![]() In his latest book and also the first one on Ganesha, the author brings together 99 meditations to better understand the stories, symbols and rituals of one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu pantheon, namely Ganapati, known to remove hurdles to bring prosperity and peace in our life. ![]() Devdutt Pattanaik has written and lectured extensively on the nature of sacred stories, symbols and rituals and their relevance in modern times. Here it is.Ī medical doctor by education, a leadership consultant by profession, Dr. Published by Jaico, it is a slim volume titled ‘99 Thoughts on Ganesha’ (Stories, Symbols and Rituals of India’s beloved elephant-headed deity), for which we already have a review by reader Nilesh A Raje. ![]() For the lull before the start of the festive season, and because it is always good to be well-prepared, we recommend that you pick up the latest book by Indian physician turned author, mythologist, management consultant and chief belief officer of the Futures Group, Dr Devdutt Pattanaik. ![]()
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![]() From the moment he discovered he’d be joining the military to the struggle to overcome PTSD after returning home, this is a powerful story of self-exploration, loss, and heartbreaking anguish. The author found himself serving the military overseas and feeling a sense of duty to his fellow soldiers, and soon found himself facing the unyielding violence of war which forced him to face everything he ever believed and knew about himself. Scott Service’s Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier ’ s Personal Journey In Iraq, the author takes readers on an ever personal journey through their time serving overseas. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.” ![]() As psychologist professor Steven Pinker once said, “Human nature is complex. While many advocate for peace and equality, violence always finds a way of trickling into our grander societies, upsetting the balance and causing chaos wherever it goes. Whether we want to admit it or not, humanity as a whole is far too often ruled by violent tendencies than not. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book ‘Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and TESLA is Shaping Our Future’ is a brilliant and intelligent account of this genius young ‘iron man’ told in a gripping manner. Getting sacked as the CEO, Musk did not cease to amaze friend and foes alike with his out of the box ideas, like investing in rockets! Needless to say, this deconstructed obsession with technology had his marital life go haywire. I’d rather play video games, write software, and read books than try and get an A if there’s no point in getting an A.” One of the successful companies that he co-founded was the online payment gateway PayPal that was later acquired by e-Bay in 2002. Ashlee Vance’s brilliant description of Musk’s character, simple language and neat choice of words indeed makes this book a great read.Ĭonsidered by some as the innovation, entrepreneurial Steve Jobs of the present and future, Elon Musk became a billionaire early in life with his successful online ventures. The real-life inspiration of the Iron Man Series, Musk wants to be the saviour of the planet, send people into space and set up a colony on Mars.īullied in school and scolded tremendously by his father, Musk was actually a brilliant student and his life story is nothing less than a drama packed film. The book captures the life and achievements of South African interpreter and innovator, Elon Musk, the brain behind series of successful enterprises such as PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX and Solarcity. Title: Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping Our Future ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenkins, the daughter of a lawyer in Chicago, and had three children. Masters attended The Knox Academy from 1889-1890, a defunct preparatory program run by Knox College, but was forced to leave due to his family's inability to finance his education.Īfter working in his father's law office, he was admitted to the Illinois bar and moved to Chicago, where he established a law partnership with Kickham Scanlan in 1893. It gained a huge popularity, but shattered his position as a respectable member of establishment. Spoon River was Masters's revenge on small-town hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness. The culture around Lewistown, in addition to the town's cemetery at Oak Hill, and the nearby Spoon River were the inspirations for many of his works, most notably Spoon River Anthology, his most famous and acclaimed work. In 1880 they moved to Lewistown, Illinois, where he attended high school and had his first publication in the Chicago Daily News. The family soon moved back to his paternal grandparents' farm near Petersburg in Menard County, Illinois. ![]() Dexter and Hardin Wallace Masters in Garnett, Kansas, his father had briefly moved to set up a law practice. ![]() ![]() but he has no idea what the company actually does. he works at a&c industries, where his days are spent deeply immersed in charts and graphs and powerpoint presentations, organizing numbers and data into orderly rows. ![]() the streets make up a perfectly-aligned grid, the trees are obsessively maintained, everyone is well-groomed and polite, and every person every day follows the same routine like clockwork.ĭave is a completely hairless individual, except for his eyebrows and this one stubborn hair under his nose that grows back immediately no matter what he does to remove it. no, he lives in a place called "here," which is a tightly controlled walled-off urban island, where everything is impeccably, impossibly neat. not here, in my studio apartment with me - that would be crazy. The job of the skin is to keep it all in and never let anything show.ĭave lives here. OH MY GOD GIANT EVIL BEARD CUTOUT!!! BEST IDEA EVER!īeneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know. ![]() ![]() Purchase Now – Please Buy from Us to Support Our Service to You and Others! When you purchase through the links on this site, we receive credits to purchase and review books on the spiritual life that we then share with you. ![]() If you struggle with worry, anxiety, or if you desire to know Christ more fully each moment, this book is an unparalleled resource. With this recognition and the resulting impact on our relationship with God, we are better able to leave the challenges of the present and future completely in His hands. Read in the former manner, it will provide rich spiritual transformation as you begin to recognize God’s loving presence in each moment. The great power of the book comes through Lectio Divina or meditation on the content versus reading at a purely intellectually level. Aside from scripture, it is the only book that I have read through multiple times (at least three cover to cover). ![]() Abandonment to Divine Providence (also known in another translation as the Joy of Full Surrender) has been a life-changing book for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s weird, I don’t feel like Prince Sebastian could lead a nation into battle, but Lady Crystallia could,” admits the prince, inspiring Frances to create an armor-themed dress for their next midnight escapade. The relationship between Frances and Sebastian-both as a conflicted prince and the glamorous Crystallia-glows Frances understands that Sebastian and Crystallia are two halves of a brilliant whole. ![]() Despite Frances’s connection with Sebastian, she worries that being part of the prince’s secret is limiting her dreams of finding success as a designer. ![]() She soon discovers that her employer is none other than Prince Sebastian, who wants her to create dazzling gowns for Lady Crystallia, Sebastian’s alter ego, who quickly becomes a fashion icon. After creating a scandalous dress for an attendee of Prince Sebastian’s 16th birthday party, Frances-an overlooked seamstress with big dreams-accepts a position as personal seamstress for a mystery client. ![]() A talented seamstress and a prince with a secret will win readers’ hearts in Wang’s utterly charming graphic novel, which is set in a playfully tweaked version of 19th-century Paris and highlights identity, acceptance, and fashion. ![]() ![]() argues, was expressed beautifully in the film with the shooting of a homesteader played by Elisha Cook Jr. ![]() He wanted, as he put it, to show what a single shell from a. “In westerns, people would shoot people and then they would get up and shoot back. “He used to say, ‘John Wayne uses a six-gun like a guitar,’ ” Stevens Jr. When he returned home, he was shocked at the reckless portrayal of violence on screen. He also witnessed Nazi atrocities when he was present at the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Stevens hit the beach at Normandy to record the Allied invasion on D-day. “It was the first film where I was on location and really had a job.”īefore World War II, Stevens had made his reputation by directing such comedies as “The More the Merrier,” “Swing Time” and “Woman of the Year” and action-adventures like “Gunga Din.” But his movies became more serious and introspective after his war experiences.Īs leader of a battalion of camera crews, Army Lt. “I had to write down every shot and every angle and every camera setup,” he recalls. was 17 and worked on the film as the company clerk. ![]() When “Shane” went into production in 1951, Stevens Jr. And Jack Palance is terrifying as the evil gunslinger, Jack Wilson. Brandon de Wilde, who was just 9, is perfection as Joey Starrett, their young son who idolizes Shane. Van Heflin plays the solid patriarch of the family, Joe Starrett, and Jean Arthur, in her last film role, is his wife, Marian. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, the birthplace of many, yet a place few outsiders have ever visited. 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She gets that weird feeling again, but this time she looks down to see that her legs are gone-replaced by a shiny, beautiful tail! Welcome to Emily’s Big Discovery, the first in a sparkling, charmingly illustrated series of readers. Eager to figure out what’s happening, Emily later dives into the sea. Standing beside the pool, she feels the water calling her, but when she jumps in, she gets a strange, kind of scary sensation. But it’s hard to make friends at the beach when everyone else is having fun in the waves! So when swimming lessons start at school, Emily is excited to finally have the chance to learn. Her mother has always cautioned her to stay out of the water. Even though she lives in a houseboat, Emily Windsnap doesn’t know how to swim. Introducing an exciting new line of readers that brings half-mermaid Emily Windsnap-star of the New York Times best-selling series-to a younger audience. ![]() |