7 must-read technology books like When the Chips Are Down: A Deep Dive into a Global Crisis by Pranay Kotasthane

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When the Chips Are Down: A Deep Dive into a Global Crisis

By: Pranay Kotasthane

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

To the world at large, technology was synonymous with software. Within months, the subject of such …

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1. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

By: Suketu Mehta

3.94

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approac… read more

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"It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up."

-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

"This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back."

-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

"Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self."

-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

"We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time."

-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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2. 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

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3. Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

By: Bhagat Singh , K.C. Yadav , Babar Singh

4.43

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

Autobiography of an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. read more

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"LIFE IS LIVE ITS OWN..OTHERS HELP IS NEEDED IN FUNERALS ONLY"

-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

"But man's duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments."

-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

"I know in the present circumstances my faith in God would have made my life easier, my burden lighter, and my disbelief in Him has turned all the circumstances too dry, and the situation may assume t…"

-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

"So that when man can be in great distress having been betrayed and deserted by all friends he may find consolation in the idea that an ever true friend was still there to help him, to support him and…"

-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

4. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

By: Kim Malone Scott

4.00

Format: None pages,

From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more

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5. Democrats and Dissenters

By: Ramachandra Guha

3.00

Format: None pages,

A major new collection of essays by Ramachandra Guha, Democrats and Dissenters is a work of rigorou… read more

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6. The Unusual Billionaires

By: Saurabh Mukherjea

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

They are Unusual Companies, built by Unusual Billionaires. This book tells the story of these seven… read more

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7. Enzo Ferrari

By: Brock Yates

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Genius? Tyrant? Powerbroker? Finally, the first thoroughly researched, fully detailed biography of … read more

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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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9. 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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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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  • technology
"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. 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

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12. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more

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"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Cover of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

13. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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14. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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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

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16. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more

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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Cover of Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill

17. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • technology
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18. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

19. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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20. 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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Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

21. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • technology
Cover of Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future by Raghuram G. Rajan

22. 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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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. The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

By: Raghuram G. Rajan

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week From one of the most important economic thinkers of our t… read more

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Cover of VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977 by Abhishek Choudhary

25. 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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Cover of The Less You Preach, the More You Learn: Aphorisms for Our Age by Shashi Tharoor

26. The Less You Preach, the More You Learn: Aphorisms for Our Age

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.92

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

All of us need help and good advice on how to make our lives better. In the latest book by No.1 bes… read more

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27. The People of the Indus

By: Nikhil Gulati

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Who were the people of the Indus? Why didn't they build pyramids like the Egyptians? And ultimat… read more

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Cover of The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India's IT Revolution by Harish Mehta

28. The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India's IT Revolution

By: Harish Mehta

4.18

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

'The customs officer told me that I needed to leave samples of what I was exporting with him. I was… read more

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Cover of We, The Citizens: Strengthening the Indian Republic by Khyati Pathak

29. We, The Citizens: Strengthening the Indian Republic

By: Khyati Pathak

4.47

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

… the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — Walt WhitmanWhat is a republic? How … read more

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Cover of MONEY WISE: Timeless Lessons on Building Wealth by Deepak  Shenoy

30. MONEY WISE: Timeless Lessons on Building Wealth

By: Deepak Shenoy

3.87

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Wealth is not just about adding zeroes to your net worth but having enough to live an unconstrained… read more

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31. When the Chips Are Down: A Deep Dive into a Global Crisis

By: Pranay Kotasthane

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

To the world at large, technology was synonymous with software. Within months, the subject of such … read more

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