My Jiffies: Narration of Moments, Unadulterated and Unpackaged


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“A refreshing change from the ordinary. The simplicity of the tales lingers long in the mind of the reader” – The Hindustan Times “A series of moments captured and moulded into bite-sized stories that can can set you thinking” - The Hindu "Brevity is the talk of the times" - Asian Age "Author Priyanka Sharma Kaintura's book explores a new genre and presents an interesting collection of stories" - Deccan Chronicle My Jiffies is a unique compilation of bite-sized stories and poems. It captures the irony and amusement of the journey called life. The book navigates through seven different moods narrating diverse emotions and situations, observed or experienced by the author. It’s a string of jiffies reciting tacit sentiments or messages turned upside down in everyday life, across eras and cultures. Wading from modern day to mythical, romance to pathos, satire to witty humour, it never stops to surprise the reader with every turn of the page. One never knows what is held next.




3 and a Half Murders: An Inspector Saralkar Mystery


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Two corpses . . . a woman lying dead on her bed, a man hanging from the ceiling fan. A suicide note cum murder confession. And a name . . . Shaunak Sodhi. When the case comes their way, Senior Inspector Saralkar has just been diagnosed with hypertension and PSI Motkar is busy with rehearsals of an amateur play. What appears at first to be a commonplace crime by a debt-ridden, cuckolded husband, who has killed his unfaithful wife and then hung himself, soon begins to unfold as a baffling mystery. As clues point to a seven-year-old unsolved murder in Bangalore and other leads emerge closer home, Saralkar and Motkar find themselves investigating shady secrets, bitter grudges, fishy land deals, carnal desires, the dead woman Anushka Doshi' s sinister obsession with past life regression and her husband' s links to a suspicious, small-time god-man, Rangdev Baba.And then, suddenly, the murderer resurfaces and yet another life is in grave danger . . . Can Saralkar and Motkar get to the bottom of an unimaginably shocking motive and stop the malevolent killer from committing the fourth murder . . .?




Winning Like Virat


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Virat Kohli scored only 10, 12 and 19 runs in his debut domestic, ODI and Test matches, respectively. Today, he is hailed as one of the greatest batsmen in the world. But how did this transformation come about? If we focus on Virat, the cricketer and the man, we will find some extraordinary traits-his leadership skills, the ability to keep his cool under pressure, a fearless attitude and a desire to win every game-that have shaped him as he is today. Off the field too, his maturity in handling the media and business acumen testify to his excellent leadership and man-management skills. There is little doubt that Virat's success is not a matter of luck alone but of relentless hard work and a dedicated goal to succeed. As a young professional or student there is a lot to learn from Virat's achievement. Winning like Virat: Think & Succeed like Kohli attempts to understand the secrets of his phenomenal success and tells the reader how best to emulate these in life.




Ashok and the Nine Unknown


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Zelaldinus


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On a camel's back hill beyond Agra stands a Redstone citadel altogether different from the white marble Taj Mahal. Fatehpur Sikri is the capital Akbar built to honour the saint who foretold the birth of his first son. In the inner court of the king's palace is a broad stone terrace with a chequered pattern that resembles a game board. Here, accounts say, Akbar played a kind of chess using human pieces from his harem of three hundred. Costumed in various guises, his women would have presented lively masques upon this stage.Zelaldinus mounts such a pageant, glittering and fantastical, where past and present, nobles and commoners, history and fiction rub shoulders. Its variety of verse and prose forms evoke the carnival spirit of a masque. Underlying the depiction of a rich and varied court life at Sikri are reflections on kingship, a meditation on fathers and sons and a plot within a plot that tells a crackling story of love across the Pakistan border-while through it all strides the nimble ghost of Akbar himself. Jalaluddin (Zelaldinus) Akbar




Midnight Freeway


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Yogesh Moolchandani, a disreputable builder, is dead. All the signs say suicide but there was nothing wrong with his life. He had just cracked a deal and things were looking hale and hearty for him. He had recently even purchased an imported Volkswagen Jetta. CCTV footage from the night of his death shows him crashing into a toll booth at a speed of 180 km per hour on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. The dealer he had purchased his car from had received five missed calls from him just five minutes prior to the time of the alleged crash. On the same night, in another part of town, Pranav Paleja, a criminal lawyer who works at the law chamber- Mangesh & Mangharam, tries his best to extricate his client-a troublesome drunk-from the clutches of the police. Although an upholder of the law himself, Paleja is pathologically incapable of following it in his day-to-day personal life. Since Pranav Paleja was settling a dispute with the man concerned only moments before the crash, the police land up at his doorstep. As the authorities try to find out why Yogesh was calling his car dealer frantically, the plot begins to thicken. Who, or rather what, killed Yogesh Moolchandani?




Trichier


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Marketing


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*Winners - British Book Design Awards 2014 in the category Best Use of Cross Media* Get access to an interactive eBook* when you buy the paperback (Print paperback version only, ISBN 9781446296424) Watch the video walkthrough to find out how your students can make the best use of the interactive resources that come with the new edition! With each print copy of the new 3rd edition, students receive 12 months FREE access to the interactive eBook* giving them the flexibility to learn how, when and where they want. An individualized code on the inside back cover of each book gives access to an online version of the text on Vitalsource Bookshelf® and allows students to access the book from their computer, tablet, or mobile phone and make notes and highlights which will automatically sync wherever they go. Green coffee cups in the margins link students directly to a wealth of online resources. Click on the links below to see or hear an example: Watch videos to get a better understanding of key concepts and provoke in-class discussion Visit websites and templates to help guide students’ study A dedicated Pinterest page with wealth of topical real world examples of marketing that students can relate to the study A Podcast series where recent graduates and marketing professionals talk about the day-to-day of marketing and specific marketing concepts For those students always on the go, Marketing an Introduction 3rd edition is also supported by MobileStudy – a responsive revision tool which can be accessed on smartphones or tablets allowing students to revise anytime and anywhere that suits their schedule. New to the 3rd edition: Covers topics such as digital marketing, global marketing and marketing ethics Places emphasis on employability and marketing in the workplace to help students prepare themselves for life after university Fun activities for students to try with classmates or during private study to help consolidate what they have learnt (*interactivity only available through Vitalsource eBook)




According to Kotler


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According to Kotler distills the essence of marketing guru Philip Kotler's wisdom and years of experience into an immensely readable question and answer format. Based on the thousands of questions Kotler has been asked over the years, the book reveals the revolutionary theories of one of the profession's most revered experts.




She Sparrow


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