Ub Tech: 60 books

Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk and one of the most celebrated spiritual leaders of India. More than just a spiritual mind, he was a prolific orator, great thinker and a compassionate patriot. As the prime disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Vivekananda revived the concept of nationalism to...

The organizer of Cuban revolution and the pioneer head of Cuba till 2008, Fidel Castro, was one of the outstanding Communist leaders in the world. From 1959 to 2008, he held the dominant administration powers making Cuba a one-party political state with wide nationalization of industries and social...

The name Theodor Seuss Geisel may not be well known, but his pseudonym Dr. Seuss is. He was one of the main icons of children books in the first half of 20th century. His illustrations are undying and even after the approach of modern day animated beings, his illustrated characters still feels lively.It...

This name itself will bring us the ‘Tramp Man’ with a toothbrush mustache, bamboo cane, bowler hat and a ludicrous walk, into our minds. In his more than seventy-five years long career, he became an icon of the silent era and vanquished both the front and back of the camera with his own styles....

The Brontës family was the famous literary family in England during the Victorian era. Charlotte, Emily and Anne, the three sisters better known as Brontës sisters were the champions in their time with passion derived poems and novels. Much like their contemporary female authors, their stories came...

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is one of the greatest living actor and a charismatic personality. He is having around 50 year long film career and many international awards in his name including academy award for best actor in the year 1991 for his marvelous performance in the movie ‘The Silence of...

--- BIGGEST COLLECTION OF MAYA ANGELOU QUOTES ---Marguerite Annie Johnson alias Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014), an American author, poet and civil right activist. Angelou is famous for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences....

Alan Watts was the most prominent personality of the Zen Buddhism, who popularized the Eastern philosophy for the Western world. This naturalized American author’s writings were particularly famous among the so-called "beat generation" of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is the author...

Carl Gustav Jung was a famous Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who is regarded as the father of Analytic psychology. He was the first to introduce the term ‘Complex’ to explain the human mind and classified people as introverts and extroverts depending on the extent to which they exhibit certain...

The legendary Japanese man, Morihei Ueshiba is greatly regarded as the founder of the martial art form, aikido. In spite of the physical sufferings in his childhood, self-determined Ueshiba trained himself to enroll in military. Relieved from the duties, Morihei devoted his life to favorite martial...

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the spiritual leader and founder of TM aka Transcendental Meditation was an Indian born foremost teachers of meditation. He was the first to familiarize TM to the west and rose to fame in the 1960’s as the spiritual mentor of The Beatles. Attributed as HIs Holiness by his...

Shunryu Suzuki was the most famous Soto Zen monk of the twentieth century and the very first one who popularized Zen Buddhism from Japan to the western world. ‘San Francisco Zen Center’, the first Buddhist monastery outside Asia was founded by him. This Japanese Soto Zen priest is the author of...

David Bowie is being regarded as one of the world’s best selling musical artist with his innovative style. With the ever changing sound and appearances, he first touched the hit charts with the album ‘Space Oddity’. But he is best known to the pop world as Ziggy Stardust introduced in 1972....

Malcom X the activist and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr. He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”. For...