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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : J. P. Vaswani (Author)
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2018
• Pages : 252 pages
• Size :  12.9 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 9387944166
  
• ISBN-13:   978-9387944169

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A journey of self-discovery
You may have conquered the whole world, but if you have not mastered yourself.
Do you know where you are going?
And perhaps the more important question is, where do you wish to go?
‘Tatah kim? Tatah kim?’ asked Adi Shankara, centuries ago. What then? Is making money the be-all and end-all of life?
The answer to that question cannot really be found in our diary entries or our schedule of appointments! Our activities cannot indicate the answer either. It is a question that forces one to reflect on the ultimate goal one has set for oneself.
In What Then, J.P. Vaswani expertly illustrates the importance of taking a step back and evaluating life. Are we living in order to die? Or are we living to exist? Or to eat, drink and be merry for we may die soon? Even in the frenetic pursuit of targets and goals, we need to pause and reflect on where we are headed, where our life is taking us, or, where we are trying to reach with our hectic efforts!
What then? Where does one go from here?
J.P. Vaswani was one of the leading spiritual luminaries of India. A gifted writer and brilliant orator, Dada, as he was lovingly called, addressed distinguished audiences worldwide on love, faith, joy and peace. He was the recipient of several honors, including the prestigious U Thant Peace Award. He penned over 80 books and many of them have been translated into various foreign languages.

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• Publisher : Diamond Books
  
• By : Heidi Murkoff (Author), Sharon Mazel (Author)
  
• Cover : Hardcover
  
• Language : Bengali Edition
  
• Edition : 2020
  
• Pages : 434
  
• Weight : 481 gm.
  
• Size : 5.5 x 0.92 x 8.5 inches
  
• ISBN-10 : 8128827197
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8128827198

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Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones. Care instruction keep away from fire.

 

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By: Donald H. Weiss (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages :  220 pages
• Size :  20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184958065
  

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Practical Tips for Effective Workplace Communication

What to Say and How to Say It provides managers with real-life situations, sample dialogues and practical tips on how to say the right thing to employees at just the right time. It covers performance appraisals, coaching shy employees, dealing with hostile employees, taking corrective action and many other tough situations on the job.

With this book, managers and supervisors can now prepare, plan and even rehearse in advance for sticky situations. The author presents actual “scripts” – sample dialogs for specific problems.

Using the author’s targeted advice, the dialogs and side bars of key words and phrases, readers will be able to:
• Say just the right thing at the right time in the right way
• Avoid embarrassment and awkwardness
• Build good relationships and defuse conflict
• Work with difficult, emotional or even hostile employees
• Guide a conversation to a productive outcome for everyone involved

Donald H. Weiss is president of Self-Management Communications, Inc. and has been a training and development executive and consultant for more than 30 years. In addition to consulting work, he has held management positions with Citicorp, Millers Mutual Insurance and Equitable. Dr. Weiss’s many books include the first two editions of Fair, Square and Legal, Secrets of the Wild Goose and the Self-Management Workshop: A Trainer’s Guide. He lives in the St. Louis area.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By: DIRK BECKMANN (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2000
• Pages :  208 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 8184955634
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8184955637

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Apple's must have products add up to one giant success story. IPod, IPad, iTunes, App Store, the list goes on. So what's their secret? What makes Apple the most innovative company on the planet? The answer, Apple does exactly the opposite of what any other company would do. Unlike the competition, Apple develops devices and programs by concentrating on a small number of functions. Forget complex market analyses. Forget asking customers to help develop products. And, unlike Google and other internet giants, it wants you to pay for them. Apple combines traditional business thinking with the endless opportunities of the digital age. In this brave new world where brands and products are dragged into the opinion marketplace, What Would Apple Do? (short and sweet, just how Apple would do a book) brilliantly and concisely reveals how you can learn from Apple to develop compelling business ideas and market them successfully.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :Brian Tracy (Author), Azim Jamal (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 252 pages 
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8184957440
  

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Setting the scene with a lively fable, Azim & Brian share insightful and tangible ways to:
On a crisp winter morning, Richard, a successful, self-made CEO runs into Zoya, a quirky, free-spirited artist. The meeting leaves them struggling to find a balance between what they believe about life, and what is actually out there.
What You Seek is Seeking You is a heart-warming tale about what happens when you are forced to question everything you ever knew to be true. Refreshingly honest, it helps you rethink some of your most fundamental beliefs – the ones that hold the very canvas of your life in place, but which in fact may be limiting you.
Setting the scene with a lively fable, Azim & Brian share insightful and tangible ways to:
• Set Goals, Remain Focused and yet Stay Detached from the Outcome
• Enhance Your Business Acumen

The round wall hanging reminds us about the rich tapestry tradition of Gujarat. With some beautiful dress designs plus some nice embroidery works, the wall hanging contains a number of beads and sequins that dazzle in the fine product. Mirror works too sparkle in the wall hanging that shows some nice embroidery works.

The powerless must have a dream or two, dreams that break walls, dreams that go through walls as if they are powerless.’ A magical tour de force by a writer at the height of her powers, When Dreams Travel weaves round Scheherazade—or Shahrzad of the thousand and one nights—a vibrant, inventive story about that old game that’s never played out: the quest for love and power. The curtain opens on four figures, two men and two women. There is the sultan who wants a virgin every night; there is his brother, who makes an enemy of darkness and tries to banish it; and there are their ambitious brides, the sisters Shahrzad and Dunyazad, aspiring to be heroines—or martyrs. Travelling in and out of these lives to spellbinding effect is a range of stories, dark, poetic and witty by turns, spanning medieval to contemporary times. With its sharp and lively blend of past and present, its skillful reworking of the historical tradition, and its controlled use of evocative language, Githa Hariharan’s multi-voiced narrative assumes the significance of modern myth.

One of the most popular and powerful female goddess, Durga was the result of the collective energies of all the leading gods and goddesses and she was created to kill the demon Mahishasur, who had wrought havoc both on heaven and earth. In this beautiful Batik painting, the powerful goddess is shown killing the demon with her axe. The method of waxing and dewaxing gives a special effect to it.

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• Publisher : Harper Collins India
• By : Arundhathi  Subramaniam
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2020
  
• Pages : 112 pages
  
• Weight : ‎ 500 g
  
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9353576121
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9353576127
  

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Arundhathi Subramaniam's poems explore ambivalences -- the desire for adventure and anchorage, expansion and containment, vulnerability and strength, freedom and belonging, withdrawal and engagement, language as exciting resource and as desperate refuge. These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, and all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, When God Is a Traveller is a remarkable book of poetry.

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Lord Krishna in his childhood used to be very naughty like hundreds other children. He had a strong liking for butter. He along with his friends used to steal butter because of his strong liking for the milk-product. But despite this all the Gopis in Vraj (place in India where Krishna grew up) loved him. It is said that Krishna would steal the butter, that the Gopis would prepare. The Gopis would keep complaining to Yashoda (Krishna's foster mother) that Krishna steals their butter and breaks their urns full of water. One day Yashoda got very angry with Krishna and ran after him. But she could not catch him. You know why? Because while she was running after Krishna, his back was towards her. And the back stands for all the wrong things. So that means that if you are running after the wrong things in life, you will not be able to catch Krishna.

The beautiful Batik painting of Lord Shiva drinking poison is given a refine and detail treatment. According to Hindu mythology, when the demons and deities churned the Sea of Milk, 14 jewels appeared, one being poison. With neither the deities nor the demons being ready to accept the poison as the poisonous fumes threatened to devastate the world, Shiva drank the poison. The poison was so deadly that his throat became blue, which is why Shiva also earned the epithet Nilakantha, the blue-throated. To relieve Shiva from the burning sensation of the poison, he was given the moon, which had also come out from the ocean, to cool him down. Thus he wears the crescent moon today. Drinking of this gross poison was a small matter for Shiva. He is supposed to have said in the Linga Purana that there is still much poison in this world and those who could drink that poison are the real heroes. Indeed, both poison and nectar reside in the hearts of man and only when human souls are free from poison can they experience the joys of nectar. Every part of the painting has been given a careful treatment. One of the most popular art forms in India, Batik as an art form is quite spontaneous and one can open up new vistas through this form.

The beautiful Patachitra painting of the Mother Goddess Kali is given a refine and spectacular treatment. On her two hands, the goddess is carrying different weapons and she is also carrying a beheaded figure seeping blood from it. The Goddess is depicted trampling over sleeping Shiva. The borders of the painting are nicely painted with natural colours and the background is quite attractive. Goddess Kali is a popular goddess especially in Bengal and it is believed that worshipping her helps us get rid of the evil forces. She represents the ferocious nature. However, the goddess can be easily propitiated offering sacrifices.

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• Publisher : ‎ Rupa Publications India
• By : Rupa Bhullar
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2021
  
• Pages : ‎264 pages
  
• Weight : 200 g
  
• Size : 12.9 x 1.68 x 19.8 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9390547547
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9390547548
  

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Don’t try to predict life, try to explore it instead. Even the roughest, most crooked trails can sometimes lead to magnificent places. After suffering public humiliation at the hands of her husband on what would have otherwise been a memorable evening, Tara Grewal, a homemaker and mother of two, finds herself thrust onto a crossroads. She cannot readily go back to the life she once knew, nor can she move forward without a career or life skills to sustain her. As she transitions from questioning her choices to surrendering to the flow of life, an unfamiliar journey leads her to her grandmother village in Punjab. Amid the simple joys of rural life, and heart-wrenching struggles of daily survival, Tara unknowingly kindle a Spark of hope. A hope that eventually lights her own fire. As she casts off the reins of the predictable and embraces change, Tara unravels her fears and motivations, reaffirming her belief in what she knew to be true—about people, about life, about relationships, and most importantly, about love. In her challenges, she finds her strength. In her escape, she finds her home. Poignant, insightful, and deeply relatable, when the wildflowers Bloom weaves together the complexities of human emotions and societal norms with beauty, sensitivity, and unfailing optimism.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Rana P.B. Singh
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 2003
• Pages : 303
• Weight : 550 g.
• Size : 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569367
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569368
• Product Code : BK14273

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This book is the first attempt to describe all the fifteen places with which the Buddha had direct association. Narration of each of these places accounts the mythology, legend, Jataka tales, cultural history, archaeology, field studies and general information. The book is illustrated with 55 photographs and 55 maps and figures, and also contains a description of the main link stations like Varanasi, Allahabad and Gorakhpur. Nearby sites for excursion are also described in the context.
The sequence of the fifteen Buddhist places follows the life cycle and the journeys performed by the Buddha as narrated in the Jatakas and the Tripitaka. Accordingly, the Buddha was born (563 bce) in the garden of Lumbini (1), passed his first 29 years (563-533 bce) in the royal palaces of Kapilavastu (2) and, after abandoning his home and family he ultimately reached Bodh-Gaya (3), where he achieved enlightenment at the age of 35 (528 bce). He did arduous austerities in Gaya (4), then he proceeded to give his first preaching at Sarnath (5) in 529 bce. After this important event, known as “the turning of the wheel of Dharma”, he returned to Bodh-Gaya. After visiting Rajagriha and Nalanda, he very frequently visited Shravasti (6), where he stayed during 24 rainy seasons, performing miracles and gaving sermons. During the 6th (522 bce) and 9th years (519 bce) after enlightenment he stayed at Kaushambi (7). While returning to Bodh-Gaya, to fulfil his promise to King Bimbisara (c. 543-491 bce) he paid a visit to Rajagriha (8) together with a thousand monks of his new order, and gave sermons there. On the request of his two chief disciples Sariputta and Moggallana, the Buddha visited Nalanda (9) several times. Thereafter, the Lord proceeded to Vaishali (10), the capital city of the Lichchhavis, where he gave his last detailed sermons and re-interpreted several of his teachings. Before his final march he stopped at the bank of the Ganga River in Patna (11), in a place called today as Gautama Ghat. While making his final march he stayed a couple of nights at Kesariya (12), followed by his final arrival at Kushinagar (13) where he passed away at the age of eighty (c. 483 bce). In the same year he descended from heaven at Sankisa (14) and gave his final preaching there. Mathura (15) was also visited by the Buddha occasionally, and later developed as the major centre of the Buddhist art and sculpture in the Maurya period.

About the Author

The author, Rana P.B. Singh is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and Founding President of the Society of Heritage Planning and Environmental Health, and also of the Society of Pilgrimage Studies. He has been involved in studying, performing and promoting pilgrimages and eco-tourism for the last two decades as a consultant, project director, collaborator, pilgrimage organiser and a wanderer.

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In the spring of 1891, an intrepid Englishman set out on a year-long journey into the inhospitable region of Gilgit, near what used to be called ‘the roof of the world’, where the three great empires of that century—the British, Russian and Chinese—came together on the map.
Setting out from the beautiful valley of Kashmir, E.F. Knight traversed the mountain tracts between the invincible ranges of Hindukush and Karakoram, interacting with locals and experiencing their way of life first-hand. He brings to his readers the sights and sounds of exotic lands—undivided Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit and the lands beyond.

A fascinating travelogue of colonial times, this book also brings out the geo-political significance of the region, and the undercurrent of political strategizing at play amongst the three great empires. Knight’s visit to Ladakh and subsequent participation in Colonel Durand’s historic expedition against the raiding Hunza-Nagara stand out amongst the many adventures he has along the way.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

E. F. Knight was born in 1852 in England. He was a barrister but gave up the profession to become a journalist. He is the author of about twenty books. Some of his best known works include The Cruise of the Falcon and The Cruise of the ‘Alerte’, among others.

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• Publisher : Rupa Publications India
• By : E.F. Knight
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2017
• Pages : 384 pages
• Weight : 380 g
  
• Size : 14 x 2.18 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9788129148193
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8129148193
  

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n the spring of 1891, an intrepid Englishman set out on a year-long journey into the inhospitable region of Gilgit, near what used to be called ‘the roof of the world’, where the three great empires of that century the British, Russian and Chinese—came together on the map.etting out from the beautiful valley of Kashmir, E.F. Knight traversed the mountain tracts between the invincible ranges of Hindukush and Karakoram, interacting with locals and experiencing their way of life first-hand. He brings to his readers the sights and sounds of exotic lands—undivided Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit and the lands beyond.A fascinating travelogue of colonial times, this book also brings out the geo-political significance of the region and the undercurrent of political strategizing at play amongst the three great empires. Knight’s visit to Ladakh and subsequent participation in Colonel Durand’s historic expedition against the raiding Hunza-Nagara stand out amongst the many adventures he has along the way.

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• Publisher : Aleph Book Company
• By : Romila Thapar
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2019
• Pages : 224
• Weight : 350 gm
• Size : 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
• ISBN-10: 9388292383
• ISBN-13: 978-9388292382

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The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eyeopening book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics, early Vedic scriptures, archaeology and linguistics to test and challenge various hypotheses, myths, facts and theories that are currently in vogue.

Romila Thapar tackles the definition of the ‘Aryan’ in her inimitable style by tracing the origins and progression of the ‘Aryans’ from old Iranian texts such as the Zend-Avesta, archaeological excavations and colonial interpretations made by Max Müeller. She also touches upon the following fields of enquiry: historiography, archaeology, linguistics, comparative mythology, social anthropology and, more recently, genetics. Michael Witzel investigates the origins of the early ‘Aryans’ within and outside India. Jaya Menon examines data from excavations of Harappan culture. Kai Friese lucidly explains the Rakhigarhi research which has been talked about a lot in the recent past and Razib Khan provides insights arising from research into genetics.

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Time passes, and yet it doesn't pass; people come and go, the mountains remain. Mountains are permanent things. They are stubborn, they refuse to move. . .no matter how hard they try, humans cannot actually get rid of the mountains. That's what I like about them; they are here to stay. Mountains-snow-capped, green, and filled with stories. For decades, Ruskin Bond has lived among them and his writings abound in descriptions of these hills-of life as it is lived here, of animals and birds who sometimes even wander into his room, of the many interesting and eccentric characters who he has met here. From having his roof fly off in a freak storm to becoming the 'writer on the hill', Bond has seen it all. Funny, elegiac and filled with beautiful descriptions of people, animals and places, this collection is for every mountain and nature lover.