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India and the Global Financial Crisis
This collection of essays provides insights into the making of public policies across a spectrum of areas between the years 2003 and 2008, a period of rapid growth of the Indian Economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy. It was during this period that Dr Y.V. Reddy was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He has earned universal acclaim for managing, as Governor of RBI, India's calibrated financial integration with the global economy.Ever since the financial crisis erupted in the USA in 2007 and spread to the rest of the world, there has been an interest in India's management of a financial sector that has facilitated growth and has yet maintained stability.What contributed to this situation? What was the RBI
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Something To Tell You
amal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs and politics; and a brutal act of violence which changed his life for ever. As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle age, balancing the conflicts of desire and dignity, Jamal's teenage traumas make a shocking return into his present life.
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Genuine Lies
Eve Benedict is the last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers to her name. There is no secret, no scandal she doesn't know. Now Eve has decided to write her memoirs--no holds barred. All Hollywood begs her not to. But Eve has her reasons....Julia Summers is the biographer Eve has handpicked to tell her story. Transported from her quiet life in Connecticut to glitzy Beverly Hills, Julia hates the limelight but loves her work--and the home it built for the ten-year-old son she's raising alone. How can she refuse this chance of a lifetime? But Eve's elegantly sexy stepson, Paul Winthrop, will challenge Eve's determination to tell her story--and Julia's resolve to guard her heart. And as Julia learns just how far Eve's enemies will go to keep her book from publication, she also discovers that Eve has one last, dark secret to share. It is one that will change Julia's life--and could cut it brutallyshort.
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A Thing Beyond forever
What happens when life plays a trick on two innocent lovers? What happens when your first love much against all possibilities comes back to you in the most bizarre and astounding manifestation ever? Dr. Radhika Sharma, for the world outside, is an aberrant and arrogant feminist. But inside, she resides in a far-away world like a vulnerable first sketch of an artist. One night an innocuous enquiry by a nine-year-old patient coaxes her to open someone
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Tatics
What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? Why do some people emerge as successful while others - who seem to work just as hard - never make it? Are special skills required? This book is based upon 50 interviews with men and women - eg, Chris Bonington, Mark McCormack, Terence Conran, Malcolm Forbes, Hans Eysenck - who have been outstandingly successful in a variety of fields. With his usual perceptiveness, Edward de Bono analyses their different paths to success, revealing that underneath their different styles and their greatly different personal qualities are a few characteristics which are common to all successful people. De Bono provides the lessons for anyone seeking success in their lives.
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What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School
Mark McCormack, dubbed 'the most powerful man in sport', founded IMG (International Management Group) on a handshake. It was the first and is the most successful sports management company in the world, marketing the likes of Andre Agassi, Nick Faldo and Monica Seles, and becoming a multi-million dollar, world-wide corporation whose activities in the business and marketing spheres are so diverse as to defy classification. Now, Mark McCormack reveals the secret of his success in this straight-talking guide to key business issues like analyzing yourself and others, sales, negotiation, time management, decision-making and communication. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School fills the gaps between a business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day experience of running a business and managing people. It shares the business skills, techniques and wisdom gleaned from twenty-five years of experience and is guaranteed to make anyone's professional life more successful.
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Malicious Medicine
It is both a cautionary report for couples seeking ART and a moving memoir of a young woman desperately seeking to be a mother.� �Anita Nair in the Foreword Married at twenty-three, Anitha Jayadevan was anxious and impatient when a year passed by and she had not conceived. Spurred by family, friends and her own sense of inadequacy and desire to have a child of her own flesh and blood, she decided to seek the help of medical science. In Malicious Medicine she recounts the story of the next eight harrowing years of her life, where words like endometriosis, spermatogenesis, varicocele, IUI and Beta HCG became part of her vocabulary, and visits to infertility clinics, blood tests and scanning in the name of assisted reproductive technology (ART) became part of her everyday existence. The treatment was painful, invasive and expensive, and the medical practitioners more often than not were callous, inefficient and unfeeling. The result was a twin pregnancy after seven long years. But the joy was short-lived as she lost both the foetuses and in the bargain nearly her life. Then, as the final act of betrayal, she discovered that all she had been was a surrogate mother. But Malicious Medicine is not just about the physical ordeal and the psychological trauma Anitha went through. It asks larger questions about the sanctity of life and the importance of ethics that separate the medical profession from an assembly line production. Anitha�s fight is not against medical science. Instead, she pleads for the institution of a code of laws to regulate the use of ART in India so that others are spared her anguish, betrayal and pain.
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Judy Moody Predicts The Future
Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion and now she has a mood ring to prove it! Judy's mood ring has Extra Special Powers, which have put Judy in a predicting mood. But when Judy wrongly predicts a 110% result in her spelling test she begins to think that all her predictions are fictions. She has one last chance to prove her psychic abilities. Is her teacher, Mr Todd, really in love? All signs point to yes.
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Avenger
SOLDIER : Many years ago, Cal Dexter was a Vietnam tunnel rat recruited to ferret out the jungle lairs of the enemy. Today, he's a small-time attorney in a sleepy New Jersey town. But Dexter's life is anything but ordinary. VIGILANTE : The beast Dexter's been hired to hunt is Zilic, a Serbian warlord cocooned in a South American compound with the best security blood money can buy. But one of the gangster's victims is an innocent American aid worker - and the grandson of a business tycoon who can afford the best revenge. AVENGER: And so the chase is on. Slowly Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer. But CIA agent Paul Devereaux must find a way to stop him before his quest for revenge throws the world into chaos...
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The Fourth Protocol
Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan that is a plan that in its spine-chilling ingenuity breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation. MI5 investigator John Preston, working against the most urgent of deadlines, leads an operation to prevent the act of murderous destruction aimed at tumbling Britain into revolution. . . .
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Paper Money
Three seemingly unrelated events occur on a single morning in London. An MP wakes up after spending the night with a beautiful young woman. A tycoon meets a leading Bank of England official for breakfast. And an underworld gang boss briefs his crew. Nothing so far to keep the tabloid editors awake. Until ambitious young reporter Kevin Hart uncovers his first promising link...'
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Judy Moody Declares Independence !
Here ye! Hear ye! Judy Moody is about to wage her own war for independence! After hearing about the American Revolution, Judy Moody's in the mood for LIBERTY and FREEDOM - freedom from her parents' rules and her pesky little "bother", that is. But Judy's plans to declare independence wind up getting her into hot water, for sure and absolute positive. Will Judy be able to prove, once and for all, that she's ready for a bit more independence? No matter who wins, readers will be cheering Huzzah! for Judy Moody.
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Doctor Judy Moody
Judy has got the Moody Monday blues - until she gets to school and finds out that her new class project is on the Amazing Human Body. That means skeletons and skulls, a trip to the hospital to see a real-life doctor, and a cloning experiment that could just create some double trouble for Judy and her friends!
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Judy Moody Saves The World !
Where would the world be without Judy Moody? This time she