This book is a recollection of the events that happened in the author’s life and the lessons he learned. This memoir is an attempt to describe how his life began and nurtured. Apart from his personal life, it also covers significant instances from the upstream oil and gas industry. His father taught him ‘honesty’ in an era where the author realized with dismay that he can be honest, but he can’t make the world honest. He is unable to erase this sickening feeling even today. One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our ‘conversations of everything and nothing’ and the dreams that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this ‘contact becomes rare’ or when life comes to an end. This is certain unlike birth, which is an accident. We are born without bringing anything, and our first incident is tears. We die without taking anything. Absolutely nothing! And the sad fact is that in the interval between birth and death, we fight for what we did not bring and what we will not take. What we are looking for in this interval is recognition, popularity, and self-worth. The book covers the three worlds of the author’s life: • World 1 - Borne with shackles and the struggles his family went through. • World 2 - Sojourn with the offshore oil and gas industry. • World 3 – ‘Post-turtle’ world and renaissance of his journey through the upstream Indian oil and gas industry. Hopefully, this memoir will remind readers that a good reputation is the ‘most valuable asset’ to a family; for this, one has to toil hard with least expectations from the outside world.

Three worlds fight for survival as a hostile alien menace known as the D'lai threaten to destroy the hard won peace of the galaxy in an all-consuming hatred that has engulfed them for a thousand years. Racing against the clock, each planet fights back in an all-out battle for survival. As alliances crumble and character is tested, each world must face its own past if it is going to have a future.

Tharg lived on earth long before it was inhabited by humans. After spending millions of years cut off from everything he awoke and discovered humans. He had to tell them about an ancient prophecy from the stars.

100 thrilling journeys covering the globe by every form of transport. Some last only a few days, while others, in the Amazon or Antarctic, are once-in-a lifetime epic voyages.

Chi-Chi the Chinchilla had become quite popular after his first adventure but a new character, Chilla, enters his world, who not only is very different from him but gets all the attention due to having a purple fur coat! Chi-Chi decides he must help her get back home but to do so they must go through three different worlds- World of Opposite, Abundance and Black & White. Filled with adventure, riddles, and surprises as well as colorful new characters this 65-page journey with illustrations is a page-turner set to entice anyone's imagination.

Alden Matthews, retired in Florida,. joined a personal life history writing group and began writing essays as Uncle Matt, joining current events with memories in Uncle Matt’s Now and Then. In response to the urging of family and friends he began to recast his memories in chronological order to form this book. The result is a tale of three worlds as he experienced them over a period of some 85 years. It is published with considerable hesitancy now, but in the hope that it will encourage others to go and do likewise. The reader is urged to find and join his or her own writing group and share the memories that mean the most.

Essay on the various factors, especially the political ideologies, shaping the development of the Third World and the resulting social and economic conditions of the proletariat.

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in comparative political theory, there has been virtually no serious examination of Buddhism by political philosophers in the past five decades. In part, this is because Buddhism is not typically seen as a school of political thought. However, as Matthew Moore argues, Buddhism simultaneously parallels and challenges many core assumptions and arguments in contemporary Western political theory. In brief, Western thinkers not only have a great deal to learn about Buddhism, they have a great deal to learn from it. To both incite and facilitate the process of Western theorists engaging with this neglected tradition, this book provides a detailed, critical reading of the key primary Buddhist texts, from the earliest recorded teachings of the Buddha through the present day. It also discusses the relevant secondary literature on Buddhism and political theory (nearly all of it from disciplines other than political theory), as well as the literatures on particular issues addressed in the argument. Moore argues that Buddhist political thought rests on three core premises--that there is no self, that politics is of very limited importance in human life, and that normative beliefs and judgments represent practical advice about how to live a certain way, rather than being obligatory commands about how all persons must act. He compares Buddhist political theory to what he sees as Western analogues--Nietzsche's similar but crucially different theory of the self, Western theories of limited citizenship from Epicurus to John Howard Yoder, and to the Western tradition of immanence theories in ethics. This will be the first comprehensive treatment of Buddhism as political theory.