Books by Ajit

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The Big Picture

“The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself” is a great book which is well written and delightful to read. Sean Carroll is the author of this awesome book. Sean Carroll is a successful theoretical physicist, skilled panderer of philosophical questions and gifted communicator of science. This is a magnificent book written by an erudite physicist, an astute observer and a humane and thoughtful human being. Professor Carroll beautifully summarizes the current state of thinking in physics and cosmology, referencing major philosophical strands, and covering epistemology, ontology, Entropy, evolution, complexity, the origin of life, Consciousness, Reason, Morality and ethics. There are six parts to this book: Cosmos, Understanding, Essence, Complexity, Thinking and Caring. The author is an atheist, though raised a Christian and he has coined a phrase for his way of thinking Poetic Naturalism. Prof. Carroll maintains a steadfast commitment to naturalism which he defines as follows: “There is only one world, the natural world, exhibiting patterns we call the ‘laws of nature,’ and which is discoverable by the methods of science and empirical investigation. There is no separate realm of the supernatural, spiritual, or divine nor is there any cosmic teleology or transcendent purpose inherent in the nature of the universe or in human life. He tackles the difficult problems of origins, consciousness, body & soul and morality head-on and to his great credit discusses all sides fairly. Maintaining his presupposition naturalistic commitments, he continues with this summary “‘Life’ and ‘consciousness’ do not denote essences distinct from matter, they are ways of talking about phenomena that emerge from the interplay of extraordinarily complex systems. Purpose and meaning in life arise through fundamentally human acts of creation, rather than being derived from anything outside ourselves. Naturalism is a philosophy of unity and patterns describing all of reality as a seamless web.

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A Love Letter Life

“A Love Letter Life: Pursue Creatively. Date Intentionally. Love Faithfully.” is an amazing book to anyone who loves a good love story. Jeremy Roloff and Audrey Roloff are the authors of this impressive book. Audrey and Jeremy share their awesome love story throughout the book while giving fantastic advice for how you can create or improve your love story at any stage in life. This is an extremely well-written book full of advice, wisdom, and hope. A Love Letter Life is a love story for all. No matter what season of life you are in, Jeremy and Audrey write in a way that you can relate to them. They are real, brutally honest, and poured their hearts into this book. Love is not easy. It takes hard work. Jeremy and Audrey share their highest highs and their lowest lows through this book. Do you want inspiration and ideas for your own love story? Read this book. These two, Jeremy and Audrey Roloff, at a fairly young age, have shared the beginning of their love story and as they share their thoughts on how they decided to pursue creatively, date intentionally, and love faithfully, you will be inspired, motivated, and touched by their desire to live a love letter life. No matter your age, single or married, there is always more to learn, to give, and ways to grow. Usually, “A Love Letter Life” is an inspiring story about the pursuit of developing a strong foundation in your relationship.

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Eight Dates

“Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love” is an awesome book to all couples. It is easy to read and understand with valuable exercises to improve communication and understanding in relationships. John Gottman Ph.D, Julie Schwartz Gottman Ph.D and Doug Abram, are the authors of this loveable book. “Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love” is a new book by marriage experts. The book aims to encourage couples to “date” each other in order to strengthen their marriages. As the title suggests, Gottman and Gottman provide resources for eight dates which primarily focus on essential conversations to have with each other. Each chapter provides background information on the topic including why it is an essential conversation and why the topic is important for a long, lasting marriage. Drawing on his own experience of 40+ years of marriage and decades of research, including other couples married or just cohabiting, gay or straight, together long term or short term, Gottman’s newest book focuses on eight crucial areas that can make or break a relationship. How couples communicate about these areas and resolve issues both before and after they arise is the main message of the book. Each chapter has a section on the topic itself with real-life couples from all backgrounds sharing their stories.

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Stop Walking on Eggshells

“Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder” is a great book for practical info for folks with a loved one with Borderline Personality Disorder. Paul Mason MS and Randi Kreger are the authors of this attraction book. This book is an invaluable resource for those of us with a family member or loved one who has been diagnosed with BPD or displays BPD characteristics. It does a great job explaining the various ways that BPD can present and the traumas or beliefs that the person suffering may feel. The book describes perfectly the behaviour of the person our family is concerned about. It gives great insight into that person’s feelings and the causes of inappropriate behaviour. Now, we as a family will try to follow some of the instructions for meeting that person’s needs. We will be more understanding of what we can be doing to earn that person’s trust and work on our own responses when she is unable to control her emotions. This book does a good job of describing the behaviour, but it’s not really about stopping walking on egg-shells. It just teaches you how to walk on eggshells better. As long as there is a person with BP in your life, you will be walking on eggshells. This just gives you more insight on how to be better prepared when things blow up on you again. When it comes right down to it, BP’s behaviour is abuse, and it’s very destructive to everyone involved. Overall a great read for a beginner who wants to know more about borderline personality and how to deal with it.

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I Hate You–Don’t Leave Me

“I Hate You–Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality” is a really good book if you would like to know more about your Personality Disorder. Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus are the authors of this interesting book. This book is very helpful in understanding BPD in depth. Amazing. Easy to read and understand. Full of good information and best characters. A very good and comprehensive book to help explain borderline personality. A must-read for anyone involved with a person that has a borderline personality. This is a great read for people who love or care about someone with borderline personality. Those who just want some insight or education on mental illness will benefit as well. Shipped fast as usual, at a great price! This book is a very good tool for understanding what you’re dealing with if you care for someone who has a borderline personality disorder. This book reviews the borderline personality disorder from a dynamic approach and then reinforces each piece with clinical data, studies, and other books related to this topic. It then delves into versions of treatment approaches and their possible pros and cons as well as offers suggestions for choosing a therapeutic approach with regards to each clients’ presentation or overarching needs. This book also discusses medications and their desired effects. It also discusses studies related to the efficacy of each medicine. Overall this book is well done and organized in a way that is useful for any reader. This is a must-have for people who live, work, or serve the borderline population.

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Raise Your Game

“Raise Your Game: High-Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best” is an interesting book to anyone who is looking to improve the quality of their life and attain the life they’ve always envisioned for themselves. Alan Stein Jr and Jon Sternfeld are the authors of this fabulous book. Alan is a very knowledgeable and well-respected person. Many times you read a book that gives wisdom, provides advice on improvement or informs you of new and better strategies. Usually, they give you 2-3 good takeaways that you can apply to your life, career, or passions. Raise Your Game lays out a simplified format that is packed with wisdom, advice, and applicable tools that anyone can use to improve themselves, their team, their career, or their business. In ‘Raise Your Game,’ Alan Stein clearly communicates the principles that are necessary for the reader to take their lives to the next level. The intersection of self-help, sports, and business proves to not only be a highly effective approach in stressing the importance of each outlined principle, but also makes for an entertaining, enjoyable, and a captivating read. His book “Raise your Game” offers insight into how to become a better human and how to “Raise your Game” to an all-new level. If you want to learn tips and tricks on how to bring your game to its next level, then this is the book for you. Alan Stein Jr. is quickly becoming an expert in pursuing excellence. Building himself, from the ground up, into one of the prominent figures in the basketball world, Alan has now transitioned himself into a leading expert in leadership development. Alan Stein’s new book Raise Your Game is packed with actionable advice that leaders can put into practice TODAY. You’ll learn how high achievers in sports and businesses improve their performance. You’ll learn their habits, rituals, and mindsets and how you can apply those same tactics in your own life. In the end “Raise Your Game” is a great book for anyone looking to improve themselves, their team, or their organization!

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The Last Time I Saw Her

“The Last Time I Saw Her” lingers long after you turn the final page. ROBARDS KAREN is the author of this novel. The author’s excellent storytelling skills could be judged by this impressive and amazing novel. The author starts the novel with some beautiful characters and then added more characters to make a good pace for readers. The story of the novel is clearly brilliant and easy to understand as each character is connected with others so strongly and in a most entertaining way. It completely lives up to the hype. All the characters were believable and interesting and frightening. Its plot is unique and well written from multiple perspectives, but not too many where you were getting confused. It keeps you guessing and would slowly reveal little clues to keep you interested. This book could get a little graphic for some because it does deal with child murders, so be warned going in that it is not for the faint of heart. But if you are looking for a thrilling ride that makes you feel like you need to watch behind your shoulder then this is your book. This book is how all thriller and horror books should be like creepy, thrilling and page-turner. Excellent plot points and follow through with so many twists and turns. That said, if you are looking for one of the best and most entertaining kidnapping thrillers, we highly recommend you to bag this book.

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How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It

“How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Finding Love Beyond Words” is a wonderful idea in this book and definitely helps things without you having to talk about it. Patricia Love and Steven Stosny are the authors of this impressive book. The book is filled with important insights gathered from both research and the practices of the two authors. The authors make a version specifically geared towards men to help them address / guide their relationship through rough patches.  This book gets into the science behind why men and women are different in our communication yet is able to explain those differences in a simple, effective, and easy to understand way. Very easy to follow and lots of interesting insights into the differences between men and women and why we react the way we do. “How to improve your marriage without talking about it” is not about a lack of communication, it is about more effective communication and an understanding of how fear and shame factor into a healthy relationship. This book has many stories of couples in trouble and in each case, the authors show how the problem is not about communication it is about disconnection. Since men feel worse when discussing problems and women feel better, how can both partners feel satisfied? The authors show ways that women can reduce the triggering of shame in men and they show men how to reduce the triggering of fear in women. To begin the discussion the authors show how marriage problems are actually a result of conditioning as a child. Boys are taught to suppress emotions while girls are rewarded for being emotional. In their discussions of how children are raised, they give some good advice for parenting. There is a revealing list of ways to shame a man that helps women to realize what they are doing wrong when they do talk to a man. There is also some good advice on dealing with anger and resentment. This book encourages you to take an honest look at your life to see if you can make more time for your relationship. Instead of talking, have more sex. Could it be that easy? At the end of the book, there is a secret formula to create more love in your relationship. Throughout this book, there are many insights that will nurture your relationship. So if you are tired of talking and you want to find ways to connect that are less verbal then this book may help. In the end, you still have to have good communication skills to make a marriage work, but giving a hug is a lot better than criticizing or making a partner feel fear or shame. According to this book, talking about your problems just makes things worse. Compassion, love and a deeper understanding of your partner’s vulnerabilities can make things better. In a nutshell, this book helps you see the best in your partner and know that they have your best intentions at heart.

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The Home Edit

“The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals (Includes Refrigerator Labels)” is a great book. It is very inspiring and makes you realize the simple things you can do, to make your home a peaceful, organized and beautiful home. Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin are the authors of this awesome and beautiful book. The book is filled with important insights gathered from both research and the practices of the two authors. The pictures, the writing, and the easy to implement suggestions, it’s amazing. This book is incredible. Clea and Joanna have mastered a stylish way to organize. Every page is beautiful and provides functional ideas for your home. The book itself has many attractive photos. Essentially it is a book of organized spaces with suggestions. Every single picture is gorgeous and these ladies make home organizations totally approachable and their method makes complete sense. It’s also a super fun read because these ladies are funny as heck & completely relatable way to go Clea & Joanna. Clea & Joanna and their team have provided a helpful and entertaining manual for keeping your home in order. There is something to be said for getting your house organized to the point where the stuff you need & use regularly all has a place and just that fact alone brings your stress level down a few notches. Clea and Joanna will make you feel comfortable with organizing at your own pace and in a way that works for you and your family. This book will make you laugh and give you aha moments you’ve never had. If you hopped on the Marie kondo bandwagon, consider this the next step after downsizing. Clear the clutter then read The Home Edit to give order to what’s left. You will find the chapters easily accessible and instinctively categorized, as the authors say, a lot like a cookbook. They give the overall organization and design tips and tackle specific spaces as well. Let the fine ladies of The Home Edit take you to church and inspire you to organize your spaces.