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  YOU ARE A GIFT - A Travel...

  Meheck Mukherjee

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  About the Book: 
  A Book -A GIFT- that acknowledges the gift you are! Your presence, your simply being alive & all that you do for all around you is cherished. Its’ offbeat photography & caring, touching poetry inspire you to smile, laugh & be joyful. A coffee table book that you can gift to anyone you wish to say THANK YOU FOR BEING IN MY LIFE. Friends, family, siblings, colleagues, bosses & of course your neighbours too would love to receive this beautiful gift. 
  YOU ARE A GIFT! Is Alive, It talks to you! One experiences love & healing as one reads even a few lines. A conversation starter, this book sits in your homes,offices & car decks & displays your taste with subtleness. Virtues of Gratitude, Kindness & Love touch hearts of all who see it, pick it or read it. 
  An old saying goes- YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ! This book - a first of its kind -a trendsetter in self-empowerment. The verses & photography have the power to transform sadness & depression into joy, bringing out suppressed emotions & feeling better right away. 1 in 4 people are going through depression say world statistics. Gift this to people around you to make our world a better place.

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  Don’t Save Anything -...

  James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter

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  James Salter was a master. One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, his acute and glimmering portrayals of characters are built with a restrained and poetic style. The author of many memorable works of fiction—including Dusk, and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award—he is also celebrated for his memoirs and many nonfiction essays. 
  In her preface, Kay Salter writes, “Don’t Save Anything is a volume of the best of Jim’s nonfiction—articles published but never collected in one place until now. Though those many boxes were overflowing with papers, in the end it’s not really a matter of quantity. These pieces reveal some of the breadth and depth of Jim’s endless interest in the world and the people in it…One of the greatest pleasures in writing nonfiction is the writer’s feeling of exploration, of learning about things he doesn’t know, of finding out by reading and observing and asking questions, and then writing it down. That’s what you’ll find here.” 
  This collection gathers his thoughts on writing and profiles of famous writers, observations of the changing American military life, evocations of Aspen winters, musings on mountain climbing and skiing, and tales of travels to Europe and Asia which first appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, People magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, the Aspen Times, and many other publications.

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  Sweeper In The Sky - The Life of...

  Helen Wright

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  Long before the world began seeking STEM -- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics -- education for girls, American Maria Mitchell proved that women were capable of achieving worldwide acclaim for brilliant reasoning and discoveries. Born in Nantucket in 1818 to a Quaker family, Mitchell had opportunities unavailable to other girls of the time. The Quakers believed boys and girls should be educated, so Maria attended public schools. She also had the benefit of her father's tutelage. At an early age, she loved to perform the complex navigational computations requested by sailors.  
    
  At the age of 29, Mitchell discovered a comet and earned a gold medal from the King of Denmark, the first of many international awards and 
  honors in her illustrious life. She was one of the first women elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and later became the first Professor of Astronomy at the newly-built Vassar College. Throughout her long teaching career, she urged her students to question everything. If a man could achieve success at a venture, so could a woman.  
    
  Forthright and rebellious by nature, Mitchell was beloved by her students. She was a strong proponent of women's rights, traveled widely in the US and Europe, and met with other notable scientists of the time.  
    
  This audiobook was produced to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Maria Mitchell's birth and bring her legacy to a new generation.  
    
  We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics nor all logic; it is somewhat beauty and poetry. 
  -- Maria Mitchell  

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  Ardennes - The Secret War

  Charles Whiting

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  On the morning of 16 December 1944, a monumental German force of six hundred thousand men crashed into the Allied lines in the snowbound hills of the Belgian Ardennes. Why were Allied forces so surprised by this counterattack? And why have the German sabotage and deception operations that disrupted supply lines and outwitted Allied intelligence been so overlooked by historians? 
   
   
   
  Through interviews with three key German officers undertaken shortly after the end of the war, Charles Whiting examines the Battle of the Bulge from a new perspective. Hermann Giskes, a German Army counterintelligence officer, sheds light on his activities directing spies and saboteurs. Paratrooper Freiherr von der Heydte tells how his men were blown over great distances but managed to engage and tie down thousands of Allied troops who thought Nazi paratroopers were landing everywhere. And SS commando leader Otto Skorzeny recounts how he led a handful of special forces, wearing US uniforms and driving US equipment, behind enemy lines to wreak havoc. 
   
   
   
  Ardennes: The Secret War exposes the weaknesses of Allied intelligence and shows how, even when it seemed that the war would be over by Christmas, the Germans nearly turned defeat into victory.

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  Transformed by India A Life

  Stephen P Huyler

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  Stephen Huyler's journey into India began on his twentieth birthday, pedalling a bicycle rickshaw from the border. Over fifty-two years, for an average of four months a year, he has explored India's diverse village and other subcultures through his writing and photography, becoming a leading documentarian of India. Transformed by India invites readers to join Huyler as he navigates this remarkable nation, highlighting individuals from the wide spectrum of life all around the country. Tying all the many stories together is an acknowledgement of the innate strength and creative capacity for improvement expressed everywhere in the subcontinent. Huyler's friendliness and skills have opened doors, leading to shows of previously unrecorded material in major Indian and international museums and galleries. His six earlier books and many publications are illuminated by the iridescent soul of India. Now he shares his life and thoughts with you.

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  The Murder Squad

  Michael Adams

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLEY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 
   
  How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history.  
   
  As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country. The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, The Park Demon, The Human Glove and The Pyjama Girl – these were just some of the grisly cases that had to be solved by the Sydney detectives of The Murder Squad.  
   
  With the people, press and politicians screaming for justice and vengeance, homicide chief Tom McRae and his colleagues used bold new investigative tools in the massive manhunts for these maniacal killers. Working under intense pressure, hard-nosed and hard-charging cops solved some cases brilliantly – yet others were 'closed' with dodgy convictions while several shadowy figures were to get away with murder.  
   
  Set against the backdrop of our greatest economic crisis, as the federal and state governments headed for a showdown and fascist and communist thugs threatened civil war, The Murder Squad reopens the files on Australia's most chilling forgotten crimes to ask who was guilty, who was innocent, and whether some cops were as dangerous as the monsters they were hunting.

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