क्या आपको कभी जीवन बदलने वाले ज्ञान का कोई ऐसा मूल मंत्र मिला, जिसने आपको यह सोचने पर विवश कर दिया हो कि : आख़िर किसी ने मुझे यह पहले क्यों नहीं बताया!
लाखों लोगों ने एडम एश्टन एवं एडम जोन्स को व्हाट यू विल लर्न पॉडकास्ट पर सुना है, जहाँ उन्होंने इस धरा पर बुद्धिमान लोगों के सर्वोत्तम विचारों का अध्ययन करने में हजारों घंटे बिताए । उनसे बार-बार पूछा जाने वाला प्रश्न : आपको अब तक का सर्वश्रेष्ठ सबक क्या मिला?
आप सोचते होंगे कि इस सरल प्रश्न का उत्तर भी सरल ही होगा, परंतु ऐसा नहीं है— अभी तक!
दुनिया के सौ से अधिक महानतम विचारकों के तथ्यों पर आधारित शिक्षाओं के माध्यम से यह पुस्तक आपको एक ऐसी यात्रा पर ले जाएगी, जिसमें व्यक्तिगत विकास, करियर, व्यवसाय, व्यक्तिगत वित्त, मानव स्वभाव, इतिहास तथा दर्शन के पाठ शामिल हैं। प्रत्येक पाठ उपयोगी होगा, और कोई एक आपका जीवन बदल सकता है। याद रखिए, आपका एटीट्यूड ही जीवन में आपकी ऊँचाई निर्धारित करता है, न कि योग्यता, व्यवसाय या अर्थव्यवस्था।
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Shrimad Bhagwadgita / श्रीमदभगवद्गीता
गीता में 18 अध्याय और 700 श्लोक हैं, जो सभी महत्त्वपूर्ण हैं। महाभारत में भगवान श्रीकृष्ण ने अर्जुन को जो उपदेश दिए थे, वही गीता है। गीता में आत्मा, परमात्मा, भक्ति, कर्म, जीवन आदि का वृहद रूप से वर्णन किया गया है। गीता से हमें यह ज्ञान मिलता है कि व्यक्ति को केवल अपने काम और कर्म पर ध्यान देना चाहिए।
गीता की गणना प्रस्थानत्रयी में की जाती है, जिसमें उपनिषद् और ब्रह्मसूत्र भी सम्मिलित हैं। अतएव गीता का स्थान वही है जो उपनिषद् और धर्मसूत्रों का है। उपनिषदों की अनेक विद्याएँ गीता में हैं। वेदों के ब्रह्मवाद और उपनिषदों के अध्यात्म, इन दोनों की विशिष्ट सामग्री गीता में संनिविष्ट है।
गीता के इस संस्करण में मूल श्लोकों का सरल हिंदी भावार्थ तो दिया ही गया है, साथ ही इसमें दर्जनों आकर्षक रेखाचित्र भी हैं।
The Gym of Leadership
We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world that calls for a paradigm shift in the style of leadership. The new world needs leaders who are purposeful, agile, flexible, cooperative, humble and helpful. Leadership, therefore, is as much about soft skills as hard skills, and no leader can be successful without using the two in concert. In The Gym of Leadership, Anil Khandelwal, a proven transformational leader, advocates that building all-round leadership capabilities should be a high-priority agenda for those aspiring for growth. Taking a refreshing approach, he uses fitness work out as an analogy to motivate aspiring leaders to develop new-age leadership skills. According to the author, building leadership capabilities is akin to building physical and mental fitness since both require passion, dedication and discipline. A practical guide to leadership, this book focuses on the actual development and practice of specific skills. It primarily proposes eighteen foundational skills of leadership grouped into four sections, namely, ‘understanding the self’, ‘emotional regulation’, ‘relationship management’ and ‘communication’. Authoritative and foregrounded in rigorous research, it promises to fill in the existing gap in the literature on leadership.
The Living Legend
Rama is all of sixteen when Sage Viswamithra takes him to the Dandaka forest, with Lakshmana accompanying them. At first, the spirit of adventure fills the two teenage brothers, but when they enter the forest in broad daylight, it is a curtain of pitch darkness. The smell of decaying flesh, flashes of fire, and the gloom of animals, birds and foliage in terror affect Rama deeply. For the first time, he feels fear. He hears derisive laughter—is it from the forest, or is it within him?
The first lesson he recalls from the sage Vashistha is: What is the task at hand? How can he understand the gravity of what is happening? Is the earth calling out for help? He gathers his fragmented thoughts and, feeling for the arrow from his quiver, shoots at a shape-shifting demon who terrorizes the forest.
The Living Legend is packed with twists and reflections and hosts the strength of relationships with nature that Rama, Sita and Lakshmana make to restore balance in life. The forest of inner evolution was transformative in their youth, and it is in our time too.
The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power and Facts
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.
Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering approach to self-advocacy that pioneering women’s health advocate Dr. Mary Claire Haver takes for women in the midst of hormonal change in The New Menopause. A comprehensive, authoritative book of science-backed information and lived experience, it covers every woman’s needs:
• From changes in your appearance and sleep patterns to neurological, musculoskeletal, psychological, and sexual issues, a comprehensive A to Z toolkit of science-backed options for coping with symptoms.
• What to do to mediate the risks associated with your body’s natural drop in estrogen production, including for diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and weight gain.
• How to advocate and prepare for annual midlife wellness visits, including questions for your doctor and how to insist on whole life care.
• The very latest research on the benefits and side effects of hormone replacement therapy.
Arming women with the power to secure vibrant health and well-being for the rest of their lives, The New Menopause is sure to become the bible of midlife wellness for present and future generations.
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL
The Top Ten Times bestseller
A Time Magazine Book of the Year
‘An undeniable page-turner’ New York Times
‘I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ‘ Daily Mail
‘It made me laugh and cry and feel comforted’ 5***** Reader review
‘A tribute to the transformative power of books and libraries‘ Irish Times
An inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book.
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What are you looking for?
So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi.
But she is no ordinary librarian.
Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it.
We meet five visitors to the library, each at a different crossroads:
– The restless retail assistant eager to pick up new skills
– The mother faced with a demotion at work after maternity leave
– The conscientious accountant who yearns to open an antique store
– The gifted young manga artist in search of motivation
– The recently retired salaryman on a quest for newfound purpose
Can she help them find what they are looking for?
Which book will you recommend?
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‘An undeniable page-turner’ New York Times
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this feel-good Japanese book shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a life.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS’ AWARD
‘I definitely want to visit this library. I feel kinder after this book’ 5***** Reader review
‘A quirky slice of feel-good fiction that you could recommend to anyone’ Mail on Sunday
‘Wonderful. It made me look for connection in my life’ 5***** Reader review
Times bestseller, August 2023
Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Rāmāyaṇa: Selected Verses from the Rāmāyaṇa of Mādhava Kandalī and the Uttarakāṇḍa of Śaṅkaradeva
Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Rāmāyaṇa is a translation of select verses from the Assamese Saptakāṇḍa Rāmāyaṇa of Mādhava Kandalī, Śaṅkaradeva and Madhavdeva, written between the 14th-15th centuries CE. This vernacular rendition of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa has been translated with a scholarly introduction by Tilottoma Misra. The selected verses represent a distinctive creative rendition of the Vālmīki text from the region of Assam by adding new emotional and philosophic dimensions to it. Especially in the Uttarakāṇḍa ascribed to Śaṅkaradeva, Sita’s voice acquires a unique quality in her final rejection of Rāma thereby expressing her ultimate disillusionment with him, the much-acclaimed paragon of all virtues.
Riverside Stories: Writings from Assam
Stories abound in Assam’s fields, ponds, rivers, forests, hills and cities. Most of its people wear each other’s clothes, eat each other’s food and speak each other’s languages. Diversity and amalgamation are the primarily identifiable elements of people from Assam. Yet, everyday patriarchy and politics of boundaries have resulted in so much confusion and conflict. Thankfully, we are witnessing emerging voices of people who experience life differently because of their own identities and locations and propose an inclusive space for us all. The women and transpeople who have contributed to Riverside Stories come from this diversity and bring their stories of multiple experiences from Assam to the world. This collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual stories, puts on record the experiences of the self, the very personal, within homes, in the environment, with politics, and with disappointments, desires, hopes and memories for a future. In putting together this anthology, it is our hope that we have complicated—more than it already is—the notion of whose and which stories can be told.
Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto
‘Rinsed is a triumph. If you want to understand how the chaotic world around us really works, read this book!’ MILES JOHNSON, AUTHOR OF CHASING SHADOWS
‘A riveting look at not only the nuts and bolds of cons and crimes but the techniques detectives use to stalk cyber criminals’ FINANCIAL TIMES
For as long as people have been stealing money, there has been an industry ready to wash it. But what happened when our economy went digital? How does the global underworld wash its dirty money in the Internet age?
Rinsed reveals how organized crooks have joined forces with the world’s most sophisticated cybercriminals. The result: a vast virtual money-laundering machine too intelligent for most authorities to crack. Through a series of jaw-dropping cases and interviews with insiders at all levels of the system, Geoff White shows how thieves are uniting to successfully get away with the most atrocious crimes on an unprecedented scale.
The book follows money from the outrageous luxury of Dubai hotels to sleepy backwaters of coastal Ireland, from the backstreets of Nigeria to the secretive zones of North Korea, to investigate this new cyber supercartel. Through first-hand accounts from the victims of their devastating crimes, White uncovers the extraordinary true story of hi-tech laundering – and exposes its terrible human cost.
‘Rinsed is as twisty, colourful and terrifyingly eye-opening as the people White investigates. You’ll never look at wealth, technology and crime in the same way’ CARA MCGOOGAN, AUTHOR OF THE POISON LINE
‘A gripping look at the battle between cops and criminals on the new frontier of financial crime’ BRADLEY HOPE, CO-AUTHOR OF BILLION DOLLAR WHALE
The Third Eye: Awakening Your True Self
The Third Eye takes you beyond spirituality, distancing the self from its doing, towards a higher knowledge where you are neither the observer, knower, doer, enjoyer nor the experiencer. You are neither the physical nor that mental being, for they are but temporarily yours . . . appearing and disappearing in that ocean of awareness. You are that formless, eternal presence of universal aware energy performing the Lila of life as the witness, which radiates through its field of consciousness. In fact, you are merely an I-less state of that being-ness, the subject of observation, observing through your mind on the objects being observed.
The subject of spiritualism is indifferent to the world of emotions. It goes beyond passion and compassion into dispassion; it is sensitive to all as one. Through this sublime subject, the author takes you away from those scriptures prescribed by Krishna, Jesus, or Buddha into a state of non-being, beyond space and time, entrapped in an individualized soul—the role it plays during the making of what you are. You, as the spirit, do not transmute but only watch in silence—beyond all efforts and methods—effortlessly witnessing all that is around. This book will enthral and enchant every serious spiritual seeker, those who wish to know the beyond of all beyond.