Learn Chinese in 30 Days: A Practical Guide from English and HindiUnlock the world of Mandarin Chinese with Learn Chinese in 30 Days, the ultimate practical guide designed for English and Hindi speakers. Whether you're a complete beginner or someone looking to brush up on your Chinese skills, this book provides you with a step-by-step approach to mastering essential phrases, vocabulary, and grammar in just 30 days.Structured in easy-to-follow lessons, this...

We live in an evolving economic environment, one in which job security and career certainty are distant memories. The old rules for navigating the turbulent waters of employment just don’t apply anymore. In the face of these ongoing changes, it’s easy to become fearful and discouraged.In The Career Catapult, innovative career consultant Roopa Unnikrishnan shows you how to gaze into this uncertain future and shape it to your advantage―regardless of your current position in ...

WHAT KIND OF LEADER WILL YOU BECOME?Whether you're in a corporate role, building a startup, or preparing for your next move, this book will help you craft a leadership path that's entirely your own.Leadership Beyond the Playbook offers no neatly packaged lists or models. Instead it will help you become a better leader—with clarity, sharper judgment, and greater intention.Roopa Kudva is a rare leader who has built across corporate, startup a...

In the face of growing freshwater scarcity, most countries of the world are taking steps to conserve their water and foster its sustainable use. Water crises range from concerns of drinking water availability and/or quality, the degradation or contamination of freshwater, and the allocation of water to different users. To meet the challenge, many countries are undergoing systemic changes to the use of freshwater and the provision of water services, thereby leading to greater commercializat...

Take charge of your career and leap confidently into your future: "Intriguing, insightful, useful, and very readable." —Jon R. Katzenbach, bestselling author of The Wisdom of TeamsWhen change is a constant and the nature of work rapidly evolves, it's easy to become fearful and discouraged. In The Career Catapult, innovative career consultant Roopa Unnikrishnan shows you how to gaze into an uncertain future and shape it to your advantage—regardless...

There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting your heart's desire - and the other? Getting it. Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khalil loves three things: football, Star Wars and Portia, the girl who works in his grandfather's corner shop. In that order. But Lucky has a destiny – worse than a destiny, he has a dream. He dreams that one day, his lucky left foot will win the World Cup for England . It torments him, because it tastes real, because when he wakes he weeps with disappointment ...

8 Tarasuns rescued 24 to go! Can the Taranauts pull off another win at Sparkl?Mithya's eight worlds - Shyn Lustr Sparkl Glo Dazl Shimr Syntilla and Glytr - were plunged into darkness when the wicked Shaap Azur captured all the 32 stars of Tara. All seemed lost until Taranauts Zarpa Tufan and Zvala - three bright brave and gifted mithyakins - set out on the difficult and dangerous quest to bring back light and cheer to Mithya. This time the Taranauts travel to Zarpa...

A two-day Second International Conference on Recent Advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, and Inclusive Technologies (ICRAIC2IT – 2025) held on May 2–3, 2025, at NRI Institute of Technology, Agiripalli, Vijayawada, India, was conducted with the aim of bringing together academicians, researchers, and industry professionals to exchange ideas, innovations, and research findings in emerging areas of AI and inclusive technologies. Organised by the Departments of C...

What makes a city uniquely itself?Is it its geography, history, location?Is it its leaders, aspirations, demographics?Or is it a palpable spirit, wrought of a combination of all these, that seeps intothe soil over centuries, and charges the air, infecting residents and visitors alike?Two decades of exploring her hometown - and reading, writing and talking about it - has convinced Roopa Pai that the last is true: cities are neither born nor made, they ...

Written intricately, Roopa R has assayed a wide range of heartfelt experiences and emotions in this collection. The collection varies from simple everyday situations to being deeply spiritual, thus catering to a wide variety of readers. Pick it up and you'll ask for more.

"Fast paced and populated with characters as colorful as a closetful of saris . . . there are enough surprise plot twists to keep the tale entertaining." — PeopleHenna Rub is a precocious teenager whose wheeler-dealer father never misses a business opportunity and whose sumptuous Calcutta marriage to wealthy romantic Ricky-Rashid Karim is achieved by an audacious network of lies. Ricky will learn the truth about his seductive bride, but th...

Three thousand years ago, deep inside the forests of India, a great 'thought revolution' was brewing.In those forest labs, the brightest thinker–philosophers contemplated the universe, reflected on ancient texts called the Vedas and came up with startling insights into questions we still don't have final answers to, like:• What is the universe made of?• How do I know I'm looking at a tree when I see one?• Who am I?And where did they put those explosi...