Download or read book Pebblemonkey written by Manindra Gupta and published by Jadavpur University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High above the Himalayan snowline, an ibex dislodges a pebble. As it falls, bounces, and tumbles into a stream, the pebble turns into a monkey… Pebblemonkey pinwheels through cedars and poplars, discovering himself, realising the world in all its intricacy and beauty, immersing himself in the knowable and the unknowable… The odyssey of a monkey born from stone who tried it all: forbidden love, asceticism, adventure, revolt against land-grabbers who tried to destroy his home, and bringing the forest and the city into an alliance with one another only to realise what matters most.

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Download or read book Behave written by Robert M. Sapolsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year “It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post From the bestselling author of A Primate's Memoir and the forthcoming Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will comes a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.

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Download or read book The Seven Habits of Highly Infective People written by William Todd Rose and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bosley Coughlin can travel through time. And the future does not look good. Through a heady cocktail of drugs and the occult, Bosley slips through time and space and glimpses The End. Cities lay in ruins, and those who still cling to life hide in the rubble like frightened animals. Walking carcasses shamble through the debris exacting a horrible fate upon any living they find. This horrific future is the only world fourteen year old Ocean has ever known. Starving and alone, she struggles for even the most basic of necessities: food, water, shelter, love… In the present, Bosley stumbles across Clarice Hudson and soon realizes that she is much more than a simple shop girl. One by one, she displays the seven symptoms of the contagion that will bring Bosley’s world to an end and create the nightmare Ocean calls home. Clarice may hold the key to stopping the coming apocalypse and sparing Ocean from the atrocities of mankind’s imminent future… but only if Coughlin is willing to push beyond every notion he’s ever held about right and wrong.

Download or read book Jackspeak written by Rick Jolly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'A1' to 'Zulu', the fully revised and updated third edition of Jackspeak is a comprehensive guide to the slang of the Royal Navy. Discover the humorous and colourful and cryptic slang of the Senior Service, explained in layman's terms. Featuring more than 4,000 alphabetical entries, Jackspeak was compiled by an ex-RM surgeon who spent 24 years in the service. With useful cross-references and examples of common usage throughout, along with excellent illustrations by Tugg, the cartoonist from service newspaper Navy News, it is the essential book for current and ex-Navy personnel and their families, or anyone interested in the modern armed forces. Osprey is proud to present a revised and updated edition of this classic volume, which is already acknowledged as the standard reference for every Jack, Jenny and Royal joining the Andrew, or for any civvy who wants a real insight into the unique culture of the Navy.

Download or read book Memoirs of an Airman written by Terry O'Halloran and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you decide to buy this book, please don’t expect any hero type action. You will find none. If you’re easily offended then save your money, This is the side of the Air Force you will not read about. Its full-on alcohol fueled antics on and off duty. The highs and lows of military life but also the mad episodes that made up the RAF before PC changed it. You will laugh at the stunts he pulled, sigh at how incredibly stupid he was to throw away a promising career. Be angry at influence over his junior peers, but you will enjoy the trip as you follow him during his six years in uniform and the friends he made. This Air Force has gone as the world changed but the memories are captured in these pages for the reader to enjoy and share his experience.

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Download or read book A Quiver Full of Arrows written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Honor Among Thieves once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies his legions of fans. Ordinary heroes, extraordinary deeds From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression. Fortunes are made and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, and love lost and rediscovered. Embracing the passions that drive men and women to love and to hate, the short stories in A Quiver Full of Arrows will captivate the hearts and souls of readers of everywhere.

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Download or read book Kashmir at the Crossroads written by Sumantra Bose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict--from 1947 to the present The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world's incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000 people have been killed--insurgents, civilians, and military and police personnel. In 2019, the conflict entered a dangerous new phase. India's Hindu nationalist government, under Narendra Modi, repealed Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir's autonomous status and divided it into two territories subject to New Delhi's direct rule. The drastic move was accompanied by mass arrests and lengthy suspension of mobile and internet services. In this definitive account, Sumantra Bose examines the conflict in Kashmir from its origins to the present volatile juncture. He explores the global context of the current situation, including China's growing role, as well as the human tragedy of the people caught in the bitter dispute. Drawing on three decades of field experience in Kashmir, Bose asks whether a compromise settlement is still possible given the ascendancy of Hindu nationalism in India and the complex geopolitical context.

Download or read book Monkeyluv written by Robert M. Sapolsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays by a leading neurobiologist and primatologist share the author's insights into behavioral biology, including discussion of the physiology of genes and the factors that shape human social interaction.

Download or read book The Roof Beneath Their Feet written by Geetanjali Shree and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully crafted novel, roofs have a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play, they are places to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses. But above all, they are realms of freedom. In The Roof Beneath their Feet, Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that transcends time and memory. Suddenly one day, Lalna has to leave, to return only after Chachcho's passing. Amidst rumors and gossip in the neighborhood, Chachcho's nephew tries to piece together his memories of the two women, one of whom is his mother. The truth he is searching for could destroy him forever, but to not find out is no longer an option. A story of twists and turns, The Roof Beneath Their Feet, translated from the original Hindi by Rahul Soni, is easily one of the best contemporary novels you have read in a long time.

Download or read book The Quests Of William Wood written by Viral Roger and published by Invincible Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Book: When William Wood lost his mother, he decided to leave home for his aunt’s. Little did he know that this simple act would change his life forever for quite unknowingly, he had embarked upon a journey that would last a lifetime. He had unwittingly landed in Glennins instead of Gummings where he met Leon and Ivy. The tiny village looked friendly by day but strange things happened in the dead of night. Soon William found himself in a web of intrigue. Quite impervious to the lurking danger, he and his friends decided to take matters into their own hands to solve the mystery. But what awaited them might be bigger and more dangerous than they could have ever imagined. Join William in his quest for the truth behind the strange events and about who he truly is. About the author: Doctor by profession, Viral Rogers is currently pursuing her creative side. She was inspired to write books because of her son who loved listening to stories. She would have to invent stories to keep him entertained. He was intrigued by her story-telling which in turn encouraged her to think of different plots that might hold on to his interest. In time the stories and their plots got better while the characters remained the same. Viral decided to pen those stories down and publish them.

Download or read book Here s to Us written by Becky Albertalli and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller! Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera reunite to continue the story of Arthur and Ben, the boys readers first fell for in the bestselling rom-com What If It’s Us. Ben survived freshman year of college, but he’s feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan’s been acting weird for weeks. Ben’s only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who’s been giving him a lot of Spanish lessons and even more kisses. Mario’s big Hollywood dreams make Ben start to dream bigger—and the choices he makes now could be the key to reshaping his future. So why can’t he stop thinking about a certain boy from his past? Arthur is back in New York City for the first time in two years, ready to take the theater world by a storm as the world’s best . . . intern to the assistant of an off-off-Broadway director. Of course, it sucks to be spending the summer apart from his sweet, reliable boyfriend, Mikey, but he knows their relationship is strong enough to weather the distance. Which is why it’s no big deal when his ex-boyfriend Ben stumbles back into the picture. And it’s definitely fine that Ben’s blissfully happy with some mystery boy. First loves are special, but it’s way too late for what-ifs. Right? Even as the boys try to shake off the past, they keep running into each other in the present. Is this the universe trying to tell them there’s a do-over in their future? Here's to Us is sure to be welcomed by fans old and new of these authors and their previous collaboration, What If It's Us. Critically acclaimed and bestselling authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in these smart, funny, heartfelt novels about two very different boys who can’t decide if the universe is pushing them together—or pulling them apart.