Page 110 - Book Review

Debunking bad science

Ben Goldacre specifically targets pseudoscience, fallacies and woo and he does so with a trademark blend of logic, wit, snark and sarcasm that mocks bad science

Senior moments for baby boomers

Michael Kinsley's Old Age is attractively designed and just the right size to slip into one's pocket or purse

Reporting from the frontlines

Shyam Bhatia's Bullets and Bylines is a tribute to all those journalists who risk their lives for the sake of telling the story just as it happened

Defending the founding fathers

Rajmohan Gandhi takes his arguments forward. His quarrel this time is with two equally fascinating characters - Swami Sachidanand and Perry Anderson

Tips from the original start-up guy

Mr Case's book is filled with such insightful scenes that describe how the modern online industry was put together

Where age 50 is the new 65

Disrupted is born of Mr Lyons's attempt to cross over from covering tech to getting a piece of the action in the second, current Internet bubble

India-Japan: poised for a great leap forward

The Indo-Japanese relationship has followed a sinusoidal pattern since the 1950s. It saw its crests right after India's independence and after the Cold War

The IMF's big stumbles

In Failed, economist Mark Weisbrot chronicles the IMF's policy prescriptions during the Latin American, Asian and European crises

A penitent from Abu Ghraib

The abuses had roots in decisions made at the highest levels of the Bush administration, which asserted that the United States need not abide by the Geneva Conventions in its war on terror

What Indian women want

This book is a perfect amalgamation of voices resonating for such innate and intrinsic values and it is worth its modest price if only because it is likely to make the reader - whether male or female - think

Indian soldiers in the Great War

Shrabani Basu's book For King and Another Country brings the war to life through six soldiers, three Maharajas, two airmen and a cleaner

In search of a stroke of genius

Mr Weiner goes hunting for a pattern... trying to understand why certain places during certain eras turn up a bumper crop of geniuses, and why the dream run eventually ends

An innocent on terror firma

Mr Khan paints a picture of a bewildering legal system as a web that ensnares the poor and vulnerable while allowing the rich and famous to slip through with ease