What The Economy Needs Now
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
3.77
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Indias economy is under threat with rising unemployment, banks in crisis, falling GDP and farmers u…
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1. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.39
Format: 912 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's… read more
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"In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of …"-Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
2. English, August: An Indian Story
By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None
3.78
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more
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- india
"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
4. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
By: Matt Ridley
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Life is getting better--and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are u… read more
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- economics
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5. Playing It My Way: My Autobiography
By: Sachin Tendulkar , Boria Majumdar
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
"I'm delighted that my autobiography #PlayingitMyWay will be published on November 6, this year. I … read more
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- india
6. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
7. The Forty Rules of Love
By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی
4.12
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more
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"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
8. The Art of War—Spirituality for Conflict: Annotated & Explained
By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary , Marc Benioff , Thomas Cuong Huynh
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discover the spiritually incisive strategies for peacefully resolving conflict in this masterpiece … read more
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9. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
By: Carol S. Dweck
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
Now updated with new research -- the book that has changed millions of lives. After decades of rese… read more
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10. Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
By: Sean Patrick
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
If you want to learn about one of history's most fascinating minds and uncover some of his secrets … read more
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11. Untouchable
By: E.M. Forster , Mulk Raj Anand
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's cast… read more
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12. The Annihilation of Caste
By: B.R. Ambedkar
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more
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13. A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India
By: Josy Joseph
4.15
Format: None pages,
'Every day, millions of people -- the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors -- are hunting f… read more
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14. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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15. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
16. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
17. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
18. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
19. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
20. Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India
By: Nikhil Menon
3.93
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly… read more
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21. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste & Politics in Bihar’s Villages
By: M.R. Sharan
4.28
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Sanjay Sahni was living an ‘araam zindagi’ in Delhi, working as an electrician, until a chance enco… read more
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22. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
By: Tony Joseph
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who are we Indians ? Where did we come from ? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South … read more
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- nonfiction
23. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future
By: Raghuram G. Rajan
4.08
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
Where is India going today? Is it surging forward, having just overtaken the United Kingdom to beco… read more
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24. India's China Challenge: A Journey through China's Rise and What It Means for India
By: Ananth Krishnan
4.42
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Ananth Krishnan first moved to China in the summer of 2008. In the years that followed, he had a ri… read more
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- india
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25. India's Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution
By: Sanjaya Baru
3.58
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point … read more
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- india
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26. The Great Tech Game: How Technology Is Shaping Geopolitics and the Destiny of Nations
By: Anirudh Suri
4.53
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
After agriculture, trade, industrialization, colonization and capitalism, technology is arguably th… read more
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- india
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27. Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
By: Jagdish N. Bhagwati
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawha… read more
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- india
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28. Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
By: Pranay Lal
4.26
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close … read more
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"It is not just viruses that we lack detailed knowledge about – we don’t know enough about particularly tiny life forms in general. Part of this problem arises from the fact that much of our knowledge…"-Pranay Lal, Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
"Virus are a part of us. We cannot eliminate them without making ourselves extinct. We must begin to abandon or unending campaigns and eradication programmes that deploy toxic technologies to control …"-Pranay Lal, Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
29. What The Economy Needs Now
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
3.77
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Indias economy is under threat with rising unemployment, banks in crisis, falling GDP and farmers u… read more
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30. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
By: Vijay Kelkar
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and … read more
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31. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back
By: Subhashish Bhadra
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What is common between the censorship of the film Padmaavat and artificially high 'minimum' support… read more
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