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WHO WAS BEN FRANKLIN?
₨ 695Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full of all the details kids will want to know, the true story of Benjamin Franklin is by turns sad and funny, but always honest and awe-inspiring.
ISBN: 9780448424958
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WHO WAS CESAR CHAVEZ?
₨ 695Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist.
When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers’ struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. Along with Dolores Huerta, he cofounded the National Farmworkers Association. His dedication to his work earned him numerous friends and supporters, including Robert Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.
ISBN: 9781101995600
Publisher: PENGUIN WORKSHOP -
WHO WAS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?
₨ 695In this exciting new WHO WAS…? Biography, children will learn of Christopher Columbus’ early life at sea, which led him to seek fortune by sailing west in hopes of creating new trade routes with the Indies. Readers will learn why he called himself the “Great Admiral of the Seas” and learn of his struggles to find financial support for his voyage. The book includes over 80 black and white illustrations.
ISBN: 9780448463339
Publisher: PENGUIN WORKSHOP -
WHO WAS DR. SEUSS?
₨ 695Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books- like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly gifted author/illustrator to life.
ISBN: 9780448455853
Publisher: PENGUIN WORKSHOP -
WHO WAS FRIDA KAHLO?
₨ 695You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all–with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits. A brave woman who was an invalid most of her life, she transformed herself into a living work of art. As famous for her self-portraits and haunting imagery as she was for her marriage to another famous artist, Diego Rivera, this strong and courageous painter was inspired by the ancient culture and history of her beloved homeland, Mexico. Her paintings continue to inform and inspire popular culture around the world.
ISBN: 9780448479385
Publisher: PENGUIN WORKSHOP -
WHO WAS HARRIET BEECHER STOWE?
₨ 695Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright. Slavery was a major industry in the American South, and Stowe worked with the Underground Railroad to help escaped slaves head north towards freedom. The publication of her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a scathing anti-slavery novel, fanned the flames that started the Civil War. The book’s emotional portrayal of the impact of slavery captured the nation’s attention. A best-seller in its time, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sealed Harriet Beecher Stowe’s reputations as one of the most influential anti-slavery voices in US history.
ISBN: 9780448483016
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WHO WAS LOUIS BRAILLE?
₨ 695Louis Braille certainly wasn’t your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.
ISBN: 9780448479033
Publisher: PENGUIN WORKSHOP -
WHO WAS NAPOLEON?
₨ 695Born in the Mediterranean island of Corsica, Napoleon Bonaparte felt like an outsider once his family moved to France. But he found his life’s calling after graduating from military school. Napoleon went on to become a brilliant military strategist and the emperor of France. In addition to greatly expanding the French empire, Napoleon also created many laws, which are still encoded in legal systems around the world.
ISBN: 9780448488608
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WHO WAS NELSON MANDELA?
₨ 695As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South Africa. He became the country’s first black president and went on to live his dream of change. This is an important and exciting addition to the Who Was…? series.
ISBN: 9780448479330
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WHO WAS PRINCESS DIANA?
₨ 695A shy twenty-year-old girl stepped out of a horse drawn coach and into the world spotlight, capturing the imagination of millions as a real life fairytale princess. Although the storybook marriage didn’t have a happy ending, Diana learned to use her fame as a way to champion charitable causes nearto her heart. She became the People’s Princess by humanising the image of the royal family and showing care and concern for all people, including the homeless, the sick, and others in need. Series Overview: The New York Times Best-Selling series of illustrated biographies for young readers includes artists, athletes, scientists, and world leaders.
ISBN: 9780448488554
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WHO WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL?
₨ 695Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch opponent of the encroaching German Nazis. Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
ISBN: 9780448483009
Publisher: PENGUIN WORKSHOP -
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WILD BOAR IN THE CANE FIELD
₨ 995One day, a baby girl, Tara, is found, abandoned and covered in flies. She is raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya, her adoptive mother, and Bhaggan, Saffiya’s maidservant, are victims of the men in their community, and the two women, in turn, struggle and live short but complicated lives. The only way for the villagers to find solace is through the rituals of ancient belief systems. Tara lives in a village that could be any village in South Asia, and she dies, like many young women in the area, during childbirth. Her short life is dedicated to her efforts to find happiness, despite the fact that she has no hope of going to school or making any life choices in the feudal, patriarchal world in which she finds herself. Poignant and compelling, Wild Boar in the Cane Field depicts the tragedy that often characterizes the lives of those who live in South Asia–and demonstrates the heroism we are all capable of even in the face of traumatic realities.
ISBN: 9789697834099
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WILDCARD
₨ 1,195An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu
Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo’s new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she’s always looked up to, who she once thought was on her side.
Determined to put a stop to Hideo’s grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Someone’s put a bounty on Emika’s head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless crew. But Emika soon learns that Zero isn’t all that he seems–and his protection comes at a price.
Caught in a web of betrayal, with the future of free will at risk, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves?
In this explosive sequel to the New York Times bestselling Warcross, Marie Lu delivers an addictive finale that will hold you captive till the very last page.
ISBN: 9780399547997
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WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON
₨ 895One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with . . . Will Grayson. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, and culminating in epic turns-of-heart and the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high school stage. Told in alternating voices from two YA superstars, this collaborative novel features a double helping of the heart and humor that have won them both legions of fans.
ISBN: 9780142418475
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WILT
₨ 530Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint suspects the worst when Henry’s wife Eva goes missing. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND.
ISBN: 0099435489
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WILT ON HIGH
₨ 511Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in ‘The Pig in a Poke’ with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he’s guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is…well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt’s talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place — in the middle.
ISBN: 0099466481
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WIND/PINBALL
₨ 1,430In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels–Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973–that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age–the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat–are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat. Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.
ISBN: 9780385352123
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WINTER JOURNEY
₨ 2,924His wild years at last behind him, Alfred Ashby, a celebrated photographer now in his late fifties, has returned to where he was raised, the family farm in rural England. The old house in the valley, little changed by the years, provides him an agreeable darkroom, necessary solitude, and a link to a more tranquil past.
His reverie is broken by a January visit from his older sister, Edith, a former Member of Parliament and the survivor of two disastrous marriages. To her Alfred’s bachelor life is undesirable, his appearance careless, his current work—a series of manipulated images of his late lover, Lydia—obsessive and disturbing. She has plans for Alfred, for the farm and for the future, plans she hopes will help the two of them mend their frayed relationship and forget their past sorrows, past mistakes.
Published in the UK to great acclaim, Winter Journey is Isabel Colegate’s first new book to appear in America in nearly a decade. The London Times called it “a sonorous, muted masterpiece,” a book whose intelligence shines through the page like the bright winter sun, illuminating these characters and the turbulent histories that have shaped them. “I suppose you might say it’s a novel about Britain,” said the Financial Times. “On a simpler level it’s about a brother and a sister, and it reads true.”
ISBN: 1582431221
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WOMEN WITH MUSTACHES AND MEN WITHOUT BEARDS
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ISBN: 0520242637
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WOMEN, ISLAM AND CINEMA
₨ 3,086The first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema. Film critic and author Gönül Dönmez-Colin explores the role of women as spectators, images and image constructors in the cinemas of the countries where Islam is the predominant religion, focusing on Iran and Turkey from the Middle East.
ISBN: 1861892209
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WORD AND SENTENCE: TWO PERSPECTIVES: BHARTRHARI AND WITTGENSTEIN.
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ISBN: 8126014148
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