 | THE FORGOTTEN ART OF HEALING AND OTHER ESSAYS by Farokh Erach Udwadia The hubris of great scientific achievements in medicine has submerged its art, which when combined with science not only cures but also heals. Aptly titled The Forgotten Art of Healing, this collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays is written by a physician of wide repute who shares his views on medicine, divorced from its technical aspects. The author explores the relation between ‘Art and Medicine’ in a well-researched and illustrated essay, written with delicacy and passion. In ‘Medicine and Religion’, Udwadia traces their interaction over 5000 years of history. Finally, in the ‘Convocation Address at the Benaras Hindu University’ he expresses values that lie deeply entrenched in the heart of medicine. Pages : 184 HardBack List Price : Rs.695.00 Our Price : Rs.555.00 You Save: Rs.140 (20.14%) |
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 | HOW THE MIGHTY FALL by Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Pages : 222 HardBack List Price : Rs.1188.00 Our Price : Rs.475.00 You Save: Rs.713 (60.01%) |
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 | THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR by ken Blanchard , Don Hutson and Ethan Willis The One Minute Entrepreneur tells the story of the challenges facing two aspiring Entrepreneurs In creating their own business. Jud McCarly and his wife , terri ,grapple with a number of problems in starting up their business ,from finding new sources of revenue and securing the loyalty of customers to ensuring a steady cash flow. As the story unfolds , the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur are revealed ,from building a firm foundation and launching the company to creating legendary service. The book features advice ,delivered through One Minute Insights , from real-life entrepreneurs and thinkers giving practical guidance on the best way to realize your entrepreneurial goals. Pages : 145 HardBack List Price : Rs.195.00 Our Price : Rs.156.00 You Save: Rs.39 (20.00%) |
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 | India's Global Powerhouses by NIRMALYA KUMAR with Pradipta K. Mohapatra and Suj Chandrasekhar When the Indian auto manufacturer Tata Motors bought the iconic Jaguar and Land Rover brands - complementing the Nano, its own innovative $2,500 car - it opened up a new chapter in India's economic story. In the coming years, such Indian multinationals as Bharat Forge, Hindalco, Infosys, Mahindra, and Suzlon will increasingly be making acquisitions and building their brands in Western markets. Never heard of them? Then read this book. India's Global Powerhouses introduces you to the India's preeminent global companies and explains how they differ from their international rivals. The book profiles India's pioneering multinationals in detail, describing their transformation from leading domestic players to evolving global giants, as well as their unique approaches to globalization. Every manager should understand the histories and the business trajectories of these prospective competitors, collaborators, and customers - whose names will soon be as familiar to us as Honda, Lenovo, and Samsung. Pages : 372 HardBack List Price : Rs.695.00 Our Price : Rs.556.00 You Save: Rs.139 (20.00%) |
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 | LORDS OF FINANCE by Liaquat Ahamed With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century. It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person’s or government’s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. Pages : 576 HardBack List Price : Rs.1796.00 Our Price : Rs.1195.00 You Save: Rs.601 (33.46%) |
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 | HOUSE OF CARDS by William D. Cohan On the evening of March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world, sold itself for an outrageously low price to the $2 trillion global behemoth JP Morgan Chase. Bear Stearns no longer existed, and the calamitous financial meltdown of 2008 had begun. What went wrong? In House of Cards bestselling author and former investment banker William Cohan gives the reader a front-row seat at Wall Street’s catastrophic unravelling at the seams, and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street. Through the prism of Bear Stearns, he shows how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making have wrought havoc on the world financial system. Pages : 468 HardBack List Price : Rs.1523.00 Our Price : Rs.525.00 You Save: Rs.998 (65.52%) |
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 | A BETTER INDIA - A BETTER WORLD by N R Narayana Murthy A manifesto for the youth, the architects of the future, and a compelling argument for why a better India holds the key to a better world. As India strides confidently towards the future, some 300 million Indians are still prey to hunger, illiteracy and disease, and 53 per cent of India’s children are still undernourished. What will it take for India to bridge this great divide? And how should this, our greatest challenge ever, be negotiated? In this extraordinarily inspiring and visionary book, N R Narayana Murthy shows us that a society working for the greatest welfare of the greatest number—samasta jananam sukhino bhavantu—must focus on two simple things: values and good leadership. Drawing on the remarkable Infosys story and the lessons learnt from the two decades of post-reform India, Narayana Murthy lays down the ground rules that must be followed if future generations are to inherit a truly progressive nation. N R Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited. He serves on the boards of Unilever, HSBC, NDTV, Ford Foundation and the UN Foundation. He also serves on the boards of Cornell University, Wharton School, Singapore Management University, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore and INSEAD. The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy among the most-admired global leaders in 2005. He topped the Economic Times list of India’s most powerful CEOs for three consecutive years: 2004 to 2006. He has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, the Legion d’Honneur by the Government of France, and the CBE by the British government. He is the first Indian winner of Ernst and Young’s World Entrepreneur of the Year award and the Max Schmidheiny Liberty prize, and has appeared in the rankings of businessmen and innovators prepared by India Today, Business Standard, Time, CNN, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes and Financial Times. Pages : 320 HardBack List Price : Rs.499.00 Our Price : Rs.375.00 You Save: Rs.124 (24.84%) |
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 | THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld The layman does not often have the opportunity of reading a simple exposition of advance scientific thought written by the man who did the actual creative thinking. In this book , which is the result of a happy collaboratin between the author of the theory of Relativity and one of his own co-workers in research, the story the have to tell of this evolutionary development is one of the most fascinating that the human mind can meet with – the story of mankind’s attempt to comprehend through inventive thought its own relationship to external world. Pages : 302 HardBack List Price : Rs.995.00 Our Price : Rs.375.00 You Save: Rs.620 (62.31%) |
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 | MEN OF MATHEMATICS by E.T. Bell Here is the classics , much-read introduction to the craft and history of mathematics by E.T. Bell, a leading figure in mathematics in America for half a century. Men of Mathematics accessibly explain the major mathematics, from the geometry of the Greek through Newton’s calculus and on to the laws of probability, symbolic logic, and the fourth dimension. In addition, the book goes beyond pure mathematics to present a series of engrossing biographies of the great mathematics – an extraordinary number of whom lived bizarre or unusual lives. Pages : 590 HardBack List Price : Rs.1135.00 Our Price : Rs.495.00 You Save: Rs.640 (56.38%) |
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 | NARENDRA MODI by M. V. kamath & Kalindi Randeri Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, is one of the most misunderstood chief ministers that India has seen ever since independence. He has frequently been criticized following the torching of the coaches of the Sabarmati Express at Godhara and the riots that occurred as a result. The book traces Narendra Modi’s career and the manner in which he has turned the state into India’s number one industrial state in the bare space of abut half-a-decade. Pages : 297 HardBack List Price : Rs.395.00 Our Price : Rs.315.00 You Save: Rs.80 (20.25%) |
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 | SOLO by Rana Dasgupta Solo is a kaleidoscopic novel about the life and daydreams of Ulrich, a one-hundred-year-old man from Bulgaria. Set in a country that has belonged sometimes to Asia and sometimes to Europe, Solo is a book about lost roots, broken traditions and wasted ambitions – and the ways human beings overcome those failures. Pages : 380 HardBack List Price : Rs.395.00 Our Price : Rs.315.00 You Save: Rs.80 (20.25%) |
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 | A TIME OF TRANSITION by Mani Shankar Aiyar Mani Shankar Aiyar looks back to the changes that have taken place during the ‘Time of Transition’ —the two decades since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left office after the Lok Sabha elections of November 1989. Rajiv Gandhi was the fourth prime minister of India in four decades of independence, but the last twenty years have seen as many as eight prime ministers and several more governments. Accompanying the change from single-party governance to the instability of coalition politics are major transformations in the pace, trajectory and even the goals of nation-building. It is these contentious transitions that are reflected in the five major themes of this volume: Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, Nonalignment, and Neighbourhood Policy. Pages : 373 HardBack List Price : Rs.599.00 Our Price : Rs.475.00 You Save: Rs.124 (20.70%) |
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 | SEA OF POPPIES by Amitav Ghosh An epic of immense scope and narrative power, Sea of Poppies is the first book in the Ibis Trilogy, Amitav Ghosh’s most ambitious work to date, which spans three continents and close to two ceturies. It combines with effortless mastery the drama of individual lives with the big themes of history, and does what the greatest novels do: accommodate almost every aspect of human experience in one sweeping narrative. Pages : 528 HardBack List Price : Rs.599.00 Our Price : Rs.475.00 You Save: Rs.124 (20.70%) |
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 | THE SNOWBALL - WARREN BUFFETT by Alice Schroeder Here is the book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.” Pages : 976 PaperBack List Price : Rs.995.00 Our Price : Rs.660.00 You Save: Rs.335 (33.66%) |
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 | THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram’s journey from the darkness of village life to light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable. Pages : 321 HardBack List Price : Rs.395.00 Our Price : Rs.315.00 You Save: Rs.80 (20.25%) |
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 | 2666 by Roberto Bolano Told in five parts, 2666 is the epic novel that defines one of Latin America’s greatest writers and his unique vision of the modern world. Conceived on an astonishing scale, and – in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life – with burning, visionary commitment, it has been greeted across Europe and Latin America as his masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in inventiveness, imagination, beauty and scope. Pages : 912 HardBack List Price : Rs.750.00 Our Price : Rs.550.00 You Save: Rs.200 (26.66%) |
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 | LEADERSHIP IN THE ERA OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY by Ram Charan Great business thinkers like Ram Charan see opportunity in chaos. His innovative, commonsense way of approaching problems has made him one of the world’s most sought-after consultants. Here, he provides help to leaders at every level, from the CEO and country managers to department heads in finance, marketing, sales, and manufacturing. Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty offers clear guidelines for seizing opportunity and persevering in today’s global economy. Fight your fear and anxiety and take your leadership to the next level now. Pages : 140 HardBack List Price : Rs.375.00 Our Price : Rs.300.00 You Save: Rs.75 (20%) |
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 | BRITANNICA CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA by Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica Since 1768, Encyclopedia Britannica has been the leading reference source in the English language. Today the authority and reliability that have been Britannica’s hallmark for more than 235 years are available in the updated one-volume Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. With information on a broad range of human knowledge, the Concise Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for home, school, or office: Pages : 2115 HardBack List Price : Rs.3850.00 Our Price : Rs.1200.00 You Save: Rs.2650 (68.83%) |
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 | SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by Vikas Swarup When Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphaned, uneducated waiter from Mumbai, wins a billion rupees on a quiz show, he finds himself thrown in jail. (Unable to pay out the prize, the program's producers bribed local authorities to declare Ram a cheater.) Enter attractive lawyer Smita Shah, to get Ram out of prison and listen to him explain, via flashbacks, how he knew the answers to all the show's questions. Indian diplomat Swarup's fanciful debut is based on a sound premise: you learn a lot about the world by living in it (Ram has survived abandonment, child abuse, murder). Pages : 382 PaperBack List Price : Rs.268.00 Our Price : Rs.210.00 You Save: Rs.58 (21.64%) |
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 | THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW by Marcus Buckingham Drawing on a wide body of research, both his own and that of others, including extensive in-depth interviews, The One Thing You Need to Know reveals the central insights that lie at the core of: Great Managing, Great Leadership and Great Careers. Pages : 289 HardBack List Price : Rs.1378.00 Our Price : Rs.350.00 You Save: Rs.1028 (74.60%) |
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 | THE TOYOTA LEADERS by Masaaki Sato Six decades ago, Toyota was an embarrassment. Today, they are the auto- industry leader. The Toyota Leaders: An Executive Guide tells how they did it, and in such a way that allows readers to apply the lessons. Discover how Toyota is more than just a series of good business moves, but a culture first put into place by its founders and built on through the years. Not a corporate history, Sato uses Toyota's past to contextualize his discussion as he focuses on the company's unique business strategies. Pages : 334 HardBack List Price : $19.95 (Rs.1006.00) Our Price : Rs.600.00 You Save: Rs.406 (40.35%) |
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 | WHY WE BUY by Paco Underhill Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture -- full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail, which is taking place in the world's emerging markets. Pages : 306 PaperBack List Price : Rs.819.00 Our Price : Rs.490.00 You Save: Rs.329 (40.17%) |
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 | RICH BROTHER - RICH SISTER by Emi Kiyosaki & Robert Kiyosaki Two lives, together, then apart, then together again, as a brother and a sister discover the riches of life. Rich Brother, Rich Sister combines the inspirational true life stories of Robert Kiyosaki and his sister Emi into one book that will reaffirm your belief in the power of purpose, the importance of action, and the ability to overcome all obstacles in a quest for wealth, both financial and spiritual. Pages : 356 HardBack List Price : Rs.1275.00 Our Price : Rs.525.00 You Save: Rs.750 (58.82%) |
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 | Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani In Imagining India Nadan Nilekani, who has been a key player in India's growth story, examines the central ideas that have shaped modern India, and offers an original perspective on our past, present and future. He points out that the country's future rests on more than simply economic growth; it also depends on reform and innovation an all sectors of public life. Looking closely at india's recent history,he examines the ideas and attitudes that evolved with the times and contributed to the contry's progress, as well as those that kept it shackled to old undemocratic ways. Nilekani also gets to the heart of charged debates about caste politics, higher education,the role of the state in globalized world, etc., and asks key questions of the future. He argues that India is in the middle of a huge transformational process, and only a safety net of ideas-from genuinely inclusive democracy to social security, from public health to sustainable energy - can transcend political agendas and safeguard the country's future. 520 pages with 12 b/w photos Pages : 520 pages PaperBack List Price : Rs.699.00 Our Price : Rs.525.00 You Save: Rs.174 (24.89%) |
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 | Stopwatch Marketing: Take Charge of the Time When Your Customer Decides to Buy by John Rosen, Annamaria Turano Stopwatch Marketing unveils a systematic way to capitalize on four different types of shopping styles-Recreational, Painstaking, Impatient, and Reluctant. Rosen and Turano also share the stories of how America's top brands put the concept of Stopwatch Marketing to work for them. You'll learn how: Goodyear turned Assurance with TripleTred tires into a billion-dollar success story built on a shopping cycle that takes less than an hour. Roto-Rooter became the only legitimate brand in its category by controlling the typical Yellow Pages users' 50-second search pattern. Whole Foods reinvented the supermarket shopping experience to slow down their customers' clocks. Microsoft exploits shoppers' reluctance to spend time researching alternatives to their Office software. Pages : 243 HardBack List Price : $20.95 (Rs.1056.00) Our Price : Rs.844.00 You Save: Rs.212 (20.00%) |
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 | The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila - Yacoobali Zamindar In this remarkable study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar argues that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were enormously important in shaping these massive displacements. She examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states in the midst of this historic chaos. Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories with north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu newspapers and government records of India and Pakistan. She juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer refugee property. As a result, she reveals the surprising history of the making of the western Indo-Pak border, one of the most highly surveillanced in the world, which came to be instituted in response to this refugee crisis, in order to construct national difference where it was the most blurred. In particular, Zamindar examines the "Muslim question" at the heart of Partition. From the margins and silences of national histories, she draws out the resistance, bewilderment, and marginalization of north Indian Muslims as they came to be pushed out and divided by both emergent nation-states. It is here that Zamindar asks us to stretch our understanding of "Partition violence" to include this long, and in some sense ongoing, bureaucratic violence of postcolonial nationhood, and to place Partition at the heart of a twentieth century of border-making and nation-state formation. Pages : 288 HardBack List Price : Rs.495.00 Our Price : Rs.396.00 You Save: Rs.99 (20.00%) |
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 | Meanwhile, Upriver by Chatura Rao In the bylanes and ghats of Kashi, or Banaras, Yamini’s and Shiva’s stories unfold. Fat, sharp-tongued Yamini is thirty-eight and unmarried. By day she teaches maths in school. At night she leaves her obese self behind and takes to the skies, light as a bird in her dreams, dancing in the air above the ghats with the love of her life. The ghat is also where Shiva, now eleven years old, was found abandoned by his adoptive father, the charismatic and ambitious sadhu Bhyom Baba. Growing up in Baba’s ashram near Dashaswamedh Ghat, Shiva eavesdrops on the conversations of sadhus as they pass through the ashram, and hopes to some day find his mother among the women thronging the ghats. One day, Yamini meets Duncan, a researcher, who unlocks the romantic in her and suddenly she feels like the person from her dreams, light and loved. In another part of the city, Shiva is chosen to enact the role of chhota Hanuman in the Ramnagar Ramlila. There he befriends the shy, quiet Shantanu, who plays the part of Janaki, Ram’s wife. Against the backdrop of the Lila, where political battlelines have been drawn by the city’s rival ashram factions, the final horrific truth about Shiva’s life is revealed, and his story merges with Yamini’s. Meanwhile, Upriver is about two outsiders struggling to find the courage to swim upriver, till an unforeseen connection brings them together. Resonating with the sights and sounds of an ancient place in the heart of modern India, this remarkable debut novel tells a story that is at once poignant and captivating. Pages : 206 PaperBack List Price : Rs.250.00 Our Price : Rs.200.00 You Save: Rs.50 (20.00%) |
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 | Under Her Spell: Roberto Rossellini in India by Dileep Padgaonkar When he came to India in December 1956 Roberto Rossellini was an internationally renowned figure. Highly acclaimed as a director of Italian neo-realist films and married to Hollywood legend Ingrid Bergman, his was an ebullient yet intense personality that combined a fondness for flashy cars and lovely women with a passionately serious commitment to exploring the human condition and portraying it with unflinching and unvarnished honesty. Rossellini had come to India at the invitation of the prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. His aim was to make a series of films which would capture the newly independent country as it came to grips with progress and development after centuries of colonialism. He deliberately eschewed the exotica which had beguiled all too many Western travellers. He refused to be distracted by the monuments, the spirituality and cultural bric-a-brac, preferring instead to fix his gaze on the actual moment, on the grand endeavours of industrialization, land reform and the then still fledging democratic spirit-- the India of Nehru’s vision. India changed Rossellini irrevocably. It was here that he encountered the dusky, doe-eyed Sonali Dasgupta, then 27 years-old, the wife of a documentary film-maker and the mother of two small children. Their connection scandalized Indian society and became the object of a sustained campaign by elements in the Indian press, instigated by the Bombay film industry which resented Nehru’s patronage of a foreign film-maker and Rossellini’s unconcealed contempt for their overblown, fantastical extravaganzas. Pages : 263 HardBack List Price : Rs.550.00 Our Price : Rs.440.00 You Save: Rs.110 (20.00%) |
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 | The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birth right, remaining at their sides through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husband's most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods and the ever manipulating hands of fate. Pages : 362 HardBack List Price : Rs.495.00 Our Price : Rs.396.00 You Save: Rs.99 (20.00%) |
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 | The Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami The Arabian Nights of the Mughal world in its definitive English translation - here is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, adventurer and uncle of prophet Muhammed, who travels to exotic lands, defeats many enemies and encounters along the way warriors and kings, tricksters and fairies, courtesans and magical creatures. Pages : 950 PaperBack List Price : Rs.750.00 Our Price : Rs.600.00 You Save: Rs.150 (20.00%) |
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 | The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie The Enchanteress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily withquestions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual. florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend 'il Machia' - Niccolo Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And it he's a liar, must he die? Pages : 358 HardBack List Price : Rs.595.00 Our Price : Rs.476.00 You Save: Rs.119 (20.00%) |
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 | Physics of The Impossible by Michio Kaku A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future. One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future. Pages : 332 HardBack List Price : $26.95 (Rs.1359.00) Our Price : Rs.675.00 You Save: Rs.684 (50.33%) |
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 | Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth returns to the terrain - the heart of family life and the immigrant experience - that Jhumpa Lahiri has made utterly hers, but her themes, this time around, have darkened and deepened. Poised, nuanced, deeply moving, here is a superb collection - the finest she has written yet. Pages : 334 HardBack List Price : Rs.450.00 Our Price : Rs.360.00 You Save: Rs.90 (20.00%) |
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 | My Country My LIfe by L. K. Advani My Country My Life is an extraordinary self-portrait of India's leading political personality - L. K. Advani. As an immigrant who was forced to abandon his beloved Sindh, which became a part of Pakistan after India was partitioned in 1947 on the basis of the communally inspired 'Two Nation' theory, Advani gives a poignant first-person account of that tragedy. With a career spanning six decades as a political activist in post-1947 India, during which he has been a ring-side viewer of, and participant in, almost all the major socio-political developments in India, Advani is uniquely qualified to offer a perspective on Independent India's political evolution. The book provides a riveting, insightful and assertive account of Advani's fight for democracy during the Emergency, his Ram Rath Yatra for the reconstruction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya that resulted in the biggest mass movement in Independent India since Independence and catalysed a nationwide debate on the true meaning of secularism, and his years as India's Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister in the Vajpayee-led government of the National Democratic Alliance between 1998-2008. Pages : 986 HardBack List Price : Rs.595.00 Our Price : Rs.476.00 You Save: Rs.119 (20.00%) |
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 | Red Sun: Travels Naxalite Country by Sudeep Chakravarti In this brilliant and disturbing examination of the ‘Other India’, Sudeep Chakravarti combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist zones in the country: Chhattisgarh (home to the controversial state-sponsored Salwa Judum programme to contain Naxalism), Jharkhand, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (where a serving chief minister was nearly killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the Naxalites). He meets Maoist leaders and sympathizers, policemen, bureaucrats, politicians, security analysts, development workers, farmers and tribals—people, big and small, who comprise the actors and the audience in this war being fought in jungles and impoverished villages across India. What emerges is a sobering picture of a deeply divided society, and the dangers that lie ahead for India. Pages : 352 HardBack List Price : Rs.495.00 Our Price : Rs.396.00 You Save: Rs.99 (20.00%) |
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 | The Japanese Wife by Kunal Basu An Indian man writes to a Japanese woman. She writes back. The pen-friends fall in love and exchange their vows over letters, then live as man and wife without ever setting eyes on each other – their intimacy of words tested finally by life's miraculous upheavals. The twelve stories in this collection are about the unexpected. An American professor visits India with the purpose of committing suicide, and goes on a desert journey with the daughter of a snakecharmer. A honeymooning Indian couple is caught up in the Tiananmen Square unrest. A Russian prostitute discovers her roots in the company of Calcutta revolutionaries. A holocaust victim stands tall among strangers in a landscape of hate. These are chronicles of memory and dreams born at the crossroads of civilizations. They parade a cast of angels and demons rubbing shoulders with those whose lives are never quite as ordinary as they seem. Pages : 206 HardBack List Price : Rs.395.00 Our Price : Rs.316.00 You Save: Rs.79 (20.00%) |
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