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Among The Wasps Silence is the first haiku collection by Eduardo Ribeiro. Here are gathered, within Zen threads, twelve dozen haiku of classic inspiration in homage to a tradition ranging from Basho to Santoka. However, haiku, as poetry, as Zen, are alive so don´t be surprised to find cars and plastic amidst flowers and cuckoos or a, sometimes dark, sense of humour twisting nature contemplation.
2) Coming Up
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An illiterate and poor community of tea pickers in Assam slowly undergoes change as education breaks into their ranks. Coming Up is a remarkable story of resilience. One determined family breaks the shackles of an exploitative social order setting up an example for everybody else.
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When I began my journey in poetry, it was simply an attempt to recreate some of the pieces I had been exposed to in my school literature classes. I considered creating poetry a challenge to test my abilities to replicate the works of the great literary virtuosos of the past in the English Belle Lettres canon. The gradual construction of a sizable number of poems did not efface its presence on me until quite recently when I realized that I had produced...
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I am a social scientist. So many people might be surprised to hear that I have been Director ORIC (Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization) at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences namely GIK from 2020 to 2022 as per contract with my employer. My Job at GIK started with trying to solve a mystery and this short write up is about the mystery.
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"Please God, No Wedding or Shooting at the End has Chekhov and Masha on stage while he writes The Seagull under the influence of Hamlet … Sunde imagines Chekhov returning from a production of which he must now review (except that a new play forms in his mind. Surrounded by Shakespeare's characters plus creations of his own, Chekhov turns into . She also weaves Chekhov's own life into his creative process, as his friend Levitan's suicide attempts...
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In the summer of 2023, I conducted a creative writing workshop, intending to empower girls by providing a creative outlet for their imagination. The aim was to do this for at least 30 girls from a government-funded school in India. The workshop started with a brief on plot creation and culminated in the learners writing original stories with the theme of women empowerment. Of these, 5 moving stories were shortlisted for editing and eventual publication...
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Sharp, dramatic, and full of insider dish, SOPHIA OF SILICON VALLEY is one woman's story of a career storming the corridors of geek power and living in the shadow of its outrageous cast of maestros.
During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that puts her directly in the path of Scott Kraft, the eccentric CEO of Treehouse, a studio whose animated films are transforming movies forever. Overnight, Sophia...
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"Write My Son, Write" is K. V. Dominic's longest poem, in 21 sections taken from his collection of poems entitled Write Son, Write. Dominic unabashedly tackles every-day issues of India such as the social injustice of poverty, man's crass exploitation of natural resources that ought to belong to everyone, terrorism, and the eternal beauty of the natural world. This poem is the manifesto of Dominic's views and philosophies. About this work, K.V. Dominic...
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This book is Roman Hindi version of the original book 'Kuch Kahi Kuch Ankahi Batein' published in Hindi script. This book is a collection of 58 soulful, poetic expressions written and presented in Roman Hindi script, inspired from the modern generation of smartphone users, who are apt to read and type in such a way. Still, the language of the book is day-to-day conversational Hindi with a tint of Urdu.
The book reflects on how any ordinary individual...
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Ka Palapala Po`okela Award Winner 2005 for Excellence in "Aloha from beyond Hawai`i"--Hawaii Book Publishers Association"Pam Chun writes lovingly of Hawai`i-a land of beauty and tradition, where the scent of plumeria fills each page and a love once lost can be found again."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of "Samurai's Garden," "Women of the Silk," and "Night of Many Dreams""Good family epic enlivened with a nice locale and a stiff dose of history."--Kirkus...
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"A masterpiece." -The Washington Post
"It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days."
Mao Zedong's labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens. They were thought to be impossible to escape-but one man did.
Xu Hongci was a bright young student at the Shanghai No. 1 Medical College, spending his...
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Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy's boys or blokes under their missus' thumbs? Self-made entrepreneurs, pukka professionals and successful executives with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer-clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles, brothers and fathers – these successful, soulful and spirited Asian men have come a long way from their origins but they've all got roots! The Trouble with Asian Men is a vital, tender and hilarious insight into lives...
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Helen Wan's "engaging and suspenseful" (Wall Street Journal) debut novel, The Partner Track, is now a Netflix series!
Ingrid Yung's life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she's about to collect the holy grail of "firsts" and become the first minority woman to make partner at the venerable old Wall Street law firm Parsons Valentine & Hunt.
Ingrid has perfected the art of "passing" and seamlessly...
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Monarchie, entêtement, folie, pouvoir de décision.Amis, ce livre parle d'un leader puissant, qui n'écoute personne au monde, ceci est un petit article, qui est présenté devant vous sous la forme d'un livre, ce livre est tout petit mais après l'avoir lu vous obtiendra beaucoup d'informations.Alors mes amis, récemment, les médias d'État nord-coréens signifient que la KNCA a déclaré que le chef suprême du Nord, Kim John, voulait faire de...
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I have a crush on Mr. Lee, the chairman of the board at O'Connell, Thompson, and Taylor Enterprises, the company where I clean.One night, I get a little tipsy and blurt out to him, "You're so freaking hot. I want to have your baby."FML.To my surprise, he ends up taking my words seriously...***A standalone story in the OTT Enterprises series featuring alpha male businessmen and the women they want to make theirs. Warning: this story is full of over-the-top...
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In every moment, there is a poem.
In "The Stanzas of Time", Palak Tewary has been inspired by every day events - be it something as simple as choosing your favourite colour or as difficult as facing your greatest fear.
The words in The Stanzas of Time aim to provoke thought, offer hope, give a smile or maybe be a reflection. It is a collection of 36 inspirational and real poems in 14 forms - each poetry format is explained and detailed with...
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This world super-exclusive book continues on the journey of Satya Nadella as Microsoft Chairman and CEO revealing explosive secrets for the first time ever. This book for the first time reveals about the precursor to Nadella's current prime time obsession about AI - Microsoft AI Networks for Education, Agriculture, Healthcare and Skilling – and his Microsoft Digital India team in Hyderabad tasked with using Artificial Intelligence to build solutions...
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