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Title: Work, Workers & Workplaces Author: Parthajeet Sarma Pages: 110 ‘Work, Workers & Workplaces’ by Parthajeet Sarma shows work, workers & workplaces have evolved over a period of time and how psychology, human evolution and science has an important place in making these drastic changes. We also get to see the role technology plays in advancement of a society, workplace. Basically, technology has been the pivotal part in our society since many years. The book is divided into three Sections: Part 1: Briefing the changing nature of work: The definition of work has changed drastically, earlier work used to involve work which was repetitive and not involving creativity but with the introduction of computers at workplaces employees/workforce have to put much emphasis on the creative part as the manual/routine work is mostly handled by computers. Technology has brought about a tremendous change in today’s social media, innovation is the key word, and ther...

Losing Adam Pages: 224 Author: Adrienne Clarke                 ‘Losing Adam’ by Adrienne Clarke is a story about Adam and Jenny who are from a family who have problems and meet at a school play and we follow their journey until their college life. Everything was going well between Adam and Jenny when all of a sudden Adam starts hearing voices, gets headaches and appears to be paranoid about everything and everybody around him. This puts a strain on their relationship but their love and loyalty for each other are heartwarming .   Jenny cannot see Adam struggling like this and she sees him as a different person from the one she knew earlier and she is very keen on helping him and getting her boyfriend back. Will Jenny be successful in helping Adam? The plot of the book was very repetitive and slow. The story was dragged all along and there was very little conflict in the story. The...

Title: The Ballad of Ayesha Author: Anisul Hoque (Translated by Inam Ahmed) Category: Fiction Publisher: Harper Perennial Price: 299 Pages: 192 About the Book:           ‘The Ballad of Ayesha’ is the story of Ayesha Begum and her quest to find her husband Joynal Abedin who works in the Air Force and suddenly one day when he had gone to work he doesn’t come back. Ayesha tries to know from her neighbors if they know about the whereabouts of her husband but the neighbors try to assure her that he might be on some emergency duty or he might be transferred to some other base and she might receive a letter for the same from him. Later on, one day an Air Force personnel comes at her door and informs that Joynal has been arrested for an inquiry about some trouble caused in the army two nights ago. But luck was not on Ayesha’s side after her husband went missing she was also asked to vacate the accommodation with a ch...