24th
February
2007
The Secret is book version of highly successful motivational movie by the same name. The editor claims that the book contains the ‘secret’ that existed from time immemorial and was kept confined to a few people. The list of the people who knew the secret includes great minds of art, science, politics, religion, and so on. This book reveals the secret and makes it available to all, so that they can transform their lives and achieve success and happiness.
The secret is a principle called the law of attraction and uses the power of one’s mind to transform one’s life. The book explains the principle and shows how to use it to change your life. The book contains quotations by the ‘masters’ (the people who have successfully used the law of attraction) and real life stories. The contributors of the book include highly successful men and women of our times and the list includes John Assaraf, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Lee Brower, Jack Canfield, Dr. John F. Demartini, Marie Diamond, Mike Dooley, Bob Doyle, Hale Dwoskin, Morris Goodman, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Hagelin, Bill Harris, Dr. Ben Johnson, Loral Langemeier, Lisa Nichols, Bob Proctor, James Arthur Ray, David Schirmer, Marci Shimoff, Dr. Joe Vitale, Dr. Denis Waitley, Neale Donald Walsch, and Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.
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19th
February
2007
Steve Jobs is one of early pioneers and a cult personality who played a significant part in shaping the computing industry. He dropped out off college to start Apple computers, making it a successful business venture only to be thrown out of the company he co-founded.
This book tells the story of Steve Jobs, his early days, his creation of Apple computers, his meteoric rise to become one of most popular personalities of the computing industry, his devastating fall from the top and from his own company, his fight back, acquisition of Pixar animation studios, how he again became the chairman of Apple computers and how he took it from success to success by continuously inventing, innovating and always staying miles ahead of his competition.
Drawing on a wide range of sources in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Jeffrey Young, author of the first-ever Jobs biography, and coauthor William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple in a Silicon Valley garage and detail Jobs’s meteoric rise as the prototypical digital wunderkind and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely.
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10th
February
2007
This little gem of a book by Paola Antonelli contains an insightful collection of the design marvels that we take for granted. The masterpieces featured include objects that we see and use in our everyday life like safety pin, noodles, bubble wrapper, lead pencil, ice cream cone, spark plug, condoms, sugar cubes, bar code, tweezers, ear buds, post-it notes, and so on.
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24th
August
2005
The Explainer is a compilation of some the best articles of the column ‘Explainer’ in the Microsoft funded on-line magazine Slate. On the Slate magazine’s web site, readers get answers to their questions. The questions are often funny, off-beat, unconventional and tough. The readers e-mail their questions to the Slate magazine and the one of the Slate editors who is chosen as the day’s “Explainer” will have to find the answer and post in with a couple of hours—a very tough task and the Slate’s explainers are up to the task and do an exemplary job. The questions as well as the answers are interesting and makes very interesting read.
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