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There are some people who just can't tolerate your success. They may not necessarily be 'others' but may even be your 'own'. Nevertheless they will always highlight some or the other deficiency in you and try to pull you down . If you are capable they will raise the ghosts of your past. If your past is impeccable they shall question your capability and if they find nothing else, they shall make do by making fun of your looks or appearance . Why? because your success challenges their status in the society and proves their worthlessness. And other common people? We believe they are free, but they are not. These so called free men can't even think on their own. Their thoughts, their definitions are decided by others. They live like sheep, move in flocks, shepherded whereever by their butchers. But even though these sheep are the society, each one bleats just me, me, me.Don't just believe, understand. The sooner you understand the faster you will get rid of this delusion of love. Just as getting a job is the most important phase in the life of a man, his means of living, his status; marriage, for an Indian woman, is her means of living and her status. Marriage is 'job' for women. This is still the truth of most of the poor and middle class households in India. Society asks a man, his job and a woman, her husband.

"JEEVANGANE" is a collection of various types of poems which includes Ashtakshari, Abhang, Hyku, Gazal etc. Readers will go through about 150 poems on different subjects such as spirituality religion, festivals, nature, relations etc. eventuallyi introducing Author's journey from 'Charoli to Gazal'.

Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come to expect from the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse (Washington Post Book World), Unseen Academicals focuses on the wizards at Ankh-Morporks Unseen University, who are reknowned for many thingssagacity, magic, and their love of teatimeas they attempt to conquer athletics.

Haunted Hall School,Frettin Forest,Beastshire.Dear Mum and Dad,Listen to this news, it is good. Yeller has just made up a fine advert saying:ARE YOU JUST A SMALL WEAK FLUFFBALL?THEN BE A PUPIL AT HAUNTED HALL.LEARN SECRET POWERS FROM OUR BIG BAD GHOSTSLIKE HOW TO POP UP ALL OF A SUDDENLY LIKE TOASTSO COME TO-DEEAND BRING A LARGE FEE. DO NOT DELAY-EEARRROOOO, look out Richness, we are after you again!Yours chestoutly,L Wolf Esquire"...will cheer the heart of any child... delightful drawings of canine naughtiness... scary and funny." SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY"Hugely entertaining and emphasising the fun of shared reading, it guarantees parental enjoyment." THE BOOKSELLER

A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bookshop involved in an espionage network, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff.In nuclear war, there can be no winners.It's 1962, and the world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war. But daily life must go on. South London girl Celia Duchesne longs for a career but with no means, connections, or qualifications, she spends her days at the till of a dusty antiquarian bookshop on the Strand, unable to see a way out. The day a handsome American walks into the shop, she thinks she might have found it. Just as the excitement of a budding relationship engulfs her, she learns a devastating secret that draws her into the murky world of espionage.Twenty years prior, nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance in occupied France, sending messages back to London via wireless transmitter. When she was cruelly betrayed and handed over to the Nazis, evidence of her legacy and the truth of her actions were buried by wartime injustices.As Celia learns more about Anya?and her unexpected connection to the undercover agent?she becomes increasingly aware of furious efforts, both past and present, to protect state secrets, at all costs. With her newly formed romance taking a surprising turn and the world's superpowers on the verge of nuclear annihilation, Celia must risk everything she holds close to her heart, in the name of justice.Propulsive, illuminating, and inspired by true events and figures of the Cold War, The London Bookshop Affair is a gripping story of secrets and love set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

International bestselling author of The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins presents an actionable new framework to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically?a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change. Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savvy. For every good leader who has mastered of one of these disciplines is a great leader who knows and has mastered all of them.Michael D. Watkins, an expert on leadership transitions and organizational success, returns to the page with a new how-to guide for the modern leader. Here, he presents the six disciplines that separate the great from the good. Developed over the course of his storied career, Watkins' approach to strategic thinking?"a set of mental disciplines leaders use to recognize potential threats and opportunities, establish priorities, and mobilize themselves and their organizations to envision and enact promising paths forward??is the model followed by some of today's most successful first-time CEOs and new business leaders.The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking is a comprehensive and practical guide to strategic thinking, offering a wealth of insights and tools for leaders at all levels.

When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christies classic murder mystery, Halloween Party.At a Halloween party, Joycea hostile thirteen-year-oldboasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...

The Queen of Thieves is back! Queen of Clubs is the second in Beezy Marsh's thrilling UK historical series about a ring of all-female gangsters in 1950s London.London, 1957:After rising up against gangland's queen, Alice Diamond, formerly downtrodden Nell is living the perfect life of crime. Far from the East End slums where she was raised, she's now an accomplished professional thief by day?lifting luxury goods from high-end department stores?and a glamorous nightclub owner after dark. Dressed in stolen silks and furs, Nell cuts a dazzling figure in the dimly lit clubs where she calls the shots. But a betrayal and botched robbery suddenly reverse Nell's fortunes...and her old rival Alice is hell-bent on taking her down.Nightclub dancer Zoe is finally earning a living after escaping a poverty-stricken childhood. She'd rather work for Nell than set scores for Alice. But the life of luxury Zoe craves comes at a terrible price. When a vicious gang tightens its grip on Soho, all three women realize it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why?A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.You're arrested for her murder.You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump down from the roof, but you had talked her down.You've got nothing to do with this tragedy. You're clearly being framed.So why do the police keep picking holes in your story? Even your lawyer doesn't seem to believe you.It soon becomes obvious that you're keeping secrets.But who are you trying to protect? And why?Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge.Get ready for one of the most twisty-turny novels you will read this year.

A brilliant and witty drama about two brave female World War II veterans who survived the unthinkable without ever losing their killer instinct...or their joie de vivre.Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, popping up at commemorative events and history festivals all over the country. Despite their age, they're still in great form?perfectly put together, sprightly and sparky, and always in search of their next ?excitement.?This time it's a trip to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France. And as always, they will be accompanied by their devoted great-nephew, Archie.Keen historian Archie has always been given to understand that his great aunts had relatively minor roles in the Women's Royal Navy and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, but that's only half the story. Both sisters are hiding far more than the usual ?official secrets?. There's a reason sweet Auntie Penny can dispatch a would-be mugger with an umbrella.This trip to Paris is not what it seems either. Scandal and crime have always quietly trailed the Williamson sisters, even in the decades after the war. Now armed with new information about an old adversary, these much decorated (but admittedly ancient) veterans variously intend to settle scores, avenge lost friends, and pull off one last, daring heist before the curtain finally comes down on their illustrious careers.

In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction while avoiding burnout. There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often elusive, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying days. Fulfillment doesn't come from isolated peak experiences, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance? In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you've had a productive day ? to consistently work at your 'optimal' level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity, and more satisfying days. In this book, you'll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world?perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy, and The Leavers.Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva's hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution run by an exclusive community of expats and the ever-wilder thrills of a city where foreigners can ostensibly act as they please.1985: In the seaside city of Qingdao, Lu Fang is a young, married man and a lowly clerk in a shipping yard. Though he once dreamed of a bright future, he is one of many casualties in his country's harsh political reforms. So when China opens its doors to the first wave of foreigners in decades, Lu Fang's world is split wide open after he meets an American woman who makes him confront difficult questions about his current status in life, and how much will ever be enough.In a stunning reversal of the east-to-west immigrant narrative and set against China's political history and economic rise, River East, River West is an intimate family drama and a sharp social novel. Alternating between Alva and Lu Fang's points of view, this is a profoundly moving exploration of race and class, cultural identity and belonging, and the often-false promise of the American Dream.

The Witch's Heart meets The Priory of the Orange Tree in this debut novel about a woman who can bring people back from the dead, and the princess?and only heir to the throne?that she must protect, no matter the cost.The first time Hellevir visited Death, she was ten years old...Since she was a little girl, Hellevir has been able to raise the dead. Every creature can be saved for a price, a price demanded by the shrouded figure who rules the afterlife, who takes a little more from Hellevir with each soul she resurrects.Such a gift can rarely remain a secret. When Princess Sullivain, sole heir to the kingdom's throne, is assassinated, the Queen summons Hellevir to demand she bring her granddaughter back to life. But once is not enough; the killers might strike again. The Princess's death would cause a civil war, so the Queen commands that Hellevir remain by her side.But Sullivain is no easy woman to be bound to, even as Hellevir begins to fall in love with her. With the threat of war looming, Hellevir must trade more and more of herself to keep the Princess alive.But Death will always take what he is owed.

An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White league intent on erasing their postwar gains. On New Year's Eve 1874, Sheridan made a splash on his arrival in New Orleans. Accompanied by family and friends, he claimed to be on vacation and bound for Cuba. In reality, he was in the Crescent City on behalf of President Ulysses S. Grant, who had asked him to undertake a vital mission: to investigate the activities of violent vigilante groups menacing the rights of former slaves, or freedmen.Grant had been alarmed as Southern white paramilitaries staged a flurry of attacks against freedmen in recent months to neutralize their political clout. The citizenship and voting rights of former slaves were among the most consequential fruits of the Union's Civil War victory. Republicans were now reckoning with the possibility that outlaw gangs like the White League, made up mostly of former Confederate soldiers and winked at by Democratic officials, could turn back the clock and consign freedmen to an existence little better than slavery. A few days after Sheridan's arrival in New Orleans, Democrats, apparently assisted by White League operatives, seized control of the state House of Representatives through trickery and violence. After federal soldiers stationed nearby ushered several Democratic claimants to office out of the House chamber, at the request of the Republican governor, Sheridan publicly denounced the ?spirit of defiance to all lawful authority? in Louisiana and threatened to round up White League leaders to face trial before military tribunals. Many Northern newspapers condemned Sheridan's actions and those of the federal troops; some called for Grant's impeachment.This dramatic clash lies at the heart of Robert Cwiklik's revelatory new history, which spans a series of tragic episodes of racial terror in the post-Civil War South that contributed to the overthrow of Reconstruction Era protections for black rights. Deeply researched and replete with startling details, the book sheds an essential light on the history of racial oppression in America and resonates powerfully with our contemporary "post-racial" condition.

The world had come across different types of war and peace initiative which portray the belief in the principle of democracy and humanism. Albeit of skirmishes and entanglements, all Nations steadfastly steering toward a good and idealistic global order. Foreign policy of every Nation comprises of the principle of maintaining good relations with one another India is a phenomenon and ideal in the modern world which always uphold the tenant of peace when dealing with the comity of nations. As a most populous nation in the world (2023), its principles viz., Non-alignment movement, anti-racialism, equality, coexistence are simply powerful in the present international order. India and USA recently formed QUAD and other initiatives in order to balance the global order. The ideal role played by India in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan are always admired by the world leaders. In the recent past India was termed as" pharmacy of the world" during Covid-19 that was also appreciated invariably by all the Nations.In this junction this book India's foreign policy deals with imminent principle of India in external relations and also to a large extent elaborate about the inbuilt relations with other Nations and organizations. Obviously this book may help the aspirants of UPSC/NET/SLET/TNPSC examinations in particular in Tamil.

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