Page 6 - Book Reading
The Story of CO2: The story of human civilisation is a story of energy
Peter Brannen's sweeping book argues CO₂ is the hidden force behind evolution, civilisation, fossil fuels, and today's climate crisis - the story of everything
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Valmik Thapar's final book distils half a century of tiger conservation
Valmik Thapar's final book celebrates India's tiger legacy, blending conservation insights, Ranthambore tales, and lyrical portraits of the majestic Royal Bengal Tiger
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STRONG ROOTS: Chef Olia Hercules' Ukraine memoir by way of her family tree
Strong Roots is its own kind of dam, against the rushing anguish of war and generational trauma
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Facing a 'reading crisis,' Denmark to make books cheaper by cutting tax
The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax
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'Mango: A Global History' explores the global appeal of 'bathroom fruit'
Often called a 'full-body experience' to eat, this book on the mango's history can be enjoyed just as much by those raised on fresh fruit as by those who first tasted it in preserved form
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Sandeep Das's book argues for going beyond strategy to implementation
A good strategy always calls for friction - it is never a straight line
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Rain Dogs: Rohit Chawla's book reflects on stray dogs' fate and our bond
Photographer and art director Rohit Chawla's book Rain Dogs gets to the heart of why human beings care about stray dogs, and what makes their blood boil when they imagine their fate
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To Lose a War: How the US slowly lost its way in Afghanistan conflict
A gripping account of two decades in Afghanistan, tracing the Taliban's fall, America's missteps, and the enduring human cost in Jon Lee Anderson's To Lose a War
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No, Minister: Subhash Chandra Garg's 2nd memoir mirrors tone of his first
The tenor of the second part of former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg's memoir is not dissimilar to that which pervaded his first one --and the title is a dead giveaway
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Superbloom: Nicholas Carr book says more communication isn't always better
The real threat of AI and LLMs lie not in job loss, but in corporations using them to create endless loops of content tailored to everyone's smallest needs, chaining us to our devices more than ever
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Jacinda Ardern's memoir is a moving account of a career built with care
The former New Zealand Prime Minister's memoir is nothing like a political manifesto. It is an assured and often moving account of a career built with care - though not without frequent self-doubt
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A Billion Butterflies: This book drops truth bombs on climate change
How an old deal over a supercomputer explains the politics behind climate science today
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Scott Anderson captures US' hubris, Iran's revolution in exceptional detail
For most Americans, the hostage crisis was the revolution's defining event
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The CIA Book Club reveals how the West won minds behind the Iron Curtain
How the CIA, instead of pursuing scandalous swashbuckling interventions, smuggled books to weaken the Iron Curtain and offer Eastern Europe a glimpse of an alternative future
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The Trial That Shook Britain: How a court-martial led to India's freedom
The tactical contradictions that doomed earlier revolutionary movements found their dramatic resolution in Bose's audacious gamble with the INA
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The Conscience Network: Fighting the emergency and the US battlefront
The element of equivalence between then and now is probed delicately but bravely by this book which revisits the Emergency and the resistance to it from a new angle
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Lifequake: Tarini Mohan's book about what came after, not miracles
She writes with remarkable lucidity about the estrangement of living in a body that no longer responds the way it once did, of the disjuncture between intention and execution
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H.I.T. Investing: A new book the balance between purpose and profit
It is hard to fathom how any organisation could build a sustainable business by offering high-quality products at affordable prices, but many have done just that. H.I.T. Investing tells their stories
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OTP Please: Vandana Vasudevan exposes hard truths of the ecommerce economy
From online marketplaces using data to harm local businesses to the suffering that lies behind the glossy growth story that startups tell, Vandana Vasudevan exposes the hard truth of platform economy
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The Johnson & Johnson Files: Unhealthy truths and defective hip implants
A tale of defective hip implants exposes India's weak medical oversight - and how multinationals treat Indian patients worse than those in rich countries
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