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COMPLETE HYLES GAMES

By Lawrence H. Dawson. Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1994

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THEATRE GAMES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

By Sengupta, Swatilekha. Das Gupta And Co. Pvt. Ltd 2000

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FLUKE The Maths and Myths of Coincidences

By Mazur,Joseph. london One world 2016 9781780748993

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LONELY TIGER

By Allen,Hugh. New Delhi Rupa 2014 , ‘The Lonely Tigeris essential reading for those who love the wilderness.’ -Valmik Thapar ‘[…] I saw that he was staring intently at a leaf blowing over the surface and drifting towards him. When it came within reach he started to dab at it with his right front paw,but with a touch so gentle that his pad was the merest caress on the tiny tip of its curled-up sail. From that moment,I always called him the Lonely Tiger. After being discharged from the British Armed Forces at the end of the Second World War,Hugh Allen-and his widowed sister Babs-decided on impulse to settle down on an estate in Mandikhera,an obscure village in central India,hoping to live the quiet life of a farmer. But even as his crops flourished,they suffered the attentions of the hungry denizens of the surrounding forest. Allen was thus compelled to take up arms to defend his crops and,occasionally,the villagers of Mandikhera The Lonely Tiger recounts Allen’s encounters with animals of all kinds: snappish tigers in heat,a wounded,angry leopard,a surly,murderous boar,chattering,helpful monkeys,an enraged shebear protecting her cubs,and a melancholy tiger that has lost his family to poachers. Hugh Allen narrates his adventures in spare,taut and thrilling prose which brings the jungle-and the hunt-to pulsating life. And while The Lonely Tigris one of the best shikar books to have been ever written,it is also one of the earliest appeals to conserve India’s rapidly vanishing wildlife. Appearing in print after a hiatus of more than half a century,The Lonely Tigris a must read. Interesting facts With a foreword by author and publisher David Davidar,The Lonely Tigeris a treasure house of thrilling encounters that the author had with wildlife in the very heart of India. Back in print after many years,this is a beautiful hardback edition of one of the best books to have been written about the Indian tiger. Narrated in Allen’s taut yet lyrical prose,The Lonely Tigeris a must-read for all those interested in India’s fauna. As one of the earliest books to appeal for the conservation of India’s rich and varied wildlife,The Lonely Tiger has great relevance in today’s age of animals being poached and endangered. 9788129131256

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FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS : Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in Markets

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. London Penguin Books 2007 , Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the bestselling sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has ''vision'' or a trader is ''talented'', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist. ''One of the smartest books of all time'' Fortune ''An iconoclastic tour de force ... nothing escapes his Exocets'' Evening Standard ''Brilliant'' John Kay ''Excellent and thought-provoking ... an entertaining book'' Financial Times ''Wall Street''s principal dissident'' Malcolm Gladwell 9780141031484

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DRUNKARD'S WALK : How Randomness Rules Our Lives

By Mlodinow, Leonard. London Penguin Books 2009 , Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world. Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. So why are we so bad at understanding them? The same tools that help us understand the random paths of molecules can be applied to the randomness that governs so many aspects of our everyday lives, from winning the lottery to road safety, and reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes and film stars, and even how to make sense of a blood test. The Drunkard's Walk reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting - read it, or risk becoming another victim of chance. 'A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives' Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time 9780141026473

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