Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India
By: Manoj Mitta
4.47
Format: 716 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. Bad Science
By: Ben Goldacre
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad … read more
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4. The Feast of the Goat
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman
4.33
Format: 475 pages, Paperback
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more
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"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
5. Embroideries
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
From the best-selling author of Persepoliscomes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look … read more
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6. Malice
By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith
3.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night … read more
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7. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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9. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
By: Robert B. Cialdini
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how … read more
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"Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so ou…"-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
12. War Minus the Shooting
By: Mike Marqusee
4.50
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Combining personal reflection and social observation, this work paints a complex portrait of a sub-… read more
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13. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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14. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
15. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
16. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
17. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
18. Sakina’s Kiss
By: Vivek Shanbhag
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more
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19. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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20. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
By: Tony Joseph
4.33
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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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21. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future
By: Raghuram G. Rajan
4.08
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Where is India going today? Is it surging forward, having just overtaken the United Kingdom to beco… read more
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22. La Dernière Reine
By: Jean-Marc Rochette
4.38
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Gueule cassée de 14, Édouard Roux trouve refuge dans l'atelier de la sculptrice animalière Jeanne S… read more
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23. The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years o… read more
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24. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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25. VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India
By: Narayani Basu
4.40
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
With his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, the desperate viceroy, Lord Mountbatten… read more
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26. India Since Independence
By: Bipan Chandra
3.90
Format: 788 pages, Paperback
ISBNs moved from this edition The story of the forging of contemporary India, the world's large… read more
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27. The Braided River: A Journey along the Brahmaputra
By: Samrat Choudhury
3.96
Format: 424 pages, None
The Brahmaputra is by some margin the largest river in India. After its confluence with the Ganga i… read more
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28. Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva
By: Ashish Khetan
4.43
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
‘I had to submit my work to the ultimate test to which a piece of journalism can be subjected—a for… read more
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29. Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India
By: Manoj Mitta
4.47
Format: 716 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. Quarterlife
By: Devika Rege
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
India’s literary novel of the year—an enthralling, award-winning debut from a “blazingly original v… read more
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"Now he gets the value of the everyday stuff in the Peshwa museums. What is the culture of a place or people other than this - how we lived and how we died? What is an identity butt an accretion of al…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"Chitra Kaki's gestures are a result of ritual, house pride and belonging, all of which precede love, and this thought makes his joy in the modak more acute. ...Their generation has seen more change t…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"At her final dinner in Imperial Heights, she notices afresh all that a week has made familiar: the silk runner, the brass casseroles, and the many little bowls on her plate that Sita, already turning…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"Dusk. They park at the edge of a wide, sandy bank. Omkar hums Shanth wahate Krishna-mai. He says the lyrics mean that a truly great person is as quiet as the river Krishna. It's the same river at Men…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
31. A Constitution to Keep: Sedition and Free Speech in Modern India
By: Rohan J. Alva
4.22
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
When we think of the Indian Constitution, we think of the glorious chapter on fundamental rights wh… read more
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