Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peaks history. In March 1996, Outside […]
Miss S tells her shocking true story in Confessions of a Working Girl. Miss S is smart, sassy, sexually frustrated and broke. With the rent money due, she spots an ad for a student job with a difference – in the massage parlour at the bottom of her road. Suddenly she can earn money doing […]
Robert Schuller shares his philosophy of Possibility Thinking and translates it into an action plan for success and shows you how to build a self-image with positive thoughts and know the truth that after every storm, there is a calm. Every problem has a solution. It is our attitude to get going when the going […]
In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries–and debunks the hype–surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. “Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . […]
Rajmohan Gandhis book on Mahatma Gandhi has created a controversy mainly because one of the chapters is devoted to Gandhijis relations with Saraladevi Choudharani whom he called his spiritual wife. Girja Kumar gives a more vivid characterisation of this relationship in his book which was released last year. This book, in fact, gives an authentic […]
Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu hater, murderer and religious zealot are just a handful of the modern caricatures of this maligned ruler. While many continue to accept the storyline peddled by colonial-era thinkers-that Aurangzeb, a Muslim, was a Hindu-loathing bigot-there is an untold side to […]
“One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal,” the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and […]
The Montessori Method is scientific education based on knowledge of childhood. In this volume, Dr Montessori examines the physical and mental development of the child in its early years, discussing what she considers to be the basic truths underlying the childs nature, growth and development.
According to Osho, amongst the many scriptures, none are comparable to the Gita of Ashtavakra. He says, ??Before it the Vedas pale, the Upanishads are a mere whisper. Even the Bhagavad Gita does not have the majesty found in the Ashtavakra Samhita??it is simply unparalleled.?? Enlightenment is the distillation of the teachings of Ashtavakra Samhita. […]
Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement is an acclaimed self-help book written by Anthony Robbins. In the book, you will find the essential materials to developing your overall character. In life, sometimes you do not take the various golden opportunities that present themselves to you due to various insecurities. This book helps you […]
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different is a biography on one of the pioneers of the twenty-first century, who lived to change the world and left the world transformed. Behind such a transformative soul was a bereaved childhood and a hardworking youth who started colouring the world with his own shade at the age […]
Hrithik Roshan the boy every woman would love to take home and every man envies. His very personal intimate moments with every little details of the love of his life. Find out for yourself in this exciting new book from the Stardust Hall of Fame series.
In the year 1965, Sonia Maino, a 19-year-old Italian student met a young Indian boy, Rajiv Gandhi, while they were both studying in Cambridge. She was born into a modest family in suburban Turin, where her father was a strict man who kept a close eye on his three daughters. Much to his chagrin, his […]