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The Ramblings of a Megalomaniac Consumed with Cynicism and Hubris

Author : Sameer Bhakhri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781088730607
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Ramblings of a Megalomaniac Consumed with Cynicism and Hubris written by Sameer Bhakhri and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nirvana, anyone? Utopia, perhaps? What if we were to tell you they are attainable and within your grasp? Through this book, the author shares what truly plagues humanity and stops us from achieving our own personal nirvana. Where exactly are we going wrong? How do we identify our faults early on and work towards correcting them? And how do we get to that nirvana we spend our whole lives working towards? It took the author several years of experiments, mistakes and a lot of learning to find his version of nirvana. From describing the challenges we create for ourselves in pursuit of our utopias to sharing my experiences, learnings and the path he thereby discovered, this book is meant to help you discover your own utopias and achieve your nirvana."Don't get fooled by the title. These aren't ramblings, and Sameer is nowhere close to being a megalomaniac. His favourites - dishing out gyan and singing songs - intermingle to prime the reader for what to do (and what not to do) with their lives. Sameer has been there, done that: built a successful corporate career, left on a high to make a difference to the world around him and in this book, he distills his life experiences and learnings succinctly. A quick breezy read, but one that makes you ponder over everything you do."- Arun Panicker, Ex-President Ratings, CRISIL, currently living life on his own terms."The Ramblings of a Megalomaniac makes for an interesting, light read. Laced with simple tips to lead a happier and simpler life, and sprinkled with quotes, shayari and acronyms, you can finish this in one reading, like I did, or savour each point of a chapter and reflect deeply on it, picking out the things that will apply to you. But how you read it is not important. As Sameer says, in Nike's words, 'Just do it'!"- Venkat Krishnan N, Principal Trustee, India Welfare Trust"This book is not a ramble. It is serious advice given with a sense of humour. Especially relevant to people who are starting out in their careers. Read this book to find out what LKK, FOF, OTPS, LSG are and how they can change your life." - Suman Srivastava, Founder & Innovation Artist, Marketing Unplugged

The Fall of Heaven

Author : Andrew Scott Cooper
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805098984
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Heaven written by Andrew Scott Cooper and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.

The Films of Stephen King

Author : T. Magistrale
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230610587
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Stephen King written by T. Magistrale and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films from the King canon, from Carrie to The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption.

Legacies

Author : Howard Ingham
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588464309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Legacies written by Howard Ingham and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The English Novel

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118724925
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The English Novel written by Terry Eagleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996).

The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light

Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312160623
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light written by William Irwin Thompson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the opening passages of his classic book, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson asks the question, "But what is myth that it returns to mind even when we would most escape it?" Acknowledging the pervasive power of myth to create and inform culture, Thompson answers this question by weaving descriptions of the human abilities to create life and to communicate through symbolic myths based on male and female forms of power. Taking us from the earliest periods of prehistory through the time of female goddess worship to the rise of the male-dominated warrior state, Thompson shows the passage of humankind's relationship to nature from initial awe to persistent conquest. At the end of his journey, Thompson finds an answer to his original question: myth is the history of the soul; its creation is ongoing and its power is never-ending. This is a beautiful and fascinating book now being reissued for a new generation of readers, as well as for those it inspired originally.

Rule 34

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110151664X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Rule 34 written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content. And occasionally, even more disturbing patterns arise… Three ex-cons have been murdered in Germany, Italy, and Scotland. The only things they had in common were arrests for spamming—and a taste for unorthodox entertainment. As the first officer on the scene of the most recent death, Liz finds herself sucked into an international investigation that isn’t so much asking who the killer is, but what—and if she doesn't find the answer soon, the homicides could go viral.

A Companion to Film Comedy

Author : Andrew Horton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119169550
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Film Comedy written by Andrew Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors

West African Poetry

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521312233
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book West African Poetry written by Robert Fraser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-09-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the vernacular. Do the roots of such poetry lie in Africa or in Europe? In committing their work to writing, do poets lose more than they gain? Can the immediacy of oral performance ever be recovered? Robert Fraser's account of two centuries of West African verse examines its subjugation to a succession of international styles: from the heroic couplet to the austerity of experimental Modernism. Successive chapters take us through the Négritude movement and the emergence of anglophone free verse in the 1950s to the rediscovery in recent years of the neglected springs of orality, which is the subject of the concluding chapter.

Agents and Goals in Evolution

Author : Samir Okasha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192546732
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Agents and Goals in Evolution written by Samir Okasha and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He considers how the paradigm case involves treating an evolved organism as if it were an agent pursuing a goal, such as survival or reproduction, and seeing its phenotypic traits as strategies for achieving that goal or furthering its biological interests. As agential thinking deliberately transposes a set of concepts--goals, interests, strategies--from rational human agents and to the biological world more generally, Okasha's enquiry firstly looks at the justification for this: is it mere anthropomorphism, or does it play a genuine intellectual role in the science? From this central question, key points are considered such as: how do we identify the 'goal' that evolved organisms will behave as if they are trying to achieve? Can agential thinking ever be applied to groups rather than to individual organisms? And how does agential thinking relate to the controversies over fitness-maximization in evolutionary biology? In addition, Okasha examines the relation between the adaptive and the rational by considering whether organisms can validly be treated as agent-like. Should we expect their evolved behaviour to correspond with that of rational agents as codified in the theory of rational choice? If so, does this mean that the fitness-maximizing paradigm of the evolutionary biologist can be mapped directly to the utility-maximizing paradigm of the rational choice theorist? All of these important questions are engagingly raised and discussed at length.

Invisible Sun

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250807115
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Sun written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun—the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State—as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines. An inter-timeline coup d'état gone awry. A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin. And robotic alien invaders from a distant timeline flood through a wormhole, wreaking havoc in the USA. Can disgraced worldwalker Rita and her intertemporal extraordaire agent of a mother neutralize the livewire contention before it's too late? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah written by Robert Fraser and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary World Fiction

Author : Juris Dilevko
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1591583535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What people in North America learn about other cultures and countries is often filtered through Western perspectives and sensibilities. One way to get beyond that sometimes-one-dimensional view is to sample stories of other countries and cultures as told by people who live in those lands and speak their languages.

The Christie File

Author : Stuart Christie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Christie File written by Stuart Christie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction To The English Novel

Author : Arnold Kettle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015611078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction To The English Novel written by Arnold Kettle and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312053215
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination written by Robert Fraser and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collected Poems

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143106902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems written by Marcel Proust and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the centennial of Swann's Way: the most complete volume of Proust's poetry ever assembled, in a gorgeous deluxe edition As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of thirty-eight, he never stopped writing poetry. His verse is often playful, filled with affection and satire, and is peppered with witty barbs at friends and people in his social circle of aristocrats, writers, musicians, and courtesans. Few of the poems collected here under the editorship of Harold Augenbraum, founder of the Proust Society of America, have ever been published in book form or translated into English until now. In this dual-language edition of new translations, Augenbraum has brought together nineteen renowned poets and poetry translators to bring Proust's exuberant verse back to life. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.