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Warning: you are about to read My utterly biggest secrets. Can I trust you? Thought-provoking then. I’m Ella and this is my diary. Special box of the first 9 books in this best-selling series!. About the Author
Meredith Costain is a versatile award-winning writer. Her first picture book, Musical Harriet, was adapted for television by the ABC and her poetry book Doodledum Dancing was a CBCA Honour Book. A former English teacher and kids’ magazine editor, she enjoys writing poems with kids around Australia and playing ‘Fetch!’ with her dogs and cats.

Flowers occupy a special role in Indian culture, history, myth and tradition. From the most elevated space of the sacred to adornment in everyday life, there is a flower for every season, every reason and a special one for the numerous gods and goddesses of Indian religion. Flowers—as offerings during ritual worship to intricate carvings on temple walls, embedded in modern paintings by contemporary artists to colourful carpets for welcoming gods and guests, from fragrant garlands that adorn Indian brides and grooms to Aromatic essential oils and perfumes, used as a play of seduction in the kamasutra—they refresh our spirits and elevate our souls. Flower shower explores this integral role that flowers play in our worlds cultural signifies; as motifs in Indian art, architecture, sculpture, literature and textiles; as culinary ingredients and as divine offerings. Discussing a range of topics from Botany to aesthetics and history to poetry, the author takes you through an immersive journey, Laden with the beauty and perfumes of the exotic, nutritional and decorative role of flowers within Indian tradition and aesthetics… deeply insightful and featuring a vast compendium of images, this book traverses the range and depth of Indian culture and transports you on a journey which is part memory, part research, part aesthetics and Part lived experience. Come! Immerse yourself in a flower shower About the Author
DR ALKA PANDE is an art critic, cultural theorist, teacher, curator and author, who has been passionately involved with the world of art for nearly three decades. She has two postgraduate degrees in History and History of Art and a PhD from Panjab University. She was the Head of Department of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Panjab University, Chandigarh, as well as the Chairperson of the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi. Recipient of the Charles Wallace Award in 1999–2000, Alka completed her post-doctoral studies in critical art theory from Goldsmith College, University of London. She received the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government (2006), the Australian-India Council Special Award for her contribution to Indian art (2009) and the Amrita Sher-Gil Samman from the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (2015). Dr Pande’s focus is to promote art by combining art and education, with a continuing engagement with Indian aesthetics. Her curatorial projects include significant exhibitions in India and abroad. Her areas of interest within Indian cultural studies are the aesthetics of the erotic and gender. Reworking on important Indian museum collections is another area of her expertise. A prolific writer on Indology and art history, Dr Pande has authored several acclaimed books including, most recently, The Little Book of Pleasure (2017). Dr Pande is currently the Consultant Arts Advisor and Curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. She is also the curator of the exhibitions at Jor Bagh and Mandi House metro stations. She can be reached at: alkapande17@gmail.com.

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A SELF-HELP GUIDE ON THE POWER OF LOVE THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE.
What is the purpose of anger?
How can we let it transform us?
What is love?
How can we let more love into our lives?
In this interdisciplinary collaboration, experts who share their experiences and insights on these powerful, opposing emotions. From Anger to Love is a practical self-help guide and a rich repository of personal stories and information from science, psychology and spirituality. The authors, all of whom practice and teach some methods of self-development, each brings a unique perspective to the topic, along with the methods that have helped them transform.
The result is a set of simple practices and lifestyle tips that will help change your life for the better.

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The book is led by Heartfulness spiritual leader Daaji (Kamlesh Patel) and includes international experts from the fields of science, psychology and contemplative traditions like Matthieu Ricard, James Doty, Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, Llewellyn Vaughan Lee, Scilla Elworthy, Satish Kumar, Ruby Carmen, Vasco Gaspar, Marilyn Cornelius, Victor Kannan and Elizabeth Denly.