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  About The Author:-  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse.  His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration, and invented languages and alphabets. About:-    The Load of The Ring One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his power so that he could rule all others.  But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell by chanc...

About Books   Harvard professor  Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunier, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. Renowned curator Jacques Saunier staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio.  Grabbing the gilded frame, the seventy-six-tear-old man heaved the masterpiece toward himself until it tore from the wall, and sauntered and collapsed backward in a heap beneath the canvas. As he had anticipated, a thundering iron gate fell nearby, barricading the entrance to the suite. the parquet floor shook. Far off, an alarm began to ring. The curator lay a moment, gasping for breath, taking stock, I am still alive. He crawled out from under the canvas and scanned the cavernous space for someplace to hide.  A voice spoke, ch...

  About Author Howard C. Cutler The Art of Happiness  (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his reflections on issues that raise About The Art of Happiness  In this book, extensive conversations with the Dalai Lama have been recounted.  A while back, I was invited to Australia to deliver the opening keynote address at an international conference on human happiness.  This was an unusually large event, which brought together fifty leading experts from around the world to speak about happiness, thousands of attendees, and even the Dalai Lama, who appeared on the second day as the featured speaker.  With so many professional colleagues gathered in one spot, there was plenty of lively discussion colleague...