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The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched in our minds and evolutionary psychology to explain why aesthetic concerns feature centrally in our lives. Along the way, Chatterjee addresses fundamental questions: What is beauty? Is beauty universal? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should art be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for ...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAPPY MIND, HAPPY LIFE***'One of the most influential doctors in the UK (...) I could talk to Rangan all day (...) he's amazing'***- Chris EvansBecome a calmer, happier and healthier you with Dr Rangan Chatterjee's The Stress Solution.In this book, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, draws on two decades of practice to show you how to make easy-to-follow and sustainable health and lifestyle im...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAPPY MIND, HAPPY LIFE'Small changes make a big difference - we can all benefit from reading this' - Jamie OliverEveryone has the opportunity to live and feel better and in his Sunday Times bestselling book, The 4 Pillar Plan, Dr Rangan Chatterjee creates an easily accessible plan for taking control of your health and your life.Dr Chatterjee bel...

The Instant No.1 Bestseller***'***Happy Mind, Happy Life is a book borne not only from deep medical and scientific expertise, but from real life' - from the foreword by Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand WeeksHappiness is a practice, not a destination. We often treat happiness as something to pursue, a reward we’ll reach once life is finally in order. But what if happiness is not an outcome, but a practice -...

One-Minute Wisdom offers core insights and transformative coaching techniques that Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, one of the longest-serving directors of an IIM, has developed over three decades in leadership, education and personal development. Prof. Chatterjee’s impressive credentials include formal coaching training at INSEAD and Harvard, which have significantly shaped the methodologies shared in this work.The book is divided into three parts—Life, Learning and Leadership—i...

A much-needed program to prevent and reverse disease, and discover a path to sustainable, long-term health from an acclaimed international doctor and star of the BBC program Doctor in the House.How to Make Disease Disappear is Dr. Rangan Chatterjee's revolutionary, yet simple guide to better health—a much-needed, accessible plan that will help you take back control of your health and your life.A physician dedicated to finding the root cause of ill health r...

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, "the hottest town in India," deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier f...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HAPPY MIND, HAPPY LIFE'This is not a diet book. This is a whole new way of looking at what, why and how we eat and helps you design your own plan to build a better, healthier relationship with food' Fearne Cotton'A book with practical simple tips for everyone!' Tim SpectorIt's more important than ever before that we get in shape, stay healthy and ...

This volume is a critical examination of the sudden burgeoning of plant studies across thedisciplines. From ecocriticism that features fantastical plants, biological studies and concernsabout changing plant biodiversity, environmental focus on the role of plants in mitigating climatechange, neo-liberal campaigns to offset carbon through tree plantings, and popular tropes ofthinking and feeling plants, we see plants as front and center of imaginations for planeta...

The classic, heart-touching story of unrequited love of a man's fall from grace and his tragic end offers an insightful and compassionate portral of men and women in love. Devdas, written in early decades of the twentieth century, still captivates readers, and has been filmed several times - a testament to endurance and class. One of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's finest novels, it reveals the best there is in Indian romantic literature. The abridged translation of Devdas, Srikanta and six of ...

When All Gods DiedA Mythological Fantasy Novel of Gods, Mortals, and Forgotten PowerWhat if the gods never vanished, only withdrew?When All Gods Died is a mythological fantasy novel that blends ancient Greek mythology with modern fiction, following a journey that begins as an ordinary flight and ends in a world that should no longer exist.Andrew, an...

Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne ...