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Spector Books Saisonarbeit
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V. Sociópata Unas Memorias Sociopath A Memoir
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Hundred Lamps: Classic Stories About the World of
Book SynopsisDoctors, those men and women who are often compared to God and to whom we rush to in moments of crisis and peril. But what are their personalivesike? What trials and tribulations do these healers undergo, in the course of discharging their duties? These seven stories, ringed with tenderness and truth, capture the clinical drama, excitement, conflicts,ove and passion in theives of medical practitioners. Regaling you with the ancient wisdom of age-old Sushruta s code,ife in the hamlets of Purnea, a physician sonely battle against the bureaucracy, an inquest into what ailsarge medical institutions, a collaboration between Ayurveda and allopathy and other aspects of doctorsives, these stories delve into the myriad dimensions of medical practices and beyond. Translated from the works of some of the best-known Hindi authors, this anthology details the moral code, the social pressures and political hassles that doctors mustive with and the yardsticks of being a messiah that they must fulfil.
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Rajpal & Sons Thrilling Seizures: Memoirs of a Customs Officer
Book SynopsisThis book tells us about the experiences of the author when he used to work for Bombay customs.
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HarperCollins India Provoked: The Story Of Kiranjit Ahluwalia
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd Blood Brothers: A Family Saga
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Permanent Black Plain Speaking:: A Sudra's Story
Book SynopsisA.N. Sattanathan's memoirs and lectures provide a unique insight into non-brahmin low-caste life in rural South India, highlighting poverty and caste prejudice. The text serves as a key literary-historical document of the caste struggle, offering a revelatory experience for English-educated readers.
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Popular Prakashan Ltd Humans of Bombay
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Jaico Publishing House Mossad
Book SynopsisThe book "Mossad" by Bar-Zohar and Mishal delves into the thrilling and dangerous missions of Israel's Mossad, showcasing their top-notch intelligence work from capturing Nazi war criminals to eliminating Iranian nuclear scientists. A must-read for espionage enthusiasts.
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Konark Publishers Pvt.Ltd When the Heart Speaks: Memoirs of a Cardiologist
Book SynopsisDr. Upendra Kaul's memoir explores his journey from Kashmir to a renowned cardiologist, sharing encounters with personalities and addressing evolving medical ethics and kickbacks in the profession, offering a captivating mix of events.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Bharathi I Knew
Book SynopsisHer adult perspective gives Bharathiyarâs recalled words a special significance; and discovers in his life, a special message for humanity.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Bear Wore a Swimsuit
Book SynopsisHow she managed a husband and two children is a mystery, although she acknowledges various helpers, always bringing them to life in fascinating detail. Many vignettes of people have been described in a manner not to be forgotten.
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Fatal gracias Historias de una vida tan
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ARUGAS INTERIORES
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Pagès editors, S.L. JO I LA SHUA
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Errata Naturae Editores S.L. Ante la silla eléctrica
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Pepitas de calabaza Ver oír y callar
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ATICO 25 gramos de felicidad
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Juntos todos juntos
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TODAS LAS MAÑANAS DE TU VIDA
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DE UNA BATALLA PERDIDA
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Editorial Anagrama UN DIA EN LA VIDA DE ABED SALAMA
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Punto de Lectura Comprometida Una historia de amor Committed a
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial En tierras salvajes The Last American Man
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Ediciones Desnivel, S. L Andando la vida
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Editorial Trotta, S.A. En el corazón de la zona gris
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HarperCollins India Chittagong: Eye of the Tiger
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Very Best OF Mahatma Gandhi
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Juggernaut Publication From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of
Book SynopsisWhile Bharadwaj is an unflinching observer of the harshness of prison life, this is not a bleak book. It is written with warmth, compassion and impish humour.
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Juggernaut Publication Letters From Hindustan
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd In Burmese Prisons: Correspondence May 1923-July
Book SynopsisPrison letters, despite being subjected to the scrutiny of government censors, often supply some of the deepest insights into the mind of a revolutionary. Subhas Chandra Bose''s letters from Mandalay certainly underscore the truth of the poetic assertion: Some walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage . They make this volume one of the most moving in the 12-volume set of Netaji''s Collected Works. Subhas Chandra Bose''s exile in Burmese prisons from 1924 to 1927 witnessed the transformation of a lieutenant into a leader. During the non-cooperation movement and its aftermath he had wholeheartedly accepted Deshbandhu Chitta Ranjan Das as his political mentor. The apprenticeship was cut short by Deshbandhu''s death in June 1925. When Subhas received this terrible news as a prisoner in Mandalay, he felt, desolate with a sense of bereavement , as he wrote to his friend Dilip Kumar Roy. Netaji''s letters cover a very wide array of topics art, music, literature, nature, education, folk culture, civic affairs, criminology, spirituality, and, of course, politics. He bore the rigours of prison life with a combination of stoicism and humour. This volume is indispensable to an understanding of India''s greatest revolutionary leader and will interest all historians of modern India.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Bibi's Room:: Hyderabadi Women and
Book SynopsisIn addition to the general neglect of women writers, Urdu literary historiography in both English and Urdu has historically privileged north Indian and Pakistani writers while overlooking the many Urdus south of Bombay and Bhopal. Next to no work exists in English on the Urdu writers of Hyderabad, and only a handful of texts have been translated into Englishan astonishing neglect, considering their contribution to the study of gender, political cultures, and regional histories. Bibi's Room studies the lives and work of three women writers from Hyderabad who wrote in Urdu: Zeenath Sajida, Najma Nikhat, and Jeelani Bano. It addresses the absence of scholarship on Hyderabadi women writers in three ways: representative translations; short, nuanced biographies; and critical analyses of their oeuvresall framed against twentieth-century Hyderabadi history, politics, culture, and society.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Lived Stories
Book SynopsisLived Stories are the carefully selected memories of an early woman diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS). On the surface, this is a collection of episodes experienced in various parts of the world during the author''s years as a diplomat. At a deeper level, they are carefully chosen stories that highlight social and political events that touch upon pressing issues of our time: majoritarianism; religious and ethnic prejudices; and the crisis of democracy. Also included is the story of the first successful case of extradition in this country, that of Abu Salem, and the issue of gender discrimination, which led to an upheaval in the IFS in 1979 and remains relevant today. Through events she witnessed during her postings, the author discusses how notions of nationalism and patriotism were tested when the Soviet Union broke into fourteen new nations and Yugoslavia into six, all in the name of nationalism. The stories from her days in Vietnam, immediately after the country''s victory against America in 1975 despite having no air force or navy, leads to the question: How relevant are technologically sophisticated weapons for India, which is the world''s largest importer of weapons? The author also discusses how, after her retirement, she became an activist of the RTI movement and a founder-member of the Aam Aadmi Party. These stories will be of interest to civil service aspirants and students of history and international relations. Discerning readers trying to make sense of the times will also find Lived Stories enlightening.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Mundane and More from Memory
Book SynopsisV. R. Reddy, a prominent figure in the legal community, made significant contributions to legal education and served in various high-ranking positions. His memoir recounts his journey from rural beginnings to practicing law at the Supreme Court, highlighting his personal and professional experiences with candor and warmth.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Women, Incarcerated:: Narratives from India
Book SynopsisIn the popular imagination, the female criminal/prisoner is a figure of curiosity and intrigue. Hidden behind male prisoners, partners in their lives and/or crimes, the female prisoner is made invisible, or she is memorialised a grotesque and demonic figure, one who has transgressed the legal, normative, and moral boundaries of social life. Women, Incarcerated pierces through this invisibilisation/memorialisation paradox to shine the spotlight squarely on the lived experiences of women prisoners. The book shows how the prison and the State act as extensions of the family and community in dealing with women seen as deviants. Through a focus on both the everyday and the extraordinary aspects of imprisoned women's lives, the chapters narrate the experiences of exclusion, marginalisation, and violence in the lives of women prisoners. The book also highlights their negotiations with and resistance to penal power. The volume also initiates, for the first time, a dialogue between researchers, practitioners, and activists to raise some critical questions: How is the prison as an organisation gendered?
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari:: Vol. VII,
Book SynopsisThe 7th volume of Rajaji's correspondence details key events from 1940-1946, including the Cripps Mission, Quit India movement, Hindu-Muslim talks, and 1945-1946 elections. It explores Rajaji's conflicts with Congress, his resignation in 1942, return in 1945, and contributions to national issues like the Rajaji/C.R. Formula for Gandhi-Jinnah talks.
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited 28 Jobs, 28 Weeks, 28 States
Book SynopsisAt age 28, when most people are expected to settle down or risk disaster, Jubanashwa Mishra decided on an extraordinary adventure. He had recently realized that he was in the wrong job and had given it up; he had tried to get over his first and unrequited love, but failed. Something had to change. Following the example of Sean Aiken, who spent 52 weeks working 52 jobs across Canada and USA, he began a journey that he hoped would help him discover his true passion. Over the next 28 weeks, he travelled to 28 states of India by train, bus, shared taxi, airplane, bike, boat, and on foot spending a week at a different job in each state. This compelling book draws upon that 25,000-kilometre journey. We travel with Jubanashwa and discover what it takes to manage a small hotel in Udaipur; clean hillsides in Dharamshala; cremate dead bodies on the ghats of Varanasi; sell condoms in Bihar''s villages, and peanuts on Chennai''s Marina beach; help a caregiver looking after HIV positive patients in Shillong; go river-rafting in Jammu and Kashmir; and assist a tattoo artist in Goa and a motorbike mechanic in Aizawl. In between, there are memorable encounters with Buddhist monks, Aghori sadhus, Naxalites, Bollywood publicists, drug dealers and aged hippies and a brief reunion with Sameen, the woman Jubanashwa had lost his heart to. Funny, moving and always entertaining, this memoir-cum-travelogue is a record of a young man''s unusual journey of self-discovery, and an inspiration for all of us who want to take a chance in life and follow our dreams.
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Soumitra Chatterjee: His Life in Cinema and
Book SynopsisWhen Soumitra Chatterjee debuted in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar in 1959the final part of Ray's Apu trilogya star was born in Bengali cinema. Soumitra soon transcended the boundaries of the Bengali film industry to become an internationally celebrated actor who was compared to the best in the business, from Max von Sydow to Marcello Mastroianni. Famously known as Ray's actor', in a career spanning six decades, Soumitra worked with practically every Bengali director worth the name Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Chidananda Dasgupta, Aparna Sen, Tarun Majumdar, Rituparno Ghosh and Goutam Ghose, to name but a few.Following Apur Sansar, Soumitra played the lead in another Ray film, Devi, in 1960. From then until the posthumously released Abhijan and Belashuru(2022), the more than 300 films in which he acted rank among the best in Bengali cinema, and won him a string of awards, including the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1999), the Padma Bhushan (2004), the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2012) and the Legion d'Honour awarded by the French Government (2018). But it was not just on the silver screen that Soumitra shone. He was also an accomplished playwright and theatre actor, a poet, a painter, the literary editor of the magazine, Ekshan, and an elocutionist.
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Helen: The Making of a Bollywood H-Bomb
Book SynopsisEqually, the book is a gloriously witty and provocative examination of middle-class Indian morality; the politics of religion, gender and sexuality in popular culture; and the importance of the song, the item number and the wayward woman in Hindi cinema.
£16.62
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. NEERAJ CHOPRA: FROM PANIPAT TO THE PODIUM
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BPB Publications Effective Crisis Management: A Robust A-Z Guide
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HarperCollins India Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography
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HarperCollins India The Longest Kiss: The Life and Times of Devika
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HarperCollins India Sun Mere Bandhu Re: The Musical World of SD
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HarperCollins India The Indian President: An Insider's Account of the
Book SynopsisA study of the institution of the President of India, this book is based on the author''s term as Deputy Secretary to the seventh president, Giani Zail Singh. In particular, it examines the President''s role when authoritarian governments are voted in power. Things are all the more challenging for a president with a popular prime minister who has an overwhelming majority, as happened in the case of Zail Singh and Rajiv Gandhi.
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HarperCollins India Rejoice in Adversity, Triumph in War: A Military
Book SynopsisThis is an exciting, first-hand account of one of the most thrilling jobs in the world, and a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered about the men and women who serve in India's armed forces.
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