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Books, Educational Books
Nujeen: One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair (Paperback)
-10%Books, Educational BooksNujeen: One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair (Paperback)
An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the very first time in her life. Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. Having taught herself to speak English by watching US soap-operas on Syrian TV, she made her way to the Hungarian border in the hope of asylum in Germany, where she has told her story, with Christina Lamb –bestselling co-author of ‘I Am Malala’. A 16-year-old Syrian girl, she has the courage of a lion.
- Publisher: William Collins (24 October 2016)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0008226334
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Books, Educational Books
As I See it: LK Advani’s (Paperback)
As I See It is a collection of blog posts written by one of India’s most influential politicians, Lal Krishna Advani. An analysis and discussion of volatile issues that have caused heated debates in recent times, such as the Lokpal bill, nuclear safety, the question of Indian currency being stored in Swiss banks, they reflect Advani’s fifty years of experience in active politics and his unique understanding of the functioning of Indian polity.
- Publisher: Rupa (1 August 2011)
- Language: English
- Paperback : 424 pages
- ISBN-10: 8129118769
- ISBN-13: 978-8129118769
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Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Historical
Straight Talk About Terrorism: Protecting Your Home and Family from Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Attacks (Paperback)
-10%Biographies & Memoirs, Books, HistoricalStraight Talk About Terrorism: Protecting Your Home and Family from Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Attacks (Paperback)
Following the 9/11 attacks and anthrax scares in the USA, plus terrorist strikes in Tokyo, Bali, Mombasa, Riyadh and Casablanca, the British Home Secretary has made it clear to the public that the threat of an attack in Britain using nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) weapons is very real. It is probably not a matter of “if”, but “when”. This book, written in plain language by a former US Army major and NBC expert, dispels several media-propagated myths and explains what people can and cannot do to protect their homes, families and places of business.
- ASIN: 1574887335
- Publisher: Potomac Books Inc (5 February 2004)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781574887334
- ISBN-13: 978-1574887334
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Books, Educational Books
Powershift: India–China Relations in a Multipolar World (Hardcover)
‘As India and China stand at a crossroads, Powershift goes a long way to explain how we got here and where we might go’ SHIVSHANKAR MENON, former National Security Advisor ‘An insightful and timely re-examination of the increasingly volatile relationship between India and China’ AMITAV GHOSH, author of the Ibis Trilogy ‘Powershift should be on the shelves of every China-watcher in India and should be read carefully’ VIKRAM SOOD, former Chief of RAW Just like seven decades ago when the dramatic re-emergence of India and China from their traumatic encounter with colonialism followed by a war between them in 1962 transformed this region’s geopolitical landscape, the equation of the two countries is once again poised to influence the future course of Asia.
- Publisher: Macmillan (7 December 2020)
- Language: English
- Hardcover: 348 pages
- ISBN-10: 9389109728
- ISBN-13: 978-9389109726
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Books, Educational Books
Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy IMPLODED — and How to Fix It (Paperback)
-30%Books, Educational BooksHoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy IMPLODED — and How to Fix It (Paperback)
John Perkins has seen the signs of today’s economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man, he was on the front lines both as an observer and a perpetrator of events, once confined only to the third world, that have now sent the United States—and in fact the entire planet—spiraling toward disaster.
- Publisher: Currency; Reprint edition (1 November 2011)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0307589943
- ISBN-13: 978-0307589941
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Books, Self Help
Touch the Sky: The inspiring stories of women from across India who are writing their own destiny (Paperback)
Books, Self HelpTouch the Sky: The inspiring stories of women from across India who are writing their own destiny (Paperback)
This book is a tribute to the courage and confidence of the Indian woman, from Korba to Kashmir. In each personal triumph lies a larger story. Of boldness, of transformation. Of women rising, to take their place in the sun.
- Publisher: Westland (29 January 2018)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 210 pages
- ISBN-10: 9386850702
- ISBN-13: 978-9386850706
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Books, Educational Books
Corporation 2020 (Hardcover)
The Book: ‘Business as usual’ isn’t working. There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today’s market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half-century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many people unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. In Corporation 2020, Pavan Sukhdev lays out a sweeping new vision for tomorrow’s corporation: one that will increase human well being and social equity, decrease environmental risks and ecological losses and still generate profit. Sukhdev illustrates his vision with examples ranging from Infosys’s creation of human capital to Citibank’s having to change its project finance policy due to rainforest destruction. From its insightful look into the history of the corporation to the thoughtful discussion of the steps needed to craft a better corporate model, Corporation 2020 offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping a more equitable, sustainable future.
- Publisher: Penguin India (1 October 2012)
- Language: English
- Hardcover: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0670086533
- ISBN-13: 978-0670086535
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Books, Guide Books
Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income (Paperback)
Books, Guide BooksMillion Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income (Paperback)
95 percent of what people think, feel and do, is determined by habits. Habits are ingrained but not unchangeable―new, positive habits can be learned to replace worn-out, ineffective practices with optimal behaviour that can cause dramatic, immediate benefits to the bottom line. In million dollar habits, Tracy teaches readers how to develop the habits of successful men and women so they too can think more effectively, make better decisions and ultimately double or Triple their income. Readers will learn how to organize their finances, increase health and vitality, sustain loving relationships, build financial independence and take a leadership role to turn visions into reality.
- Publisher: Entrepreneur Press (INGRAM); Second edition (7 June 2019)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1599186527
- ISBN-13: 978-1599186528
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Books, Educational Books
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (Paperback)
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life’s work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft’s charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, the organization will have established over 5,000 libraries and 400 schools, and awarded long-term scholarships to more than 3,000 girls, giving more than one million children the lifelong gift of education. If you have ever pondered abandoning your desk job for an adventure and an opportunity to give back, Wood’s story will inspire you. He offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to the world’s most pressing social problems.
- Publisher: Harper Business; Reprint edition (4 September 2007)
- Language: English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0061121088
- ISBN-13: 978-0061121081
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Books, Guide Books
Vector Analysis and Cartesian Tensors, Third edition (Paperback)
This is a comprehensive and self-contained text suitable for use by undergraduate mathematics, science and engineering students. Vectors are introduced in terms of cartesian components, making the concepts of gradient, divergent and curl particularly simple. The text is supported by copious examples and progress can be checked by completing the many problems at the end of each section. Answers are provided at the back of the book
- ASIN: 0748754601
- Publisher: CRC Press; 3rd edition (25 June 1992)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780748754601
- ISBN-13: 978-0748754601
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Books, Fiction
Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth (Paperback)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ‘It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I’d lost a long time ago.’Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Tweak is a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father’s parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy. Praise for Nic Sheff:- ‘Difficult to read and impossible to put down.’ Chicago Tribune ‘Nic Sheff’s wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.’ Armistead Maupin
- Publisher: Scribner UK; Reissue edition (27 December 2018)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 1471177947
- ISBN-13: 978-1471177941
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Books, Educational Books
The People Next Door: The Curious History of India-Pakistan Relations (Hardcover)
-10%Books, Educational BooksThe People Next Door: The Curious History of India-Pakistan Relations (Hardcover)
This book tracks seventy years of the India-Pakistan interface. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of the relationship. It looks at the main events through the eyes and words of actual players and contemporary observers to illustrates how, both in India and in Pakistan, these past events are seen through radically different prisms, how history keeps resurfacing and has a resonance that cannot be avoided to this day. Apart from political, military and security issues, The People Next Door evokes other perspectives: divided families, peacemakers, war mongers, contrarian thinkers, intellectual and cultural associations, unwavering friendships, the footprint of Bollywood, cricket and literature: all of which are intrinsic parts of this most tangled of relationships.
- ASIN: 9352770900
- Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition (30 August 2017)
- Language: English
- Hardcover: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789352770908
- ISBN-13: 978-9352770908
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Books, Fiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Paperback)
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN BEST FICTION PICK OF 2021ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’s FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021‘Serious novels are rarely this fun’ The Times ‘A gift’ Guardian ‘Buoyant with humanity’ Daily Mail ‘Worth the seven year wait’ Stylist When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive. How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love. Idaho, 2020:An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? Unknown, Sometime in the Future: With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.
- Publisher: Fourth Estate (28 September 2021)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 640 pages
- ISBN-10: 0008478651
- ISBN-13: 978-0008478650
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Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Historical
Mafia: The Complete History of a Criminal World (Paperback)
-10%Biographies & Memoirs, Books, HistoricalMafia: The Complete History of a Criminal World (Paperback)
Organized crime is perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon of our time. From Al Capone, who boldly claimed his bootlegging activities were a public service, to the flamboyant Teflon Don, the criminals of the underworld have garnered headlines and captured our imagination with their violent and extravagant lifestyles. Nigel Cawthorne provides an absorbing introduction to the mob’s most influential personalities – their lives, loves and terrible crimes. Featuring shocking photographs of these gang members, Mafia offers shocking insight into the role of the mob in Sicily and America. For anyone who wants to know the truth about organized crime and understand the violent forces that have shaped it over the last century, this book is an indispensable guide. Cases include Don Vito Cascio Ferro, the New York mobster who lured Joe Petrosino to his death in Palermo to John Gotti, ‘the Teflon don’ and Bernardo ‘The Tractor’ Provenzano, who hid out in a farmhouse for 43 years. Eight-page plate section of photographs True crime is an enduring subject and this variety will tempt both existing fans and new ones
- Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd; Illustrated edition (15 October 2012)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848588372
- ISBN-13: 978-1848588370
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Books, History, Military
Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military (Paperback)
As India becomes a regional and global superpower, its armed forces will be expected to conduct more missions inside foreign countries, like they have in the past. Using never-before-seen secret military reports and eyewitness testimonies of the men on the ground, former army man and journalist Sushant Singh reconstructs three forgotten Indian operations overseas: In the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone. These action-packed true stories shed light not just on a previously untold slice of Indian history but also the exceptional bravery of Indian soldiers fighting against all odds.
- ASIN: 9386228173
- Publisher: Juggernaut (1 March 2017)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789386228178
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Books, Educational Books
Think Like a Billionaire (Paperback)
It’s not good enough to want it. You’ve got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind-set–how to think about money, career skills, and life. Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the expert, everything from dealing with brokers to renovating to assessing the value of property, buying and selling, and securing a mortgage. Trump will show you how to cut costs, decide how much risk to assume in your investments, and divide up your portfolio. He’ll also teach you how to impress anyone, how to correct or criticize someone effectively, and how to know if your friends are loyal–everything you need to know to get ahead. And once you’ve earned your money, you’ve got to learn to spend it well.
- ASIN: 0345481402
- Publisher: RHUS; Reissue edition (27 September 2005)
- Language: English
- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780345481405
- ISBN-13: 978-0345481405
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