Challenging the institutionalized religion and legitimacy of the Bible, The Age of Reason was Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society. His arguments had long been available to the educated elite, but by presenting them in an engaging and irreverent style, he made deism appealing and accessible to the masses. Originally distributed as unbound pamphlets, the book was cheap in order to put it within the reach of a large number of buyers. Fearing the spread of whatwere potentially revolutionary ideas, the British government prosecuted printers and booksellerswho were associated with its publication and reach. However, even through that, The Age of Reason surpassed the boundaries of the religious agendas throughout the world at the dawn of the nineteenth century, and its resonance remains undiminished by time.In this influential and controversial work, Paine criticized organized religion as power hungry andcorrupt and advocated for religious tolerance and freedom of thought. Accessible, clever, humorousand far ahead of its time, The Age of Reason continues to resonate with readers today.
The habit of learning and practising begins at a very young age. Even the streams of colours, alphabets and numbers on the walls of your house are a form of learning for your child. All-in-One is a wide experience ranging from English and Hindi alphabets to numbers from 1 to 100. This book aims to become a building block in shaping and sharpening your child's mind, both in English and Hindi.
Not only is colouring a fun experience, it also helps in developing your child's motor skills and concentration as well as the ability to distinguish between various colours. 365 Colouring Book is packed with delightful animals, fruits, vegetables and various everyday objects, including colour suggestions for each image to guide your child at each step.
Love for colouring is something that is common to all children. It plays an important role in the growth and development of a child's creativity, concentration and motor skills. ABC letters and colouring combined in this wonderful book will make learning a fun and engaging experience for your child.
A pencil is your child's best friend-it helps them in expressing themselves through drawing and writing as well as remembering important information. A pencil is a tool that always comes in handy for your little one, both at school and at home. Keeping this in mind, this book has been specially designed to help your child improve their motor skills, concentration and handwriting. With its engaging and vivid tracing exercises, mazes and colouring activities, this is your child's super activity book!
How did a nondescript YouTube channel become a unicorn startup?The journey started when Gaurav Munjal and Hemesh Singh quit their jobs at CommonFloor and Roman Saini quit the Indian Administrative Service to start a YouTube channel that helped students prepare for competitive exams. Six years and 49 million users later, Unacademy has changed the way Indians learn and also democratized access to high-quality education.If COVID-19 was a trial by fire for every industry, edtech was one of the sectors perfectly poised for a boom. Many online education startups were in the fray but only a few survived. Unacademy not only outsmarted the competition, but also surpassed every projection and created a new yardstick of success, becoming a $3.5 billion valued edtech startup.In Unstartup, bestselling startup author Nistha Tripathi traces the gravity-defying ascent of Unacademy. Drawing on numerous conversations with people in and around Unacademy including its founders, board members, advisors, current and ex-employees, Nistha takes the reader through a page-turning rhapsody of startup strategies and lessons. These insider accounts and anecdotes reveal the day-to-day thinking, decisions and discipline of a unique (un)startup.Reams have been written about the glitz surrounding startups, but it is the daily grind, small choices and critical pivots that no one tells you about. Unstartup offers a ringside view of how Unacademy ignored conventional advice and created its own playbook for success.
Do you feel like just staying in bed every morning? Maybe you don't feel like going to work either and have no energy to talk to your family or meet up with friends. Or maybe someone close to you has been feeling down for a long time. Are you or your loved one going through just a bad patch? Or is it something more serious? Could it be depression?Regardless of how successful you are in your life, there may come a time when you face low moods and sometimes even depression. This is simply a consequence of our urban lifestyle and the often stressful and disorienting circumstances in which we live. And a key to navigate through these is to understand and address them.Based on Dr Pallavi Joshi's extensive experience in diagnosing and treating clinical depression, Fast but Lost can help you do just that. Focusing on depression in urban India, it addresses special challenges like maintaining a work-life balance, dissatisfactory relationships, poor lifestyle and disillusionment. This book also addresses the myths and facts about depression and its treatment. Through stories and case studies, Dr Joshi helps you understand your own condition and/or help loved ones around you.The concerning fact is that many people spend years or even their whole life suffering from depression without recognizing that it's a treatable illness. Correct and timely treatment can drastically improve the quality of life of a person suffering from depression. Fast but Lost can make you aware of this silent killer and help destigmatize the illness and its treatment.
What do you do when an imaginary world takes over your life?Anant Vohra is an interior designer. A death in the family-his uncle's-sows in him a life-long dread of the inevitabledemise of his loved ones. Entrapped by this fear, he builds an imaginary world-a retreat-where death doesn't exist. Aplace to escape whenever reality becomes overpowering.Anant feels a sense of relief in his escapes until things begin to change. He discovers a companion in the retreat-a voicethat calls itself the 'Resident'. As the real and the unreal worlds coalesce, Anant struggles with his sanity and fears thepossibility of being locked away in the retreat while the Resident takes over. The unreal world begins to influence Anant'sreality as the retreat floating in the abyss reveals a new order-one made by the increasingly tyrannical subconscious.Echo of the Abyss presents a vivid portrayal of the primal fear of death and mortality, and how it shapes people in differentways. Aarti, Rajat and the Vohras are all trying to deal with the same truth-death. Despite their differences, they are on the same journey-a quest to negate death through life, work, immortality, art, lineage or an imagined world. But is that all?Is the human condition condemned to await the inevitable, or is there more?
The Great War at Kurukshetra is over. Eighteen lakh men have died. But the winners are not happy. Yudhishthira and hisbrothers are gripped with sorrow over what they have done. Who will bear the child to continue the Kuru clan? Uttara?Will Asvatthama also destroy the child that she is carrying?Hastinapur is barren of men of any age. It is the King's dharma to help every virgin in the kingdom, cross into womanhood.But Yudhishthira fails. There is now a dharmic crisis. The young woman, who will bear the child, must be found anotherking for the task before sunrise. Else, the kingdom will suffer even more.Who can solve the problem?Krishna, who else! Or rather he knows such a king who can. It is Maya.But Maya declines to follow the king's dharma. His refusal plunges the Kuru kingdom, and even Krishna himself, intoanother crisis.Who is Maya? Can Krishna eventually win him over?Mayabharata is a fascinating narration of the post-Mahabharata story, aided by the deployment of the author's imaginativeand creative powers.
India and Germany: Dynamic Partnership illustrates the unique relationship marked by centuries of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. The engagement across the ages has extended to intellectual, literary and economic levels, gaining momentum in modern times as a vibrant partnership. This engrossing narrative with colourful images captures different dimensions of the bilateral relationship, emphasizing the trade and commercial aspects in particular. It outlines the positive impact of German companies in India's development journey and also documents the growing interest of Indian companies in Germany as they gain maturity. The book touches upon the experiences of companies from both countries in each other's economies, which has benefitted both sides, as the two countries have embarked on a strategic partnership.The Confederation of Indian Industry has been playing a proactive role in strengthening and deepening exchanges with German business, offering a platform for entrepreneurs from both India and Germany to expand awareness about each other and forge new partnerships. It will continue to build on its multiple initiatives, and play an integral role in further cementing Indo-German economic engagement.
on the eve of the battle of panipat, zahiruddin muhammad babur gathers his forces to fight the formidable lodhi sultan and regain hindustan, the land of riches that his ancestor temur once ruled. his confidence is boosted by his pride in the martial skills of his beloved son and heir, humayun. but little do the father and son know that their biggest threat lies not in the fields of war, but within the intricate web of relationships they have woven around themselves babur with his wives, who are constantly engaged in games of oneupmanship, and humayun with the alluring concubine sona. can babur really trust anyone, even those who are closest to him? will the mughals be able to defeat their enemies, both outside and within?
An ancient art with many systems of interpretation, palmistry is a subject that has enthralled mankind for ages. In this comprehensive and easy-to-read volume, P. Khurrana bestselling author and renowned exponent of astrology, tarot, vaastu provides to the reader a guide to the art and science of palm reading. Explore the mysteries of palmistry in this book. Understand the connections between your past, your present and your future. Learn not only how to interpret the lines on your own hands and those of people around you but also the ethics and methods of the practice of palmistry
Improve your memory and harness the hidden potential of your brain! A complete memory training program, this book is a step-by-step guide to improve your memory and harness the hidden potential of your brain. This book, written by the Guinness Book of World Records holder Neerja Roy Chowdhury, comes with certified memory techniques and a Secret Memory Formula that will help readers discover the simplicity of the otherwise vastly complex human memory system. This book will show you how to:Memorize a dictionaryNever forget any appointmentRecall every formula correctlyRemember shopping lists, birthdays and anniversariesOvercome absent-mindednessAchieve career goals through memory techniquesSecure better marks in every exam
A Preposition is a word which shows relationship among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction, place time, cause, manner and amount. A preposition comes before a noun or pronoun. A preposition phrase contains a preposition and object. Prepositional phrases are like idioms and are best learned through listening to and reading as much as possible, Little Red Book of Prepositions is a ready reference book with a check list of propositions.
The Clayton couple is marooned in a coastal jungle of Africa, with no hope of escape. Then, Alice Clayton gives birth to a boy, and the family makes the best of its predicament and settles down in the jungle. But Alice's death on her son's first birthday, and the murder of John Clayton by a rampaging ape tribe led by Kerchak, leaves the infant defenceless.The baby is rescued from Kerchak's wrath by the she-ape Kala, and he grows up to become Tarzan, the ape-man. The jungle is paradise for Tarzan; he makes a place for himself in the ape tribe, makes friends with other animals, and fights great predators. But when Tarzan discovers his parents' old cabin, long-buried questions about his true nature begin to surface.Edgar Rice Burroughs's most acclaimed novel has become, over time, one of the most important cornerstones of popular culture.
Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog), published in 1889, is the hilarious account of three men, a dog and their boating holiday on the Thames. Originally intended to be a serious travel guide, the book is now known for its compelling humour and gentle mockery of English society in the 1880s.
What would happen if the sun suddenly disappeared? Can dinosaurs ever come back to life? What would the earth be like if all the nuclear bombs went off together? Join author Roopa Pai for an out-of-the-world adventure as she creates all sorts of crazy scenarios for the future and explains what would happen if each one were to come true. A fun and informative new series from Red Turtle, the mysteries series explains strange and wonderful facts from the worlds of nature, science and history in easy-to-understand language, accompanied by detailed illustrations
Built in the late 1800s, the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala was meant to divert the waters of the Periyar River to the arid areas of Madurai in what is now Tamil Nadu, following a 999-year lease with the British government. Today, though, the engineering marvel has turned into a bone of contention between two states, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, over Tamil Nadu's insistence to increase the dam's height and Kerala's concerns regarding safety. This dispute has led to widespread riots and protests in both the states. In May 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Tamil Nadu, but the protests and apprehensions regarding a possible dam burst continue. Water Woes, a timely, insightful exploration of the dispute, examines all aspects of the burning issue of livelihood versus safety. Using meticulous research as well as interviews with government officials, technical experts, police personnel and the common people of both states, at times risking his safety, the author brings out the points of view of both sides. He also shows how water wars will become a major issue not just between states, but between countries, in times to come. This book is a must-read to understand the importance of resolving a simmering issue which might explode in the near future.
A new series of handpicked classics from the world's most renowned short fiction writers. The Masterpieces of World Fiction series brings together the best loved short stories by the great masters of the genre - from Chekov and Maupassant, Kipling and Wilde, to O. Henry and Saki and Tolstoy and Conrad. Thoughtfully compiled by the bestselling author Terry O' Brien, this series is a great way for readers to revisit old favourites and for introducing literary masterpieces to newer, younger readers.
Full of interesting facts about words, this book will educate as well as entertain readers. Little Red Book of Word Facts is meant for all those who love words and find them fascinating. This book has a collection of interesting facts about words for people who want to explore in depth the meaning and etymology of words. Read on to know the meaning of difficult words, including: acclivity: an upward slope betweenity: another word for indecision decumbiture: the act of going to bed when sick lip-clap: another word for kissing natkin: a disagreeable taste or smell. Its time to enter the wonderful world of word wonders!
Little Red Book of Word Power Learn with the help of this handy volume how to sharpen your English and use vocabulary more effectively. Little Red Book of Word Power is an indispensable guide for people who want to understand the subtle differences in the meanings of words, and strengthen their communication skills in the process. Its easy to confuse similar sounding or similarly-used words in the English language and this book will answer all your doubts about which word to use and when. You will learn whether it is appropriate to use: abuse or misuse acquiesce, assent or agree active or proactive ad hoc or ad lib adopted or adoptive...... And much, much more!A Children's Bookshelf Selection: Each month our editor's pick the best books for children and young adults by age to be a part of the children's bookshelf. These are editorial recommendations made by our team of experts. Our monthly reading list includes a mix of bestsellers and top new releases and evergreen books that will help enhance a child's reading life.
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