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Aunt Erma's Cope Book
No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater. No longer will she feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot! No longer will she care that she flunked her paper towel test. Our Erma is back on her way to becoming a sub-total woman.
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Maximum City
Suketu Mehta left Bombay at the age of 14. Twenty-one years later he returned to rediscover the city. The result is this stunning, brilliantly illuminating portrait of the megalopolis and its people
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an American stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting . . . Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by Underwood and Samson, an elite firm that specializes in ‘valuation’ of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on New York and the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with the beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a riveting and devastating exploration of our divided and yet ultimately indivisible world, with echoes of Fitzgerald and Camus. Praise for The Reluctant Fundamentalist ‘A brilliant book. With spooky restraint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of the most recent episode of distrust between East and West. But this book does not merely excel in capturing a developing bitterness. The narrative is balanced by a love as powerful as the sinister forces gathering, even when it recedes into a phantom of hope. It is this balance, and the constant negotiation of the political with the personal, that creates a nuanced and complex portrait of a reluctant fundamentalist’ —Kiran Desai ‘Builds with masterfully controlled irony and suspense . . . A superb cautionary tale, and a grim reminder of the continuing cost of ethnic profiling, miscommunication and confrontation’ —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Moth Smoke ‘Not often does one find a first novel that has the power of imagination and skill to orchestrate personal and public themes of these consequences and achieve a chord that reverberates in one’s mind. Moth Smoke is one of the two or three best novels I have read this year’—Nadine Gordimer [A] brisk, absorbing novel . . . Hamid steers us from start to finish with assurance and care’—Jhumpa Lahiri, The New York Times Book Review The most impressive of his gifts is the clearsightedness of his look at the power structure of a society that has shifted from the old feudalism, based on birth, to the new Pakistani feudalism based on wealth’—Anita Desai, The New York Review of Books Stunning . . . [Hamid] has created a hip page-turner’—The Los Angeles Times A first novel of remarkable wit, poise, profundity, and strangeness . . . Hamid is a writer of gorgeous, lush prose and superb dialogue . . . Moth Smoke is a treat’—Esquire Moth Smoke is a book that the Indian reader relates to at once’—Business Standard Mohsin Hamid draws and etches his characters with enviable skill’—The Hindu This deeply disturbing book should be read by all’—Ira Pande, India Today
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Message From The Masters
In Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss opened an unexpected door into the astonishing realm of past-life regression. In Only Love Is Real, he showed us how we all possess soul mates from our pasts who wait to reunite with us today. Now, drawing on the wisdom of the Masters, the spirit guides who shape our destinies, bestselling author Brian Weiss gives us his most outstanding achievement to date. He reveals the essential life force in the universe and the ultimate healing energy. Its name is love. And he shows us how to harness its awesome power. MESSAGES FROM THE MASTERS * Marie recounts a memory from the womb, where, at the family kitchen table, her mother makes a shockingly accurate prediction about herself and her unborn child. * Diane, a nurse, finds, below the right shoulder of a male patient, a crescent birthmark identical to that one of a lost child she had recalled in a past-life regression. She and the man are now married. * Jim is unwillingly drafted into the Vietnam War. Later he recalls a past life as a nineteenth-century soldier scalped by Indians. His reluctance to fight and kill is a reminder of his own past role as a victim of war. * Carole is awakened by the phone. The voice on the other end, asking about the family business and the welfare of his loved ones, belongs to her father, who had died earlier that week. These stories express a profound yet simple truth. And perhaps no one better than Brian Weiss-a medical graduate of Yale, the former head of psychiatry at a major medical center, and today the leading expert on reincarnation-can share that truth with the world. It is the message imparted by the Masters, the super-evolved, nonphysical souls who have always been with us and are with us now. In this book you will hear people giving intimate and startling testimony to the miraculous potential of love. You will explore what happens after we die; strategies for fighting anxiety and healing relationships; the role of God and self-determination. You will explore exercises and meditations to harness the power of love and utterly transform your life.
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Jesus Lived In India
Why has Christianity chosen to ignore its connections with the religions of the East, and to dismiss repeatedly the numerous claims that Jesus spent a large part of his life in India? This compelling book presents irrefutable evidence that Jesus did indeed live in India, dying there in old age. The result of many years of investigative research, Jesus Lived in India takes the reader to all the historical sites connected with Jesus in Israel, the Middle East, Afghanistan and India. As well as revealing age-old links between the Israelites and the East, the evidence found by theologian Holger Kersten points to the following startling conclusions: In his youth Jesus followed the ancient Silk Road to India. While there he studied Buddhism, adopting its tenets and becoming a spiritual master. Jesus survived the crucifixion. After the
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India Unbound
In India Unbound , acclaimed writer Gurcharan Das offers a ringside view of economic and social transformation of a nation. It is the riveting story of a nation s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Das shows how India s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments, deftly interweaving memoir with contemporary history. In doing so he has written a book that is impassioned and erudite. India Unbound is recommended reading for anyone interested in understanding modern India.
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Profitable Investment in Shares
How to invest in shares profitably and wisely The world over people invest a large chunk of their savings in shares and the stock markets. There are excellent reasons and terrific advantages of doing so: Your capital appreciates quickly. Over the long term, investment in shares can easily offer a return at least double of what is possible from fixed deposits in banks, for instance. You also get regular income through dividends. Shares are a readily encashable investment unlike, say, investment in property. Investments in shares are very easy to manage. You don
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You Don't Need a Title To Be a Leader
Using his master skills in story-telling, Mark Sanborn enables us all to see that at the heart of it leadership is really about ordinary people achieving extraordinary things. -Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
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Fighting Weight
It was more than that I had kissed away my twenties and was miserable. I couldn't be naked with anybody, couldn't wear a backless dress, couldn't go to the beach
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What is the What
This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was spearated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild animals; who ate whatever he could find or nothing at all; who, as a boy, considered ending his life to end the suffering; and who eventually made it to America, where a new and equally challenging journey began. His name is Valentino Achak Deng, and in this novel Dave Eggers tells the extraordinary true story of his incredible journey.
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The Encyclopaedia Of Guilty Pleasures
Whether it be bacon sandwiches or Eurovision, Ice Magic or not waking up people who have fallen asleep on trains, we all have our secret indulgences that fill us with joy and shame in equal measure. Relished in private while we wouldn't be caught dead enjoying them in public, guilty pleasures are celebrated here in all their glory
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The Secret Power Of Yoga
Yoga is well known for its power to create a healthy body, but few realize the emotional and spiritual benefits. In The Secret Power of Yoga, world-renowned Yoga expert Nischala Joy Devi interprets Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the principles at the basis of Yoga practice, from a heart-cantered, intuitive, feminine perspective, resulting in the first translation intended for women.Devi's simple, elegant, and deeply personal interpretations capture the spirit of each sutra, and her suggested practices offer numerous ways to embrace the spirituality of Yoga throughout your day.
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The Art Of Aging
In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist
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The Trial
"Breon Mitchell sets a new standard: careful precision regarding kafka's legalese is alchemically fused with a prose of great verve and intense readability."# Professor of germanic languages and literatures, duke university.# Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, kafka's nightmare has resonayed with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it. In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproduces the distinctive poetics of kafka's prose, revealing a novel that is as full of enery and power as it was when it was first written. Breon Mitchell has received the ATA German Literary Prize, among other translation awards. He is a professor of germani studies and comparative literature at indiana university. Also available from shocken: A new translation of the castle by mark harman, based on the restored text.
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Emotional Wellness
How do we reconcile our need to express our emotions with our desire to protect others? Far too often we find ourselves trapped in this dilemma of expression versus repression. We fear that by expressing our true feelings, we will hurt and alienate those close to us. But by repressing our emotions
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The Art Of Being A Woman
It takes a great woman to spot greatness in other women. Have a good laugh at your own expense.Discover how completely happy you are in your own skin.Such experiences, says V
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The Diary Of Young Girl
Anne Frank 12 june 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. By the beginning of 1940 they were trapped in Amsterdam due to the nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish Population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-belsen concentration camp where they both died of typhus in March 1945.
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The Intelligant Negotiator
Nearly every professional interaction you have during your career will involve a negotiation of some sort. Whether you're closing a million-dollar deal with a client, bargaining over your own terms of employment, or delegating duties among your coworkers, the key to successful negotiation is possessing intelligence. But intelligence doesn't mean just having smarts. It means knowing your opponents inside and out: how they respond under stress, what tricks they try to pull to catch you off guard, and how to negotiate a fair deal that makes both sides happy. It means knowing what they will ask for before they ask, what they are willing to give before they give, and where they will draw the line before they walk away from the table.The Intelligent Negotiator is your complete and practical guide to understanding and mastering effective negotiating skills. Author and negotiation expert Charles Craver goes beyond the basic principles of negotiation and gets down to the nitty-gritty steps of the process, including what kinds of clothes to wear to help you succeed, where to sit in a room during an important negotiation, what questions to ask, how to listen and watch effectively, how to present your offers, and, most importantly, when to give and when to take. Mr. Craver has taught the ins and outs of effective negotiation to more than 60,000 professionals from around the globe over the past 25 years. In this easy-to-use book, he reveals his never-fail techniques that will give you the confidence and persuasiveness of a seasoned pro. You'll discover how to:
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Business Is People
Every page of this completely revised and enlarged edition of Business is People a book on human relations, is full of the most useful ideas and insights:all eminently practical, whether for a giant multinational business, a small business, a government office, or for an individual executive.Business is People is full of commonsense: it is also delightfully illustrated and written in crystal-clear language. The film adaptation of this book was adjudged the 'Film of the Year'. Highlights include: The spirit of the organisation The power of praise Leadership How to organise
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Exploring India city
Fodor's Exploring Guides are the most up-to-date, full-color guidebooks available. Covering destinations around the world, these guides are loaded with photos; essays on culture and history, architecture and art; itineraries, walks and excursions; descriptions of sights; and practical information. Fodor's Exploring New York City gives you great tips on dining and lodging for all budgets as well as tips on basics such as getting there and getting around and when to go and what to pack.
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Executive Warfare
It's not enough anymore to be smart, hard-working, and able to show results; At this level, everybody is smart, hard-working, and able to show results. Now it's a game for grown-ups. What really sets you apart is the relationships you build with people of influence. These people can include your peers, your employees, your organization's directors, reporters, vendors, and regulators-as well as the people directly above you in the organizational hierarchy. In senior management, you no longer answer to just one boss. There is now a hazy matrix of hundreds of bosses both inside and outside the office, any one of whom can stop you cold or give you a tremendous push forward. Executive Warfare offers concrete advice for handling all of them, including Your peers: They are the most valuable of allies or the most dangerous of enemies The CEO: Her office is often where the real fairy dust is kept. Make sure you have a good relationship here The Board of Directors: They won't judge you fairly if all they see of you is your PowerPoints Your direct reports: They are your vital organs, so treat them accordingly. And if you find a blood clot among them-excise that person before he kills you Your rivals: It's not always wise to shoot at them, but if you do, do not shoot to wound On-line gossips: You cannot afford to engage directly with them In his bestsellers Brand Warfare and Career Warfare, author David D'Alessandro offered sharp advice for building a brand and building a career. Now Executive Warfare is the advanced class for the truly ambitious. Learn what it takes to rise to the top-and to do the even harder thing, which is survive there.