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Improving Your Concentration Skills
Learning to Focus on the Business At Hand How to pay , keep and sustain attention on hard, repetitious, or boring activities. Concentration is a skill that can be strengthened and refined in nearly everyone so they
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ABSOLUTELY UNBREAKABLE LAWS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS
Why are some people more successful in business than others? Why do some businesses flourish where others fail? Renowned business speaker and author Brian Tracy has discovered the answers to these profoundly questions. In the 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success he presents a set of principles or ?universal laws? that lie behind the success of business people everywhere
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First Sight
Her success has brought her everything except what she fears most. New York, London, Milan, Paris. Fashion week in all four cities. A month of endless interviews, parties, unflagging work and attention to detail. At the centre of the storm is Timmie ONeill, whose renowned line, 'Timmie O', is the embodiment of casual chic, in fashion and for the home. She has created an international empire that inspires, fills and consumes her life. In a world where humility and compassion are all too rare, Timmies humour, kindness, integrity and creativity are inspirational. Yet as blessed as she feels by her success, she harbours the private wounds of a devastating childhood and past tragedy. Always willing to take risks in business, she never risks her heart until an intriguing Frenchman comes into her life during Paris fashion week. There is every reason why they must remain apart. But neither can deny their growing friendship and the electricity that sparks whenever they meet. Are they brave enough to face what comes next? And will they do it together-or apart? About the Author Danielle Steel is one of the worlds most popular and highly acclaimed authors, with over ninety international bestselling novels in print and more than 600 million copies of her novels sold. She is also the author of His Bright Light - The Story of Her Son Nick Trainas life and Death, A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless and pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved.
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The Saffron Tide : The Rise of the BJP
A comprehensive, unbiased and timely biography of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The counting of votes in the general elections of 2014 began on the morning of 16 May. By mid-day, the Bharatiya Janata Party stormed into power with a full majority in the Lok Sabha, the only other party after the congress in 1984 to have received such a resounding mandate. The BJP traces its origins to the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, originally set up by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951 to take up the cause of Bengali Hindus in erstwhile east Pakistan. A bit player in Indian politics, the Jana Sangh only entered the big league after it forged an alliance with several other players to form the Janata Party and take on Indira Gandhi in 1977. This coalition broke up in 1980 and it was then that the BJP emerged in its present avatar. Today, the party has a pan - Indian presence with a devoted base, not just within the country but also among the Hindu diaspora worldwide. However, the BJPs remarkable rise has not been without struggle. It was only in 1998-nearly two decades after its founding-that the party first tasted power. Voted out in 2004, the BJP sat in the opposition for a decade before taking up the reins again in 2004. And while the BJP, since its inception, has presented a popular democratic alternative to the congress, it has struggled to shed its image of being overtly wedded to the pro - Hindutva agenda. In the saffron tide, a timely biography of the BJP, Kingshuk Nag traces the history of the party of India and crystal-gazes to estimate the course that it will chart for itself in the coming years. Balanced, informative and thought-provoking, this volume will be indispensable for anyone interested in the political history of post-independence India. Interesting facts Written by an author and political journalist with years of experience under his belt, this book will be the most current and first comprehensive biography of the party since the brotherhood in saffron by Walter Anderson and Shridhar Damle that was released in 1988. It is extremely timely, keeping in mind the general elections. The forward-looking epilogue has been written after the results were declared and this is the first book in the market that talks about the aftermath of the result. In a completely unbiased manner, Kingshuk Nag traces the BJP's rise in a book that will be read by all those interested in the party's philosophy, its origins and its future. About the AuthorOn the staff of the Times of India (TOI) for the last twenty-one years, KingshuK Nag is a passionate follower of Indias political economy. A recipient of the prestigious Prem Bhatia award for excellence in political reporting and analysis, Nag has lived and worked in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad and is now based in Hyderabad as the resident editor of TOI. An alumnus of the Delhi school of economics, Nag became a journalist after working as an economic consultant for a few years. Books previously authored by Nag include the double life of Ramalinga Raju-the story of Indias largest corporate scam, battleground telangana-the chronicle of an agitation and the bestselling the namo story-a political life.
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The Silkworm
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith is another thrilling story about the famous Cormoran Strike and his trusted assistant, Robin Ellacott, from the author’s first novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. The book is to be published on June 19th, 2014. Summary of the Book Owen Quine, a novelist, has not been home for a few days now. His wife immediately calls Strike to find out if he can help her find out where he is. Quine is known to have gone missing for many days from his home, but has always returned. However, Strike finds out that this time this is not the case. The novelist is in some kind of trouble which his wife is not aware of. After much research, Cormoran finds out that Owen has written a novel which reveals dark secrets about the people that he knows. This could damage their reputation if the book is published. The novelist is soon found brutally murdered. Strike is determined to find out who this killer is, and realizes that this killer is probably the worst he has ever dealt with. About the Author Robert Galbraith is the pseudonym which the famous author J. K. Rowling goes by. The first book that was published under this name was The Cuckoo’s Calling.
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When Only Love Remains
I’ve imagined this in my head so many times. I’ve always thought about what I would say; What I would do and how it would all turn out to be. And every time I would remove some detail … She’s a flight attendant—young, bright and living her dream. He’s a heartbroken singer on his way to becoming big. She’s an ardent fan of his. He can’t imagine why and yet seems to find comfort in her words. It’s the first time they are together and in their hearts both are wishing, hoping and praying that the night would never end. That the time they are spending together lasts and lasts … In the world of imperfection, there is always someone just right for you. Durjoy Datta was born in New Delhi, India, and completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. His first book—Of Course I Love You!—was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels—Now That You’re Rich!; She Broke Up, I Didn’t!; Ohh Yes, I Am Single!; If It’s Not Forever; Till the Last Breath; Someone Like You; Hold My Hand—have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India.
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Quantum Siege
This is the endgame. The terror group Lashkar has directly threatened the prime minister of India with never before consequences, if referendum is not declared in Kashmir immediately. The UN Security Council has called for an emergency session scheduled to meet within two days to discuss the Kashmir crisis. Rudra Pratap Singh and his team at the Anti - Terror cell face their toughest challenge yet. Millions of innocent lives are at stake while India readies itself for war. Time is running out and the terrorists threat is about to actualize. Will they be able to neutralize it, trace the perpetrators and avert war? Set in the heart of a metropolis, this diabolical thriller will consume you in its labyrinthine madness.
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Resonance
Siddharth Rana, the Joint Director of the IB, is at his wits end attempting to unravel that mystery. Working with the blindest of clues, Siddharth has to race against time to prevent terrorists from achieving their horrific goal-an India laid low by a catastrophe of biblical proportions. This is a story that leaps across continents, gets to the heart of convoluted terrorist plots and attacks and amazes you with its exposition of high-tech gadgetry and science. It is equally a story of breathtaking bravery, recounted at a mind-blowing pace. At its core, it is also a story about the beauty of relationships. Relationships that are beyond national boundaries and historic enmities. About the Author Ajay is currently with the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). His background as an engineer and his two decades of work with the Indian Revenue Service, his close association with different intelligence agencies around the globe, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, attachment with the Indian Embassy in USA and his training at Duke University, North Carolina, USA have given him a deep understanding of world geopolitics and the intricacies of how intelligence agencies and governments at different levels operate worldwide. All of this has fed into his first novel, Resonance.
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An Officer and a Spy
National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2013 They lied to protect their country. He told the truth to save it. A gripping historical thriller from the bestselling author of Fatherland. January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying Death to the Jew! The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French armys youngest colonel and put in command of the Statistical Sectionthe shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus. The spy, meanwhile, is given a punishment of medieval cruelty: Dreyfus is shipped off to a lifetime of solitary confinement on Devils Island-unable to speak to anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed forever. But gradually Picquart comes to believe there is something rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy operating on French soil, his superiors are oddly reluctant to pursue it. Despite official warnings, Picquart persists, and soon the officer and the spy are in the same predicament. Narrated by Picquart, An Officer and a Spy is a compelling recreation of a scandal that became the most famous miscarriage of justice in history. Compelling, too, are the echoes for our modern world-an intelligence agency gone rogue, justice corrupted in the name of national security, a newspaper witch-hunt of a persecuted minority, and the age-old instinct of those in power to cover-up their crimes. About the Author Robert Harris is the author of eight bestselling novels - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost, Lustrum and The Fear Index. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, West Berkshire, with his wife Gill Hornby.
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The Great Indian Democracy
Twenty-something Vikram rebels against his father and the mediocre life his engineering background has ordained for him by traveling to Delhi to become a stand-up comedian. Only, he is forced to see the serious side of his jokes when circumstances compel him to accept the position of a journalist at the great Indian democracy, an upcoming political magazine. Life drifts along through plagiarized articles and pub-hopping until one day he finds out why he was hired in the first place and meets Advaita, the annoyingly beautiful intern with whom he falls in love. Disarmingly funny, The GID is a satirical and thought-provoking take on everything that makes our nation's democracy the biggest stand-up show.
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Recipe for Love
Take one aspiring cook. When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition, she cant wait to put her cooking skills to the test. Add a very desirable judge. But as the competition heats up, she realises shes developing an inconvenient crush on one of the judges, the truly delicious Gideon Irving. Stir in a heaped tablespoon of romance. All too soon theres more than canapes, cupcakes and cordon bleu at stake. Will Zoe win the competition, or is Gideon one temptation too far? About the Author Katie Fforde was born and brought up in London but has lived in Gloucestershire with her family for the last thirty years. She and her husband started married life on the water where they took a pair of narrowboats around the canals as a hotel. With her husband away at sea for a lot of the time and two young sons to look after the germ of her writing career began. It was when they moved to Stroud and after her daughter was born that Katie, encouraged by her mother, finally took up the challenge to write. Her first novel, Living Dangerously, went on to be chosen as part of the WHSmith Fresh Talent promotion. There have been over seventeen novels since, as well as some grandchildren. Her hobbies, when she has time for them, are singing in a choir and flamenco dancing. Katie Fforde is President of the Romantic Novelists' Association. To find out more about Katie Fforde visit her website at www.katiefforde.com, Facebook and follow her on Twitter @KatieFforde.
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Dilip Kumar - The Substance and the Shadow : An Au
A Long-awaited Autobiography. An authentic, heartfelt and compelling narrative - straight from the horses mouth - that reveals for the first time numerous unknown aspects of the life and times of one of the greatest legends of all time who stands out as a symbol of secular India. Dilip Kumar (born as Yousuf Khan), who began as a diffident novice in Hindi cinema in the early 1940s, went on to attain the pinnacle of stardom within a short time. He came up with spellbinding performances in one hit film after another - in his almost six-decade-long career - on the basis of his innovative capability, determination, hard work and never-say-die attitude. In this unique volume, Dilip Kumar traces his journey right from his birth to the present. In the process, he candidly recounts his interactions and relationships with a wide variety of people not only from his family and the film fraternity but also from other walks of life, including politicians. While seeking to set the record straight, as he feels that a lot of what has been written about him so far is full of distortions and misinformation, he narrates, in graphic detail, how he got married to Saira Banu, which reads like a fairy tale! Dilip Kumar relates, matter-of-fact, the event that changed his life-his meeting with Devika Rani, the boss of Bombay Talkies, when she offered him an acting job. His first film was Jwar Bhata (1944). He details how he had to learn everything from scratch and how he had to develop his own distinct histrionics and style, which would set him apart from his contemporaries. After that, he soon soared to great heights with movies such as Jugnu, Shaheed, Mela andaz, Deedar, Daag and Devdas. In these movies he played the tragedian with such intensity that his psyche was adversely affected. He consulted a British psychiatrist, who advised him to switch over to comedy. The result was spectacular performances in laugh riots such as Azaad and Kohinoor, apart from a scintillating portrayal as a gritty tonga driver in Naya Daur. After a five-year break he started his second innings with Kranti (1981), after which he appeared in a series of hits such as Vidhaata, Shakti, Mashaal, Karma, Saudagar and Qila. About the Author Dilip Kumar, a legend in his lifetime, is not only a superlative actor but also a connoisseur of the arts, a voracious reader of literary works in Urdu, Persian and English, a highly gifted multilingual orator, an excellent mimic and a superb dancer! He bagged the Filmfare Best Actor Award eight times, a record. He is also the recipient of the Padma Bhushan, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and the Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Pakistans highest civilian award). He has also served innumerable philanthropic and social causes in his own unobtrusive manner.
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The Ultimate Santa-Banta Joke Book
Santa: A month ago I gave my number to this beautiful lady. She said that she'll text me when she gets back home. Banta: So, have you got her number yet? Santa: I haven't received any call from her so far. I think she is homeless! Santa: I eat my salad without dressing. Banta: For health reasons? Santa: No. Because once hungry who has the time to put on clothes. Police: Knock Knock! Santa: Who's there? Police:Police! Open the door, we only need to talk. Santa: How many are you? Police: We are three. Santa: So why don't you just talk to each other?
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India Shining and Sinking
ndia Shining and Sinking is a collection of daunting and thought provoking essays on a diverse range of subjects ranging from politics, governance to corruption and poverty. The author writes that India is currently under siege both from within and from the outside. Corruption and incompetence has got deeply incorporated in our governance and the politicians’ today work only for self-advancement rather than the welfare of the nation and its citizens. The economic health of India has been badly affected by this and crime and corruption have become bywords of our daily lives. To add to the existing problems within the country, our neighbors such as Pakistan and China are on constantly on the look-out for a slightest hitch in the system so that they can breach our defences. In these times of turmoil and unrest, the largest democracy in the world is heading into elections and about to vote into power leaders who can either make or break India. About S. K. Shah Mr. S.K Shah is an Indian author and social commentator. He completed his schooling from Sant Nirankari School in 1966, and completed his Bachelors in English from Hansraj College followed by his Masters in English also from Delhi University. Despite joining his family business, he always had a flair for writing and it was in 1997 that started writing letters to the Editors. The compilation of these letters was released in the form of a book Insight I in 1999 and the second volume Insight II was released in 2003.
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Hard Choices
Hillary Rodham Clintons inside account of the crises, choices and challenges she faced during her four years as Americas 67th Secretary of State and how those experiences drive her view of the future. 'All of us face hard choices in our lives, II Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. 'Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.' In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the democratic party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea and revolutions across the middle east. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harms way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. About the AuthorHillary Rodham Clinton served as the US Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 after nearly four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, first lady and Senator. She is the author of several best selling books, including her memoir, living History and her ground breaking work on children, it takes a village.
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Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying - Reforming
The development of institutions that conform to both democratic principles as well as market-capitalist ideas is one of human historys unfinished tasks. Perhaps it has become modern Indias destiny to help finish the task. Institutions and institutional processes provide stability, are a means to progress and thus fulfill the needs of society. This functionality, however, has been lost in recent times and citizens around the world are losing confidence in institutions of government and democracy, free markets and capitalism. Reforming institutions has thus become the most urgent task for leaders across the world. Not an easy task-it is as risky as redesigning an aeroplane while flying in it, it shakes up the foundations of stability. This insightful book, penned by a member of Indias Planning Commission, looks at how India, the worlds largest democracy, which embraced capitalism twenty years ago, has become the principal laboratory for institutional reform. It provides new ways to think about institutions and the process of reforming them and explains how we should go about reformation as a nation. The principles given in this book apply to institutions of government and business in all countries. Timely and incisive, Redesigning the aeroplane While Flying addresses the most essential need of the hour.