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The Way Of Nagomi
The Japanese ideology that gives you the powers to embrace everything life throws at you in order to live at peace and harmoniously - as explained by the global bestselling author who brought you ikigai.
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Greatest Russian Short Stories
Featuring stories by: • Leo Tolstoy • Anton Chekov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Nikolai Gogol • Maxim Gorky • Alexander Pushkin and many others Showcasing Beloved Tales from the Golden Age of Russian Literature. Discover the highs and lows of human experience through masterpieces such as • Alexander Pushkin’s the Queen of Spades, which explores avarice with superhuman elements • Ignatiy Potapenko’s the Curse of Fame, rife with the pathos that forms an integral part of our lives • Anton Chekov’s the Slanderer, depicting how people can fall victim to their own minds • Nikolai Gogol’s the Cloak, an evocative work on the isolation and dissatisfaction that runs rampant in society and many more. Featuring masters of the genre, such as Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky, Greatest Russian Short Stories is a vividly engaging collection to be treasured for a lifetime.
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The Devil's Teacup And Other Ghost Stories
A thrilling anthology of thirteen bone-chilling tales that delve into the realms of ghosts, the paranormal, and the supernatural. From malevolent apparitions lurking in the shadows to foreboding omens that foreshadow unimaginable horrors, each story in this collection will make you question the boundaries of reality and what lies beyond. Masterfully weaved narratives to send shivers down your spine. Each tale provides a reading experience filled with suspense, mystery, and atmospheric tension. The stories offer a different facet of the supernatural or paranormal. A collection of horror stories that have emerged from Bengali literature and been translated into English for the first time. Written by the author of Pather Panchali and Aparajito. Offers a diverse range of ghost stories—from vengeful spirits to haunted houses, from paranormal encounters to supernatural manifestations, and much more.
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Habits of a Happy Brain
Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels A revolutionary approach to enhancing your happiness level! Get ready to boost your happiness in just 45 days! Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to retrain your brain to turn on the chemicals that make you happy. Each page offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your “happy chemicals”—serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. You’ll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most. Filled with dozens of exercises that will help you reprogram your brain, Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to live a happier, healthier life!
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Trekking Holidays In India
Offers 85 treks and 50 trekking options through the greatest mountains range on earth. This book is geared for the beginner, but also offers trekking options for the more experienced and adventurous.
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Why do some products capture our attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain things out of sheer habit? Is there an underlying pattern to how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) with the Hook Model – a four-step process that, when embedded into products, subtly encourages customer behaviour. Through consecutive "hook cycles," these products bring people back again and again. Eyal provides readers with practical insights to create user habits that stick; actionable steps for building products people love; and riveting examples, from the iPhone to Twitter, Instagram and Google.
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Himachal State Guide
Offers information that helps to create perfect Himalayan holidays. This work includes listings of hotels, eating places, and contact numbers of tourism offices.
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The Laws of the Sun
Life’s Questions, Answered. Why and how did God create this world? What are the universal spiritual laws that shape this world, and how can we learn to live in harmony with them? What is the nature of spirit and soul? For what purpose are we born here, and how can we find true happiness and meaning in life? In The Laws of the Sun, Ryuho Okawa, based on his miraculous ability to see the past, present, and future, answers these essential questions by offering his remarkable account of the framework of the Laws that govern the universe. He explains how and why the Creator designed the universe and all things within it and shows us how living in accord with the Truths gives us the power to change our lives and transform our planet, turning it away from catastrophe toward love and acceptance between people of all religions and races. When Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists alike discover their common spiritual source, their hearts will be inspired to let go of millennia of conflict and finally forgive and embrace one another. As we come together as one people, from one source, on one planet, we will build a new era of spirituality based on the Truths as they are revealed here in this transformative book. “The essence of love is in giving... Giving means to live every day thinking of ways to make as many people as possible happy. It means to shine the light of love onto the minds of as many wanderers as possible. It is also to help as many people as possible recover from the difficulties and setbacks of life, and to help them live their everyday lives in wisdom and courage.” The Laws of the Sun is a mystical book that Ryuho Okawa has written entirely using automatic writing. This book describes the origin of the soul and the creation of the uni-verse, the stages of love and enlightenment, the hidden history of lost civilizations, and the path to ultimate self-realization. It has become Okawa’s most well-known, prominent, and influential book that has changed the lives of millions.
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75 Holidays In The Hills
The Raj left many legacies in its wake, perhaps the best among them the salubrious sanatoria in the hills. This Travel guide presents 75 hill getaways and 100 bonus hideaways in the North, Northeast, South and West of India.
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The Rough Guide To New Zealand
The Rough Guide to New Zealand is the most comprehensive handbook to one of the world's finest adventure destinations. Evocative accounts of the country's breathtaking landscapes, from Rotorua's boiling mud pools to the glaciated peaks of the Southern Alps. Detailed coverage of the great wilderness walks, including the Milford, Heaphy, Routeburn and Abel Tasman tracks. In-depth background on topics as diverse as pop music, Art Deco architecture, Maori culture and New Zealand's extraordinary wildlife.
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Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing
Here is the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, who takes us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who travelled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents; fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada; twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. . . and so much more. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell - and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way only he could tell it - Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be filled even by his greatest dreams coming true. But he also details the peace he's found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his castmates and other stars he met along the way. Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humour, Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction and what fuelled it despite seemingly having it all. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening - as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety. Unflinchingly honest, moving, and uproariously funny, this is the book fans have been waiting for.
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Choose To Win
The secret to winning at life is one good choice at a time. Are you frustrated with your job, career, or relationships? Are you unsure if what you are doing right now in your life is the right thing? In this revolutionary new book, success and motivation expert Tom Ziglar shares the good news that you can change and that, in fact, you can win at life. Choose to Win shows you how to achieve massive change without massive upset. It all starts with identifying your why, which reveals the how that opens multiple doors of what. His revolutionary plan guides you through making one small choice at a time through a sequence of easy-to-follow steps in seven key areas: mental, spiritual, physical, family, finance, personal, and career. Ziglar also helps you identify the life-killing, unhealthy habits that cause misery, dissatisfaction, and lack of success—and, more importantly, how to implement positive habits through the trinity of transformation: desire, hope, and grit. The result is a more productive, more fulfilling, and more meaningful life. You can take control of your destiny and leave the lasting legacy you've dreamed about and deserve. You simply need to choose to do so.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran points out, the Gita is not what it seems -it's not a dialogue between two mythical figures at the dawn of Indian history. "The battlefield is a perfect backdrop, but the Gita's subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage" To live a life that is meaningful, fulfilling and worthwhile. The Bhagavad Gita, 'The Song of the Lord,' is the best known of all the Indian scriptures and Eknath Easwaran's reliable, readable version has consistently been the bestselling translation. The Bhagavad Gita opens, dramatically, on a battlefield, as the warrior Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life. Easwaran's introduction places the Gita in its historical setting and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions give clear explanations of key concepts and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.
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Master Your Focus
Do you keep flitting from one goal to another? Do you hustle without having much to show for your efforts? If so, it is time for you to develop laser-sharp focus and achieve concrete results that will make a real difference in your life. In Master Your Focus, you will discover: what true productivity really is (and how to master it); the 3 types of focus and how exactly you can develop each of them; how to stop jumping from one thing to the next and finally complete your key tasks (and why this is so critical); how to dramatically reduce your learning curve by finding the right information and applying it effectively; how to achieve more by doing less; the 17 simple strategies to boost your focus; and much more. Master Your Focus is your must-read guide to help you sharpen your focus and skyrocket your results long term. If you like easy-to-understand strategies, practical exercises, and no-nonsense teaching, you will love this book.
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YouTube Secrets
Thousands of people generate six to seven figures annually from online video content. And, with the right roadmap, you too could be en route to real influence and income. In YouTube Secrets, online video experts Sean Cannell and Benji Travis draw on a decade of experience as well as interviews with more than one hundred top creators to give you a step-by-step YouTube success playbook. You'll learn: The seven-ingredient recipe to building a successful YouTube channel; How to leverage and manage social media in your YouTube strategy to expedite your growth; The latest YouTube updates you need to know in order to skyrocket your videos; Foolproof video ideas to get you started on the right path to becoming a YouTuber; The tactics that Sean and Benji have used to create six-figure channels and go full-time with YouTube; "The Perfect Video Recipe" for making your videos go viral. There's not a single person who can't grow on YouTube. This book will show you how to use YouTube to build a following, create a lucrative business, and make a massive impact in people's lives
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Codependent No More
Revised and updated, with a new chapter on trauma and anxiety, resources section and more. Over 7 million copies sold. A cultural phenomenon that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to understanding codependency and unlocking its hold on your life. Melody Beattie's compassionate and insightful look into codependency - the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another - has helped to guide millions of readers towards the understanding that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that caring for the self is where healing begins. Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one's self-destructive behaviour, you may be codependent - and you may find yourself in this book. With personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from Beattie's own life and the lives of those she's counseled, Codependent No More helps you break old patterns and maintain healthy boundaries, offering a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom and happiness.This revised edition includes an all-new chapter on trauma and anxiety - subjects Beattie has long felt need to be addressed within the context of codependency - making it even more relevant today than it was when it first entered the international conversation over thirty-five years ago.
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Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. ‘Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.’ ELON MUSK, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla ‘This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.’ MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook ‘When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.’ NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan
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Effortless
The intricacy of modern life has created a false dichotomy between things that are 'hard and important,' and those that are 'easy and trivial.' Everything has become so much harder than it ought to be. But, Greg McKeown, bestselling author of Essentialism, says, there is a third alternative. In Effortless, he offers practical tools for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Honed over the better part of a decade, these strategies include: ·Turning tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals ·Preventing frustration by solving problems before they arise ·Setting a sustainable pace instead of powering through ·Making one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions ·Making relationships easier to maintain and manage ·And much more McKeown's philosophy of essentialism has helped thousands to recognise that the effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy but we can make it easier to do more of what matters most. Effortless will show you how.
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Side Hustle: Build a Side Business and Make Extra Money – Without Quitting Your Day Job
A 27-day plan for building a side business to supplement what you earn from your day job. From the New York Times bestselling author of dollar 100 Start-up comes this accessible guide to building a side business from scratch - without having to give up your day job. Side Hustle is about much more than just making some extra cash, it's about freedom and job security in today's unstable business environment. That's because when you receive income from multiple different sources, you are no longer dependent on the whims of a single employer. It affords you choices and options. In the style of dollar 100 Start-up, full of practical exercises and peppered with inspiring stories, Side Hustle shows readers how to brainstorm, choose, implement, launch and refine their side business in just 27 days - with little to no budget and without having to quit their current job.
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My Forbidden Face Growing Up Under The Taliban
Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. Earlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group.
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Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel
For more than a quarter century, Al Pacino has spoken freely and deeply with acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Lawrence Grobel on subjects as diverse as childhood, acting, and fatherhood. Here, for the first time, are the complete conversations and shared observations between the actor and the writer; the result is an intimate and revealing look at one of the most accomplished, and private, artists in the world. Pacino grew up sharing a three-room apartment in the Bronx with nine people in what he describes as his "New York Huckleberry Finn" childhood. Raised mostly by his grandparents and his mother, Pacino began drinking at age thirteen. Shortly after he was admitted to the renowned High School for Performing Arts, his classmates nicknamed him "Marlon," after Marlon Brando, even though Pacino didn't know who Brando was. Renowned acting coach Charlie Laughton saw Pacino when he was nineteen in the stairwell of a Bronx tenement, and the first words out of Laughton's mouth were "You are going to be a star." And so began a fabled, lifelong friendship that nurtured Al through years of not knowing where his next meal would come from until finally -- at age twenty-six -- he landed his first salaried acting job. Grobel and Pacino leave few stones unturned, touching on the times when Pacino played piano in jazz clubs until four a.m. before showing up on the set of Scarecrow a few hours later for a full day's work; when he ate Valium like candy at the Academy Awards; and when he realized he had been in a long pattern of work and drink. As the pivotal character in The Godfather trilogy and the cult classic Scarface, Pacino has enshrined himself in film history. He's worked with most of Hollywood's brightest luminaries such as Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Michael Mann, Norman Jewison, Brian De Palma, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, and Robin Williams, among many others. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards before winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Scent of a Woman. Pacino still seems to prefer his work onstage to film and, if he's moved by a script or play, is quick to take parts in independent productions. Al Pacino is an intensely personal window into the life of an artist concerned more with the process of his art than with the fruits of his labor, a creative genius at the peak of his artistic powers who, after all these years, still longs to grow and learn more about his craft. And, for now, it's as close to a memoir as we're likely to get.
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Great At Work
From the New York Times bestselling author of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual performance - based on analysis from an exhaustive, groundbreaking study.Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his 'Seven Work Smarter Practices' that can be applied by anyone looking to maximise their time and performance. Each of Hansen’s seven practices is highlighted by inspiring stories from individuals in his comprehensive study. You’ll meet a high school principal who engineered a dramatic turnaround of his failing high school; a rural Indian farmer determined to establish a better way of life for women in his village; and a sushi chef, whose simple preparation has led to his restaurant (tucked away under a Tokyo subway station underpass) being awarded the maximum of three Michelin stars. Hansen also explains how the way Alfred Hitchcock filmed Psycho and the 1911 race to become the first explorer to reach the South Pole both illustrate the use of his seven practices (even before they were identified). Each chapter contains questions and key insights to allow you to assess your own performance and figure out your work strengths, as well as your weaknesses. Once you understand your individual style, there are mini-quizzes, questionnaires and clear tips to assist you focus on a strategy to become a more productive worker. Extensive, accessible and friendly, Great at Work will help you achieve more by working less, backed by unprecedented statistical analysis.
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Redefining Global Strategy
Why do so many global strategies fail despite companies ; powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Seduced by market size, the illusion of a borderless, flat” world, and the allure of similarities, firms launch one-size-fits-all strategies. But cross-border differences are larger than we often assume, explains Pankaj Ghemawat in Redefining Global Strategy. Most economic activity including direct investment, tourism, and communicationhappens locally, not internationally. In this semiglobalized” world, one-size-fits-all strategies don ;t stand a chance. Companies must instead reckon with cross-border differences. Ghemawat shows you howby providing tools for:· Assessing the cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic differences between countries at the industry level and deciding which ones merit attention. · Tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for your company ;s ability to create value. ·Creating superior performance with strategies optimized for adaptation (adjusting to differences), aggregation (overcoming differences), and arbitrage (exploiting differences), and for compound objectives. In-depth examples reveal how companies such as Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, and GE Healthcare have adroitly managed cross-border differences as well as how other well-known companies have failed at this challenge. Crucial for any business competing across borders, this book will transform the way you approach global strategy.