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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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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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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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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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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
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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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My Spiritual Autobiography
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Dalai Lama
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This book is a first. There has never been one entirely dedicated to the spiritual life of the Dalai Lama. Yet as one of the world’s most recognised, and respected, spiritual leaders there will clearly be great interest in such a work from His Holiness’ thousands of friends and followers around the ...
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My Spiritual Autobiography |
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This book is a first. There has never been one entirely dedicated to the spiritual life of the Dalai Lama. Yet as one of the world’s most recognised, and respected, spiritual leaders there will clearly be great interest in such a work from His Holiness’ thousands of friends and followers around the ...
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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 Child Called 'It' |
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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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S. Ramanujan: The Mathematical Genius
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Dilip M Salwi
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All that mattered to him was the magic and mystery of numbers. The world of numbers was the sole reality for S.Ramanujan, Indias most famous mathematician of the twentieth century. Born in a poor family of Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was a child prodigy but it took years of struggle for him to gain recogn...
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S. Ramanujan: The Mathematical Genius |
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Dilip M Salwi
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All that mattered to him was the magic and mystery of numbers. The world of numbers was the sole reality for S.Ramanujan, Indias most famous mathematician of the twentieth century. Born in a poor family of Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was a child prodigy but it took years of struggle for him to gain recogn...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Letters From A Father To His Daughter
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Letters from a father to his daughter, and the foreword written by the grand-daughter. When I first saw this book, which is a collection of letters that Nehru wrote to Indira Priyadarshini, I thought this must be having the same standard as that of “Glimpses of World history” or “Discovery of India”...
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Letters From A Father To His Daughter |
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Letters from a father to his daughter, and the foreword written by the grand-daughter. When I first saw this book, which is a collection of letters that Nehru wrote to Indira Priyadarshini, I thought this must be having the same standard as that of “Glimpses of World history” or “Discovery of India”...
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