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Courses and Careers


“It’s choice and not chance that determines your destiny”. As one reads this quote on the cover page of the book, the inner self questions on the choices we made in life and the chances we lost. It’s the first of its kind effort to help the students at cross roads know where, why and how to go about after their school.


Being a certified and practicing career counselor, the author makes it straight to the readers that career is not just selecting any course in any college but a process of self awareness and exploration of the world by the parents and student. The first section deals with Why and How to select a career? The Career Myths, the career exploration and selection process. This book brings out the factors of Interest, personality and aptitude / ability in the career selection process.


The second section discusses the various course options after 10th std :: 2yr Pre University, 3 yr Diploma, Vocational Training, Computer Training, Paramedical Sciences, Jewellery designing, library sciences, Tool and die making, Industrial Training, plastics and mould technology, Fire technology, Apprenticeship Trainings, Defense exams, Apparel design/Fashion designing courses, distance education programs, correspo-ndence courses, special diplomas in leather technology, mechatronics, and many more courses are discussed in detail.


The books also discuses the career clusters in which a student can aspire for a great career after college. The author here makes significant contribution on highlighting the upcoming careers, facts from the Industry, the market trends, research reports, etc…


A list of well known institutions offering different courses after 10th with the name and address is also included to help the students in locating the college.The book serves as a true companion for students and parents to Explore career options after school.



City of Oranges by Adam LeBor


Reviewed by: Azmathulla Shariff
Author: Adam Lebor.
Price: $14.95 Paper
wmbewe@wwnborton.com


The books which speaks of life of the people of three different faiths in the Middle East. The book incorporates thoroughly reasearched and beautifully written. A effort to give the image to a carefully woven history of the city once called ‘the Bride of Palestine’…Drawing on the memories of Jewish, Muslim and Christian families with roots in the ancient Arab city.


Adam LeBor, offers a timely reminder that the story of the Middle East is not just about peoples, but also about individuals and families struggling to make the best of a difficult situation, their opportunities and allegiances restricted by what the Arabs call Makhtoub, the march of history and the hand of fate.


This is the story of the founding of Israel, and the conquest and partitioning of a flourishing, cosmopolitan port city where Jews, Arabs and Christians once coexisted in peace and traded freely. It is a story of the Naqba – the great exodus of 100,00 Palestinians Arabs driven from Jafa in 1948.


Among the Arab families, the Hammamis were once pillars of Jaffa’s Muslim community. Walking the streets of Jaffa today, where barbed wire fence separates Jewish and Arab districts, LeBor finds not reason to mourn, but reason to hope. The families in Jaffa carry rich memories of the city’s diverse and multicultural past, and LeBor’s elegant writing reminds us that their disparate narratives combine to form a single tapestry-that of one place, Jaffa, the people who loveit, and the people who call it home.



Islami Durus by Mohammed Sufi
High way to the knowledge



Compiled by: Moulana Mohd Sufi
Published by: Nisar Book Depot
G-67, City Market,
New Complex,
Bangalore - 560 002
Ph: 93423 06860 / 94493 48049
Price: Rs. 150/-



Status of Music in Islam
Discipline and Rules of Music and Ecstasy


Published by: Al-Ghazali Institute
C/o: Iqbal Ahmed Shariff (Advocate)
#94/1, Tank Garden,
Someshwara Nagar,
Bangalore - 560 011
Ph: 080-26566956
Price: Rs. 50/-