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As Good As It Gets

Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult

by Romesh Ranganathan ...

'One of the funniest people in the world. Annoyingly talented at everything he does which includes writing books. As Good As it Gets is hilarious.' - Rob BeckettConfronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it.Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waist thicken with every meal and his finances dwindle to ... Read more

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'One of the funniest people in the world. Annoyingly talented at everything he does which includes writing books. As Good As it Gets is hilarious.' - Rob BeckettConfronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it.Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waist thicken with every meal and his finances dwindle to
... Read more

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Straight Outta Crawley

Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

by Romesh Ranganathan ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStraight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan.'Very, very funny. I can't recommend it highly enough.' Jonathan Ross_________________________________At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday camp talent competition, smashing the other competitor, a ... ... Read more

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStraight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan.'Very, very funny. I can't recommend it highly enough.' Jonathan Ross_________________________________At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday camp talent competition, smashing the other competitor, a ...
... Read more

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Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism

The Irrationality of Oppression

by Dr Shyam Ranganathan ...

This groundbreaking book, Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression, argues that colonialism is fundamentally irrational and incompatible with the public practice of moral philosophy-the reason-based exploration of right choices and good outcomes.Moral Philosophy allows participants to make their own ethical decisions, which colonialism denies. Drawing on South Asian ... Read more

$21.39 USD

This groundbreaking book, Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression, argues that colonialism is fundamentally irrational and incompatible with the public practice of moral philosophy-the reason-based exploration of right choices and good outcomes.Moral Philosophy allows participants to make their own ethical decisions, which colonialism denies. Drawing on South Asian
... Read more
High-Entropy Alloys

by P. P. Bhattacharjee, B.S. Murty, Jien-Wei Yeh, S. Ranganathan ...

High-Entropy Alloys, Second Edition provides a complete review of the current state of the field of high entropy alloys (HEA). Building upon the first edition, this fully updated release includes new theoretical understandings of these materials, highlighting recent developments on modeling and new classes of HEAs, such as Eutectic HEAs and Dual phase HEAs. Due to their unique properties, high ... Read more

$112.49 USD

High-Entropy Alloys, Second Edition provides a complete review of the current state of the field of high entropy alloys (HEA). Building upon the first edition, this fully updated release includes new theoretical understandings of these materials, highlighting recent developments on modeling and new classes of HEAs, such as Eutectic HEAs and Dual phase HEAs. Due to their unique properties, high
... Read more
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As Good As It Gets

Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult

by Romesh Ranganathan ...

Narrated by Romesh Ranganathan ...

Unabridged

5 hours 33 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it.Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waistline thicken and his finances dwindle to fund his family’s middle class aspirations, Romesh reflects on the demands of daily life and the challenges of adulting in the modern world.As he ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it.Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waistline thicken and his finances dwindle to fund his family’s middle class aspirations, Romesh reflects on the demands of daily life and the challenges of adulting in the modern world.As he
... Read more

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Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions

Explorations and Reflections

by Jeffery D. Long, Steven J. Rosen, Cogen Bohanec, Christopher L. Fici, Shyam Ranganathan, Rodney Sebastian, Vincent Sekhar ...

Series series Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
*Ahi?*sa in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of nonviolent (ahimsa-oriented) doctrines originating in the Indic world, both in terms of interpersonal relationships and how they apply to the rest of creation, including animals. This volume engages the voices of scholars from various disciplines and addresses ... Read more

$93.19 USD

*Ahi?*sa in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of nonviolent (ahimsa-oriented) doctrines originating in the Indic world, both in terms of interpersonal relationships and how they apply to the rest of creation, including animals. This volume engages the voices of scholars from various disciplines and addresses
... Read more
T.K.V. Desikachar

A question of transmission

by Claude Maréchal, Malek Daouk, Bernard Bouanchaud, François Lorin, Hellfried Krusche, Marina Margherita, Raghu Ananthanarayanan, Peter Hersnack, Frans Moors, Simone Tempelhof Moors, Martyn Neal, Laurence Maman, Sriram Sriram, Lakshmi Ranganathan, Michel Nicolas, Lucia Almini, Michel Alibert, Elisabeth Petit-Lizop, Mekhala Desikachar ...

Early on the morning of August 8, 2016, Sri T.K.V. Desikachar, son of the great yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, passed away in Chennai, in the Tamil Nadu, a province of southern India.Those whose written accounts are compiled here were his personal students for many years. Some of them, Indians, taught alongside him at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for 20, 30, or 40 years. Others, ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Early on the morning of August 8, 2016, Sri T.K.V. Desikachar, son of the great yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, passed away in Chennai, in the Tamil Nadu, a province of southern India.Those whose written accounts are compiled here were his personal students for many years. Some of them, Indians, taught alongside him at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for 20, 30, or 40 years. Others,
... Read more
The Rat Eater

by For Love and Honour Anand Ranganathan, Chitra Subramaniam ...

'I was born on a bloody road. The blood was my mother's. My sisters couldn't find a midwife in time. There was no way my mother could get relief from the upper-caste well, and so they tell me, that my sisters ran to some puddles to fill their little mouths up and then ran back to where my mother was almost dying of pain and then spat out some water on her face and the rest down below on mine. That ... Read more

$15.39 USD

'I was born on a bloody road. The blood was my mother's. My sisters couldn't find a midwife in time. There was no way my mother could get relief from the upper-caste well, and so they tell me, that my sisters ran to some puddles to fill their little mouths up and then ran back to where my mother was almost dying of pain and then spat out some water on her face and the rest down below on mine. That
... Read more
Hindus in Hindu Rashtra

Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid

by Anand Ranganathan ...

To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must ask: What kind of a Hindu Rashtra is this where a billionstrong Hindus have been, through our parliament, through our courts, our education system, and our constitution, reduced to not just secondclass but, rather, eighthclass citizens? What kind of Hindu Rashtra is this where Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti, ... Read more

$11.39 USD

To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must ask: What kind of a Hindu Rashtra is this where a billionstrong Hindus have been, through our parliament, through our courts, our education system, and our constitution, reduced to not just secondclass but, rather, eighthclass citizens? What kind of Hindu Rashtra is this where Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti,
... Read more
Life After Death

Four Views

by Professor Steven B. Cowan, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Dr Shyam Ranganathan, Dr. Joshua R. Farris ...

All major religions in history have offered hope of some kind of afterlife to answer the perennial interest in the question of life after death.This volume brings together renowned experts in the philosophy of religion, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan, Joshua Farris and Steven B. Cowan, to present four key starting points in the life after death debate.Providing a lively and ... Read more

$93.19 USD

All major religions in history have offered hope of some kind of afterlife to answer the perennial interest in the question of life after death.This volume brings together renowned experts in the philosophy of religion, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan, Joshua Farris and Steven B. Cowan, to present four key starting points in the life after death debate.Providing a lively and
... Read more
High-Entropy Alloys

by B.S. Murty, Jien-Wei Yeh, S. Ranganathan ...

This book provides a complete review of the current state of the art in the field of high entropy alloys (HEA). The conventional approach to alloy design is to select one principal element and add elements to it in minor quantities in order to improve the properties. In 2004, Professor J.W. Yeh and his group first reported a new approach to alloy design, which involved mixing elements in ... Read more

$44.99 USD

This book provides a complete review of the current state of the art in the field of high entropy alloys (HEA). The conventional approach to alloy design is to select one principal element and add elements to it in minor quantities in order to improve the properties. In 2004, Professor J.W. Yeh and his group first reported a new approach to alloy design, which involved mixing elements in
... Read more
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Straight Outta Crawley

Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

by Romesh Ranganathan ...

Narrated by Romesh Ranganathan ...

Unabridged

5 hours 41 min

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Straight Outta Crawley, written and read by Romesh Ranganathan.At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's Holiday Camp talent competition, smashing the only other competitor, a young girl playing the kazoo.The gig went so well that Romesh retired his comic genius for twenty two years, hiding behind the ... Read more

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Straight Outta Crawley, written and read by Romesh Ranganathan.At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's Holiday Camp talent competition, smashing the only other competitor, a young girl playing the kazoo.The gig went so well that Romesh retired his comic genius for twenty two years, hiding behind the
... Read more

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