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A dead scientist has returned to destroy the world, but Imran wants to stop him.

About the author: Krishan Chander (1914-1977) was an Urdu/Hindi writer of short stories and novels. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu and later, after partition of the country, took to writing mainly in Hindi. He also wrote screenplays for Bollywood movies to supplement his meager income as an author of satirical stories. Krishan Chander's novels have been translated into over 16 Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English.

Imran and his Team eliminate a network of forced prostitution—a triumph of courage and compassion over the forces of evil and misery that threaten human society.

In Competition Is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new framework to control capitalism from the inside in order to make it work for the many and not just the few. Meagher has spent years campaigning against these multi-billion- and trillion-dollar mammoths that dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else; leading to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment.

Sunny G's brother left him one thing when he died: His notebook, which Sunny is determined to fill up with a series of rash decisions. Decision number one was a big one: He stopped wearing his turban, cut off his hair, and shaved his beard. He doesn't look like a Sikh anymore. Sunny debuts his new look at prom, which he's stuck going to alone. He's skipping the big fandom party. Enter Mindii Vang, a girl with a penchant for making rash decisions of her own, starting with stealing Sunny's notebook. When Sunny chases after her, prom turns into an all-night adventure.

When Felicity Springer is reported missing after a police training conference, the countdown to find her begins.... On her way home after an exhausting weekend, with colleagues she can’t wait to escape, Felicity notices something odd about the white van in front of her. A hand has punched through the car’s rear light and is frantically waving, trying to catch her attention. Desperate to help, Felicity dials 999 and calls it in. But whilst on the phone, she loses control of the car on the icy road, crashing straight into the vehicle ahead.

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Ghulam Abbas was a short story writer. He was born in Amritsar, India, and died in 1982 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.This collection includes the following short stories: "Aanandi", "Burda-Faroosh", "Over Coat".

Who are made-in-India managers? What do they do differently? Over the last 50 years, several Indians have occupied top positions in multinationals across the globe. There are, today, innumerable instances of CEOs born and bred in India, helming S&P's 500 companies. In The Made-in-India Manager, two stalwarts of Indian business and academics examine this little-studied phenomenon and present a compelling argument: that a unique combination of factors has led Indian management to become a 'soft power' with the potential to decisively impact global managers of tomorrow.

Mindfulness: How to Declutter Your Mind reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that you can incorporate into daily life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and exhaustion. It promotes the kind of happiness and peace that gets into your bones. It seeps into everything you do and helps you meet the worst that life throws at you with new courage.

Imran faces a criminal who has been alive for 200 years, but how? The inimitable detective is armed with his distinctive screwball humor and an airgun!

On the Diyang hill by the side of the River Piyang, two young girls are playing on the hillside when they meet a fairy. What do they say to her? What does she want? Find out in this mystical tale from the border between Bangladesh and India.

What if the Western world does not have its ultimate origins in a single cultural bloodline but rather a messy bramble of ancestors and influences? As battles over privilege, identity and prejudice rock the cultural wars, it's never been more important to understand how the concept of The West came to be. This book tells a bold, empowering new story of how the idea of the West was created, how it has been used to justify imperialism and racism, and also why it's still a powerful ideological tool to understand our world.

When a body is found at the edge of Chellow Dene reservoir, Detective Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are quick to arrive. This is the third murder in the space of a few weeks. Each murder has a completely different MO, but there is one common theme...all the victims are teenagers. The dead boy reminds Nikki of her nephew, and she feels more helpless than ever. But then another boy goes missing. And this time his parents have been sent a threatening package, too. The pattern is different again - is the killer just playing a game?

In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, 16-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister, Sophie. The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only gets worse....

Como tantas otras obras de Lope de Vega, ésta está basada en una canción popular que decía: Que de noche le mataron al caballero la gala de Medina, la flor de Olmedo. Esta tragicomedia tiene su base en un hecho histórico: la muerte de don Juan de Vivero, caballero de Olmedo, a manos de su vecino Miguel Ruíz. Lope refleja de manera sencilla y elegante, los problemas, los anhelos y los ideales del pueblo a través de tres personajes arquetípicos: el galán de nobles valores, la dama de gran belleza y altos sentimientos y el criado del galán, gracioso y a la vez su consejero.

This collection in Urdu includes: "Manto Fasadaat Par", in which the literary critic Muhammad Hasan Askari invites the listener to contemplate Manto’s approach towards writing on Partition; "Baray Aadmi", a short story in which we meet the innocent and vibrant Zakiya Begum; and "Hamid ka Bacha", Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story addressing hypocrisy.

Rajinder Singh Bedi (1 September 1915-1984) was an Indian Urdu writer of the progressive writers' movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer. Bedi is considered one of the leading 20th century progressive writers of Urdu fiction, and one of the most prominent Urdu fiction writers. He is most known for "disturbing" Partition of India tales. This collection includes the following: "Garam Coat"; "Lajwanti"; and "Sirf Ek Cigarette."

¿crees que existe la maldad por naturaleza? A lo mejor cambias de opinion... puede haber algo más frustrante para un policía que la falta de explicación lógica de una serie de muertes. ¿cómo han muerto estas personas?... ¿qué es la venganza? ¿ podría ser la liberación del ser primitivo que todos llevamos dentro obsesionado con destruir a quíen nos ha hecho daño?... escucha, escucha y lo averiguarásEn las 10 horas y 13 minutos de este volumen puedes escuchar los siguientes relatos.

Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In her final days, she wields a pen one last time as she fills her diary with instructions for her sister and writes six letters to be delivered after her death.