Remembering Tagore: Get discounts on all Tagore titles

Before we kick off our ‘Remembering Tagore’ month on the blog, we thought why not get our readers to warm up to the idea?

The Book Lovers is happy to announce that we have tied up with Dial-a-book for this month to make your book buying a lot easier, your favourite books are now just a phone call away! What’s more your Tagore books will be delivered right at your doorstep and at 20% discount…This offer is for all the readers and followers of our blog!

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Dial-a-Book Recommends

Dial-a-Book recommendation for this week is

The book of the week 40 is ‘The Conquest of Happiness' by Bertrand Russell

About the Author: Bertrand Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, atheist, socialist, pacifist, and social critic.He was born in Wales where he also died, aged 97. Time magazine has quoted "The books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible."

His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, and philosophy, especially philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."

About the Book:  The book is neatly divided into two halves: the causes of unhappiness and the causes of happiness.

"My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, it appears inescapable. I believe this unhappiness to be largely due to mistaken views of the world, mistaken ethics, mistaken habits of life, leading to the destruction of that natural zest and appetite for possible things upon which all happiness, whether of men or of animals, ultimately depends." 

Contents/Chapters: 

The Causes of Unhappiness

1.       What Makes People Happy

2.      Byronic Unhappiness

3.      Competition

4.      Boredom and Excitement

5.      Fatigue

6.      Envy

7.      The Sense of Sin

8.      Persecution Mania

9.      Fear of Public Opinion

The Causes of Happiness

1.       Is Happiness Still Possible

2.      Zest

3.      Affection

4.      The Family

5.      Work

6.      Impersonal Interests

7.      Effort and Resignation

8.      The Happy Man

Print Price: Rs 250 (Indian Edition), Our Price: Rs 225 (10% Discount)

Pages: 200

Amazon Link: http://amzn.to/bugjD1 

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

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Dial-a-Book Recommends

Dial-a-Book recommendation for this week is

The book of the week 39 is ‘Ziglar on Selling’ by Zig Ziglar

From prospecting to closing sales, from cold calling to direct selling this book touches on all aspects of selling. This book is both a good read and good have for your library.

Book Blurb:

  A successful sales professional clearly understands that education and preparation for the task is never finished. It is a lifetime experience, and in Ziglar on Selling, best-selling author Zig Ziglar offers an integral part of the ongoing education. Filled with practical tips and motivation, this book will help sales professionals keep their clients happy, add to their income, and most importantly, add to their quality of life.

About The Author: Zig Ziglar is an American author,motivational speaker and a super salesman.

Price: Rs 250 (Indian Edition)

Pages: 368

Amazon Link:

  http://www.amazon.com/Ziglar-Selling-Ultimate-Handbook-Professional/dp/0785288937/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279775815&sr=1-1 

Quotes by Ziglar:

·  You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

·  People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

·  People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.

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Dial-a-Book Recommends

It has been our constant endeavor to keep the readers of our blog updated on the latest books, upcoming titles, interesting authors and book events. Taking this a step further we will have Dial-a-Book’s weekly book recommendation that they send out to all their subscribers. They have been kind enough, to let us share their weekly recommended book, with our blog readers as well.

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The best part is that they deliver books anywhere in India with no additional delivery cost!

Dial-a-Book recommendation for this week is

The book of the week 38 is ‘The Art of Choosing’ by Sheena Iyengar

Book Blurb:  

An Apple Store customer asks for the latest iPhone in black but suddenly changes his preference to white when he sees the choices others are making. A resident of a former communist country is offered a fizzy drink from a wide selection but picks at random; soda is soda, he says. Though the child knows she shouldn't press the big red button (absolutely not!), she finds her hand inching forward. A young man and woman decide to marry -- knowing that the first time they meet will be on their wedding day.

How did these people make their choices? How do any of us make ours? Choice is a powerful tool to define ourselves and mold our lives -- but what do we know about the wants, motivations, biases, and influences that aid or hinder our endeavors?

In The Art of Choosing, Columbia University professor Sheena Iyengar, a leading expert on choice, sets herself the Herculean task of helping us become better choosers. She asks fascinating questions: Is the desire for choice innate or created by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose? Ultimately, she offers unexpected and profound answers, drawn from her award-winning, discipline-spanning research.

Here you'll learn about the complex relationship between choice and freedom, and why one doesn't always go with the other. You'll see that too much choice can overwhelm us, leading to unpleasant experiences, from "TiVo guilt" over unwatched TV programs to confusion over health insurance plans. Perhaps most important, you'll discover how our choices -- both mundane and momentous -- are shaped by many different forces, visible and invisible. This remarkable book illuminates the joys and challenges of choosing, showing us how we build our lives, one choice at a time.

About The Author: Sheena Iyengar's innovative research on choice has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Security Education Program. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School of Business, and Stanford University. She is a professor at Columbia University and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award. Her work is regularly cited in such periodicals as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and TIME magazines, and in books such as Blink and The Paradox of Choice. She lives in New York City with her family

Print Price: Rs 499, Our Price: Rs 399 (20% discount)

Here's the summary of Sheena's recent TED talk
 

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/07/14/tedglobal-sheena-iyengar-and-the-paradox-of-choice/

An audio interview with Sheena: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8807000/8807206.stm

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