No one can resist a rags-to-riches story. It is every common mans dream.

But Rajinikanths story is irresistible. He continues to be an enigma to both his fans and contemporaries.

He is simple Shivaji Rao Gaekwad who, by way of luck and hard work became a superstar, and continues to remain on top notwithstanding the vagaries of time. The book, written in cinematic style, painstakingly seeks to record every nuance of Rajinikanths life: the joys and sorrows, the pains and ecstasies, loves and betrayals.

It also does not shy away from underlining the two extremes that have remained an intrinsic part of his highly eventful career: the human and the divine. The book tells the essential truth about Rajinikanth that has thus far remained unknown to his vast fan following (less)

About the Author : Gary Hamel has contributed to The Future of Management as an author. GARY HAMEL is founder and chairman of Strategos.

He is also a visiting professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School, and the Thomas S. Murphy distinguished research follow at Harvard Business School.

He lives in Woodside, California (less)

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" About the Author : Walt Whitman has contributed to Selected Poems as an author. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), arguably one of America's most influential and innovative poets, was born into a working-class family in West Hills, New York, and grew up in Brooklyn.

His "Leaves of Grass, " from which "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" comes, is considered one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry. While most other major writers of his time enjoyed a highly structured, classical education at private institutions, Whitman forged his own rough and informal curriculum, and his brief stint at teaching suggests that Whitman employed what were then progressive techniqu (less)

" About the Author : Walt Whitman has contributed to Selected Poems as an author. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), arguably one of America's most influential and innovative poets, was born into a working-class family in West Hills, New York, and grew up in Brooklyn.

His "Leaves of Grass, " from which "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" comes, is considered one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry. While most other major writers of his time enjoyed a highly structured, classical education at private institutions, Whitman forged his own rough and informal curriculum, and his brief stint at teaching suggests that Whitman employed what were then progressive techniqu (less)

Publication will be supported by a high-profile sales, marketing and publicity campaign, as this is Canongate's Lead Fiction for Summer 2010. }Life Of Pi{ has sold over 7 million copies and is the bestselling Booker Prize winner in history (less)

Fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, Osama then found "religion" and rapidly grew to be fundamentalist Islam's biggest star. Behind the propaganda of a self-styled zealous freedom-fighter the book uncovers a man driven by the need for acceptance and adulation; one who deftly manipulated the institutions he claimed to despise in order to further his own terrible ends; who condemned depravity while keeping a hand in heroin trade and extortion (less)

Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers, and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. While INSIDE APPLE provides a detailed investigation into the unique company, its lessons about leadership, product design and marketing are universal.

INSIDE APPLE will appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of the Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavour (less)

Highlights include * Lose Your Gut for Good: The World's Greatest 4-Week Diet and Exercise Plan (scientifically proven) * The 9 Best Exercises You've Never Done * The Bodyweight Workout You Can Do Anywhere * 64 Ways to Add Inches to Your Arms Creatively packaged using photography and innovative design, The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises is filled from start to finish with fascinating statistics and useful tip boxes, making it easy, fun and informative to read (less)

Julie Buxbaum is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. The Opposite of Love is her first novel (less)

Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers, and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. While INSIDE APPLE provides a detailed investigation into the unique company, its lessons about leadership, product design and marketing are universal.

INSIDE APPLE will appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of the Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavour (less)

100 up-and-coming executives are surreptitiously transported to a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs) (less)

Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway.

But when he's called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K--he remembers the man from the airport.

Is the stranger really who he says he is? With the help of the Jameson, Jack struggles to make sense of it all. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.

But why has he been chosen? And could he really have taken on the devil himself? Suspenseful, haunting, and totally unique, "The Devil" is Bruen at his very best. About the Author : Ken Bruen has contributed to The Devil as an author.

Ken Bruen was born in Galway, Ireland in 1951. The author of sixteen novels, he spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, SE Asia and South America.

He now lives in Galway City with his wife and daughter (less)

Highlights include * Lose Your Gut for Good: The World's Greatest 4-Week Diet and Exercise Plan (scientifically proven) * The 9 Best Exercises You've Never Done * The Bodyweight Workout You Can Do Anywhere * 64 Ways to Add Inches to Your Arms Creatively packaged using photography and innovative design, The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises is filled from start to finish with fascinating statistics and useful tip boxes, making it easy, fun and informative to read (less)