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A Syrian refugee's leap of faith
Melissa Fleming's A Hope More Powerful than the Sea is a close literary counterpart of a 3D documentary
The mystery of 'data capitalism'
The book's central theme is that traditional markets based on money and price are now being replaced by data and information
Surviving Europe's 20th century
Mischka's War provides unconventional but persistently intriguing perspectives on major totalitarian regimes of 20th century
Book review: Meet the dreamers who walked 1,500 miles to stay in America
'The Making of a Dream' is a sweeping chronicle of the immigrant rights movement in which the four walkers took part
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'The Inheritors' book review: Family values seen in entrepreneurship tales
It is easy to feel that the protagonists are sharing their fears and their deepest, heartfelt emotions with readers
Wired for weirdness
Ms Thomson lays out the medical background and the current scientific understanding of the situation, as well as faithfully reporting the subject's first-person lived experiences
How Pakistan got the Bomb
One chapter in the book focuses on how Pakistan acquired nuclear deterrent; it then proceeds to explain Pakistan's proliferation links with Iran, Libya, North Korea
'Skin in the Game' book review: The risk-reward philosophy
The idea of Skin in the Game, which Mr Taleb dwells on in his latest book, is essentially simple
'Victorious Century' book review: The peak of Empire
A book like this one is particularly valuable in an age when history undergraduates often startle their teachers by their ignorance of basic facts
A nation under siege
Much of what Mr Kumar points out is, sadly, the bitter reality of today's India
'Breakout at Stalingrad' earns its place beside classics of war literature
The original version of an autobiographical novel written by a German soldier, and recently discovered in Soviet archives, offers a unique perspective of the epic World War II siege from the soldiers
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'CHUP' book review: Indian women are trained to be silent from birth
The book draws from over 600 detailed interviews with women as well as some men across India's cities and identifies seven key habits that dominate women's everyday lives
'The People vs Democracy' book review: The rise of the populists
Mr Mounk argues that the American president is part of a global wave
'Under The Knife' book review: On the cutting edge
For all the grimness of the subject matter, Dr Van De Laar's style is bracing, even bordering on the comic
'Evil in the Mahabharata' book review: Whose dharma is it, anyway?
Ambiguities rest quite easily within the many layered narratives of the epic, at peace with the contradictory messages
'Narratives and Numbers' book review: The fine art of valuation
Professor Damodaran's usage of the first person throughout the book may be unconventional for a business book but is entirely warranted
'The Hollow Kingdom' book review: Jihad is a radical misunderstanding
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Book review: Can US President Donald Trump be impeached?
What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party
Book review: Bibek Debroy's translation of the Ramayana is easy to navigate
Debroy explains that Ayana in Sanskrit means journey or progress and hence the Ramayana is the story of Rama's journey or progression
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'How India Lost Her Freedom' review: Nationalist's eye view of colonialism
Pandit Sunderlal is not a professional historian, and this book may not be of great interest to students of history because the story is well known