About the Book: The book is a memoir of a person from a small town of a backward district of West Bengal, who suffered from a life threatening disease at the age of 8, had education in a vernacular medium school, but went on to obtain Masters degree in English language and overcoming many hurdles and obstructions, went on to become International Director of the world's largest service club organization Lions International. Taking over the reins of a century old family business, expanded it by diversifying in different fields, to be recognized as a most transparent group having tremendous good will in the market. Through his involvement in social work and involvement in cultural and educational activities, has earned a highly respected position in the society. Being an avid traveller has been to more than 60 countries during last 40 years for acquiring experience of various cultures. About the Author: BISHNU BAJORIA, born on 14 November 1945 at Bankura in West Bengal, after initial education at Bankura, did M.A. in English from Jadavpur University in 1966 and joined family business at Calcutta to later shift to Bankura and now heads the business group which is one of country's oldest groups in petroleum business since 1905 and is also involved in distribution of various products with main offices at Bankura and Kolkata and branches in many places. The group enjoys tremendous goodwill for its clean and transparent dealings. Involving in social work, he joined Lions Club of Bankura in 1976 and was elected International Director during 2008-10 and earned the highest Lion award Ambassador of Goodwill. He served as President of Bankura Chamber of Commerce and FOSBECCI Association and is currently the President of renowned NGOs like Bankura Sammilani, Amra Sobai Ek Sathe and Bankura Dharmashala Charitable Trust and is the President of the Alumni Association of Bankura Christian College. He has been acting as Judge of Lok Adalat from time to time. He and his wife have a happy family with 2 sons and 4 grandchildren.

Packed with wisdom and insight from interviews with 43 experts including entrepreneurs, talent industry executives, psychologists, and career coaches, Career Interrupted stands out as a highly-personalized self-help book that teaches you how to navigate even the most challenging of career crossroads. In this refreshing guide on what it takes to find fulfillment and balance in your professional and personal life, serial technopreneur and work-life advisor, Reena Gupta, is your personal champion giving you the mindset, tools, and strategies helping you to: ? Identify and change the patterns that are holding you back ? Get clarity on your priorities and zero in on your secret sauce ? Create your own happiness scale ? Find your professional ecosystem ? Flex your social connection muscles ? Reinforce your support network ? Prioritize your body, mind, and soul wellness ? Explore three different career paths ? Choose your path to create a life you totally love By the end of Career Interrupted, rather than playing a passive part in your career, you will be in the driver’s seat making work-life harmony a reality.

Published when the author was just twenty-three, Life Goes On was Hans Keilson's literary debut, an extraordinary autobiographical novel that paints a dark yet illuminating portrait of Germany between the world wars. It is the story of Herr Seldersen—a Jewish store owner modeled on Keilson's father, a textile merchant and decorated World War I veteran—along with his wife and son, Albrecht, and the troubles they encounter as the German economy collapses and politics turn rancid. The book was banned by the Nazis in 1934. Shortly afterward, following his editor's advice, Keilson emigrated to the Netherlands, where he would spend the rest of his life. Life Goes On is an essential volume for readers of Keilson's later work. At the age of one hundred, with his one copy of the first edition of Life Goes On in hand, Keilson told The New York Times that he would love to see his first novel reissued, and translated as well. "Then you would have my whole biography," he told them. He died at the age of one hundred and one.

Foreword by Mandy Arioto, President of MOPS International Teresa Swanstrom Anderson is living the life she thought she never wanted. With an art history degree and dreams of living in Europe as a curator, Teresa had big plans for herself. She had no desire to have kids -- didn't even like them -- but after a decision to lay her exciting plans at the feet of Christ, God began changing her heart little by little. While dating the man who eventually became her husband, the two felt called to adopt from Africa. Now, Teresa's house is bursting at the seams with the loves of her life -- her husband, Ben, and their six children, four of whom were born in Ethiopia. She believes in celebrating the everyday and instilling the love of God and others in her children's hearts. She views her life as a series of redirected dreams, stumbling, falling, getting up, and wondering if she is investing her time where it matters most. Through it all, Teresa grasps joy tightly amid the craziness of everyday life. Go from dreaming about your life to living it fully with God in control. Pick up this book, grab a notebook, curl up on the couch, and open your heart to the potential of allowing your life to become beautifully interrupted. Includes reflection questions and Bible study prompts. Have you gotten so caught up in life and your well-intentioned plans that you may have accidentally planned God right out of it all? Teresa Swanstrom Anderson did just that. Her carefully laid out life changed course when she whispered to God, "Send me. Use me." Be inspired as you read Beautifully Interrupted and learn the importance of giving your plans back to God and allow Him to expand the borders of your life and heart. This book offers strategies and encouragement for living through the in-between times of waiting, as well as facing trials with grace and active faith. Become equipped to brave the storms and embrace the life-changing power of seeking God's plan first and sacrificing time and set plans in favor of something far greater.

The TLA Video and DVD Guide 2005 is the absolutely indispensable guide to worthwhile cinema. It includes over 10,000 entries on the best of film and video that a real film lover might actually want to see. Unlike some of the other mass market guides that tend to be clogged with unenlightening entries on even more unenlightening films, TLA focuses on independent, foreign, and the best of Hollywood to bring the cineaste an opinionated guide that is both fun and useful. The guide includes: -Reviews of more than 10,000 films -Four detailed indexes--by star, directory, country of origin, and theme -More than 300 photos throughout -A listing of all the major film awards of the past quarter-century, as well as TLA Bests and recommended films -A comprehensive selection of cinema from more than 50 countries Now published annually, the TLA Video and DVD Guide is one of the most respected guides from one of the finest names in video retailing, perfect for anyone with an eclectic taste in cinema.

In this first book devoted to the genesis, failure, and lasting legacy of Ulysses S. Grant’s comprehensive American Indian policy, Mary Stockwell shows Grant as an essential bridge between Andrew Jackson’s pushing Indians out of the American experience and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s welcoming them back in. Situating Grant at the center of Indian policy development after the Civil War, Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians reveals the bravery and foresight of the eighteenth president in saying that Indians must be saved and woven into the fabric of American life. In the late 1860s, before becoming president, Grant collaborated with Ely Parker, a Seneca Indian who became his first commissioner of Indian affairs, on a plan to rescue the tribes from certain destruction. Grant hoped to save the Indians from extermination by moving them to reservations, where they would be guarded by the U.S. Army, and welcoming them into the nation as American citizens. By so doing, he would restore the executive branch’s traditional authority over Indian policy that had been upended by Jackson. In Interrupted Odyssey, Stockwell rejects the common claim in previous Grant scholarship that he handed the reservations over to Christian missionaries as part of his original policy. In part because Grant’s plan ended political patronage, Congress overturned his policy by disallowing Army officers from serving in civil posts, abandoning the treaty system, and making the new Board of Indian Commissioners the supervisors of the Indian service. Only after Congress banned Army officers from the Indian service did Grant place missionaries in charge of the reservations, and only after the board falsely accused Parker of fraud before Congress did Grant lose faith in his original policy. Stockwell explores in depth the ousting of Parker, revealing the deep-seated prejudices that fueled opposition to him, and details Grant’s stunned disappointment when the Modoc murdered his peace commissioners and several tribes—the Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Sioux—rose up against his plans for them. Though his dreams were interrupted through the opposition of Congress, reformers, and the tribes themselves, Grant set his country firmly toward making Indians full participants in the national experience. In setting Grant’s contributions against the wider story of the American Indians, Stockwell’s bold, thoughtful reappraisal reverses the general dismissal of Grant’s approach to the Indians as a complete failure and highlights the courage of his policies during a time of great prejudice.