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It’s not possible to do less than your best. If you’re smoking, or are addicted to prescription opioids, you’re addicted for very good reasons. Smoking allays anxiety, provides social contact, fills up voids in our lives and enables us to belong t...

Highway to Health is a journey of exploration. It maximizes our own healing abilities of identifying attitudes, beliefs and opinions that impact our health. It continues the journey begun by Love Your Disease – It’s Keeping You Healthy. We learn h...

Jude the Obscure is a haunting love story and a raging indictment of Victorian society. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel is a rich source of social history, accurately reflecting the encroachment of the modern, developing world on ...

Scott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a royal myth of national cultural identity and drawing on the conventions of Gothic fiction with its risky and rac...

Henry IV, Part One is a history play, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (two plays, including Henry IV, Part Two), and Henr...

Also known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written around 1579, and first published in 1595, after his death. The essence of his defence is that poetry combin...

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, first published in 1558, is a timeless collection of personal reflections from one of history's greatest Roman emperors. Written as a private ...

"The Wild still lingered in him, and the wolf in him merely slept." White Fang, published in 1906 by Jack London, is an enthralling adventure novel set in the harsh Yukon wilderness during the Klondike Gold Rush. It follows the journey of White F...

प्रेमचंद का उपन्यास प्रतिज्ञा भारतीय समाज की गहराई में छिपे नैतिकता, सुधारवाद और स्त्री-उत्थान जैसे विषयों पर आधारित है। इस कहानी के मुख्य पात्र अमृतराय और पूर्णा हैं। अमृतराय एक आदर्शवादी युवक है जो समाज में व्याप्त रूढ़िवादी धारणाओं और परंपराओं ...

Imagine a world where you can step off a plane in a foreign country and buy street food with a tap of your phone. A world where your assets are protected by futuristic brainwave monitors. A world where you're in control of your medical records, le...

Friedrich Max Müller's Sri Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings is an intimate portrayal of the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, one of the greatest spiritual leaders from nineteenth-century India. Müller captures the essence of Ramakrishna's d...

"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man." Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, tells a gripping tale of three brothers bou...

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth." Crime and Punishment, first published in 1866, is a seminal novel by Russian author Fyodor Dost...

“Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.” In The Man in the Iron Mask, the final book of The D'Artagnan Romances, Alexandre Dumas delivers a tale of political conspiracy, dark...

“In the love of truth, and in the love of freedom, we shall yet be able to abolish slavery.” Set against the backdrop of slavery in the pre-Civil War United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of the most influential novels in American History. It is...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote tragedies until about 1608, includin...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote tragedies until about 1608, includin...

Wanderings with Poetry, with around 380 short poems, portrays a colourful insight into the vast diverse world that we live in, by subtly deciphering profound thoughts into plain little lines. The language draws its strength from rationality and wi...

Considered one of the most significant works of Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams is a psychoanalytical inquiry that examines the theory of the unconscious through the lens of dream interpretation. It dives into the underlying meanings o...

The book talks of art of achieving happiness. It is filled with author’s lifetime experiences about human psychology. It is highlighted that happiness is nothing but a state of mind and that state can be attained only by exploring the inner world....

Does your child throw too many tantrums? Is your child late in speaking? Does your child bed-wet beyond the age of five? Does your child lie, cheat, steal or is aggressive or hyperactive? Is your child obese? Does he/she suffer from too many illne...

खलील जिब्रान, 1883-1931, कवि, ज्ञानी और चित्रकार खलील जिब्रान ने लेबनान में जन्म लिया, जहां की धरती ने अनेक पैगम्बर उत्पन्न किये हैं। अरबी भाषा के ही नहीं अपितु विश्वभर में अनगिनत लोग, क्योंकि विश्व की अनेक भाषाओं में उनकी पुस्तकों का अनुवाद हुआ ह...

मनुष्य स्वभाव से आनन्दप्रिय है। वह जीवन के हर पल को जीना चाहता है, उसका भरपूर आनन्द उठाना चाहता है। परन्तु कभी-कभी समस्त सुख-सुविधाओं के होते हुए भी परिस्थितियाँ ऐसी हो जाती हैं कि वो तनाव में घिर जाता है। ऐसे तनावग्रस्त समय में भी हंसो-हंसाओ जैसे...

मनुष्य स्वभाव से आनन्दप्रिय है। वह जीवन के हर पल को जीना चाहता है, उसका भरपूर आनन्द उठाना चाहता है। परन्तु कभी-कभी समस्त सुख-सुविधाओं के होते हुए भी परिस्थितियाँ ऐसी हो जाती हैं कि वो तनाव में घिर जाता है। ऐसे तनावग्रस्त समय में भी हंसो-हंसाओ जैसे...

Fragrance Beyond Borders is based on the simple fact that love can transcend the barriers created by politics, religion, race, geography or history. The main characters of the novel believe that while genuine expression of love has a powerful posi...

The book is a unique collection of poems, essays and other writings generated by the young author at various points of time over the course of last one year. In order to explore various themes in the poems and essays, the dynamics of modern life f...

Read about the woman who married seven times in forty five days! Visit the temple where devotees offer liquor to the deity! Learn of the top ten April Fool’s Day hoaxes in history! Get to know about the book written in blood – and also about the f...

The book is a collection of twenty-five published and unpublished short stories. The major issues in contemporary Indian society, like misdeeds of the so-called ‘dharam gurus’, corruption in Indian society, exploitation of women, strained marital ...

The Landlord’s Secret and Other Stories is a collection of eleven mystery and adventure stories featuring Ramesh, an adventure loving and self-styled boy detective. Ramesh’s close friend also finds himself dragged involuntarily into these adventur...

The founder Chairman of one of the largest companies in India, Khanna Consumer Products and Industries Limited (KCPIL), dies of old age—and the inheritance he leaves behind is a splintered family and a cash rich and profitable corporate empire tha...

“Memories are the soul’s ambrosia; they are our lifetime savings in the safe deposit of our minds, true friends we can fall back upon when we need them most…. They are our connect with the past, and there is no present sans past.” “Decay is encod...

The Chinar is My Address: Poems in Exile contains English translation of fifty Hindi poems of Maharaj Krishen Santoshi. The translator, Arvind Gigoo selected the original poems from various Hindi poetry books authored by Santoshi. The poems in thi...

I Will Wait For You ... begins in mirth, proceeds in suspense and mystery; the climax cuddles your blood and horror grips you. The denouement makes you smile through tears, and the ending leaves you panting for more. This is not entirely a horror ...

Diabetes is a condition in which blood glucose levels are abnormally high. Diabetes affects 15 crore people worldwide and 3 crore people in India. Diabetes is not a serious health problem if you know how to manage it. The secret of successfully ma...

A gang of highly professional international thieves of Indian origin carries out a spate of diamond robberies across the world. Are they targeting consignments of uncut diamonds alone – or are these robbers also hunting for some secrets hidden in ...

“A growing tendency among modern mothers has been to avoid breastfeeding. These mothers are ignorant of the facts like that it reduces cardiovascular risk in adulthood and increases child’s immunity as the breast milk contains infection-fighting a...

जिस प्रकार पानी की एक-एक बूंद मिलकर विशाल सागर को जन्म देती है, ठीक उसी तरह छोटी-छोटी खुशियां मिलकर हमारे जीवन की बगिया को खुशहाल बनाने के साथ उसे महकाने का भी काम करती है। इसलिए आज के समय में हर व्यक्ति चाहता है कि किसी भी कीमत पर दुनिया की हर खु...

Success doesn’t come by chance. It is a achieved with earnest efforts and is the result of careful planning, regular hard work, periodic review of performance, removing the shortcomings, overcoming obstacles, maintaining certain standards, values ...

Nature care and yoga aim at both cure and prevention, for adults and the aged, as well as for children and teenagers. Yoga and nature care are interrelated and emphasize the fact that all treatments work best when the body systems are clean and we...

The book contains principles, techniques, exercises and practical ideas to make you win in life: to improve your market worth, better your finances and relationships and above all, help you to be happy and peaceful. You will discover not only what...

Present-day life is full of fear, anxiety, disappointment, frustration and insecurity. Unending competition, from kindergarten to retirement, from the workplace to the bedroom, is killing. Today, man is under constant pressure to achieve and to ac...

The Hindus believe that the reciting, reading or hearing of the story of Sri Ram dispels all fears from the mind. It chases away the evils of Kaliyug. Sri Ram was the seventh incarnation of Bhagwan Vishnu. The purpose of his incarnation was to est...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway chronicles the temperaments and lifestyles of young, hard-drinking English and American expatriates on an expedition to Spain. Jake, with his friends, travels from the 1920s nightlife of Paris to Spain to wit...

Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel, first published in 1895. Taking place during the American Civil War, it is the story about Henry Fleming, a young soldier of the Union Army, who flees from the battlefield. Overcome with sha...

Sambhu, a tribal boy, acts as his father’s stand-in in a dhaba-cum-brothel. This occurs after his family desert their ancient village in Kalahandi in order to escape from the deadly clutches of the worst drought. His old father takes a job as a di...

This book has been written to try and minimize the incidence of broken homes and also to encourage the youth to marry at the right age and not to be afraid of this age-old tradition of marriage. It dives deep into reasons of dissatisfaction and di...

The present book is about some of Yogi’s conversations on life as a Human Resource Manager. It takes one through some of Yogi’s dilemmas in HR and in life. This is the story of Yogi’s search to discover the essence of living and harmonize himself ...

The Crazy Harvest is a brilliant combination and expression of imagination, realism, surrealism, natural phenomenon, politics which is less beautified, and the pure love of teenage boys and girls. Famine in a country causes loss of beauty and sex ...

Be initiators and innovators. Faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. The formulas in The 6 Spheres of Life: Unlocking the Door to Success and Happiness, will bring about a personal osmosis. This personal balance isn’t associated with w...

93.5 RED FM, the station for Bajaate Raho expression, brings to you a compilation of some of the wittiest Facebook posts by Rahul Kishore. Rahul, a self made entrepreneur, now a media professional, realised in 2009 that he was born for Facebook......

This anthology of poems comprises about a hundred poems and is divided into two sections. The first section consisting of seventy poems presents the poet as a master artist maintaining superbly an internal rhythm of word and meaning consistently. ...

Many psychological truths are hidden in the pages of religious texts around the world. India is a rich storehouse of information on the subject of religion. Since religious beliefs are sensitive personal issue, everyone has looked up to them with ...

The book describes various types of ailments that most people encounter in old age, like weak heart, high blood pressure, diabetes, sleeplessness, respiratory problems, etc. and suggests ways and means to avoid serious medical condition. It highli...

This book has been compiled as a result of the author’s failed attempts in accomplishing his dates. After undergoing a year of bitter experiences of failed relationships, he learnt that these failed dating approaches were a blessing in disguise as...

The book traces and analyzes the causes that have fragmented the human society into warring groups. The main causes are religion and family-line (social hierarchy). Religion has been the cause of wars between nations all over the world. Social hie...

Well-known as a writer of Urdu and Kashmiri verse alike, Wali Muhammad 'Aseer' Kishtwari has carved out a niche for himself as a literary figure in Jammu and Kashmir. He has also made his mark as an English writer of promise with his big volume Fo...

Are you a ‘potential crorepati’? What are the 10 golden rules for successful long-term investing? Are you betting on the bright stars of the MF universe? How can Day Trading add spice to your investing? How important is the relationship between Pa...

Our lifestyles, diet and attitudes contribute to a less than satisfactory quality of life. The book Pain: Medication, Relief and Natural Cures deals with natural pain treatment, proven over 20 years of clinical experience. It shows a complete syst...