"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.

Section A : First Flight (Prose and Poetry) FIRST FLIGHT : A. Prose 1. A LETTER TO GOD —G.L. Fuentes 2. NELSON MANDELA : LONG WALK OF FREEDOM —Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 3. TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING I. HIS FIRST FLIGHT–Liam O'Flaherty II. BLACK AEROPLANE –Frederick Forsyth 4. FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK —Anne Frank 5. GLIMPSES OF INDIA 6. MIJBIL THE OTTER —Gavin Maxwell 7. MADAM RIDES THE BUS —Vallikkannan 8. THE SERMON AT BENARES —Betty Renshaw 9. THE PROPOSAL —Anton Chekhov FIRST FLIGHT : B. POETRY 1. DUST OF SNOW —Robert Frost 2. FIRE AND ICE —Robert Frost 3. A TIGER IN THE ZOO —Leslie Norris 4. HOW TO TELL WILD ANIMALS —Carolyn Wells 5. THE BALL POEM —John Berryman 6. AMANDA —Robin Klein 7. THE TREES —Adrienne Rich 8. FOG —Carl Sandburg 9. THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON —Ogden Nash 10. FOR ANNE GREGORY —William Butler Yeats Section B : Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader) 1. A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY —James Herriot 2. THE THIEF’S STORY —Ruskin Bond 3. THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR —Robert Arthur 4. A QUESTION OF TRUST —Victory Canning 5. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET —H. G. Wells 6. THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST —Robert W. Peterson 7. THE NECKLACE —Guy De Maupassant 8. BHOLI —K. A. Abbas 9. THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH —Claire Boiko Section C : Grammar (Reading and Writing) 1. READING SECTION 2. GRAMMAR (Tenses, Modals, Passive Voice, Subject-Verb Concord, Reporting, Clauses, Determiners, Preposition) 3. LETTER WRITING Board Examination Paper (With Solved & OMR Sheet)

Keeping in mind the immense importance and significance of the NCERT Textbooks for a student, Arihant has come up with a unique book containing only and all Question-Answers of NCERT Textbook based questions. This book has been designed for the students studying in Class X following the NCERT Textbook of English Language & Literature. The present book has been divided into two parts according to the syllabi of English Language & Literature Term I and Term II, further divided into Prose, Poetry and Supplementary Reader sections. This book has been worked out with an aim of overall development of the students in such a way that it will help students define the way how to write the answers of the textbook based questions. This book has answer to each & every question covered in the chapters of the textbook for Class X English Language & Literature. Also each chapter in the book begins with a summary of the chapter which will help in effective understanding of the theme of the chapter and to make sure that the students will be able to answer all popular questions concerned to a particular chapter whether it is Long Answer Type or Short Answer Type Question. The book has been designed systematically in the simplest manner for easy comprehension of the chapters and their themes. As the book has been designed strictly according to the NCERT Textbook of English Language & Literature for Class X and provides a thorough and complete coverage of the textbook based questions, it for sure will help the Class X students in an effective way for English Language & Literature.

Section A : First Flight (Prose and Poetry) FIRST FLIGHT : A. Prose 1. A LETTER TO GOD —G.L. Fuentes 2. NELSON MANDELA : LONG WALK TO FREEDOM —Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 3. TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING I. HIS FIRST FLIGHT–Liam O'Flaherty II. BLACK AEROPLANE –Frederick Forsyth 4. FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK —Anne Frank 5. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-I —El Bsor Ester 6. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-II —El Bsor Ester 7. GLIMPSES OF INDIA 8. MILBIL THE OTTER —Gavin Maxwell 9. MADAM RIDES THE BUS —Vallikkannan 10. THE SERMON AT BENARES —Betty Renshaw 11. THE PROPOSAL —Anton Chekhov FIRST FLIGHT : B. POETRY 1. DUST OF SNOW —Robert Frost 2. FIRE AND ICE —Robert Frost 3. A TIGER IN THE ZOO —Leslie Morris 4. HOW TO TELL WILD ANIMALS —Carolyn Wells 5. THE BALL POEM —John Berryman 6. AMANDA —Robin Klein 7. ANIMALS —Walt Whitman 8. THE TREES —Adrienne Rich 9. FOG —Carl Sandburg 10. THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON —Ogden Nash 11. FOR ANNE GREGORY —William Butler Yeats Section B : Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader) 1. A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY —James Herriot 2. THE THIEF’S STORY —Ruskin Bond 3. THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR —Robert Arthur 4. A QUESTION OF TRUST —Victory Canning 5. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET —H. G. Wells 6. THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST —Robert W. Peterson 7. THE NECKLACE —Guy De Maupassant 8. THE HACK DRIVER —Sinclair Lewis 9. BHOLI —K. A. Abbas 10. THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH —Claire Boiko Section C : Grammar (Reading and Writing) 1. READING SECTION 2. GRAMMAR (Tenses, Modals, Passive Voice, Subject-Verb Concord, Reporting, Clauses, Determiners, Preposition) 3. LETTER WRITING Appendix : Chapterwise Multiple Choice Questions Board Examination Paper (With Solved & OMR Sheet)

The story tells of the efforts of a nervous and excitable man who starts to propose to an attractive young woman, but who gets into a tremendous quarrel over a boundary line.

This Is A Story About Malu, An Adorable Young Polar Bear Growing Up In The North Pole. As The Tale Unfolds Through The Adventures Of Malu, The Lilting Cadence Of The Writing Draws Another Larger Picture: About Girls, About What Girls Can Do Too. Yes, Malu Is A Female Polar Bear! The Charming Full Page Illustrations Make This A Most Appealing Picture Book For Children.

S. Chand's Social Sciences for Class IX is based on the latest syllabus. It is thoroughly revised by incorporating additions as per the Modified Structure of Examination Scheme. The entire subject matter is divided into two parts — Part I and Part II individually.

"Set in Aligarh in the early 1960s, after the dust of Partition has ostensibly settled, Topi Shukla is a story of two friends - one Hindu and the other Muslim." "Through the characters of people like Topi and Iffan, the novel looks at the lives of ordinary people trying to survive in a society that insists on a brutal conformity of behaviour. It is about individuals whose spirits are paralysed because they cannot conform, and about history's inability to teach mankind any worthwhile lessons." "Language plays an important part in this narrative, operating almost as a character in its own right. Topi, as a Hindi bull in the Urdu china shop, invokes the historical stand-off between the two languages. The novel also explores the culture and psyche of Uttar Pradesh with its very Muslim Aligarh, its very Hindu Benares, and their exotic confluence in Lucknow."--BOOK JACKET.