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Obama before the White House

Book review of Rising Star: The making of Barack Obama

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Updated On : 07 May 2017 | 10:49 PM IST

Trouble having it all? Ask Ivanka

The preface of Ivanka Trump's new book, Women Who Work, is anodyne enough

Trouble having it all? Ask Ivanka
Updated On : 05 May 2017 | 11:03 PM IST

The great jobs enigma

The first part of the book has four chapters focusing on employment

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Updated On : 04 May 2017 | 10:46 PM IST

Money for nothing?

Demonetisation is not a tool for curbing inflation because India did not have an inflation that high

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Updated On : 02 May 2017 | 10:54 PM IST

Leaning in and carrying on

Book review of Option B: Facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy

Leaning in and carrying on
Updated On : 29 Apr 2017 | 12:03 AM IST

Our world in 2050

Technology has touched all of us in ways we never imagined

Our world in 2050
Updated On : 28 Apr 2017 | 11:51 PM IST

Curiosity is the best policy

Book review of The Curious Marketer: Expeditions in branding and consumer behaviour

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Updated On : 28 Apr 2017 | 3:56 AM IST

The familiar Vajpayee

The author has dug deep but come up with material largely well known in political and media circles

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Updated On : 25 Apr 2017 | 11:20 PM IST

Fixing the ladder of opportunity

Book review of The Broken Ladder: The paradox and the potential of India's one billion

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Updated On : 24 Apr 2017 | 11:17 PM IST

Hillary's Titanic moment

Book review of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

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Updated On : 23 Apr 2017 | 10:56 PM IST

A remedy for limited knowledge

In The Knowledge Illusion, scientists hammer another nail into the coffin of the rational individual

A remedy for limited knowledge
Updated On : 22 Apr 2017 | 2:29 AM IST

The lives and struggles of Chinese millennials

A new book adeptly traces the lives of 6 young men and women born in the 'post-Tiananmen generation'

The lives and struggles of Chinese millennials
Updated On : 21 Apr 2017 | 11:08 PM IST

Combating illiberalism

Book review of On Tyranny: Twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Updated On : 20 Apr 2017 | 10:58 PM IST

Plain tales and the hills

'Things to Leave Behind' continues through the decades to come, telling various stories

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Updated On : 18 Apr 2017 | 11:14 PM IST

RBI's missing links

The objective of the book is to make RBI 'easily accessible to the lay reader'

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Updated On : 17 Apr 2017 | 10:41 PM IST

A new rule book for the Great Game

'The Chessboard and the Web' is meant as a guide for foreign policy in this new world

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Updated On : 16 Apr 2017 | 10:41 PM IST

Judicious review of Indian jurisprudence

The book takes us to the foundations of ancient Indian society and ancient court systems

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Updated On : 14 Apr 2017 | 3:43 AM IST

The network effects

Descriptions of superhubs are more often condensed into a few pages

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Updated On : 11 Apr 2017 | 11:49 PM IST

The story of the Libor scam

In The Spider Network, David Enrich tackles conspiracy among a small group of Wall Street traders

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Updated On : 10 Apr 2017 | 4:00 AM IST

Ideas of Hinduism

Book review: Hinduism in India

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Updated On : 06 Apr 2017 | 10:45 PM IST