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माधव सदाशिव गोळवलकर तथा श्री गुरुजी ह्या संघाच्या द्वितीय सरसंघचालकांच्याबद्दलचे चरित्र सांगणारेे हे पुस्तक चं. प. भिशीकर यांनी लिहिले आहे. ह्या समर्पित महापुरुषाच्या चरित्राचा स्थूल आराखडा यात मांडला गेला आहे. जन्मापासून महानिर्वाणापर्यंतचा थक्क करणारा प्रवास प्रेरणादायी आहे. लेखक स्वत: या काळात आणि याच संघकार्यात पूर्णपणे कार्यरत असल्याने पू. गुरुजींच्या चरित्रातील सर्व प्रसंग त्यांनी वाचकांपुढे आणि पत्रकार असल्याने आपल्या दृष्टीने मांडले आहेत.

In diesem Buch wird die Wirkung des Begründers der Tiefenpsychologie auf die Kultur unseres Zeitalters zum ersten Mal umfassend sichtbar gemacht. Während die meisten bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten zuerst in ihrem Fachgebiet Anerkennung und Einfluss gewinnen, haben Jungs schöpferische Konzeptionen, da sie den Menschen als Ganzes angehen, auf den verschiedensten Wissensgebieten befruchtend gewirkt, so in der Theologie, in der Anthropologie und Ethnologie, in der Parapsychologie und sogar in der Atomphysik.

पूर्वांचलामध्ये 60 वर्षे रा.स्व. संघाचे प्रचारक म्हणून काम केलेल्या श्री. मधुकरराव लिमये यांनी शब्दबद्ध केलेल्या त्यांच्या आठवणींचे मराठी रुपांतरण म्हणजे 'आंबट गोड आठवणी.' आसाम व उत्तर पूर्वांचलातील 60 वर्षांच्या आपल्या वास्तव्याने तेथे संघकार्य रुजविण्याचे कार्य करतांना आलेल्या बर्‍या वाईट अनुभवांचे हे कथन लेखकांच्या मनोरंजन शैलीमुळे वाचनीय झाले आहे.

घरात ज्येष्ठ नागरिक असलेले चांगले, असा मतप्रवाह दिसला तरी नोकरीसाठी बाहेर जावे लागते, तेव्हा त्यांना ठेवायचं कुठे हा प्रश्न निर्माण होतो. रेनबो डे केअर सेंटरच्या संचालिका अनुराधाताई करकरे यांनी ज्येष्ठांचे पाळणाघर सुरू करून तो प्रश्न तर काही अंशी सोडवला आहे पण त्याचबरोबर अर्थार्जनाचा एक नवा मार्गही दाखवून दिला आहे.

अमेरिकेतील गलेलठ्ठ पगाराची, मोठ्या अधिकाराची नोकरी सोडून भारतात येऊन त्यांनी उद्योग सुरू केला. स्वत: च्या कल्पना निर्मितीक्षमता यांना पुरेपूर वाव देत वैद्यकीय क्षेत्रासाठी उपयुक्त अशी सॉफ्टवेअर्स बनवणाऱ्या सॉफ्टलिंक या कंपनीविषयी आणि तिचे संस्थापक प्रकाश कामत यांची ही कथा.

Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. Ten thousand dollars and countless casino bans later, he was hooked, so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino.

La biografía definitiva de Steve Jobs, el fundador de Apple, escrita con su colaboración.Tras más de cuarenta entrevistas con Steve Jobs y con un centenar de personas de su entorno, familiares, amigos, adversarios y colegas, esta es la biografía definitiva de uno de los iconos indiscutibles de nuestro tiempo, del genio cuya creatividad, energía y perfeccionismo revolucionaron seis industrias: informática, películas de animación, música, teléfonos, tabletas y edición digital.

In 1986, before Michael Lewis became the best-selling author of The Big Short, Moneyball, and Flash Boys, he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to New York- and London-based bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years - a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business.

Trente infirmières et infirmiers de tous les horizons racontent, à tour de rôle, la relation avec un patient la plus marquante de leur carrière. Ces professionnels dévoués nous donnent accès aux moments parfois bouleversants qui ponctuent leur quotidien dans les centres hospitaliers, les cliniques, les dispensaires du domaine communautaire et les pénitenciers.

Real estate titan, best-selling author, and TV impresario Donald J. Trump reveals the secrets of his success. Over the years, everyone has urged Trump to write on this subject, but it wasn't until NBC and executive producer Mark Burnett asked him to star in The Apprentice that he realized just how hungry people are to learn how great personal wealth is created and first-class businesses are run.

Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious.

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his 15-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him. Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and hauling logs? But once there, Aidan embraced the wild.

Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life - she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell.

The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business. Kerkorian combined the courage of a World War II pilot, the fortitude of a scrappy boxer, the cunning of an inscrutable poker player, and an unmatched genius for making deals.

The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.

Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations.

The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China’s economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy. In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation.

There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally friendly world, but in reality, this ideology, championed by America’s business and political leaders, robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity.

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, 'You can make philosophy out of this cocktail!'