By Gary Chapman
Rs 360
Learn to Speak Love in the Language Your Teenager Understands Best. Just like adults, teenagers desperately need to feel that they are loved. Yet communicating this truth to our kids can be challenging, since people naturally give and receive love in distinctand often conflictingways. The fact is, every parent and every teenager speaks one of five different love languages, explains Gary Chapman, Ph.D. However, serious conflicts arise when we find ourselves unaware of, or unprepared to speak, our teenagers particular love language. In The Five Love Languages of Teenagersyou will learn to speak your teenagers primary love language Quality Time.
Super Frekonomics
BY Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Rs 638
Economist Levitt and journalist Dubner capitalize on their mega selling Freakonomics with another effort to make the dismal science go gonzo. Freaky topics include the oldest profession (hookers charge less nowadays because the sexual revolution has produced so much free competition), money-hungry monkeys (yep, that involves prostitution, too) and the dunderheadedness of Al Gore.The point of these lessons is to bolster the economist’s view of people as rational actors, altruism as an illusion and government regulation as a folly of unintended consequences. The intellectual content is pretty thin, but it’s spiked with the crowd-pleasing provocations—’A pimp’s services are considerably more valuable than a realtor’s’ —that spell bestseller.The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington’s Faultlines from Al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah
Edited by Stig Jarle Hansen, Atle Mesoy, Tuncay Kardas
Rs 1112
These specially commissioned essays critically examine the virtual and actual borders of Islamic civilization. Contributors concentrate on local dynamics and whether they support or contradict an emerging global confrontation between Islam and its Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and secular neighbors. Essays explore the rise of international Salafi jihadism and whether it can be traced to countries that straddle the Islamic and non-Islamic world. In conclusion, the contributors argue that mechanisms far more complex than those described in Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations influence many border regions, suggesting that, while poverty and institutional failure heighten religious awareness and practice, the actual effects of these phenomena are entirely different.
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