Fiction

Author: Sandel, Michael J. Brand: Penguin Color: White Features: Product Condition: No Defects Number Of Pages: 320 Release Date: 25-02-2010 model number: 9780141041339 Part Number: 9780141041339 Details: Is it always wrong to lie? Should there be limits to personal freedom? Can killing sometimes be justified? Is the free market fair?...

  Brand: HarperCollins Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 288 Release Date: 04-11-2025 Details: Comedian and actor Vir Das is beloved (by some, tolerated by others, blocked by a few), and he's here to take you through his world tour of heartbreak, failure, and grit, with chaotic detours through Bollywood and...

    Details: A Brahman ‘mega Convention’ in contemporary Pune reasserts faith in endogamy for ‘National interest’, and imposes new codes on Brahman women. A Brahman Congress leader suggests that a Dalit chief minister be raped and paid Compensation. In his 1916 Paper “castes in India”, The 25-year-old Ambedkar offered...

    Details: The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what the Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu nationalism. Even...

  Details: This is the story of Hori, a poor peasant, who longs to own a cow. Hori is so desperate that he gets into an agreement with one of the villagers who gives him a cow in exchange. As much as Hori is delighted, he era, his brother, is...

    Details: 'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons -...

  Details: “We may hate one another, but we hate you most... Yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea.” on that fateful day, when Dr. Aziz took Mrs. Moore and Miss adela quest to the famous marabar caves, he had no idea that his whole life was...

    Details: A Tale of Hope and Happiness'Veronika Decides to Die' is a beautiful tale of hope and happiness. The story revolves around Veronika, a young Slovenian woman who has everything that a woman in the prime of her life would want. She has a good job, a string...

  Details: In 1936, a Hindu reformist group invited B.R. Ambedkar to deliver their presidential address and chart a path to end the caste system. When he argued that the immorality of caste was sustained by the Vedas and Shastras, and without ?dynamiting? them there could be no reform, they...

   

    Details: SEQUEL TO IKIGAI: THE JAPANESE SECRET TO A LONG AND HAPPY LIFEIn The Ikigai Journey, authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles take their international bestseller Ikigai: the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life a step further by showing you how to find your own ikigai...

  Brand: HACHETTE PRAT Color: Blue Edition: Exported Features: Product Condition: No Defects Ideal for a bookworm Compact for travelling Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 208 Release Date: 01-12-1998 Details: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when...

   

    Details: 'Tamas, in either Rockwell's translation or the original Hindi, remains an essential text for the times' Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard 'Tamas is a prophetic warning against the use of religion as a weapon to gain and perpetuate political power' GOVIND NIHALANI In a city in undivided Punjab,...

    Details: Amir Khusrau, one of the greatest poets of medieval India, helped forge a distinctive synthesis of Muslim and Hindu cultures. Written in Persian and Hindavi, his Poems and Ghazals were appreciated across a cosmopolitan Persianate world that stretched from Turkey to Bengal. Having thrived for centuries, Khusrau's...

  Details: This collection brings together some of Manto's finest stories, ranging from his chilling recounting of the horrors of Partition to his portrayal of the underworld. Writing with great feeling and empathy about the fallen and the rejects of society, Manto the supreme humanist shows how the essential goodness...

    Details: These tales of Hindu gods and demons express in vivid symbols the metaphysical insights of ancient Indian priests and poets. This selection and translation of seventy-five seminal myths spans the wide range of classical Indian sources, from the serpent-slaying Indra of the Vedas (c. 1200 BC) to...

  Details: Ved Mehta's book on Gandhi (1977) is one of the great portraits of the political leader. Travelling the world to talk to Gandhi's family, friends and followers, drawing his daily life in exacting detail, Mehta gives us a nuanced and complex picture of the great man and brings...

   

  Details: The Ramayana is a crucial part of Indian literature and is the story of Lord Rama s journey. The events that are described in the Ramayana are supposed to have been a part of our history and tell us about the importance of relationships and the duties that...

    Details: A long time ago, two families were to inherit a vast kingdom known as the Kuru Empire. The five sons of Pandu, called the Pandavas, were brave warriors, each of them born with divine blood running through their veins. They were virtuous, examples of humanity at its...

    Details: A 25th anniversary edition of the number one, multi-million copy international bestseller that taught us how emotional intelligence is more important than IQ - 'a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea' (Harvard Business Review)Featuring a new introduction from the authorDoes IQ define our destiny? In his groundbreaking bestseller, Daniel Goleman...

    Details: The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had...

  Details: THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF GOOD OMENS, NOW A MAJOR 'with the deftest of touches, the characters are once again brought to life' JOANNE HARRIS'The halls of Valhalla have been crying out for Gaiman to tell their stories' OBSERVERThe...

    Details: 'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' – Dua LipaThe million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise and The People...

    Details: A phenomenon across all formats, this 42nd anniversary paperback omnibus contains the complete Hitchhiker's guide trilogy in five parts, charting the whole of Arthur Dent's Odyssey through space and time. Share and enjoy. Collected together in this omnibus are the five titles that comprise Douglas Adams' Wildly...

  Details: Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks...

    Details: These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are 'essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack ObamaThe riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom...

    Details: Where can you find joy? What's the true measure of success? How should we manage anger? Find meaning? Conquer grief? The answers to these questions and more lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. The Daily Stoic is a compelling, accessible guide to living a good life,...

  Details: Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the...

  Details: Discover how to conquer anxiety, self-doubt, and self-sabotage without depending on motivation or willpower. 'Don't Believe Everything You Think' uncovers the core of psychological suffering and offers insights to effortlessly shape the life you crave. Learn to detach from negativity, embrace love and joy, escape negative thought cycles,...

Details: ''Maltz''s work influenced nearly every major "self-help" professional from Zig Ziglar to Brian Tracy to Tony Robbins'' James Clear, author of Atomic HabitsThe proven formula for a year of success.In 1960, Maxwell Maltz introduced his revolutionary theory of psycho-cybernetics: by taking control of your own thoughts, you can achieve...

  Details: "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. " So...

  Details: **Pre-order now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while stocks last - featuring foil and spot UV finishes on the cover and inside cover printing of full colour character art**No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Ana Huang is back with the next book in the Gods of...

    Details: Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5 AM Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.Now, in...

  Brand: Speaking Tiger Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 408 Release Date: 05-06-2023 Details: From the union of the retas, or seed, of ‘mother earth’ and ‘father sky’ mentioned in the Rig Veda, to the burning of Kama, the god of desire, by Shiva; from the slaying of a lustful...

  Details: The Cave of Echoes celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of the stories—especially myths—that people live by. Drawing on Hindu and Greek mythology, Biblical parables, and the modern mythologies of Woody Allen and soap operas, Wendy Doniger—renowned scholar of the history of religions—encourages us...

    Details: Spanning over six millennia, this monumental and thoroughly engrossing narrative account of Indian history and myth offers a new way of understanding one of the world’s oldest and most fascinating religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its texts cannot...

  Binding: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 320 Details: Since its discovery in 2014, the Keeladi excavation has become one of India's most contested digs – hailed by some as proof of an urban civilization in South India and dismissed by others as political mythmaking.Journalist Sowmiya Ashok traces the serendipitous discovery...

    Details: Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Ana Huang!Read Twisted Love now for a brother's best friend romance.He has a heart of ice . . . but for her, he'd burn the world.Alex Volkov is a devil blessed...

  Details: When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her...

    Details: The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled...

  Details: Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Ana Huang!Read Twisted Games now for a steamy, angsty forbidden romance.She can never be his . . . but he's taking her anyway.Stoic, broody and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two...

  Details: Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Ana Huang!Read Twisted Lies now for a steamy fake dating romance.He'll do anything to have her . . . including lie.Charming, deadly and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a...

    Details: The history of India''s struggle for freedom is usually told from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to colonial occupation is just as important. Names such as Vinayak Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rashbehari Bose, Bagha Jatin, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar...

    Details: The Gaza Strip is one of the most widely-reported on regions in the world—yet misinformation about its history and its people abound. In this vital book, historian Anne Irfan explains Gaza’s outsized political significance through six pivotal moments in its modern history, beginning with Israel’s expulsion of...

  Details: Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and On Animals—selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2024.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is...