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Dr Kalam, who was India's 11th president and has been a scientist and a teacher, has written more than 20 books. Ranging from inspirational and spiritual thoughts, to autobiographical reflections, to his vision statements for a developed India, these works bear the imprint of a mind that is deeply reflective. For the first time, some of the most thoughtful, inspiring and educative of these writings have been compiled in one place in The Righteous Life.

The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travelers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng He. This story complements that of the land routes, showing how humans have been driven across thousands of years to create and maintain networks whatever the difficulties.

Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities.

To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.

Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....

The oldest surviving graffiti on a cave wall immortalizing an intimate bond in the third century BCE; charred seeds and chewed animal bones that provide evidence of a peoples' food obsessions; sculptures that reveal facets of the human-animal relationship. In Time Pieces, award-winning historian Nayanjot Lahiri sifts through clues left behind by the early inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent - in plaques and inscriptions, fragments of jewellery, bones and tools, poetry, art and pottery - to reveal to us our ancient land in all its variety, splendour and contradictions.

भारतीय कविता की एक महान परम्परा है जो समय, इतिहास, भूगोल और विभिन्न भाषाओं के आर-पार फैली है. सुप्रसिद्ध हिंदी कवि और हिंदी भाषा के नये आत्मविश्वास के अग्रणी नायक कुमार विश्वास अपनी पहली ऑडियो ओरिजिनल सीरीज़ में हमें इस महान परम्परा की कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक की यात्रा करवा रहे हैं और आग्रह कर रहे हैं कि हम भक्ति, प्रेम और विद्रोह की इस विलक्षण विरासत को संजो कर रखें.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “excellent” (Economist) book, the national security expert who predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine argues that Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan—with dire global stakes if he is not deterred We are fully in the midst of Cold War II, this time with...

শিব! মহাদেব! দেবতাদের দেবতা! দুষ্টের বিনাশকারী! উদ্দাম প্রেমিক! দুদ্ধর্ষ যোদ্ধা! অনবদ্য নর্তক! ব্যক্তিত্ববান নায়ক! সর্বশক্তিমান তবুও অবিনশ্বর। যদি শিব উর্বর কল্পনাপ্রসূত না হয়ে কোনো রক্তমাংসের মানুষ হন? এই তোমার আমার মতো? একজন মানুষ যে তার কর্মের ফলে দেবত্বে উপনীত হয়েছেন? এটাই শিব রচনাত্রয়ের ভিত্তি যা কল্পনা ও ঐতিহাসিক ঘটনার সংমিশ্রনে প্রাচীন ভারতের সমৃদ্ধ পৌরাণিক ঐতিহ্য ব্যাখ্যায় প্রয়াসী হয়েছে। এই রচনা প্রভু শিব ও তার জীবন আমাদের যে শিক্ষা দিয়েছে তার প্রতি শ্রদ্ধার্ঘ।

During the Khmer Rouge's four-year rule of terror, two million people, or one in every four, Cambodians, died. In describing one family's decades-long quest to learn their husband's and father's fate and the war crimes trial of Comrade Duch (pronounced 'Doyk'), who ran the notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, When the Clouds Fell from the Sky illuminates the tragedy of a nation.

This complete edition spans 2,400 years (431 BCE–1944) in 40 hours, 155 speeches, and 52 speakers, including foundational addresses by Gandhi and Mao—voices that shaped modern Asia. Begin in 431 BCE with Demosthenes, whose structural genius remains the DNA of modern expression. Traverse Athens’ zenith via Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Alexander’s volatile proclamations, and Rome’s crisis in Cicero’s showdown with Cataline—featuring Caesar’s sole surviving senate address and Mark Antony’s incendiary eulogy.

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13, 1919, marking a dark day in India’s freedom struggle. On Vaisakhi, thousands gathered in Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Act. General Dyer ordered indiscriminate firing on the unarmed crowd, resulting in immense loss of life. This brutal incident became a symbol of colonial oppression. Jallianwala Bagh is now a revered monument of sacrifice. The book narrates the story of India’s fight for independence.

From the author of the international bestseller Mr. China comes another rollicking ride through the slick mega-cities and industrial backwaters of twenty-first-century China—part adventure story, part erudite myth-buster, and part practical rule book to help Westerners win in China. China's...

സാമ്രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ ഉയരും, തളരും, വീഴും. റോമന്‍, ഓട്ടോമാന്‍, ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് എന്നിങ്ങനെ ചരിത്രം ഈ ക്രമത്തിന് സാക്ഷ്യം വഹിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ സാമ്രാജ്യങ്ങളെല്ലാം തലകീഴായി മറിച്ചിടപ്പെട്ടു, നമ്മള്‍ ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചില്ലെങ്കില്‍ അടുത്തത് അമേരിക്കയായിരിക്കും! ഇന്നത്തെ മിക്ക എന്‍റര്‍പ്രൈസുകളും ഒരു പറ്റം ഫൈനാന്‍ഷ്യല്‍ എന്‍ജിനീയറിംഗ് തവളകളാണ്, അവയാകട്ടെ സദാ കടത്തില്‍ മുങ്ങി ചൂടേറിയ പാമ്പെണ്ണയില്‍ നീന്തിത്തുടിക്കാന്‍ വെമ്പുന്നവയും. നിര്‍ഭാഗ്യവശാല്‍, അവയില്‍ പലതും ഐപി (ബൗദ്ധികസ്വത്ത്) കഴുകന്മാരുടെ പിടിയിലകപ്പെട്ട് ചാകും.

Before the East India Company and before the British Empire, England was a pariah state. Seeking better fortunes, 16th and 17th century merchants, pilgrims and outcasts ventured to the kingdom of the mighty Mughals, attempting to sell coarse woollen broadcloth along the silk roads; playing courtiers in the Mughal palaces in pursuit of love; or simply touring the sub-continent in search of an elephant to ride.

கிழக்கிந்தியக் கம்பெனி கால அரசியல் முதல் திராவிட ஆட்சி அரசியல் வரையிலான காலகட்டங்களில் நடக்கும் நிகழ்ச்சிகளின் தாக்கம் எப்படி மனித சுபாவங்களை மாற்றிப்போடுகிறது என்பதை உணர்வு பூர்வமாக விவரிக்கிறது "தொட்டுக் கொள்ளவா தொடர்ந்து செல்லவா!"

കേരളത്തിന്റെ സാമൂഹിക രാഷ്ട്രീയ ചരിത്രത്തിൽ മുഴങ്ങിക്കേട്ട മുദ്രാവാക്യങ്ങൾ, അവരൂപപ്പെട്ട സന്ദർഭങ്ങൾ എന്നിവ വിശദീകരിക്കുന്ന മലയാളത്തിലെ ആദ്യത്തെ പുസ്തകം.

From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, the movement of people to the movement of bowels, from rats to cats, and more, The Age of Pandemics chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India...

'In a Nutshell', the new audiobook series from Naxos AudioBooks, continues with a fascinating history of Tibet. Part of China for many years, yet with a clearly distinctive culture (with the central devotion of its people being to Buddhism and the Dalai Lama), Tibet has a unique character in the panoply of world nations. Here we have an independent view of its history and the customs and beliefs of its people - and a commentary on the current situation.

This absorbing history by a brilliant scholar and writer deepens our understanding of how censorship works. With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In 18th-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege.