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Figure It Out The Ultimate Guide To Teen Fitness
Who doesn’t want to look good? And what if you could also learn the secret to a healthy lifestyle? Written by fitness expert Namita Jain, this indispensible handbook tells you how to Figure it Out will revolutionize the way teenagers look at health and fitness. So grab a copy and Fight the fat Rate your fitness quotient Remodel your body Build up stamina Snack sensibly Tackle body changes during puberty Get the coveted 6-pack abs Stay fit even if you hate exercising! figure out what your body needs so you can look your best! About the Author Namita Jain is a highly respected authority in the wellness industry. She holds prestigious international certifications in several fitness-related disciplines and has been actively involved in the wellness space for over twenty years. Inspired by fitness as a healthy lifestyle choice, Namita launched her brand, Jaldi Fit, now a rapidly growing name in fitness products and services. She has launched a fitness DVD, a Jaldi Fit fitness book for adults, and a Jaldi Fit kids book that guides parents on how to raise healthy children. Apart from this, she writes for various leading newspapers and magazines, on nutrition, exercise and other health-related topics. For more information on wellness you can log on to her website: www.liveactive.com and www.jaldifit.com
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Jaya:An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata by Devdutt Pattanaik is a simple retelling of the great epic in just around 350 pages. It provides a good introduction to the vast epic. Summary of Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata The Mahabharata, India's greatest epic, is a huge, sweeping work and is the longest Sanskrit epic. It tells the story of the Kuru family, and the events that lead to the fratricidal Mahabharata War. It describes the events during the 18-day war and its aftermath. In the Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata, Devdutt Pattanaik has condensed the epic into a small capsule. For those who do not know the story of the Mahabharata, this can be a good choice for a first book based on Mahabharata. What makes this book special is that it collects tales from various regional and folk versions in addition to the original Sanskrit composition. This book is divided into 108 chapters and is illustrated with around 250 simple line drawings done by the author himself. The author draws the reader into an interesting retelling of the Mahabharata. The book contains many intriguing tales from other versions of the epic, not just the major regional versions, but also those used in enacting the epic in folk arts like Chattisgarh's Pandavani, Tamil Nadu's Terukuttu and Karnataka's Yakshagana. The book contains stories of Aravan, Barbareek, Jaimini, Astika and Madhavi. It also highlights some intriguing traditions like the Draupadi temples in Tamilnadu where she is worshipped as a Goddess. It devotes pages to the Mahabharata versions of Sanskrit Classics like Shakuntalam and Ramayana. The author also devotes a section to dating the Mahabharata War based on the detailed astronomical information provided in the book, like the position of certain constellations etc. By bringing together many prevalent versions of the Mahabharata, he gives a pan-Indian view of the epic that has shaped the history and culture of the country over millennia. General Reception The book has become a popular choice for those who want to read the story of the epic for the first time as well as those who want to know even more about the Mahabharata and its sweeping influence on the country's culture and traditions. This highlight of the book is its simple style and the author's own interpretations of various incidents in the epic.
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Managing Radical Change
What Indian Companies Must Do to Become World-Class An invaluable roadmap for Indian executives who strive to excel Winner of the DMA–Escorts Book Award 2000 Managing Radical Change: What Indian Companies Must Do to Become World-Class looks at what companies in India must do to rank among the best in their strategy, organization and management. The authors, internationally acclaimed management gurus Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett and industry insider Gita Piramal, say that managers are aware of the need for a radical response to the problems and challenges posed by the new competitive, technological and market demands in India. But, believing that change can come only by degrees, they hesitate to initiate action. The key purpose of this book is to make managers believe that radical performance improvement is possible. Ghoshal, Piramal and Bartlett feel that managers are the best teachers of managers, and so Managing Radical Change is a distillation of lessons offered by people as diverse as N.R. Narayana Murthy and Brijmohan Lall Munjal, Keki Dadiseth and Dhirubhai Ambani, Azim Premji and Rohinton Aga, Lakshmi Niwas Mittal and Subhash Chandra, Rahul Bajaj and Parvinder Singh. There is a wealth of information on the best companies in India and worldwide, among them Infosys, Wipro, Reliance, Hindustan Lever, GE and ABB. Lucidly written and brilliantly argued, Managing Radical Change is perhaps the most significant contribution to Indian management literature in recent times. About the Author Gitanjali Prasad graduated from Lady Shri Ram College and has a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. She has written on the family for over twenty years. She did research on the subject as a Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 1999 and later in a study supported by the Dorabji Tata Trust in 2002. Gitanjali has been a freelance writer and columnist for several major newspapers and magazines, and for seven years she was bureau chief, eastern region, of Magna Publishing Company. Her children’s book, The Sun Is Like a Football was published by Children’s Book Trust and translated into Hindi and Bengali. She is married and has two sons.
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Do-It-Yourself Shiatsu
The original do-it-yourself guide to Shiatsu--the ancient Japanese art of acupressure--is now printed with a new Preface and cover. Includes clear explanations of all technical terms and 100+ helpful photos to illustrate Shiatsu techniques and show locations of pressure points. A growing number of Americans are discovering the pleasurable and therapeutic uses of shiatsu, a Japanese method of acupressure. In Do-It-Yourself Shiatsu, Ohashi, one of the most knowledgeable and well-known U.S. -based shiatsu experts, offers step-by-step instruction on how to perform shiatsu at home. Ohashi, who has taught and practiced shiatsu for more than thirty years, focuses on common ailments faced here in the West. He provides clear explanations of all technical terms and helpful photographs throughout to illustrate shiatsu techniques and locations of pressure points. Also included are explanations of special shiatsu exercises, designed to keep energy flowing through the body, and a new preface by the author.
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Kiss And Tell
A kiss can reveal a lot…Janaki is like any journalist working the political circuit-she wants a big story. She's also like any girl in her late twenties-she wants a love life and maybe even a 'happy ever after'. When work leads her to Vishnu Singh-older, powerful but very attractive bureaucrat-she might just have found everything she wants in one sexy package.
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The Collected Novels
This volume brings together all the novels, except The Company of Women, by India's most widely read and celebrated author. Included here are the classic Train to Pakistan that describes the tragedy of Partition through the love story of a Sikh dacoit and a Muslim girl; I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, which deals with the conflict in a prosperous Sikh family of Punjab in the 1940s; and the best-selling Delhi , a vast, erotic, irreverent magnum opus centred on the Indian capital.
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Love In The Time Of Cholera
On the Garibbean coast at the dawn of th etwentieth century hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza falls passionately for beautiful Fermina Daza - but tragically his love is rejected. Instead Fermina marries distinguished Dr. Juvenal, while Florentino can only forget her in the arms of other women. Yet fifty-one years,nine months and four days later. Florentino has another chance to profess his enduring love for Fermina when her husband unexpectedly dies in a bizarre accident. Can a love over half a century old remain unrequited? About the Author Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He has written a great number of books, including the masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He now lives in Mexico City. Márquez studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. His first full-length work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published in 1967 to immediate worldwide success. The book is perhaps the prime example of Márquez’s remarkable ability to present the supernatural as mundane and the mundane as supernatural. It chronicles the history of a family in the fictional town of Macondo – the loves, hates, rivalries, wars, successes and failures. The novel is an example of postmodernism, treating time with ambiguity and crossing genres and narrative styles. Salman Rushdie has described the book as “the greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years”.
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Behind The Beautiful Forevers
An indelible portrait of lives all too often invisible, and of courage impossible to forget! Annawadi is a slum in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as the Indian economy booms, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective teenager, sees ‘a fortune beyond counting’ in the recyclable garbage that the city’s richer people throw away. He is so fast, sorting waste, that he’s close to lifting his whole family out of the slum. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, is eyeing an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck and the right connections, her sensitive, beautiful teenaged daughter might soon become the first female college graduate in the slum. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a homeless 15-year-old scrap-metal thief, feel themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call ‘the full enjoy.’ But then Abdul the teenaged garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; a terrorist attack and a global recession rock Mumbai; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest human hopes intersect with the harshest realities of life in an Indian megacity, the true contours of a desperately competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the resilience and ingenuity of the people of Annawadi. In Katherine Boo's fast-paced and riveting book—beautifully written, rigorously researched and intimately reported—the impact of poverty, inequality, corruption and global change is made human through breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking, stories that will stay with you forever. About the Author Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for the Washington Post. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, a MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. This is her first book.
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How to Love Your Body
Inspiring, practical and totally revolutionary, here’s a book that provides you with the ultimate diet not just for your body but also your mind! Do you look in the mirror and dislike what you see? Are you always trying different diets? Do you feel guilty if you overeat? You’re not the only one. For sixteen years, model and actress Yaana Gupta struggled with her body and the way she felt about it. She tried every diet, worked out constantly but the fears remained. In How to Love Your Body (and get the body you love), Yaana writes about how she got the balance back in her life and learnt to love herself. Using her own experiences, she gives you easy to follow eating advice and the real lowdown on food from the right portions to eat to being healthy on the go. She also gives you great tips—how to understand the nutrition labels, the great dabba trick and the best snack to eat when you get a late-night hunger attack. Finally Yaana teaches you the greatest lesson of all—how you can learn to love and accept your body. Because without it, she argues, no weight loss will ever make you happy. About The Author Yaana Gupta is a model, actress and singer. She was one of India’s top models, the face of Lakmé and a Kingfisher calendar girl. Most recently she was a finalist on the TV show Jhalak Dikhla Jaa. She is currently recording her first album.
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Grandma's Bag Of Stories
Who can resist a good story, especially when it s being told by Grandma? From her bag emerges tales of kings and cheats, monkeys and mice, bears and gods. Here comes the bear who ate some really bad dessert and got very angry; a lazy man who would not put out a fire till it reached his beard; a princess who got turned into an onion; a queen who discovered silk, and many more weird and wonderful people and animals. Grandma tells the stories over long summer days and nights, as seven children enjoy life in her little town. The stories entertain, educate and provide hours of enjoyment to them. So come, why don t you too join in the fun.
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Target 3 Billion: Innovative Solutions Towards Sus
With 750 million people living in villages, India has the largest rural population in the world. Based on his Indian experience, Dr Kalam recommends a sustainable and inclusive development system called PURA Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas to uplift the rural masses not by subsidies but through entrepreneurship with community participation. To make his case, Dr Kalam cites the examples of individuals and institutions, in India and from across the world, who, with an entrepreneurial spirit and a burning desire to make a difference, have successfully generated and tapped into the potential of the rural masses. Fabio Luiz de Oliveira Rosa changed the face of the rural district of Palmares, Brazil, by acquiring for the farmers access to electricity and water, which effect combined with better agricultural methods led to an increase in prosperity and stemmed the migration to the cities. The 123-strong Magar clan owned Magarpatta, a 430-acre plot on the outskirts of Pune, Maharashtra. In the 1990s, they organized and set up the Magarpatta city which is now home to over 35,000 residents and a working population of 65,000, and boasts of an IT park.
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Romancing With Life : An Autobiography
With the death of Dev Anand in December 2011, Bollywood lost its most passionate, most charismatic romantic hero. In Romancing with Life, Dev Anand tells his remarkable life story no less dramatic and gripping than any of his films as only he could. Here are tales from Dev s youth in 1930s Gurdaspur and Lahore; his years of struggle in 1940s Bombay; his doomed romance with Suraiya; his marriage to co-star Kalpana Kartik; and his relationships with his many luminous heroines. Romancing with Life is the quintessential Dev Anand a book chock-full of bittersweet reminiscences, written in a pacy, effervescent style that carries the reader through sixty of Bollywood s most interesting years.
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Let Me Tell You About Quinta
When Queirozito wins the protracted litigation against relatives who had laid claim to his 200-year-old ancestral home, Quinta, he gets a new lease of life. He invites his grandson Suraj from the US to take a look at the half-slumping villa for possible repairs. When Suraj s Russian-American wife California arrives instead, Queirozito faces yet another invasion on his beloved home and decides to fight back once again only to stumble upon some bitter, dark family secrets. In Let Me Tell You about Quinta, Savia Viegas weaves an intricate tale of the small, secluded and fading world of the elite Viegas family which, in many ways, reflects contemporary Goan society.
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Dead Or Alive
Jack Ryan is back. And he's joined by one or two familiar faces. For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in dead or alive.
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The Children Of Green Knowe
Tolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a special kind of magic. There are other children in the house - children who were happy there centuries before. Running around Green Knowe's moat, gardens and mysterious rooms, Tolly slowly discovers them, their toys and animals, and their stories.
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
It's a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him. But someone knows everything - someone whose job it is to most definitely not keep anything embarrassing of Greg's private - his big brother, Rodrick. How can Greg make it through this new school year with his cool(ish) reputation intact? Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is the second title in the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Greg's dad, Frank, is on a mission - a mission to make this wimpy kid, well, less wimpy. All manner of 'manly' physical activities are planned, but Greg just about manages to find a way out of them. That is until military academy is is mentioned and Greg realizes that he's going to have to come up with something very special to get out of this one . . . Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw is the third title in the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
The sixth book about the comic adventures of Greg Heffley and family. The funniest books you'll ever read! Watch this trailer to find out what's in store for Greg and the Heffleys in the hilarious SIXTH Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, Cabin Fever!