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Sachin kundalkar books6/28/2023 ![]() Translated from the Marathi by acclaimed novelist and critic Jerry Pinto, Sachin Kundalkars elegantly wrought and exquisitely spare novel explores the disruption of a traditional family by a free-spirited stranger in order to examine a generation in transition. When he runs away with Anuja, he overturns the familys lives. He has no family, no friends, no history, and no plans for the future. He seems like the perfect tenant, ready with the rent and happy to listen to their mothers musings on the imminent collapse of Indian culture. ![]() Brother and sister Tanay and Anuja both fall in love with the same man, an artist lodging in their family home in Pune, in western India. Book Synopsis Now a film from Netflix India, this memorable novel confronts issues of sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and their familys lodger Recently adapted into a stunning Netflix film, Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity. ![]() About the Book This translation first published: New Delhi, India: Hamish Hamilton, 2013. ![]()
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The deep end diary6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Company uses Cookies on the Site to collect data from those who visit the Site and use services on the Site. However, you can set or adjust your browser’s setting for avoiding using or transmitting some data for Cookies and/or deleting data stored in the Cookies at any time. Most of the browsers support the use of Cookies. Cookies will store details of the website's browsing behaviour and what is frequently chosen by you and your browser. Texts contained in Cookies typically consist of identifiable data, website’s name and some numbers and texts. Cookies will be stored in your browser when you visit that website in which Cookies’ content can be retrieved or read only by the server that created such Cookies and such content will be sent back to the original website of each visit. Cookies will be created when user accesses to the website in which the server has created Cookies. ![]() Asia Book Company Limited (the “Company”) may use Cookies and other similar technologies for collecting your data while you are using services or visiting the Company’s website which include visiting or using through the other channels such as mobile application (collectively called the “Site”) for improving Site and your experience in visiting the Site.Ĭookies are a type of files comprising of texts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 4: Guiding instincts and freedom of action make the difference between animals and humans. Chapter 3: Taking into account the childs psyche is the key to education. ![]() Relieved from the emotional strain of competition and fear, the child becomes stable, confident and happy. Chapter 1: SUMMARY: The Secret Of Childhood By Maria Montessori. Given the method of free choice of work and materials, the concentration is high and the need for punishment and reward is not necessary. The adult, Montessori claims, must play a low-key role all is free and open for the child, who chooses his own materials to work with, and learns from them because they interest him. The essence of the Montessori Method lies in: observing, helping, presenting, rather than teaching or forcing. The adult should be determined to learn from the children rather than to force their own ideas on them. The second part of the book gives an account of the first “Casa dei Bambini” about the essence of the Montessori Method. In this classic work she expounds her conviction that in the child there are laws of growth in character and disposition as marked as those in his physical life. First, Montessori talks about the new-born child who is not only a body ready to function as a body, but also has a spiritual embryo with latent psychic capacities. The book The Secret of Childhood is divided in three sections, dealing in turn with early childhood development, the author’s educational method, and the relation of the child to society. ![]()
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Scruton fools frauds and firebrands6/28/2023 ![]() “Caustic, highly recherché, and simply great fun to read for the questing intellectual soul.” ― Kirkus Reviews complex and erudite” ― Publisher's Weekly US ![]() “Eminent British philosopher and polymath Scruton gives a sharp-edged, provocative critique of leading leftist thinkers since the mid-twentieth century. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. In addition to assessments of these thinkers' philosophical and political contributions, the book contains a biographical and bibliographical section summarizing their careers and most important writings. Scruton's exploration of these important issues is written with skill, perception and at all times with pellucid clarity. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Zizek, Ralph Milliband and Eric Hobsbawm. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. ![]() Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. What does the Left look like today, he asks, and how has it evolved? Is there any foundation for resistance to its agenda without religious faith? In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, philosopher Roger Scruton, one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization, examines the thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left. ![]() A devastating critique of modern left-wing thinking from a leading political philosopher. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 2020 his book, Astro Girl won the STEAM award for early years picture books. He was born in Zimbabwe and lives in London. Ken Wilson-Max is an award-winning author, illustrator, and publisher of children's books. She has also written picture books which have published with Lantana. Nansubuga has contributed to DFB's First Names series, writing books about Nelson Mandela and Beyonce, due to be published later this year. Born in Cambridge, MA (USA) in 1977 to Ugandan parents, she currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. She works at the intersection of global development and the cultural and creative industries. Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl is a writer with an African lens. ![]()
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The 3 body problem book6/28/2023 ![]() Ye Wenjie witnesses her father, a physics professor, being beaten to death by student revolutionaries for advocating the "reactionary" theory of General Relativity. ![]() ![]() It begins in the 60s, during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Liu is an engineer, and it shows: The Three-Body Problem is hard science fiction with a mix of cultural history, conspiracy theory, and theoretical physics. Nominated for a Hugo (after some reshuffling of the ballot - I should really do a Saturday Book Discussion post about that :P), The Three-Body Problem is the first book in a trilogy by Cixin Liu so far, this is the only one that has been translated into English, but the others are forthcoming. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. ![]() An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. ![]() Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. ![]()
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Misha lare book6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Shit always sounds better coming from you. ![]() Tell me you’re too busy to keep this up or that we’re getting too old to be pen pals, but just tell me one last time that you believe in me and that everything’s going to be fine. I’ll still pick the wrong friends and date the wrong guys. I won’t be any more confident or sure about my decisions. ![]() I keep thinking things won’t be any different at college. I think that’s why people stay unhappy for so long, you know? Miserable or not, it’s easier to stick with what’s familiar.ĭo you notice that, too? How all of us just want to get through life as quickly and as easily as possible? And even though we know that without risk there’s no reward, we’re still so scared to chance it? I’ve wanted everything in my life to change for so long, and when it’s finally about to, my urge to escape slows down. On the current news front, I got into college. Kind of wishing I made copies now, since I feel like you’re gone for good, but what’s the point? Those words are meant for you and only you, and even if you’re not reading the letters or even getting them anymore, I need to send them. You have the notes on the lyrics I sent with my previous letters. ![]()
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When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It was just devastating, and for many of us it was a defining element to those years.” When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw shows queer people loved each other in the face of AIDS “I don’t think there’s anybody my age or older or a little bit younger than me – I’ll be 54 later this year – who wasn’t affected by HIV/AIDS in some very personal way. ![]() “I lived in New York all through the ’90s and the first half of the ’00s, and those first few years of the ’90s were really informed by AIDS in a saturating kind of way,” Tucker tells PinkNews. The result is When You Call My Name, a heart-wrenching novel following two teenage gay boys as they navigate life and love in New York City in 1990 partly inspired by Tucker’s own experiences as a young gay man. He jumped at the opportunity – he had often thought about writing a novel aimed at young adults about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. An editor from a publishing house reached out and asked him to write a novel about that era. Tucker’s thread took off and racked up thousands of likes – and then the unexpected happened. ![]()
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A High-End Finish by Kate Carlisle6/27/2023 ![]() The hastily-deleted 'four' photo from inside Pep Guardiola's inner sanctum which left Real Madrid fans VERY upset Newport and Crewe, two teams stranded in mid-table with little to play for, played out a thrilling 2-2 draw that saw both sides scoring in second half injury time. Grimsby, Swindon and Walsall picked up home wins over Wimbledon, Crawley and Doncaster respectively, while bottom-place Rochdale drew at Harrogate. They finish a point above Salford despite winning just once in their final four games.Ĭarlisle stayed just ahead in fifth after rescuing a late draw against Sutton, a result that could give them an edge over Mark Hughes' side when they met in the first leg of their play-off on Saturday.Įlsewhere in the league, already-promoted Stevenage picked up a 1-0 win at Barrow, with the home side ending the season ninth but a distant 13 points from the play offs. To make matters worse, Nigel Clough's side had scored more goals than Salford this season, meaning a third strike would have been enough to keep their promotion hopes alive.īradford confirmed their sixth place standing with a 1-1 draw with champions Leyton Orient. ![]()
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Silent honor by danielle steel6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. And much to Hiroko’s surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle’s assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new. Her cousins had become more American than Japanese. To Hiroko, California was a different world. It was August 1941.įrom the ship, she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Hiroko, torn between her mother’s traditions and her father’s wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. ![]() From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history.Ī man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife’s belief in ancient traditions. ![]() |