The life story of Muhammad Ali is interwoven with moments in American history in this full-color biography.

From the Civil Rights Movement to the Rome Olympics, from joining the Nation of Islam to refusing to fight in Vietnam, Muhammad Ali’s life is interwoven with historical moments throughout the twentieth century to today

A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits’ that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him…

One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?

Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation – into human nature.

قبيلة الناصحين

“قال ألبرت منزعجًا: ‘هل تعرف ما يحدث للشباب الذين يطرحون الكثير من الأسئلة؟’.
فكر مورت للحظة.
وقال في النهاية: ‘لا، ماذا يحدث لهم؟’.
سادت فترة من الصمت.

Tommy Trickett is a tall, robust and handsome farmer. All the village girls were in love with him but he was waiting for just the right one. One sleepless night, he went to investigate some strange lights down by the river. He saw some Elf maidens dancing on the misty lea. When they saw him, they marched back over the bridge. The youngest one however, was clearly fascinated and had to be gently led away. Just before the next full moon, she sang to him in Elvish. They met at midnight, fell in love and got married. Everything went ever so well until…

Triplets, Marlee, Danny and George, wake up one morning to see the circus has come to town. On deciding to make a visit, an exciting adventure unravels at every turn of their journey. Mesmerised by the many circus performers and animals, the spectacle finishes and night has fallen. With their mother expecting them back for tea how are they going to get home?

Chemical industries, dairy units, oil and gas refineries, petro-chemical complexes and fertilizer manufacturing units are few of those areas which are incomplete without anti-corrosive treatment for concrete surface.

Environmental effects, spillage and dust- emission are few of those processes which can corrode concrete. Protection of concrete surface of constructed elements from corrosive attack “arising through very harsh corrosive conditions” from all those (and many more) sources of corrosion becomes a moral duty of a Civil Engineer.

This book is an effort in this direction to share the applied knowledge with the budding Engineers so that they are aware of such protective measures to be taken for the situations they are put into which I am sure, you must have found it to be of significant importance. One save of production stoppage with use of knowledge contained in this book would serve the very purpose of bringing it out.

Cristina Cabrejas Artola has been heavily involved in raising the profile of the Arab world ever since she moved to Dubai. This book is an example of her determination to make the King’s Parade in Dubai, an event based on global peace, a dream come true. This unique event mirrors the streets of Spain on 5th January, welcoming the kings and their lavish entourage arriving from the far and distant desert.

People lead busy lives with emotional strains that are not only guilt-ridden but have underlying issues, making them too scared to lead better lives. The novel takes a turn from the mindless routine to one of the most significant unresolved problems at the subconscious level and merges the two to put forth a unique picture of the human consciousness as well as individual emotions that haunt people in their daily lives. Sorting through the unusual riddles of her subconscious, the protagonist is shocked to discover a distinct world hidden in one’s unresolved emotions that is bound to change the way one perceives life and interacts with others.

The Conscious Ego takes the reader on a journey with traces hidden from the sight yet pleasingly visible to those who dare to feel. You may never agree with one another about your history or whose interpretation of life is correct; however, one thing that everyone can agree on is humanity. Human misery is universal as it calls for a collective and unconditional love to comprehend, feel, understand and eventually heal its wounds. People can acquire immense power to a purposeful life through their love for others and a conscious living. Can you learn to use your consciousness to decipher the emotional codes by avoiding the displeasures that overshadow life’s real purpose?

Wajeeha Bilal takes you on an inspiring tour of the human evolution through love and tries to infuse your everyday activities with meaning and purpose. She is a writer with a passion for life, awareness and books. She writes to inspire and awaken the masses through mindful awareness.

Closing deals is among the most important skills that are essential to assure business continuity and career improvement. Yet it is not given much attention during the academic years – in almost all technical specialties such as Computer Science and Engineering.

This fact has a shocking impact on us – technical people – as we only learn to focus on solution-related issues such as design and implementation. We simply have a problem or a requirement, and we learn how to create a solution to it. That is often not the case in the real world.

Whether you are an engineer, a programmer, a pharmacist or from any other technical profession, you will find yourself forced to start dealing with customers in order to progress with your career, and even more if you have decided to start your own business.

If you are serious about improving your career, I very much urge you to pay serious attention to improving your sales and deal-closing skills. Otherwise, you would find yourself facing unnecessary career challenges.

In The Art of Technical Closing, you will find a result-oriented methodology that can help technical professionals in gaining immense and intensive understanding of the most necessary skills required to start winning deals.

This book will provide you with many shortcuts. You will find the tips and advices that are easy to implement and very effective.

Being a software engineer myself, I tried to be as straightforward as possible.

I wish you a pleasant read and hope that you would benefit from my book.