What is the best management style for the police? Police Mission discusses the values and norms inherent in the American police mission, and examines how police respond to challenges that arise while attempting to uphold this mission. It reveals that the way officers are being trained in ethics and human relations are not effective as they could be, and argues that policing has to move towards a greater emphasis on human values, moral sensitivity, and discerning judgment.A...

A book on life experiences, an insight into seeing the world from her pov. The poetess does not want you to feel that it's her opinion she is sharing but its a part of her perspective. Each poem takes you on a journey in your mind. Reshmi has tried to paint a picture through each poem here, to walk on a journey and allow you to walk alongside her with a camera to capture things as you go.

Ru is a boy from nowhere. Though he lives somewhere—the city of Calcutta—his classmates in school remind him he doesn’t look like them, and must come from somewhere else. When Ru asks his parents, they tell him they are descended from nomads. But even nomads must come from somewhere. The question, forever on the mind of the boy from nowhere, is where.Ru dreams things that wouldn’t seem out of place in the fantasy novels his father read to him when young. Fragments...

"Incomplete Me: The Unseen Path of Longing, Love, and Letting Go" is a deeply emotional and introspective memoir that takes readers on a personal journey of struggle, hope, and transformation. In this raw and honest narrative, the author reflects on the complexities of longing for parenthood, navigating infertility, and confronting the societal pressures of what it means to be a woman.This book is not just for those struggling with infertility, but for anyone who has ever felt inco...

Learn the overwhelming strength and calm that comes over you when you practice the ancient art of chanting.Chants of a Lifetime offers an intimate collection of stories, teachings, and insights from Krishna Das, who has been called "the chant master of American yoga" by the New York Times. Since 1994, the sound of his voice singing traditional Indian chants with a Western flavor has brought the spiritual experience of chanting to ...

Beloved comedian Vir Das shares his journey as a perpetual outsider, using humor to navigate heartbreak, failure, and the quest for belonging.When comedian and actor Vir Das found himself stranded on a pier in Cozumel, Mexico, watching his cruise ship sail away without him due to visa issues, it became a metaphor for his life: he’s always been, and will always be, an outsider. Standing on that beach, he took in the absurdity of it all—broke, hungover, dumped, joble...

The General Theory of Relativity: A Mathematical Exposition will serve readers as a modern mathematical introduction to the general theory of relativity. Throughout the book, examples, worked-out problems, and exercises (with hints and solutions) are furnished. Topics in this book include, but are not limited to:tensor analysisthe special theory of relativitythe general theory of relativity and Einstein’s field equationsspherically symmetric solutions ...

Krishna is quite unsettled when he bumps into a woman's corpse during his morning bath in Kolkata's Hooghly River, yet declines to do anything about it--after all, why should he take responsibility for a stranger? But when the dead start coming back to life en masse, he rethinks his position and the debate around how to treat these newly risen corpses gets a lot more complicated. In this story from Indrapramit Das, a journalist strives to understand Krishna's actions and what they say abou...

Learn the overwhelming strength and calm that comes over you when you practice the ancient art of chanting.Chants of a Lifetime offers an intimate collection of stories, teachings, and insights from Krishna Das, who has been called "the chant master of American yoga" by the New York Times. Since 1994, the sound of his voice singing traditional Indian chants with a Western flavor has brought the spiritual experience of chanting to ...

From the finance editor of The New York Times, an insightful and illuminating examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful and provocative figures of the past four decades—and an exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first hailed as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when...

The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the world we live in, more so than all the recent events put together. The pandemic has made humans question certain assumptions, relook at priorities and adjust life according to the new normal in the twenty-first century. As we take stock of the life ahead, beyond this cusp of change, focus emerges as the fulcrum to help ease this transformation. The Art of Focus, the second book in this three-part series, presents forty-five simple...

Akbar and Birbal stories are a mixture of Intelligence, Wisdom and Humour. No wonder they have found favors among its readers. Akbar and Birbal Stories have become a integral part of Indian Folk tradition and are popular even today. This Book is the authors rendition of the exchanges between Akbar and Birbal. This Book contains 30 stories, which are illustrated, making them fun and enjoyable for children to read. Help your children trickle their imagination. Inculcate the Habit of reading ...