribution. Whether it is in the field of science, defence, law or literature, the contributions of women have been undermined extensively. With Rising 2.0, Kiran Manral aims to continue the work of acknowledging the contribution of women that she had started with her previous book, Rising: 30 Women Who Changed India. Rising 2.0: 20 More Women Who Changed India brings you the stories of 20 exceptional Indian women, who tackled the tough circumstances of their time head on—whether through protest or perseverance—and rose to have a lasting impact on the world. With stories ranging from the pre-Independence era to the present day, this book explores the struggles of women who were army captains, botanists, lawyers, chefs, writers, performers and so much more. With exclusive interviews from some of the women and extensively researched pieces about others, Rising 2.0 brings you fascinating and inspiring stories of women like J. Jayalalithaa, Ismat Chughtai, Begum Akhtar, Dutee Chand, Mithali Raj, Kalpana Chawla, Irom Chanu Sharmila, Cornelia Sorabji, Anna Chandy, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Kavita Devi Bundelkhandi, Janaki Ammal, Tulasi Gowda, Seema Rao, Kamala Das, Garima Arora, Sindhutai Sapkal, Lakshmi Sahgal, Sarojini Naidu and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
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Because India Comes First
The essays in Because India Comes First discuss a range of issues that are at the heart of contemporary debates in India: democracy as the responsibility of the head of state, rule of law, peace and public order, Mahatma Gandhi and Gandhism, Ambedkar’s ideals, empowerment of women, Indian judiciary, the Ram Janmabhoomi case, abrogation of Article 370, the legacies of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Arun Jaitley, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s learnings in governance. This book also delves into the decisions made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government over the last few years, diplomatic relations with India’s neighbours and the confrontations with China. Madhav analyses India’s history of policymaking and asserts that, going ahead, it must put India first. He calls out liberal fascism, deconstructs our understanding of terrorism in India, argues that opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is intellectually dishonest, explores how learnings from Black Lives Matter can be applied in the Indian sphere and explains why protests should be rooted in Martin Luther King Jr’s non-violent approach and not anarchy. These essays weave a broad tapestry of India’s growth into a soft power, and predict how it will shape up over the next few decades. A must-read for those who believe in the new idea of India, and for those who accept that there are two sides to every debate.
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The Indian Reality
The Indian Reality: Changing Narratives, Shifting Perceptions is the story of the new reality that has overtaken countries and populations. The diversified agendas of altered societies call for newer understanding and discourses. This has also enthused a new wave of excitement in India too. The last decade was witness to a tectonic transformation in almost every walk of national life. Dr Madhav, through his essays on the new agendas of society, contemporary Hindutva, lessons from history, the idea of good governance and India’s outreach with the world, not only maps the journey of change but paints a forward-looking canvas of a society on the move. The Indian Reality is a must-read for those who want to get a bird’s eye view of what will interest the world as the twenty-first century paces ahead.
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The Fight Against Alzheimers
It is fast becoming a household disease, one that does not have a cure. It is a serpent in the grass, and when it finally decides to announce itself, the human brain has already turned into jelly. However, this poisonous attack can be thwarted before its fatal explosion. How can one anticipate and prevent Alzheimer’s before it becomes a full-blown disease? Are there precautions to take? How does one care for a loved one who falls prey to Alzheimer’s? How can a caregiver cope with the emotional upheavals when taking care of their loved one who does not even remember who, what and when they forgot? Can meditation help prevent dementia? In this book, internationally renowned physician and winner of the prestigious Nautilus Award Dr Shuvendu Sen addresses these pressing questions and concerns. Offering a brilliant, insightful and encircling embrace for both the patient and their caregiver, this book redefines the understanding of a disease that is the most common cause of dementia. It provides critical advice for caregivers and suggests ways to decelerate and even reverse the progression of Alzheimer’s.
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The Musical Maverick
This is the first and only definitive authorized biography of a talent that emerges once a century— Shankar Mahadevan. Extensively researched and packed with endearing incidents and enduring accounts from the life of an artist who has been hailed as one of the greatest of all time. This biography captures Shankar at his most multifaceted: singer, musician, composer, friend, family man, guru and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions. Drawing on many hundred hours of interviews with Shankar, this authorized biography paints the complete picture of a man who effortlessly glides into each of his facets with the same amount of passion and energy. Despite the fame and accolades, Shankar Mahadevan still identifies as a regular boy from Mumbai’s Chembur. His is a heartwarming tale of down-to-earth humanity, so typical of Mumbai. The candour and honesty with which Shankar narrates his journey is extremely rare for a man of his stardom. In The Musical Maverick, Shankar reveals that he trained to become a veena artiste in his childhood. While teaching him to play a kriti, his veena guru told him to also sing it in order to execute it well, thereby setting off his interest in singing. This eventually led to the formation of the legendary composer-trio: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. His singing career was no less spectacular, with songs like ‘Suno Gaur Sey Duniya Walo’, still a must at almost every event of national importance— sporting, cultural or otherwise. With a raga of everlasting friendship; sweet notes of an adorable childhood romance; and the drumroll for the success story of the boy who won the world with his music, this saga will leave you breathless.