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♦ The Parrots of Desire: 3,000 Years of Indian Erotica — edited by Amrita Narayanan

♦ Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy

♦ All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy

♦ ఇనుప కచ్చడాలు (Inupa Kacchadaalu) By తాపీ ధర్మారావు (Tapi Dharmarao)

♦ Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an ---c State by Tarek Fatah

♦ ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges

♦ A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

♦ The Indian Spy: The True Story of the Most Remarkable Secret Agent of World War II by Mihir Bose

♦ Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography by Snajeev Sanyal

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♦ Sanskrit text of Ved Vyas’s Mahābhārat

♦ శప్తభూమి (Saptabhoomi) by బండి నారాయణస్వామి (Bandi Narayana Swamy)

♦ MAHABHARATA - ENGLISH TRANSLATION

♦ మహా భారతము తెలుగులో కవి త్రయము (నన్నయ్య, తిక్కన, ఎఱ్ఱాప్రగడ) (Mahabharatham in Telugu)
♦ The Catcher in the Rye a -novel by J.D. Salinger

♦ Kundalini: An untold story by Om Swami

♦ It's All About Muhammad: A Biography of World's most notorious prophet by F.W. Burleigh

♦ Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by by Margee Kerr

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♦ The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin

♦ One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
 
♦ What is Hinduism?: A Guide for the Global Mind by David Frawley
 
♦ TOTAL RECALL: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger

♦ Brief Answers to the Big Questions  by Stephen Hawking

♦ Word by Word: The Secret Life of dictionaries by Kory Stamper

♦ Long Way Home by Tom Crown

♦ Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata

♦ BALLI KAUR JASWAL BOOKS
·    Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
·    The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

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♦ A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib

♦ A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel,  Jason W. Moore

♦ Why Do I Feel Like an Imposter?: How to Understand and Cope with Imposter Syndrome by Sandi Mann
 
♦ Ashok K. Banker’s Ramayana series:
Ø  PRINCE OF DHARMA: RAMAYANA SERIES - Part 1
Ø  PRINCE IN EXILE: RAMAYANA SERIES - Part 2
Ø  PRINCE AT WAR: RAMAYANA SERIES - Part 3
Ø  KING OF DHARMA: RAMAYANA SERIES - Part 4

♦ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

♦ The Untold Story of Sita: An Empowering Tale For Our Time by Dena Merriam

♦ Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

♦ The Three Pillars of Skepticism in Classical India: Nāgārjuna, Jayarāśi, and Śrī Harṣa By Ethan Mills

♦ Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

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♦ The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Vivekananda

♦ The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma

♦ The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

♦ We Were Yahoo!: From Internet Pioneer to the Trillion Dollar Loss of Google and Facebook By Jeremy Ring

♦ Gary van Warmerdam's MindWorks: A Practical Guide for Changing Thoughts Beliefs, and Emotional Reactions

♦ A Better Death by Dr. Ranjana Srivastava

♦ Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters by Charles Wheelan

♦ Optical Illusions: An Eye-Popping Extravaganza of Visual Tricks by Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber

♦ Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India by Madhavi Menon

♦ How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the Art and Science of Persuasion and Motivation by Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D.

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The Parrots of Desire: 3,000 Years of Indian Erotica

Edited by Amrita Narayanan

The erotic tradition in India is thousands of years old. In The Parrots of Desire, the modern reader, to whom the anthology is dedicated, will find a wealth of Indian erotic writing—beyond the famously unbridled passages of the Kama Sutra and Koka Shastra. There is, for instance, the extract ‘Why does sex exist?’ recreated from the 3,000-year-old Rig Veda; the work of the Tamil Sangam poets, whose contemporary finesse belies their antiquity; Bhakti poets Antal and Mahadeviyakka, who describe women’s fantasies of men (whether human or godly); short stories by Kamala Das that have been out of print for decades; excerpts from the work of contemporary writers like Mridula Garg and Ginu Kamani and much more.
Whether it is the trepidation of the first time or the delirium and delicious rapture of subsequent ones, the anguish of being abandoned or the ennui of steadfast fidelity; passion, jealousy, suspicion, bitterness or even regret— every aspect of the experience of erotic love, timeless and universal, is manifest in these pages. What emerges from the dozens of pieces in this volume can be called the ‘core’ of Indian erotica: the notion that the erotic, like the human imagination itself, is powerful, unquenchable, passionate and essential to the best life we should seek to make for ourselves.

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Sleeping on Jupiter

by Anuradha Roy

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping. The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers? Over the next five days, the old women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide finds ecstasy in forbidden love; and the girl is joined by a photographer battling his own demons. The full force of the evil and violence beneath the serene surface of the town becomes evident when their lives overlap and collide. Unexpected connections are revealed between devotion and violence, friendship and fear as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long, dark past that transforms all who encounter it. This is a stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love, and violence in the modern world.

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All the Lives We Never Lived

by Anuradha Roy

“In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman.”

So begins the story of Myshkin and his mother Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist’s instinct for freedom.

Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives.

What took Myshkin’s mother from India to Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar universe? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between the anguish at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism.

This enthralling novel tells a tragic story of men and women trapped in a dangerous era uncannily similar to the present. Its scale is matched by its power as a parable for our times.

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ఇనుప కచ్చడాలు

(Inupa Kacchadaalu)

తాపీ ధర్మారావు

(Tapi Dharmarao)

నిజం చెప్పాలంటే, ఇనుపకచ్చడం అన్నది కల్పనా కాదూ. కాకరకాయా కాదు. కడిగి వడపోసిన సత్యం. ఇనుపకచ్చడాలుండేవి. ఇప్పుడుగూడా అవి వుంటే వుండవచ్చును. మానవ స్వభావం మారకుండా వుంటే, ఈ కచ్చడాలకు కావలసినంత అవకాశం ఎప్పుడయినా వుండవలసిందే. ఈ ఇనుపకచ్చడాలు ఒక్క పురుషులకే కాదు, స్త్రీలకు కూడా వుండేవి.

    ఎవరికి ఎలాంటి కచ్చడాలుండేవో, ఎందుకుండేవో, ఎలా వుండేవో, ఇప్పుడు వాటి గుర్తులు ఏవయినా వున్నవో తెలుసుకోవాలీ అంటే, మానవ చరిత్రను మళ్ళీ ఒకసారి పరకాయించి చూడాలి. మొదటి పుటలు తిరగవెయ్యాలి.

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Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Isl@mic State

by Tarek Fatah

In 'Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an I$lamic State', Tarek Fatah Writes: I$lamists argue that the period following the passing away of Muhammad was I$lam′s golden era and that we '.s need to re–create that caliphate to emulate that political system in today′s world. I wish to demonstrate that when '.s buried the Prophet, they also buried with him many of the universal values of I$lam that he had preached. The history of I$lam can be described essentially as the history of an unending power struggle, where men have killed each other to claim the mantle of Muhammad. This strife is a painful story that started within hours of the Prophet closing his eyes forever, and needs to be told. I firmly believe the message of the Quran is strong enough to withstand the facts of history. It is my conviction that '.s are mature and secure in their identities to face the truth. This is that story.

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Fawaz A. Gerges
I•S•I•S : A History

The I$lamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of I.S.I.S and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political I$lam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving beyond journalistic accounts, Fawaz Gerges provides a clear and compelling account of the deeper conditions that fuel I.S.I.S.
The book describes how I.S.I.S. emerged in the chaos of Iraq following the 2003 U.S. invasion, how the group was strengthened by the suppression of the Arab Spring and by the war in Syria, and how ISIS seized leadership of the jihadist movement from Al Qaeda. Part of a militant Sunni revival, I.S.I.S. claims its goals are to resurrect a caliphate and rid "I$lamic lands" of all Shia and other minorities. In contrast to Al Qaeda, ISIS initially focused on the "near enemy"―Shia, the Iraqi and Syrian regimes, and secular, pro-Western states in the Middle East. But in a tactical shift I.S.I.S has now taken responsibility for spectacular attacks in Europe and other places beyond the Middle East, making it clear that the group is increasingly interested in targeting the "far enemy" as well. Ultimately, the book shows how decades of dictatorship, poverty, and rising sectarianism in the Middle East, exacerbated by foreign intervention, led to the rise of I.S.I.S―and why addressing those problems is the only way to ensure its end.
An authoritative introduction to arguably the most important conflict in the world today, this is an essential book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the social turmoil and political violence ravaging the Arab-I$lamic world.

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About the Author

Fawaz A. Gerges is professor of international relations and Emirates Professor in Contemporary Middle East Studies at the London college of Economics and Political Science. His many books include The New Middle East, Obama and the Middle East, andThe Far Enemy. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, theWashington Post, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and other publications.

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A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

 A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Mu$lim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years. Rafiq and Layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead to their son's estrangement - the reckoning of parents who strove to pass on their cultures and traditions to their children; and of children who in turn struggle to balance authenticity in themselves with loyalty to the home they came from.
In a narrative that spans decades and sees family life through the eyes of each member, A Place For Uscharts the crucial moments in the family's past, from the bonds that bring them together to the differences that pull them apart. And as siblings Hadia, Huda, and Amar attempt to carve out a life for themselves, they must reconcile their present culture with their parent's faith, to tread a path between the old world and the new, and learn how the smallest decisions can lead to the deepest of betrayals.
A deeply affecting and resonant story, A Place for Us is truly a book for our times: a moving portrait of what it means to be an American family today, a novel of love, identity and belonging that eloquently examines what it means to be both American and Mu$lim -- and announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent. 

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Mihir Bose
The Indian Spy: The True Story of the Most Remarkable Secret Agent of World War II

Bhagat Ram Talwar, a H!ndu Pathan from the Northwest Frontier Province of British India, was the only quintuple spy of World War II, spying for Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan and the USSR. His exploits and the people he worked with were truly remarkable. His spying missions saw him walk back and forth 24 times from Peshawar to Kabul eluding capture and certain death. He fooled the Germans so successfully that they gave him £ 2.5 million, in today’s money, and awarded him the Iron Cross. His British spymaster was Peter Fleming, the brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Fleming, operating from the gardens of the Viceroy’s House in wartime Delhi, gave him the code name Silver. Talwar became a spy after he helped Subhas Chandra Bose escape India via Kabul. Bose was seeking help from Germany and Japan to free India and never discovered that Talwar was betraying him to the British. Talwar settled in UP after India won independence; he died of natural causes in 1983.
Based on research in previously classified files of the Indian, British, Russian and other governments, The Indian Spy tells for the first time the full story of the most extraordinary agent of World War II.

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Mihir Bose is a London-based award-winning author and journalist. His History of Indian Cricket was the first Indian cricket book to win the UK’s Cricket Society Literary Award. In the UK, he has won Business Columnist of the Year and Sports Reporter of the Year. Loughborough University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for outstanding contribution to journalism and promotion of equality. His 28 books range from biography, including one on Subhas Chandra Bose (no relation), history, business, sport and the only narrative history of Bollywood. His most recent book, From Midnight to Glorious Morning?, charts how India has changed since Independence.

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Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography

by Sanjeev Sanyal

Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give his first sermon? How did the Europeans map India?
The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country’s history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: Why do Indians call their country Bharat? How did the British build the railways across the subcontinent? What was it like to sail on an Indian Ocean merchant ship in the fifth century AD? Why was the world's highest mountain named after George Everest?

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Sanskrit text of 

Ved Vyas’s Mahābhārat

About Veda Vyasa:

Vyasa is a central and revered figure in most H!ndu traditions. 

He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa, (the one who classified the Vedas into four parts) or Krishna Dvaipayana (referring to his complexion and birthplace). 

He is the author as well as a character in the Mahabharata and considered to be the scribe of both the Vedas, and the supplementary texts such as the Puranas. 

A number of Vaishnava traditions regard him as an Avatar of Vishnu.

Vyasa is sometimes conflated by some Vaishnavas with Badarayana, the author of the Vedanta Sutras. Vyasa is also considered to be one of the seven Chiranjivins (long lived, or immortals), who are still in existence according to general H!ndu belief.

The festival of Guru Purnima, is dedicated to him, and also known as Vyasa Purnima as it is the day, which is believed to be his birthday and also the day he divided the Vedas.

SHORT DESCRIPTION ON MAHABHARATA:

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. 

The epic is part of itihasa.

Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandavas, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas (12.161). 

The latter are enumerated as dharma (right action), artha (purpose), kama (pleasure), and moksha (liberation). 

Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. 

There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers. 

The oldest preserved parts of the text are not thought to be appreciably older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the story probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.

The text probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period (ca. fourth century CE).

The title may be translated as "the great tale of the Bharata dynasty". 

According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply Bharata.

The Mahabharata in its longest version consists of over 100000 shloka or over 200000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet ), long prose passages, or about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.

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శప్తభూమి (Saptabhoomi)

బండి నారాయణస్వామి (Bandi Narayana Swamy)

శప్తభూమి రాయలసీమ చరిత్ర నేపథ్యంగా రాసిన నవల. రాయల కాల తదనంతరం సుమారు 18వ శతాబ్దం నాటి అనంతపుర సంస్థాన అధికార రాజకీయాలు. అప్పటి జీవితము చిత్రించిన చారిత్రాత్మక నవల. హండే రాజుల కాలంనాటి సంఘటనలు, కక్షలు, కార్పణ్యాల మధ్య నలిగిన ప్రజల జీవితాల, పాలెగాళ్ల దౌర్జన్యాల సమాహారం శప్తభూమి.
ఈ నవలలోని చారిత్రక పాత్రలను సమీక్షించుకుంటున్నప్పుడు ఎక్కువమంది అణగారిన వర్గాల వారే అయి ఫున్నారన్న సంగతి తెలిసివచ్చింది. వారు దళిత బహుజన కులాలవారే ఈ విషయం గుర్తించిన తర్వాత రాయలసీమ చారిత్రక నవల కాస్తా, రాయలసీమ దళిత బహుజన చారిత్రక నవలగా రూపం తీసుకోవడం ప్రారంభించింది. ఈ విధంగా, చారిత్రక కథ నుండి చారిత్రక నవలకూ, చారిత్రక నవల నుండి దళిత బహుజన చారిత్రక నవలకూ ప్రయాణించిన ఆలోచన క్రమం కూడా ఈ నవలా రచన వెనుక పనిచేసింది.

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MAHABHARAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION

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మహా భారతము

మహాభారతం హిందువులకు పంచమ వేదముగా పరిగణించబడే భారత ఇతిహాసము. సాహిత్య చరిత్ర (History of Epic Literature) ప్రకారము మహాభారత కావ్యము వేద కాలం తర్వాత, అనగా సుమారు 400 B.C లో దేవనాగరి భాష అనబడిన సంస్కృతం భాషలో రచించబడినది. మహాభారత మహాకావ్యాన్ని వేదవ్యాసుడు చెప్పగా గణపతి రచించాడని హిందువుల నమ్మకం. 18 పర్వములతో, లక్ష శ్లోకములతో (74,000 పద్యములతో లేక సుమారు 18 లక్షల పదములతో) ప్రపంచము లోని అతి పెద్ద పద్య కావ్యములలో ఒకటిగా అలరారుచున్నది. ఈ మహా కావ్యాన్ని 14వ శతాబ్దంలో కవిత్రయముగా పేరు పొందిన నన్నయ, తిక్కన, ఎర్రన (ఎఱ్ఱాప్రగడ) లు తెలుగు లోకి అనువదించారు.

"యదిహాస్తి తదన్యత్ర యన్నేహాస్తి న తత్క్వచిత్" - "ఇందులో ఏది ఉందో అదే ఎక్కడైనా ఉంది. ఇందులో లేనిది మరెక్కడా లేదు" అని ప్రశస్తి పొందింది. హిందువులకు ఎంతో పవిత్ర గ్రంథాలైన భగవద్గీత, విష్ణు సహస్రనామ స్తోత్రము కూడా మహాభారతంలోని భాగాలే. దీనిని బట్టి ఈ కావ్య విశిష్టతను అంచనా వేయవచ్చును.

మహాభారతాన్నిచెరకుగడతో పోల్చారు. పర్వము అంటే చెరకు కణుపు. 18 కణుపులు (పర్వములు) కలిగిన పెద్ద చెరకుగడ, మహాభారతం. చెరకును నములుతున్న కొద్దీ రసం నోటిలోకి వచ్చి, నోరు తీపి ఎక్కుతుంది. అలాగే భారతాన్ని చదివిన కొద్దీ జ్ఞానం పెరుగుతుంది.

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The Catcher in the Rye

a novel by J.D. Salinger

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep college in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. 

J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.

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Kundalini: An untold story

by Om Swami

An untold story

You don’t have to be a monk to enter the ultimate realm of happiness!
Yes, it’s true.

In his book Kundalini – An Untold Story, Himalayan ascetic Om Swami unveils the enigmatic story of kundalini, the formless aspect of the Goddess or your primordial energy.

With workable steps for awakening this energy source, the author explains the esoteric and practical meaning of kundalini and the seven chakras in his usual humorous style. These riveting anecdotes are based on his personal experience gained from years of intense meditation.

Take an awe-inspiring journey – something no other book on spirituality can offer – from the origins of kundalini all the way to Swami’s own sadhana in the modern age.

Om Swami is a mystic living in the Himalayan foothills. He has a bachelor’s degree in business and an MBA from Sydney, Australia. Prior to his renunciation of this world, he founded and ran a multi-million dollar software company successfully. He is the bestselling author of A Fistful of Love.

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It's All About Muhammad: 

A Biography of 

the World's Most 

Notorious Prophet

F.W. Burleigh

Why all the car bombs, beheadings, and mass murders in the Middle East? Why the relentless killing of non-'.s throughout the world by the followers of Muhammad's religion? People blame verses of the Koran, but it's not about the Koran. It's about the man who composed the Koran.

Author F. W. Burleigh draws on an academic, investigative, and literary background to bring forth this penetrating look at the man behind it all. Burleigh’s interest in ., was sparked by the events of 9/11. The questions guiding his studies were, “Why do '.s do what they do? Why is there so much violence connected with this religion?” After a line-by-line scrutiny of 20,000 pages of the original literature of .,, the author gives his blunt assessment in the title: It’s All About Muhammad.

The book is in three parts. The first 12 chapters explore the epileptic fits that convinced Muhammad that he was in communion with God, explain the Koran and why he composed it the way he did, and show the humble origin of the Kabah, which only attained its cubic shape in the year A.D. 605 with Muhammad as a member of the construction crew. The book shows the magma chamber of hatred that formed in him due to traumatic early-life experience and tracks the emergence of his psychopathic nature. It exposes how he modified ideas he took from Judaism and Christianity to suit his grandiose idea of himself as the "last and final prophet," his intolerance of Meccan polytheistic beliefs, and finally his declaration of war against "all and sundry" who refused to accept him and his religion.

In the second part, Muhammad's magma chamber of hatred erupts on the world. The book shows the creation of his al-qaeda--his base of operations in Yathrib (Medina) where he fled after the Meccans decided they had to kill him, his conflict with the Jewish tribes of Yathrib after they refused to accept him as their prophet; his genocide of the Jews including the beheading of the men of an entire tribe; the assassination of his critics; the battles and raids and orgies of bang, plunder, and slaughter; and finally his conquest of Mecca. Like a dramatic arc, these 18 chapters form Act II of a script that is still being played out today.

In the final part, Muhammad's ruthless conquest of all of Arabia is presented. This section also gives an account of his numerous wives and the expansion of his wars beyond the confines of the Arabian peninsula. One of the final chapters explores his claim that he will be the first to be resurrected on the day of resurrection and that he will assist ,.' in determining who goes to heaven and who stays in hell--part of the "breathtaking nonsense" of what Muhammad claimed about himself, as the author phrases it.

What Muhammad created continues to wreak havoc on the world. It follows the script he wrote fourteen centuries ago. It is not sufficient any longer merely to raise the alarm about .,--an ideology of submission to the will of a psychologically deformed and spiritually grotesque man. What needs to accompany the alarm is a solution, and this book offers a solution: It is a matter of an aggressive, relentless, and unapologetic exposure of the truth about Muhammad in every graphic form possible, from illustrated books to docudramas to full-length feature films. With its 25 illustrations, It's All About Muhammad offers itself as an example of the approach.

The truth about Muhammad is a powerful weapon of self-defense that people must take up to oppose and ultimately push back what he created. It is a weapon within the reach of everyone.

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Scream: Chilling Adventures 

in the Science of Fear

by Margee Kerr

Shiver-inducing science not for the faint of heart.


No one studies fear quite like Margee Kerr. A sociologist who moonlights at one of America's scariest and most popular haunted houses, she has seen grown men laugh, cry, and push their loved ones aside as they run away in terror. And she's kept careful notes on what triggers these responses and why.

Fear is a universal human experience, but do we really understand it? If we're so terrified of monsters and serial killers, why do we flock to the theaters to see them? Why do people avoid thinking about death, but jump out of planes and swim with sharks? For Kerr, there was only one way to find out.

In this eye-opening, adventurous book, she takes us on a tour of the world's scariest experiences: into an abandoned prison long after dark, hanging by a cord from the highest tower in the Western hemisphere, and deep into Japan's mysterious “suicide forest.” She even goes on a ghost hunt with a group of paranormal adventurers. Along the way, Kerr shows us the surprising science from the newest studies of fear—what it means, how it works, and what it can do for us. Full of entertaining science and the thrills of a good ghost story, this book will make you think, laugh—and scream.

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