My heart pounded in my chest as I found myself in a terrifying situation, fleeing from my mansion without a word to my father, bound for a foreign country. Why I was running like a fugitive? A wry smile crossed my face as I pondered my precarious predicament.

A book that is immersed in a whirlpool of memories that has a lot of sundry facts about the 1980s and 1990s Madurai. A load of past effaced by time has been unearthed by the author. Every middle-aged reader would be drawn into the well of nostalgia by this written relic. The shops, the smell, the colours, the taste, the people and almost every season of the times seem to have enthused the author. It’s a journey of interest… Don’t miss it!

"Helpful and hopeful." —John Green, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Fault in Our StarsA Better World Is Possible is a comprehensive and graphic novel guide on climate change and what you can do about it.As climate change quickens—bringing with it extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and humanitarian crises—four teens help organize the world’s largest climate protest. Hundreds of thousands join them, tak...

Thirukkural deals with all aspects of life, such as values and morals, family and social life, service and munificence, dignity and manners, agriculture and rains, food and medicine, politics and rulers, management and human relations, communication skills, administration and intelligence, romance, and chaste wedlock etc

An Alien angry against war deals about wars and its disastrous effects on the earth. The author happens to encounter an Alien. During the course of discussions, the Alien expresses its wrath on the greedy leaders and the ongoing Ukraine and Russia War. He highlights losses incurred due to major wars, offers various ideas to stop wars and also warns about impending natural calamities. He asks all the leaders to go through Self Appraisal Test and poses open challenge to them. He suggests for...

What if the Internet goes dark?We think of the Internet as wireless, weightless, ever-present—but its true foundation lies in the ocean’s depths, where nearly 900,000 miles of fiber-optic cables quietly pulse with all the world’s information.In The Web Beneath the Waves, the acclaimed journalist Samanth Subramanian travels from remote Pacific islands to secretive cable-laying operations to reveal the astonishing world of undersea infrastructure. He...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island, the soft hills of central Sri Lanka, the curves of the eastern coas...

Shortlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink book awardsIn a coastline as long and diverse as India's, fish inhabit the heart of many worlds - food of course, but also culture, commerce, sport, history and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories.Following Fish conducts rich journalistic investigations of, among others, the use of fish to treat asthmatics in Hyderab...

«Un romanzo poetico e delicato, eppure capace di mettere in luce gli aspetti più oscuri della società indiana. »Kirkus Review«Scritto in maniera magistrale, questo romanzo descrive con dolorosa schiettezza le catene che imprigionano le donne indiane. Eppure le sue protagoniste si rifiutano di rassegnarsi al destino che la società ha scritto per loro. »The Washington Independent Review of Books«Il contrast...

Get your statistics basics right before diving into the world of data science Key FeaturesNo need to take a degree in statistics, read this book and get a strong statistics base for data science and real-world programs;Implement statistics in data science tasks such as data cleaning, mining, and analysisLearn all about probability, statistics, numerical computations, and more with the help of R programsBook DescriptionData sc...

On 8 November, when the clock strikes 12, your money will be no good. Somewhere on the India-Nepal Border, a car full of passengers swerves off a highway and plunges into a valley, its trunk full of cash. In the UK, a Bollywood starlet wins Big Survivor, the most popular reality TV show in the country. In Panama, Central America, a whistle-blower at a law firm brings down billionaires across the globe. And in India, a new RBI Governor is appointed. Aditya Kesavan is dynamic, charismatic an...

Succeed on the AWS Machine Learning exam or in your next job as a machine learning specialist on the AWS Cloud platform with this hands-on guideAs the most popular cloud service in the world today, Amazon Web Services offers a wide range of opportunities for those interested in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning business solutions.The AWS Certified Machine Learning Study Guide: Specialty (MLS-CO1) Exam de...