Thursday, April 29, 2010

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has a new mission – and this time it''s personal. Artemis''s mother is dangerously ill, and the only way to find a cure is for Artemis – with Holly Short by his side – to go back in time to battle his younger, more evil self . . . Action packed and full of humour – a must-read for boys and girls aged 10+.

ISBN: 9780141322209
Author: Eoin Colfer
Published by: Penguin Book India

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Way of the Warrior: Young Samurai

Author: Chris Bradford
ISBN: 9780141324302
Published by: Penguin Book India

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Cosmic Detective:Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe

Are you feeling a little lonely in this vast universe? Find out who your neighbours are in this spectacular and thrilling guide to the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.

International best-selling author and world-renowned scientist Dr Mani Bhaumik takes young readers on a whirlwind tour into space with The Cosmic Detective. Addressing his readers as cosmic detectives, the author actively enlists his young sleuths in finding solutions to questions that have puzzled space scientists for ages.

How and when did the universe begin? What are stars made of? How far away are the most distant galaxies? What is a quasar? Explore these fundamental cosmic riddles and more in this fascinating journey of discovery and wonder. Find out about nebulae and black holes, navigate the galaxies and the enormous expanses beyond, dive into the heart of neutron stars and walk on distant planets as you join the author in investigating the most bizarre aspects of the cosmos. And in the broader context of our own existence in the universe, Dr Bhaumik reveals that when we explore the cosmos, we also explore ourselves.

Packed with interesting facts and dazzling colour photographs, this beautifully written primer is ideal for students and cosmic detectives of all ages.

Age group of target audience (Puffin): 11 +

ISBN: 9780143330691
Author: Mani Bhaumik
Published by: Penguin Book India

Monday, April 26, 2010

Storytellers 1

Storytellers is more than just a set of story books. Each set of five books is accompanied by an interactive and animated CD. This unique combination of interesting and colourful stories uses Same Language Subtitling (SLS), a new and award-winning concept that helps a child relate phonetic sounds with visual sub-titles to accelerate the development of reading skills. The following stories will be included in Storytellers 1:

1. Turtle’s Flute

2. The Elves and the Shoemaker

3. The First Well

4. Symbiosis

5. Tucket the Bucket

BookBox produces delightful stories from around the world in over twenty-four languages. It engages authors worldwide to create and adapt stories based on unique cultures and traditions.

ISBN: 9788125035060
Published by: Orient Blackswan Private Limited

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Children With Developmental Disabilities

For Sale In : All Countries Short Description:-This book is designed as a guide for parents, teachers and caregivers dealing with children up to the age of six who are afflicted by developmental disabilities. The author provides details of more than 400 non-formal activities along with guidelines on how to use them both at home and in pre-school settings. Children With Developmental Disabilities describes a wide range of impairments, disabilities and handicaps along with information on their manifestations and characteristics. It presents a Comprehensive Activity Checklist for pre-school children. All items have been empirically tested and are located on a scale of increasing difficulty. The book also comprises a 'do-it-yourself' activity assistance guide which will be of immense use to trainers, caregivers, teachers and parents.

ISBN: 076199775X
Author: Venkatesan, S
Published by: Sage Publications

Friday, April 23, 2010

Boxed Set

The seven chronicles of Narnia are brought together in this beautifully presented slipcase. The books and the slipcase feature stunning new fantasy artwork by Cliff Nielsen.

The Narnia Chronicles remain one of the most enduringly popular series ever. Now the enchanting world of Narnia is presented with a stunning series of specially commissioned fantasy covers, all brought together in an eyecatching slipcase.

ISBN: 9780007116768
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Angel Baby

Welcome to the world, Angel Baby!


''Angel Baby is fast asleep, dreaming of heaven and counting sheep.''

But watch out… when Angel Baby wakes up he becomes Hungry Baby, Busy Baby and Soapy Baby!

ISBN: 9780007802753
Author: Gillian Shields
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Early Childhood Care And Education

M. SEN GUPTA (Ph.D.) is Professor and Principal, KIIT College of Education, Gurgaon. He has also served at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi for more than four decades in various capacities. A Fulbright Scholar, he has undertaken a number of consultancy projects at both the national and international levels. Prof. Sen Gupta is also the recipient of four National Level Awards from reputed organizations/ministries such as the NCERT, Ministry of Railways, and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. He has nearly 200 publications to his credit. A nominated member in University Boards and other prestigious committees, Dr. Sen Gupta has expertise in vocational education and teacher education.

Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme has gained importance today. Driven by socio-economic compulsions these days both parents seek jobs and remain away from the child for the whole day. Early Childhood Care centres provide them a safer alternative where their children can grow and develop in a stimulative environ-ment. Therefore, ECCE has been comprehensively included in teacher training programmes at all levels.

Designed as a text for the undergraduate students of education (B.Ed.) and elementary education (B.El.Ed.), it provides uptodate and ready to use material. A complete section in the book is devoted to planning a pre-school or ECCE centre, organizing and managing it for its optimum utility and efficient functioning. The effort has been made to include the topics which will help students to understand the ECCE and its functioning in a straightforward and unconventional manner.

KEY FEATURES :

Written in a conversational style

Comprehensive coverage with sample activities

Numerous figures and illustrations for better understanding of the subject

Integration of theory and practice

Conceptual clarity and practical approach

The book would also be extremely useful to the nursery school teachers, teacher educators, parents, postgraduate students of education (M.Ed.) and for those who would like to run an ECCE centre as a good reference material.

ISBN: 9788120339644

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Brain Child

How Smart Parents Make Smart Kids

Tony Buzan, ‘the biggest name in memory’, takes a fascinating and exuberant look at the enormous potential of a child’s brain and provides parents with the practical tools they need to help their children achieve it. Mind maps, memory games and other techniques allow parents to encourage learning and development for children of all ages.

With Tony Buzan it’s all brain, no pain!

Research shows that the time and energy you dedicate to your child in the first five years pays off dividends for the next ten. With competition for the best schools stiffening, parents having children later and being more aware of the part they must play in their child''s education, there is more and more demand for practical resources like Brain Child.

Tony Buzan, world-renowned inventor Mind Maps, has written the ultimate ''operations manual'' to help parents liberate their child''s true brain potential. He explains how the brain develops and the simple things you can do to stimulate your child''s multiple intelligences – including social, creative, numerical and physical – and unlock his or her natural genius.

• Bring out the Leonardo or Einstein in your child

• Share fun memory games, number skills and Mind Maps

• Raise your child to be happy and confident

• Learn new ways of talking to and reading with your child

• Let your child love numbers as well as words

• Watch him or her excel at school and succeed in life

All parents who pick up this book will be inspired and empowered by Tony''s understanding of their child''s brain and what they can do to fulfil his or her true potential.

Author: Tony Buzan
ISBN: 9780007166077
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Fourteen: The Enemy

When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult - felt ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry.

Only children under fourteen remain, and they''re fighting to survive.

Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown ups lie in wait.

BUT CAN THEY MAKE IT THERE - ALIVE?

The first incredibly gripping adventure in a heart-stopping new series.

ISBN: 9780141325026
Author: Charlie Higson
Published by: Penguin Book India

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Billy the Kid

Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out…

Billy the Kid is told through the voice of an 80 year old man, who looks back on his life as Chelsea’s champion striker until the outbreak of war in 1939 and on through his subsequent life. Billy joins Chelsea as a football apprentice, rises through the reserves to become a real champion. His passion for football sees him through the war years – even as a prisoner of war he organises a friendly against the Italians – but, having been injured by a mine he cannot play for Chelsea on his return to England. Billy turns to vagrancy and alcohol and for years he wanders up and down the country. He re-settles in London in a derelict house and is befriended by a family who move him to a shed in their garden. He, in turn, helps their son with his football who in his turn becomes a Chelsea player. Billy becomes a Chelsea Pensioner and his 80th birthday is celebrated when Chelsea play at home. A novel for both children and adults which deals with some difficult issues. Michael Morpurgo’s storytelling is superb and this will be a welcome follow up to the previous Morpurgo/Foreman collaboration – Farm Boy.

ISBN: 9780007105472
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Albie and the Space Rocket

Meet Albie – a small boy in a weird, wild world. Albie is a six year old boy whose imagination turns his surroundings into wild fantasy and he sees peculiar creatures everywhere. Why does no one else notice them? It’s a mystery to Albie.

It seems like just another ordinary night to Albie until he wakes to find… penguins stealing the furniture, moose tangoing in the toilet and zebras asleep in the kitchen cupboard.

But who has left a trail of baked beans?

ISBN: 9780007802869
Author: Andy Cutbill
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Monday, April 12, 2010

Introduction To Hydrology

For the fifth edition, Introduction to Hydrology has been significantly revamped and restructured offering the reader content that is focused and streamlined. Many postgraduate level subjects and topics that were considered to be more of a handbook variety have been eliminated, in keeping with the original philosophy of the book which was to focus on providing a scope of material that supports theory-to-practice learning experience for beginning students in hydrology. The sequencing of chapters is so designed as to lead students through the underlying principles of hydrology and then to introduce them to the world of applications.

Notable changes in this fifth edition include:

The restructured and streamlined fifth edition consists of 13 chapters, whereas the fourth edition consisted of 27 chapters.

The chapter on statistics has been moved to an early position in the book so as to introduce these techniques before they are applied to problems in later chapters.

There are many new solved examples and homework problems.

Web addresses useful for securing hydrologic data and relevant information to supplement the text have been added.

Author: VIESSMEN, Jr., WARREN , LEWIS, GARY L.
ISBN: 978-81-203-3368
Published by: Prentice-Hall of India

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Amazing Animals

Dr. Seuss is famous the world over for helping children learn to read. But now even pre-readers can join in the fun and benefit from his wacky rhymes and crazy pictures.

Aimed at tiny tots and toddlers from aged two upwards, this delightful series of board books is designed to teach young children simple concepts from colours and numbers to opposites and animals. Adapted from some of Dr. Seuss'' most popular books, including Fox in Socks, The Foot Book and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, each title contains bright, bold illustrations and simple Seussian rhymes, with a flap on every spread to add to the fun!

ISBN: 9780007169467
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Thursday, April 8, 2010

We, the Children of India: The Preamble to Our Constitution

Leila Seth retired as Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh in 1992, was appointed in 1995 as the one-member commission to examine the death in custody of Rajan Pillai, and from 1997 to 2000 was a member of the 15th Law Commission of India. She does arbitration work and is involved in human rights activities. She lives in Noida with her husband Premo, son Shantum, daughter-in-law Gitanjali and granddaughter Nandini.

Bindia Thapar is an architect by training and an illustrator by choice. She is best known for her wide variety of illustrations for children.

ISBN: 9780143331513
Published by: Penguin Books India

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A Very Proper Fox

A warm and humorous story about being true to yourself, from the highly-regarded author-illustrator of Billy Tibbles Moves Out!


Frankie the Fox loves baked beans and dancing, but Naughty Rabbit says that proper foxes don''t jig about… proper foxes catch chickens.

So Frankie steals down the lane to the chicken''s house. He licks his lips, he flexes his claws, he growls like a proper fox, low and mean. ''I''m coming to get you…''

But instead of a big, fat chicken, Frankie finds a big fat mess that he can’t help tidying.

Will Frankie ever be a proper fox?

Author: Jan Fearnley
ISBN: 9780007802845
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Derek’s Picks

Derek O''Brien has been entertaining us with his quizzes for two decades now. From his vast repertoire of questions that span the informative and educational, thought-provoking facts and trivia, he has gleaned hundreds of his favourite sets for this unputdownable volume. The questions cover subject as diverse as the Chinese New Year, coffee, crocodiles and Cleopatra to the Grammy Awards, Gujarat, Mars, Swans, tsunamis and West Asia. There are also sets of questions on famous personalities like Asha Bhonsle, Isaac Newton, Lady Diana, Pablo Picasso, Shakespeare and Winnie the Pooh. Each set tests both the extent and depth of the readers'' knowledge on the subject. Among the questions readers will find answers to in this book are: Millions of years ago, which super-continent did Antarctica originally form a part of? * What were the two styles of shading which Leonardo used to great effect in his paintings? * What special feature of a camel''s eyelids protects it from dust and sun? * What is the study of fishes called? Whether you are a student, teacher, professional, quiz aficionado, or just a casual reader, this book will keep you engrossed for days.

Author: O''Brien
ISBN: 9780143063414
Published by: Penguin Book India

Monday, April 5, 2010

Batman – The Dark Knight

Fun activity book for younger fans of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight.

The Bat is back and this time, he''s brought the Joker to town.

Complete the activities, puzzles, games, colouring and quizzes to help Batman stop the Joker from casting his evil web over Gotham City.

Includes movie images from the most anticipated movie of 2008!

ISBN:9780007277285
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Adolescence

More students learn from this book than from any other text in this field. Students and instructors rely on the text's careful balance of accurate, current research and applications to the real lives of adolescents. The fully revised eleventh edition includes a new chapter on health, expanded coverage of late adolescence, and more than 1,200 research citations from the 21st century.

Author: Santrock, John W
ISBN: 0070615713
Published by: McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION (INDIA) LTD.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir

Fatima Bhutto was born in Afghanistan in 1982. She studied at Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She currently writes columns for The Daily Beast, New Statesman and other publications. She lives in Karachi, Pakistan.

In September 1996 a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father, Murtaza, was murdered along with six of his associates.

In December 2007 Benazir Bhutto, Fatima’s aunt, and the woman she had publicly accused of ordering her father’s murder, was assassinated in Rawalpindi. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the world’s best known political dynasties.

Songs of Blood and Sword tells the story of the Bhuttos, a family of rich feudal landlords

who became powerbrokers in the newly created state of Pakistan; the epic tale of four generations of a family and the political violence that would destroy them. It is the history of a family and nation riven by murder, corruption, conspiracy and division, written by one who has lived it, in the heart of the storm,

The history of this extraordinary family mirrors the tumultuous events of Pakistan itself,

and the quest to find the truth behind her father’s murder has led Fatima to the heart of

her country’s volatile political establishment.

Finally Songs of Blood and Sword is about a daughter’s love for her father and her search to uncover, and to understand, the truth of his life and death.

ISBN: 9780670082803
Publishedby: Penguin Books India

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Film Tie-In)

Jeff Kinney is an exciting new addition to the Puffin list. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is his debut novel and the comic adventures of his protagonist, Greg Heffley, began online in 2004 on www.funbrain.com where 70,000 children read about him every day. Jeff is an online developer and designer. He lives with his family in southern Massachusetts, USA.

Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs you''ve had from reading the diaries, all the best bits you talk about with your friends and all the cartoons of Greg Heffley you''ve had a go at drawing yourself…

Now imagine it all - on screen!

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary goes behind the scenes to tell the story of Greg Heffley from the funniest cartoon character ever, to a real live person on the big screen.

A full-colour diary complete with photographs, script pages, storyboard sketches, costume designs, and more hilarious Wimpy Kid drawings by Jeff Kinney.

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary is the perfect companion to the phenomenally bestselling series.

ISBN: 9780141331010
Published by: Penguin Books India
Original Price(PB) : Rs. 199.00
Special Sale Price of(PB) : Rs. 180.00