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World War Z

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 5:01:33 PST

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“Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming a ...

How To Read A Cash Flow Stment

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 5:00:12 PST

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The book covers: Funds The Working Capital Capital Invested in Business Factors affecting fund requirements The Fund Flow Statement The Cash Flow Statement Preparing a Cash Flow Statement Solved Illustrations Exercise

The Thing about Thugs

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 4:48:36 PST

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Murder on the Leviathan

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 2:49:59 PST

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'Akunin is an outstanding novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes...The characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a Woody Allen version of an Agatha Christie novel...Akunin's work is gloriously tongue-in-cheek but seriously edge-of-your-seat at the same time' Daily Express On 15th March 1878 Lor ...

Granta 120

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 2:49:59 PST

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A writer chronicles the surrender of her body to MS; a woman running a substance-abuse clinic faces challenges from clients, donors and her own past; two brothers fix up a house - but can't quite fix the aging parents who will live in it. From the chalky horse-pills of faceless pharmaceutical conglomerates to the hot toddy that was Grandmother's remedy for bruised knees, broken hearts and everyth ...

From Hell

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 2:49:58 PST

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From Hell is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, From Hell is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention f ...

Watchmen

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 2:49:58 PST

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How to Read a Balance Sheet

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 0:22:52 PST

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How to Read a Balance Sheet focuses on Balance Sheet, arguably the most important and revealing of all financial statements of any business organization.

Dongri to Dubai

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:34:22 PST

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Dongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the story of notorious gangsters like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala, Varadarajan Mudaliar, Chhota Rajan, Abu Salem, but above all, it is the story of a young man who went astray despite having a father in the police force. Dawood Ibrahim was initiated into crime as a pawn in the hands of the Mumbai police and ...

Guns, Germs and Steel

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:34:20 PST

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Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is certainly not the first to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific fact rather than specious theori ...

Shantaram

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:34:20 PST

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A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, fo ...

Gun

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:34:20 PST

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Drawing on a huge amount of fascinating and original research, The Gun is the story ofmodern violence: its inventors, its users and its victims.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:34:20 PST

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"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel. In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - acro ...

East of Eden

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:34:19 PST

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An epic allegorical novel chronicling the fortunes of two families as they try to escape the sins of their forbears, the "Penguin Modern Classics" edition of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" is introduced by David Wyatt. 'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of "East of Eden", his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often br ...

Kafka on the Shore

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 1:34:19 PST

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Granta 119

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 2:50:34 PST

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In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances and negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is still perceived as being bound by tradition and class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography and art, Granta's Britain explores landscape, identities and stories of the British Isles. In 'Sil ...

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

Tue, 1 May 2012 2:10:41 PST

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The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol's humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own. The second story, Ivan Krylov's Panegyric in Memory of M ...

The Scar

Tue, 1 May 2012 2:10:39 PST

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A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile ...A pirate city hauled across the oceans ...A hidden miracle about be revealed ...These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimate ...

Scar Tissue

Tue, 1 May 2012 2:10:38 PST

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Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rocks most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiediss searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili ...

Love Is a Dog from Hell

Tue, 1 May 2012 2:10:37 PST

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Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.

Prentice-Hall handbook for writers

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:07:24 PST

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COMPLETE WORKS OF SAKI

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:03:44 PST

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Saki's stories blend laughter and savagery with starling effect. More than seventy years after his death Saki's black comedy continues to enthrall the modern reader with such masterpieces as Sredni Varshtar and The Open Window. Here, in a single volume, is all that Saki wrote.

Happy Associate

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:26 PST

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In this tongue-in-cheek, satirical novella, the author relates the tale of a young accountant in Delhi, trying to find his way through the labyrinth of work-politics, the stress of maintaining his manhood in metrosexual times and grappling with his crush on a rival associate. Kirti sees himself as 'a twenty-six-year-old dude, fair-skinned and slender'. An associate in a Delhi accounting firm, he' ...

The Myth of Sisyphus

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:25 PST

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The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? As ...

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:24 PST

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It is a time of stress at Market Snodsbury as Bertie must protect himself from the affections of Madeleine Bassett. "The prospect of being linked for life to a girl who would come down at breakfast and put her hands over my eyes and say 'Guess who' had given my morale a sickening wallop. It is always my policy in times of crisis to try to look on the bright side, but I make one proviso - viz. tha ...

The First Forty Nine Stories

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:24 PST

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Very Good, Jeeves

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:24 PST

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This book is a Jeeves and Wooster collection. It is an outstanding collection of Jeeves stories, every one a winner, in which Jeeves endeavours to give satisfaction: By saving a grumpy cabinet minister from being marooned and attacked by a swan - in the process saving Bertie Wooster from his impending doom. By rescuing Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop from the soup (twice each). By arranging rather ...

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:23 PST

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This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes "Metamorphosis", his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; "Meditation", a collection of his earlier studies; "The Judgement", written in a single night of frenzied creativity; "The Stoker", the first chapter of a novel ...

The Best American Noir of the Century

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:23 PST

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In his introduction to "The Best American Noir of the Century", James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad.' Offering the be ...

Collected Short Stories: v. 2

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:02:22 PST

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The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The Vessel of Wrath', a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse an ...

The Road

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:33 PST

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Moby Dick

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:31 PST

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"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it". So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, "Moby-Dick" is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable ...

The Infinites

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:31 PST

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The Odyssey

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:30 PST

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A story encompassing the entirety of human emotion, The Odyssey remains one of the greatest literary works in the history of the world. It is the story of the Trojan war hero Odysseus and his ten-year journey to return home to his family and kingdom. Having angered the gods with his pride after the Greek victory, he finds himself cast adrift at sea, facing dangers beyond measure and trials beyond ...

Speed System of Basic Mathematics

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:30 PST

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The complete system of the Trachtenberg method of mathematics which makes possible high-speed arithmetical calculations with a remarkable degree of accuracy. This method is not only speedy but simple. Once one has mastered the rules, lightning calculation is as easy as reading a story. It looks like magic, but the rules are based on sound logic.

The Intelligent Investor

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:29 PST

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The best book on investing ever written, this classic work offers sound and safe principles for investing - principles that have worked for more than the half century since the first edition was published. This revised edition features a new introduction, appendix and chapter updates. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham's book has remained the most respected guide to investing ...

The Art of the Novel

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:29 PST

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In seven independent, but closely related chapters, the author presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'.

Underground

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:58:29 PST

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Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, incl ...

The Ascension

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:53:20 PST

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The Storyteller

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:53:19 PST

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Listen. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell you a story ...The al-Kharrats are a lovable, irrepressible family going through a difficult time. Osama has returned to Beirut after a long absence to be with his ailing father and join the vigil around his bedside, and since storytelling runs in the family's veins -- his grandfather was a legendary hakawati -- this is no peacefu ...

The Magic

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:53:19 PST

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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:53:18 PST

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. ...

Snapshots from Hell

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:53:18 PST

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In the irreverent and entertaining tradition of Liar's Poker, Peter Robinson's Snapshots from Hell is a hilarious and enlightening insider's answer to the paramount question every prospective student asks: what is business school really like? During his first frenetic year at Stanford Business School, Peter Robinson began keeping a journal of his day-to-day impressions which evolved into this bo ...

Other Voices, Other Vistas

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:53:17 PST

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This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by: Bessie Head * Charles Mungoshi * Ngugi wa Thiong'o * Wang Anyi * Ding Ling * Wang Meng * Chen Rong * Lu Wenfu * Anita Desai * Mahasweta Devi * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * R. K. Narayan * Khushwant Singh * Kobo Abe * Sawako Ariyoshi * Yasunari Kawabata * Yukio Mishima * Yuko Tsushima * Jorge Luis Borges * Carlos Fuentes * Luis ...

Dubliners

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:53:17 PST

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"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own." (James Joyce, in a letter to his brother). With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, u ...

Devious Mind Bending Puzzles

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:56 PST

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Devious puzzles like those in the book are the best of their kind because they'll boggle your brain, almost push you past your limits, and leave you wanting more challenges just like them.

How To Read A Balane Sheet

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:55 PST

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40 Days and 40 Nights

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:53 PST

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In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America In Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, a Republican judge rendered a surprising verdict in a case that pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as "creationism in a lab co ...

Blue Ocean Strategy

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:52 PST

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Winning by not competing: a fresh approach to strategy Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. Yet these hallmarks of competitive strategy are not the way to create profitable growth in the future. In ...

Blackstone's Statutes on Intellectual Property

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:52 PST

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Designed specifically for students, Blackstone's Statutes lead the market in providing a carefully selected, regularly updated and well sourced collection of legislation for the core subjects and major options offered on the law syllabus. Each title is ideal for use throughout the course and in exams providing the student with: - unparalleled coverage - unannotated primary and secondary legisla ...

His Illegal Self

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:52 PST

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When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of saying, Here is your mother returned to you. His Illegal Self is the story of Che—raised in isolated privilege by his New Yor ...

Business, law and technology: present and emerging trends: Interntional Conference on Business, Law and Technology, December 5-7, 2006, proceedings

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:52 PST

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The Shadow Lines

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:47:52 PST

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Shows how language should be used, and how a novel should be written.

We, the people

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:35 PST

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Speeches and lectures delivered by the author on various occasions; chiefly on the legal and political developments of India.

The scam

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:34 PST

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An attempt to analyze the events of the alleged scandal which took place in the Indian stock market during 1992; also includes JPC fiasco & global trust bank scam.

Reminiscences Of The Cuban Revolutionary

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:33 PST

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This Is Che Guevara'S Classic Eyewitness Account Of The Transformation Of A Country And Also The Transformation Of Che Himself From A Troop Doctor To A Revolutionary Leader, Who Would Become One Of The Greatest Icons Of The Twentieth ...

The Indian Securities market: a guide for foreign and domestic investors

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:31 PST

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as will the various market players and participants. The Indian securities market is an emerging market with enormous growth potential, and a key to the country's future economic prosperity. However, since its practices and regulations have not been documented in an investor-friendly manner, it is often perceived as puzzling and difficult to understand. This book sets right the lacuna. The author ...

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control In Democratic Societies

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:30 PST

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Superfreakonomics

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:26 PST

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The authors of 'Freakonomics' have been busy, researching the hidden side of even more controversial topics. And now they are ready to share their findings...

The Men Who Stare at Goats. Film Tie-In

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:25 PST

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Mathematical Quickies

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:42:25 PST

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Non-Resident Indian and Other Stories

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:58 PST

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2666

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:57 PST

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Written with burning intesity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate visionary. 'The best book of 2008 ...A masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year' Time 'Readers who have snacked on Haruki M ...

India

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:56 PST

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V.S. Naipaul's fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on the move.

The New Machiavelli

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:55 PST

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A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire.

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:53 PST

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Synopsis In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that ...

May Contain Traces of Magic

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:53 PST

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There are all kinds of products. The good ones. The bad ones. The ones that stay in the garage mouldering for years until your garden gnome makes a home out of them. Most are harmless if handled properly, even if they do contain traces of peanuts. But some are not. Not the ones that contain traces of magic. Chris Popham wasn't paying enough attention when he talked to his SatNav. Sure, she gave h ...

In Spite of the Gods

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:52 PST

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India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India's volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may prove to be the source of the ...

Serendipities

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:36:52 PST

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Our Kind of Traitor

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:32:58 PST

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Crime and Punishment

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:29:45 PST

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Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and ...

Loot

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:29:44 PST

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A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors. In 'The Diamond Mine' a woman remembers her first, passionately erotic experience, hi ...

The Joke

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:29:43 PST

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All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: gre ...

Pygmy

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:29:43 PST

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Oh, Play That Thing

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:29:42 PST

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It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America...Chica ...

The Flounder

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:29:42 PST

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It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and ...

The Etymologicon

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:22:52 PST

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Floating Admiral

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 3:20:45 PST

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Running Wild

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 3:17:17 PST

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The thirty-two adult members of an exclusive residential community in West London are brutally murdered, and their children are abducted, leaving no trace. Through the forensic diary of Dr. Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Adviser to the London Metropolitan Police, the brutal details of the massacre that has baffled the entire police department unfold.

The Book of Imaginary Beings

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:33:55 PST

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Few readers will want, or be able to resist this modern bestiary. Here, you will find the familiar - Gryphons, Minotaurs and Unicorns - as well as the Monkey of the inkpot and other undeniably curious beasts. Borges' cunning and humourous commentary is sheer delight.

The Plague

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 2:59:37 PST

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The Argumentative Indian

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 2:58:27 PST

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From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, "The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity" brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. Out of these conflicting views spring ...

The Moonstone

Fri, 9 Mar 2012 0:38:20 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The History of Caliph Vathek

Fri, 9 Mar 2012 0:06:52 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The History of Caliph Vathek by William Beckford

Lateral Thinking

Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:57:53 PST

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Absolute Friends

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:08:43 PST

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Gods and godmen of India

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:08:41 PST

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In this vibrant volume , the author in his own style tackles all issues related to religion, faith, new cults and new movements.

The Fountainhead

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:08:40 PST

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The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism. Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who won't compromise his integrity, especially in the unconventional buildings he designs. Roark is engaged in ideological warfare with a society that despises him, an arc ...

Ideas and Opinions

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:08:40 PST

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A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.

The namesake

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:08:40 PST

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Deterring Democracy

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:08:39 PST

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Deterring Democracy is a book published in 1992 by Noam Chomsky, which explores the differences between the humanitarian rhetoric and imperialistic reality of United States foreign policy and how it affects various countries around the world. In the book, Chomsky explores the idea that the US is the only remaining world superpower that works to maintain its dominance, even ruthlessly employing vi ...

Mumbai Fables

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:39:02 PST

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This is a great book.

Oryx and Crake

Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:19:18 PST

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"In the beginning, there was chaos..." Margaret Atwood's chilling new novel Oryx and Crake moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of her 1985 bestseller The Handmaid's Tale to an even more dystopian world, a world where language--and with it anything beyond the merest semblance of humanity--has almost entirely vanished. Snowman may be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalyps ...

True History of the Kelly Gang

Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:18:27 PST

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Number of pages: 424

The Da Vinci Code

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:24:00 PST

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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- ...

Guide, The (Modern Classics)

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:13:59 PST

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Set in Narayan’s fictional town, Malgudi, The Guide is the greatest of his comedies of self-deception. ‘A brilliant accomplishment … Narayan is the compassionate man who can write of human life as comedy’—The New York Times Book ...

Rogue Trader

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:10:41 PST

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Pressure, pace, error: ROGUE TRADER grippingly tells the inside story of how the greatest gamble ever made rocked the City of London to its foundations. Crackling with tension, in a narrative as crisp as any thriller, Nick Leeson's autobiographical account reveals how he 'lost' GBP800 millions as General Manager of Baring Futures Singapore through foolhardy speculations on behalf of his employer, ...

On the Road

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:10:40 PST

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Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfillment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating nove ...

Looking for Jake

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:10:40 PST

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Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Mieville's award-winning novella 'The Tain', we learn the reason for the invaders' terrible revenge. One survivor must trek through the ruins of the city with a desperate plan to stand against their assault. In addition to 'The Tain', this superb collection contains thirteen short stories, ...

Veerappan: The Untold Story

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:09:07 PST

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Based On Police Records, Media Reports And Interviews With Almost All Those Who Have Ever Had Anything To Do With Veerappan, Veerappan: The Untold Story Is A Riveting Portrait Of The Man Who Is Alternately Hailed As Messiah And Murderer.