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A Future Perfect
A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of globalization and how it will continue to change lives. The authors analyze, demystify, and expose the global forces reshaping the world, and they detail both the challenge and the promise those forces hold for individuals, businesses, and governments.
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That Summer In paris
Prem Rustum is a famous Indian writer, who at seventy-five has received practically every accolade possible. His lifes work has been divided between his personal books and his big books about India.Now for the finite years that lie before him, he realises that more than anything he wants to choose life over literature. His French colleague and closest friend, urges him to find a young woman on the internet. Prem meets twenty-five year old Maya, an aspiring writer, and on a whim, he decides to follow her to Paris. Over the course of the summer, as he gradually comes to know and fall in love with, Maya he discovers the connections between his life and art, his writing and his lost loves. With poignancy and grace, humour and heartbreak, That Summer in Paris deftly evokes the longings and forces of an aging man in this page-turning tale that is full of unexpected turns and self-realisations.
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Why Do I Love These People ?
We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another
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The Art Of Aging
In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist
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Midnight's Children
Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India
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The Black Stallion Mystery
At auction, Alec Ramsay is stunned to find three colts whoseresemblance to the Black is uncanny. Could these young Arabians have the same father as the Black? Alec was told that the Black's sire died years ago in Arabia. Was it a lie? To learn the truth, Alec and the Black travel back to the land where they first met and discover that they are being used as pawns in a dangerous game.Once again, Alec and his famous horse find themselves deep in the spectacular but unforgiving Arabian desert, depending on their wits to stay alive! In this thrilling tale filled with mystery, deception and revenge, walter farley takes his reader on another unfrogettable adventure.
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The Discovery Of The Child
Maria Montessori went beyond the conventions of the day to seek a new way of knowing and loving a child. In THE DISCOVERY OF THE CHILD, she describes the nature of the child and her method of working more fully with the child's urge to learn.
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Golden Fox
The Courtney family blood has long run hot--as hot as the passion and turmoil boiling in war-torn South Africa. When one of their own succumbs to the worst kind of evil, those ties are put to the ultimate test. Isabella Courtney, dazzling daughter of South Africa's ambassador to England, is passionately obsessed with Ramon, the Marques de Santiago y Machado--also known as the Golden Fox, one of the world's most ruthless terrorists. When she secretly bears his child, Ramon kidnaps the boy and persuades powerful, yet reluctant, Isabella to betray South Africa and her beloved family...until the truth at last comes out, and the explosive Courtneys rally to her side and strike back with a raging vengance
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Side Effects
Brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled...by the celebrated stand-up Flaubert. -- The New York Times
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The Black Stallion Revolts
After the Black attacks another horse, Alec realizes that the once-wild horse needs more space and freedom, so they head out west to a huge ranch. But a terrible accident separates the two, leaving Alec with amnesia and the Black alone to reclaim the wild life to which he was born. As the Black struggles to survive, and as Alec struggles to remember who he is and his connection to the magnificent stallion in the canyon, a gripping adventure story unfolds.
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Woman On Top
Don’t know how to handle a difficult boss? A colleague won’t stop asking you out? Not sure how to negotiate a pay rise? Kids complaining you´re never at home? Life as a working woman is tough – especially if you want to get to the top. You have to work harder than most men and still be the one who runs the show at home. You will be judged by your performance but how you look will also affect your grade. And don’t forget the glass ceiling – it’s still there and you will bump against it. Woman on Top answers all your questions, deals with every issue you’ve ever had to grapple with -- and makes you laugh along the way. It is the one book every working woman will want to keep in her handbag.
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The Island Stallion
When Steve Duncan is asked to go on an archeological search on a remote Caribbean island, he never imagines the stallion he will find there. But the giant horse is unapproachable, showing nothing but fear and fury towards people. When the stallion gets caught in quicksand, can Steve get close enough to save the wild horse?