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Beyond Business » Books » Books

Dan Brown cracks the code

17 May 2013

Inferno may become more popular than Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons because of the way the writer has reinvented the art of the novel

The argumentative economists

16 May 2013

The new book by the prolific pair of Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya puts the word debunking in its subtitle and doesn't look back

The good book on the baddies

15 May 2013

Tapan Ghosh's take on villains, vamps and henchmen in Hindi cinema is different from other recent books on the subject in three critical ways

Islam defended: too loud, too late

14 May 2013

Anne Norton reviews the principal areas where Western philosophers and political commentators have painted a negative view of Islam

The gray man

12 May 2013

During the Vietnam War, Bill Colby of the Central Intelligence Agency ran the Phoenix programme, which set out to "neutralise" the Viet Cong by ...

The tyranny of goodwill, logic

10 May 2013

Surrealism has never quite been J M Coetzee's forte. So, despite all the craftsmanship, his latest offering is not quite what is expected from ...

Ferguson in the book

10 May 2013

There are several books on Sir Alex Ferguson's life and career, but the best one is yet to come

Lost in translation

09 May 2013

A readable set of stories by one of India's finest contemporary writers loses something in the clumsy rendering into English

Saving the farm

08 May 2013

Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble use the analogy of a farm to highlight the change challenges that companies

The ascent of man

07 May 2013

An attractive coffee table offering commemorates 60 years of Hillary and Tenzing's feat

The fountainhead in Af-Pak

05 May 2013

A definitive account of one of the most significant network actors in the geopolitical puzzle that is Af-Pak

Gandhi's legacy

03 May 2013

Historian Mushirul Hasan's finely woven tribute to Gandhi and his impact on contemporary India has an interesting sartorial sub-text

In this war, the enemies are on all sides

02 May 2013

A Delicate Truth, John le Carre's new thriller, is anything but delicate: it's ponderous, heavy-handed and obvious

The missing philanthropists

01 May 2013

Pushpa Sundar's book chronicles succinctly in 10 chapters the fascinating story of India's business and its foray into philanthropy and CSR

Have story, will tell

30 Apr 2013

The former Perfetti India CEO tells a better personal story than he explains hard business strategy

Formatting a world with no secrets

28 Apr 2013

Picture this rosy scenario for your high-tech future: you awaken because your curtains open automatically, your coffee maker starts brewing and ...

Modi under modification

26 Apr 2013

Most analyses of Modi are rooted in the debate surrounding the Ayodhya years, but both India and the man have changed

New ideas in an old framework

25 Apr 2013

John Mackey and Raj Sisodia provide framework for conscious capitalism by integrating four aspects of the business

Mr Bernanke's glasnost

24 Apr 2013

This series of lectures by the Fed chairman Ben Bernanke on the US Federal Reserve and the 2008 global financial is an invaluable addition to ...

We are all salesmen

23 Apr 2013

Daniel Pink makes out a credible and entertaining case showing how the bias against a sales job is misplaced

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