Imagine Huck Finn "lighting out for the territories" 150 years later, this time as a late-30s corporate dropout turned backcountry snowboarder and mountain climber. Dudeville is a coming-of-middle-age adventure novel, set in and all around small-town Colorado during the outdoor sports explosion of the 1990s*.* Inspired by a wide and wild range of influences-from Thoreau, Whitman, Muir and Twain, to Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey and Warren Miller-Dudeville is equal parts extr...

Gaur Gopal Das, India's most-followed monk with over 25 million followers and 2.5 billion video views, brings you a book unlike anything he has ever written before.Most of us spend our lives chasing our dreams - happiness, love, good health, financial freedom, security and more.But can we really have it all?On a cool November morning, Gaur Gopal Das arrives in Jaisalmer to attend his friend Rakesh Arora's son's three-day-lo...

Stop going through life, Start growing through life! While navigating their way through Mumbai's horrendous traffic, Gaur Gopal Das and his wealthy young friend Harry get talking, delving into concepts ranging from the human condition to finding one's purpose in life and the key to lasting happiness. Whether you are looking at strengthening your relationships, discovering your true potential, understanding how to do well at work or even how you can give back to the world, Gaur Gopal Das ta...

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a ...

India’s Paralympic Revolution: Empathy, Respect, Inclusion is not just a book—it is a powerful chronicle of a movement that is reshaping the very idea of sport in India. At a time when the Indian Paralympic movement is witnessing an unprecedented rise, this work captures the journeys, struggles, and triumphs of the country’s para athletes across generations.From historic podium finishes on the global stage to the quiet, determined battles fought far from the spotlight, the...

Ru is a boy from nowhere. Though he lives somewhere—the city of Calcutta—his classmates in school remind him he doesn’t look like them, and must come from somewhere else. When Ru asks his parents, they tell him they are descended from nomads. But even nomads must come from somewhere. The question, forever on the mind of the boy from nowhere, is where.Ru dreams things that wouldn’t seem out of place in the fantasy novels his father read to him when young. Fragments...

This book analyzes transparency as a primary requirement for successful corporate governance and emphasizes its importance in all activities. It also examines how transparency finds expression in communication processes in external relationships.The volume demonstrates how external communication can be executed in a transparent and reliable way; for instance, a disclosure should enhance the stakeholders’ trust in the firm’s ability to satisfy their needs and improve their assent to...

Software-Defined Networking for IoT Systems: Architecture, Integration, and Applicationsis a cutting-edge guide that bridges the gap between Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT). As IoT networks continue to expand, they face critical challenges such as limited scalability, rigid architectures, and vulnerability to faults. This book presents SDNs as a gamechanging solution, offering centralized control, dynamic resource management, and enhanced flexibi...

Beloved comedian Vir Das shares his journey as a perpetual outsider, using humor to navigate heartbreak, failure, and the quest for belonging.When comedian and actor Vir Das found himself stranded on a pier in Cozumel, Mexico, watching his cruise ship sail away without him due to visa issues, it became a metaphor for his life: he’s always been, and will always be, an outsider. Standing on that beach, he took in the absurdity of it all—broke, hungover, dumped, joble...

For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination.LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a b...

'A must-read' JAY SHETTYTake charge of your feelings by mastering the monk mindset.In this essential new book, internationally renowned motivational coach and modern monk Gaur Gopal Das decodes how the mind works and how we can train it in a way that improves our wellbeing. With his characteristic serenity, profound wisdom and anecdotal style, Das offers exercises, tips and tricks to help us make the changes that will put us in control of o...

Lord Shiva, the most mystical and enigmatic deity of the Vedic pantheon, remains the most popular and yet, the least understood personality. From being the destroyer to the most compassionate, being the personification of anger to the one who is easily pleased, living a life of complete detachment from the material to blessing his worshipers with material opulence, he remains a perfect puzzle to most. Lord Shiva is often depicted in deep meditation, symbolizing transcendence and inner peac...