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“The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century” by David Reynolds

January 25, 2016by Anurag Yadav Leave a comment

Most works on the World Wars are generally focussed on the strategy and tactics employed by the various participants. They cover in-depth details of troop movements, and how some brilliant […]

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Civilization, General, History, Non Fiction, Politics

Book Review – ‘The Story Of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000BCE – 1492CE)’ by Simon Schama

October 25, 2015by Anurag Yadav 1 Comment

The volume of books and works on Jews is so massive that it will surely surpass studies on any other culture or religion. Given this backdrop, any new addition to […]

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All, Civilization, History, Non Fiction

Book Review – ‘The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order’ by Samuel Phillips

October 9, 2015by Anurag Yadav Leave a comment

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was a renowned Harvard University Professor in the field of Politics and International Affairs, and spent nearly 50 years with […]

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General

Book Review – ‘The Art of Thinking Clearly’ by Rolf Dobelli

September 25, 2015by Anurag Yadav Leave a comment

Writings on psychology have the power to surprise, shock, and inspire awe in us, all in equal measures. And ‘The Art of Thinking Clearly’ by Rolf Dobelli, novelist, entrepreneur, does […]

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Book Review – ‘Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor’ by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

September 16, 2015by Anurag Yadav Leave a comment

One good look at the leadership teams of the Fortune 500 companies tells us that this is one of the last surviving bastions to be conquered by the diversity and […]

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General

Book Review – ‘Sensation’ by Thalma Lobel

September 7, 2015by Anurag Yadav Leave a comment

In the field of psychology it is evident that humans aren’t entirely rational beings. Now that may not be new to followers of psychology, however what will certainly come as […]

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General

Book Review – ‘A History of the World in 100 objects’ by Neil MacGregor

August 31, 2015by Anurag Yadav Leave a comment

History is taught universally across the world in the same manner. We visit an important event in the point in time and narrate the story, often from the perspective of […]

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All, Art & Culture, History, Non Fiction

Book Review – ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman

August 2, 2015by Anurag Leave a comment

To an economist humans are rational, selfish, and their tastes do not change, however to a psychologist it is self-evident that people are neither fully rational nor completely selfish, and […]

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All, General, Psychology

Book Review – ‘Making Globalization Work’ by Joseph Stiglitz

August 1, 2015by Anurag Leave a comment

Rarely does one come across a book that makes such an earnest and urgent call for bringing fairness in this world. One of the biggest agents of wealth creation – […]

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All, Economics, General

Book Review – ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

July 8, 2015by Anurag Leave a comment

It is hard to stay objective and not be biased when you are critiquing one of the most important works of the last century. And, if the writer happens to […]

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All, Classic, General

Book Review – ‘The Ascent of Money’ by Niall Ferguson

July 6, 2015by Anurag Leave a comment

Niall Ferguson is at his best, writing about Financial History an area of his expertise and the subject that he teaches at Harvard. In ‘The Ascent of Money’, Niall traces […]

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All, Finance, General, History

Book Review – ‘Crucial Conversations’ by Kerry Patterson

June 26, 2015by Anurag Leave a comment

A team of professional trainers and communication experts have come together to produce this work. ‘Crucial Conversations’ is a book that at its heart attempts to covers in detail a […]

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All, Communications, General

Book Review – ‘Civilization’ by Niall Ferguson

June 20, 2015by Anurag Leave a comment

‘Civilization’ by the famous academician, historian, Harvard professor, Niall Ferguson, whose original professional training is in the field of Financial History, gives an account of European mainstream History for the […]

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All, Civilization, General, History

Book Review – ‘Thrive’ by Arianna Huffington

June 20, 2015by Anurag 1 Comment

‘Thrive’ is the fourteenth and latest book by Arianna Huffington, the celebrated power woman, who wears many hats – Founder of Huffington Post, Journalist, Editor-in-Chief. The book deals with one […]

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All, General, Lifestyle, Motivational

Book Review – ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

March 19, 2015by Anurag Leave a comment

This unconventional story ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ is set between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century in a fictional Latin American port city close to the Caribbean Sea. Gabo’s […]

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All, Classic, General

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