Strand Book News December 2013

Vol. VIII No. 9 December 2013 (20 Pages) Rs. 2.00

Vol. VIII No. 9 December 20132 Strand Book News

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The Strand Legacy

Dear Readers,

I hear kudos every month for the Editorial, that you eagerly wait for this letter, But the reason is simply this…

That every time you ever bought a book and read new thoughts, new visions, emotions, perspectives unfolded, And as growth subtly happened in your innermost places, it’s just grown and it’s grown and it’s grown. And as it grew you found new ways of living, new world views both inside and out, And before you knew it everyone was affected, all the readers, society and more, And this whole new movement just caught you by stealth, you awoke just today realizing, That whatever all of you were, hoped and aspired to long ago may or may not have happened, But all the while these fresh new perspectives have taken you just where you needed to go. These dizzy heights cannot be explained only felt, lived and experienced and there are no heights in any way better, As you changed, society changed, and it is obvious only you could have made it all happen,And with every statement, insight and concept these heights have been stretched and bettered simply thru the reading of books !

I apologize for the bad rhyming my friends but there’s poetry in what I’m saying to you, For this is more than a movement, it’s a countrywide sweep…the amazing Strand Legacy and You !

As for the Editorial it’s but a shining vehicle, it’s 400 words, just a letter, But it conveys all that it shares with all readers everywhere, Strand Book Stall, three generations, and You !

Season’s Greetings from all at Strand,Vidya Virkar

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BOMBAY TO MUMBAIChanging PerspectivesBy Pauline Rohatgi, Pheroza Godrej & Rahul Mehrotra

Within three centuries, seven west-coast islands evolved into the Bombay peninsula, then into a flourishing centre for trade, ultimately becoming the cosmopolitan, high-rise metropolis of Mumbai. Marg celebrates fifty years of publishing with this volume on the city of its birth.

In three parts – “Perceptions and Observations”, “Places, Symbols, and Icons”, and “Making an Urban Landscape”, eighteen articles highlight Bombay’s changing topography over some three hundred years. They portray a historic spectrum of this enigmatic and intriguing city while discussing opportunities for the future.

A separate folded, user-friendly map helps readers locate places mentioned in the book, with a map of the whole Mumbai Metropolitan Region, a detailed plan of the Fort Heritage Precinct, and the suburban rail network also provided. The essays in the second part provide a sense of Bombay’s character through some of its symbols and icons. Embellished with more contemporary photographs and a sketch of Back Bay by M. F. Husain, the last part examines the impact of land restrictions on Mumbai’s physical appearance.

List Price Rs.3200.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.1500.00326 pages Postage Rs.100 extra


THE DESIGNER’S DESKTOP MANUALBy Jason Simmons

The Designer’s Desktop Manual, Second Edition is still a top-notch exploration of the essential aspects of key areas of print and screen based design-type and typography-now updated and revised to reflect changes in Adobe CS5. It offers

insight into current technological issues and the skills needed to bring design to a professional standard, addressing imaging, layout, and printing-from the most basic, introductory techniques and principles, to more advanced practices. Historical background on key topics is offered, putting the techniques into context with the evolution of design.

List price Rs.1950.00 Paperback Our Price Rs.750.00256 pages Postage Rs.75.00 extra

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN YEARBOOK 13Edited by Richard Sapper

Showcasing the work of more than two hundred designers from around the world, this thirteenth edition presents varied and creative approaches to domestic design, uncovering a rich seam of examples from the contemporary culture of objects. 440 illustrations, 376 in color.

List price Rs.5525.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.750.00236 pages Postage Rs.100.00 extra


50+ VACATION HOMESEdited by Andrea Boekel

This book celebrates the holiday home, traditionally a place of rest, relaxation and escape from the pressures of the ‘real’ world. Its many incarnations include beach shacks, mountain-top chalets, country estates, ranches

and hobby farms, lakeside villas and isolated cabins. The unique styles reflect their owners’ very personal approaches to what it means to be ‘on vacation’. The architecture of holiday homes reveals the shift in lifestyle that defines a vacation; architects are required to work closely with their clients to achieve just the right spirit. The results of this collaboration can be breathtaking.


STEP BY STEP HOME DESIGN & DECORATINGBy Dorling Kindersley

From the planning stages right through to the finishing touches, Step by Step Home Design & Decorating is the most practical home guide there is, perfect for anyone restyling their home. You’ll find all the advice you need to become

your own interior designer and get the perfect look without breaking the bank.

List price Rs.2600,00 Hardback Our Price Rs.695.00400 pages Postage Rs.100.00 extra


50 YEARS OF THE PLAYBOY BUNNY

By Josh Robrtson

For the first time ever, Playboy presents the complete, official account of the iconic Playboy Bunny. Coinciding with the Bunny’s 50th anniversary, this richly illustrated book presents stunning pictorials of famous and classic Bunnies from the likes of Debbie Harry, Lauren

Hutton, and Gloria Steinemas well as rare images unearthed from the Playboy vault. A fascinating narrative charts the 50-year history of the Bunny, from the opening of the first Playboy club in Chicago to the making of a global empire.


DIRECTORY OF ILLUSTRATION (Vol. 23)

By Graphic Artists Guild

The Graphic Artists Guild’s Directory of Illustration features thousands of illustrations from hundreds of the best illustrators working today. The book is distributed annually each year in November to 21,000 art buyers coast to coast.



THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CATHOLICISM & THE CATHOLIC SAINTSA comprehensive account of the history, philosophy and practice of Catholic Christianity and a guide to the most significant saints. By Tessa PaulThis is an extensive overview of Catholicism’s rich history, beginning with the extraordinary life of

Christ and the first centuries of the propagation of faith. It describes the significance and traditions of Catholic ritual, and includes a guide to the important festivals and holy days in the Catholic calendar. It explores the religious and social history of Christian saints from the Holy Family and the Apostles through the medieval period to modern times. It includes biographies for each saint, with historical information about the era in which they lived, what holy works they performed and their feast day. List price Rs.2275.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.500.00512 pages Postage Rs.75.00 extra

SOCRATESA Man For Our TimesBy Paul JohnsonAs Plutarch observed, Socrates “was the first person to demonstrate that life is open to philosophy at all times, in every part, among all kinds of people, and in every experience and activity.” This brilliant biography of Socrates by renowned historian Paul Johnson situates the father of philosophy in the fifth-century BC Athens that he loved, delving into

the geopolitics of the time, his service as a soldier, his wide range of acquaintances, and the civic unrest that led to Socrates’ trial and death. A fresh and fascinating portrait of the thinker who believed questioning and education were the keys to a virtuous life, this book proves that Socrates is as relevant as ever.List price Rs.1560.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.450.00220 pages Postage Rs.50.00 extra


WHAT ABOUT THE BIG STUFF?Finding Strength and Moving Forward When the Stakes Are High

By Richard Carlson, Ph.D

In this groundbreaking book, Carlson tackles the difficult issues--from illness, death, injury, and aging, to alcoholism, divorce, and financial pressures--with his trademark and eminently helpful advice.


THE LAST LECTURE (Large Print Edition)

By Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow

A New York Times bestseller, The Last Lecture is a series of lessons modeled after Pausch’s legendary and spirited lecture given in Carnegie Mellon Hall. Interweaving personal stories and life lessons that abound in candid humor, The Last Lecture was a hit. On September 18, 2007,

Randy Pausch gave a buoyant and optimistic lecture that was titled as The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams to a crowd of 400 people that included his students and colleagues. A month before he was due to give this lecture, he discovered that he had pancreatic cancer.



SEA OF POPPIES

By Amitav Ghosh

The novel, Sea of Poppies, is first book of the trilogy Ibis and has been written by the Indian author, Amitav Ghosh. The novel deals with life in Calcutta and on the banks of river Ganga preceding the Opium Wars. This novel earned a Man Booker Prize nomination for the author.


RIVER OF SMOKE

By Amitav Ghosh

River Of Smoke is the second novel in the Ibis Saga trilogy, which revolves around the opium trade, which led to the Opium Wars in China. In this second novel, the opium drug is on its way to China, and three ships are brought together due to an unexpected storm.



VIKRAM SETH: COMPLETE VERSE

This is a set of 7 title. The Golden Gate - Three Chinese Poets - The Humble Administrator’s Garden - Beastly Tales from Here and There - Mappings - Arion and the Dolphin - All you who sleep tonight.

List price Rs.1750.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.600.00 Postage Rs.75.00 extra

SIX SUSPECTSBy Vikas Swarup

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. each of them steaming with a secret motive. India’s wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching, techni-colour lives of six eccentric personalities

unravel before our eyes. But can we trust Advani? Or does he have another agenda in mind...?List price Rs.399.00 Paperback Our Price Rs.225.00480 pages Postage Rs.50.00 extra


ONLY TIME WILL TELL (Large Print Edition)By Jeffrey Archer The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, ‘I was told that my father was killed in the war’. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, which will only lead

him to question: who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks, or the first born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? Only Time will Tell covers the years from 1920 to 1940, and includes a cast of memorable characters that The Times has compared to The Forsyte Saga. List price Rs.780.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.350.00698 pages Postage Rs.50.00 extra

LIVING TO TELL THE TALEBy Gabriel Garcia MarquezNo writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his

ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment. List price Rs.1750.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.300.00485 pages Postage Rs.50.00 extra


D.H. LAWRENCE (5 Novels in one)1 Women in Love 2. The Ladybird 3. The Man Who Died 4. The Captain’s Doll 5. The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence is one of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century. Love – passionate and possessive, natural and unnatural – is his preoccupation, with which he shocked the world in books now established as great literary masterpieces.


JOHN GALSWORTHY (6 Novels in one)The Forsyte Saga: 1. The Man of Poverty 2. In Chancery 3. To LetA Modern Comedy: 4. The White Monkey 5. The Silver Spoon 6. Swan Song

No twentieth-century series of novels has had greater or more enduring fame than John Galsworthy’s Forsyte series. Beautifully presented here in one volume are the first six books in the sequence, taking the story up to

the death of Soames Forsyte.



PAKISTAN: A HARD COUNTRYBy Anatol Lievn

In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of

the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven’s book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country.


YIDDISH CIVILISATIONThe Rise and Fall of a Forgotten NationBy Paul Kriwaczek

Until Hitler’s mass murderers extinguished its existence, Yiddish society had survived in its central and east European heartland since medieval times. At its height it was culturally vibrant, economically successful, intellectually adventurous and largely self-ruling. It has now gone for ever, but it left an indelible mark on history and its influence lives on in American language, humour and culture.



THE GRAND DESIGNBy Stephen Hawking & Leonard MlodinowIn this ground-breaking work, Professor Hawking draws on forty years of research and a series of extraordinary astronomical observations and theoretical breakthroughs to reveal an original and controversial theory. They convincingly argue that scientific obsession with formulating a single new model may be misplaced, and that, instead, by synthesising

existing theories we may discover the key to finally understanding the universe’s deepest mysteries. The Grand Design is Stephen Hawking’s attempt to understand the universe, and our place in it, at the deepest level.List price Rs.1820.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.495.00208 pages Postage Rs.50.00 extra

THE DREAMS THAT STUFF IS MADE OFThe Most Astounding Papers on Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific WorldEdited by Stephen Hawking The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of compiles the essential works from the scientists who sparked the paradigm shift that changed the face of physics forever, pushing our understanding of the universe on to an entirely new level of

comprehension. Gathered in this anthology is the scholarship that shocked and befuddled the scientific world, including works by Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, as well as an introduction by today’s most celebrated scientist, Stephen Hawking. List price Rs.1950.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.500.001082 pages Postage Rs.75.00 extra


REFLEXOLOGY AND ACCUPRESSUREPressure Points for HealingBy Janet Wright

This practical guide to the drug-free, hands-on therapies of reflexology and acupressure includes: * Endorsement by expert consultants *Easy-to-follow treatments to combat everyday ailments *Detailed step-by-step color photography throughout *Gentle treatment tips to suit everyone, including children and the elderly.


NATURALLY PAIN FREEPrevent and Treat Chronic and Acute Pains-NaturallyBy Letha Hadady

Whether you’ve dealt with a lifetime of chronic aches and pains or suffer from a specific ailment, when you’re in constant pain, relief is the only thing on your mind. Are you using the same over–the–counter painkiller to treat everything from toothaches to knee pain? If so, you may only be providing a temporary mask to your suffering—not healing it—and it’s

only a matter of time before the pain returns.



THE HAMLYN GARDENING BOOKThe Essential Guide to Gardening

An excellent guide for beginners and an essential reference book for the more experienced gardener. Packed with practical tips and easy-to-follow instructions. Over 1000 photographs and illustrations. In-depth advice and suggestions on planning, designing and planting plus special features on seasonal planting, topiary, roof gardens and container gardening.


DESSERTSOver 200 Classic Recipes from Around the WorldBy Ting Morris, Rachel Lane & Carla Bardi

This special collection of more than 200 recipes is a fusion of time-tested classics and modern desserts that appeal to the taste buds, budgets, and busy schedules of

today’s cooks. Developed by an international team of food writers, Desserts offers a host of exquisite easy-to-follow recipes for every occasion – from Chocolate Cherry Tart and Strawberry Meringue Cake to Rhubarb and Cinnamon Charlotte and Cappuccino Cups. You’ll also be inspired by the gorgeous full-color photographs that showcase many of the recipes.List price Rs.1950.00 Hardback Our Price Rs.250.00288 pages Postage Rs.75.00 extra


BRISINGR

By Christopher Paolini

The much-anticipated third book in Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle continues to rely heavily on classic fantasy tropes. The novel launches with magician and Dragon Rider Eragon, his cousin Roran and the dragon Saphira on a quest to rescue Roran’s betrothed.


THE SINGING

By Alison Croggon

This breathtaking final volume of the Pellinor epic follows the separate journeys of Maerad and Hem as they desperately seek each other out in a battle-ravaged land.


ARCHIE

1000 Page Comics Extravaganza

Laugh along with Archie, Reggie, Jughead, Betty & Veronica, and the whole gang in this super comics collection – featuring tons of stories that will welcome you into the exciting town of Riverdale!

List price Rs.975.00 Paperback Our Price Rs.550.00 Postage Rs.50.00 extra


ALL ABOUT ME 123 Sesame Street

It’s time to have fun learning all about YOU with Elmo, Bert, Ernie, and all their friends from Sesame Street. *Fun story and activities *Wipe-off activities and pen *Pages and pages of coloring *Press-out characters, games, and stickers.

List price Rs.975.00 Spiral Bound Our Price Rs.250.00 Postage Rs.50.00 extra

THE AGENCYA Spy in the House

By Y. S. Lee

Introducing an exciting new series! Steeped in Victorian atmosphere and intrigue, this diverting mystery trails a feisty heroine as she takes on a precarious secret assignment.


ANOTHER FAUST

By Daniel & Dina Nayeri A devilish debut by a brother-sister team invites us into the world of the elite Marlowe School, where some gifted students are having a hell of a year.



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McGRAW-HILL’S ATLAS OF WORLD EVENTS

By John L. Allen, Ph.D

McGraw-Hill’s Atlas of World Events goes beyond the “where” of today’s world to offer a vivid, in-depth picture of the current state of the planet and human civilization. Readers get a multitude of stunning, four-color reference and thematic maps organized according to

the categories of politics and conflict, economic development, environmental issues, and human demographics and development. Thematic maps cover a range of sociopolitical topics, from military expenditure as a percentage of gross national product, to literacy rates, to oil production.

List price Rs.1230.00 Paperback Our Price Rs.400.00208 pages Postage Rs.50 .00 extra


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