Advs #25 HOT NEW RELEASES IN BOOKS TO BUY ON AMAZON
1.The Mystery Mountains
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Publisher: Notion Press; 1st edition
Print length: 318 pages
Release date: 25 May 2022
Price: ₹320.00
Review
As per the calculation of certain discerning sages of the yore, the earth is likely to pass through the path of large comet fragments and astral debris in the next few years. Such a cataclysm can engender widespread devastation for all species and decimate human civilisation.
After solving the uncanny mystery behind the disappearance of a few botanists, Chef Lisa and Botanist Arjun incidentally get paired up with an impassioned archaeologist. Together, they set out to unearth the clues that would lead them to an intriguing, esoteric technology, which might neutralise the impact of the impending cataclysm significantly.
Pitched against a global criminal force and a multitude of challenges, they travel to different continents to explore the sites of antediluvian civilisations in their quest for global safety.
Guided by the wise ones of a pre-historic tribe of Peru, the series of revelations that they unravel is beyond their wildest imagination.
About the Author
An Engineer by education, a Sales professional by choice, a Traveller by passion and a Foodie by habit - that is perhaps the best description of Aurijit.
Born and brought up in Calcutta, Aurijit has been an avid reader, right from his childhood. All along, he developed a durable fondness for both English and Bengali literature on social issues, adventure, intrigue, mysticism and spirituality.
He had published a few stories in little magazines during his college days and early work life.
The Shambala Sutras is his first novel. This was inspired by his interest in ancient scriptures and his love for adventure and thrill.
Aurijit worked in U.S.A. and India for leading multinationals like LG and Oracle, before setting up a Sales Management consultancy firm Bizwin, along with a few other business leaders.
Aurijit lives in Bangalore and humbly supports a few activities in the social sector.
2.The Power of Thoughts
Author: Swami Mukundananda
Publisher: Penguin Ananda
Print length: 280 pages
Release date: 13 June 2022
Price: ₹275.00
Review
Incredibly, the ingredients of a hugely successful life cost nothing at all. In fact, we mass-produce 60,000 of them every day. These are the thoughts that our mind creates. They are responsible for the happiness and distress we experience. They are the precursors of all we do. We grapple with improving our actions, only to find our attempts undone by impure thinking. If we focus on transforming our thoughts instead, incredible results will accrue from a fraction of the efforts. Since all aspects of our life are so strongly linked to our thoughts, we have much to gain by deepening our understanding of them.
In this book, Swami Mukundananda, a world-renowned spiritual teacher from India and an internationally acclaimed mind-management authority, will teach you about watching your thoughts, directing them, dismantling harmful thought structures, creative thinking, meditation and much more. When you focus on revolutionizing your thoughts-the most fundamental aspect of inner personality-you will discover yourself evolving to divine heights to fulfil the purpose of your life.
About the Author
SWAMI MUKUNDANANDA is a world-renowned spiritual teacher from India and an international authority on mind management. He earned his degrees from the prestigious IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta but chose to renounce a promising corporate career and embrace monkhood. He studied Vedic scriptures at the feet of Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj. For almost four decades now, Swami Mukundananda has been sharing his vast knowledge through his books, lectures, and life-transformation programmes.
Swamiji meets hundreds, even thousands, of people every day from all walks of life. His steadfast positivity exudes hope, clarity, and a sense of purpose for those who connect with him. He has deeply affected the lives of millions of people who have been drawn to his profound integrity, charismatic personality, and passion to serve. Those who meet him experience his genuine care, and compassionate personality, and also feel deeply touched by him.
Swamiji's lectures are humorous, his arguments logical and well-laid-out, and, most of all, his advice is practical. His lectures on social media platforms are loved and followed by millions. Swamiji divides his time between India and the US.
3.Are you Programmed to be Rich or Broke?
Author: Rishikesh Pandey
Publisher: Bluerose Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Print length: 92 pages
Release date: 13 June 2022
Price: ₹149.00
About the Book: "India lacks in Financial Education and this book is a complete package of Financial Education. If you are a beginner then this book is highly recommended. This book teaches us:- 1. How we are programmed to become financially weak since our childhood. 2. How our emotional decision-making makes us financially weaker. 3. English Education Act was a mere conspiracy to colonize us forever. This made us financially dependent on others. 4. How 95% of people are stuck in a turnstile and they follow a pattern to remain poor throughout their whole life. 5. This book addresses the right time to purchase a car and house. 6. Mistakes we commit after earning money. 7. You will learn that only 5 out of 100 people gain financial independence even after earning q handsome salary. 8. This book also notify about the things to keep in mind while investing and where to invest."
About the Author: Rishikesh Pandey is a young age educator. He is the founder of Second School, it is an initiative that is determined to bring a revolution in education for the students living in tier 3 cities of India. The idea here is to focus on the holistic development of the students at unbelievably affordable prices. He also got an invitation from a prestigious forum like TEDx. He delivered more than 40 seminars in more than 15 cities in India. He saw a lack of financial knowledge in youth so he wrote a book on Financial Education "Are you programmed to be Rich or Broke?".
4.Wabi Sabi: The Wisdom in Imperfection
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Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Print length:192 pages
Release date: 20 May 2022
Price: ₹361.02
Review
BE THE BEST IMPERFECT PERSON YOU CAN BE!
This Book can help you discover that you and your imperfect life are so much better than you think they are, and that accepting and letting go can lead you to your best and happiest self.
Wabi Sabi is the Japanese Zen philosophy that all things are imperfect, unfinished and impermanent. It is a fresh way of seeing and moving through the world when our lives, literally and figuratively, feel cluttered. This book shows us how to apply this concept in the context of daily life and offers ideas on how to see it, embrace it and incorporate it into everyday thoughts, objects and situations.
In the foreword, Hector Garcia-- the bestselling author of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life--introduces readers to the Wabi Sabi aesthetic and shares his personal Wabi Sabi journey: from being asked about it on live TV fifteen years ago (before he knew what it was) to today, when it permeates every aspect of his life.
About the Author
Nobuo Suzuki was born in 1968 and has dedicated his life to studying approaches to Japanese philosophy and psychology. After travelling all around Asia, he developed a method of connecting Zen with art therapies, and now works with clients seeking alternative ways of approaching their life issues. He loves playing piano, writing about his trips and recording his reflections.
Foreword by:
Hector Garcia was born in Spain and worked at CERN in Switzerland before moving to Japan, his home of more than 15 years. In Japan he developed voice recognition software and the technology for young Silicon Valley companies to enter the Japanese market. His popular blog kirainet.com led to his internationally successful book A Geek In Japan. Along with Francesc Miralles, he is the author of the bestselling Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, The Ikigai Journey and Forest Bathing.
Russell Calvert has a masters degree in translation studies from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He has 25 years TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) experience, including posts at ESADE Business School (Barcelona) and Salalah College of Applied Sciences (Oman). He was the subtitler, translator and interpreter for the 2012 Mecal International Short Film Festival of Barcelona.
5.Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life
Author: Marcus Buckingham
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Print length: 320 pages
Release date: 10 June 2022
Price: ₹779.00
Review
World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best―both at work and in life.
You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love―what engages us and makes us thrive―and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others.
In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity―how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.
How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts?
How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else?
How can you choose roles in which you'll excel?
Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can:
- Choose the right role on the team.
- Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews.
- Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you.
- Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you.
- Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students.
Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives―our work, teams, and classrooms.
It's time we brought love back in.
Love and Work shows you how.
About the Author
For over twenty-five years, Marcus Buckingham has been the world's leading researcher on strengths and human performance, as well as an entrepreneur, founding the strengths-based leadership development firm The Marcus Buckingham Company. He began his career at Gallup and was the cocreator, with Donald O. Clifton, of StrengthsFinder. He is the New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of ten books, including First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths; StandOut 2.0; and Nine Lies About Work. He is currently Head of People + Performance Research at the ADP Research Institute.
6.The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea
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Publisher: HarperNorth
Print length: 224 pages
Release date: 26 May 2022
Price: ₹650.00
Review
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice.
‘A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic memoir that tells a story of pain and perseverance and makes the moral case for asylum.’ David Lammy MP
North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded.
Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship.
By the age of 29 she had already witnessed a lifetime of suffering. Family members had died of starvation; her brother was beaten nearly to death by soldiers. Even smiling and laughing was discouraged.
The first time she ran, she was forced abandon her father on his deathbed – crossing the border under a hail of bullets. In China she was sold to a farmer, with whom she had a son, before being denounced and forcibly returned to North Korea.
Six months later guards abandoned her, injured, outside a prison camp. She recovered and returned China to seek her son, now six, before attempting to navigate the long, hard road through the Gobi Desert and into Mongolia.
Clear-eyed and resolute, Jihyun’s extraordinary story reveals a Korea far removed from the talk of nuclear weapons and economic sanctions. She remains sanguine despite the hardship. Recalling life’s tiny pleasures even at her darkest moments, she manages to instill her tale with incredible grace and humanity. Beautifully written with South Korean compatriot Seh-lynn Chai, this compelling book offers a stark lesson in determination, and ultimately in the importance of asylum.
7. With a Mind to Kill (Lead Title): The explosive new James Bond thriller
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Print length: 288 pages
Release date: 9 June 2022
Price: ₹568.00
Review
It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder - James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den - but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be.
About the Author
Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; two James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day; three Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death and the forthcoming A Line To Kill, and the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders. He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.
8. Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm
Author: John Nichol
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Print length: 496 pages
Release date: 26 May 2022
Price: ₹866.00
Review
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an extraordinary account of courage and fortitude.
‘We were doing about 620 miles-per-hour, 200 feet above the desert, in total darkness. Everything was running on rails as we approached the target. Then all hell broke loose. I remember the missile being fired at us; I broke left and shouted, “Chaff!”
‘All I could see was a flame, like a very large firework, coming towards me. Then there was a huge white flash. I remember an enormous wind and then I was knocked unconscious. My last thoughts were that I was going to die.’
In 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighbouring Kuwait, setting in motion a chain of events that had unimaginable political, military and personal repercussions, which still reverberate around the globe today.
This is the story of the aircrew at the heart of Operation Desert Storm, almost none of whom had any prior experience of armed combat. It is the story of the Tornado’s missions, of those who did not return - and of the families who watched and waited as one of the most complex conflicts in recent history unfolded live on television. It is a story of untold fear and suffering, and astounding courage in the face of hitherto unimaginable adversity.
About the Author
John Nichol served in the Royal Air Force for fifteen years. On active duty during the first Gulf War in 1991, his Tornado bomber was shot down during a mission over Iraq. Captured, tortured and held as a prisoner of war, John was paraded on television, provoking worldwide condemnation and leaving one of the most enduring images of the conflict.
John is the bestselling co-author of Tornado Down and author of many highly acclaimed Second World War epics including Spitfire and Lancaster, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. He has made a number of TV documentaries with Second World War veterans, written for national newspapers and magazines, and is a widely quoted commentator on military affairs.
9. Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind: 50 Stories of Wit & Wisdom from Ancient India
Author: Shubha Vilas
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Print length: 236 pages
Release date: 20 May 2022
Price: ₹274.00
Review
50 Stories of Wit & Wisdom from Ancient India
In Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind, national author Shubha Vilas revives our ancient tradition of sharing wisdom through storytelling.
Dive in and marvel at
BIRBAL’S INTELLIGENCE
TENALI’S BRILLIANCE
VIKRAMADITYA’S COURAGE
BRAHMA’S ASTUTENESS
That’s not all. This collection is replete with enthralling tales of kings, commoners and even animals (and they can talk!) who face life’s troubles but emerge victorious with the help of their intelligence and wit.
Each story ends with engaging questions that will help you reflect on the anecdote and the lessons inside.
These folktales may have been forgotten in this digital era but they still retain their relevance and charm, thanks to their priceless practical insights.
10. After Steve : How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Author: Tripp Mickle
Publisher: HarperCollins
Print length: 512 pages
Release date: 10 June 2022
Price: ₹465.00
Review
From the Wall Street Journal’s Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants―Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO―and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.
Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs’s spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3, and the iPhone. In the wake of his close collaborator’s death, the chief designer wrestled with grief and initially threw himself into his work designing the new Apple headquarters and the Watch before losing his motivation in a company increasingly devoted more to margins than to inspiration.
In many ways, Cook was Ive’s opposite. The product of a small Alabama town, he had risen through the ranks from the supply side of the company. His gift was not the creation of new products. Instead, he had invented countless ways to maximize a margin, squeezing some suppliers, persuading others to build factories the size of cities to churn out more units. He considered inventory evil. He knew how to make subordinates sweat with withering questions.
Jobs selected Cook as his successor, and Cook oversaw a period of tremendous revenue growth that has lifted Apple’s valuation to $3 trillion. He built a commanding business in China and rapidly distinguished himself as a master politician who could forge global alliances and send the world’s stock market into freefall with a single sentence.
Author Tripp Mickle spoke with more than 200 current and former Apple executives, as well as figures key to this period of Apple’s history, including Trump administration officials and fashion luminaries such as Anna Wintour while writing After Steve. His research shows the company’s success came at a cost. Apple lost its innovative spirit and has not designed a new category of device in years. Ive’s departure in 2019 marked a culmination in Apple’s shift from a company of innovation to one of operational excellence, and the price is a company that has lost its soul.
“Mickle penetrates the veil of secrecy shrouding one of the great dramas of modern business history: how Apple not only survived but thrived after the death of its brilliant, charismatic founder – and at what personal cost to his successors, Tim Cook and Jony Ive. After Steve is both a feat of reporting on what may be the most secretive company in the world and a gripping narrative that brings readers inside the “Spaceship,” Apple’s futuristic headquarters.” – James B. Stewart, author of New York Times bestsellers Den of Thieves, Blood Sport and DisneyWar
“Pulls off the rare feat of illuminating Apple's spiritual misdirections through the life and times of Jony Ive before and after Steve Jobs's death. This extraordinary book has a lot of heart, but also lessons on how a visionary company can lose its soul in search of even greater profits." – Bradley Hope, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale
“Mickle pierced Apple's culture of omerta to deliver an intimate portrait of how Steve Jobs's top disciples – Tim Cook, the inscrutable operator, and Jony Ive, the passionate artist – grappled with the loss of their master and their own differences to bring his creation to unprecedented success.” – Sara Gay Forden, author of House of Gucci and editor at Bloomberg News
“A thrilling account of the characters, intrigues, and decisions that drove Apple to become the world’s most valuable corporation. After Steve is sure to become the definitive account of the post-Jobs era at Apple.”– Bhu Srinivasan, author of Americana
“A fascinating look at Apple in the post-Jobs era. Mickle highlights the link between professional dynamics and personal relationships and how large-cap companies need different skills as they scale. A master class in how creatives and operators work together to build value.” – Scott Galloway, best-selling author of The Four and Post Corona
About the Author
Tripp Mickle is a technology and business reporter for the Wall Street Journal. In addition to writing about Apple for five years, he has written extensively about Google and other Silicon Valley giants. He has appeared on CNBC and NPR and previously worked as a sportswriter. He lives with his wife and German shorthaired pointer in San Francisco, California.
Very nice books to read and buy
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