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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars," Iridium's constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit meant that no matter where you were on Earth, at least one satellite was always overhead, and you could call Tibet from Fiji without a delay and without your call ever touching a wire. Iridium the satellite system was a mind-boggling technical accomplishment, surely the future of communication. The only problem was that Iridium the company was a commercial disaster. Only months after launching service, it was $11 billion in debt, burning through $100 million a month and crippled by baroque rate plans and agreements that forced calls through Mo...

Perspectives in Environmental Studies (2018-19 Session)

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] Environmental Studies pertain to a systematic analysis of the natural and man-made world encompassing various scientific, economic, social and ethical aspects. Human impacts leading to large scale degradation of the environment have aroused global concern on environmental issues in the recent years. The apex court has, hence, issued directive to impart environmental literacy to all. In this book the fundamental concepts of environmental studies have been introduced and analysed in a simple manner strictly as per the module syllabus designed by the U.G.C. for undergraduate course in science, humanities, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, commerce, management and law. Besides the book will also be useful for those appearing in various competitive exams since environmental issues now find a focus in most of such examinations. The contents of the book will be of interest to all educationists, planners and policy mak...

Children's Encyclopedia - Life Science And Human Body: The World of Knowledge

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] In the book, life Sciences and human body, the author has explained in detail all the different forms of life which exist on the Earth in a very simple and comprehensive manner with colourful and attractive pictures. This has been aimed to attract the readers, particularly the school children and help them understand and grasp the chapters quickly enhancing their knowledge about the various living Organisms – both of the animal and plant kingdom that inhabit our mother Earth. The book is broadly divided into two parts: Part-I dealing with the classification, anatomy, habitat, behaviour, food habits, etc of plants and animals, followed by some interesting and fascinating quick facts about all these living organisms—making it all the more worth reading. The second part (part – II) includes all about the human body, its morphology, anatomy and functions of each part or organ with clear and colourful labelled diag...

Manovigyan, 1e

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] Yah Pustak Robert A. Baron dwara likhit Psychology ke pancham sanskaran ka pratham hondi anuvad hai. Lekhak Baron ke vichar mein Manovigyan ek eisa chetra hai, jiska upyog pratyek vyakti jivan bhar kar sakta hai aur use karna bhi chahiye. Yah manav vyavhar ke bare mein n keval dilchasp niskarsh aur gyan deti hai, aapitu yah sansar tatha swany ko dekhne ka ek najiriya bhi pradan karta hai, jiska laabh Manovigyan ke pathyakram ko padhne wale hare ek vyakti ko milna chahiye. Manovigyan ki pustak ka hindi aanuvad sahaj ewm saral bhasha mein prakashit klarne ka udeshay ese sikshako, vidyarthiyo tatha Manovigyan mein ruchi rakhne wale sabhi vayaktiyo tak pahuchana hai. Jisse gyan ke vistar mein bhasha badhak n ban sake. Anuvadko ne pustak ke mulrup aur lekhak ke vicharo ko dhyan mein rakhate huye pustak ka anuvad bhartiya paripechsay ke anusar kiya hai. [ad_2]

Science Experiments: Experiments to Spark Curiosity and Develop Scientific Thinking (Ideas to Go: Science Experiments)

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] Children develop knowledge and understanding of important scientific ideas, processes and skills through practical experience. Ideas to Go: Science Experiments provides teachers with lots of ideas and activities to help children to develop their investigative skills. The activities can be used in isolation, in sequence or dipped into as teachers require. [ad_2]

The Elitist Supremacy: Book One of the Elite and the Rogue

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] Alexander Selwood is hiding many secrets. Being the first immortal is only one of them. He is also hunted by the despotic ruler of Cynfor, Cesar Thaxter -the man ruling the galaxy for centuries.   Unknown to Alexander, the group of rebels who had been fighting Thaxter in secret is also seeking to use his company to build a safe haven. He would do anything to keep himself from falling into the clutches of either the Resistance or the Supreme Ruler. When the consequences of his actions cascade into a torrent of events that threatens to engulf him and everyone he cares for in danger, Alexander can't sit on the sidelines any longer.   Having stayed out of the conflict for this long, he has to make a choice, but can he handle the repercussions of that decision? [ad_2]

Ali-A Adventures (Graphic Novel): Game On!

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] It's launch time for the hotly anticipated video game Alien Liberator 2 and who better to invite along than top gamer Ali-A? Ali is promised the biggest game launch ever - but what he doesn't count on is just how real the action is about to get! When a merciless band of aliens turns up to spoil the party, it's up to Ali to transform from gaming icon to real-life hero. Can he defeat the end-of-game boss and save the day? With a little help from his fans and a very special dog named Eevee, he's going to give it his best shot! [ad_2]

The Prophet

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] "You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." After spending twelve years in the city of Orphalese, Almustafa is ready to board the ship home. The city's people gahter around him before he leaves to hear him speak on things that affect our daily lives, from joy and sorrow to love and death and everything in between. Through a series of 26 prose poems, Kahlil Gibran uses Almustafa's voice to share spiritual and philosophical ideas that continue to resonate with people wordwide. In the 95 years since it was first published, The Prophet has been translated into more than 40 languages. It has never been out of print. [ad_2]

Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries. Her pioneering research on how the chemicals inside our bodies form a dynamic information network, linking mind and body, is not only provocative, it is revolutionary. By establishing the biomolecular basis for our emotions and explaining these new scientific developments in a clear and accessible way, Pert empowers us to understand ourselves, our feelings, and the connection between our minds and our bodies -- body-minds -- in ways we could never possibly have imagined before. Molecules of Emotion is a lan...

Before You Know It

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] ‘John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and convincing book.’ – Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and David and Goliath The world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind reveals the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behaviour. For more than three decades, Dr John Bargh has been conducting revolutionary research into the unconscious mind – not Freud’s dark, malevolent unconscious but the new unconscious, a helpful and powerful part of the mind that we can access and understand through experimental science. Now, Dr Bargh presents an engaging and enlightening tour of the influential psychological forces that are at work as we go about our daily lives – checking a dating app, holding a cup of hot coffee, or getting a flu shot. Dr Bargh takes you into his labs at New York University and Yal...

A Sea Voyage

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] An exciting pop-up book that takes children on a journey across the sea, discovering one fantastic boat after another along the way Boats come in all shapes and sizes, and children will be enchanted by the range illustrated here in three dimensions as they follow a single boat across the sea and discover fellow vessels. With six three-dimensional pop-up paper designs brought to life in color by illustrator and pop-up book expert Gérard Lo Monaco, A Sea Voyage will fire the imaginations of sailors and explorers both young and old, and offer children an exciting way to discover different ways to journey across the sea. [ad_2]

Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta)

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings, but who is behind them and why? As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is th...

Tempest 3 - Timestorm

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] An action-packed, time-travel romance, Time storm is the stunning conclusion to the the bestselling Tempest trilogy by Julie Cross. Tempest Agent Jackson Meyer's back. Just, he barely survived the time jump forward to the year 3200 and another jump will probably kill him. Imprisoned by Eye wall, an opposition organization determined to shape the future according to their will, regardless of the human cost, Jackson needs to decide once and for all what really matters to him. Trying to save the people he loves including Holly, one-time love of his life and in this timeline at least an Eye wall recruit or risking everything to try to prevent this horrific future from ever taking place. But things are not always as they seem and as the truth unravels, Jackson is forced to realize just how much love costs. [ad_2]

Ready Player One: The global bestseller and now a major Steven Spielberg movie

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] PRE-ORDER NOW - READY PLAYER TWO: THE SEQUEL ______________________ ***NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG*** A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he ...

Poppy

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * ALA Notable Book * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice * School Library Journal Best Book In the second book in the Tales of Dimwood Forest by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, a tiny deer mouse named Poppy dares to stand up to a tyrannical owl.  The story is accompanied by inviting illustrations from Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca.  This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. “This exciting story is richly visual. The underlying messages, to challenge unjust authority and to rely on logic and belief in oneself, are palatably blended with action and suspense.” —  School Library Journal Poppy knew she was taking a risk following her beloved Ragweed to Bannock Hill, but...

Sera Science Fiction Samagro (Bengali)

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Mandate: Will of the People

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] This is the first easy-to-read book about recent Indian political history. Pegged on the general elections that shaped today's India, Mandate: Will of the People tells the story of Indian politics in a gripping, page-turning style. Vir Sanghvi, the well-known journalist and TV anchor, draws on his personal experiences and memories as well as scores of interviews to piece together an incisive and candid account of what went on behind the scenes. Peppered with little-known details and insider information, this book tells the stories behind the story and brings alive the men and women behind the headlines. Mandate: Will of the People contains the real story of the declaration of the Emergency, the rise and fall of Sanjay Gandhi, the Punjab insurgencies, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the bloody riots that followed her death. It tracks the emergence of Rajiv Gandhi and explains the Bofors scandal tha...

Space - My Knowledge Book

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] Space is so huge that it requires a lot of research and reading to learn about it. Our Earth is just a tiny part of it. In this book, many interesting facts and details have been covered for our young readers. [ad_2]

Space Expedition: A Journey to Save the Milky Way from the Black Hole

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] "Be like a Black Hole, which attracts everything but never gets attracted to anything itself; just the difference is we have a brain and Black Hole doesn't! So, use it and make choices - what to take in and what not to. Hopefully good things!" If you are a Space nerd and loves to live a multi-dimensional life of action, adventure, romance and mystery, then get ready to taste this icing on the cake during this unprecedented journey! In the 42 years of the competition between Life and Death, who will win - Life or Death? Galaxy is alarming as Aliens have sent the Black Hole to destroy the Milky Way which will enter our galaxy in just 42 years. Serene, who is a Ranger as well as an Astronaut and Sky, who is Ranger and also an Aeronautical engineer both having an extra-dimensional vision are working together with Oshiana, an Extragalactic astronomer to find a solution to save the Milky Way from ...

RISE OF THE CHOLAS: APOCALYPSE

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Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details ) [ad_1] In the year 2030 AD, a black hole comes hurtling towards the Earth. Rajaraja Cholan, a former ruler of an ancient, powerful empire in India, learned of a prophecy that foretold the apocalypse. The prophecy declared that a black hole would come hurtling toward Earth at nearly the speed of light and that there was no hope for mankind to survive the event. Springing into action, the king declared that his son Rajendra Cholan would take the throne of the Chola Dynasty. He then enlisted the help of hundreds of the kingdom’s most trusted people and undertook a 1000-year exile.  During their exile, the king and his trusted subjects worked on building a spaceship beneath the Indian Ocean that could be the answer to the dynasty’s survival of the fast-approaching black hole. With one millennium to prepare, the king and his men felt they must have a fighting chance at succeeding in their mission.  ...