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The Hindu Young World

Author : V V Ramanan

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 27,27 MB

Release : 2003-07-22

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 935118773X

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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.



The First Muslim

Author : Lesley Hazleton

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 25,20 MB

Release : 2013-01-24

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1101602007

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The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited—and remade. Lesley Hazleton's new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, is out now from Riverhead Books. Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality. Hazleton’s account follows the arc of Muhammad’s rise from powerlessness to power, from anonymity to renown, from insignificance to lasting significance. How did a child shunted to the margins end up revolutionizing his world? How did a merchant come to challenge the established order with a new vision of social justice? How did the pariah hounded out of Mecca turn exile into a new and victorious beginning? How did the outsider become the ultimate insider? Impeccably researched and thrillingly readable, Hazleton’s narrative creates vivid insight into a man navigating between idealism and pragmatism, faith and politics, nonviolence and violence, rejection and acclaim. The First Muslim illuminates not only an immensely significant figure but his lastingly relevant legacy.



The Power of Geography

Author : Tim Marshall

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 35,4 MB

Release : 2021-11-09

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1982178647

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future. Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed, but the world has. Now, in this “wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity” (Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane; why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China; how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power; why Ethiopia can control Egypt; and why Europe’s next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space. Innovative, compelling, and delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is “an immersive blend of history, economics, and political analysis that puts geography at the center of human affairs” (Publishers Weekly).



The Kashmiri Storyteller

Author : Ruskin Bond

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 103 pages

File Size : 19,32 MB

Release : 2011-07-09

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 8184755716

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As darkness falls outside; and the chill sets in; Javed Khan pulls at his hookah and begins his stories... When Kamal and his friends gather at Javed Khan’s Kashmiri shop at Landour bazaar; he enthralls them with his stories—of princes and kings; fairies and magical animals; supermen and cunning traders. Come; sit around the fire with Kamal; Shashi; Anil; Madhu and Vijay while they listen to Javed Khan’s stories of the monkey bride; the man who got swallowed by a mosquito; the bent-up double beggar who angered a ghost; and many other tales from Kashmir and beyond. In this brilliantly illustrated collection; Ruskin Bond brings alive unforgettable folktales from the misty hills of Kashmir that will delight and enchant his followers both young and old



Slice of Summer

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Publisher :

Page : 197 pages

File Size : 42,62 MB

Release : 2018

Category :

ISBN : 9789387791206

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A Pair of Twins

Author : Kavitha Mandana

Publisher : Karadi Tales Picturebooks

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,2 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)

ISBN : 9788181903020

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An elephant and a little girl are born on the same day - and their connection lasts a lifetime.



Puzzle Baron's Big Book of Puzzles

Author : Puzzle Baron

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,49 MB

Release : 2017-04-11

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 146545912X

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Spend hours solving over 400 various puzzles in the Puzzle Baron's largest offering yet! The Puzzle Baron is at it again—creating puzzles his puzzle followers crave. Puzzle Baron's Big Book of Puzzles provides puzzlers hours of entertainment with 400 assorted popular puzzles, including logic puzzles, crosswords, cryptograms, acrostics, word search puzzles, and more! Each puzzle type includes statistics—such as the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of puzzlers who can complete the puzzle—to bring out the competitor in puzzlers and better inform them on how easy/difficult each puzzle is to do. So grab your pencil and see how you stack up to the competiton!



Moin and the monster

Author : Anushka Ravishankar

Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Page : 117 pages

File Size : 25,74 MB

Release : 2018-04-15

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0143497723

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One night, in the dim darkness of his room, Moin heard something shuffling and sniffling under his bed ...' It is a monster. Moin has to learn to live with the monster, which does nothing but eat bananas, sing silly songs and try out new hairstyles. However, keeping the monster a secret from his parents and teachers is a tough task and finally Moin decides that the only thing to do is send the monster back where it came from...



Lords Of The Deccan

Author : Anirudh Kanisetti

Publisher : Juggernaut Publication India

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 29,35 MB

Release : 2023-04

Category :

ISBN : 9789353451608

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This painstakingly researched forgotten history of India will keep you riveted and enthralled. You will never see the history of the subcontinent the same way again. The Chalukyas, Pallavas, Rashtrakutas and Cholas dynasties, and animates them with humanity and depth.



A Brush with Indian Art

Author : Mamta Nainy

Publisher : Puffin

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 45,29 MB

Release : 2018-03

Category : Art, Indic

ISBN : 9780143441564

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Winner of the 2019 Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Award for Best Book (Non-Fiction) Embark on a vivid journey on which you'll learn about the origins and evolution of art in the country. Prepare to be amazed by the first pictures made by early humans; reflect upon the serenity of Buddhist cave paintings at Ajanta; marvel at the splendour of Mughal miniature art; delight in the religious depictions of Tanjore; study the hybrid Company and revivalist Bengal styles; and discover the best of modern and contemporary artists. Watch it all come alive in intricate black-and-white sketches and stunning photographs of the most celebrated visuals across time. A rich primer on the different schools of art and the most significant movements in Indian art history, A Brush with Indian Art might even nudge you into propping up your first canvas!