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The Comfort Book: THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Special Hardcover Edition)

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Profound, witty and uplifting’ Observer
‘Full of eloquent, cogent and positive reminders of the beauty of life’ Independent

The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer new ways of seeing ourselves and the world.

This is the book to pick up when you need the wisdom of a friend, the comfort of a hug or a reminder that hope comes from unexpected places.

The Ikigai Journey: A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose Japanese Way (SEQUEL TO Ikigai: The Japanese Secret To A Long And Happy Life)

SEQUEL TO IKIGAI: THE JAPANESE SECRET TO A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE

In The Ikigai Journey, authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles take their international bestseller Ikigai: the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life a step further by showing you how to find your own ikigai through practical exercises, such as employing new habits and stepping outside your comfort zone.

Ikigai is the place where our passion (what we love), mission (what we hope to contribute), vocation (the gifts we have to offer the world) and profession (how our passions and talents can become a livelihood) converge, giving us a personal sense of meaning. This book helps you bring together all of these elements so that you can enjoy a balanced life.

Our ikigai is very similar to change: it is a constant that transforms depending on which phase of life we are in. Our “reason for being” is not the same at 15 as it is at 70. Through three sections, this book helps you to accept and embrace that—acting as a tool to revolutionize your future by helping you to understand the past, so you can enjoy your present.

Section 1—Journey Through the Future: Tokyo (a symbol of modernity and innovation)
Section 2—Journey Through the Past: Kyoto (an ancient capital moored in tradition)
Section 3—Journey Through the Present: Ise (an ancient shrine that is destroyed and rebuilt every twenty years)

Japan has one of the longest life spans in the world, and the greatest number of centenarians—many of whom cite their strong sense of ikigai as the basis for their happiness and longevity. Unlike many “self-care” practices, which require setting aside time in an increasingly busy world, the ikigai method helps you find peace and fulfillment in your busy life.

Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders

From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for more than half a century. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners.

Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp. She demonstrates that the medium enabled listeners and broadcasters to resist the cultural, linguistic, and political agendas of the British colonial administration and the subsequent independent Indian and Pakistani governments. Rather than being merely a tool of nation building in South Asia, radio created affective links that defied state agendas, policies, and borders. It forged an enduring transnational soundscape, even after the 1947 Partition had made a united India a political impossibility.

Huacuja Alonso traces how people engaged with radio across news, music, and drama broadcasts, arguing for a more expansive definition of what it means to listen. She develops the concept of “radio resonance” to understand how radio relied on circuits of oral communication such as rumor and gossip and to account for the affective bonds this “talk” created. By analyzing Hindi film-song radio programs, she demonstrates how radio spurred new ways of listening to cinema. Drawing on a rich collection of sources, including newly recovered recordings, listeners’ letters to radio stations, original interviews with broadcasters, and archival documents from across three continents, Radio for the Millions rethinks assumptions about how the medium connects with audiences.

The Ketamine Breakthrough: How to Find Freedom from Depression, Lift Anxiety, and Open Up to a New World of Possibilities

New York Times best-selling author Dr. Mike Dow and Ronan Levy, founder of Field Trip, the world’s largest provider of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies, offer ways to integrate ketamine into treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and more.

It’s been described as the most important breakthrough in mental health since the introduction of Prozac in 1986. And though once considered taboo, the psychedelic compound, ketamine, is experiencing a spectacular therapeutic comeback.

When combined with psychotherapy, ketamine, which has been described as the being possibly the “most important breakthrough in antidepressant treatment in decades,” has the potential to treat depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other debilitating mental illnesses—and change lives.

Unlike antidepressants, which merely mask the pain, psychedelics that heal the brain are the future. Instead of putting Band-Aids on the brain, with Ketamine Assisted-Psychotherapy, you can actually repair the neurological damage caused by stress, anxiety, neglect, and abuse.

In this book, best-selling author Dr. Mike Dow and Field Trip co-founder Ronan Levy provide a broad overview of where KAP came from, how it works, who it works for, and what to expect. More importantly, The Ketamine Breakthrough gives specific protocols for both practitioners and patients to follow in their work with KAP.

This book contains hope for those diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression, plagued by trauma and frozen by fears. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy has also proven effective for people with drug, alcohol, and behavioral addictions, existential depression, grief, and just feeling stuck. People with unresolved resentments, anger, and the everyday anxieties of modern life will also benefit. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy has been enormously helpful with couples, groups, and veterans, which will be addressed in the book as well.

This is the go-to manual for therapists and anyone who wants to learn more about Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. For those undergoing this revolutionary protocol, it includes a session-by-session Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Workbook to enhance and deepen the treatment.

Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

Python Crash Course is the world’s bestselling programming book, with over 1,500,000 copies sold to date!

Python Crash Course is the world’s best-selling guide to the Python programming language. This fast-paced, thorough introduction will have you writing programs, solving problems, and developing functioning applications in no time.

You’ll start by learning basic programming concepts, such as variables, lists, classes, and loops, and practice writing clean code with exercises for each topic. You’ll also learn how to make your programs interactive and test your code safely before adding it to a project. You’ll put your new knowledge into practice by creating a Space Invaders–inspired arcade game, building a set of data visualizations with Python’s handy libraries, and deploying a simple application online.

As you work through the book, you’ll learn how to:
Use powerful Python libraries and tools, including pytest, Pygame, Matplotlib, Plotly, and Django
Make increasingly complex 2D games that respond to keypresses and mouse clicks
Generate interactive data visualizations using a variety of datasets
Build apps that allow users to create accounts and manage their own data, and deploy your apps online
Troubleshoot coding errors and solve common programming problems

New to this edition: This third edition is completely revised to reflect the latest in Python code. New and updated coverage includes VS Code for text editing, the pathlib module for file handling, pytest for testing your code, as well as the latest features of Matplotlib, Plotly, and Django.

If you’ve been thinking about digging into programming, Python Crash Course will provide you with the skills to write real programs fast. Why wait any longer? Start your engines and code!

Covers Python 3.x

Crosswinds

From the author of the Ramnath Goenka Award-winning book, The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India

The establishment of a communist regime in China upended Western plans for the post-WWII Asian order. As the United States of America and Great Britain grappled with the implications of this new China in terms of their strategic and economic interests in the western Pacific, significant divergences also emerged. A newly independent India seeking to define its place and role in the region under conditions of Cold War was hoping to enlist China as partner.

This book, based on archival material, outlines India’s efforts to craft a foreign policy in the context of the Anglo–American competition in the Far East. The roles played by the towering personalities of that era—Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Krishna Menon—and the personal chemistry between them are woven into the narrative to paint a picture of the nuts and bolts of Indian diplomacy during the early years of the nation.

Romancero gitano

Cada literatura tiene sus formas privilegiadas de composición, así el romance en la literatura española e hispanoamericana cuenta con una larga tradición que lo enlaza con los cantares populares más antiguos. Un tipo de composición poética, de carácter narrativo, formada por versos de ocho sílabas en la que riman los versos impares.

Federico García Lorca (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 1898-Granada, 1936) es uno de los poetas españoles del siglo xx perteneciente a la Generación del 27 más celebrados y queridos, por su vida y por la intensidad e importancia de su obra, y el Romancero gitano es uno de sus poemarios más famosos. En él tradición y vanguardia, tragedia e ironía, barbarie y solidaridad, vida y muerte se conjugan en versos donde se cuentan historias que comparten el protagonismo con la luna que baja a la fragua, el viento sátiro que persigue las faldas de Preciosa, las estrellas que clavan rejones en el agua gris y las piquetas de los gallos que cavan buscando la aurora. Versos llenos de misterio poético y duende. De la génesis del Romancero dirá García Lorca: “Quiero hacer este verano una obra serena y quieta; pienso construir varios romances con lagunas, romances con montañas, romances con estrellas; una obra misteriosa y clara, que sea como una flor”.

En el Romancero gitano se da una inmejorable conjunción para comenzar la difusión del español en el sistema educativo indio, y para llegar a todos los lectores de la India que se quieran acercar a estas páginas. Esta edición viene acompañada con una magnífica introducción de Luis García Montero que esclarece puntos esenciales de la obra y aporta una luminosa lectura del romancero lorquiano.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

“Celebrar una nueva edición de Don Quijote de la Mancha supone presentar lo mejor de la historia española y uno de los grandes episodios de la cultura occidental, una cultura abierta, sólo válida cuando sabe dialogar con las otras culturas. Los clásicos se mantienen vivos porque nos ayudan a comprender el pasado, pero también porque saben relacionarse con el presente y seguir conversando con el mundo.

Las aventuras de este libro y los diálogos entre don Quijote y Sancho nos invitan a seguir hablando sobre los destinos del ser humano, los retos que hay en cada conflicto y en cada decisión, las bondades y los peligros de la convivencia, la manera que tiene el amor de iluminar el mundo o de inducir a engaños, la responsabilidad que late en cada uno de nuestros actos. Porque, al final, es la ética humana y el compromiso con la justicia lo que nos conmueve en cada episodio, ya sea fruto de un error o de la lucidez, de una ilusión certera o de un equívoco. Las lejanas llanuras de la Mancha aspiran a convertirse en un lugar habitable para cualquier lector, más allá de los kilómetros y los siglos”. – Luis García Montero

Make Epic Money

In his groundbreaking book Do Epic Shit, Warikoo dropped this truth bomb: ‘Three relationships determine our life’s course – time, money, and ourselves.’

Now, in his third book, Make Epic Money, he dives deep into the complex world of money to provide you with the ultimate personal-finance blueprint. Drawing on a lifetime of experience of financial highs and lows, he shares everything he has learnt about money that he wishes someone had taught him when he was young.

Prepare to unlock the secrets to financial well-being with this no-nonsense guide. Say goodbye to confusing jargon and hello to practical advice. Discover how to earn, spend and make your money work just as hard for you as you do for it.

Feathers, Fools and Farts: Folktales from Manipur

Be warned.

These ten wacky stories in Feathers, Fools, and Farts: Manipuri Folktales Retold from Manipur, perched on India’s border with Myanmar, are not for scaredy-cats.

Nor for those of you who do not enjoy a hearty laugh or a good cry. And if you try to copy the foolishness of the characters, animal and human, in these folktales, you just might turn into a tiger, get stung by a swarm of bees, or even get poo’ed on.

If, however, you believe in strange romances, admire bravery, and like magic and sorcery, this book is for you, wherever you are.

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