Nandu's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:51:04 -0800 60 Nandu's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Lust for Life 79834
"Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world... He was a colossus... a great painter... a great philosopher... a martyr to his love of art. "

Walking down the streets of Paris the young Vincent Van Gogh didn't feel like he belonged. Battling poverty, repeated heartbreak and familial obligation, Van Gogh was a man plagued by his own creative urge but with no outlet to express it. Until the day he picked up a paintbrush.

Written with raw insight and emotion, follow the artist through his tormented life, struggling against critical discouragement and mental turmoil and bare witness to his creative journey from a struggling artist to one of the world's most celebrated artists.]]>
431 Irving Stone 0099416425 Nandu 0 to-read 4.22 1934 Lust for Life
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The Heart of India 18777088 333 Alexander Campbell Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.00 The Heart of India
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<![CDATA[The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso]]> 6656 This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.]]>
798 Dante Alighieri 0679433139 Nandu 0 to-read 4.08 1320 The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
author: Dante Alighieri
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<![CDATA[Oregon Golf: The Oregon Coast, Southern Oregon, Portland & Environs, Central Oregon]]> 1086191 95 Paul Linnman 1558684743 Nandu 0 to-read 0.0 1999 Oregon Golf: The Oregon Coast, Southern Oregon, Portland & Environs, Central Oregon
author: Paul Linnman
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Shutter Island 21686 369 Dennis Lehane 038073186X Nandu 0 to-read, must 4.12 2003 Shutter Island
author: Dennis Lehane
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The Aeneid 12914
Virgil’s epic tale tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, who flees his city after its fall, with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius – for Aeneas is destined to found Rome and father the Roman race. As Aeneas journeys closer to his goal, he must first prove his worth and attain the maturity necessary for such an illustrious task. He battles raging storms in the Mediterranean, encounters the fearsome Cyclopes, falls in love with Dido, Queen of Carthage, travels into the Underworld and wages war in Italy.]]>
442 Virgil 0679729526 Nandu 0 to-read 3.86 -19 The Aeneid
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The Iliad 1371
Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.”]]>
614 Homer 0140275363 Nandu 0 to-read 3.88 -800 The Iliad
author: Homer
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<![CDATA[The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House]]> 198829 700 Seymour M. Hersh 0671506889 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 4.11 1983 The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
author: Seymour M. Hersh
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Who Killed Gandhi 20891202 Lourenco De Sadvandor Nandu 0 banned-in-india 4.75 Who Killed Gandhi
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India Independent 6390451 English, French (translation) 0 Charles Bettelheim 0853451818 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 4.20 India Independent
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Nehru: A Political Biography 21118343 352 Michael Edwardes 0140213457 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.67 1963 Nehru: A Political Biography
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Early Islam 631725
Unlike the holy books of the Jews and Christians, which are collections of religious narratives, laws, poems, proverbs, prophecies and prayers, dating from different periods and written by different men, every word in the Koran was delivered to the world through the lips of a single man, the Prophet Muhammad, over a 22 year period in the early seventh century. (First paragraph from the book "Early Islam")]]>
192 Desmond Stewart Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.82 1967 Early Islam
author: Desmond Stewart
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<![CDATA[The man from Moscow: The story of Wynne and Penkovsky]]> 5522789 252 Greville Wynne 009001300X Nandu 0 banned-in-india 4.15 The man from Moscow: The story of Wynne and Penkovsky
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The Jewel in the Lotus 6482653 288 Allen Edwardes 0553102893 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 4.14 1959 The Jewel in the Lotus
author: Allen Edwardes
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The Lotus and the Robot 1077197 The lotus and the robot 296 Arthur Koestler Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.56 1960 The Lotus and the Robot
author: Arthur Koestler
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<![CDATA[Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim]]> 1808778 433 Sunanda K. Datta-Ray 0706925092 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.86 1984 Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim
author: Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
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<![CDATA[The Scented Garden: Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant]]> 6193435 444 Bernhard Stern 1589630882 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 1.00 2001 The Scented Garden: Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant
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<![CDATA[Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada]]> 308534 On March 16, 2005, almost twenty years after one of the biggest mass murders in Canadian Aviation history, the Air-India Case concluded with a verdict that authors Zuhair Kashmeri and Brian McAndrew predicted sixteen years ago when Soft Target was first not guilty.
In this second edition, the two offer a detailed foreword that brings readers up-to-date with some startling new information surrounding the twin bombings on June 23, 1985 in the air over the Atlantic, and on the ground in Japan, which left 331 people dead. They offer key details from the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri that took place in a specially-built Vancouver courtroom, leads that were not followed up, and more details of India's intelligence service's clandestine interference in Canada. They explain how their own prediction that justice would not be found because of a botched investigation came true, and that only a public inquiry will offer closure to the families of the victims.]]>
162 Zuhair Kashmeri 1550282212 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 4.06 1989 Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada
author: Zuhair Kashmeri
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Mysterious India 21460217 Moki Singh Nandu 0 banned-in-india 1.50 Mysterious India
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The land of Lingam 18331291 Arthur Miles Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.50 The land of Lingam
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<![CDATA[Old Soldier Sahib: Old Soldier Sahib]]> 6848684 310 Frank Richards 1843425580 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.98 1936 Old Soldier Sahib: Old Soldier Sahib
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The Face of Mother India 20641314 245 Katherine Mayo Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.29 The Face of Mother India
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Nine Hours to Rama 580970 376 Stanley Wolpert 9997410440 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.70 1962 Nine Hours to Rama
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Hindu Heaven 20891192 337 Max Wylie Nandu 0 banned-in-india 2.73 1934 Hindu Heaven
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<![CDATA[Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence]]> 6726938 The partition of India, 1947, some call it vivisection as Gandhi had, has without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent. Why did this partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible - Jinnah? The Congress party? Or the British? Jaswant Singh attempts to find an answer, his answer, for there can perhaps not be a definitive answer, yet the author searches. Jinnah's political journey began as 'an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity' (Gopal Krishna Gokhale), yet ended with his becoming the 'sole spokesman' of Muslims in India; the creator of Pakistan, The Quaid-e-Azam: How and why did this transformation take place?

No Indian or Pakistani politician/Member of Parliament has ventured an analytical, political biography of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, about whom views necessarily get divided as being either Hagiographical or additional demonology. The book attempts an objective evaluation. Jaswant Singh's experience as a minister responsible for the conduct of India's foreign policy, managing the country's defence (concurrently), had been uniformly challenging (Lahore Peace process; betrayed at Kargil; Kandahar; the Agra Peace Summit; the attack on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and the Indian Parliament; coercive diplomacy of 2002; the peace overtures reinitiated in April 2003).

He asks where and when did this questionable thesis of 'Muslims as a separate nation' first originate and lead the Indian sub-continent to? And where did it drag Pakistan to? Why then a Bangladesh? Also what now of Pakistan? Where is it headed? This book is special; it stands apart, for it is authored by a practitioner of policy, an innovator of policies in search of definitive answers. Those burning 'whys' of the last sixty-two years, which bedevil us still. Jaswant Singh believes that for the return of lasting peace in South Asia there is no alternative but to first understand what made it 'abandon' us in the first place. Until we do that, a minimum, a must, we will never be able to persuade peace to return.

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674 Jaswant Singh 8129113783 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.76 2009 Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence
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<![CDATA[Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India]]> 8695301
Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination.

India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders.

Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.]]>
448 Joseph Lelyveld 0307269582 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.82 2011 Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
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<![CDATA[The Ramayana as Told by Aubrey Menen]]> 692495 Created over 2,000 years ago by the poet/sage Valmiki, the Ramayana has been recited over the centuries to hundreds of millions of listeners.

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276 Aubrey Menen 1199544582 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.45 1954 The Ramayana as Told by Aubrey Menen
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The Myth of the Holy Cow 3863 120 D.N. Jha 1859844243 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.82 2002 The Myth of the Holy Cow
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<![CDATA[The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani]]> 265513 Until the arrival of Ambani, India's big business scene was dominated by a few industrial houses from British times. In just 26 years since its foundation, Ambani's Reliance group has risen to rival these houses. By 1995 the group had 2.6 million investors.
Along with the dramatic expansion of the Reliance Group have come intricate political connections, a whole raft of corruption charges and a rollercoaster of booms and crashes for Ambani and his company. This study shows how capitalism emerges by fair means and foul in the new industrial countries of the Third World, and is one of very few studies of Asian or Third World tycoons.]]>
296 Hamish McDonald 1864484683 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.88 1998 The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani
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Unarmed Victory 4481365 155 Bertrand Russell 0043270247 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.91 1963 Unarmed Victory
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The True Furqan 1421804 Saffee 1579211755 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 2.71 1999 The True Furqan
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The Moor's Last Sigh 9865 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a labyrinthine tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. The Moor's Last Sigh is a spectacularly ambitious, funny, satirical and compassionate novel. It is a love song to a vanishing world, but also its last hurrah.

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434 Salman Rushdie 009959241X Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.95 1995 The Moor's Last Sigh
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<![CDATA[Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism?]]> 3712484 257 Ram Swarup 068249948X Nandu 0 banned-in-india 4.44 1983 Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism?
author: Ram Swarup
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<![CDATA[Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India]]> 784339
James Laine traces the origin and development if the Shivaji legend from the earliest sources to the contemporary accounts of the tale. His primary concern is to discover the meaning of Shivaji's life for those who have composed-and those who have read-the legendary accounts of his military victories, his daring escapes, his relationships with saints. In the process, he paints a new and more complex picture of Hindu-Muslim relations from the seventeenth century to the present. He argues that this relationship involved a variety of compromises and strategies, from conflict to accommodation to nuanced collaboration. Neither Muslims nor Hindus formed clearly defined communities, says Laine, and they did not relate to each other as opposed monolithic groups. Different sub-groups, representing a range of religious persuasions, found it in their advantage to accentuate or diminish the importance of Hindu and Muslim identity and the ideologies that supported the construction of such
identities. By studying the evolution of the Shivaji legend, Laine demonstrates, we can trace the development of such constructions in both pre-British and post-colonial periods.]]>
144 James W. Laine 0195141261 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.25 2003 Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
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<![CDATA[The Hindus: An Alternative History]]> 5263037 From one of the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its history

An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds.

Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated even within a century; its central tenets—karma, dharma, to name just two—arise at particular moments in Indian history and differ in each era, between genders, and caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism—its vitality, its earthiness, its vividness—lies precisely in many of those idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate today.

Wendy Doniger is one of the foremost scholars of Hinduism in the world. With her inimitable insight and expertise Doniger illuminates those moments within the tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. Without reversing or misrepresenting the historical hierarchies, she reveals how Sanskrit and vernacular sources are rich in knowledge of and compassion toward women and lower castes; how they debate tensions surrounding religion, violence, and tolerance; and how animals are the key to important shifts in attitudes toward different social classes.

The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers—many of them far removed from Brahmin authors of Sanskrit texts—have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms from which to consider the ironies, and overlooked epiphanies, of history.]]>
800 Wendy Doniger 1594202052 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.64 2009 The Hindus: An Alternative History
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Lajja: Shame 201866 And then, on 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in India is demolished by a mob of Hindu fundamentalists. The world condemns the incident but its fallout is felt most acutely in Bangladesh, where Muslim mobs begin to seek out and attack the Hindus... The nightmare inevitably arrives at the Duttas' doorstep - and their world begins to fall apart.]]> 216 Taslima Nasrin Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.54 1993 Lajja: Shame
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The Satanic Verses 12781
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561 Salman Rushdie 0312270828 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.73 1988 The Satanic Verses
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Rangila Rasul 6788165 64 M.A. Chamupati Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.97 1927 Rangila Rasul
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<![CDATA[An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India]]> 5854
“Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master.” — The New York Review of Books

Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.]]>
304 V.S. Naipaul 0375708359 Nandu 0 banned-in-india 3.67 1964 An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India
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<![CDATA[Control Freak: Robert Mugabe: The History, The Quotes & The Drama]]> 52958508 This book is an in-depth look at Robert Mugabe, the man, the president and the dictator. The book shares his life from childhood and his life as a teacher, before he joined politics. Later on, he decides to join politics and faces a lot of challenges, finally getting arrested and staying in prison for about a decade. The book shows how, even in prison, he managed to retain control of his political party, as well as organise the guerrilla war.Ěý

Furthermore, the book shades more light on his two biggest threats, Ian Smith and Morgan Tsvangirai. We get to see how this man, once viewed as a hero all over Africa, turned into the worst dictator of all time. Readers will also get to see how Grace Mugabe, his second wife, contributed to his great fall from the throne.

In preparation for his burial, his body was repatriated to Zimbabwe accompanied by the Vice President Kembo Mohadi alongside his powerful delegation from Singapore. Also, a press release from the government expressly stated that all intending Heads of State/Government were not expected to stay in Zimbabwe for more than 24 hrs.

As preparations were in top gear for the late past president, barely three days to the intended ceremony, the family released a report stating that they were not consulted before making the burial plans hence the burial will not hold as schedule.

Although the lying-in state was held at the National stadium named in honour of him, details about the burial are yet to be made available to the public.

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- Trеаt еvеrу part оf уоur tоwеl niсеlу because the part that wiреѕ your buttосkѕ tоdау will wiре уоur fасе tоmоrrоw.

- We аrе living in a gеnеrаtiоn where реорlе “in love” аrе frее tо tоuсh еасh others’ рrivаtе раrtѕ but cannot tоuсh еасh оthеrѕ’ рhоnеѕ because they’re “рrivаtе.”

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“Control Freak”Ěýwas initially supposed to be published on the 10th of September 2019 before the tragedy of Mugabe death on the 6th of September 2019.

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282 Prosper Uwadia Nandu 0 to-read 0.0 Control Freak: Robert Mugabe: The History, The Quotes & The Drama
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<![CDATA[Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence]]> 2271007 In this evenhanded yet unsparing study, Stephen Chan explains and interprets a freedom fighter turned tyrant, an idealist whose triumph over the forces of racism and colonialism bore bitter fruit. As a chronicler of Mugabe's career, Chan has superb credentials. A firsthand witness to Zimbabwe's struggle for independence and an advisor to the new nation's early post-independence government, he gives us a masterly portrait of his strengths and victories--and, increasingly, his tragic flaws and destructive failures.
The author follows Mugabe from his days as a rebel through his electoral victory, his growing influence in African politics, and his unyielding opposition to apartheid. A teacher for twenty years before he took up arms, he led his country to the highest literacy rate in Africa, at 85 percent, and his avowed socialism promised greater equality of wealth in a new, multiracial Zimbabwe.
But a darker picture emerged early with the savage crushing of the Matabeleland uprising, the ruthless elimination of political opponents, and growing cronyism and corruption that betrayed Zimbabwe's hopes and wrecked its economy. A disastrous intervention in the Congo War, catastrophic drought, and a raging AIDS epidemic have culminated in national crisis--and a beleaguered president determined to hang onto power at all costs in the face of growing unrest.
Chan's tightly argued and rigorous narrative depicts a triumphant nationalist leader who degenerated into a petty despot consumed by hubris and self-righteousness and driven to such desperate measures as seizing white-owned farms, muzzling the press, and unleashing violence on his political opponents. It's a true African tragedy, with a protagonist who came to personify all that he once reviled--at a cost to his country and his continent that will be reckoned for many years to come.
Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations and Dean of Law and Social Sciences, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London. He advised the early government of Zimbabwe and has published many books on the international relations of Southern Africa.]]>
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<![CDATA[A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe]]> 10866382 336 Daniel Compagnon 081224267X Nandu 0 to-read 4.22 2010 A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe
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<![CDATA[The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe]]> 8728554
Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and the shortest life span. Instead of conceding power, Mugabe launched a brutal campaign of terror against his own citizens. With foreign correspondents banned, and he himself there illegally, Godwin was one of the few observers to bear witness to this period the locals call The Fear. He saw torture bases and the burning villages but was most awed as an observer of not only simple acts of kindness but also churchmen and diplomats putting their own lives on the line to try to stop the carnage.

THE FEAR is a book about the astonishing courage and resilience of a people, armed with nothing but a desire to be free, who challenged a violent dictatorship. It is also the deeply personal and ultimately uplifting story of a man trying to make sense of the country he can't recognize as home.]]>
384 Peter Godwin 031605173X Nandu 0 to-read 4.04 2010 The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
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<![CDATA[Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us]]> 119730 236 Robert D. Hare 1572304510 Nandu 0 to-read 4.06 1993 Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
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<![CDATA[Narcissistic Abuse FAQs Frequently Asked Questions about Narcissists Psychopaths and]]> 22012357 778 Sam Vaknin Nandu 0 to-read 4.86 2013 Narcissistic Abuse FAQs Frequently Asked Questions about Narcissists Psychopaths and
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<![CDATA[Confessions Diary of a Narcissist]]> 20503342 281 Sam Vaknin 9989929327 Nandu 0 to-read 4.27 2005 Confessions Diary of a Narcissist
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<![CDATA[Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited]]> 651943
Are YOU Abused? Stalked? Harassed? Victimized? Confused and Frightened? Were you brought up by a Narcissistic or Psychopathic Parent? Married to a Narcissist or a Psychopath - or Divorcing One? Afraid your children will turn out to be narcissists or psychopaths? Want to cope with this pernicious, baffling condition?

OR: Are You a Narcissist or a Psychopath - or suspect that You may be one ...

This book will teach you how to Cope, Survive, and Protect Your Loved Ones!

"Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" is based on correspondence since 1996 with hundreds of people diagnosed with Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders (narcissists and psychopaths) and with thousands of their suffering family members, friends, therapists, and colleagues.

The first ever book about narcissistic abuse, Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Re-Visited offers a detailed, first hand account of what it is like to have a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It contains new insights and an organized methodological framework. The first part of the book comprises more than 100 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding relationships with abusive narcissists and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

What is a personality disorder? When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. His True Self is dilapidated and dysfunctional. Instead he has a tyrannical and delusional False Self. Such a person is incapable of loving and of living. He cannot love others because he cannot love himself. He loves his reflection, his surrogate self. And he is incapable of living because life is a struggle towards, a striving, a drive at something. In other words: life is change. He who cannot change cannot live.

The narcissist is an actor in a monodrama, yet forced to remain behind the scenes. The scenes take center stage, instead. The Narcissist does not cater at all to his own needs. Contrary to his reputation, the Narcissist does not "love" himself in any true sense of the word.

He feeds off other people, who hurl back at him an image that he projects to them. This is their sole function in his world: to reflect, to admire, to applaud, to detest - in a word, to assure him that he exists. Otherwise, the narcissist feels, they have no right to tax his time, energy, or emotions.

The posting of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Re-Visited on the Web has elicited a flood of excited, sad and heart rending responses, mostly from victims of Narcissists but also from people suffering from the NPD. This is a true picture of the resulting correspondence with them.

This book is not intended to please or to entertain. NPD is a pernicious, vile and tortuous disease, which affects not only the Narcissist. It infects and forever changes people who are in daily contact with the Narcissist. In other words: it is contagious. It is my contention that Narcissism is the mental epidemic of the twentieth century, a plague to be fought by all means.

This tome is my contribution to minimizing the damages of this disorder.]]>
680 Sam Vaknin 8023833847 Nandu 5 to-read 4.16 1999 Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited
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<![CDATA[Exploding Whale: And Other Remarkable Stories from the Evening News]]> 1226511 224 Paul Linnman 1558687432 Nandu 5 to-read, must 3.92 2003 Exploding Whale: And Other Remarkable Stories from the Evening News
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Paper Moon 48845054 254 Rehana Munir 9353574013 Nandu 0 to-read 3.88 Paper Moon
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<![CDATA[Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)]]> 4921
"We agree that we are overworked, and need a rest - A week on the rolling deep? - George suggests the river -"

And with the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around - many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.]]>
185 Jerome K. Jerome Nandu 0 to-read 3.86 1889 Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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<![CDATA[A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts]]> 403098 163 Robert Bolt 0679728228 Nandu 0 to-read 3.89 1960 A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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The Upanishads 290882
Older cover edition for ISBN 9780140441635.]]>
143 Anonymous Nandu 0 to-read 4.21 -500 The Upanishads
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Ramayana 141152 461 łŐÄĺąôłžÄŤ°ěžą 0520227034 Nandu 0 to-read 4.19 -400 Ramayana
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Mahabharata 118252 483 Vyasa 8172763689 Nandu 0 to-read 4.31 1951 Mahabharata
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Panchatantra 653242 270 Vishnu Sharma 8171670652 Nandu 0 to-read 4.29 -200 Panchatantra
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<![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream]]> 7745 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.]]> 204 Hunter S. Thompson 0679785892 Nandu 0 to-read 4.08 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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<![CDATA[Negationism in India ; Concealing the Record of Islam]]> 651184 263 Koenraad Elst Nandu 0 to-read 4.44 2002 Negationism in India ; Concealing the Record of Islam
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The Help 4667024
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.


Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here]]>
464 Kathryn Stockett 0399155341 Nandu 0 to-read 4.46 2009 The Help
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<![CDATA[Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption]]> 8664353
The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.]]>
475 Laura Hillenbrand 1400064163 Nandu 0 to-read 4.38 2010 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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The Elements of Style 33514 105 William Strunk Jr. Nandu 0 to-read 4.15 1918 The Elements of Style
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<![CDATA[Sexual Behavior in the Human Male]]> 47380 Acknowledgments
Publisher's Foreword
1 History & method: Historical introduction
Interviewing
Statistical problems
Validity of the data
2 Factors affecting sexual outlet: Early sexual growth & activity
Total sexual outlet
Age & sexual outlet
Marital status & sexual outlet
Age of adolescence & sexual outlet
Social level & sexual outlet
Stability of sexual patterns
Rural-urban background & sexual outlet
Religious background & sexual outlet
3 Sources of sexual outlet: Masturbation
Nocturnal emissions
Heterosexual petting
Pre-marital intercourse
Marital intercourse
Extra-marital intercourse
Intercourse with prostitutes
Homosexual outlet
Animal contacts
Clinical tables
Appendix
Bibliography
Index]]>
820 Alfred C. Kinsey 0721654452 Nandu 0 to-read 3.65 1948 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
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<![CDATA[Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America]]> 1060130 288 Walid Phares 1403970742 Nandu 0 to-read 3.81 2005 Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America
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Why Not Capitalism? 18762452 120 Jason Brennan 0415732972 Nandu 0 to-read 3.68 2014 Why Not Capitalism?
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<![CDATA[The People vs Muhammad - Psychological Analysis]]> 26621769
"J.K Sheindlin has done something incredible!"Ěý- WND Online News

In 'The People vs Muhammad', #1 international bestselling author JK Sheindlin psychologically analyses the founding father of Islam, while putting him on trial for crimes against humanity.

Is Islam a "religion of peace"? Was Muhammad the true and final prophet of God? Is the Quran the fulfilment of the Bible, and legitimately continuing the traditions of the Judeo-Christian scriptures? Perhaps one of the most audacious, shocking, unthinkable and highly controversial ideas to ever be conceived, The People vs Muhammad places the founding father of Islam on trial for crimes against humanity, and to challenge his self-proclaimed authority. With the growing threat of home-grown Muslim jihadist terrorist attacks and the ominous cataclysm of a global holy war, there's no doubt Islam has become a burdensome issue which has our own western governments perplexed.

This book series intends to investigate the true ideology of Islam, to ascertain with reason and logic the legitimacy of Muhammad's claim and core teachings of his cult. Throughout this series, author J.K Sheindlin carefully analyses the Quran and the Islamic texts legalistically to expose the shocking truth pertaining to Muhammad's advocation Pedophilia, honor killings, sex slavery, prostitution, racism, extortion, murder, psychological indoctrination, intellectual terrorism, censorship, grand larceny, racketeering, domestic violence, gender inequality, and much more!

In this powerful series, the first installment Psychological analysis delves deep into Muhammad's past and uncovers disturbing facts which undoubtedly prove to be the origins of his multiple psychopathological disorders. Using entirely the Islamic sources in reference to contemporary psychiatric-medical archives, J.K Sheindlin details Muhammad's extensive catalogue of mental illnesses which Psychopathy, Gynophobia, Napoleon Complex, Schizophrenia, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Messiah-God Complex, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Athazagorophobia, Oedipus Complex, Sex-addiction, Pedophilia, and Necrophilia. Furthermore, the author also hypothesizes a convincing argument based on medical science, which debunks Muhammad's first revelation. These external factors Volcanic gas inhalation, sensory deprivation, starvation, dehydration, brain damage and Syphilis. Written to provoke a rational response from both Muslim and western readers, the verdict is ultimately decided by the public to determine if Muhammad's claim to prophethood is legitimate.]]>
218 J.K. Sheindlin 0994362935 Nandu 0 to-read 3.88 2015 The People vs Muhammad - Psychological Analysis
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Black Margins 471289 308 Saadat Hasan Manto 8187649402 Nandu 0 to-read 4.28 1948 Black Margins
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मंटो की कहानियाँ 15761032
ہم نے منٹو کی سینکڑوں کہانیوں میں سے صرف بیس منتخب کی ہیں اور ان کو عموما زمانی لحاظ سے ترتیب دیا ہے۔ ابتدائی کہانی سے آخری دور کی اس کہانی تک جو آنے والی کہانی کے اسلوب اور فن کا اشاریہ بنی۔۔۔!!

یہ کہانیاں نہ صرف منٹو کے موضوعاتی تنوع اور وسعت کو ظاہر کرتی ہیں بلکہ اس کے فنی ارتقا کی داستان بھی سناتی ہیں۔ اس مجموعے کی کہانیوں کو ہم نے نہ تو بہترین کہانیاں کہا ہے نہ نمائندہ کہانیاں اور نہ منتخب کہانیاں کیونکہ یہ سب صفات انفرادی پسند و ناپسند کے معیار کا پیمانہ ہوتی ہیں۔ اس لیے ہم نے ان کو محض 'منٹو کی بیس کہانیاں' کہا ہے۔ یہ ہماری پسند کی کہانیاں ہیں۔ منٹو کے افسانوں میں ہماری پسند کے بے شمار دوسرے افسانے بھی موجود ہیں۔ لیکن ایک کتاب کی ضخامت کے لیے ہم نے انہی کہانیوں کو کافی سمجھا۔ کسی فنکار کے فن کے مکمل عرفان اور ادراک کے لیے اس کی جملہ تخلیقات کا تدریجی مطالعہ ضروری ہے لیکن اس بھاگتی ہوئی تیز رفتار دنیا میں اب انتخاب کی اہمیت تسلیم کی جا چکی ہے۔ اس انتخاب کا ایک مقصد منٹو شناسی اور منٹو شناسائی ہے۔

منٹو کا اجمالی سوانحی خاکہ مرتب کر دیا گیا ہے۔ ذہین قاری اس اشاراتی خاکے میں خود رنگ بھر سکتا ہے۔ منٹو کی ان بیس کہانیوں پر ایک تجزیاتی مطالعہ بھی شامل ہے اور منٹو کے فن پر ایک مجموعی محاکمہ بھی درج کیا گیا ہے۔ تاکہ اس مجموعے کا قاری منٹو کی ان بیس کہانیوں کے مطالعے کے ساتھ ساتھ ان کہانیوں کی تفہیم اور منٹو کے فن کو بحیثیت مجموعی دیکھنے اور سمجھنے کی ایک ابتدائی کوشش کو بھی یکجا پائے۔

کہانیاں:

تماشا
چوری
ساڑھے تین آنے
نیا قانون
نعرہ
بانجھ
ہتڊ
کالی شلوار
بابو گوپی ناتھ
حافظ حسن دین
ٚوٚو
ممد بھائی
گورمکھ سنگھ کی وصیت
موذیل
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پھولوں کی سازش
سڑک کے کنارے
فعشتہ
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<![CDATA[Best of Manto: A Collection of his Short Stories]]> 1143430 158 Saadat Hasan Manto 8120708636 Nandu 0 to-read 4.29 1940 Best of Manto: A Collection of his Short Stories
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<![CDATA[Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition]]> 518300 214 Saadat Hasan Manto 0140272127 Nandu 0 to-read 4.32 1997 Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
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<![CDATA[Bitter Fruit : The Very Best Of Saadat Manto]]> 6288711 Bitter Fruit presents the best collection of Manto's writings, from his short stories, plays and sketches, to portraits of cinema artists, a few pieces on himself, and his letters to Uncle Sam which have references to communism, Russia, politics after the Partition and his own financial condition. The concluding section of the book has acknowledgements and reminiscences from Saadat's friends and relatives. Bitter Fruit includes stories like A Wet Afternoon, The Return, A Believer's Version, Toba Tek Singh, Colder Than Ice, The Assignment, Odour, By The Roadside, Bribing the Almighty, The Kingdom's End, The Woman in the Red Raincoat, The Room with the Bright Light, The Great Divide, The Angel, Siraj, An Old Fashioned Man, The Price of Freedom, It Happened in 1919, The Girl from Delhi, A Man of God, Free for All, and A Tale of 1947. There is a collection of sketches too. Manto used to write radio plays and this book has one of the dramas he penned, called In This Vortex. His short stories bring out the most delicate nuances of human nature.]]> 700 Saadat Hasan Manto 0143102176 Nandu 0 to-read 4.36 2009 Bitter Fruit : The Very Best Of Saadat Manto
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Bombay Stories 16176948 Bombay Stories is a collection of Manto’s work from his years in the city. Freshly arrived in 1930s Mumbai, Manto saw a city like no other—an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, and a city bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. It was to be Manto’s favourite city, and he was among the first to write the Bombay characters we are now familiar with from countless stories and films—prostitutes, pimps, lowlifes, writers, intellectuals, aspiring film actors, thugs, conmen and crooks. His hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative--in searching out those forgotten by humanity, Manto wrote about what it means to be human. Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad’s translations reach into the streets and capture in contemporary, idiomatic English the feeling that Urdu’s most celebrated short-story writer’s work stories provide in the original.]]> 320 Saadat Hasan Manto Nandu 0 to-read 3.84 2012 Bombay Stories
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<![CDATA[Kingdom's End: Selected Stories]]> 1550788
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 of people does not die even in the face of unimaginable suffering. Powerful and deeply moving, these stories remain as relevant today as they were first published more than half a century ago.]]>
309 Saadat Hasan Manto 0143102184 Nandu 0 to-read 4.20 1988 Kingdom's End: Selected Stories
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Toba Tek Singh: Stories 11961425 160 Saadat Hasan Manto 0143416073 Nandu 0 to-read 4.24 2008 Toba Tek Singh: Stories
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Manto: Selected Stories 7518598 130 Saadat Hasan Manto 8184000499 Nandu 0 currently-reading 4.20 2003 Manto: Selected Stories
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The Descent of Man 185407 The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond.

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by 'sexual selection' - Darwin's provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human.

In their introduction, James Moore and Adrian Desmond, acclaimed biographers of Charles Darwin, call for a radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery. The text is the second and definitive edition and this volume also contains suggestions for further reading, a chronology and biographical sketches of prominent individuals mentioned.

Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs.

If you enjoyed The Descent of Man, you might like Darwin's On the Origin of Species, also available in Penguin Classics.]]>
796 Charles Darwin 0140436316 Nandu 0 to-read 4.05 1871 The Descent of Man
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<![CDATA[Hindu Temples What Happened to Them- Vol. 1 Preliminary Survey]]> 6235205 Contributed articles. 296 Sita Ram Goel 8185990492 Nandu 0 to-read 4.54 1990 Hindu Temples What Happened to Them- Vol. 1 Preliminary Survey
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<![CDATA[How I Became a Hindu (Reprinted with a Postscript)]]> 9590808 106 Sita Ram Goel 8185990050 Nandu 0 to-read 4.52 How I Became a Hindu (Reprinted with a Postscript)
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<![CDATA[The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India]]> 6235202 138 Sita Ram Goel 8185990239 Nandu 0 to-read 4.56 1996 The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India
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´Ą˛ÔłŮ´Çąô´Ç˛ľĂ­˛š 15829076 Su obra poĂŠtica es un extenso cuerpo de cientos de poemas habitualmente publicados en revistas a lo largo de mĂĄs de cuarenta aĂąos. Los que publicamos, con una introducciĂłn y en traducciones de Umberto Cobo, con un lenguaje crudo y directo cantan historias sacadas literalmente de cuartos de hoteles entre la muerte, el sexo o el amor de sus protagonistas a travĂŠs del ojo de la cerradura. La vida como lo que un absurdo mezquino y rutinario sostenido en un lenguaje que recuerda unas veces a Whitman y otras a Cummings o a William Carlos Williams.

PrĂłlogo y traducciĂłn de textos de Umberto Cobo.]]>
87 Charles Bukowski Nandu 0 to-read 3.68 2004 ´Ą˛ÔłŮ´Çąô´Ç˛ľĂ­˛š
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<![CDATA[All the Assholes in the World and Mine]]> 7645523 610 Charles Bukowski 1153553368 Nandu 0 to-read 4.08 1966 All the Assholes in the World and Mine
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<![CDATA[What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire]]> 632901 416 Charles Bukowski 1574231057 Nandu 0 to-read 4.28 1999 What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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<![CDATA[Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame]]> 50466 Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. In this selection of poems written between 1955 and 1973, Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.]]> 232 Charles Bukowski 087685191X Nandu 0 to-read 4.12 1974 Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
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Love Is a Dog from Hell 23534 A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.]]>
312 Charles Bukowski 0876853629 Nandu 0 to-read 4.01 1977 Love Is a Dog from Hell
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<![CDATA[The People Look Like Flowers at Last]]> 50464 The People Look like Flowers at Last is the last of five collections of never-before-published poetry from the late, great Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski. In it, he speaks on topics ranging from war and fatherhood to lost love and the fear of death.]]> 299 Charles Bukowski 006057707X Nandu 0 to-read 4.10 2007 The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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The Three Musketeers 7190 The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written.

Dumas' swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d'Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. Before long, he finds treachery and court intrigue,and also three boon companions, the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together, the four strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.]]>
625 Alexandre Dumas Nandu 0 to-read 4.09 1844 The Three Musketeers
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The Count of Monte Cristo 7126 The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

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1276 Alexandre Dumas 0140449264 Nandu 0 to-read 4.29 1846 The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]>
277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Nandu 0 must 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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<![CDATA[Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited]]> 5479 Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

The non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.]]>
340 Aldous Huxley 0060776099 Nandu 0 must 4.17 1958 Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]>
592 Markus Zusak Nandu 0 must 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
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The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Nandu 0 must 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
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Fahrenheit 451 17470674
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

--back cover]]>
227 Ray Bradbury 0007491565 Nandu 0 must 4.01 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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L'origine delle specie 9651932 Come la rivoluzione copernicana aveva sottratto la terra dal suo posto immobile al centro dell’universo, così la rivoluzione darwiniana avrebbe portato al superamento del concetto della fissità delle specie, mostrando come tutte le forme viventi si sono evolute – e continuano a evolversi – le une dalle altre attraverso il meccanismo completamente naturale della selezione del più adatto.

In una nuova traduzione e con l’integrazione delle successive risposte alle critiche viene qui proposto questo testo fondamentale nella sua prima edizione.]]>
565 Charles Darwin 8817026468 Nandu 0 to-read 4.28 1859 L'origine delle specie
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Science and Human Behavior 55989 The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two.“This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.” —Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology“This is a remarkable book—remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior…It ought to be…valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.” —Harry Prosch, Ethics]]> 461 B.F. Skinner 0029290406 Nandu 0 to-read 4.02 1953 Science and Human Behavior
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<![CDATA[Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis]]> 85413 560 Sigmund Freud 0140137912 Nandu 0 to-read 3.89 1917 Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
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<![CDATA[Civilization and Its Discontents]]> 357636 127 Sigmund Freud 0393301583 Nandu 0 to-read 3.79 1930 Civilization and Its Discontents
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<![CDATA[The Psychology of Intelligence]]> 137917 The Psychology of Intelligence is one of his most important works. Containing a complete synthesis of his thoughts on the mechanisms of intellectual development, it is an extraordinary volume by an extraordinary writer. Given his significance, it is hardly surprising that Psychology Today pronounced Piaget the Best Psychologist of the twentieth century.]]> 202 Jean Piaget 0415254019 Nandu 0 to-read 4.10 1947 The Psychology of Intelligence
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<![CDATA[Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking]]> 8520610 The book that started the Quiet Revolution

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.Ěý

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.]]>
333 Susan Cain 0307352145 Nandu 0 to-read 4.07 2012 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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The Interpretation of Dreams 93981 630 Sigmund Freud 1566195764 Nandu 0 to-read 3.86 1899 The Interpretation of Dreams
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<![CDATA[Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking]]> 40102 The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.]]>
296 Malcolm Gladwell 0316010669 Nandu 0 to-read 3.97 2005 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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<![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ]]> 26329
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.

Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work.Ěý
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The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the help of EI.]]>
352 Daniel Goleman 055380491X Nandu 0 to-read 4.07 1995 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
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<![CDATA[Outliers: The Story of Success]]> 3228917 Learn what sets high achievers apart — from Bill Gates to the Beatles — in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.]]>
309 Malcolm Gladwell 0316017922 Nandu 0 to-read 4.19 2008 Outliers: The Story of Success
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