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Non
Fiction : -
Founder
and CEO of Magnify.net Steven Rosenbaum reveals how any company or
individual can elevate its business by positioning itself as a trusted
source for information and goods for the overloaded consumer, whether
it’s on the web or in the physical marketplace. And this is great news
for businesses, as it takes away the traditional pressure of having to
consistently be creating something new...
What
if you could sit down with some of the world's most influential
entrepreneurs and gain their knowledge and insights on how to create a
game changing business? Imagine having the chance to listen to a John
Mackey (Whole Foods) or a Fred Smith (FedEx) on the most important
things they've learned from their experiences. Or having the benefit of
the self-reflection of Howard Schultz of Starbucks, who had to come back
to the company he originally built to reinvent it and himself? Of
course it's not possible to deliver these rock star entrepreneurs to
your dinner table. But John A. Byrne offers the next best thing: he
spoke with many who have changed the face of business. In World Changers
he captures the most important lessons they've learned, the biggest
challenges they've tackled, and the most valuable advice they can offer
others who have an entrepreneurial dream.You'll learn the inspiring
stories of how these world changers discovered their disruptive ideas,
then made them a reality; overcame a variety of obstacles; and created
sustainable enterprises...
This
book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in
India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the
formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son
Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi era.
Although the country remains one of the few democracies in the
developing world, many of the policies instigated by these earlier
regimes have been swept away to make room for dramatic alterations in
the political, economic and social landscape. Sumit Ganguly and Rahul
Mukherji, two leading political scientists of South Asia, chart these
developments with particular reference to social and political
mobilization, the rise of the BJP and its challenge to Nehruvian
secularism and the changes to foreign policy that, in combination with
its meteoric economic development, have ensured India a significant
place on the world stage...
President
Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph
E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French
economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of experts to
study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-the most widely used measure
of economic activity-is really a reliable indicator of economic and
social progress. Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major
intellectual effort, containing pressing relevance for anyone engaged in
assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our
society. The authors offers a sweeping assessment of GDP's limitations
as a measurement of the well-being of societies and introduce a bold
array of new concepts from sustainable measures of economic welfare to
evaluations of savings and wealth and a “green GDP.” At a time when
policy makers worldwide are grappling with unprecendented global
financial and environmental issues, Mismeasuring Our Lives is an
essential guide to measuring the things that matter most.
Doc
Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town
bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events to raise funds for
clean-water projects and to bring awareness to the world's freshwater
crisis. He planned to donate the proceeds through traditional channels,
but instead found himself traveling to one of the world's most dangerous
hot spots: Darfur, Sudan. There, Doc witnessed a government-sponsored
genocide where the number-one weapon wasn't bullets-it was water... |
Fiction
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A
Second Sunrise showcases the best poems of Cheran, an accomplished
poet of our times. The Sri Lankan civil war looms over much of his work.
Poems of the precariousness of love are interwoven with poems of war.
The idyllic seascape of 1977 when Waves lap along the shore spreading
within me the sea is ruined forever by the experience of war (1981–89).
These are followed by poems of exile and the experience of the diaspora
(1993–2003)...
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and
Carl Jung began what promised to be both a
momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life.
Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage
struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical
and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina
Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and
confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative
psychoanalyst herself. With the narrative power and emotional impact of
great tragedy, A Dangerous Method is impossible to put down.
Homesick
is a composite novel; a series of seventeen short stories
expertly interwoven to tell the story of a community of Sri Lankan
immigrants carving out new lives in, a sometimes hostile, Britain. The
stories are about individuals; alcoholic Kumar, dyslexic Preethi, Mr
Basit, sisters Lolly and Deirdre, aged Dorothy. Individually they
struggle with issues of abuse, love, death, cultural identity and
change. Collectively they illustrate the need for community in a
vibrant, but fractured, society. In this ambitious novel Fernando
ultimately asks awkward questions about the political and social status
of immigrants in the UK.
When
Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her
aunt and uncle in their grand plantation house, her mind is full of the
poems of Keats and tales of romance . She is nonetheless unprepared for
the beauty, fecundity and otherness of this island paradise between
Africa and India, where she is to be waited on hand and foot by servants
and free to let her thoughts drift on the sea breeze. If only they did
not drift to such problematic subjects as the restrictions of colonial
society, or the bigoted outbursts of her uncle, or the disquieting
attractions of Don Lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon, himself
entangled in thoughts of iniquity and desire and facing a decision which
could risk his precarious position. Under the surface there is growing
unease. For it is 1825: Britain has wrested power from France and is
shipping convict labour across the Indian Ocean. The age of slavery is
coming to its messy end. Word is lapping against the shores of the
island - of revolts in Europe and the Americas, and of a charismatic new
Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty. For Lucy, for Don,
for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming…In this bold
novel of intimate passions and colliding destinies, Romesh Gunesekera
weaves together the story of two young lovers in search of freedom, and
the eloquence of the bonded heart. |
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