Corporate Fraud: The Human Factor would have been a good book on fraud had it offered detailed case studies, practical checklists

People and fraud

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Robert D Kaplan's Asia's Cauldron is a short book with a powerful thesis

Sea change

Part potted history, part memoir, a British journalist has drawn an entertaining and affectionate portrait of India as seen through the eyes of foreigners

2,500 years of paradise

It is an important book; it gets you thinking more carefully about the churning that is happening around us and of which the AAP is a catalyst

Disruption as a political agenda

Martin W Sandler has carefully skirted the many titillating stories about Kennedy's amorous liaisons and adulterous escapades

JFK's burnished legacy

Sankarshan Thakur, the author of Single Man, has brilliantly chronicled the Nitish Kumar era with well-known and not-so-well-known

Bihar's lone ranger

"What Works for Women at Work" offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women

Leaning in without falling over

The author lists what Sanjaya Baru's new memoir, The Accidental Prime Minister, reveals about PM Manmohan Singh's multifaceted personality

'I do not want my image to be projected'

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, charts how to fail your way to success in a new book with entertaining anecdotes from his own life

The upside of failure: Success

S R Sharma's Life, Times And Poetry Of Mir-Taqi-Mir falls painfully short of becoming a noteworthy addition to the canon on Mir

A poet-colossus' life journey

Bibek Debroy's translation has made the Mahabharata's story of human follies even among the greats an enduring story for generations

The concept of raj dharma

The Fiction of Fact-finding questions whether the SC took an appropriate decision by appointing the SIT in the first place

Mr Modi and the Godhra factor

This book is a primer to a war as horrific as any in the 20th century

Balkan son

Those looking for a fresh insight into population issues from Bose, though, will be disappointed.

A demographer's diary

Manoj Mitta

Indian society suffers excessive reverence for authority, the author of revelatory accounts of the investigations into the 1984 and 2002 communal violence

Lunch with BS: Manoj Mitta, journalist and author

Flash Boys describes the surreal-seeming technology that replaced it

Hobbling Wall Street cowboys

Ira Trivedi's India in Love provides cutting-edge, incisive evaluation of how marriage, sexuality & love work in contemporary India

Labour of Love

The answer is there in the 34 essays in How I Did It taken from the pages of a popular column in Harvard Business Review

What it takes to be CEO

Less a political historian than a moral philosopher, Mr Davis focuses here on 19th-century transatlantic abolitionism

The price of slavery

A book on one of the most enigmatic young men of the 21st century tries to decipher what made the 29-year-old Edward Snowden blow the whistle on the world's most powerful spying agency

The snoop who's still in the cold

If the McDonald's outlet down the road were to charge the same amount of money for its McChicken and Aloo Tikki burgers, you would probably say the multinational is out to fleece you. On the other hand, if your friendly neighbourhood bhojanalaya did something similar and labelled its vegetarian sandwich "Jain Shudh Burger", chances are you will be ready to shell out a premium for it. Such is the power of marketing, and that is exactly what Ambi Parameswaran - you really need an introduction here? - has sought to explore in his new book, For God's Sake. Mr Parameswaran - okay, Dr M G Parameswaran is a 30-year advertising veteran, and is now advisor, FCB (earlier Draftfcb + Ulka Advertising) - is clearly not interested in the my-religion-is-better-than-your-religion genre of arguments that has taken on an alarming intensity these days. A compilation of essays (24 in all, spread over 258 pages if you take into account the acknowledgement and index sections) based on his own experiences, F

Divining the marketing pitch

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