Friday, June 6, 2014

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Buy Private India: Book
Private India     Ashwin Sanghi, James Patterson  rs 350 offer rs 280
In Mumbai seemingly unconnected people are dying, strangled in a chilling ritual and with strange objects carefully arranged with the corpses.

For Santosh Wagh, head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest investigation agency, it's a race against time to stop the killer striking again. In a city of over thirteen million, he'd have his work cut out at the best of times but this case has him battling Mumbai's biggest ganglord and a godman who isn't all he seems.

And then he discovers there may be an even greater danger facing Private India. Hidden in the shadows is someone who could destroy the whole organisation along with thousands of innocent Mumbai citizens



-- The Moonballer is the first ever book written by an Indian female tennis player.From a modest background with no sponsors and a self-trained father as her tennis coach, she became India’s number one at 14 years of age. She was the first Indian woman ever to win a round at a Grand Slam (Australian Open 1998) and became the first mother to play for India at the 2010 Commonwealth and Asian Games.This book chronicles her journey from childhood to her life on the grueling professional tennis tour





Buy Capital in the Twenty-First Century 1st  Edition: Book
CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY NEW PRICE: RS.1495 OFFER RS 1200
Capital in the Twenty-First Century aims to revolutionize the perception people have about the economic history of the world. This book provides an incisive look and valuable information on the economic and social evolution of the world.


Capital in the Twenty-First Century, written by French economist Thomas Piketty discusses one of the most controversial issues of wealth distribution in the world. The book provides a deep insight into the wealth and income inequality in the US and Europe in the 18th century. The central theme of the book is the inequality of wealth does not happen by accident but it is because of influence of capitalism. He also writes that wealth accumulates if the rate of return on capital exceeds the economic growth rate. This will with time leads to concentration of wealth and economic instability. Capital in the Twenty-First Century will make for an ideal read for economists and those interested in knowing about the changing trends in world economy.





Buy Sahara : The Untold Story: Book
SAHARA : THE UNTOLD STORY  PRICE: RS. 450 offer rs 360
Everything you wanted to know about Subrata Roy and Sahara India Pariwar, but were afraid to ask.

Sahara - The Untold Story is based on painstaking research to demystify Indias most secretive and largely unlisted conglomerate, the Sahara India Pariwar. It also delves into the groups ongoing legal battle with the market regulator.






Buy Governance for Growth in India: Book
GOVERNANCE FOR GROWTH IN INDIA PRICE: RS.195  offer rs 160

Governance for Growth in India, authored by one of the most inspiring Presidents India ever saw – Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is a thoughtful and timely book on how the current issues India is facing could be tackled with an honest and corrupt-free governance.





Buy IIM Ahmedabad Business Books - Speak with Impact: Book
IIM AHMEDABAD BUSINESS BOOKS - SPEAK WITH IMPACT  PRICE: RS.299 offer rs 250
Speak with Impact is a book on communication skills for students and candidates appearing for interviews, group discussions or any other event which requires good communication skills. Part of the IIM Ahmedabad Business Books series, this installment deals with tackling the fear of communication. Learn how to get results in the face of this fear and command respect and attention through the force of your words. Authored by an expert on the field of communication, this book is indispensable to anyone desiring to learn how to make an impact through the act of speaking.





Buy Centrestage : Inside the Narendra Modi Model of Governance: Book
CENTRESTAGE : INSIDE THE NARENDRA MODI MODEL OF GOVERNANCE (HARDCOVER) PRICE: RS.499 offer rs 400
Understand the political model of Narendra Modi in Centrestage, an authoritative book on Indian politics.




Buy Mistakes I Made at Work: Book
MISTAKES I MADE AT WORK PRICE: RS.499 offer rs 400
High achieving women share their worst mistakes at work and how learning from them paved the way to success.

"Top 10 Book You Need to Read This Year"

In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book for Spring 2014,

Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their toughest on the job moments. These innovators across a variety of fields from the arts to finance to tech - reveal that theyre more thoughtful, purposeful and assertive as leaders.




Buy Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information: Book
Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information
Author: Itamar Simonson, Emanuel Rosen  RS 399 OFFER RS 325
The book describes a world which threatens to disrupt conventional ideas about branding and marketing.  Companies that seek only to persuade will be replaced by those that truly seek to serve the real needs of the customers.




Buy Innovation Sutra : The Secret to Better Business and a Better Life: Book
Innovation Sutra : The Secret to Better Business and a Better Life - 
 
Rekha Shetty  rs  250 offer rs 200
What can entrepreneurs and business leaders learn from the Buddha?
 
Dharam is a young, immensely successful investment banker in Manhattan. He thinks he rules the world, till one day the world comes crashing down around him.
 
Accompanied by the enterprising Kunal (who sells fake Indian antiques to Americans) and the uncorrupted Supriya, Dharam undertakes a journey along the Buddhist pilgrim trail-from Lumbini, Kapilavastu and Bodh Gaya to Sarnath, Rajgir, Nalanda, Vaishali, Kaushambi and Kushinagar. As he absorbs the timeless Buddhist teachings, he finds a new purpose to life and develops the idea for an ethical yet profitable business - The Buddhist Footprint.




Buy Compelling People : The Hidden Qualities that Make Us Influential: Book
COMPELLING PEOPLE : THE HIDDEN QUALITIES THAT MAKE US INFLUENTIAL Rs 375 offer rs 300
Everyone wants to know how to be more influential. But most of us don't really think we can have the kind of magnetism or charisma that we associate with someone like Bill Clinton or Oprah Winfrey unless it comes naturally. 




Buy The Marwaris : From Jagat Seth to the Birlas: Book
THE MARWARIS : FROM JAGAT SETH TO THE BIRLAS  PRICE: RS.499 offer rs 400
In the nineteenth century, a tiny community from the deserts of Rajasthan spread out to every corner of India. The Marwaris controlled much of the countrys inland trade by the time of the First World War. They then turned their hand to industry and by the 1970s, owned most of Indias private industrial assets. Today, Marwari businessmen account for a quarter of the Indian names on the Forbes billionaires list.
Buy Brick by Brick : How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Toy Industry: Book

BRICK BY BRICK : HOW LEGO REWROTE THE RULES OF INNOVATION AND CONQUERED THE TOY INDUSTRY  rs 499 offer rs 400
Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the world's best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory. 

Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance. When the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espoused prescriptions for boosting innovation, they ironically pushed the iconic toymaker to the brink of bankruptcy. The company's near-collapse shows that what works in theory can fail spectacularly in the brutally competitive global economy.




Buy Essentialism : The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Book
ESSENTIALISM : THE DISCIPLINED PURSUIT OF LESS  PRICE: RS.599 offer rs 500
Have you ever found yourself struggling with information overload?

Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilized?

Do you ever feel busy but not productive?

If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is to become an Essentialist.




Buy Think Like a Freak : How to Think Smarter about Almost Everything!: Book
THINK LIKE A FREAK : HOW TO THINK SMARTER ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING!  PRICE: RS.499 offer rs 400
The Freakonomics books have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom, using data rather than emotion to answer questions. Now Levitt and Dubner have turned what they have learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder and different-thinking, that is, like a freak. Think Like a Freak offers rules like 'Put Your Moral Compass in Your Pocket', 'The Upside of Quitting', 'Just Because You are Great at Something Doesn't Mean You are Good at Everything' and 'If You Have No Talent, Follow Levitt's Path to Success'.






Buy Unwritten Laws Of Business PB by w. j. king;revisions;additions by-English-Viva Books Pvt Ltd.-new Delhi-Paperback_Edition-Revised edition Revised edition Edition: Book

UNWRITTEN LAWS OF BUSINESS PB BY W. J. KING RS 250 OFFER RS 200
These ?Unwritten? Laws have under-pinned success at work for years ? but until now they have been available only to a lucky few. They resurfaced thanks to an internal company document in America that soon found a niche audience among America?s top chief executives. Jack Welch described it as covering ?almost everything? and Warren Buffett called it ?one of the best books I?ve seen?. But the pamphlet that they admired so much drew heavily from an unusual source ? a hidden gem published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers more than sixty years ago. The Unwritten Laws of Business is an updated version of the original underground phenomenon. Filled with sage advice and written in a clear, engaging style, it provides wisdom on relating to colleagues and outsiders, the laws of character and personality, personal development and much, much more





Buy The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry: Book
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF A. J. FIKRY  PRICE: RS.350 OFFER RS 300
The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry tells the story of a bookstore owner and how he discovers hope in a world which refuses to read anymore.In a store with the miraculous effluence of books all around, their words prancing from page to page and seducing readers and book lovers to read them, waits an irascible old man who refuses to believe there is hope in a world which doesn't read any longer. His wife has died, and his book store barely sells anything any longer. His prized collection, a rare collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, has been stolen. It feels like A. J. Fikry finds bad luck wherever he turns. He retreats from the other people at Alice Island, and isolates himself mentally. Lambiase, the policeman who has always felt sympathetic towards Fikry doesn't know why. Ismay, Fikry's sister-in-law, only wishes to save him from his dreary self, and Amelia, a pretty, idealistic and a little eccentric Knightley Press sales representative rides the ferry constantly to come to Alice Island just for A. J., despite his bad attitude. His books themselves seem dreary to him, and the world has lost the scent of old books, and the promise of an old favourite seems a lie. When a mysterious package arrives at A. J.'s doorstep, he begins to see life anew and smell the pages once again. Sold as the Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, this book returns readers to a simple time, when all that a plot needs to keep a reader reading is the good hearted promise of fulfilled wishes, a cup of coffee steaming by the window-sill, and the sound of a paper freshly turned, never read before, holding all the wonder and seduction of an unread book.
Buy Rules of the Game : Discover, Learn, Invent the Art of Speeding Up Your Career: Book
RULES OF THE GAME : DISCOVER, LEARN, INVENT THE ART OF SPEEDING UP YOUR CAREER  RS 399 OFFER RS 325
This book will help you to:

Transform your thinking to become personally responsible for your career

Take control over your actions, reactions and thinking processes in each and every interaction in life

Craft a deliberately impactful career instead of wandering and being accidentally impactful

Develop teamwork, network and leadership skills effortlessly

Improve your empathy, etiquette and communication skills

Achieve long-term goals through short-term milestones.




Buy Scaling Up Excellence: Book
SCALING UP EXCELLENCE  PRICE: RS.699 OFFER RS 575
Scaling Up Excellence is a book on organizational management and spreading excellence across the organization by leading professors Huggy Rao and Robert Sutton.
Excellence is not that difficult to achieve, as most organizations know well. However, spreading it, and making a standard part of the process is what makes organizations falter. Why is it that while some teams do well, others don't? Why are some processes better than others in the same organization? Using detailed examples from world-class organizations, the writers examine how excellence can be transmitted throughout a company by facing the key challenges that arise. In doing so, they show that organizations must choose between "Buddhism" and "Catholicism," either encourage individualized approaches tailored to local needs or duplicate practices and customs as they expand. The best leaders can spread mindsets which promote excellence as an inherent skill, and in doing so scale up to promote the message of this book throughout their companies.





Buy Search Inside Yourself: Book

SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF  PRICE: RS.299 offer rs 250 
What about the power to switch into a state of intense concentration, but at the same time be completely relaxed? or even to feel the beginnings of an unwanted emotion, like anger, but be able to choose whether to let it take hold of you or simply make it dissolve and disappear? one Google engineer managed to do just that. Chade - Meng Tan discovered a way of explaining these secrets in a way that busy, stressed-out people could instantly understand. So many fellow Google employees told him that it had changed their life that he stopped engineering to share it with the world. The course that he still runs at Google is in this book and it's designed in a practical way that anyone can apply to any area of their work or family life. Meng won't ask you to hug a tree or 'find your center'. He'll use brain scans, modern science and plenty of humor to show you how a miraculous technique called mindfulness can, in just 100 minutes, begin to change your life





Buy How to Eat : The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food: Book
HOW TO EAT : THE PLEASURES AND PRINCIPLES OF GOOD FOOD  PRICE: RS.999 offer rs 800
Cooking is not just about joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. In cooking, as in writing, you must please yourself to please others.

Hailed by chefs, reviewers, cookery writers and millions of home cooks worldwide as one of the best cookery books ever written, How To Eat is more than just an imaginative collection of over 350 delicious, simple recipes. Combining Nigellas down-to-earth, practical cookery advice with a passion for food and a friendly, chatty style, you will need two copies of this glorious classic-one for the kitchen, one for the bedside table

Buy Know Your Heart : The Hidden Links Between Your Body and Politics: Book
KNOW YOUR HEART : THE HIDDEN LINKS BETWEEN YOUR BODY AND POLITICS PRICE: RS.299 OFFER RS 250
The doctor's advice is simple-eat healthy food, cut down on tobacco and alcohol, stay physically active and lose a few kilos, especially around the waist. The responsibility to heed the doctors advice rests with the individual. But is it actually true? Is it just the individual who is to be blamed here? Know Your Heart explodes the myth that an individual alone is responsible for his or her sickness, particularly heart disease and the underlying conditions like diabetes and hypertension. The book is not about risk factors but the causes behind them. What lies behind consumption of unhealthy diets? Why are we becoming physically inactive? What's fuel ling the rise in tobacco consumption? Investigations reveal shocking details. It's the Indian state which is fuel ling the risk factors for heart disease in India to a great extent. Narrow political interests, faulty state policies, along with corporate greed, are boosting heart disease in the country. Read this well researched book to help your heart beat stronger and longer.



Buy On a Clear Day You Can See India: The Little World of the District Official in India's North East: Book
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE INDIA: THE LITTLE WORLD OF THE DISTRICT OFFICIAL IN INDIA'S NORTH EAST  PRICE: RS.299 OFFER RS 250
A glimpse into the intricacies and challenges of governing remote and overlooked areas in the North East

'Balagopal, this is Kerala. This is not Manipur!
This was a refrain that I often heard and was something that I only gradually came to understand. It was clearly based on the unstated premise that Manipur belonged to a region that was quite different from the rest of India, where presumably even the laws were different (not true) and where the administration approached issues from a very different perspective (quite true).

Using notes and diaries from his days as an IAS officer, C. Balagopal presents a collection of anecdotes from his brief sojourn in Manipur nearly three decades ago. A clear-eyed look at the nitty-gritty of governance in the remote north east of India, On a Clear Day, You Can See India is embellished with Balagopals memories which were remarkably fresh despite the passage of time. With a narrative that tries to steer clear of commenting on the contentious issues and tensions that arose in the area after Balagopal's departure, we see how the administration working in distant district and sub-divisional headquarters contends with issues at the ground level, far from the legislatures and High Courts and get a glimpse into the inner processes of a typical small government office.




Buy The Art of Selling?: Book
THE ART OF SELLING ZIG ZIGLAR  PRICE: RS.185
The Art of Selling describes the basics of how you can persuade people more effectively, more ethically, and more often. You?ll also discover that there is virtually nothing on earth that brings as much personal satisfaction as being able to save another person time, money, or frustration because of the goods, products, and services you have to offer.




Successful Presentations: Digital Ebook

SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS PRICE: RS.195
FOR CONFIDENT PRESENTING THAT DELIVERS RESULTS Presenting is a core business skill. Whether your aim is to inspire a large group, to impart knowledge, or to make things happen quickly, effective presentation skills are a musthave. We explain how to speak confidently to an audience of any size, with impact, clarity and flair. Presenting is not easy, whatever level you are at.





Power of High Touch
POWER OF HIGH TOUCH -CULTIVATING THE CULTURE OF CUSTOMER CARE RS 299 OFFER RS 250
Power of High Touch is a power-packed rulebook for practicing managers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, business leaders and research scholars looking to understand, appreciate and apply the significance of customer care and hospitality in any industry. Recounting varied experiences from their rich repertoire, the authors exemplify that flawless customer care is only possible when it is pursued as a mission, with not just talent but extraordinary perseverance to achieve desired results. 





Buy You Can Read Anyone?: Book
YOU CAN READ ANYONE? PRICE: RS.250
Never be Fooled, Lied to or Taken Advantage of Again
You Can Read Anyone contains specific, proven, and practical psychological techniques that can be applied instantly to any person, in just about any situation.
It shows step-by-step exactly how to tell what someone is thinking and feeling in real-life situations. For example, you will see precisely how to determine whether another poker player will stay in or fold, whether a salesperson is trustworthy, or whether or not a first date is going your way or the other way. And when the stakes are high ? negotiations, interrogations, questions of abuse, theft, or fraud ? learn how to easily detect who is out for you, and who is out to get you (or a loved one) to save yourself time, money, energy, and heartache.




Buy Dissolve the Box: Book

DISSOLVE THE BOX  PRICE: RS.250
Its not just a book. Its a Movement!
Dissolve the Box (DTB) is a revolutionary movement to identify and drive out the 5 internal villains called LFEAD - Limited understanding of oneself, Fear, Ego, Attachment and Dominant mind.





Buy What Would Apple Do?: Book

WHAT WOULD APPLE DO? PRICE: RS.299 OFFER RS 250
How you can learn from Apple and make money
In 2011, Apple Officially Became the most valuable company of all time. iPod, iPad, iTunes, App Store, the list goes on. Apples must-have products add up to one giant success story.
So whats their secret?
What makes Apple the most innovative company on the planet?
The answer:
Apple does exactly the opposite of what any other company would do.



Combo DVD set of dr Wayne Dyer Inspiration movies 

Inspiration Your Ultimate Calling: Av MediaThe Shift Box Set (BOOK + DVD): BookThe Power Of Intention: Av Media
rs 699 for the pack
Dual language in English and Hindi

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