Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Brain Child

How Smart Parents Make Smart Kids

Tony Buzan, ‘the biggest name in memory’, takes a fascinating and exuberant look at the enormous potential of a child’s brain and provides parents with the practical tools they need to help their children achieve it. Mind maps, memory games and other techniques allow parents to encourage learning and development for children of all ages.

With Tony Buzan it’s all brain, no pain!

Research shows that the time and energy you dedicate to your child in the first five years pays off dividends for the next ten. With competition for the best schools stiffening, parents having children later and being more aware of the part they must play in their child''s education, there is more and more demand for practical resources like Brain Child.

Tony Buzan, world-renowned inventor Mind Maps, has written the ultimate ''operations manual'' to help parents liberate their child''s true brain potential. He explains how the brain develops and the simple things you can do to stimulate your child''s multiple intelligences – including social, creative, numerical and physical – and unlock his or her natural genius.

• Bring out the Leonardo or Einstein in your child

• Share fun memory games, number skills and Mind Maps

• Raise your child to be happy and confident

• Learn new ways of talking to and reading with your child

• Let your child love numbers as well as words

• Watch him or her excel at school and succeed in life

All parents who pick up this book will be inspired and empowered by Tony''s understanding of their child''s brain and what they can do to fulfil his or her true potential.

ISBN: 9780007166077
Author: Tony Buzan
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Collins Good Writing

The Collins Writer’s Guide is the essential single-volume guide for all who aspire to improve their writing skills

Whether you want to write a novel, draft a report for the School Board, create a compelling CV, write a letter of protest to the Council that will be taken seriously, or enter the brave new world of e-mail, this book is for you and indeed for all the family: the essential desk companion for anyone requiring a friendly guide to modern communication, from the composition of effective complaints to choosing the right ‘emoticon’ to sign off your e-mail with.

Section 1: Grammar

What is Grammar? Why use it? Sentences, Parts of Speech: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Determiners, Conjunctions, Prepositions



Section 2: Punctuation

The complete Guide to the ‘nuts and bolts’ of English speech, capitalization and commas to hyphens and quotations marks.

Section 3: Writing Tips

Achieving clarity, Improving your power of expression, Letter Writing, Creating a CV, E-mailing

Section 4: Building and Perfecting your Vocabulary

A–Z listing of useful but unfamiliar words, with straightforward guidance on difficult and confusable words, The 2,000 most Misspelt Words, Problem Proper Nouns and Commonly Mispelt Names, Ways to Improve Your Spelling, Some Spelling Rules, American Spelling

Section 5: Foreign Words and Phrases

A–Z listing of common foreign terms, with definitions

Section 6: Abbreviations

A–Z listing of common and some uncommon abbreviations and acronyms, with full explanations.

‘a master class…This is more than a quick reference book. This is a delight for anyone interested in words.’ – Writers’ Forum

ISBN: 9780007208685
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Solo

Rana Dasgupta was born in England in 1971 and grew up in Cambridge. Having lived in France, Malaysia and the US, he moved to Delhi in 2001.

Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine. A group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by this discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists might record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, already traumatised by the devastation they had recently witnessed, died on the way. Wondering if, unlike these hapless parrots, he has any wisdom to leave to the world, one-hundred-year-old Ulrich embarks on an epic armchair journey through the twists and turns of his country''s turbulent century – and through his own century of lost love and failed chemistry – and finds his way to an astonishing epiphany of redemption and enlightenment. Set in Bulgaria, a country that, like the author himself, has belonged sometimes to Asia and sometimes to Europe, Solo is a book about lost roots, broken traditions and wasted ambitions – and the depths of lyricism by which human beings overcome those things.

ISBN: 9780007182145
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Connected : The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

Nicholas Christakis is a Harvard professor with joint appointments in Care Policy, Sociology and Medicine, who has been studying social networks for the last ten years. His work has been covered by numerous publications including the New York Times, Newsweek and Time magazine, which recently voted one of the 100 Most Influential People in 2009.
James Fowler is a political scientist who specialises in the study of social networks, human cooperation and political participation. His projects on obesity and the genetic basis of political behaviour have been covered by media outlets including the Washington Post and the BBC.

Is happiness catching? Are your friends making you fat? Can your sibling make you smart? Is wealth contagious? Where is true love found? Does free will exist? Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology, ''Connected'' is an innovative and fascinating exploration of how social networks operate.

Think it''s all about who you know? It is. But not the way you think. Turns out your colleague''s husband''s sister can make you fat, even if you don''t know her. And a happy friend is more relevant to your happiness than a bigger income.

Our connections - our friends, their friends, and even their friends'' friends - have an astonishing power to influence everything from what we eat to who we sleep with. And we, in turn, influence others. Our actions can change the behaviours, the beliefs, and even the basic health of people we''ve never met.

In this brilliantly original and effortlessly engaging exploration of how much we truly influence one another, pre-eminent social scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain why obesity is contagious, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, with revelatory implications for everything from our notion of the individual to ideas about public health initiatives, "Connected" will change the way you think about every aspect of your life, and how you live it.

ISBN: 9780007360925
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Captured in Miniature: Mughal Lives Through Mughal Art

With their passion for nature and art, the Mughal emperors laid out verdant gardens, built splendid monuments - and commissioned beautiful books.

Books were precious to the Mughal kings. Expensive and laborious to produce, they were symbols of royal wealth, power and intelligence. At the height of Mughal power, the imperial studios hummed with the activity of hundreds of papermakers, calligraphers, painters and bookbinders, all producing books for the royal libraries. Many manuscripts were illustrated with exquisite miniature paintings, in which the Mughals took a special delight.

Today these books and paintings, treasured by museums around the world, offer us unique perspectives into Mughal lives.

Captured in Miniature unveils the secrets of miniature painting, allowing children (and adults) to experience thejoy of their creation and interpretation.

ISBN: 9788172236229
Author: SUHAG SHIRODKAR
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Remaking Higher Education: Essays in Dissent


Amrik Singh was a teacher for over twenty-five years. During this period, he also became a teacher activist. Then he went into administration and wound up as a vice chancellor. Since his retirement over thirty-five years ago, he has published more than a dozen books, and a few plays in his mother tongue, Punjabi.

Part memoir, part analysis, this is a polemical study of the state of higher education in India. Drawing on his extensive experience as educator and academic in India and abroad, Amrik Singh provides the reader with a much-needed critique of policymaking in the area of higher education – its shortcomings, the reasons for these flaws, as well as measures for improvement. He focuses on the procedural and financial changes that are essential for improving standards so India can be at par with the more progressive nations of the world, and also the absolute necessity for teachers more than administrators to take a hand in the framing of policies. In this erudite volume, Amrik Singh sounds a clarion call for transparency in policymaking and freedom from corruption – for there is no doubt that higher education is the cornerstone of all future development.

ISBN: 9788172239121
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India
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Seasons of Flight

Manjushree Thapa is the author of a literary non-fiction book, Forget Kathmandu, a novel, The Tutor of History, and a collection of short stories, Tilled Earth. Her forthcoming books are a biography, A Boy from Siklis: The Life and Times of Chandra Gurung, and a novel, Seasons of Flight.

‘It was and it was not far, where she came from. Some days her birth village felt centuries away, and other days it was too close, she could not get far enough away from it… She lived, now, in America, in a spare, uncluttered flat with a transient feel. Her only memento from home was an ammonite, a lustrous stone the colour of shale, the shape of a lopsided egg. A fossil of marine life from when the himals were below the sea, millennia ago.’

Prema, a young woman adrift in war-torn rural Nepal, with little to bind her to her family, village and country, wins a green card in a US government lottery and emigrates to Los Angeles. In this unfamiliar metropolis she struggles to invent a life she can call her own, even as love, and sexual awakening, transform her. There are no constants, or signposts, as she navigates the territory of her new world. But her commitment to Esther, the old woman she is employed to care for, her passionate relationship with Luis, her American lover, and her growing involvement with the endangered El Segundo Blue butterfly, give her a fragile sense of belonging.

Lyrical and haunting, and also deeply political, this new novel by the celebrated author of The Tutor of History and Forget Kathmandu confirms her reputation as one of the most original and distinctive literary voices from South Asia.

ISBN: 9780670084388
Published by: Penguin Books India
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Buddha Book: 50 Buddhas, Blessings Prayers and Rituals to Grant You Love, Wisdom and Healing

Inspired by the teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Buddha Box introduces the reader to the most important and well-known Buddhist deities. Comprises 45 beautifully illustrated cards, presenting each Buddha along with their major characteristics, and an accompanying book, explaining the history of the Buddhas.

Contents:

• Included in this edition are the Historical Buddha, Shakyamuni; the Five Dhyani Buddhas; the Purification Buddha; the Healing Buddhas; the Compassionate Buddhas; the Longevity Buddhas; the Mother Goddess; the Wealth Buddhas; and the Buddha of the Future.

• Each card represents a separate Buddha along with the prayers, meditations, visualizations, and special rituals and blessings associated with each.

• In the Buddhist tradition each deity represents different aspects of the enlightened mind. This pack shows how meditating with a particular Buddha on a daily basis can bring healing, compassion and hope into our lives.

• The accompanying book describes the historical background of the Buddhas in a clear and concise way and explains how you can integrate the Buddhist faith into your life.

ISBN: 9780007174867
Author: Lillian Too
Published by: Harper Collins Publishers India