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10.  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People While he gets a bit preachy sometimes, Stephen Covey's road map for living doesn't just help you develop better habits. It also convinces you that acquiring them will make you a better person. Best quote:  "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny." 9.  How to Win Friends & Influence People Prior to Dale Carnegie's classic, mixing business relationships with personal relationships was considered a bit underhanded, like nepotism. After Carnegie, business relationships and personal relationships were seen not just as compatible, but as absolutely inseparable. Best quote:  "The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincer...

White Tiger Arvind Adiga’s   Man-Booker-Prize-winning debut novel   was widely acclaimed for its refreshing take on social class disparities and contradictions in contemporary India. The book is a thrilling first-person narrative told from the perspective of Balram Halwai, a young man from a poverty-stricken small village who   moves to Delhi   to work as a chauffeur for the elite. ‘The White Tiger’ by Arvind Adiga   |   Courtesy of Harper Collins Nectar in a Sieve Acclaimed Indian author Kamala Markandaya’s debut novel,   Nectar in a Sieve , is the story of rapidly changing mid-20th-century India, told from the perspective of Rukhmani, a woman from rural and impoverished India. From her arranged marriage to Nathan, a farmer, to the changes brought about by the advent of a large tannery in their village, the novel covers a rich range of subjects with uniquely gripping prose. ‘Nectar In A Sieve’ by Kamala Markandaya ...

White Rage by  Carol Andersom White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide  is a 2016 non-fiction book written by  Emory University  professor  Carol Anderson .  It looks into how  whiteness  functions in American life and how the legacy of  structural racism  has brought about white anger and resentment. Anderson was contracted to write the book following reaction to an op-ed she wrote for  The Washington Post  in 2014. White Rage  became a  New York Times Best Seller , and was listed as a notable book of 2016 by  The New York Times ,  The Washington Post ,  The Boston Globe , and the  Chicago Review of Books .  White Rage  was also listed by  The New York Times  as an Editors' Choice,and won the 2016  National Book Critics Circle Award  for Criticism. At the January 2017  confirmation hearing  for Republican Senator  Jef...

Strenght to Love by Martin Luther King Jr. Plot:- Strength to Love  is a book by  Martin Luther King, Jr.  It was published in 1963 as a collection of his  sermons  primarily on the topic of  racial segregation in the United States  and with a heavy emphasis on permanent religious values. King's writings reflect his deep understanding for the need of  agape , a love that is concerned with going the extra mile to ensure the well-being of others. King believed in a better world, but in order to attain his vision we must first face our fears and then master these fears through courage, love, and faith. He preached of courage that all Christians should show in their  nonviolent  stand against segregation, although he did believe that all people could possess this strength of courage for we are all made in the image of God. This courage is the strength to hope for better days, the strength to have faith in the Lord, and most of all the...

I Have a Dream " is a public speech delivered by American  civil rights  activist  Martin Luther King Jr.  during the  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom  on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to  racism in the United States  and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the  Lincoln Memorial  in  Washington, D.C. , the speech was a defining moment of the  civil rights movement . Beginning with a reference to the  Emancipation Proclamation , which freed millions of slaves in 1863, King observes that: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free". Toward the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised  peroration  on the theme "I have a dream", prompted by  Mahalia Jackson 's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" In this part of the speech, which most excite...

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written” WRITTEN BY:    Jonathan Hogeback   SHARE: Literary critics, historians, avid readers, and even casual readers will all have different opinions on which novel is truly the “greatest book ever written.” Is it a novel with beautiful, captivating figurative language? Or one with gritty realism? A novel that has had an immense social impact? Or one that has more subtly affected the world? Here is a list of 12 novels that, for various reasons, have been considered some of the greatest works of literature ever written. Anna Karenina Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Any fan of stories that involve juicy subjects like adultery, gambling, marriage plots, and, well, Russian feudalism, would instantly place  Anna Karenina  at the peak of their “greatest novels” list. And that’s exactly the ranking that publications like  Time  magazine have given the novel since it was published in its enti...