18 best-selling nonfiction books like Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy by Pranay Kotasthane

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Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy

By: Pranay Kotasthane

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In Search of an Adarsh Indian State In India, public policies are all around us. Despite this pe…

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1. The Lessons of History

By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant

4.07

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more

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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

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2. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

4.28

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-ki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
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3. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

By: Oliver Sacks , V.S. Ramachandran , Sandra Blakeslee

2.90

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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4. Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

By: Maxwell Maltz

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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5. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

By: Charles T. Munger , None

4.42

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
"What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational"

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

6. One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

By: John Rothchild , Peter Lynch

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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7. The Art of Thinking Clearly

By: Rolf Dobelli

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

8. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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9. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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10. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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11. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

By: S. Jaishankar

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real t… read more

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  • economics
  • india
  • nonfiction
"Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

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12. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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13. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

By: Javier Blas

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more

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  • society
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

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14. What I Learned About Investing from Darwin

By: Pulak Prasad

4.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are un… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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15. Acts of God

By: Kanan Gill

3.92

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett… read more

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16. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • economics
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  • society
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17. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

By: Zena Hitz

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more

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"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."

-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

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18. Orienting: An Indian in Japan

By: Pallavi Aiyar

4.06

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old children commute to school… read more

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  • india
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19. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977

By: Abhishek Choudhary

4.40

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more

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  • india
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20. Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy

By: Pranay Kotasthane

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In Search of an Adarsh Indian State In India, public policies are all around us. Despite this pe… read more

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Cover of Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or at Least Respectably Wrong) by Jeremy G. Weber

21. Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or at Least Respectably Wrong)

By: Jeremy G. Weber

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A long-overdue guide on how to use statistics to bring clarity, not confusion, to policy work. Stat… read more

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4.52

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4.44

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David Byrne

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Jonah Lehrer

3.59

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