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srinidhilv

srinidhilv

Well. I love to read books and write about them
  • Plano, TX, USA
  • member since August 29, 2007

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  • Karnataka - One State, Many Worlds
    • Rated 5 stars

    “A compilation of articles about various interesting tourism destinations in the southern state of India.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Thursday, December 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Discover Your Destiny
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Discover Your Destiny With The Monk who sold his Ferrari, a sequel to the bestseller The Monk who sold his Ferrari authored by Robin Sharma. A US-based lawyer-turned-motivational speaker Sharma is ranked among the world’s premier self-improvement gurus and has authored six other books, including The Monk who sold his Ferrari, which reportedly sold over four million copies worldwide. Founder-CEO of Sharma Leadership International (SLI), Sharma is the star of his own PBS television show and lectures over 200,000 people a year at his overbooked international seminars which attract audiences of up to 10,000. He has also shared speaking platforms with high-profile individuals including former US president Bill Clinton, holistic healer Dr. Deepak Chopra, author Richard Carlson and counsellor Dr. John Gray.

    Promoted as a handbook which offers seven steps to self-realisation, Discover Your Destiny is recounted as a narrative, detailing the story of Dar Sanderson, a 43-year-old successful entrepreneur who has a nice home, and a steadily increasing income but suffers on the personal and home fronts. Fed up with his odd timings and obsessive business overdrive, his wife walks out on him with their three children. Deeply depressed, Sanderson takes to drinking, loses his fitness and health and attempts a desperate suicide bid by shooting himself in a shabby motel room. Just as he is about to pull the trigger, he feels dizzy and collapses on the floor. As he lies writhing with fearful seizures he experiences a revelatory vision. "Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know," intones a voice which pierces his deepest being.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Wanna Study in the U.S.? 101 Tips to Get You There
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Natasha Pratap’s maiden book Wanna Study in the US? 101 Tips To Get You There! is an easy-to-read volume written in simple English is a comprehensive compendium of accurate information and useful guidelines to students and professionals on ways and means of accessing American universities and institutions of higher education. “There is so much to be gained from a US education, that I continue to be grateful for it every day. Studying in the US is about pushing your boundaries: academically, intellectually, geographically and emotionally. The best thing is fearlessness and confidence I developed from my own experience. Choose to study in the US because it is better. Go because you will be the better for it,” writes Pratap an alumna of the blue chip Cambridge (UK), Stanford and Boston universities.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Travel Wisdom: Tips, Tools, and Tactics for All Travelers
    • Rated 0 stars

    “Travel Wisdom is a comprehensive how-to-do-it-yourself guidebook by the extensively travelled Florida-based couple Lynne and Hank Christen. This book is the outcome of the Christens’ travel experiences spread over two decades and 43 countries. “Our goals for this book are two-fold. First, we want to inspire you to turn your travel dreams into reality. Second we want to share the practical tips, tools, and tactics we have acquired through our own travel experiences and research,” say the authors in the introduction of the book.

    True to its promise Travel Wisdom is a useful, practical and hands-on guide for those interested in making their money go the extra mile. Well-organised into 18 chapters, three appendices and topped off with an index, this utilitarian compendium covers almost every imaginable aspect of travel. The very first chapter titled ‘It all begins with a dream and plan’ which provides tips on how to get started on planning a journey, is sequentially followed by others offering practical travel advice: ‘Packing smart’; ‘Choosing a travel agent’; ‘The dollars and sense of travel’; ‘Travel health and safety’; ‘Minding your travel manners’; ‘Taking care of business’; ‘The disabled traveller’; ‘Going solo’; ‘Baby makes three, or four, or more’; ‘Pros and cons of group tours’; ‘Smooth sailing’; ‘Airs above the ground’; Riding the rails’; ‘Highways and by-ways’; ‘Vacationing at home’; ‘When things go wrong’; and ‘Making the memories last’.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Story of the Delhi iron pillar
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Prof. R. Balasubramaniam’s Story of the Delhi Iron Pillar — a simplified version of his earlier treatise on the subject titled Delhi Iron Pillar: New Insights which targeted metallurgy professionals, scholars and academics. Unlike the earlier book, this one is for lay readers, particularly higher secondary students. Its objective is to arouse student interest in history, metallurgy and archaeology and to encourage them to undertake fieldwork, self-study and research. “The iron pillar in Delhi fascinates scientists all over the world, due to its excellent resistance to atmospheric corrosion. This is an attempt to explain the story behind the pillar in a very simple manner, so that a lay reader can appreciate the history, science and technology of the iron pillar. In addition the artistic merit of the pillar is highlighted …It is sincerely hoped that the imagination, especially of the young readers, will be fired by the facts and ideas presented in this book,” writes Balasubramaniam.

    The Story of the Delhi Iron Pillar traces the history of this metallurgical wonder and recounts that it was engineered in Udayagiri. The author reveals that the iron pillar was originally installed atop a hill near Udayagiri in the hinterland of Madhya Pradesh during the reign of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya (374-413 AD) of the Gupta dynasty. The original site of the pillar was the exact location where the imaginary line that is the tropic of cancer crosses India from where one can observe the sun rising in the east and setting in the west on spring and autumn equinox days. However in 1234 King Iltutmish (1210-36 AD) the third sultan of Delhi’s slave dynasty captured Udaygiri and transported the pillar to Delhi as part of his victory booty.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Online Journalism: A Basic Text
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Tapas Ray’s Online Journalism — A Basic Text, which introduces the internet to journalists and advises them on how to use it proficiently, is timely and welcome. The 12-chapter compendium introduces the reader to the mind-boggling possibilities of net journalism. Starting with the history of the net which took shape from ARPAnet in 1961-62 in the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and the Pentagon, this textbook morphs into a how-to manual covering web authoring and publishing, revenue generation within the law, ethics and a peek into the future as media converge and broadband access is universalised.

    "In this book I discuss, among other things, what news organisations are doing in practice as against the things that can be accomplished with the internet, since this medium has unique characteristics that take it beyond the print and broadcast media in certain ways," writes Ray, an electronics engineering graduate of IIT-Kharagpur who pressed on to acquire a Masters degree and doctorate in communications at Ohio University. Ray is currently the director of Umeschandra College, Kolkata and also visiting faculty at Jadavpur University.

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    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • European Menu Translator
    • Rated 0 stars

    “Informative pocketbook for the jetsetting traveller who prefers to dine in fine dining places of Europe.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book: Survival Skills for Over 40 Languages
    • Rated 0 stars

    “The best thing about the Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book (WMPB) is its compact size. Printed in a easy-to-carry pocket-book format, this 248-page volume is packed with commonly used phrases in over 40 different languages with verbatim translations into English, presented in an easy-to-read and easy-to-grasp fashion. The languages covered in the book vary from Spanish to Greek; Swahili to Cantonese and Vietnamese to Yoruba (West Africa) and Bulgarian to Gaelic (Ireland) among others, and offers an excellent introduction to over 40 languages from across the world. Indeed WMPB is an essential companion for globetrotting businessmen as also for the growing number of outbound leisure travelers from the subcontinent.

    The book comprises 16 sections: Preface; The Latin languages; The Germanic Languages; The Slavic Languages; Finno-Ugric; Greek; Turkic; Semitic; African; Indo-Persian; Chinese; East Asian; Southeast Asian; Austornesian; Other Really Exotic Languages and Further Language ending with a brief autobiography of the author. Plus a bonus chapter on great web sites and tips for further language learning.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Nation of Farmers
    • Rated 4 stars

    “An interesting take on the threat posed by industrial agriculture on the very existence of humanity. The author talks about how gasoline and other fossil fuels have reached the halfway mark and henceforth it is only going to become more and more expensive to ship/ transport food from across the world for consumption in the American Market. She makes a persuasive case for backyard vegetable gardens, chicken coops, cooperative farming, etc.
    A must read for all highschool and above people.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Life-Span Development (10th Edition) Text Only
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Informative book about how an individual attains growth and development from embryonic to cadaverine stage. I read this because it was a prescribed textbook for my lifespan psychology class.”

    srinidhilv wrote this review Wednesday, June 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
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