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A visitor mistakes Ritu’s bird call for an ostrich’s and wants to see the bird. But there are no ostriches on Henry Island! where will Ritu find one to show him?
Author : V.K. Singh
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9357089187
A visitor mistakes Ritu’s bird call for an ostrich’s and wants to see the bird. But there are no ostriches on Henry Island! where will Ritu find one to show him?
Author : V V Ramanan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2003-07-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 935118773X
A treasure house of exciting and informative quiz questions. Do you know what a camelopard is? Can you name the postman in the Asterix comics? Can you say offhand which animal is measured in ‘hands’ rather than feet? Would you be able to reel off the name the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra? Do you know how many runs Don Bradman scored in his last Test innings, how many moons Venus has, and what the opposite of gravity is? If a number of these questions have got you stumped, never fear. The Hindu Young World Quiz Book 1 is chock-full of information like this, and it has been designed specifically to give you and your friends a rollicking good times even as you learn about new things on every page. This first-ever official quiz book from The Hindu Young World draws on V.V. Ramanan’s immensely popular quiz column in Young World, the Saturday childern’s supplement to The Hindu. It is a companion volume to The Hindu Young World Quiz, currently India’s biggest live quiz show for high school students—in 2002 it was held in eleven cities, with 3000 teams from over 1200 schools participating. The 1200 questions that make up this first volume of The Hindu Young World Quiz Book are a heady mix of general knowledge, curious factoids, and trivia. Comprising questions divided into sets of ten, this book is ideal for quizzing with friends, and also for reading on one’s own, for information and sheer pleasure.
Author : Lesley D. Biswas
Publisher : Duckbill
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143453185
The dangerous virus is making everything go into lockdown. But the village poacher trying to catch the pangolin Chumki has befriended. How will Chumki save the rare animal in these tough times?
Author : Sanjeev Sanyal
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2018
Category : India
ISBN : 9780143443292
An entertaining and surprising ride through an India you thought you knew Sanjeev Sanyal, bestselling author of Land of the Seven Rivers, returns to enthral readers with a collection of unusual stories. Written with Sanjeev's trademark flair, the stories crackle with irreverence and wit. In 'The Troll', a presumptuous blogger faces his undoing when he sets out to expose an Internet phenomenon. In the title story, a young man loses his job in the financial crisis and tries to reset his life over two beers. In 'The Intellectuals', a foreign researcher spends some memorable hours with Kolkata's ageing intellectuals. From the vicious politics of a Mumbai housing society to the snobberies of Delhi's cocktail circuit, the stories in Life over Two Beers get under the skin of a rapidly changing India-and leave you chuckling.
Author : Lesley D. Biswas
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 938762594X
Dadi forgets everything, including Chumki's name. When elephants escape from a nearby reserve, can it be a blessing in disguise and help Dadi remember?
Author : Meghaa Gupta
Publisher : India Puffin
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780143450917
Protesting against dams, protecting tigers, hugging trees, saving seeds, making room for elephants, battling mountains of waste, fighting air pollution, coping with soaring temperatures-India and its people have shared a remarkable relationship with the environment. From the Green Revolution to the National Action Plan on Climate Change, Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India chronicles the country's historical movements and significant green missions since 1947. Interspersed with lots of trivia, tales of eco-heroes and humorous cartoons, this easy-to-read account uncovers the story of a past with the hope that we will rewrite India's future.
Author : Lesley D. Biswas
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2019-11
Category :
ISBN : 9789387103153
Author : Partha Dasgupta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108482287
Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.
Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8728072707
In the nation of Littleland, King Benefactor and Queen Echo have decided to host a grand racing tournament to find the fastest car in the land. All seven cars show up, with The Speedy Car and The Flashy Car expected to win. Nobody gives The Square car much of a look, with his square wheels, square engine, square seats and square tyres - how could he possibly win? But this rambunctious little car will win the hearts of the people with his passion and steadfast determination in this wholesome and loving little story from best-selling author Jeffrey Archer. If your kids loved the Pixar and Disney franchise, ‘Cars’, they'll love this sweet story. Jeffrey Archer is a British novelist, Baron and former politician. During his political career, Archer began to write, his second novel ‘Kane and Abel’ becoming an international bestseller. The novel became a mini-series some years later starring Sam Neil. He is the author of the ‘Clifton Chronicles’ as well as a number of short stories and plays, as well as several best-selling children’s novels. His best known works include ‘ First Among Equals’, ‘Kane and Abel’ and ‘Only Time Will Tell’.
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0805099794
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.