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Celebrating one year
Anniversary Catalogue
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Message from Pothi.com Team
This July we completed one
year of the launch Pothi.
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period, close to 200 books
were published through
our platform and a lot of
creative talent has come
out through these books
which may have remained
unknown otherwise. We
have also seen a lot of
interesting ways people
have used the platform,
even surprising us at times.
People have made birthday gifts by creating a book out of
the blogs of the birthday boy or girl. Others have written
complete books for special people in their lives. Nandhika’s
book (Sally’s World) was published as a birthday gift for her
and some personalized copies were gifted to her friends.
The book was soon a hit in her hometown and her school
launched the book on their annual day. Books have been
published for training programmes by reputed institutes,
training companies and coaches with printing done in just
the right number for their purpose. Swaropp C H’s well
recognized and recommended online Python book “A Byte
of Python” and Diwaker Gupta’s online guide for applying
to US universities, both are available in print versions
through Pothi.com now.
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The list is long and not
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anniversary catalog to
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Contents
Biographies and Memoirs
Four Briefs and Six Vests.........................................17
A Witness to Terror ................................................18
My Experiences in Uniform ...................................18
Permanent Ghosts - A Memoir.............................19
Letting Go of My Father’s Soul .............................21
Green Waters and Blue Lands ..............................22
Business and Economics
Managing University Industry
Technology Collaboration ......................................24
Cases on University Industry
Technology Collaborations ....................................24
On the Contrary......................................................26
How to setup a Managed
Services Business in 2009.......................................28
V.G. Whine’s Emails ..................................................30
Babur and Humayun: Modern Learning
Organisation ..............................................................31
Quality Management System Audit ......................33
ABC of Store Operations
(Instructor Copy) .....................................................35
ABC of Store Operations
(Student Copy) .........................................................35
Children
Sally’s World ..............................................................38
Children’s Stories for Our Times .........................39
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Meghadootam - The Cloud ...................................40
Messenger ..................................................................40
The Omega Cipher Series Vol.1-
THIRD EYE ...............................................................41
Tinku’s Tooth and other stories ............................43
Computers and Internet
Start Programming with C# ..................................44
लिनक्स पॉकेट गाइड...............................................45
A Byte of Vim ............................................................46
A Byte of Python ......................................................46
SCDJWS 1.4 Study Guide ......................................48
Web on the Go ........................................................49
Information Technology
Project Communication
Management Summarized ......................................51
Scrum Summarized ..................................................51
Education and Language
Applying to American Graduate Schools in
Engineering and Fine Arts.......................................53
You & Architecture ..................................................54
Natural & Curious Facts.........................................56
Beginner’s English Grammar ..................................58
Literature and Fiction
Moonstruck and Other Stories ............................60
Stories and Poems - Short and Sweet .................61
The Moon’s Complexion........................................62
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Doraaha......................................................................64
My Collection of Stories ........................................64
The Life of a Little Princess ...................................66
Roots ..........................................................................66
The Alpha and The Omega and
Other Stories ............................................................68
WINDOWs-diary notes of a
Software Engineer ....................................................70
And the Bubble Bursts ............................................72
Dateline Independence -
an Indian Memoir .....................................................73
The Mindweb ............................................................75
“Il Libro” (vol.1, 2, and 3)........................................75
Aforismi (1990-2008) ..............................................76
“Racconti raccolti” ..................................................76
Game Over................................................................77
My Summer Days .....................................................78
Chance and the World ............................................79
తొలి రేయి - తెలుగు నవల ................................................... 80
Dreams on Fire.........................................................81
Madhouse...................................................................82
One Step At A Time (Manzilein) ...........................83
Kitna Sach? Kitna Jhooth?? .....................................84
Memsahib ...................................................................85
To Catch A Smile ......................................................86
Zeroes and Circles ..................................................88
Confessions... Unearthed .......................................90
The College Stalker .................................................91
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Medicine and Science
New Dimensions of
Community Psychology ..........................................92
Yoga and Psychoanalysis .........................................93
Philosophy and Theology
Kapil’s Samkhya Patanjali’s Yoga .............................94
The Eternal Soul .......................................................94
Man Is A Thought .....................................................97
Poetry
Songs of a Stringed Soul .........................................98
A Bucketful Of Semantics ......................................101
लेहरों से बातें .............................................................102
Silent Expression...A soul’s
journey .......................................................................103
Deep Green Romance
Nafs e Zakiya ............................................................104
Kuchh Pal ...................................................................105
Abhas,Anubhuti Aur
Abhivyakti ..................................................................106
Corporate Poetry ....................................................107
In Case I Don’t See You Again ...............................107
कुछ ख्वाब बिखरे से................................................109
फासलें और भी हैं .....................................................110
The Eternal Wishes of Romeo ..............................111
The Immortal Expressions
of Romeo ...................................................................111
The Global Reflections of Romeo .......................112
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Prerane .......................................................................114
Raviratlami ki Gazalen aur Vyanjal
(Raviratlami’s Ghazals and Vyanjals) .....................115
A man and his spiritual kingdom ..........................116
నేనొక నిరంతర విహారిని .............................................118
Mystical Moods .........................................................119
Do Shabd Tumhare Liye ..........................................120
“Poesie?” ....................................................................121
“100 squarci nell’anima” +
“Nel regno dell’ombra” ..........................................121
A Plethora of Emotions ..........................................123
Moods and Moments ..............................................124
Jeevan-Path Par..........................................................125
F.I.S.T ...........................................................................126
Amar Chokhe ...........................................................127
मन हमारा, जो लिखे वो तुम्हार ...........................128
saikruthulu .................................................................129
Face Off ......................................................................130
Dreams of Life ..........................................................131
Politics and Society
Other Side of Land Acquisition.............................133
Deemed Suitable ......................................................135
Religion and Spirituality
The Truth ...................................................................137
Sublime Thoughts .....................................................138
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Satire and Humour
Raviratlami ke Vyangya
(Raviratlami’s Satire in Hindi) .......................... 139
The ArTicKles Collection ......................................140
My Experiments with Half-truths .........................141
Stolen Home .............................................................143
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Guleil...........................................................................144
Tower of Ruin ...........................................................145
Possible risks: cloned bombs .................................146
Technophobia ............................................................147
Self-Improvement
Ingredients for Success ...........................................148
Creating your Dream Life as
a Dentist.....................................................................149
How To Enjoy Your Job ...........................................151
ENTREPRENEURIAL SINS ....................................153
Treasured Slices From Life & Living .....................154
A Gifted Toy ..............................................................155
How to Transform your Karma of
Money and Wealth ...................................................156
How to Avoid Tension and
Achieve Peace in Life ...............................................157
Keep Sailing................................................................159
Yoganidra....................................................................160
Sex and Relationships
What Makes a Marriage
Successful? .................................................................161
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Letter to Future .......................................................162
Me, Myself and Sweta ..............................................164
Travel
Falling Coconuts .......................................................165
Amsterdam Top Ten .................................................166
Drama/Play
And Miles To Go....... ................................................167
Comics and Graphic Novels
Learning to See .........................................................168
Engineering
Hand Book of Project Management and Safety
forCivil Engineers....................................................169
Astrology
The Twist of Destiny................................................171
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Title: Four Briefs and Six Vests
Author: Dilip T K
Price: Rs.125.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Four Briefs and Six Vests is a narration of a series of real
life events that an IIM graduate encountered during his
two months summer internship period. More often than
not, people in the outside world think about MBA’s and
particularly IIM grads to be brilliant, emotionless, smart
and professional individuals.Yes, there are such individuals
who personify the dream pin striped, laptop wielding
MBA discussing bonds and derivatives - but they are
restricted to about 10 % of the IIM population. The rest
of us are very similar to humans outside our hallowed
campuses. Read our story!
About the Author:
T. K. Dilip is an IIM Lucknow Graduate.
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Title 1: A Witness to Terror
Title 2: My Experiences in Uniform
Author: Dinesh Hukmani
Title 1: A Witness to Terror
About the Book:
An eyewitness account of the Mumbai terror attacks of
26/11/08.
Price:: Rs.437.00 + shipping
Language:: English
Title 2: My Experiences in Uniform
About the Book:
The book describes author’s experiences as an Officer in
the Indian Army.
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Language: English
About the Author:
Dinesh Hukmani is an Ex Army Officer based in Pune. A Witness to Terror
is his first book
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Title: Permanent Ghosts - A Memoir
Author: Nitin Shankar
Price: Rs.284.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Nitin Shankar is a product of several cultures and his
memoir describes his experiences in countries ranging
from India and Iran to Germany and Switzerland. While
this autobiography describes the people who played an
important part in his life, it also captures the atmosphere
of towns such as Bombay in forties, Berlin in fifties,
Warsaw and Milan in sixties and Tabriz in seventies. Much
more than a memoir, Permanent Ghosts is a nostalgic
journey into a world that exists only in our memories.
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Title: Why Go Tihar
Author: Jitin Dhawan
Price: Rs.136.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
It is a journey through Tihar.
About the Author:
The author has earlier written a book titled ‘The Changing Face of Indian
Economy’ published by Atlantic Books.
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Title: Letting Go of My Father’s Soul
Author: Rajan Prasad Pradhan
Price: Rs.134.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is about the author’s own trials and
tribulations after the loss of his father. It is also a tribute
to time which is the healer of all wounds for us mortals.
When his father died of cancer, he and his family,
especially his mother, were left with a void in their lives
which defied any attempts at being filled. Moreover his
mother, being religious to a fault, worried that his father
might not find the right way to salvation. They performed
all the rituals needed to be performed by a Hindu family
as religiously as possible.
At the end, they have no way of telling if his father found
salvation but they, as a family, were able to let go of
his soul eventually although it was very difficult in the
beginning.
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Title: Green Waters and Blue Lands
Author: Himanshu Vora
Price: Rs.988.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Green Waters and Blue Lands is an epic story of loss,
love and dreams realized; and expectations never met. An
autobiography, but not in its entirety, the story begins in
1993 when a 15 year old boy from a middle class family
from Mumbai, India suddenly loses his father. His father’s
untimely death comes totally unexpectedly to a care-free
adolescent who had just completed his 10th grade final
exams and was looking forward to his summer vacation.
In an instant, his life changes forever.
Determined to live the life he’d always imagined, he
begins the slow process of moving forward, tapping
into his creativity, and pursuing animation classes. The
book reveals Vora’s passion to succeed, to overcome his
own fears and his family’s financial constraints and the
gratitude he feels towards his mother who gave him the
opportunity to go abroad to Canada to study filmmaking.
It details his experiences in India,Vancouver and Bombay,
as he continues to pursue his dream of filmmaking and
weaves parts of writings from his original scripts as a into
the plot in an interesting fashion.
Green Waters and Blue Lands is the story of growing
older and becoming wiser; experiences gained and losses
faced, some of which can leave us empty.Vora weaves a
compelling tale of a life filled with hopes and ambitions,
some fulfilled and some never to be, all of which have
shaped the person and the filmmaker who continues on
his journey.
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About the Author:
Himanshu Vora is a screen-writer, director and thinker.
Himanshu Vora is a very creatively inclined person.
He loves anything to do with art or creativity or
entertainment. He loves to tell stories through the
medium of motion pictures. It’s the passion for cinema
that powers every breath of his life now. He loves cinema
and art more than anything else. His heart beats every
moment for the creation of beautiful and wonderful
cinema. His first love is animation films and cartoons.
These are also his passion and he is creating something of
these in near future. He is on a mission to make 77 films
before he dies. He’d love to die on a movie set or in a
post production studio! He’d love to be remembered as a
good contributor to the Indian and the world cinema. He
believes that one day Breathing Pictures will become one
of the leading production houses in India and the entire
world.
Himanshu Vora is registered at the Film Writers
Association, Mumbai.
More about him can be found at
www.breathing-pictures.com
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Title 1: Managing University Industry
Technology Collaboration
Title 2: Cases on University Industry
Technology Collaborations
Author: Ganesh N Prabhu
Title 1: Managing University Industry Tech
nology Collaboration
About the Book:
This book is part of a doctoral thesis in the strategy
area that was submitted in 1996 at the Indian Institute
of Management Ahmedabad. It adapted the case method
of research to a multi-organisational context to study
the process by which industrial firms and technology
institutions effectively collaborate on technology
projects. The thesis won the P D Agarwal – TCI Award
for Doctoral Research in Management. Papers on this
work were subsequently published in the Academy
of Management Review, Research Policy, International
Journal of Technology Management, Technology Analysis
and Strategic Management and Technovation.
Price: Rs.200.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: Cases on University Industry
Technology Collaborations
About the Book:
This book is part of a doctoral thesis in the strategy
area that was submitted in 1996 at the Indian Institute
of Management Ahmedabad. It contains cases that cover
the process by which industrial firms and technology
institutions effectively collaborate on technology
projects. The thesis won the P D Agarwal – TCI Award
for Doctoral Research in Management. Papers based on
this work were subsequently published in the Academy
of Management Review, Research Policy, International
Journal of Technology Management, Technology Analysis
and Strategic Management and Technovation.
Price: Rs.200.00 + shipping
Language: English
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technology-collaboration
About the Author:
Ganesh N Prabhu is Professor of Corporate Strategy and Policy at
the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He researches and
teaches courses in qualitative research, business strategy and product
development.
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technology-collaborations
Title: On the Contrary
Author: Mahesh Murthy
Price: Rs.138.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This is a rare collection of some of Mahesh’s columns
from Business World magazine in 2003-2004. Marketing,
Entrepreneurship, Internet, Career, Life - you are sure
to find something interesting in this collection of 25
columns.
About the Author:
Mahesh Murthy has 24 years of marketing and communications
experience, of which 12 are in online marketing. After dropping out
of college, Mahesh sold vacuum cleaners from door to door, worked
in advertising with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he
won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, Microsoft,
The Economist, Pepsi and MTV - for whom he wrote and directed a
spot voted “Asia’s best commercial of the decade”. He then moved
to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/CKS) as Creative
Director, General Manager and Partner – where he helped create
and launch the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995 and the
Earth’s Biggest Bookstore campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. After a
successful NASDAQ IPO for CKS, Mahesh moved to head marketing
at iCat, an e-commerce firm in Seattle subsequently acquired by Intel.
Mahesh then returned to India to run Channel V, a rival to MTV, till
its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest
in startups. Some of his investees include Geodesic (a 300-bagger),
Compassbox – acquired by Careerlauncher, Cypherix, Indiaproperties
and Webdunia. Mahesh penned a reasonably infamous column for
India’s leading business magazines, Business Today and Businessworld,
and played the Donald Trump-equivalent role in Business Baazigar, a
game show similar to The Apprentice, involving entrepreneurs and
business plans.
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While running search marketing campaigns for his
favourite charity in 2003, Mahesh believed there was
a huge unmet need for a pay-for-performance online
marketing company - and set up Pinstorm in Bombay.
With over 110 people across 6 offices in India, Singapore,
Malaysia, China and the US, Pinstorm is today among
the world’s leading digital marketing firms. Mahesh has
a passion for early-stage investing and teamed up with
Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob (ex-Infinity) in 2006 to
set up Seedfund, which aims to be the leading early-stage
venture capital fund in India.
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Title: How to setup a Managed
Services Business in 2009
Author: Dev Anand
Price: Rs.428.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
2009 will be the best year to start a managed services
business as lot of SMEs get ready to let go their one man
IT shops and look for inexpensive IT providers. If you are
a VAR or a system integrator thinking of starting your
own managed services business, this book is for you. Get
the complete picture of how to register your business
& manage federal procedures, raise working capital, cut
costs on operations, win customers, and run a successful
MSP business. Understand what works and what doesn’t
from the case studies and best practices compiled from
hundreds of successful managed service providers.
About the Author:
Dev Anand works with AdventNet Inc., a global IT
management software development company, as Product
Manager for the managed services division. He has held
various marketing and product management roles in
his 8 years of AdventNet life and is associated with the
managed services market since 2006. He manages healthy
relationships with more than 500 managed service
providers (MSPs) worldwide who run their managed
services business on top of AdventNet’s MSP platform.
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He is a guest blogger in mspmentor.net, has done analysis
on various emerging trends of the managed services
market and has shared his ideas and predictions for you
to gain more competitive edge in your business in this
book. He is passionate about user experience, design, and
automobiles in general and has a strong belief in UFOs
and aliens !
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ness-2009
Title: V.G. Whine’s Emails
Author: Vijaya Raajan
Price: Rs.323.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Emailed vignettes from an IT Consultant’s life. For lack
of other avenues, the author conveys all her views and
ideas by email, including philosophy on various aspects of
the management and entrepreneurial worlds. The book
consists of a series of fictional scenarios, with thought-
inspiring intellectual debates on Management, and
suggested tangible and alternative approaches on how to
improve People Management practices on a global scale.
In particular, the author has conceived and advocated an
evolutionary approach for improved Decision-Making in
People Management.
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Title: Babur and Humayun: Modern
Learning Organisation
Author: Aditya Gupta
Price: Rs.182.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
“Babur and Humayun: Modern Learning Organisation” is
a book which deals with Modern Learning Organisation
and its usage for Managers. In this book the success and
failure of Babur and Humayun has been evaluated in the
context of Modern Learning Organisation.
The concept of Modern Learning Organisation was not
present in the times of Babur and Humayun yet it can
be easily pointed out that Babur was effective in using
the techniques of Modern Learning Organisation and
hence he was able to win India even when his army was
a lot smaller than his opponent Ibrahim Lodi, whereas
Humayun missed out on using these techniques, hence
lost his empire to Sher Shah Suri (Sher Khan) and had to
flee.
This book is good even for people not related to
management, since it talk about what is essential for
success in general.
About the Author:
Aditya Gupta, a Management Graduate in Human
Resource and Finance from UP Technical University and
a Law Student, has done a lot of research in easing the
difficult Management topics by relating it to those who
were unaware of such things. His first book “Babur and
Humayun: Modern Learning Organisation” is one such
book, where he has related a very important topic of
Modern Learning Organisation with Babur and Humayun
who were unaware of such concepts but somehow Babur
effectively used these techniques and Humayun failed to
do so.
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Other work done by Aditya include those on Dharma
and Management, Rig veda and other religious books.
A consultant by profession, Aditya is a visiting faculty of
Shri Janki Institute of Management Studies, Shahjahanpur.
He is also working as consultant for ICICI Direct DBC
Shahjahanpur.
He is a person with the heart of a philosopher. He
likes to explore all the possibilities where he can learn
something new.
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ing-organisation
Title: Quality Management System
Audit
Author: Y.K. Gaur
Price: Rs.450.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The book provides an insight into the Quality
Management System Audit requirements. It teaches
the auditee step by step how to plan, prepare and get
through quality management system audit and to obtain
the certification. At the same time to the auditors, it will
prove to be a boon showing them in detail how to plan
and execute the audit.
The book also features a case study of external
audit covering the entire process of audit planning,
conducting opening meeting, evidence gathering, check
list preparation, quality level grading, nonconformity list
and corrective action statement preparation, conducting
closing meeting, and audit reporting. All necessary
formats to execute the audits are also provided.
Therefore, reading this book will be essential for all the
auditee companies and the auditors who are committed
to achieve success.
About the Author:
Y. K. Gaur has a technical, managerial and professional
work-place experience of over 45 years in the fields of
designing, production planning, production and quality
management in different Ordnance Factories under
Ministry of Defence. Out of it, about 18 years were
devoted to quality management. He was instrumental
in preparation of quality manual and quality system
procedures for his organization. He has conducted a
number of audits as an auditor.
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He is well known for his contribution in the field of
education and delivered lectures in various organizations
and institutes.
While at OFK, he was deeply associated with quality
management system assessment, surveillance audits
and internal audits of the organization for a period of
more than 6 years. Also, significant contributions were
made by him towards achieving a quality status which
led to Golden Peacock National Quality Award to the
organization.
To his credit, he has many papers on “Quality” presented
in seminars and conferences. He is life member of the
International Corporation of Engineers, and Indian
Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability.
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Title 1: ABC of Store Operations
(Instructor Copy)
Title 2: ABC of Store Operations
(Student Copy)
Author: C. K. Chinmayaprasad
Title 1: ABC of Store Operations
(Instructor Copy)
About the Book:
This book is an attempt to be used like an activity book
in colleges and institutes providing retail management
course. Once the reader goes through this activity book
thoroughly he or she will be aware of the retail industry
in brief and understand all the basic activities and
processes that take place within a retail store. Every topic
within this book is explained in a very simple manner and
is incorporated with lots of activities and illustrations.
The book has been organized in ten sessions. The book is
in two parts, the Instructor Copy and the Student Copy.
The language and style of the book is very simple. All
references are provided at the end of the book.
The book has been specially designed to cater to the
needs of all those who are keen and interested in joining
the store operations at entry level within the retail
industry.
The Instructor Copy will help one to understand all the
processes and activities that take within a retail store. It
is the perfect facilitator for all teachers, professors, and
faculties of various B-schools and colleges conducting
Retail management course, and guiding students in the
subject of retail store operations. At corporate level it
will certainly help the trainers during the induction of
their employees into retail store operations.
A lot of effort has been put in to create this unique book,
a product which will prove to be one of its kind in the
market and be valuable to all those who use it.
Price: Rs.291.00 + shipping
Language: English
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instructor-copy
Title 2: ABC of Store Operations
(Student Copy)
About the Book:
This book is an attempt to be used like an activity book
in colleges and institutes providing retail management
course. After going through this activity book thoroughly
the reader will have basic awareness of different aspects
of the retail industry and will understand all the basic
activities and processes that take place within a retail
store. Every topic within this book is explained in a very
simple manner and incorporated with lots of activities
and illustrations.
The book has been organized in ten sessions. The
language and style of the book is very simple. All
references are provided at the end of the book.
The book has been specially designed to cater to the
needs of all those who are keen and interested in joining
the store operations at entry level within the retail
industry.
The Student Copy consists of various activities under
each session. This will help a student understand
the concepts much better and make learning more
interesting and effective. It is a good tool for all those
students pursuing a course in Retail management and also
for all frontline staffs within a retail store.
Price: Rs.277.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Author:
The author C.K.Chinmayaprasad has 17 years of
experience in Retailing and is specialised in store
operations.
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He started his career in retailing with international
brands like British Home Stores, Mothercare, Premaman,
Next, Liz Claiborne, and J C Penney.
Back at home he was a part of the team to set up the
first Marks and Spencer store in India. He has also been
exposed to brands like Pantaloons, Big Bazaar and Food
Bazaar.
In India, having personally worked in the association of
Mr. Kishore Biyani and Mr. Sadashiv Nayak the author’s
knowledge in retailing grew in leaps and bounds. Drawing
inspiration from these two great idols the author has
trained more than five hundred students under him and
has played a key role in successfully placing them, both in
the national and international retail markets.
He has designed a course in ‘Retail Store Operations
Management’, has authored a book on his retail
experience, ‘My Journey Through Retailing’ and is a
visiting faculty at various institutes.
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student-copy
Title: Sally’s World
Author: Nandhika Nambi
Price: Rs.137.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Sally is a typical 11 year old American leading a normal
life. She wakes up one day to find events over taking her
so fast, that she doesn’t quite know how to cope.
Enjoy the fun times with her and share her soul searching
as she faces each new dilemma in this extremely well-
expressed story. Learn that you can always make the best
of everything with feisty Sal.
About the Author:
Nandhika Nambi, currently 11 years old, grew up in
England and moved to India. She started this book when
she was ten years old. She lives in Coimbatore, India
constantly irritating her sisters. She does bring immense
enjoyment to her proud parents with her ways.
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Title: Children’s Stories for Our Times
Author: Revathi S Kumaran
Price: Rs.148.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
These are stories of animals and people, Nature and toys.
There’s fun and mischief, and lots to think about too. This
book is for everybody, young and the not-so-young. But
it’s especially for children between eight and twelve.
About the Author:
For more than a decade now, Revathi S Kumaran has
been a writer, editor and independent researcher with
special interest in education. Recently, she took to writing
full time. She writes fiction for children and adults. She is
also co-authoring adaptations of ancient Indian classical
literature for young readers.
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Title: Meghadootam - The Cloud
Messenger
Author: Revathi S kumaran, Yadugiri V T
Price: Rs.77.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Meghadootam is a lyric by Kalidasa, one of India’s most
popular ancient poets and, probably, its best-loved. In this
book, the authors have tried to capture the spirit of the
beautiful original work, especially for young readers.
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cloud-messenger
Title: The Omega Cipher Series
Vol.1- THIRD EYE
Author: Eric Gordon
Price: Rs.300.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
The Omega Cipher authored by Eric Gordon in 2007 is a
3 volume children’s modern fantasy fiction series through
which the author unveils the story of a boy, Robin Scott,
who attempts to solve the mystery behind the series of
unfortunate events striking his family and in the process
unknowingly stumbles over the secrets of the universe
and realizes the threat on the cosmos and the truth of
his existence
Who is behind Robin’s family and why? Will Robin be able
to stop the evil force from destroying the universe? Will
he be able to save the universe from the Big Rip? Will he
be able to destroy the virtual universe created by the evil
forces? Can Robin defuse the giant black hole? Can he
save the world from the dark energy? All these questions
can be answered only if Robin decrypts the Omega
Cipher. But will he be alive to decode the mystery. Will
Robin sacrifice his life and the lives of his dear ones to
decode the secret and save the universe?
There is mystery, magic, super natural powers, fantasy and
fiction which is capable of taking the readers to the edge
of their seats and finally Robin Scott, the next door boy
who is destined to win the heart of millions.
About the Author:
Eric Gordan is a passionate story teller determined to
conquer the hearts of millions of children in the world.
He is an extensive reader of children’s books and started
narrating stories to his friends and classmates when he
was only 6.
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As he grew up he adopted new approaches to his
narrations by making his friends the characters of the
story to make it more interesting to them. He also used
to give options to his friends and classmates to choose
the characters they want and then narrate stories to suit
those characters. He compiled all those breath taking
moments from his stories which had mesmerized all his
friends, classmates and people who loved his stories for
the past 23 years and narrated it to his only son. Based
on the immense interest his son showed in listening to
this story, Eric narrated the story to his son’s friends
during a camping trip. Later the parents of most of the
children who were there in the camping trip called up
Eric to enquire about the book that had the story he
narrated. This inspired Eric to publish this story as a gift
which parents can give to their children. This story is
guaranteed to be a story your child will narrate to their
offspring in future.
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Title: Tinku’s Tooth and other stories
Author: R. Mahesh
Price: Rs.103.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This story book is for the children up to the age of 10.
The stories capture the imagination of these little kids.
Talking to the nature, listening to a railway engine are
the typical games that all of us would have enjoyed in
our childhood. Some stories do carry a subtle message
without making that obvious. While younger kids will
enjoy listening to these stories, the older ones will also
enjoy the easy reading.
About the Author:
Mahesh works for an IT company in Bangalore. As
he claims, he has re-lived his childhood with his two
kids. He has recalled all his childhood moments that
have remained etched in his memory and has enjoyed
recounting all those ups and downs with his kids. He
tried his hands at journalism in his college days; used to
write letters to the newspapers in his school days; has
worked for a Bank and is now part of India’s IT strength.
He has his eyes set on that best-seller plot of a novel that
is haunting him for sometime now. He will soon set a
deadline for himself to translate that idea into print.
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Title: Start Programming with C#
Author: Anoop Unnikrishnan
Price: Rs.162.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book helps programmers master the powerful
programming language C#. This book is intended for a
beginner as well as for an expert.
About the Author:
Anoop Unnikrishnan is associated with a CMM Level 5
Company in Bangalore. He has been working with .Net
ever since the first beta version. His certifications include
OCA, IBM SOA Associate,MCAD, MCTS and MCPD. He
can be reached at anoopukrish@gmail.com.
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Title: लिनक्स पॉकेट गाइड
Author: रविशंकर श्रीवास्तव
Price: Rs.396.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
The book is Linux guide in Hindi for Beginners
About the Author:
Ravishankar Shrivastava is former technocrat, freelance
technical writer and Technical Translator. He has done
mammoth pioneer work in bringing Linux Operating
System in Hindi. He had translated hundreds of
Applications, Installers etc., that includes complete KDE
3.2, Gnome 2.0, XFCE 4.0, Debian Installer, OpenOffice
Help, PC BSD Installer etc., in Hindi. His witty Hindi
Blog : Raviratlami ka Hindi Blog had been awarded as
Best Hindi Blog 2006 by Microsoft BhashaIndia. He had
been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
for 2007,08,09. In Aug. 2007 He was awarded with
Abhivyakti-Hindi-org Technology Writer Award. In Feb.
2008 he was awarded with Chattisgarh-gaurav and for
KDE 3.5 Hindi project, his Hindi Team wins prestigious
FOSS.IN award - sponsored by NRCFOSS. He had done
pioneer work on Chattisgarhi Linux Operating system
(KDE 4.2 Chhattisgarhi Localization).
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Title 1: A Byte of Vim
Title 2: A Byte of Python
Author: Swaroop C H
Title 1: A Byte of Vim
About the Book:
A Byte of Vim is a guide to help you to learn to
learn about Vim, the text editor of choice for many
programmers. This guide is aimed at people who do not
know anything about vi or vim and wish to learn how to
become more productive in their writing.
Price: Rs.338.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: A Byte of Python
About the Book:
A Byte of Python’ is a book on programming using the
Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the
Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know
about computers is how to save text files, then this is the
book for you.
Price: Rs.395.00 + shipping
Language: English
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About the Author:
Swaroop C H is a developer. He is currently part of his
co-founded startup called IONLAB. He has previously
worked at Yahoo! and Adobe. He writes regularly on his
website www.swaroopch.com.
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Title: SCDJWS 1.4 Study Guide
Author: Watsh Rajneesh
Price: Rs.436.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Study Guide for SCDJWS 1.4
About the Author:
Watsh Rajneesh is a Senior Software Engineer working
at Brocade Communications Systems in San Jose, CA,
USA. He is a Sun certified Java programmer, Business
component developer, Web component developer and
Java Web services developer. He has around 9 years of
software development experience. He blogs at http://
rwatsh.blogspot.com about his learnings in the field.
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Title: Web on the Go
Author: S. Balachandran
Price: Rs.299.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
When economists say “recession” people panic.
When economists say “The Economy is in Depression,”
people jump out of windows.
But the truth is, economists are much like sports
commentators.
They are not players in the actual game. The players are
the innovators.
Innovators build the future. Innovation creates wealth.
The truth is, Innovation is in Recession. Innovation is in
Depression.
So, what’s the turn-around strategy? Create and inspire
more innovators...
The Path: Web On-The-Go.
A Forecast of Innovations for the Wireless Web World.
A Must Read for Tomorrow’s Innovating Managers.
Reveals innovation’s vulnerabilities and opportunities.
And how to recognize innovation’s dynamics, emergent
patters, and predictability.
Learn how innovation’s real purpose is Not a function for
profit, but...a function of freedom.
This book presents innovative ideas with fictionalized
examples about the Wireless Web On-The-Go. It is a
book for all - executives, engineers and general public.
About the Author:
The Author lives in the Silicon Valley, (Palo Alto, California,
United States). Bala has been consulting as a software
development engineer and architect in most of the major
corporate enterprises.
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Having worked in the computer industry for nearly 25
years, and having witnessed the technology growth that
accompanied it, Bala was convinced that now was time to
take this technology to the people and society at large.
It took some time for Bala to switch gears from software
development to actual publication of a book. Step by
step, Bala built a team of experts. Special care has been
taken to build a team with social and political knowledge,
as well as expertise in their given fields. This global team
includes Meg Hamill in Northern California for creative
writing; Christine Frank is in St. Louis, Missouri for editing
and formatting; and Pippa Cornell who lives in UK for
creation of illustrations. All of these individuals helped to
make this project a success.
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Title 1: Project Communication
Management Summarized
Title 2: Scrum Summarized
Author: Sachin Mehra
Title 1: Project Communication Management
Summarized
About the Book:
The book is written primarily for existing project
managers so that they can improve their communication
skills. This book is equally helpful for aspiring project
managers. By using the methods described in this book,
they can systematically improve the communication
management of their projects. PMP aspirants can
also use this book to understand the art of project
communication management in the simplest way.
Price: Rs.221.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: Scrum Summarized
About the Book:
This book will introduce you to the Agile software
development methodology - Scrum.
Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software
development. Scrum is a good method of managing
software development projects in an environment where
requirements are likely to change quickly or are not
completely known at the start of the project.
This book is written for anyone and everyone who
wishes to understand and adopt Scrum. In this book,
author has used his experience and knowledge of Scrum
to describe the key concepts to get you started, where
you go from here is upto you to decide.
Price: Rs.216.00 + shipping
Language: English
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About the Author:
Sachin Mehra is a veteran engineering manager who is
an MBA and a certified Project Management Professional
(PMP). In over 12 years of software development and
management experience, Sachin has worked for small
start-up as well as established innovative companies.
He has vast experience in Program/Project Management,
Consulting, Business Analysis, Outsourcing and Off-
shoring, Service transition and Management, Onsite
Coordination, Sales Support, Enterprise Architecture,
Application Designing and Development, Testing,
Integration, and Implementation.
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Management Summarized
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Title: Applying to American Graduate
Schools in Engineering and Fine Arts
Author: Diwaker Gupta
Price: Rs.127.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The United States is an increasingly popular destination
for many Indian students seeking to further their
education. While plenty of material is available on the
graduate school application process, this book looks
at the process from the perspective of Indian students.
While engineering is by far the most popular field for
prospective applicants, this book also focuses on the
important and growing number of fine arts students,
addressing the needs of a much under-served niche.
About the Author:
Diwaker holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science from
IIT Kanpur and is currently finishing up his PhD at the
University of California, San Diego. He is a passionate
user and advocate of free and open source software, and
true to that spirit, he likes sharing not just useful code,
but also useful information -- and hence this book. In his
spare time, Diwaker also enjoys cooking, singing, ultimate
frisbee etc. For more information, please visit his website
http://floatingsun.net
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schools-engineering-and-fine-arts
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schools-engineering-and-fine-arts
Title: You & Architecture
Author: Hitesh H Sompuraa
Price: Rs.300.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Architecture is the only Art-form by which we are
surrounded throughout 24 hours from our birth to
death. In this book, the well-known Architect Hitesh
H Sompuraa writes for the common man in simple,
short and lucid language how Architecture affects every
moment of our life. And unpredictably, his explanation
is NOT based on Vastu Shastra or Feng-Shui.Without
dwelling on the technical details as they maybe
boring for the common man, he explains about the
importance,styles and effects of Architecture with the
common day practical examples, drawings, photographs
and even poems about Architecture!
This book is a must read for all irrespective of age and
background. It is also a very useful resource for the
students who are preparing for the entrance exam to
get admission in “Bachelor of Architecture” course after
completing their HSC (ie. XII Standard) examination.
About the Author:
Architect Hitesh H Sompuraa is the recipient of “Salute
Mumbai 2005” award for being one of the few rare
architects who have the expertise of both, the Modern as
well as Traditional Architecture.
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Because he is equipped with the degree of “Bachelor of
Architecture” from Mumbai University, and he belongs
to the family which have been designing temples in India
since past 12 generations ie. more than 500 years.For
more information about the book and the author, please
visit www.Sompuraa.com.
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Title: Natural & Curious Facts
Author: Hage Nibo
Price: Rs.596.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The Book is a compilation of 340 wonderful, natural &
curious facts surrounding us; very useful for academic,
competitive and general knowledge purpose, covering
wide range of everyday science with pictures in every
topic; a best friend in leisure and during journey time,
sweeping away all the boredom. The Questions, answered
in the book are very general questions, like, ‘Why do we
feel hungry?’, ‘How do the Insects manage to get inside
the fruit in absence of any hole in it?’, ‘What would be
the volume of the water, when turned into ice?’, ‘Why
does the steam cause more severe burn than the boiling
water?’, ‘How the purity of gold is measured?’, ‘Why do
we feel dizzy after spinning round and round?’, ‘Who has
the brain without head?’, ‘Why do the ice cubes float on
water, but sink in alcohol?’, ‘Why do the moths commit
suicide in the burning candle?’, ‘Which worm eats food
by absorbing through its body?’, ‘Why is the skin of the
older people generally looser than that of the younger?’,
‘Why don’t we like to eat food without salt?’, ‘What
is the average volume of the urine that we pass in a
day?’, ‘Where a day is a year?’, ‘In which way is diamond
dangerous to us?’, ‘Is the bamboo a tree or a grass?’, ‘How
does the massaging relieve pain?’, ‘When does a man
stops growing?’, ‘Why cockroaches are active during the
night?’, ‘Why is it more difficult to thread a needle with a
single eye than with two eyes open?’ etc.
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About the Author:
The Author is an advocate, interested in various
wonderful, natural & curious phenomena. He has
published couple of books in the field of Law and
competitive examinations too.
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Title: Beginner’s English Grammar
Author: U.A.Kiran
Price: Rs.70.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is to help you have a concise knowledge
of English and English grammar. The examples would
help you in good understanding and correct usage in
written as well as spoken English. Indian students are
generally not so interested in English Grammar, but they
want to score better in the English language. Grammar
is sometimes dubbed as a boring subject. They fail to
understand that without proper knowledge of grammar,
their target of scoring better grade is unachievable.
Beginner’s English Grammar is for those who want to
gain some knowledge of grammar. This book would
upgrade them from No Grammar to Some Grammar.
In the book, I have concentrated on the parts of speech,
Tense, Active and Passive Voice, Direct and Indirect
Speech and how verb agrees with subjects. At the end, I
have given the format of letter-writing.
About the Author:
U. A. Kiran is a Commerce graduate, born in Kerala,
educated in West Bengal, employed in Andhra Pradesh
and now in Goa.
He is interested in creative activities like writing poems,
stories, novelettes/novels, dialogues/dramas, drawing,
chalk-shaping and making puzzles.
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His works are published by www.in.msn.com, www.ndtv.
com and The Navhind Times.
Poem: ‘Do You Love?’ Woman’s Era
Books: 1) The Alpha and The Omega and Other Stories 2)
Lost Smiles
Site: www.geocities.com/uakiran05
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Title: Moonstruck and Other Stories
Author: Sabarni Chackrabarti
Price: Rs.225.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book contains English translation of Author’s own
Bengali Stories, which have earlier been published by a
Kolkata based publisher. Some stories appear as blog
posts at sulekha.com (www.sabarni.sulekha.com)
About the Author:
Sabarni Chackrabarti (b. 14 November 1950) is working
with an All India Public Financial Institution in a senior
position. Literature fascinated him from a tender age.
He took to writing when he was in his mid thirties. Two
books of the author have been published by a Kolkata
based publisher, which are compilations of stories in
Bengali.
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stories
Title: Stories and Poems - Short and
Sweet
Author: Heramb Sukhathankar
Price: Rs.353.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is a collection of short stories and poems
written spontaneously. This book carries the reader to
distant lands of human emotions and fantasy!
About the Author:
The author S.Heramb is a student of SyBsc (Computer
Science) studying at D.G.Ruparel College in Mumbai. The
author is also an amateur photographer.
This book is collection of a few short stories and poems
based on human emotions and the questions which we
frequently encounter in our daily life !
The reader is welcome to write to the author at :
zigmo89@gmail.com
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and-sweet
Title: The Moon’s Complexion
Author: Irene Black
Price: Rs.281.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
A distant tragedy turns the lives of two strangers upside
down when, newly arrived from England, they meet in
India and discover a secret that binds them together as
they flee from a dangerous stalker.
Bangalore, 1991. Ashok Rao, a brilliant young Indian
doctor, has returned from England to take part in an
arranged marriage.
Who is the intriguing Englishwoman that seeks him out
there? Journalist Hannah Petersen is being pursued across
India by a sinister killer—but why?
This exotic tale of love across cultural boundaries unfolds
within the mystical heat of Southern India, Sri Lanka and
the icy countryside of England in winter.
“The combination of cliff-hangers and carefully observed
descriptions of Indian traditions, food, temples and
landscapes becomes utterly irresistible. Will appeal to
anyone who enjoys a skilfully constructed page-turner.”
—Sophia Furber, The London Student Newspaper
“A wonderfully written love story set in Southern India.
A captivating read.” — Shelf review, Ottakar’s Bookshop,
Guildford
“Fantastic read—I read it within a day. Couldn’t put it
down. Good knowledge of cultures from writer without
it being pushed down our throats. We get so close to the
characters. Loved it!” Gill James, author of Lines in the
Sand and Jason’s Crystal
For further details see www.ireneblack.co.uk and
www.goldenford.co.uk
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About the Author:
Irene Black was born in England and is based in Surrey. At
various times she has been a psychologist and a teacher
and has lived in the USA, Australia and India. She has an
MA by Independent Study in South Asian Art, specializing
in South Indian temples. Her dissertation was on the
Hoysala temples of Karnataka. She has won numerous
national and international prizes for short stories, poetry
and articles, including the 2003 National Association of
Writers’ Groups Annual Best Short Story award, and she
was shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Bristol Prize.
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Title 1: Doraaha
Title 2: My Collection of Stories
Author: Rohit Sachdev
Title 1: Doraaha
About the Book:
This book is a story of a young indian wife whose
accidental meeting with a teenaged boy changes her life
so much that she is at a junction of her life where she has
to take a difficult decision of which path to take.
Price: Rs.143.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: My Collection of Stories
About the Book:
This is a collection of three different stories.
The first story is about a simple man Ram. One day while
retuening home, his life is changed and the sequence of
events lead him to become a Guru. He offers to help
others without any personal interest. One day God
comes to meet him, will he be able to recognize him.
The second story is about Vivaan. He’s just lost his father.
His father dreamt of his daily being the No. 1 in India.
Now Vivaan promises to take the daily further from
where his father had left. Will he be able to fulfill the
dream?
The third story is of Aryan who lives a happy family life,
till his wife dies. He remmaries for his children’s sake. Will
his new wife be able to bring the happy days back to their
lives?
Price: Rs.166.00 + shipping
Language: English
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About the Author:
Rohit is in business. He likes to read and write stories. He
is based in mumbai. His aim to write simple stories which
anyone can relate to his or her life.
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Title 1: The Life of a Little Princess
Title 2: Roots
Author: Jivan
Title 1: The Life of a Little Princess
About the Book:
This story is dedicated to author’s daughter. It is about
how globalization changed an ordinary person’s family life
forever. An aged father’s struggle to give his only daughter
good education and a secured life. After the court battle
for his daughter’s custody will he ever live with his
estranged wife?
Price: Rs.177.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: Roots
About the Book:
A middle class parent brought-up their only daughter
with lots of love and affections only to find their dreams
shattered at the end. Their only daughter chose to live
with her girl friend as a live-in partner! How her aged
parents cope with their tragedy forms the crux of the
story.
Price: Rs.215.00 + shipping
Language: English
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About the Author:
By profession author is a sales cum service engineer. He
has about thirty five years of experience in costumer
care division. He has written fictions and novels. His
speciality is writing realistic fiction in different genres.
Life/story, family fiction, Sci-Fi, political thriller, lesbian
love, erotic, porn, horror and also about new religion -
UNIVERSAL LOVE!
Visit his blog www.jivan.gather.com to read excerpts of
all his fictions/articles and photo galleries.
Happy reading...
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Title: The Alpha and The Omega and
Other Stories
Author: U. A. Kiran
Price: Rs.126.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
‘The Alpha and the Omega and Other Stories’ focuses
on different characters, different moods and different
situations which would definitely bring you to ‘The World
of Kiranetic Ideas’.
‘Motorcycle’ would tickle your funny bones till the end.
Some stories, like ‘Fear of Defeat’ and ‘Beauty at the
Window’, have the pinch of suspense which you would
really enjoy if you do not go to the end of the stories
before you reach the last lines. In some cases you would
feel whether such a thing or such a person would really
exist. Well, author is here to entertain you with the book,
full of characters imaginable and unimaginable, which he
feels would be interesting to share with all.
Extract from the Book:
Strolling alone down the Mahatma Gandhi Road at
around ten p.m., I felt I was followed. I turned round
and found none. Resuming towards my house, I thought
of Shalini who had been the centre of attraction at the
party I was returning from. Immediately, I heard someone
saying, ‘Forget her’.
Again I twisted round and got nobody. It was just a
fantasy I decided and continued to walk, after taking the
narrow lane with the trees on either side of it.
A tree showed some movement. And I sensed that I was
pursued……….
About the Author:
U. A. Kiran is a Commerce graduate, born in Kerala,
educated in West Bengal, employed in Andhra Pradesh
and now in Goa.
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He is interested in creative activities like writing poems,
stories, drawing, novelettes/novels, dialogues/dramas,
chalk-shaping and making puzzles.
His works are published by
www.in.msn.com, www.ndtv.com and The Navhind Times.
Poem: ‘Do You Love?’ Woman’s Era
Site: www.geocities.com/uakiran05
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Title: WINDOWs-diary notes of a
Software Engineer
Author: Vipin Kottoor Madathil
Price: Rs.149.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Written against the backdrop of Software Industry, this
is a story of 5 software engineers. In the form of diary
notes, the story reveals some hilarious and grievous
incidents inside a ‘virtual’ software company. Love, Joy,
Surprise, Anger, Sadness, Fear are all part and parcel
of these incidents; ethics sidelined and workplace
temperature reaching boiling point with strong current
of emotions, the outcome of the incidents sometimes
disturbs the feelings of these Software Engineers.
About the Author:
A Software Engineer,Vipin K M, currently works in
Bangalore, India. He completed his engineering from
College Of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
His short stories have been published under the titles
‘The Euthanasia For a Neem’(2002), ‘The Cricket
Match On A Sunday’(2004). His poetry collection
has been published under the title ‘In the Land of
Opportunities’(2006).
Written against the backdrop of Software Industry, ‘Hello
Mr. Pereira’ (2006-07) is the first volume of his diary
notes. This book is available at
http://www.lulu.com/content/605768.
‘WINDOWs-diary notes of a Software Engineer’ is the
second set of its kind.
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His works have been published in different websites and
dailies.
(http://www.kritya.in/0211/En/poetry_at_our_time.html)
The author would like to get readers’ feedback on this
volume; he can be contacted at kmvipin@gmail.com or
Hello_Pereira1@yahoo.com
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software-engineer
Title: And the Bubble Bursts
Author: Ujjwal Sourav
Price: Rs.255.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This is a story about a guy born and brought up in a small
village in Bihar, who gets selected in one of the most
reputed medical schools in India and comes to the city of
dreams – Mumbai - to pursue his dreams. Here he finds
four other guys who were quite unlike him in every way
possible but he can’t help being friends with them after
some initial hiccups. This is the story about him and his
friends, how they overcome the cultural shock, screw
up their lives in every possible way and how something
happens in their lives which changes their perception
and lives forever. How they realize their responsibilities
towards their parents and society, how they face
challenges in lives and kiss the feet of success which they
hadn’t imagined in the wildest of their dreams
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Title: Dateline Independence - an
Indian Memoir
Author: Indu Saraiya
Price: Rs.270.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This Memoir captures the reverberations of the struggle
for India’s Independence as they overtook the fortunes of
the Bhimani family in Bombay.
The traumatic arrest and imprisonment of his mother in
1932 for picketing British goods spurs the son, Gaurav, to
record the momentous events of the freedom movement
in a magnum opus. But even as he writes he has to cope
with his own life’s vicissiitudes. The failure of the family
business, gambling debts, and heavy drinking lead to the
breakdown of his marriage with Lata, and he seeks refuge
in the family’s ancestral farm in Karla village. Here he
finds refuge in the friendship of a kindred soul……..…
The story winds its way through shocks and surprises,
from the sylvan valley of Karla, to the battlefields of
Burma , back to a bitter-sweet finale on Independence
Day.
About the Author:
Indu Saraiya is a free-lance writer and journalist whose
book reviews, features and interviews have appeared in
leading Indian newspapers and magazines.
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She has contribued chapters to Post Colonial
Perspectives on the Raj and its Literature (1994) and
Post Colonial Indian Literature in English(1998), and she
was founder-editor of BEAM, the literary biannual of the
Bombay English Association.
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memoir
Title 1: The Mindweb
Title 2: “Il Libro” (vol.1, 2, and 3)
Author: Talco Talquez
Title 1: The Mindweb
About the Book:
Apparently a cyberpunk noir/horror novel, dealing with
Virtual Realities.
In point of fact, a serious philosophical pondering over
the issue of “what is real?”. (Kinda like “The Matrix”,
yup. But author wrote this in 1991, 8 years ahead of the
movie.)
ONLY AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN.
More info may be gathered in the English-speaking area of
the author’s website: www.fenice.info
Price: Rs.550.00 + shipping
Language: Italian
Title 2: “Il Libro” (vol.1, 2, and 3)
About the Book:
..meaning “The Book”, right now is only available in Italian
- but the English translation should be ready by May 2009.
--
“A destined time does exist. That time, is the present
time.
Now is the right time to organize the slanting point.
A point is required: a fruitfly won’t succeed in massacring
a cleptosaur.”
A voyage of the MIND to frontier territories - where
reality thins down, and logic has to give way to intuition.
A voyage of the HEART in the meanders of feelings -
which ripen until they turn into Sensivity.
Echoes of the most distant past resurface to prepare the
future. (If we ever get there, that is.)
Philosophy without bombastic words. Mysticism without
mawkishnesses. All roast, no smoke.
Then you’ll subdivide your life in “before having read the
Book” and “after”..
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Title 3: Aforismi (1990-2008)
Title 4: “Racconti raccolti”
Author: Talco Talquez
..when you’ll finally find yourself on your path: for the
very first time, your own.
--
This Book won’t change your life.
All you’re gonna do after having read it, will.
More info (including some excerpts from the novel) may
be gathered in the English-speaking area of the author’s
website: www.fenice.info
Price: Rs.687.00 per volume + shipping
Language: Italian
Title 3: Aforismi (1990-2008)
About the Book:
A collection of aphorisms.
ONLY AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN.
More info may be gathered in the English-speaking area of
the author’s website: www.fenice.info
Price: Rs.412.00 + shipping
Language: Italian
Title 4: “Racconti raccolti”
About the Book:
An anthology of short tales in Italian.
More info (including some excerpts) may be gathered in
the English-speaking area of the author’s website: www.
fenice.info
Price: Rs.550.00 + shipping
Language: Italian
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Title 5: Game Over
Author: Talco Talquez
Title 5: Game Over
About the Book:
A cyberpunk detective story, dealing with Virtual Realities
and the “underground world” of the hackers.
ONLY AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN.
More info may be gathered in the English-speaking area of
the author’s website: www.fenice.info
Price: Rs.550.00 + shipping
Language: Italian
About the Author:
Talco Talquez is the pseudonym of a writer born in Italy
(whether by chance or Destiny, he’s still yet to find out).
However this doesn’t ipso-facto make of him an Italian..
and possibly, not even an Earthling. :-1
He’s currently translating to English his trilogy “The
Book”, which so far is only available in Italian - as well as
his other works.
If you wish to know more, check out the English-speaking
area of his site: www.fenice.info
Purchase Link: for The Mindweb
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Purchase Link: for “Il Libro” (vol.1, 2, and 3)
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Title: My Summer Days
Author: Prithviraj Singh Chauhan
Price: Rs.145.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
‘My Summer Days’ is a collection of memorable
childhood memories. This book will bring the audience
close back to their own childhood days. The story
revolves around the summer vacations spent on a
farmhouse, in a village. Each chapter is a story in itself,
which will bring reader close to his own childhood.
About the Author:
Prithviraj is an assistant manager with a reputed US Bank
working in Delhi, India. This is his first book sharing his
childhood experience. He has contributed short articles
and stories to sites like Triond.
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Title: Chance and the World
Author: Gopal Srinivasan
Price: Rs.122.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Being caught up in the monotony of the world and
our day to day lives, we do not see the world of the
unknown or the world of chance. Our experiences of
the day to day world are subject to certain assumptions
that we make about the many simultaneous events that
co-exist. These can be changed or can be controlled
to make our lives better. In this book the author has
presented chances that occur in our everyday world
using examples from common place occurrences. The
author has also presented a systematic definition of
chance for the reader to understand why chances exist
everywhere. Finally, the author presents on understanding
how chances exist in our direct perception of the world
around us and how these chances can be controlled to
yield benefit.
About the Author:
The author is a freelance writer on many subjects. He is
an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
and is currently employed in the software industry. The
author has served in several roles in the Industry and
University as Project manager and Technology developer
/ Research Scholar. He is also a part time researcher with
more than 20 research publications.
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Title: తొలి రేయి - తెలుగు నవల
Author: చావా కిరణ్ కుమార్
Price: Rs.199.00 + shipping
Language: Telugu
About the Book:
This is a novel initially drafted on authors blog, then
edited improved.
About the Author:
Author is currently living in Hyderabad. He writes on his
blog http://chavakiran.com
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Title: Dreams on Fire
Author: Samir Gajjar
Price: Rs.170.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is a realistic fiction story depicting a typical
day in the life of Mumbai. It runs you through minute
details about hardships involved in routine Mumbai life.
The journey is depicted in a very light hearted manner,
looking at the situation through the eyes of the author
and his quest to fulfil his dream.
About the Author:
The Author was born and brought up in Mumbai. He is a
Chartered Accountant by profession. He has been playing
with numbers for all his professional life. This is his first
attempt to play with words.
He is known among his colleagues to have a very good
sense of humour. But they always complained about his
lack of communication skills. The book is an attempt to
over come this loophole.
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Title: Madhouse
Author: Santwana Chatterjee
Price: Rs.159.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
It is a collection of short stories written during author’s
tenure at ICAI.
About the Author:
Santwana is granddaughter of Late Sunayani Devi, the
younger sister of Abanindranath Tagore. Santwana got
her name from her Grandma . After completing MA
in Philosophy she worked in a bank and then joined a
statutory organisation. Sheer boredom forced Santwana
to try her hand at writing poems and short stories. Her
stories are her observations of life in general. Some of
them have been published in printed and e-journals.
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Title: One Step At A Time (Manzilein)
Author: Kishore Joshi
Price: Rs.175.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is about a man’s journey in life to discover his
true potential and his inner self.
About the Author:
The author is a man who has travelled a lot and is still
searching for the truth.
Purchase Link:
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Title: Kitna Sach? Kitna Jhooth??
Author: Hem Chandra Joshi
Price: Rs.173.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
शायद ये कहानियाँ न होते हुये जीवन की वास्तविक
घटनायें ज्यादा हैं। मेरी संवेदनशीलता ने ऐसी घटनाओं
को थोड़ा सा मोड़ देते हुए कहानी के रूप में प्रस्तुत करने
का प्रयास तब किया था जब मेरे जैसे काम में डूबे रहने
वाले व्यक्ति के पास आफिस में कोई कार्य ही नही था।
मैं तो जीवन को दूब घास की तरह मानता हूँ जिसको
कोई काटे, उखाड़े या फिर जला दे, वह पानी की पहली
बौछार के साथ ही फिर हरी हो जाती है। मेरी ये सभी
रचनायें पूर्व में प्रकाशित हो चुकी हैं जो पाठकों द्वारा
बेहद सराहीं गयीं। आशा है कि ‘पोथी.कॉम’ के माध्यम से
इनको पाठकों का विस्तार मिलेगा।
मैं यह पुस्तक अपनी ‘इजा’ को समर्पित करता हूँ और
ईश्वर से प्रार्थना करता हूँ कि अगला जीवन भी उनके
पुत्र के रूप में ही प्राप्त हो।
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Title: Memsahib
Author: Paul Gopal
Price: Rs.241.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Memsaab is part political thriller, part love story, set in
southern India. The concept of a ménage a trois, featuring
people from such different backgrounds and played out
against a backdrop of politics, is a powerful and intriguing
one.
About the Author:
Author can be reached at paulgopal@yahoo.com
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Title: To Catch A Smile
Author: Vivek Kumar Agarwal
Price: Rs.100.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
As commented by readers
All the stories in the book are written in such a simple,
conversational fashion that does not make you reach for
the dictionary at every sentence and search your mind
for what a phrase might convey.Very simple and written
as if its a diary. Relaxing read. I specially liked the story
‘You me and the sheet in between’. It is really gripping.
Its written in a way that I or anyone penning down their
thoughts would do. It gives a very nice and REALLY
sudden shock, which no one could really have thought of.
Great work.
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23 stories, 23 moments, 23 moods, 23 people though
all connected somewhere. All are projections of
sensitivity, curiosity and dilemma. Stories of today’s times,
relationsips and dramatic events. These are intelligent
stories told simply to strike a chord without notice.
Themes are varied; from love, relationsips, loss to
temptations and life’s learnings.
About the Author:
Vivek is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, and HBTI, Kanpur.
He currently works at KPMG, the international advisory
firm.
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Apart from writing, he indulges in theatre. People, history
and stories of all types form his other interests. The
stories narrated in this book are slices of our life viewed
from the lens of the curious and sensitive little boy and
the thoughtful man we all carry within ourselves.
Your feedback and comments are invited at
vivglobal@gmail.com
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Title: Zeroes and Circles
Author: Anchit Sharma
Price: Rs.191.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Zeroes and Circles is a fictional novel written by Anchit
Sharma. The story comprises of very fast paced events
that range across a spectrum of genres and aspects. It can
be described as a dark psychological thriller amalgamated
with science fiction and rounded up with philosophical
thoughts. The narration has sarcastic humour added to
address some sensitive and serious topics to bring out
their irony.
It is the story of the main character Mickey Pundit’s
entire life. Through his life he is intrigued by various
truths thrown by the world to him. The biggest truth
of all that he finds is the concept of ‘Reality’, the only
thing that is irrefutably bitter. But is it so? He challenges
the concept of reality through a sequence of strange
psychological events that he forces through his life. One
of these events include the splitting of him into two
independent beings i.e. Mickey and his subconscious mind.
His subconscious mind asks him questions that he has
longed to know all his life. Reality, is it what the world
has to offer or what we choose to believe? Is there a
comparison between the two? Can we compare dreams
and reality? I mean is it really good to stay in reality? Or
is it really bad to be a dreamer? What use is reality? He
digs deeper to a basic question. What is reality? How can
we dissolve the difference between dreams and reality?
What is true bliss?
Bestowed with an unquenching thirst for these answers
and finding himself failing to find any, he finds himself
standing on a cliff, ready to jump off with a letter in his
hand which reads -
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Dear Equation,
I have been failed by you. I don’t have faith in you
anymore. My circles will never be complete. Therefore I
must delete my variable from you.
Mickey
Will his subconscious mind and he end up dead in the
fathoms of the sea below or will they witness something
truly amazing which will give them the answers they
need to discover the key to happiness, sadness, emotions,
purpose, victory and failure. Will the pursuit of bliss be
answered upon?
About the Author:
Anchit Sharma is a Computer Engineer based in Pune. He
likes pursuing creative activities like composing music and
writing various things.
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Title: Confessions... Unearthed
Author: Dr. Anand Hinduja
Price: Rs.162.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Confessions…Unearthed is an ensemble of eighteen
short stories – stories that have taken birth from the
world around us. Author has always believed that love is
not about winning or losing, conquering or surrendering.
It’s a feeling, an essence, a fragrance that cannot be held
captive by any soul, but which can be found in very simple
relationships around us!
Each story in this compilation tries to unearth a distinct
facet of the most sacred relationship in the world –
LOVE!
This book is a tribute to the most pristine perfume…
LOVE!
Simple, passionate and realistic…
Confessions…Unearthed
About the Author:
Dr. Anand Hinduja is a M.B.B.S. doctor and teacher
by profession. He writes short stories and poetry on
relationships and life in leisure time.
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Title: The College Stalker
Author: Aniesha Brahma
Price: Rs.161.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Aria is new to college along with her group of friends.
Her boyfriend disapproves of having guy friends so she
sticks to her gang of girls.
However, she gets something more than she bargains for
- a stalker.
When she goes through an emotional upheaval, Aria is
forced to ask for help from unexpected quarters.
Is her stalker really a stalker or is there something more
to him than that? What does he want anyway?
Based on some random true facts, this is the story of
THE COLLEGE STALKER.
About the Author:
Aniesha Brahma is a nineteen year old college student,
currently pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Comparative
Literature from Jadavpur University, in Kolkata, West
Bengal. Aniesha began to take writing up as a career
seriously when she was six years old. She currently lives
with her parents, her sister lives abroad. She can be
contacted at: gia_brahma@yahoo.co.uk
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Title: New Dimensions of
Community Psychology
Author: Piyush P. Trivedi
Price: Rs.141.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
“A Single Idea Can Light Up the World.” Some small ideas
in this book, inspired by ancient spiritual practices, may
open new doors in the fields of Community Psychology
like Crisis Intervention, Consultation, Mental Health
Education etc. Thus it becomes useful not only to Hindu
Community and Indian Community Psychologists but also
for Community Psychologists of any country.
About the Author:
Piyush P. Trivedi is a volunteer in Dev Sanskriti University
(A university for moulding the youth. See www.dsvv.org
for details). His first project was to study the effect of
Mantra Chanting on Stress with the help of Bio-feedback.
The nice results encouraged him to do further work on
spirituality for mental health and cure. For his personal
details please visit his personal web pages at
www.earthquake.4mg.com or email him at
piyushptrivedi@yahoo.com
His Permanent address is C/o. Pravinchandra Trivedi.
“Laxmi Nivas”
Jala ni Jar, Ram Kuva Street,
Jamnagar (Gujarat-India) 361001
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psychology
Title: Yoga and Psychoanalysis
Author: Günter von Hummel
Price: Rs.188.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The book offers a brief overview of the different types of
Yoga and then provides a comparison with the modern
science of psychology. Laya-Yoga, as it was taught by
Sant Kirpal Singh (1894 – 1974) in Sant Mat seems to be
the best pick for such research. This comparative study
culminates in an independent and new method which can
connect the East and the West in an ideal way. For further
information have a look at
www.analytic-psychocatharsis.com
About the Author:
The author is a psychoanalyst in Munich, Germany and
was a devotee of Kirpal Singh for over thirty years. He
has published different books about yoga, meditation and
psychoanalysis. For further information have a look to
www.psyche-und-soma.de
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Title 1: Kapil’s Samkhya Patanjali’s
Yoga
Title 2: The Eternal Soul
Author: Brahmrishi Vishvatma Bawra
Title 1: Kapil’s Samkhya Patanjali’s Yoga
About the Book:
Swami Bawra is the primary source and inspiration for
this compilation of uniquely penetrating and accessible
insights into Samkhya and Yoga. Kapil’s Samkhya is
the foundation of thought underlying the methods of
Yoga. This commentary revives the core philosophy of
Samkhya in the ancient search for truth and freedom
from suffering. Nature and spirit are distinct, but emanate
eternally from one Source. Nature projects into life as
a continuum from causal and subtle energy to gross
matter. Spirit or consciousness, integral to all existence,
is that which enlivens nature. Realization of the eternal
relationship between the individual and the Source of
energy and consciousness ends suffering in one’s present
life.
Price: Rs.255.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: The Eternal Soul
About the Book:
When death is near, we seek to understand life. This is
the premise of the Katha Upanishad and the inspired
commentary of Swami Bawra. This commentary on
the Katha is a great sequel to Swami Bawra’s “Kapil’s
Samkhya Patanjali’s Yoga” where the rational basis of inner
connection with the source of life is developed in full
detail.
Price: Rs.223.00 + shipping
Language: English
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About the Author:
Brahmrishi Vishvatma Bawra (1934-2002) is the founder
of the International Brahmrishi Mission. He was born in
a small village of India near Varanasi. As a child, he shied
away from school and had no formal education. At the
age of eighteen, he was enlightened by the touch of a
great yogi of the Himalayas, Bhagvan Chandra Mauli, and
remembered many previous lives spent with his guru.
Under his guidance, Swami Bawra left his family to study
in Ayodhya at the principal center of the Vaishnava Order.
There, Swami Bawra studied according to the ancient
system of scholarly teaching while performing higher
spiritual practices under the guidance of his master,
Chandra Mauli. By the grace of his master he received
a distinctive memory of scripture and philosophical
treatises. Thus he became a learned yogi of the Vaishnava
Sanyasi Order. After a period of time, his master insisted
that he return to society and help humanity by teaching
the knowledge bestowed by Lord Krishna in the
Bhagavad Gita.
Swami Bawra hesitated to leave his spiritual ecstasy,
but finally compromised with his master and followed
his direction. Wearing only a loincloth, he begged alms,
carried a small bag with Holy Scriptures, and traveled
throughout India giving lectures on the Bhagavad Gita,
Rāmāyana, Upanishads, Sāmkhya,Yoga, and Vedanta
philosophies in the light of modern science. After twelve
years of wandering, and at the request of his disciples,
Swami Bawra agreed to establish a center for spiritual
practice. The first center was inaugurated in 1965, and his
mission eventually became an international organization
with centers in Holland, England, Canada, and the United
States. Swami Bawra also founded schools that included
more than ten missionary schools for poor children in
the villages of India.
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Swami Bawra’s teaching emphasizes that the spiritual
science of Brahma Vidyā, knowledge of the source of
life in Brahman, has two aspects, theory and practice.
In the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita the theory of this
science is called Sāmkhya, and its practical aspect is called
Yoga. On the basis of his own experiences, Swami Bawra
taught a higher practice called Maha Yoga, the “great path”
for realizing ultimate truth and finding freedom from
suffering. His teachings are universal and not related with
any caste, creed, color, country, community, gender, or
sect.
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Title: Man Is A Thought
Author: Tarundeep Singh
Price: Rs.247.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This work tries to establish relationship between
scientific theories and theological beliefs. Author explores
if thoughts, their behavior, existence and interaction with
mind can be explained with in scientific domain.
Further to this, book also provides insight that why
artificial intelligence fails to mimic man’s ability to think,
what limits rational intelligence to attain the status of
pinnacle, how thought space can be perceived by humans
etc.
At the end author suggests that it is a new beginning for
mankind. And he reaches at a point where he says:
“A man is an oscillation of an image of thought in Real
Time Space.”
About the Author:
Tarundeep Singh is an IT Professional. He completed
his MS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA in Dec 2003. He
has co-authored US Patent on Fault Isolation on PCI Bus
with Dr. Richard E. Harper, who is leading scientist with
IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab.
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Title: Songs of a Stringed Soul
Author: Ranjit Kumar Das
Price: Rs.165.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This volume has a collection of total 90 poems of which
64 have been published earlier.
The 45 little pieces appearing in Part A – Children’s
Section were highly recommended specially for children
by Sister Gemma Thomas, Principal, Stella Maris School,
Lucknow in her FOREWORD to the book ‘A Bouquet
for you’, where these poems first appeared. In Part B
– General Section, three poems viz. ‘Light of darkness’,
‘The arrival of youth’ & ‘Life is fascinating’ have won
the Editor’s Choice Award from poetry.com and other
two poems viz. ‘An ode to my daughter’ & ‘The undying
infatuation’ have been showcased under ‘Featured Posts
in Poetry’ on expressions.sulekha.com.
About the Author:
Ranjit Kumar Das (Nickname: Ronu/ Ronua) (b.1957):
Born on 15 April to Dr Dinabandhu & Mrs Mayarani
Das in a coastal village named Deula / Deulahat falling
in Bhograi Block of Balasore district (Orissa). The
village borders Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal
(WB). With early childhood spent in Kolkata, he had his
schooling in Jhakjhaki (Jalasoharia) UP School (Orissa),
Jashteghari UP School (WB), Santra High School (WB),
Surendra Nath ME School, Balharpur (Orissa) and finally
in BM Academy, Kakhra (Orissa) wherefrom he passed
High School Certificate (HSC) Examination, 1973 in First
Division.
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Thereafter, he pursued Intermediate Course in Science
(Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics) and Graduation in
Economics (with Statistics) & Mathematics from Fakir
Mohan College, Balasore. He secured First Division
in I. Sc. Examination, 1975 and passed BA (Honours
with Distinctions) in 1977 occupying 8th Rank in Utkal
University.
In the year 1979, he earned the Master’s Degree in
Economics with Mathematical Economics & Econometrics
as special papers from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack
and secured Grade Point ‘A’ and stood 3rd in Utkal
University.
In the same year, he began his career with an Apex Level
Public Financial Institution. Prior to his present place of
posting, i.e., Chandigarh, he had worked at Bhubaneswar,
Mumbai, Lucknow. Of the various capacities, he had also
stints at a district and in a Training Establishment. As a
faculty member, he specialised in Behavioural Science and
Micro Credit.
Besides vast experiences in a career spanning nearly
three decades, he has also completed several short
duration formal training / certificate courses in many
institutes of repute, both inside and outside India,
covering very wide-ranging topics / disciplines.
Some of the Institutes worth naming are RBSC (RBI),
Chennai; CAB (RBI), Pune; NBSC, Lucknow; BIRD,
Lucknow; Brahmvarchas Sodh Sansthan (Shantikunj),
Hardwar; CORD, Tapovan (Dharamshala); MDI, Gurgaon;
ISABS, New Delhi; SBSC (SBI), Hyderabad; IIQM, Jaipur;
IIM, Lucknow; NIRD, Hyderabad; Thomas International
Ltd, New Delhi; Sri Ramakrishna Math, Lucknow;
APRACA-CENTRAB, Manila (Philippines); etc. He is a Life
Member of Orissa Economics Association.
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Over 80 articles / write-ups / compositions of the Author
have appeared in various leading Dailies (HT Lucknow
Live Section of ‘Hindustan Times’, and The Financial
World, Chandigarh), Periodicals, Journals, Newsletters,
Souvenirs, etc.
Among the prestigious Periodicals/ Journals, ‘The
Statesman Festival 2002’ by Statesman House, Kolkata;
‘CAB Calling (April-June & July-September 2004’ by RBI,
CAB, Pune; ‘Journal of Rural Development (Vol. 24, No.2,
April-June 2005)’ by NIRD, Hyderabad; and ‘The BEST of
Poems & Poets of 2007’ by poetry.com (The International
Library of Poetry, Maryland, USA) specially need a
mention.
He is married to Shyamali (16 June 1984), daughter of
Mr Satish Chandra & Mrs Bangalakshmi Das of village
Lakshannath, Balasore. They are blessed with two sons –
Sushant & Prashant, and a daughter – Purnima.
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Title: A Bucketful Of Semantics
Author: Mahesh Naidu
Price: Rs.144.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Book Cover
About the Author:
A versatile self styled writer born on August 27, 1976
has his roots in the heart of Bangalore, India. He has
never published his work. A believer of the phrase
“Specialization is for insects’ and a musician who dabbles
in theatre has a lot to be published in the near future.
Especially his works gathering dust somewhere in the
attic of his mind.
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Title: लेहरों से बातें
Author: निमीष शेठ
Price: Rs.90.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
This book is about the poems that author has written
over the years starting from his engineering days in 1999.
He has never really tried to sit down to write a poem,
but most of the times he has just got vibes that a poem is
in the making and all he needs to do is jot it down.
In his poems he has tried to express what he feels about
true love and how he eventually found the love of his life.
It speaks about how he believes in God and in His world.
It speaks about friendship, silence, music, relations and
above all it speaks about himself.
About the Author:
Nimish Sheth is an UI Engineer at VMware Inc. and is
currently based in Sunnyvale, California where he lives
with his wife Jignasa Sheth. He holds a Master’s degree
in Management Information Systems from Texas A & M
University.
Born and brought up in amchi Mumbai, Nimish is proud
to be a Mumbaiite and in future wants to settle down
in Mumbai. He is fanatic about Sachin Tendulkar and in
general about everything in Indian cricket.
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Title: Silent Expression...A soul’s
journey
Author: Sushmita
Price: Rs.145.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Many a times we have lot of thoughts plaguing our soul
and heart. The author has also had an opportunity to be
in sync with one and explore different layers of who she
is. Most of the scribbling in the book are manifestation of
the same meditation and dialogue with inner self. Every
poem is like a child of hers. She has delivered them after
going through immense labor pain - labor pain of soul &
mind. She dedicate this collection to people who went
through life’s labor pain to make her who she is today –
HER PARENTS!
About the Author:
A mother, an HR Professional, a masters in Psychology,
Sushmita maintains a blog -
www.opalomega.blogspot.com where she has been
putting down her thoughts religiously. Other passions
include Photography (available on the blog), dancing,
travelling etc
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Title: Deep Green Romance
Author: Nafs e Zakiya
Price: Rs.196.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
It is a poetry book with great stress over classical form of
writing , keeping in view writer’s upcoming Epic.
About the Author:
Nafs e Zakiya is the pen name of Syed Sajjad Abbas
Shah Naqvi’s born in pakistan. He is committed to evolve
poetry as an instrument to reap truth.
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Title: Kuchh Pal
Author: Jaya Jha
Price: Rs.129.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
This is a collection of Hindi Poems written by Jaya Jha
over last 10 years. These poems represent the mind and
heart of a girl who is stepping into adulthood. The poems
talk of the challenges, freedom, problems and joys that
accompany her in this phase of life. These poems can also
be read at http://jayajha-poetry.blogspot.com/
About the Author:
Jaya is an IIT Kanpur and IIM Lucknow graduate. A topper
in her MBA class, she chose to work with a start-up after
graduating. Then she moved on to work at Google India
as a Product Manager. Right now, she is again following
her entrepreneurial instincts and running a company on
her own. She is an avid reader and a prolific writer. Her
writings can be found on her blog at
http://jayajha.wordpress.com/.
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Title: Abhas,Anubhuti Aur
Abhivyakti
Author: Garima Singh
Price: Rs.93.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
The book is collection of various kinds of poems in Hindi
language and thus revolves around many topics ranging
from nature to philosophy, childhood to youth and love
to despair. The collection is very personal and has original,
unpublished poems written since 1990s till now.
About the Author:
Dr. Garima Singh, born in India, is currently a research
scientist in U.S.A. She started writing at an early age
of eleven. She has keen interest in Hindi language and
literature apart from her research. She has published
a couple of her poems in her college magazines while
pursuing her Ph.D. Most of her work in Hindi Poetry
is maintained in her personal journals as a part of her
writing hobby. Her work has glimpses of philosophical
and spiritual temperament that she has renewed in the
past few years of being associated with yoga, meditation
and healing through different organizations.
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Title 1: Corporate Poetry
Title 2: In Case I Don’t See You Again
Author: Ajay Ohri
Title 1: Corporate Poetry
About the Book:
Deep in thought
As life passes me by
Opportunities abound but
I neither care nor I try
--
Writing poetry without rhyme
Seems to be an amusing pass time
Of people who failed Literature study
Instead decided to write modern poetry
--
In this corporate world Of chases, hunts and kills
Some swear by the money Some swear by the thrills
We really couldn’t care
For these fancy trimmings and frills
While the rest of the world burns, my friend
You and your friend chills.
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Poetic Insights on corporate life by a reluctant traveler.
Price: Rs.147.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: In Case I Don’t See You Again
About the Book:
A collection of poetry.
Price: Rs.177.00 + shipping
Language: English
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About the Author:
Ajay Ohri has been working in the field of data mining
and analytics since 2004. He is an alumnus of IIM
Lucknow and Delhi College of Engineering.He blogs on
www.decisionstats.com
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Title: कुछ ख्वाब बिखरे से
Author: Gaurav Sangtani
Price: Rs.118.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
समय यूँ ही चला जाता है और हम देखते रह जाते हैं,
वैसे ही जैसे मुट्ठी मे भरी रेत……
About the Author:
Gaurav Sangtani, 26 years, is a Chartered Accountant by
profession from beautiful town of Rishikesh, situated at
foothills of Himalayas. This is his first book and he can be
reached at
contact@gauravsangtani.com
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Title: फासलें और भी हैं
Author: Shiv Kumar Sahil
Price: Rs.240.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
फासलें और भी हैं .........
एहसास जब अश्यारोँ में बयां होते हैं तो उन एहसासों
की एक अलग दुनिया , एक अलग चेहरा , एक अलग
सन्देश सामने आता हैं ! इस किताब में आपको कुछ
ऐसे ही सन्देश गज़लों की शक्ल में मिलेंगे ! ग़ज़ल इक
सुंदर एहसास हैं इसमें शिकायत , �ोम , निराशा , खुशी,
ददर्, यादें और जिन्दगी का हर रंग मिल जाता हैं ! इस
किताब में ऐसे कई रंग हैं , लेखक नें शुरू में ही बड़ी
सुंदर बात कही हैं ......
"उनका हंसना मोहब्बत नहीं थी साहिल
तेरे हशर का अंदाजा उन्हें पहले से ही था" !
About the Author:
Shiv Kumar “Sahil”, 22 years, is a Clerk by profession in
Govt. of Himachal Pradesh Irrigation & Public Health
Department. This is his first book and he can be reached
at shayariorsahil@gmail.com
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Title 1: The Eternal Wishes of Romeo
Title 2: The Immortal Expressions of
Romeo
Author: Jay Kay
Title 1: The Eternal Wishes of Romeo
About the Book:
This is a truly outstanding collection of literature, reviving
Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet, “The perfect play of the
year 1597”. This is an exquisite collection of master piece,
presented as a monologue of Romeo, with the wisdom of
literature in contemporary format on various occasions
of Romeo wishing for his beloved.
One of the rarest collections of literature of love, with a
glorified theme of contemporary Romeo and Juliet of an
awakened Shakespearean play.
Price: Rs.183.00 + shipping
Language: English
Title 2: The Immortal Expressions of Romeo
About the Book:
The Immortal Expressions of Romeo is an interesting
collection of author’s emotions as transcribed thoughts
of Romeo. It’s truly outstanding to pen down thoughts
in literature summarizing Shakespearean plays in the
contemporary format for everyone to enjoy poetry.
Indeed, the theme of ‘love’ itself is an interesting topic, in
simple and eloquent style.
Price: Rs.226.00 + shipping
Language: English
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Title 3: The Global Reflections of
Romeo
Author: Jay Kay
Title 3: The Global Reflections of Romeo
About the Book:
The Global Reflections of Romeo is an interesting
collection of author’s reactions to geo-political
environment of Globalization, Politics, and Indian art and
cultural heritage described as transcribed thoughts of
Romeo. It’s truly outstanding to pen down thoughts in
literature in the contemporary format for everyone to
enjoy poetry, especially describing ancient Indian art and
culture to the West in simple and eloquent style makes it
more interesting.
Price: Rs.184.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Author:
Jay Kay was born in India. He is a renowned poetry
writer for various journals in the regional circuit and he
works in the Silicon Valley of India.
He was inspired by some of the key plays of Shakespeare
especially ‘Romeo and Juliet’ during his college days,
which encouraged him to write about ‘The Immortal
Expressions of Romeo’.
Jay Kay has been writing poems for more than ten years
in the local language, and later by translating thoughts
for everyone to enjoy poetry across culture, and he is a
vivid writer in the journal of literary association with few
publications in the International library of Poetry.
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The author can be reached at: writerjaykay@gmail.com
for comments and suggestions.
Jay Kay book review community: http://www.orkut.co.in/
Main#Community.aspx?cmm=77516825
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Title: Prerane
Author: Srivatsa Kundalgurki
Price: Rs.199.00 + shipping
Language: Kannada
About the Book:
Prerane is a collection of Kannada poems that capture
a wide range of emotions encountered in daily life as
well as thoughts that emphasize the importance of self-
improvement needed in today’s society.
About the Author:
Srivatsa Kundalgurki was born in Bangalore and currently
resides in the United States. “Prerane” a collection of
poems in Kannada is his first literary publication. The
author tries to express his childhood memories and
contemporary experiences in his mother tongue with
a hope that the thoughts would touch the lives of the
common man of all generations.
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Title: Raviratlami ki Gazalen aur Vyanjal
(Raviratlami’s Ghazals and Vyanjals)
Author: Ravishankar Shrivastava
Price: Rs.245.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
चर्चित व प्रसिद्ध हिन्दी ब्लॉगर रविरतलामी की
ग़ज़लों व व्यंज़लों का संग्रह
About the Author:
रविशंकर श्रीवास्तव उर्फ रविरतलामी हिन्दी के जाने
माने ब्लॉगर, तकनीकी सलाहकार, तकनीकी अनुवादक
और जाल साहित्यिक पत्रिका रचनाकार के संपादक हैं.
अपने ब्लॉग http://raviratlami.blogspot.com/ में उन्होंने
सैकड़ों व्यंग्य और तकनीकी आलेख लिखे हैं. आपने
सैकड़ों विंडोज / लिनक्स अनुप्रयोगों का हिन्दी में
अनुवाद किया है.
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Title: A man and his spiritual kingdom
Author: Vladimir Nicolas
Price: Rs.259.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The book is in Chinese and English.
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In the kingdom of Spirit, many are children, men and
ladies working for the advent of the spiritual kingdom. An
empire of freedom, equality and brotherhood in which
hypocrisies and evilness of men are forbidden because it
is declared that men belong to the same species. But with
this ancient truth, the man who enjoyed the writing of his
novels on love and brotherhood was banished from many
cities because of his good nature and Hypocrisy ruled the
whole world. Living alone in the desert, the man is writing
a special book on spiritual kingdom which will bring his
ideas among animal kingdom. Then, these wise ideas will
help animal kingdom to become bright enough and to
lead the revolt against the hypocritic domination of men
on Earth.
About the Author:
Vladimir Nicolas is born on september 2, 1979 in Cap
Haitien at Haiti. Since 2006, he is student in sociology at
UQAM university in Canada.
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He has worked in Vox Populi, a student newspaper as
journalist while in college from 1999 to 2005. In 2007, he
published Azrael, his first book of poetry dedicated to
his deceased mother, Ruth Louis. In 2008, The Monopole
was published by Le Manuscrit, a french book publisher.
Currently Vladimir Nicolas is working on many writing
projects such as novels.
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Title: నేనొక నిరంతర విహారిని
Author: చావా కిరణ్ కుమార్
Price: Rs.136.00 + shipping
Language: Telugu
About the Book:
Selected Poems from chavakiran
About the Author:
Working in Software at Hyderabad, and sometimes
writes at http://chavakiran.com
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Title: Mystical Moods
Author: Anuradha Gupte
Price: Rs.126.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The book is a collection of thirty poems and includes
romantic, spiritual, and mundane themes. Some of these
have been posted on Sulekha.com (www.annewrites.
sulekha.com).
About the Author:
The author has master’s degrees in Economics and
Journalism from renowned universities in India and USA.
She has worked in India and USA and is currently a
freelance media professional and social researcher.
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Title: Do Shabd Tumhare Liye
Author: Anonymous
Price: Rs.127.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
This collection of Hindi Poems, published anonymously,
comes straight from the heart of someone deeply in
love. Lovers would identify with it. The poems speak for
themselves. They can be read at
http://flyingbird83.blogspot.com/.
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Title 1: “Poesie?”
Title 2: “100 squarci nell’anima” +
“Nel regno dell’ombra”
Author: Talco Talquez
Title 1: “Poesie?”
About the Book:
An anthology of poems in Italian.
More info (including some excerpts) may be gathered in
the English-speaking area of the author’s website:
www.fenice.info
Price: Rs.550.00 + shipping
Language: Italian
Title 2: “100 squarci nell’anima” +
“Nel regno dell’ombra”
About the Book:
Two collections of poems in Italian in a single book.
(You flip it, and there you find the other “Siamese twin”
volume. :-)
More info (including some excerpts) may be gathered in
the English-speaking area of the author’s website:
www.fenice.info
Price: Rs.550.00 + shipping
Language: Italian
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About the Author:
Talco Talquez is the pseudonym of a writer born in Italy
(whether by chance or Destiny, he’s still yet to find out).
However this doesn’t ipso-facto make of him an Italian..
and possibly, not even an Earthling. :-1
He’s currently translating to English his trilogy “The
Book”, which so far is only available in Italian - as well as
his other works.
If you wish to know more, check out the English-speaking
area of his site: www.fenice.info
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Title: A Plethora of Emotions
Author: Er. Akshay Bhardwaj
Price: Rs.126.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The poems range from contemporary issues like foeticide
to the more philosophical ones. There is a poem for
everyone in here.
About the Author:
Er. Akshay Bhardwaj is a Lecturer(IT/CSE) at UIIT,
Himachal Pradesh University. He is 26 years of age and
has the distinction of being the youngest Lecturer in
the University. He is an NTSE scholar and a topper
throughout. He also did his B. Tech. in IT from UIIT with
honours. This is his first publication. Many more can be
expected to come. He has started work on an untitled
novel. His websites are www.hpuiitshimla.org and
www.akshay117.150m.com.
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Title: Moods and Moments
Author: Madhuri Samar
Price: Rs.200.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book represents an ending and a beginning; it is an
eclectic collection of poetry and prose.
About the Author:
The author is a temporary life form on this vast earth.
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Title: Jeevan-Path Par...
Author: Saurabh Chaturvedi
Price: Rs.150.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
“Jeevan-Path Par…” is the debut collection of the poet.
He believes that nature is a great teacher, and humans
can learn invaluable lessons just by observing. Most of his
poems also express the same thought and highlight the
mutual relation between the various aspects of nature
and the different aspects of life. The other poems in this
collection, are about his experience with life itself.
About the Author:
Saurabh Chaturvedi completed his early education from
Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Vidyalay, Kanpur. Thereafter
he completed B. Tech. in Electronics & Communication
Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Information
Technology University, NOIDA; followed by an M. Tech.
in VLSI Design from CDAC, NOIDA. Presently he is
working with Cadence Design Systems, NOIDA.
With exposure to Satellite Communication and cutting
edge technology, he makes an unlikely candidate for a
poet; but then, poets are not made, they are born.
Besides literature, he has deep interest in astrology, and
can be reached at chaturvedisaurabh2002@yahoo.co.in
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Title: F.I.S.T
Author: Shradha Sahi Satav
Price: Rs.156.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
F.I.S.T. is the expression of angst – frayed feelings, inked
ideals, stressed souls and turbulent thoughts. Each poem
resonates with questions and seeks to understand
the working of the mind. From a search for love to
disillusionment with relationships, the poems connect
with everyone.
Be it the anguish of a daughter or the thoughts of a
weary soldier headed home after battle, these poems will
strike a chord in every heart.
About the Author:
Shradha is an ophthalmologist by profession and a writer
at heart. She lives in Pune with her husband and three
year old son. Her home is full of books crammed in
every nook and cranny. Shradha has been writing since
the age of six, and though most of her time is spent with
her patients, she feels complete only when she is among
words.
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Title: Amar Chokhe
Author: Sonali Dey
Price: Rs.66.00 + shipping
Language: Bengali
About the Book:
The book has poem on various topics such as Nature &
Life, Joy & Sorrow, Devotion, Respect & Love etc.
About the Author:
Author is a Drawing Teacher based in Sinthee, Kolkata.
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Title: मन हमारा, जो लिखे वो तुम्हार
Author: अमित मोहन
Price: Rs.126.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
“मन हमारा, जो लिखे वो तुम्हारा” is a poetry collection
from my pen. Somewhere or else all the poems depict a
particular phase of my life.
About the Author:
I am an engineering student. Love to write and read
since my childhood. I was always interested in poetry. I
remember the times when we were taught “रश्मीरिथ”,
when i really felt the urge to pen down some of my
thoughts too. A big fan of Gulzaar’s poetry and probably
the biggest envy er too.
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Title: saikruthulu
Author: Satyasai Kovvali
Price: Rs.56.00 + shipping
Language: Telugu
About the Book:
It is book of Songs dedicated to Lord Sai Baba of Shirdi.
About the Author:
Dr.Satyasai is an Agricultural Economist by profession and
is a telugu bolgger. His blog URL is :
http://satyasodhana.blogspot.com
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Title: Face Off
Author: Suneeta Mall
Price: Rs.184.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is first publication of Suneeta’s some 21 poems
composed in English language. Poems are mix bag of
strong emotions.
About the Author:
Author Suneeta Mall has done her BTech (CSE ‘07) HBTI
Kanpur and currently working with IBM India Pvt. Ltd. She
has pursued writing poem as a hobby. She writes poems
in both Hindi and English.
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Title: Dreams of Life
Author: Chaitra B.V
Price: Rs.124.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is a result of my experiences of ‘LIFE’. Each
poem contains a lesson, one should learn from life. A
desire can be successfully fulfilled only if, it was dreamt
earlier. In the pages of this book, I have penned my
thoughts in such a way that one should be able to put
their mind into it and remember the day when a similar
incident was witnessed.
Life is easier to be imagined and targeted. Like wise, facing
and living it is easier only when the mind is installed in
it. I expect these poems to bring a smile on the reader’s
face, on its completion. Relating yourself to the dreams
and realities, I’ve found and put forth in this book, should
condition you to read them again and again.
About the Author:
Ms Chaitra B.V is born on 17-06-1986. She is working as
a web developer in Induscorp India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore,
after having completed the bachelor’s degree in
Computer Applications.
Her hobbies are singing, composing songs, composing
tunes, writing articles in English and Kannada, and writing
poems.
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Passionate towards singing, since childhood, she’s
competed in school level and inter-school and inter-
college singing competitions and has won prizes.
This is her first poetry book and first ever book to have
been published.
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Title: Other Side of Land Acquisition
Author: Dev
Price: Rs.174.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This is a story trying to explore pragmatic and acceptable
approach towards land acquisition.
The story set in Thar Desert. Hidden away amongst the
western part of Thar Desert was the small village ‘Thar
Gadh’ [Thar Gadh village is an imaginary village] where
handful of people lived [30 families] a quiet existence.
Tucked away from a world of political unrest in 2008
the last thing the villagers expect is a visit from a young
Journalist ‘Prahalad’ from New Delhi. Thar Gadh was an
unknown tourist place. Prahalad’s decision to narrate the
tour in his regular column ‘Prahalad’s Diary’ and linking
Thar Gadh’s lack of resources to growing economy
made this daily column popular. But a project to help
the Thar Gadh villagers by sourcing water brought
real fame to Prahalad. The project to source water
from an aquifer beneath Thar Gadh village unfolded
unknown political turbulences and became a hurdle
to Foreign Direct Investment projects. Prahalad and
his team realised that the problem that had appeared
before them from nowhere could turn peaceful Thar
Gadh village in to troubled village. But simultaneously
Prahlad and his mentor professor found this hurdle as
an opportunity to set an example to the country. They
managed to reach peaceful completion of the project
and successful land acquisition process with a result in
which villagers were benefited the most. Their approach
towards political hindrances set an example to the entire
nation. Message is conveyed that neither investments
nor Land acquisitions are bad but they are good only
when managed with mutual efforts. Currently India faces
challenges against land acquisition proposals and most of
the projects are in troubled water, but this is not the only
solution.
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Let us make these honest villagers become a part of
growing Indian economy. Allow land acquisition while
keeping villagers growth and benefit in mind. Remember
it is the land that is heart and soul of the villagers. Before
making a proposal of land acquisition, is it not our duty
to take responsibility of those who offer their heart and
soul to foster the growth of economy?
• According to 37th report by HRD ministry around
80% of population still lives in rural areas
• 73% live in mud houses, forget about sanitation
they do not have roof for more than 10 months /
year
• According to Global Hunger Index 2008 published
by International Food Policy Research Institute
[IFPRI] India has largest number of hungry people
[200 million] in the world.
• Indian villages need such help from corporate
Remember Land Acquisition is not bad by itself, rather
it can bring growth in the economy but it is good and
beneficial only when the farmers and villagers are
benefited.
About the Author:
Dev is an aspiring writer. He writes on National and
International issues.
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Title: Deemed Suitable
Author: V G. Rao
Price: Rs.152.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The early years of the nineteen nineties saw India being
convulsed by civil turmoil in the wake of the demolition
of Babri Masjid and the rise of religious fundamentalism.
On the anvil of that national calamity was forged the
writing career of the author - through the means of
letters to editors of newspapers. The issues covered here
in these letters range from the Ayodhya crisis to the
intricacies of saree wear to linguistic chauvinism. Even
where you do not agree with the author on particular
issues of national importance, you will agree that here is
an author who is utterly original and refreshingly honest
in the views he brings to bear on the issues at hand. The
personal exchanges he had with famous celebrities also
appear in the pages of this book.
The author’s blog appears at vgraokhy.blogspot.com
About the Author:
V G. Rao has widely written for the national media and
the academia. Having wasted many years of his life doing
things detrimental to his inner calling, he finally decided
to call it a day. He now devotes his time to writing and in
practice of the arcane enterprise of investing in stocks.
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He is also the author of two books, namely, Reflections of
a Closet Writer and Discordant Notes.Yet another book
on writing is waiting to be born shortly.
He blogs at vgraokhy.blogspot.com. He can be reached at
vgraos@gmail.com
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Title: The Truth
Author: Prafulla Deoskar
Price: Rs.250.00 + shipping
Language: Hindi
About the Book:
पेशे से मार्केटिंग इंजीनियर होते हुए भी प्रफुल्ल
देउस्कर अचानक ही आध्यात्मिकता की ओर मुड़े। सन्
1993 की एक दोपहर वे आम छुट्टी के दिनों की तरह
लेटे हुए थे कि अचानक सबकुछ अत्यंत प्रकाशमय और
सुनहरा हो गया। उन्होंने सोचा कि शायद वे कोई सपना
देख रहे हैं, इसलिए अपने आप को जगाना चाहा, लेकिन
वे विलक्षण आश्चर्य में पड़ गये जब उन्होंने पाया कि
जगाने के लिए तो कोई था ही नहीं। स्वाभाविक रूप से वे
घबरा गये और तभी वे अपने आप (?) में लौट आये। वह
एक क्षणांश का अशरीरी अनुभव भी बहुत मुक्तिदायक,
बहुत जागा हुआ और बहुत आनन्ददायक था। इस घटना
के दो-तीन दिन बाद ही वे कुछ ऐसी किताबों के संपर्क
में आये कि पूरी तरह ध्यान-साधना में उत्सुक हो गये।
94-95 तक वे ध्यान की षण्मुखी मुद्रा प्राप्त करने
लगे। हालांकि ये उन्हे बाद में पता चला कि ध्यान
की गहराई में जो मुद्रा वे प्राप्त करते हैं, योग की
शास्त्रीय भाषा में उसे षण्मुखी कहा जाता है। विभिन्न
तरह की चेष्टाओं के बाद आखिर “आर्ट ऑफ़ लिविंग
फाउंडेशन” में उन्हें ठौर मिली, जहाँ उन्हें आध्यात्मिकता
और सामाजिकता का स्वर्णिम संगम मिला।प्रफुल्ल जी
श्री श्री रविशंकर जी को सद् गुरू मानते हैं और आर्ट
ऑफ़ लिविंग से सक्रिय रूप से जुड़े हुए हैं। व्यक्तिगत
तौर पर वे चाहते हैं कि अधिक से अधिक लोग सत्य के
लिए उत्सुक हों। यह पुस्तक भी उसी दिशा में एक छोटा
सा प्रयास है।
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Title: Sublime Thoughts
Author: Abdicated
Price: Rs.420.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This is a collection of 20 heart-felt poems based on
personal experiences and the teachings of Swami
Vivekananda.
About the Author:
Abdicated is a Calcutta based Software Developer with a
passion for writing.
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sublime-thoughts
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Raviratlami ke Vyangya
Title:
(Raviratlami’s Satire in Hindi)
Author:
Ravishankar Shrivastava
Price:
Rs.286.00 + shipping
Language:
Hindi
About the Book:
रविशंकर श्रीवास्तव उर्फ रविरतलामी हिन्दी के जाने
माने ब्लॉगर हैं और उन्होंने अपने हिन्दी ब्लॉग में ढेरों
नए तरह के, बेहतरीन व्यंग्य लिखे और अनुवादित किए
हैं. इस संकलन का हर व्यंग्य अपने आप में अनूठा और
मजेदार है.
About the Author:
रविशंकर श्रीवास्तव उर्फ रविरतलामी हिन्दी के जाने
माने ब्लॉगर, तकनीकी सलाहकार, तकनीकी अनुवादक
और जाल साहित्यिक पत्रिका रचनाकार के संपादक हैं.
अपने ब्लॉग http://raviratlami.blogspot.com/ में उन्होंने
सैकड़ों व्यंग्य और तकनीकी आलेख लिखे हैं. आपके
ब्लॉग को माइक्रोसॉफ़्ट भाषा इंडिया का पुरस्कार मिल
चुका है. आप वर्ष 2007 तथा 2008 में माइक्रोसॉफ़्ट
मोस्ट वेल्यूएबल प्रोफ़ेशनल पुरस्कार से नवाजे जा चुके
हैं. आपकी केडीई हिन्दी टीम को एनआरसीएफओएसएस
का प्रतिष्ठित फ़ॉस.इन 2007 पुरस्कार मिल चुका है.
अभिव्यक्ति हिन्दी.ऑर्ग से वर्ष 2007 का तकनीकी
लेखक पुरस्कार से सम्मानित.
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Title: The ArTicKles Collection
Author: Gopinath Mavinkurve
Price: Rs.140.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The book is a collection of select “ArTicKles” humorous,
informative, interesting facts and insights.
About the Author:
Gopinath M. Mavinkurve is a hobbyist writer and
blogger based in Mumbai, India. This is his first book of
compilations of select humorous “ArTicKles” and articles.
Readers may read his future posts in his humor blog,
which he periodically updates at
http://whatnonsanz.blogspot.com/. He is also a
professional management expert in the field of foreign
trade policy and procedures specialising in setting up and
operations of Special Economic Zones, Export Oriented
Units and trade facilitation.
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Title: My Experiments with Half-truths
Author: Rajendra Nargundkar
Price: Rs.174.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
My Experiments with Half-truths is an autobiography
written in a humourous and light-hearted style. It traces
the years the author spent at Hyderabad Public School,
Osmania engineering college, IIM Bangalore, and his later
years as a marketing professor at IIML, IIMK, and various
other B schools. Ranging over a 48 year lifespan, his
interests and his take on various things in life including
education, travel, and life itself make for an engaging
and entertaining read for anyone who is old enough
to read. The chapter about IIMB contains some vintage
photographs as well. There are some travel related
chapters, and a list of top tens to round it off. Reflections
on relationships, memorable tussles between government
and autonomous B-schools also make an appearance,
sometimes unconventionally, along the way.
About the Author:
Currently Director of IFIM Business School, Bangalore,
Dr. Rajendra Nargundkar has taught in Indian business
schools, and in U.S. universities. He has conducted over
100 executive training programmes at Kirloskar Institute,
IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode. Some prestigious
academic journals like the Academy of Management
Journal and Journal of Global Marketing have published
his research papers. He has also trained several faculty
members in research and teaching methodology.
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A marketing professor for most of his career, Rajendra
Nargundkar has written three major text books on
Marketing Research, International Marketing and Services
Marketing. He is currently working on a fourth book on
Brand Management.
After his MBA in marketing at IIM Bangalore, Dr.
Nargundkar worked in advertising and marketing
research companies before leaving to get a Ph.D. at
Clemson University, USA. His bachelor’s degree was in
Electrical Engineering from Osmania University.
His other interests, besides writing, include Hindi film
music (particularly Kishore Kumar), the films themselves,
and reading, with humour (Wodehouse) and mystery
(Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe is a favourite) being the most
read . He also revels in playing golf with friends, usually
at their expense. He calls both Hyderabad and Pune his
home towns. He looks forward to owning an island in the
Bahamas with borrowed money. He can be reached at
rnargundkar@gmail.com. He blogs at
http://rnargundkar.blogspot.com/ and is also on Linkedin.
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Title: Stolen Home
Author: Devang
Price: Rs.180.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This humorous story is of Nandu Ram Sathe, a retired
person living alone in his ancestral house with huge 800
square yard garden, located at prime location of Mumbai
western suburbs. He is a widower. He has no one to look
after him and therefore decides to donate his house to
an NGO who runs senior citizens’ home.
One fine day on return from his first international trip he
finds his house missing, and from there his never ending
journey begins. Through this journey, author tries to focus
various precincts and flaws of legal constitutions.
So read it and enjoy the Dance of Democracy …
About the Author:
Devang is a young and aspiring writer based in Mumbai.
Writing is his passion. He writes in the genres of fiction,
drama and humour. His most favourite topics are national
& international issues though.
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Title: Guleil
Author: Som Nandivada
Price: Rs.270.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Guleil is a cosmic drive, built on a much larger scale of
conception than any propulsive mechanism mankind has
ever known of, or dreamt of hitherto.
It does not move ships. Rather, it propels worlds in their
entirety from one place in the cosmos to another.
With Guleil we shoot planets across the universe, and
ride them like gravy trains.
About the Author:
Som is a designated razor stropper for Occam. Less to
the point but more as a background, he holds a masters
degree in mathematics, is a blues n’ r’n’r and rock
drummer, and is a software engineer based at Mississauga
Ontario, Canada.
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Title: Tower of Ruin
Author: William A. Kooiker
Price: Rs.270.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Six Heroes . . . One Forgotten Evil . . .
Refugees from the village of Oester have been flooding
the city, fleeing from an unspeakable terror. Their faces
show fear, but their tongues are silenced. Desperate
for answers, the king hires a group of mercenaries to
investigate the small northern settlement. What they
discover is far more horrifying then they could ever have
imagined, and their struggle just might impact the entire
kingdom.
“Tower of Ruin is a finely woven tale of fantasy made all
too believable by his compelling characters. A fast moving
and entertaining read for all. One turns the last page with
disappointment there is no more - yet.” - Eastern Shore
Post
“This tale hooks you early with a captivating mystery and
engaging characters. It gets better and better as the story
continues. Action and intrigue, Tower of Ruin delivers
plenty of both!” - Flames Rising
About the Author:
William A. Kooiker lives with his wife, son, and daughter.
Tower of Ruin is his second published work.Visit him at:
http://www.williamkooiker.com
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Title: Possible risks: cloned bombs
Author: Manish Sutariya
Price: Rs.572.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
‘Possible risks’ is a book which talks about the
possibilities of aliens’ attacks on the earth. One thing that
the author has learnt from Mr. Darwin is that species
struggle for their survival and that struggle is the reason
for their existence in this universe. According to him, it’s
true that aliens would only be enemies for us. Then the
matter of consideration is not how aliens would come to
us but how they’d attack us. He has only tried to give you
a little glimpse of the possible attacks or risks that we’d
have from aliens.
About the Author:
‘Possible Risks’ is written by young writer Manish
Sutariya. He has completed his post graduation in science
with physics as a main subject. He is new to writing and
has no experience in this field. Its a sudden idea that
struck his mind and his ambition that brought him to
writing. His love of writing spreads daily. He works as a
pastor in Gujarat.
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Title: Technophobia
Author: Talco Talquez
Price: Rs.412.00 + shipping
Language: Italian
About the Book:
Two scientists make the Faustian dream of immortality
come true, by building androids programmed with the
exact copy of the humans’ respective minds - so when a
man dies, his android copy is activated and replaces him,
resuming his life from whence it ended.
But the unexpected happens, and the androids escape
- requesting to be considered real people, independent
from their creators, and free to live a life of their own.
ONLY AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN.
More info may be gathered in the English-speaking area of
the author’s website: www.fenice.info
About the Author:
Talco Talquez is the pseudonym of a writer born in Italy
(whether by chance or Destiny, he’s still yet to find out).
However this doesn’t ipso-facto make of him an Italian..
and possibly, not even an Earthling. :-1
He’s currently translating to English his trilogy “The
Book”, which so far is only available in Italian - as well as
his other works. If you wish to know more, check out the
English-speaking area of his site: www.fenice.info
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Title: Ingredients for Success
Author: M. A. Kittur
Price: Rs.225.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
What’s the difference between those people who build
successful lives and those who don’t? Why do they
survive the tough times while others get conquered?
What are the ‘Ingredients for Success’? Within the pages
of this book, you will find principles that would allow you
to soar high, think different, help you to try take risk and
inspire you to look within. These principles are all time
tested. Successful people around the world have used
them to their advantage, their stories are awe-inspiring.
The book ‘Ingredients for Success’ will help you to turn
your dreams into reality, setbacks into new beginnings
and allow you to knock on opportunities. After all
“Winners don’t wait for things to happen, they make
them happen”
About the Author:
M. A. Kittur is a Management trainer and specializes in
training people on Human Behaviour. He has trained
numerous individuals and organizations. His presentations
are well known for the freshness, clarity, subject centered
talk and humor. He is the founder of an organization
‘Winning Tools’ – that is engaged in soft skill training.
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Title: Creating your Dream Life as a
Dentist
Author: Steve Kornfeld, Jas Mattu
Price: Rs.1,995.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Be an inspiration and create the practice you’ve always
dreamed of! This is a book about fulfillment and decision
making. It’s meant for anyone who wants to be a stronger
leader, in a practice or outside of one.
Creating Your Dream Life is designed to help you take
a close look at your goals and your chosen path. It
helps you look at what you’re all about, personally and
professionally, and how you can make your practice and
your life more rewarding and lucrative.
A series of open-ended questions are paired with
exercises to guide you through your exploration of
your role as a leader, to push you to think critically
about problems, and then to help you develop a clear,
compelling vision for your practice, along with a step-by-
step action plan to make your vision real.
This book contains far more questions than answers. It
teaches leadership by asking tough questions that help
you discover your own answers and get excited about
realizing your dreams.
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Creating Your Dream Life will help you
- Develop strategies to use your strengths more
effectively;
- Create action plans to attain goals and monitor
progress;
- Improve your sense of control over your own destiny;
- Manage change and conflict more effectively;
- Develop focus, drive and momentum;
- Learn how to maintain a healthy work-life balance;
- Increase self-awareness and insight;
- Learn how to be inspirational to those around you.
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dream-life-dentist
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life-dentist
Title: How To Enjoy Your Job
Author: Joanna Penn
Price: Rs.231.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
We all have to work to earn a living, but many people are
unhappy with their jobs. This powerful book examines
the common problems people have in the workplace
and identifies ways to help you tackle them. This includes
workplace stress, boredom, other people, not being paid
enough or being praised for your work. It also helps you
identify what you really want to do with your working
life, and how to get there.You may not be able to change
your career over night, but in time, you can do a job you
love! There is a free Companion workbook available
at http://www.HowToEnjoyYourJob.com . This site also
includes a video, free articles and other resources based
on the book. Joanna also has a special letter to Indian
friends at http://www.EnjoyJobIndia.com
About the Author:
Joanna Penn is an author and speaker living in Australia.
She has been an international IT consultant specialising in
SAP for the last 12 years, working for large consultancies
and many different clients. Her aim is to help people
enjoy their work and their lives through her books.
Joanna loves India and has many Indian colleagues in the
IT world who encouraged her to promote her book in
India.
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Joanna is also Director of The Creative Penn – Writing,
self-publishing, print-on-demand, internet sales and
marketing...for your book.You can read free articles at
her website and blog here http://www.TheCreativePenn.
com.You can connect with Joanna on LinkedIn http://
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http://www.twitter.com/thecreativepenn
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Title: ENTREPRENEURIAL SINS
Author: Ashok Purandutt Daga
Price: Rs.364.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
It is book in which all young entrepreneurs will find a
wealth of very useful information which will stand an
entrepreneur in very good stead in a successful business
career.
About the Author:
Mr. Ashok Purandutt Daga is an engineer by qualification,
and has worked as an executive in well-established
companies. He has also been an entrepreneur (chief of
a small-scale enterprise) besides working as an advisor/
consultant in some of the good consultancy companies of
Pune.
In due course he switched over to a full time consultancy
and teaching career and has been well received as a
consultant in the small-scale sector and as a consultant-
training faculty in the large-scale factories of Pune.
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Title: Treasured Slices From Life &
Living
Author: Ranjit Kumar Das
Price: Rs.399.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
Some articles appear as blog posts at sulekha.
com (www.rkdas.sulekha.com)
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Title: A Gifted Toy
Author: Amit Dave
Price: Rs.213.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This is a self help book for those who have frequent bad
mood spells as well as clinical depression.
About the Author:
Author is a mechanical engineer and has had some first
hand experience of mood swings.
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Title: How to Transform your Karma
of Money and Wealth
Author: B. Nag
Price: Rs.155.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
You can change your Karma of Money and wealth.
One can chose to live the life of abundance. Destiny is
self created. Wealth and Abundance do not depend on
external situations. In fact nothing in life can be blamed
on the people, circumstances and luck factor.You are the
master of your destiny and you have power to solve all
your situations in life and lead a fulfilling life. Even now
you are creating your life unconsciously.You are also the
creator of all your problems and situations. This can be
changed if you become conscious of what you are doing
every moment. This book has detailed instructions on
how to lead a life of abundance and change your Karma
positively.
About the Author:
Nag basically hails from engineering and research
community. He has engineering degrees from premier
institutes in India.
He has many years of IT experience in India and US. This
book is an outcome of his years of research on success
and wealth principles.
Nag’s interests range from Spirituality to business
ventures. He believes in deeper understanding of the
universal laws to achieve success in life.
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wealth
Title: How to Avoid Tension and
Achieve Peace in Life
Author: Pritis C Majumdar
Price: Rs.143.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
This book is like our BIBLE or GITA (for Indian) or any
other Religious Book to get rid of your TENSION and
Achieve PEACE in Life practically. If we can fulfill our basic
need based wants, peace is ready for our lives. Only thing
is we have to catch that invisible item. Many rich people
have got everything of the temporal world, but they can’t
sleep fearlessly or they are always under some kinds of
pressure or tension. They sleep with the help of doctor’s
advice and sleeping pills. It is their regular life. They forget
to smile and laugh. Social life becomes mechanically
controlled, devoid of innocent and simple wide smile and
glittering of eyes.
At the same time, there are people who are not so
affluent, managing their financial lives with some difficulty
and putting in hard work. They smile and laugh after doing
their duties towards their work and family. They can
laugh loudly. They can help and support others in difficult
time. Author has personally analyzed, experimented and
verified in his and other people’s lives the methods and
processes for building confidence, strong will-power and
achieving happiness and peace. This book aims at helping
others achieve the same happiness and peace.
Therefore, this book is a must for everybody right from
school going students to the elderly ones.
About the Author:
Pritis Chandra Majumdar was born in 1943, a year of
historical famine during British India, at a very remote
village Alampur, under police station Sreenagar, Bikrampur
dist, Dhaka, now Capital of Bangladesh.
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But, he had to leave his birth place due to political reason,
for Independent India, along with his father and grandma.
After moving here and there for a shelter, they ultimately
settled at Calcutta (now Kolkata).
Pritis C Majumdar is voluntarily retired from Indian
Railway Service. He is a Mechanical Engineer (IRSME) and
an MBA (specialized in Human Resources Management)
with a formal background in Industrial Engineering and
post-graduate degree in political science. He has studied
and experimented on human nature from all angles. Thus,
it became his passion during his working life to deal with
large number of people at all levels of economic and
social status.
He also travelled from village to village and enriched
his practical knowledge. He has implemented the
techniques mentioned in this book in real life to avoid
Tensions and achieve Peace. After his extensive travel,
his conclusion was peace in life is not fully dependent on
materialistic happiness. It is dependent on nature of mind
or psychology developed through the environment, family
and educational institution the person has been brought
up. Thus, to get peace in life, we have to learn how to
control our desires and mind.
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achieve-peace-life
Title: Keep Sailing
Author: Bharti Kapoor
Price: Rs.197.00 + shipping
Language: English
About the Book:
The book is about the people who get stressed due to
financial problems, and besides the book covers all the
general problems due to financial stress.
About the Author:
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Title: Yoganidra
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Language: English
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This book gives an overview of Yoganidra. This is also
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Name of Author: Anupa Kumar Patri
Born on December 1976
Education: Degree in Science From Utkal University
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& psychological study & research. Certified with Iskon
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Title: Me, Myself and Sweta
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The willingness to give up your own values, morals, and
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Top ten sights in Amsterdam.
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Title: And Miles To Go.......
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Title: Hand Book of Project Management
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Title: The Twist of Destiny
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This book analyzes the horoscope of actor and politician
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