Hindu View of Life

A timeless treatise on what constitutes the Hindu way of life
Religion in India can appear to be a confusing tangle of myths, with many different gods and goddesses worshipped in countless forms.This complexity stems from a love of story-telling, as much as anything else, but it is only the surface expression of Indian faith. Beneath can be found a system of unifying beliefs that have guided the lives of ordinary families for generations. Here, one of the most profound philosophers of India explains these and other related concepts intrinsic to the Hindu philosophy of life.
ISBN: 9788172238452
Author: S. Radhakrishnan
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The Rediscovery of India

Meghnad Desai is an economist by profession and taught at the London School of Economics for forty years. He is a keen observer of British politics and participates in it from his perch in the House of Lords. He has written books on economics, Marxism, Islamist terrorism, Ezra Pound and Bollywood. This is his first novel.

What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five hundred years of Indian history, Meghnad Desai looks at India’s colonial past, its struggle for independence and its many contemporary conundrums, to discover answers to the questions that have confronted India-watchers for decades.
Rejecting much received wisdom, including narratives fashioned by India’s ruling establishment, Meghnad Desai goes back to the beginnings of the East–West encounter at the end of the fifteenth century. He tracks its impact on the cultures and politics of the present day, from the emergence of new classes under colonialism, the influence of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi on the idea of Indian nationhood, to the entirely parallel discourses that developed in North and South India. Yet this trajectory, this outcome, was not inevitable. Through a series of ‘Counterfactual Boxes’ Meghnad Desai analyses the accepted defining moments of India’s past and suggests alternative courses that history could so easily have taken.
Meghnad Desai draws on a wealth of sources to illuminate India’s journey to the twenty-first century. Whether it is an examination of British parliamentary debates on the question of India’s independence, or the liberalization of the economy after decades of licence-permit raj, or the state’s complicity in the Gujarat riots, Meghnad Desai’s original, occasionally iconoclastic, approach to seemingly settled arguments makes The Rediscovery of India a path-breaking and comprehensive account of India’s past and present.
ISBN: 9780670083008
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Guilty Pleasures

The new queen of the blockbuster is back
In the ultra-chic world of the fabulously rich, fashion can have a very
high price…
Saul Milford, owner of one of England''s oldest and most prestigious luxury goods companies is dead, but who will inherit his estate? For years Saul''s niece Cassandra, editor-in-chief of Rive, the most glamorous fashion magazine of the moment has believed that she would be the sole benefactor. But she''s not the only family member with their eye on the ultimate prize. Roger, Saul''s handsome brother with a demanding wife. Elizabeth the art-dealer with a dark and brooding secret, Tom the playboy nephew, and Emma, the hard–working but unlucky in love niece living and working in Boston. All
have their reasons for wanting the company. But one of them will go to any lengths to secure what they believe is rightfully theirs.
Once again Tasmina Perry takes us a non-stop tour of the mega-privileged, weaving a gilt-edged tale of lust, glamour and intrigue around the world''s most luxurious locations.
Author: Tasmina Perry
ISBN: 9780007264971
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Prom Nights from Hell

In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a whole new level—a paranormally bad level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don''t hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper—and he isn''t here to tell you how hot you look.
From angels fighting demons to a creepy take on getting what you wish for, these five stories will entertain better than any DJ in a bad tux. No corsage or limo rental necessary. Just good, scary fun
ISBN: 9780007341757
Author: Meg Cabot / Stephenie Meyer / Kim Harrison
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Cloud Nine Minus One

Sangeeta Mall is a consulting editor with the International Humanist News. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Sangeeta recently did her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She now lives in Mumbai. This is her first novel. Sangeeta is now a full time writer.

Life on cloud nine isn''t always easy—especially when both your husband and your college sweetheart want to share it with you
Busy looking after her writers'' colony and hoping for a holiday in Spain with her husband and children, Shruti Narayan is startled to find a rather unwanted email in her inbox one morning. It is an invitation to a reunion at her college in Bangalore. It takes her a second to delete the mail. After all, why would she want to leave her life in Philadelphia to visit the past, to go back to Priya, the best friend she deserted, and to Jaggu, the old flame she has left so far behind? But as luck would have it, her husband finds out about the reunion and Shruti and her family find themselves at the gates of her college.
Desperate to ensure that her family does not learn about her past escapades, and at the same time unable to prevent herself from revisiting old memories, Shruti is caught in a guilty whirlpool of emotions and desires, as she struggles to reconcile past and
present loyalties.
ISBN: 9788172238513
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The Giver New edition

Lois Lowry, author of over twenty novels and twice winner of the Newbery Medal (for The Giver and Number the Stars), was born on 20 March 1937 in Hawaii. Her father was an Army dentist and the family lived all over the world. Now divorced, she lives in West Cambridge with her dog, Bandit, and spends weekends in her nineteenth-century farmhouse in New Hampshire.

It''s a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie beneath
the surface…
It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in The Community wants for anything. Everyone is provided for. Each Family Unit is entitled to onefemale and male child.Each member of The Community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders, and they never make a mistake. Jonas, a sensitive twelve-year-old boy, had never thought there was anything wrong with his Community, until one day. From the moment Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory at The Ceremony, his life is never the same. Jonas discovers that The Community is not as perfect as it seems. Although they appear to have everything, they are missing something of great importance. It is up to Jonas, with the help of the Giver, to find what long ago had been lost. And so Jonas embarks on an adventure to save the world as he knows it.Simply and beautifully written, The Giver is sure to touch the heart of every reader. Lois Lowry deals with issues of everyday life that are so often taken for granted. Through the noble character of Jonas, she presents a glimpse of what could be the future. As the tension in the novel mounts,so does the number of questions that Lowry confronts the reader with. The Giver is a book of courage and adventure, and most importantly, one of deep thought. Once readers make contactwith Lowry''s treasure, they may never see things exactly quite the same. Lowry presents a forceful novel that demands to be heard and philosophically dealt with.
ISBN: 9780007263516
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SS-GB

In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis.Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall…

For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it''s ''business as usual'' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle.This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.
Author: Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780586050026
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Your Personal Horoscope 2010

Your complete one-volume guide to the year 2010. This fantastic and in depth book includes month-by-month forecasts for every sign and all you need to know to find out what is in store for you in the year ahead.Discover when your lucky days will fall and when it might be better just to stay in bed, with your complete one-volume, month-by-month guide to the year 2010 – the only horoscope you will ever need.This bestselling guide gives you individual predictions for the year ahead and shows you how you, your friends, your family and lovers will fare. It includes:• A month-by-month forecast for every sign• A personality profile for each sign• What to expect in terms of love, sex, work and money• Detailed predictions of your best days and worst days – and the ideal days to attract love or money.• Invaluable advice on exactly when to ask for that pay rise, what days you should be on the look out for exciting revalations and the days you should probably just stay in bed!
ISBN: 9780007281473Joseph Polansky
Author: Joseph Polansky
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Wings

An extraordinary faerie tale of magic and mystery, romance and danger, described by Stephenie Meyer as ''a remarkable debut''.
Laurel is an ordinary fifteen-year-old high school girl. But something incredible is happening to her. She is changing.
Now Laurel is about to discover that a deep and powerful magic holds the key to her destiny.
ISBN: 9780007314362
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Author: Aprilynne Pike

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I Accuse…: The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984

Jarnail Singh was born in Delhi in 1973. After a masters degree in political science from PG DAV College, he completed a diploma in journalism from the YMCA in 1994. He was special correspondent Dainik Jagran, Delhi, for ten years, covering the fields of Sikh politics and defence. He has written extensively on the Sikh massacre of 1984 and its aftermath. He lives with his wife and two children in, New Delhi.
The unanswered questions, the justice delayed, the unbearable memories—the three days of 1984 when over 3000 Sikhs were slaughtered, have indelibly marked the lives of thousands more who continue to exist in a twilight of bitterness and despair.It was outrage at this state of affairs that led Jarnail Singh, an unassuming, law- abiding journalist, to throw his shoe at home minister P Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi. He readily acknowledges that this was not an appropriate means of protest, but asks why, twenty-five years after the massacres, so little has been done to address the issues that are still unresolved and unanswered and a source of anguish to the whole community. Who initiated the pogrom and why?Why did the state apparatus allow it to happen?Why, despite the many commissions and committees set up to investigate the events, have the perpetrators not been brought to book?I Accuse is a powerful and passionate indictment of the state’s response to the killings of 1984. It explores the chain of events, the survivors’ stories and the continuing shadow it casts over their lives. Because, finally, 1984 was not an attack on the Sikh community alone; it was an attack on the idea at the very core of democracy—that every citizen, irrespective of faith and community, has a right to life, liberty and security.
ISBN: 9780670083947
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Coming Back To Me: The Autobiography of Marcus Trescothick

A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothick''s brave and soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better understanding of the unique pressures experienced by modernday professional sportsmen.At 29, Marcus Trescothick was widely regarded as one of the batting greats. With more than 5,000 Test runs to his name and a 2005 Ashes hero, some were predicting this gentle West Country cricket nut might even surpass Graham Gooch''s record to become England''s highest ever Test run scorer.But the next time Trescothick hit the headlines it was for reasons no one but a handful of close friends and colleagues could have foreseen.On Saturday 25 February 2006, four days before leading England into the first Test against India in place of the injured captain Vaughan, Trescothick was out for 32 in the second innings of the final warm-up match. As he walked from the field he fought to calm the emotional storm that was raging inside him, at least to hide it from prying eyes. In the dressing room he broke down in tears, overwhelmed by a blur of anguish, uncertainty and sadness he had been keeping at bay for longer than he knew.Within hours England''s best batsman was on the next flight home. His departure was kept secret until after close of play when Coach Duncan Fletcher told the stunned media his acting captain had quit the tour for ''personal, family reasons.''
Author : Marcus Trescothick
ISBN: 9780007292486
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Zero Percentile: Missed IIT Kissed Russia

Neeraj Chhibba was born and raised in India. He studied engineering at Volgograd, Russia, where he spent almost seven and a half years of his life. He is currently employed with a software company in India. His single claim to literary honours is a ‘Highly Commendable’ certificate in Class X in an English Essay Competition organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society and he himself was surprised to be the only one in New Delhi to have received it that year in his category. He could perhaps have done more but the pressure of succeeding professionally and earning bread made him turn away from writing. This is his first book. And if you like it, he promises, there would be a lot more.
Zero Percentile is a heady cocktail of the fascinating adventures of Pankaj, a less favoured son of destiny, across two completely different countries, India and Russia.
ISBN: 9788129115447
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Fifteen Mantras For The Empowered Woman

Born and educated in India, Abha Sharma-Rodrigues went to the UK as a Commonwealth scholar. Keenly interested in selfdevelopment practices from around the world, Abha enjoys reading, travelling, gardening and music. She lives in Edinburgh and maintains her spiritual links with India.
Your happiness, self-esteem and empowerment are more valuable and precious than any other material possessions. You were born to live an abundant life, a meaningful life, a fulfilled life. Fifteen Mantras for the Empowered Woman will precisely show you how. The lessons revealed in this book will arouse you. The principles contained in the mantras will nurture you. The life stories of empowered women will inspire you.
ISBN: 9788129115225
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The Dragon`s Fire

Dr Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan is currently Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi. She joined ORF after a four-year stint at the National Security Council Secretariat, where she was an Assistant Director. Prior to joining the NSCS, she was Research Officer at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.

The Dragon''s Fire: Chinese Military Strategy and Its Implications for Asia essentially looks into the military strategy of China, and how it impacts on India and Asia. The rise of China has been a subject of interest and concern not only in India and other countries of Asia, but globally as well.
ISBN: 9788129115423
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Uncertain Eagle Us Military Strategy In Asia

Dr Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan is currently Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi. She joined ORF after a four-year stint at the National Security Council Secretariat, where she was an Assistant Director. Prior to joining the NSCS, she was Research Officer at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.

Uncertain Eagle: US Military Strategy in Asia is a book that has essentially looked into the military strategy of the United States in Asia and how the changing strategies might impact on India and other countries in Asia.

ISBN: 9788129115508

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In Quest Of The Buddha

Sunita Dwivedi is a photographer, traveller and a freelance journalist, having earlier worked for over fifteen years in several dailies including the Times of India, Hindustan Times, Pioneer, and Northern India Patrika. During the last five years she has travelled widely across Asia.

In Quest of the Buddha moves through the Gobi and the Taklamakan deserts, over the snowy ranges of the Pamir, and through innumerable oases and beautiful river valleys. This exciting journey along the ancient route traces through, and maps, the several branch roads that were a conduit for trade, commerce, art and religion between the two Asian giants—India and China.
ISBN: 9788129115218
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English Lessons And Other Stories

Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, the story of two Sikh women in a polygamous marriage in colonial India was published by Knopf, Canada, Transworld UK, and Doubleday USA. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. She is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and a co-author of a Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America. Shauna’s awards include the international Nehru Award for public speaking and the Shastri Award for English Prose. She received the 1995 Writers Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award.
ISBN: 9788129115379
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The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu

Shreekumar Varma is a novelist, award-winning playwright, poet and newspaper columnist. His books include Lament of Mohini (Penguin, 2000) and the children`s book, The Royal Rebel (Macmillan, 1997). He won the Charles Wallace Award in 2004 and was writer-in-residence at Stirling University, Scotland. He teaches creative English and has written stories and poems for children, which have appeared in anthologies and periodicals. He lives in Chennai with his wife, Geeta, and two sons, Vinayak and Karthik. He can be contacted at.
Welcome to the Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu, located in Anchan Bay, a seaside village in an unknown corner of the world. Here you will find the most unusual things: chocolate cakes made of potatoes and cream, toffee rolled around sugar cane sticks and beetroot ice cream garnished with tomato-chilli jam. It also sells the most amazing magical toys—a flute that can sense seasons, a toy bird that always speaks the truth and a doll that can do translations! But the strangest creature of all is Nu-Cham-Vu, the monstrous owner of the store, who loves tormenting the parents and teasing the kids who come to buy his toys. One day the grown-ups decide to kick him out of Anchan Bay. But the children don’t want him to go!The battle is on . . . Will Nu-Cham-Vu be thrown out? Or will the children be able to save the Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu?
ISBN: 9780143330509
Published by: Penguin Book India