Writing up your university assignments and research projects
2,090.00₹ 1,290.00₹
Academic writing can be a daunting prospect for new undergraduates and postgraduates alike, regardless of whether they are home or overseas students. This accessible book provides them/students with all they need to know to produce excellent written work.
Based on their many years of experience, the authors have structured the book so as to build students’ confidence in their own writing ability whilst at the same time respecting conventional ideas of what is, and what is not, acceptable in the academic domain. To reinforce student learning, the material is presented using a wealth of clear examples, hands-on tasks with answers, and logical sequences that build on earlier chapters. The first two sections of the book address the preparation and writing of assignments and research projects, while the third provides a useful toolkit containing reference materials on areas including punctuation, grammar and academic terminology.
The book includes numerous tips and insights and comprehensively covers issues such as:
- Reading around a new topic
- The need for coherence and how to achieve it
- Structure and organisation
- Plagiarism, quoting and citing sources
- The main sections of a typical research project
- Writing style
- Finding your own voice
- Examiner expectations
You Can Always Sell More: How to Improve Any Sales Force
1,950.00₹ 1,090.00₹
The sales manager’s step-by-step guide to better team performanceAs an experienced sales manager, how do you improve your team’s performance? Which selling skills, developed to their fullest potential, have the greatest impact on revenues and profitability? You Can Always Sell More will guide you through a proven step-by-step system for evaluating, training, and coaching your sales force. It will help you establish a simple and effective evaluation and improvement planning process for even your most successful salespeople. Proven in a wide array of industries, this will also show you how to improve your ability to coach and lead a team of sales professionals.
Jim Pancero (Dallas, TX) is the founder of one of the country’s most advanced sales and sales management training and consulting firms. He has conducted training sessions for over 200,000 experienced corporate sales-team members, association attendees, and graduate-level university students.
You Know what I Mean?
1,750.00₹ 1,590.00₹
Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes – but not always. Everyone thinks that meaning is contained within words – like sardines in a tin, or milk in a bottle. After all, words are nice stable things that you can look up in a dictionary aren’t they? But dictionaries only take us so far… If you eavesdropped on a teenage conversation, rushing to a dictionary – with its definitions frozen in time – wouldn’t help much. Who’s using a word and to whom, in what context, for what purpose – all these influence the meaning of the language we use. The word’s origins and history (its ‘genetics’) also help. Try teaching yourself another language from a phrasebook and you’ll soon learn that you can be correct, in the formal sense, but still way behind the times in reality. In this book Wajnryb considers these and other questions to explore how and why our language works the way it does.
- Offers a fresh approach to thinking about language
- Includes lots of contemporary references and examples to illustrate points
- Each section is self-contained so readers can browse rather than read from cover to cover
Youth Gangs and Street Children
8,400.00₹ 2,890.00₹
The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. These children are perceived to be in a constant state of destitution, violence and vagrancy, and therefore must be a serious threat to society, needing heavy-handed intervention and ‘tough love’ from concerned adults to impose societal norms on them and turn them into responsible citizens. However, such norms are far from the lived reality of these children. The situation is further complicated by gender-based violence and masculinist ideologies found in the wider Ethiopian culture, which influence the proliferation of youth gangs. By focusing on gender as the defining element of these children’s lives ― as they describe it in their own words ― this book offers a clear analysis of how the unequal and antagonistic gender relations that are tolerated and normalized by everyday school and family structures shape their lives at home and on the street.
SHALIMAR THE CLOWN
550.00₹ 410.00₹
This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America’s counter terrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown; Max’s illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California again. Along the way there are tales of princesses lured from their homes by demons, legends of kings forced to defend their kingdoms against evil. And there is always love, gained and lost, uncommonly beautiful and mortally dangerous.
FURY
499.00₹ 380.00₹
In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. And into this tumultuous city arrives Malik Solanka. His life has been a sequence of exits. He has left in his wake his country, family, not one but two wives, and now a child. But as his latest marriage disintegrates and the fury builds within him he fears he will become dangerous to those he loves. And so he steps out of his life once again and begins a new one in New York. But New York is a city boiling with fury. Around Malik cab drivers spout obscenities, a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, and the petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis threaten to engulf him, as his own thoughts, emotions and desires reach breaking point.
THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE
499.00₹ 380.00₹
The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. Profoundly moving and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world’s most important living writers.
The PALACE of ILLUSIONS
399.00₹ 310.00₹
The novel traces the princess Panchaali’s life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands’ most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate.
ARRANGED MARRIAGE
499.00₹ 380.00₹
For those Indian – born women living new lives in America, independence is a mixed blessing. It means walking the tight rope between old treasured beliefs and surprising new found desires and understanding the emotions which that conflict brings.
SISTER of MY HEART
550.00₹ 410.00₹
Sister of My Heart is a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. First published in 1999, this novel was followed in 2002 by a sequel The Vine of Desire. The story centers on the lives of two Indian girls, Anju and Sudha.
The MISTRESS of SPICES
499.00₹ 380.00₹
Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now immortal Tilo–in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman–travels through time to Oakland, California, where she opens a shop from which she administers spices as curatives to her customers. An unexpected romance with a handsome stranger eventually forces her to choose between the supernatural life of an immortal and the vicissitudes of modern life. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a tale of joy and sorrow and one special woman’s magical powers.
THE WHITE TIGER
350.00₹ 280.00₹
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life – having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.
Between the Assassinations
299.00₹ 250.00₹
Between the Assassinations showcases the most beloved aspects of Adiga’s writing to brilliant effect: the class struggle rendered personal; the fury of the underdog and the fire of the iconoclast; and the prodigiously ambitious narrative talent that has earned Adiga acclaim around the world and comparisons to Gogol, Ellison, Kipling, and Palahniuk. In the words of The Guardian(London), “Between the Assassinations shows that Adiga…is one of the most important voices to emerge from India in recent years.”
LAST MAN IN TOWER
399.00₹ 310.00₹
Last Man In Tower is a 2011 novel by Indian writer Aravind Adiga. Published by HarperCollins India, it was the third published book and second published novel by Adiga. It tells the story of a struggle for a slice of shining Mumbai real estate.
SERIOUS MEN
299.00₹ 250.00₹
Partly to entertain himself, partly to cheer up his once-animated but now work-worn wife, partly to bolster his ten-year-old son’s confidence, Mani weaves an outrageous fiction around the boy—a fiction that captures the interest of his superiors at the Institute and threatens to set into motion an unstoppable and disastrous chain of events. And Mani, struggling to keep his own dreams alive, sees opportunity in everything.
THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING GOOD
599.00₹ 450.00₹
Why be good? What exactly is Dharma? How does one practise it; and to what effect? Gurcharan Das’s superb exposition of the dilemmas and ambiguities inherent in the Mahabharata shows us how we can come to terms with the uncertain ethics of the world today; a world that is uncannily similar to that of the great epic.
The Complete Stories – ANITA DESAI
899.00₹ 650.00₹
Anita Desai is amongst our greatest and most insightful writers. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, The Complete Stories gathers together the short story collections Diamond Dustand Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
299.00₹ 250.00₹
Acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy to tackle immensely complex problems with the humblest of techniques: the checklist. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction and business of all kinds.
An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
Complications
350.00₹ 280.00₹
n gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is–uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
