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Gamestop's improbable story

Mr Mezrich mans the conveyor belt at the factory that turns raw reality into its slick cinematic depiction

Macroeconomics in action

The book does not take more than a paragraph to warn us about our misplaced hopes in demographic dividends

Lessons for new owner as it inks a fresh chapter for Crossword

Last year, Covid-19 hit book sales - albeit not publishing per se - with the lockdown months shutting out physical retail altogether

Decoding Sino-Indian diplomacy

Mr Gokhale has analysed Chinese negotiating behaviour through a set of six issues relating to India-China relations

Why we still need economic planning

The book makes theoretical and empirical arguments to show why India still needs planning even more than before

Pakistan's lines of control

The book encourages readers to consider how Pakistan's unilateral measures in PoK have always resulted in painful consequences for India

When the Big Bang was just a theory

In his new book, Flashes of Creation, Paul Halpern chronicles the rise of Gamow and Hoyle into leaders of mostly opposing views of cosmology

Think like a CFO

What the authors do offer is the valuable experience of being in six different masterclasses

The tech soothsayer

What makes the book one of its kind is the weaving of 10 stories of the world in 2041 across multiple continents and cultures

From Davos, without love

Ms Kaur talks at length about nationalism and its facets

Future shocks in global politics

What millions of years of climate change have done to the environment have been accelerated by human agency

How Big Tech is watching you

Luckily, governments around the world have started waking up to both the dangers and started working on curbing Big Tech

Two queens and a rebellion

The book opens with the observation, "In 1857, the resistance of common people made leaders of obscure royals"

From the ruins of 9/11

Reign of Terror makes clear that what happened on September 11, 2001

Midnight's septuagenarians

Saleem, nearly thirty-one-years old, puts on display the many personal artefacts and feelings and notions and nicknames and omens that are his inheritance

After rape - a search for solutions

Each of the five women profiled in the book have a dedicated chapter

How the US created China's dominance

In the past few years, the US, more than other G7 countries, has called out the bristling hubris of a totalitarian China

Distilled wisdom from investment legends

Some of the legendary money managers featured in the book are Mohnish Pabrai, Howard Marks, John Templeton, Joel Greenblatt, Nick Sleep, Charlie Munger, and a few others

Friedman and the free market debate

A number of economists had looked closely at Friedman's arguments about the Great Depression, and found them wanting

Immigrants' song

This book is largely a celeb­ra­tion of the material and cultural legacy of Parsis