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Three Thousand Stitches

Author : Sudha Murty
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Release Date : 2017-07-14
ISBN 10 : 9789386651600
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (386 users)

Download Three Thousand Stitches PDF Full or another Format written by Sudha Murty and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So often, it's the simplest acts of courage that touch the lives of others. Sudha Murty-through the exceptional work of the Infosys Foundation as well as through her own youth, family life and travels-encounters many such stories . . . and she tells them here in her characteristically clear-eyed, warm-hearted way. She talks candidly about the meaningful impact of her work in the devadasi community, her trials and tribulations as the only female student in her engineering college and the unexpected and inspiring consequences of her father's kindness. From the quiet joy of discovering the reach of Indian cinema and the origins of Indian vegetables to the shallowness of judging others based on appearances, these are everyday struggles and victories, large and small. Unmasking both the beauty and ugliness of human nature, each of the real-life stories in this collection is reflective of a life lived with grace.

Why People Give

Author : Ratna Vira
Publisher : SAGE Publications India
Release Date : 2019-06-03
ISBN 10 : 9789353285821
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (353 users)

Download Why People Give PDF Full or another Format written by Ratna Vira and published by SAGE Publications India. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people really give? Does giving indicate a kind heart? Is altruism about feeling good or is there more to it? We regularly see numerous displays of altruistic behaviour and instances of philanthropy, where the beneficiaries are often complete strangers. We cannot understand philanthropy without considering the motivation for giving: Why people give, their beliefs and, more importantly, the realization that in giving we receive. This book is passionately argued, deeply researched and full of indelible stories of real people. The authors build a case for altruism and the urgent need for empathy in an increasingly self-centred and materialistic world. Through stories drawn from real life, this book will change how we look at the act of giving. It shows that each one of us can bring about a change, if only we have the will. We don’t have to wait for governments or big corporations to act because the power lies within us—we can be the catalysts.

The Friend

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1864
ISBN 10 : HARVARD:AH6E59
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.:/5 ( users)

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Winter White

Author : Deborah Hughes
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2008-02
ISBN 10 : 9780595442904
Pages : 268 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (595 users)

Download Winter White PDF Full or another Format written by Deborah Hughes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W idowed college professor Jim McAllister is involved in an accident one snowy night in Vermont. When he rescues Alex Scorsese, a U.S. State Department courier, he never expects to fall in love. But that's exactly what happens. While the couple honeymoon in Paris, Alex picks up a diplomatic pouch that leads them into a harrowing dash across Europe. They evade terrorists, escape a plane crash, and narrowly avoid an embassy assassination attempt only to find themselves shot down over the icy Atlantic. After a cruise ship rescues them, the unthinkable happens: Alex dies. Finding the strength to keep living after losing his second wife proves an incredible challenge for Jim, and he finds support from an unlikely place: Leigh Scorsese, Alex's twenty-one-year-old daughter. But Jim is still in jeopardy because of the information he now carries in his memory. When Leigh is kidnapped and held hostage, Jim has a tough choice to make: either lose Leigh or give up the information the whole world wants-the coordinates to bin Laden's hiding place. Combining a tender love story with a violent escape chase across Europe, Winter White is a heart-stopping, first-rate thriller.

Harpers Weekly

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Release Date : 1865
ISBN 10 : IOWA:31858029244336
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (31 users)

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Blood and Roses

Author : Helen Castor
Publisher : Harper
Release Date : 2006-04-11
ISBN 10 : 0007148089
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (148 users)

Download Blood and Roses PDF Full or another Format written by Helen Castor and published by Harper. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a span of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder, yet until now, almost nothing has been known about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time. Drawing on an incomparably rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the lives of the Paston family, who singlemindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. As they went about their business in a disintegrating society, the Pastons corresponded on topics ranging from politics to love, from shopping to family gossip. A wife writes her husband that she'd rather have him home than have a new gown, "even if it were scarlet." A brother reports that the handless servant, Thomas Stumps, has demanded a crossbow so that he can defend them in a siege. Five hundred years later, these voices still have the immediacy of a conversation overheard on a street corner. Blood and Roses is a gripping and intimate biography of a family, which traces three generations of births, marriages, and deaths. Castor unravels the story of the family's tur-bulent affairs against the backdrop of civil war, bringing to vibrant life a remote and hazy era.

Harper's Bazaar

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Release Date : 1871
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015013264679
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)

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Youth's Companion

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Release Date : 1899
ISBN 10 : PRNC:32101078190103
Pages : pages
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The Illustrated London News

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Release Date : 1843
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015006972874
Pages : pages
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Same Place, Same Things

Author : Tim Gautreaux
Publisher : St Martins Press
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 0312147279
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (147 users)

Download Same Place, Same Things PDF Full or another Format written by Tim Gautreaux and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories set in Louisianna incorporate the customs and cadences of modern Cajun life with ordinary people who face extraordinary circumstances or decisions

The Israelis

Author : Donna Rosenthal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0684869721
Pages : 466 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (869 users)

Download The Israelis PDF Full or another Format written by Donna Rosenthal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at Israeli contemporary culture notes its vibrant civic society in the face of war, its large percentage of professional workers, its Orthodox practices, its love of western music and technology, its thriving gay community, and its reverence for its military. 35,000 first printing.

American Architect and Architecture

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Release Date : 1881
ISBN 10 : UVA:X001788848
Pages : pages
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

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Release Date : 1837
ISBN 10 : UTEXAS:059172131258813
Pages : pages
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Scientific American

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Release Date : 1867
ISBN 10 : PSU:000062999182
Pages : pages
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