A little bit cute, a little bit crazyEveryone in the school knows about Bibi. She’s pretty, has a rich family, and stabs her classmates with forks! She doesn’t let silly things like rules stop her from getting what she wants, and what she wants the most right now is Peter, her new crush. So when she spots Peter chatting with a girl named Amy, Bibi invites her to a “sleepover” to make sure Amy never talks to Peter again…However, events don’t go as planned, and the two end up having an actua...

Named a Pick of the Week for the week of February 29th by Publishers Weekly"Grouped under three headings, the 13 stories in this outstanding entry in Akashic's noir series capture the gloomy underside of Sweden's capital, portraying the hopelessness of those trapped in what Larson and Edenborg in their introduction call the city that devours your soul."--Publishers Weekly, Starred review"Coedited by local a...

For the first time, the life and mind of Anders Behring Breivik, the most unexpected of mass murderers, is examined and set in the context of wider criminal psychology.*Winner of the 2016 Silver Falchion Award for Best Nonfiction Adult Book*July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway’s history since Nazi Germany’s invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror, from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building until Anders Behring ...

A scathing social satireIn a small village in Kerala, people begin to feel threatened by an invisible rooster that crows at odd hours. It is heard interrupting the morning and night prayers at the temple, the mass at the church, the azaan at the mosque and the martyrs’ day ceremony. When it hoots in the middle of the national anthem being sung at the local school, it is instantly labelled as a threat to national security.It offends the sentiments of all tho...

July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway’s history since Nazi Germany’s invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror—from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building until Anders Behring Breivik was apprehended by the police at Utoya Island. Breivik murdered seventy-seven people, most of them teenagers and young adults, and wounded hundreds more. Breivik is a 'lone wolf killer,' often overlooked until they commit their crime. Breivik is also unique as he is ...

Narmada is a poignant tale of the triumph of the indomitable human spirit against all odds.The story is set in the 1970s when Indore city was struggling with the scarcity of drinking water.Ravi Varma, along with his companions, compels the government to find a way to quench the thirst of Indore. But amidst government evils, will it be possible to fetch water from the river Narmada that flows a hundred miles away from the city? Will the mighty resolution of a humongous irrig...

In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime's relationship with a man outside of their community had deeply dishonored her family, and only her death could remove the stain. This abhorrent crime shocked the world, and her name soon became a rallying cry in the struggle to combat so-called honor killings.Unni Wikan narrates Fadime's heartbreaking story...

تاريخ وطن الست ام علىاو ( النور الجلى فى تاريخ الست ام على )اعتدنا فى كتابة التاريخ ان ينسب إلى الحكام. هذه هي القاعدة التي سيطرت على فهمنا لهذا العلم فمنذ تاريخنا المصرى القديم نجد تقسيم الحقب الزمنية طبقا إلى الاسر الجالسة على العرش وصاحبة الصولجان. واستمر الامر بصورة خلقت فى وعينا ان هذا هو الطبيعى ونجد ابن خلدون يعرف التاريخ بانه (فن يوقفنا على احوال الماضين من الامم فى اخلاقهم والانبياء فى سيرهم والملوك فى دولهم وسياستهم). فالحاكم هو صاحب الحقبة التاريخية ويتم تقسيم ال...

Scrum for Startups: Accelerating Growth with Agile Practices is the ultimate guide for startup founders, entrepreneurs, and agile practitioners. Written by Harry Unni, an experienced product leader and cofounder of a tech startup, this book offers a practical roadmap to implement Scrum in fastpaced, dynamic environments.Packed with realworld examples, this book covers everything from Scrum basics to scaling agile practices in growing teams. Whether you're leading a small team or ma...

Marco, Matt and Rachel are the new Hunters in town to fight evil goblins and monsters. Everything was going somewhat normal until they meet the dragons and history surfaces which changes the very details of the universe and dreams/ nightmares one knows so far and brings to the surface a new theory of life and death. Also their friend Jane is not as she seemsshe is Queen Jane of an otherworldly land and has a power!

From Better to Verse is Anand S Unnis first poetic anthology featuring his initial and latest works. It is in a way a deep philosophical journey into the poets mind and his ideologies. It contains poems like The Partition, which is a haunting reliving of the Indian Partition and Conversations with God which speaks of the poets doubts in faith and religion. For a reader the book is an intriguing visit into the poets mind and offers a scope to enjoy poetry. It is also provides an opportunity...

This book addresses a topic in journalism studies that has gained increasing scholarly attention since the mid-2000s: the coverage and evaluation of arts and culture, or what we term ‘cultural journalism and cultural critique’. The book highlights three approaches to this emerging research field: (1) the constant challenge of demarcating what constitutes the ‘cultural’ in cultural journalism and cultural critique, and the interlinks of cultural journalism and cultural critique; (2) the dia...