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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day — as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations.
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Bull’s Eye: The Power of Focus by Brian Tracy
Your aim in life should be to achieve all of the wonderful things that are possible for you. There is no reason for you not to be earning twice as much as you are today, or even five or ten times as much. Your potential is practically limitless, if you could just learn how to utilize it
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Bulletproof Marriage by Renato & Cristiane Cardoso
Bulletproof Marriage by Renato & Cristiane Cardoso. Many couples never learned to love each other. A feeling, passion or some other influence brought them together, but they never learned how to study or explore each other, or discover what makes them happy.
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Buried Beneath The Baobab Tree
Adaobi brings her years of journalistic endeavour to bear in this gripping story of woe, abuse and admirable fortitude; of a young girl whose dreams of a university education facilitated by a prestigious scholarship, is shattered when Boko Haram Terrorists attack her village and take her and other women captive after killing her brothers and father among others. This is a well-spun tale that traces the experiences of the women in the hands of the terrorists.
Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home and her harrowing fight for survival.
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Burn Anger Before Anger Burns You
Anger is just one letter short of danger. It is an eroding emotion. If not dealt with firmly and positively, it destroys everything around and within us. This book tells us how to:
– Cope with anger and be angry only at the right time, with the right person, in the right measure.
– Grow in the power of understanding–ourselves and others–and avoid making hasty judgments.
– Develop the spirit of forgiveness and learn to forgive even before forgiveness is asked for.
– Practise the therapy of cheerfulness; when all other therapies fail, cheerfulness can still work and help us live longer here on earth and afterwards in the hearts of people.
An invaluable guide by one of India’s most revered spiritual masters, this book offers simple yet profound tips which help us solve the problems and challenges that are a part of everyday life. We can have the best of both worlds–success in our work and glowing inner peace.
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Burnt Shadows By Kamila Shamsie
Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white.
In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India’s cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel’s astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events. Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by “a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response” (Salman Rushdie).