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Turning Points : A Journey Through Challenges
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. I had delivered a lecture Vision to Mission and the session got extended from one hour to two. I had lunch with a group of research students and went back to class. As I was returning to my rooms in the evening the vice- chancellor,...
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It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. I had delivered a lecture Vision to Mission and the session got extended from one hour to two. I had lunch with a group of research students and went back to class. As I was returning to my rooms in the evening the vice- chancellor,...
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Great Speeches
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Abraham Lincoln
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Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her 5 sons, ...
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Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her 5 sons, ...
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Immediate Action
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Andy Mcnab
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He is one of the most highly decorated soldiers alive. He is also the first to break the code of silence about the most elite fighting force in the world. What Andy McNab has to say is so explosive that the British government tried to stop him.
A street fighter, a hard case, and a flawless soldier...
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Andy Mcnab
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He is one of the most highly decorated soldiers alive. He is also the first to break the code of silence about the most elite fighting force in the world. What Andy McNab has to say is so explosive that the British government tried to stop him.
A street fighter, a hard case, and a flawless soldier...
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Does He know a mothers heart?
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Arun Shourie
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A child is in agony. Is it because God does not have the power to prevent suffering? Or, though He has the power, He does not know? Or that He knows and has the power but doesnt care?
Why is the child suffering? It must be because of the childs karma, we are told. But how do we know he did some w...
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A child is in agony. Is it because God does not have the power to prevent suffering? Or, though He has the power, He does not know? Or that He knows and has the power but doesnt care?
Why is the child suffering? It must be because of the childs karma, we are told. But how do we know he did some w...
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David Copperfield
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Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of inv...
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Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of inv...
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A Child Called 'It'
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A harrowing, yet inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally bestselling author Dave Pelzer
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A harrowing, yet inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally bestselling author Dave Pelzer
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Kalpana Chawla : India'S First Woman Astronaut
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Dilip M Salwi
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Kalpana Chawla, India's first woman astronaut, was one individual who possessed the grit, determination and courage to make the dream to reach for the stars, possible. Born in a traditional family of Karnal, Haryana, Kalpana had neither the background nor the environment which favoured a trek to out...
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Kalpana Chawla, India's first woman astronaut, was one individual who possessed the grit, determination and courage to make the dream to reach for the stars, possible. Born in a traditional family of Karnal, Haryana, Kalpana had neither the background nor the environment which favoured a trek to out...
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Gandhi The Man
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Eknath Easwaran
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In 1892 Monads Gandhi left India for South Africa at the age of 23 - a shy, tounge-tied, average little man whose past was full of failure.
Ten years later, called a saint even by those who opposed him, he was the leader of 100,000 people in one of the most remarkable experiments in history: "saty...
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Eknath Easwaran
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In 1892 Monads Gandhi left India for South Africa at the age of 23 - a shy, tounge-tied, average little man whose past was full of failure.
Ten years later, called a saint even by those who opposed him, he was the leader of 100,000 people in one of the most remarkable experiments in history: "saty...
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Eat Pray Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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A celebrated writers irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambiti...
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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A celebrated writers irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambiti...
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Business Maharajas
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Gita Piramal
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The golden age of Indian industry, as it now seems in retrospect, lasted from 1951 to62, and industrialists of the time were not afraid to think ahead and plan big. Among the entrepreneurs who led this industrial resurgence, four were particularly outstanding: G.D.Birla, Walchand Hirachand, Kasturbh...
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Gita Piramal
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The golden age of Indian industry, as it now seems in retrospect, lasted from 1951 to62, and industrialists of the time were not afraid to think ahead and plan big. Among the entrepreneurs who led this industrial resurgence, four were particularly outstanding: G.D.Birla, Walchand Hirachand, Kasturbh...
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