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If you enjoy browsing Amazon for new books, you have probably already heard of the many subscription options the firm provides. For avid readers, Amazon has a number of membership options, two of the most well-known being Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. Kindle books, magazines, and comics are all freely available to read on either service. As Internet access becomes more commonplace, more and more people will gravitate toward reading in digital formats. Because of these services, avid readers who don't want to haul bulky books may indulge in their hobby. While Prime Reading is included in the price ... Read More

There was a time, when books meant, these 1000 page tomes that perhaps only an Emily Bronte could write. Agreed, the Harry Potter series, brought back the trend of voluminous books and in fact, in the words of Walter Semkiw, a world renowned past life therapist, J.K. Rowling, is but the reincarnation of Charles Dickens. That explains those huge volumes!!Yet jokes aside, just why am I discussing these tome-sized books?!! Well, the fact is now with the advent of the internet, it is the ebooks that dominate the world of Kindle and ipads. So considering Amazon is the largest virtual ... Read More

The concept of 72 hoors is mentioned in Hadith - the sayings of Muhammad. According to Hadith, the messenger of God said, "Every one that God admits into the paradise will be married to 72 houries (wives) who are beautiful and virgins, with whom they can have eternal physical satisfaction ".

Abu Rayhan Beruni or Alberonius was a Persian Scholar, wrote this book Tahqiq-i-hind. He travelled to South Asia in 1017 and authored a study of Indian culture (Tahqiqma li-l-hind...) after exploring the Brahmanical traditions and Hinduism practiced in India during those days.He wrote about the cultural and religious values of the Indians in this book, apart from wars and battles. He is therefore known as the "founder of Indology".He was the First Muslim Scholar to study India and the customs and traditions followed in India. He was a scholar and a person of abundance knowledge in the fields of physics, ... Read More

Yes. We can find the word dictionary in a dictionary. When I referred to the Oxford Dictionary, I came across the following meaning.Dictionary: A book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.Usage:-- ‘I'll look up 'love' in the dictionary’-- ‘the website gives access to an online dictionary’

The first sign of this re-evaluation came when the poet Sidney Lanier in “Shakespeare and His Forerunners” published in 1902, and ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ in which he described as having ‘more complex ideas in it, for the number of words than perhaps any other poem in our language’.The Princess of the Dragon kingdom was ready to wed the Prince of the Phoenix Kingdom but the Prince gets kidnapped! An evil witch, which was trapped, orchestrated the abduction of the Prince.Mystery CastleMystery Castle is a sprawling 18-room home located in the foothills of South Mountain Park in Phoenix. It is ... Read More

Born in 1812 in London, Robert Browning enjoys the pinnacle of popularity only because of his prowess to portray his thoughts. You can understand it with this fact that his grave is now adjacent to that of Lord Alfred Tennyson.His Famous Works"Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession" , which is a long poem composed in homage to P.B. Shelley, “My Last Duchess”, “Porphyria’s lover”, “Andrea del Sarto”, “ A grammarian’s funeral”, Men and Women are some of his popular works for which he is remembered even now.Browning’s Unique Writing StyleDramatic Monologue: His critical reputation rests mainly due to his dramatic ... Read More

The Jungle book is not only loved by children I think it's a favorite book of all us. There have been so many film adaptations made of the book and they all could not do complete justice to this magnum opus of Rudyard Kipling. It was written and published in 1894 and is a famous work of fiction of 112 pages. In fact, the first film on Jungle book was released in 1994.StoryKipling tells the story of little Mowgli, who falls into the hands of a pack of wolves who raise him as their own child in a jungle. As ... Read More

This is a common issue that has been faced by us once or more in our college and school time. The appropriate resolution for this differs as to which university or organization one studies in. Still, the below solutions could help.1. If carrying a mobile phone is allowed in your library, click a picture of the important topics you wished to study from the book you want to get issued.2. You may also get these books issued on the card of any other student. We used to have the books issued through identity cards in our school and college. In ... Read More

The reason why some people may find this question abrupt would be their shallow understanding of the term “Hero “ and even of the term “Poet”.Who is a Hero?We often regard hero as somebody out of the world, probably with superhuman abilities like wings or extremely high speed and so on. But in actual terms, Hero, as described by Thomas Carlyle in his essay Hero as a Poet, is not someone who is extraordinary, rather he is someone who is less questionable and less ambitious. A hero is indeed someone, whom we can relate to and someone whose life becomes ... Read More