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MUSE

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<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">“<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Friendship, love and a beautiful sense of togetherness sew together this gem of a book. B Michael...presents to us a portrait of a woman who was a rare gift to fashion and culture.” —</span><span style="font-weight: bolder;">EDWARD ENNINFUL, OBE, Editor-in-Chief,&nbsp;<em>British Vogue</em>&nbsp;&amp; European Editorial Director,&nbsp;<em>Vogue</em></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">A poignant and glorious photographic memoir that pays homage to the lifelong friendship between the legendary Cicely Tyson and acclaimed fashion designer B Michael, who worked with her to make her gorgeous through her last bow.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">What greater act of friendship is there than making someone dear look and feel their most beautiful and powerful? That was the priceless gift acclaimed designer B Michael gave to one of Hollywood’s greatest actresses, Cicely Tyson over the course of their close, decades-long relationship. In this glorious four-color visual memoir packed with stunning photographs, many never before seen, B Michael recalls the bond they shared and what it was like to dress the Queen of Hollywood for all the extraordinary events of her life.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">In 2005, B was summoned to create a suitable wardrobe for Ms. Tyson for a high-octane weekend hosted by Oprah Winfrey. That first successful interaction led to a nearly twenty-year-long personal and professional collaboration that defined the Hollywood star’s personal aesthetic and showcased her impeccable personality and style. B was with Ms. Tyson for the most glamorous times—the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards, White House functions, glittering galas, high-profile funerals—as well as the tenderest&nbsp;days. Their circle included a who’s who of Black celebrities, including Sidney Poitier, Barack Obama, Common, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Lenny Kravitz, Viola Davis, Oprah, Tyler Perry, Valerie Simpson, Phylicia Rashad, and many more, most of whom are featured in personal and paparazzi photographs in these pages.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Throughout their time together, B and Cicely enjoyed shocking the fashionistas, shattering inane rules limiting what a woman of a certain age should wear, devoted themselves to changing the world for the better through philanthropic efforts, laughed, cried, and inspired and celebrated each other’s excellence. In this stunning book featuring studio photos, candids from the author’s personal collection, and paparazzi shots, B shares every aspect of their time together—from the drama of a good sleeve to how to be the best friend possible to those we love.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Whether you’re a fan of pop culture, couture, Hollywood, B, or Cicely Tyson,&nbsp;<em>Muse</em>&nbsp;is a reminder that we all have the power to be showstoppers in our own lives.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Includes written contributions from Lenny Kravitz, Bridget Foley, Susan Fales Hill, and Valerie Simpson.</p>

WANDERLUST

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<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">"An absolute joy...<em>Wanderlust</em>&nbsp;is a compelling introduction to one of the most charismatic explorers to ever cross the ice."—<em>New York Times Book Review</em></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried alive under the snow. During a sudden blizzard the night before, he had taken shelter underneath his dogsled and become trapped there while he slept. Now, as feeling drained from his body, he managed to claw a hole through the ice only to find himself in even greater danger: his beard, wet with condensation from his struggling breath, had frozen to his sled runners and lashed his head in place, exposing it to icy winds that needed only a few minutes to kill him… But if Freuchen could escape that, he could escape anything.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Freuchen’s life seemed ripped from the pages of an adventure novel—and provided fodder for many books of his own. A&nbsp;wildly eccentric Dane with an out-of-nowhere sense of humor, his insatiable&nbsp;curiosity drove&nbsp;him from the&nbsp;twilight years of Arctic exploration to the Golden Age of Hollywood, and from the burgeoning field of climate research to the Danish underground during World War II. He conducted jaw-dropping expeditions, survived a Nazi prison camp, and overcame a devastating injury that robbed him of his foot and very nearly his life. Through it all, he was guided not only by restlessness but also by ideals that were remarkably ahead of his time, championing Indigenous communities, environmental stewardship, and starting conversations that&nbsp;continue today.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Meticulously researched and grippingly written,&nbsp;<em>Wanderlust</em>&nbsp;is an unforgettable tale of daring and discovery, an inspiring portrait of restlessness and grit, and a powerful meditation on our relationship to the planet and our fellow human beings. Reid Mitenbuler’s exquisite book restores a heroic giant of the last century back into public view.</p>

EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS, THE

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<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." —<em>Wall Street Journal</em></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">A magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>True West</em>&nbsp;magazine's "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year"</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Winner of the Colorado Book Award</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer’s vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary victory at the Little Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their rich and complex lives. Now, based on years of research and drawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources, award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle, thrillingly told, of these extraordinary Indigenous leaders.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were born and grew to manhood on the High Plains of the American West, in an era when vast herds of buffalo covered the earth, and when their nomadic people could move freely, following the buffalo and lording their fighting prowess over rival Indian nations. But as idyllic as this life seemed to be, neither man had known a time without whites. Fur traders and government explorers were the first to penetrate Sioux lands, but they were soon followed by a flood of white intruders: Oregon-California Trail travelers, gold seekers, railroad men, settlers, town builders—and Bluecoats. The buffalo population plummeted, disease spread by the white man decimated villages, and conflicts with the interlopers increased.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">On June 25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and the warriors who were inspired to follow them, fought the last stand of the Sioux, a fierce and proud nation that had ruled the Great Plains for decades. It was their greatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end for their treasured and sacred way of life. And in the years to come, both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defiant to the end, would meet violent—and eerily similar—fates.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">An essential new addition to the canon of Indigenous American history and literature of the West,&nbsp;<em>The Earth Is All That Lasts</em>&nbsp;is a grand saga, both triumphant and tragic, of two fascinating and heroic leaders struggling to maintain the freedom of their people against impossible odds.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">A&nbsp;<em>Denver Post&nbsp;</em>Bestseller</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">A Spur Award&nbsp;Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Winner of the John M. Carroll Literary Award</span></p>

OPEN SEASON

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<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Genocide—the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">TIME's<em>&nbsp;</em>42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Book Riot's&nbsp;50 of the Best Books to Read This Fall</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">As seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in&nbsp;<em>Open Season</em>: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America is killing black people and justifying it legally. While some deaths make headlines, most are personal tragedies suffered within families and communities. Worse, these killings are done one person at a time, so as not to raise alarm. While it is much more difficult to justify killing many people at once, in dramatic fashion, the result is the same—genocide.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Taking on such high-profile cases as George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and a host of others, Crump witnessed the disparities within the American legal system firsthand and learned it is dangerous to be a black man in America—and that the justice system indeed only protects wealthy white men.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">In this enlightening and enthralling work, he shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slaveowning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice system. And all mask the silent and ongoing systematic killing of people of color.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><em>Open Season</em>&nbsp;is more than Crump’s incredible mission to preserve justice, it is a call to action for Americans to begin living up to the promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally and without question.</p>

ABOMINATIONS: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction

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<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">A striking collection of essays from the prize-winning,&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;bestselling author of&nbsp;<em>Should We Stay or Should We Go, So Much for That,&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;<em>The Post-Birthday World.</em></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Novelist, cultural observer, and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among the sharpest talents of our age. A writer who embraces “under-expressed, unpopular or downright dangerous” points of view, she filets cherished shibboleths and the conformity of thought and attitude that has overtaken us.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Bringing together thirty-five works curated from her many columns, features, essays, and op-eds for the likes of the&nbsp;<em>Spectator</em>, the&nbsp;<em>Guardian,</em>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>New York Times, Harper’s Magazine,</em>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal,</em>&nbsp;speeches and reviews, and some unpublished pieces,&nbsp;<em>Abominations&nbsp;</em>reveals Shriver at her most iconoclastic and personal. Relentlessly skeptical, cutting, and contrarian, this collection showcases Shriver’s piquant opinions on a wide range of topics, including religion, politics, illness, mortality, family and friends, tennis, gender, immigration, consumerism, health care, and taxes.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">In her characteristically frank manner, Shriver shrewdly skewers the concept of language “crimes,” while chafing at arbitrary limitations on speech and literature that crimp artistic expression and threaten intellectual freedom. Each essay in&nbsp;<em>Abominations</em>&nbsp;reflects sentiments that have “brought hell and damnation down on my head,” as she cheerfully explains, and have threatened her with “cancellation” more than once.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Throughout, Shriver offers insights on her novels and explores the perks and pitfalls of becoming a successful artist. In revisiting old pieces and rejected essays, Shriver updates and expands her thinking. “Enlightened” progressive readers will find plenty to challenge here. But they may find, to their surprise, insights with which they agree.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">A timely synthesis of Shriver's expansive work,&nbsp;<em>Abominations</em>&nbsp;reveals this provocative, talented writer at her most assured.</p>

WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE

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<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>When I Was Your Age</em>&nbsp;is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Kenan Thompson is<em>&nbsp;Saturday Night Live’s</em>&nbsp;longest-ever-serving cast member and a star of such pioneering sketches as “Black Jeopardy” and is hugely beloved thanks to a tidal wave of nostalgic fans who grew up on early 2000s classics&nbsp;<em>All That, Good Burger</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Kenan &amp; Kel&nbsp;</em>on Nickelodeon.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">He’s also a dad (to two girls) in his mid-40s living in suburbia, and whose universal, relatable, family-friendly humor has created unbelievable appeal and engagement from fans from middle America to coastal elites. Becoming a dad sucked the cool right out of him -- and he's OK with that!</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><em>When I Was Your Age</em>&nbsp;is packed with hilarious yet poignant essays that are aimed to offer any reader valuable advice on parenting, focusing on positivity, and having fun in life. Kids, new parents, fellow fathers, budding comics, and aunties who want to pinch his cheeks, can all learn from his biggest mistakes and most triumphant victories. There’s something for everybody here!</p>

COMPLICATIONS, THE

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<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;"><em>The Complications</em>&nbsp;is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for major national media outlets, and taught writing and literature at prestigious schools. But he has also lost jobs and friends, been hospitalized and institutionalized, and cycled through a daunting combination of medications. With scorching honesty, he reflects on his messy, fragile attempt to live his life, his periods of grace, and his near misses with disaster and death.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">Going beyond the usual peans against “stigma” and for “understanding”, Rensin confronts the dysfunction in current mental health narratives, contrasting what he calls mental illness “high culture”—in which we affirm the prevalence of anxiety and encourage regular therapy, insisting that the “mentally ill” aren’t dangerous or even weird—with even progressive society’s inability to contend with people with more severe forms of mental illness: those people we pass on the street talking to themselves, those caught in a loop between hospitals and prisons, or even those who we cannot tolerate in our own schools, offices, and lives, including himself.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">With raw honesty, Rensin invites us into every aspect of his life, from what it’s like see four different psychiatrists in one year and the nature of psychotic breaks to a harrowing diary that logs exactly what happens when he stops taking his medication and the unexpected kinship he discovers with an incarcerated spree killer with schizophrenia. Going beyond pure memoir, he reflects on the uncertain “science” of diagnosis, the nature of art about and by the insane, political activism, and the history of madness, from the asylum to the academy.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, Arial, sans-serif;">A compelling, often devastating, blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and history,&nbsp;<em>The Complications</em>&nbsp;elevates the conversation around mental illness and challenges us to reexamine what we think we know about what is to go insane.</p>

AdmanMadman: Unapologetically Prahlad

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">In 1971, clutching a princely sum of three hundred rupees in his pocket, Prahlad Kakar arrived in Bombay Central station. During his early days of dire struggle, he slept on benches in train stations and on the sofas of reluctant friends. Scratching the underbelly of Colaba Causeway, he learnt many</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">life lessons for his survival and eventual climb to notoriety.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Four decades later, he swears by Murphy’s law, ‘Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.’ Murphy is certainly not a figment of anyone’s imagination, but a gargoyle plucked from VT station, who is sitting crouched on your shoulder and waiting for an opportunity to pee into your ear. Come and share some uproarious laughs with the Indian ad industry’s feared and beloved leprechaun as he takes you on this rollercoaster ride. From the bizarre to the brazen, prepare yourself for one hell of a journey.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Why does Prahlad have the right to lay claim to Shabana Azmi’s second toe?</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Why did Satish Shah pretend to be a chauffeur during a shoot?</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Can a parachute-landing fall save you from a dating disaster?</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">How did a pig drive a member of the film crew straight to the shrink?</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Meet Dumbell the Doberman. And Head of Outstanding Collections.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">In this no-holds-barred memoir, Prahlad serves up scoops of his most unforgettable experiences, peppered with viciously funny anecdotes from his personal life and seasoned with lessons on how to tell a riveting story in thirty seconds.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Learn secrets of the trade to create memorable brands. Travel behind the scenes of celebrated advertisements that launched the careers of models who then went on to become famous Bollywood actors. Hear about the genesis of this accidental serial entrepreneur. And, above all, learn how to live life with complete abandon from none other than the enfant terrible of the advertising industry. As the man who wears many hats, literally and figuratively, Prahlad tips his hat to life’s incidental wisdom with raucous laughter.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">From those who have a love for advertising to those who have a zest for life, from the young to the old, this memoir will capture your heart and your mind, and tickle your funny bone.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Statutory Warning: This book may cause you to fall off your chair!</p>

Charaiveti: An Academic’s Global Journey

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">The word ‘charaiveti’, from an ancient Sanskrit hymn, means ‘keep moving’, in search of self-realization. The leading Indian economist and public intellectual Pranab Bardhan invokes this in his moving narrative of a personal and professional journey.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">From his beginnings in a poor neighbourhood in Kolkata and the idyllic days in Santiniketan, from being home-schooled by his father followed by a vigorous student life at Presidency College, Kolkata and in Cambridge, England, Bardhan rose to being among the foremost development economists in the world. After serving on the faculty of MIT, Indian Statistical Institute and Delhi School of Economics, he finally settled at the University of California, Berkeley. In the process he interacted closely interacted with the likes of James Meade, Joan Robinson, Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, James Mirrlees, Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof, Jerry Cohen, Jon Elster, Amartya Sen, T.N. Srinivasan, K.N. Raj, Ashok Rudra, Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, Ashis Nandy and Romila Thapar.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">In his memoir he provides a fascinating account of his richly varied and widely-travelled life, interwoven with thoughtful comments on politics and society both in India and abroad and on some major strands of international intellectual debates. These accounts are enlivened by a profusion of stories, anecdotes and amusing incidents, and draw copiously from his interests in literature and films.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Witty, wise and perceptive,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Charaiveti</em>&nbsp;is more than just a memoir-it is a sharp-eyed look at where we have been and where we may be headed, as seen through the lens of a remarkable life.</p>

The Yellow Book

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<p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">One day passes. Then another. A whole succession of days turning into months and years. How to mark our separate days? The places we have been. Our individual passions, our pain. Against the blurring of years, the clarity of a record. And even amidst crises, how to keep creativity alive?</em></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Also, how to stop time?</em></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">After the first wave of Covid had passed, the lockdown was lifted and travel resumed in earnest. Amitava Kumar found himself in London with a group of American students on a study tour-in the midst of the Omicron wave. A year later, he was in India, in his native Motihari among other places. Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine and Rushdie was assaulted with a knife in upstate New York. Amitava kept a journal-to record the times he was living through and how he would like to remember them.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">In these pages, through words and drawings, an acclaimed author and artist reveals how a writer observes the world around us-and the world inside us.&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">The Yellow Book</em>, like&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">The Blue Book</em>, shows us how we can put together not just a journal or a book, but also how we assemble a life; and, in our troubled times, why we must plant memories and continue to believe in spring.</p>