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Reading engages the mind and therefore it is recommended to read daily as it reduces stress. Independent reading contributes to enhancing reading skills. Reading helps improve vocabulary, become more proficient. Reading non-fiction means enjoying the reality. Non-fiction has its own flavour. It’s like having a conversation with the writer. It enables one to think outside the box and to create their own ideas.
While fiction sometimes takes you to the imaginative world, non-fiction unfolds the reality you get to know real people and their lives. 2) Non-fiction enlightens one with a specific idea of subjectivity. It also gives knowledge in a specific subject which helps in learning new things. 3) It provides you with facts.
1. The Sixth Extinction
There is something almost literary about the process of understanding deep history. There is, above all, the business of being able to read correctly what the different layers of rock and sediment tell us about life on Earth. There is the business of being able to read the signs around us of the living record, and to learn to think in the long, rather than short term. It is instructive to discover that we can date the concept of extinction to the year: 1795, when Georges Cuvier examined some recently removed mastodon bones from the graves and realised that the concept of a divinely ordered animal kingdom was invalid, and that species could be lost forever. It would seem now, though, that the panic is entirely down to us.
Author- Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher-Bloomsbury India
Price- Rs.449
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2. The Year of Magical Thinking
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”
Author-Joan Didion
Publisher-RHUS
Price- Rs.799
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3. No Logo
This is a book about that much-maligned, much-misunderstood generation coming up behind the slackers, who are being intelligent and active about the world in which they find themselves. It is a world in which all that is ‘alternative’ is sold, where any innovation or subversion is immediately adopted by un-radical, faceless corporations. But, gradually, tentatively, a new generation is beginning to fight consumerism with its own best weapons; and it is the first skirmish in this war that this abrasively intelligent book documents brilliantly.
Author-Naomi Klein
Publisher- Fourth Estate
Price- Rs.699
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4. Birthday Letters
Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes’s only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year.
Author-Ted Hughes
Publisher- Faber & Faber
Price- Rs.2470
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5. Dreams from My Father
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, President Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother’s family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Author- Barack Obama
Publisher- Random House
Price- Rs.599
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6. A Brief History of Time
Was there a beginning of time?Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries?These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time.
Author-Stephen Hawking
Publisher-Bantam
Price- Rs.399
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7. The Right Stuff
Millions of words have poured forth about man’s trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves – in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
Author-Tom Wolfe
Publisher-Picador
Price- Rs.17494
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8. Orientalism
Very exciting this case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive.
John Leonard in The New York Times ,His most important book, Orientalism established a new benchmark for discussion of the West’s skewed view of the Arab and Islamic world. Simon Louvish in the New Statesman & Society .Edward Said speaks for interdisciplinarity as well as for monumental eruditionThe breadth of reading [is] astonishing.
Fred Inglis in The Times Higher Education Supplement .A stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious essay.
Author- Edward W. Said
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9. Dispatches
Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty.
Author-Michael Herr and Kevin Powers
Publisher-Picador
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10. The Selfish Gene
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.
As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene’s eye view of evolution – a view giving center stage to these persistent units of information and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.
Author-Richard Dawkins
Publisher-Oxford University Press
Price- Rs.450
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11. The Awakenings
The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threatened to consumer her. Originally entitled “A Solitary Soul,” this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe Awakening, Kate Chopin’s last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as “beautifully written.”
Author-Kate Chopin
Publisher-RHUS
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12. The Female Eunuch
The publication of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women’s liberation. Today, Greer’s searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we’ve been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
Author- Germaine Greer
Publisher- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Price- Rs.1231
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13. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
This is British music journalist Nik Cohn’s classic and cogent history of an unruly era—filled with outrageous tales and vivid descriptions of the music, and covering artists from Elvis Presley to Eddie Cochran to Bob Dylan to the Beatles and beyond. From the father of what would become a new literary form—rock criticism—this is a seminal history of rock and roll’s evolution, including revisions and updates made for a new edition in the early 1970s.
Author-Nik Cohn
Publisher- Grove Press
Price- Rs.1931
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14. The Double Helix
By elucidating the structure of DNA, the molecule underlying all life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionised biochemistry. At the time, Watson was only 24. His uncompromisingly honest account of those heady days lifts the lid on the real world of great scientists, with their very human faults and foibles, their petty rivalries and driving ambition. Above all, he captures the extraordinary excitement of their desperate efforts to beat their rivals at King’s College to the solution to one of the great enigmas of the life sciences.
Author-James Watson
Publisher-W&N
Price- Rs.883
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15. Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the groundbreaking essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.
Author-Susan Sontag
Publisher-Picador
Price- Rs.1399
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16. Ariel
Ariel” depicts a woman riding her horse in the countryside, at the very break of dawn. It details the ecstasy and personal transformation that occurs through the experience. The poem begins with complete immobility in the darkness, while the rider waits on the horse. There is then a change – the intangible blue of hills and distances come into being. The rider is “God’s lioness;” she experiences the sensation of becoming one with her horse in a powerful entangling of knees and heels. The plowed field on which she rides soon splits and vanishes behind her, remaining elusive like the brown neck of her steed that she “cannot catch.”
Author-Sylvia Plath
Publisher-RHUS
Price- Rs.247
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17. The Feminine Mystique
When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries’ general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan’s controversial book about them – and every woman – would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality.
Author-Betty Friedan
Publisher-Penguin UK
Price- Rs.510
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18. The Making of the English Working Class
This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political consciousness of great vitality.
Author-E. P. Thompson
Publisher-Penguin
Price- Rs.2044
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19. Silent Spring
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world.
Author- Rachel Carson and Shackleton
Publisher- Penguin UK
Price- Rs.1694
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20. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. And fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach. With “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but that revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it.
Author-Thomas Kuhn
Publisher-university of Chicago Press
Price- Rs.1004
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21. A Grief Observed
A classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of how loss can lead even a stalwart believer to lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and the inspirational tale of how he can possibly regain his bearings.
Author- C. S. Lewis
Publisher-HarperOne
Price- Rs.969
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22. The Elements of Style
Good writing doesn’t come easy. Whether you are an author working on your novel, a graduate student about to submit your assignment, a journalist about to compose an article, or even an employee about to send an important email—you tend to get stuck, at one point or another, at a passage or even a line that just doesn’t read right. And you wonder what went wrong. Here is a little volume of immense importance to writers everywhere. The elements of style is considered the best book of its kind. It has been read and referred to by millions, and continues to lend a helping hand when it comes to understanding the principles of English style and writing.
Author-William Strunk Jr.
Publisher-Fingerprint! Publishing
Price- Rs.149
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23. The Affluent Society
Why worship work and productivity if many of the goods we produce are superfluous – artificial ‘needs’ created by high-pressure advertising? Why begrudge expenditure on vital public works while ignoring waste and extravagance in the private sector of the economy? Classical economics was born in a harsh world of mass poverty, and has left us with a set of preconceptions ill-adapted to the realities of our own richer age. And so, too often, ‘the bland lead the bland’. Our unfamiliar problems need a new approach, and the reception given to this famous book has shown the value of its fresh, lively ideas.
Author-John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher-Penguin
Price- Rs.979
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24. The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life
When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence and power today. Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England’s vanishing working-class communities, and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new, homogenous ‘mass’ US-influenced culture. His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study and remains essential reading, both as a historical document, and as a commentary on class, poverty and the media.
Author-Richard Hoggart , Lynsey Hanley
Publisher-Penguin
Price- Rs.550
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25. Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the twentieth century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic. His criticism on topics such as the paternalism of white progressives or on his own friend Richard Wright’s work is pointed and unabashed. He was also one of the few writing on race at the time who addressed the issue with a powerful mixture of outrage at the gross physical and political violence against black citizens and measured understanding of their oppressors, which helped awaken a white audience to the injustices under their noses.
Author-James Baldwin and Edward P. Jones
Publisher-Beacon Press
Price- Rs.1155
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26. The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art
Probably one of the most engaging and exciting books I’ve ever read. I am a Cultural Anthropology major (art, history of literature, social psychology) and this book is right in that tradition. I had heard and given lip service to the concept of the ideal mean (“The da Vinci Code”) but had not understood how it was derived until reading this book, nor did I realize that as people became more urban and modern (taller and thinner) the ideal changed, too.
Lots of information about what we don’t actually know about ancient art, which I found fascinating, like a forensic detective tale. I loved and guarded what seemed like every sacred minute of reading this book.
Author- Clark Kenneth
Publisher-Doubleday
Price- Rs.9163
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27. The Hedgehog and the Fox
Author-Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin
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28. Waiting for Godot
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29. The Power Of Habit
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg translates cutting-edge behavioural science into practical self-improvement action, distilling advanced neuroscience into fascinating narratives of transformation.Why can some people and companies change overnight, and some stay stuck in their old ruts? The answer lies deep in the human brain, and The Power of Habits reveals the secret pressure points that can change a life.
Author- Charles Duhigg
Publisher – RHUK
Price -Rs.599
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30. Deep Work
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you’ll achieve extraordinary results. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. ‘Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors’ New York Times ‘Deep work’ is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy.
Author- Cal Newport
Publisher – Little, Brown Book Group
Price -Rs.399
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31. The Universe Has Your Back
Through acceptance, surrender, and a commitment to her continually evolving spiritual path, New York Times best-selling author and international speaker Gabrielle Bernstein has been transforming her fear into faith. Her stories and universal lessons provide a framework for releasing the blocks to what everyone most longs for: happiness, security, and clear direction. These lessons can help us relinquish the need to control in order to relax into a sense of certainty and freedom – to stop chasing life and truly live.
Author- Gabrielle Bernstein
Publisher – Hay House India
Price -Rs.299
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32. Give And Take
In Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success the author writes that for generations we have been focusing on individual drivers of success like hard work, passion, luck and talent. In the modern-day corporate world, success has become increasingly dependent on our interaction with others. The author classifies the people at work as either takers, matchers, or givers. While takers are constantly on the cusp of trying to get as much as possible from others, and matchers try to trade evenly, givers are only a few who contribute to others without expecting to get anything in return.
Author- Adam Grant
Publisher – Orion Publishing Group
Price -Rs.499
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33. Finish Give Yourself The Gift Of Done
Acuff knows the reason why many writers’ novels go unfinished – it’s the same reason why gyms are filled in the first week of January and empty by the end of the month and why people stop learning a new language once they get past the easy parts. It’s not just that people lose momentum or get distracted. People give up on projects when they fail to live up to their own high expectations and decide that if they can’t do something perfectly, they won’t do it at all. If you’re going to finish, you have to kill perfectionism.
Author- Jon Acuff
Publisher – Portfolio; Reprint edition
Price -Rs.499
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34. The Intelligent Investor
First published in the year 1949, The Intelligent Investor, is considered the Bible for the stock market that contains strategies and wisdom to achieve your financial goals. This is the revised edition of the original book that contains updated commentary by Jason Zweig, a famous financial journalist. This revised edition incorporates the recent market trends and how to make money in the highly vulnerable stock market.
Author- Benjamin Graham
Publisher – Harper Business
Price -Rs.799
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35. Secrets Of Millionaire Mind
Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth. Have you ever wondered why some people seem to achieve wealth effortlessly while others work just as hard but still struggle financially? In this fresh and original book T. Harv Eker explains how you too can master the inner game of money so that you will not only achieve financial success but keep it once you have it. Using breakthrough techniques T. Harv Eker shows you how childhood and family experiences and inner mental attitudes shape your view of money. Each of us has a personal money and success blueprint already ingrained in our subconscious minds, and it is this blueprint that will determine the course of our financial lives.
Author- T.Harv Eker
Publisher – Piatkus
Price -Rs.499
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36. The 5 Second Rule
National Bestseller! As seen on The Today Show! How to enrich your life and destroy doubt in 5 seconds. Throughout your life, you’ve had parents, coaches, teachers, friends and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself? Using the science of habits, riveting stories and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, art and business, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a “push moment.” Then, she’ll give you one simple tool you can use to become your greatest self. It takes just five seconds to use this tool, and every time you do you’ll be in great company.
Author- Mel Robbins
Publisher – Savio Republic
Price -Rs.799
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37. Parable Of Pipeline
In the parable of the pipeline, Burke Hedges explains how virtually anyone can leverage their time, relationships and money to become a millionaire. The parable of the pipeline: why job security is an illusion. And why pipelines of residual income provide the only true security. Why pipelines are the secret behind every million-dollar fortune. Why one pipeline is worth a thousand paychecks. How to build a million-dollar pipeline on less than 4 dollar a day! How average people without a lot of money can leverage their time and relationships to create the ultimate pipeline.
Author- Burke Hedges
Publisher – Manjul Publishing House
Price -Rs.195
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38. The Art Of Happiness
The Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama’s eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler’s western perspective. Covering all key areas of human experience, they apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental freedom.
Author- Dalai Lama Howard
Publisher – Hodder Paperbacks
Price -Rs.499
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39. I Will Teach You To Be Rich
At last, for a generation that’s materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi’s 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach delivered with a nonjudgmental style that makes readers want to do what Sethi says, it is based around the four pillars of personal finance–banking, saving, budgeting, and investing–and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship.
Author- Ramit Sethi
Publisher – Yellow Kite
Price -Rs. 2705
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40.The Alchemist
This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a meditation on the treasures found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is art eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams.
Author- Paulo Coelho
Publisher – Harper
Price -Rs.350
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41.Thinking Fast And Slow
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman’s seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life’s work. It will change the way you think about thinking.
Author- Daniel Kanheman
Publisher – Penguin
Price -Rs.599
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42. King James Bible
The King James Version is considered one of the most popular Bible translations in the history of the bible.
Here is a Historic Timeline of Bibles Published
•In 1400 B.C. The Ten Commandments were given to Moses.
•In 500 B.C. The Old Testament Hebrew manuscripts were completed.
•In 200 B.C. The Old Testament and the Apocrypha Greek manuscripts were written.
•In 100 A.D. The New Testament was completed.
•In 382 A.D. The Latin Vulgate manuscripts were compiled
Author- King James and Heavenly Publisher
Publisher-Heavenly Publishers
Price- Rs.499
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43.The History of the World
The book, ‘History of the World: From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century’ is an informative book based on contemporary history which documents various events that have shaped the global world in recent times. Written in a powerful and easy to understand language, this book is a good read for anyone who is interested in modern History and its implications. Special attention has been given to ensure that all facts are accurate.
Author-Arjun Dev^Indira Arjun Dev
Publisher-Orient BlackSwan
Price- Rs.375
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44.The Anatomy of Melancholy
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton’s astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it “the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing,” while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton’s spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today’s readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.
Author-Robert Burton and William H. Gass
Publisher- NYRB Classics
Price- Rs.1999
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45. The First Folio
The Shakespeare First Folio is arguably the greatest book ever written in the English language, and it is the only source for half the plays (including Macbeth and The Tempest). Vast amounts have been written on it up to its publication – for example on its printing and proofreading – but very little since it left the press in 1623. And yet its story is a highly significant contribution to the history of the book worldwide, and crucial to the study of Shakespeare’s ‘afterlives’.
Author-Anthony James West
Publisher-OUP Oxford
Price- Rs.29172
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46. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one out of fear of persecution. At the age of forty-three, he gave up his preoccupations with secular prestige and devoted himself utterly to religion. It was eight years later when, battered with fever, the deaths of his beloved wife, several of his children, and many dear lifelong friends, he composed Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. There is both trauma and great drama in this extended meditation on the meaning of mortality, the possibility of salvation, and the true nature of the passage of eternal life.
Author-John Donne
Publisher-To Ebook Publishing
Price- Rs.1889
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47.Areopagitica
John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. Today he is remembered first and foremost for his poetry, but his great epic Paradise Lost was published very late in his life, in 1667, and in his own time most readers more readily recognised Milton as a writer of prose. This superbly annotated new book is an authoritative edition of Milton’s major prose works, including Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemical tract on the opposing licensing and censorship, Areopagitica.
Author-John Milton and William Poole
Publisher- Penguin Classics
Price- Rs.350
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48. Leviathan
Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own individual desires and fears. He shows that a conflict of each against every man can only be avoided by the adoption of a compact to enforce peace. The compact involves giving up some of our natural freedom to a sovereign power which will enforce the laws of peace on all citizens.
Author-Thomas Hobbes and J. C. A. Gaskin
Publisher-OUP UK
Price- Rs.699
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49. Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or A Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk
Lieut.-Col. Charles à Court Repington was a career soldier in the British Army; renowned for his service in the Sudan, Burma and the Boer War, he was drummed out of the service for having an affair with the wife of British official in 1902. He was well known as an excellent staff officer and remained closely tied to the comrades that he had fought and served with including the future leaders of the British Army in the First World War. Cutting his teeth as a war correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, he was ideally placed as the War Correspondent of the Times when war broke out in 1914 to report on the unfolding tragedy.
Author-A Panel of Authors
Publisher- Laxmi Narain Agarwal
Price- Rs.60
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50. The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author-Samuel Pepys
Publisher-Penguin Classics
Price- Rs.1627
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51. The Book of Common Prayer
Author-James Wood
Publisher-Penguin Classics
Price- Rs.1455
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52. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Author-John Locke and Roger Woolhouse
Publisher- Penguin Classics
Price- Rs.1349
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53. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author-Daniel Defoe
Publisher-RHUS
Price- Rs.2632
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54.A Modest Proposal
Author-Jonathan Swift
Publisher- Penguin Classics
Price- Rs.290
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55. A Treatise of Human Nature
Author-David Hume
Publisher- Dover Publications Inc
Price- Rs.1206
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57. A Dictionary of the Body Language
Author-Joe Navarro
Publisher-Harper Thorsons
Price- Rs.399
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58.Common Sense
Author-Thomas Paine
Publisher-RHUS
Price- Rs.294
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59. The Wealth of Nations
Author-Adam Smith
Publisher- Fingerprint! Publishing
Price- Rs.399
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60. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author-David Womersley and Edward Gibbon
Publisher-Penguin Classics
Price- Rs.699
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61. The Diary of Fanny Burney
Author-Fanny Burney
Publisher-RHUS
Price- Rs.1509
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62. The Federalist Papers
Author-Alexander Hamilton , James Madison
Publisher-Bantam Classics
Price- Rs.1345
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63.The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
Author- Gilbert White
Publisher-Andesite Press
Price- Rs.3109
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64.The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Author- Olaudah Equiano
Publisher-Alpha Edition
Price- Rs.542
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65.Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author- Edmund Burke and Jesse Norman
Publisher-Everyman
Price- Rs.747
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66.The Life of Samuel Johnson LLD
Author-James Boswell
Publisher-Hardpress Publishing
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Ans. Many students struggle with nonfiction reading as they deficit the strategies to comprehend complex, grade-appropriate informational text. Nonfiction is challenging because of its unfamiliar vocabulary and new concepts.
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Learn the characteristics of Nonfiction stories. Start by teaching students all the main characteristics of nonfiction.
Direct crucial: Main idea vs Interesting details.
Ask questions.
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