A lyrical picture book biography of India's boxing champion Mary Kom--a young girl who followed her insticts and left her beloved village and family to pursue a career that would take her farther from home than she ever imagined.Mangte Chungnejang Kom (Mary Kom for short) was born to a poor family of tenant farmers in the tiny village of Kangathei, in Manipur, India. Before and after school, Mary hauls bags of rice and buckets of water, and she plows rice fields wi...

The Disaster Squad is ready to save the day in this action-packed early chapter book series perfect for fans of the Magic Tree House series, or for kids who aren’t quite ready to read I Survived!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading con...

The new taboo-busting book from the internet’s favourite doctor and Sunday Times bestselling author of This Book May Save Your Life.'When you want to sort medical fact from medical fiction, Dr Karan is your man.' Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This BeforeHave you ever wondered:· How do I get rid of bad breath?· Are my boobs normal?· Should I be farting this mu...

**Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardFrom one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.**Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist, head of India's central bank, and author of the 2010 FT-Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault Lines, has an unparalleled vantage point on...

Embark on a Journey of Collective Triumph: Master the Art of TeamworkImagine a world where your success is amplified by the strengths of others, where collaboration breeds not just achievement, but a shared euphoria. "Shared Success: How Teamwork Leads to Winning in Life" is your roadmap to this reality. Dive into the core of collective victory, and emerge with a new understanding of how to transform individual capability into potent, unified power.This insightful guide sta...

“The Blue Book of Group Discussions” is a comprehensive guide to success in any Group Discussions or Group Task. It gives all the tools, techniques and tricks to enable a person make indelible impact in a group discussion and stand-out as a successful contender. It is a compilation of insights gained from experience of the author while conducting training, tutoring and mentoring young graduates for Group Discussions and Personal Interviews over a period of more than 25 yrs. Intensive inter...

Build cost-effective and robust cloud solutions with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using these simple and practical recipesKey FeaturesExplore the various service offerings of the GCPHost a Python application on Google Compute EngineSecurely maintain application states with Cloud Storage, Datastore, and BigtableBook DescriptionGCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that...

Practical recipes to implement cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions for your organizationKey FeaturesImplement Google Cloud services in your organizationLeverage Google Cloud components to secure your organization’s dataA recipe-based guide that promises hands-on experience in deploying a highly scalable and available environmentBook DescriptionGoogle Cloud Platform is a cloud computing platform that offers products an...

Management Musings is not about management theories or frameworks. It is about the human side of management — where intuition meets intellect, and where leadership is tested not in seminars or boardrooms, but in everyday decisions that affect people’s lives.Through these essays and reflections, the book has captured the essence of what truly drives effective management: clarity of purpose, courage to act, empathy to understand, and humility to learn. Whether drawn from the author’s ...

A call for an end to aggressive monetary policy and a return to smart growth from an eminent researcher and former central banker.Central banks took extraordinary measures to stabilize markets and enhance growth after the financial crisis of 2008, but without giving much thought to the long-term consequences. It was a response, Raghuram Rajan argues, that set a dangerous precedent: the more centrals bank did, the more they were expected to do, and the more they end...

A delightful memoir of growing up in rural India — full of humor, innocence, culture, and unforgettable characters.Half Pant Memories takes you to a Tamil Nadu village in the 1960s, where childhood meant half pants, mango trees, mud roads, steam engines, and endless curiosity.Told through 33 true, nostalgic stories, this memoir follows a last-born boy from a schoolteacher's family, from ages 4 to 15. Each chapter brings you laughter, wonder...

Love is a very rare commodity.Its demand is always very high, but its supply is always in shortage!The giver of love always thinks that the quality of his love is impeccable, but the receiver of love many times thinks it is either far from satisfactory, short-supplied, or substandard!Love is considered divine, but many times the treatment it gets is pedestrian.Pure love is extremely valuable like gold, but people seem to prefer alloyed, 'ornamental' love rat...