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America's new aristocracy
Book review of THE 9.9 PERCENT: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
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A culinary tour de force
A history of Calcutta through its food recreates the city's rich multicultural heritage
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The mental dynamic
Ms Singh's book makes it clear that India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, builds on a long legacy of efforts to advocate for rights-based institutional care
 "The mental dynamic")
India's moveable feasts
Ms Ved explores the world of food through the Indian cultural leader Rabindranath Tagore
 "India's moveable feasts")
Network effects
It is a pleasure to read Dr Lally's engagements with the economy of this far-flung overland trade, furnishing serialised and tabular data
 "Network effects")
12 months that shook the US Supreme Court
The challenge the book faces, therefore, doesn't derive from Greenhouse's admirably clear account of the court's business
 "12 months that shook the US Supreme Court")
The vital enemy
A biochemist and public health specialist has written an entertaining and eye-opening history of viruses
 "The vital enemy")
Re-routing career growth
Transformation is what we would then need in our growth journeys, according to David Nour
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The humane factor
It is about how corporate leaders can create humane and passionate companies, which, as a byproduct, achieve impressive growth and great profits
 "The humane factor")
Stuck in an identity trap
Mr Manzoor shows a similar hesitation when discussing a possible link between Islam and the violence perpetrated in its name
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Real-world banking
The book raises quite a few questions on other important issues concerning the financial sector
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The decade that changed America
Beyond the parties, Mr Boyle traces the racial reckoning as it coursed through the nation
 "The decade that changed America")
The opium connection
A readable account reprises a history that India has forgotten but China has not
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Fragments of exhilaration
Fragments Against My Ruin has tableaux of fortuitous encounters, new friendships, and the early stirrings of political ideologies that will influence his work as a writer
 "Fragments of exhilaration")
Building a think tank
Going by this book, the branches were quite active in organising debates
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London calling
The effort is in effect a history of an encounter with a metropolis that once ruled India, anecdotally expressed in an undogmatic manner
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Climate change: A VC's eye view
Speed & Scale is an actionable manifesto for humanity to save the planet from us
 "Climate change: A VC's eye view")
Steadfast leader in a shaky world
Merkel didn't talk to Marton for this book. But she has doggedly retraced Merkel's trail, and the story she brings is a good one
 "Steadfast leader in a shaky world")
How to learn from setbacks
Readers should pay heed to the chapter in which Mr Erikson spells out the four stages through which one passes when trying to learn something new
 "How to learn from setbacks")
Edward Said: From academic to global icon
This book is not a conventional biography; it is an intellectual history that explores the diverse influences that shaped Said's thinking
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