In an extraordinary passage, in Bob Woodward’s revealing new book, War, an exasperated American President Joe Biden, yells over a telephone call at the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. ‘Bibi, what the f**k?’ screams Biden driven to the brink of frustration at Netanyahu’s dour and obstinate refusal to bide by Biden’s call for judiciousness and … Continue reading War – Bob Woodward
Month: November 2024
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel – Stephen Budiansky
A genius of the original order, a vulnerable human being racked by debilitating bouts of delusion and chronic paranoia, a reticent mind capable of cutting-edge output, and a soul ravaged by insecurities, Kurt Gödel represented a paradox to flummox all paradoxes. The Austrian American mathematician of eviscerating brilliance, once described by Albert Einstein as the … Continue reading Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel – Stephen Budiansky
This is Strategy – Seth Godin
A manifesto of vignettes, This Strategy proposes to distil in a concise and lucid fashion, strategies that would enable not just entrepreneurs, but also aspiring individuals to pursue their aspirations. Consisting of two-hundred and ninety-se slim Chapters, this latest book by American author and a former dot-com business executive, Seth Godin is a fast paced … Continue reading This is Strategy – Seth Godin
A Map Of The New Normal: How Inflation, War & Sanctions will Change your World Forever – Jeff Rubin
Globalisation was touted to be the ultimate panacea for embellishing and enhancing the paeans of super capitalism. A seamless and unfettered cross border mobility of income and capital would turn the world into a borderless mega zone of trade and commerce. However, the much-trusted utopia is falling apart at the seams, courtesy some Teutonic geopolitical … Continue reading A Map Of The New Normal: How Inflation, War & Sanctions will Change your World Forever – Jeff Rubin
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles – Samuel Graydon
Samuel Graydon stitches together a delightful tapestry that delectably cleaves the intellectual and the indistinguishable characterizing an immortal and endearing personality. Albert Einstein is one of the greatest geniuses to stride the sands of time. A man possessed of eviscerating brilliance; Einstein upended the laws of Physics as it was wont to be comprehended when … Continue reading Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles – Samuel Graydon
A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in From the Cold and took Cosmic Centre Stage – Marcus Chown
In a mesmerizing passage in his book, award winning science writer and former radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, Marcus Chown, painstakingly describes the seismic event of the sighting of the first ever black hole. In April 2017, a team of intrepid and maniacally enthusiastic groups of scientists set up eight Event Horizon … Continue reading A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in From the Cold and took Cosmic Centre Stage – Marcus Chown
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
(Image Credit: npr.org) Twenty-five-year-old Takako’s world caves in around her, when over dinner on an otherwise uneventful evening, her boyfriend, Hideaki, casually announces that he would be leaving her for a newfound love interest. This apathetic proclamation leaves Takako in a catatonic state. Forsaking, first her job and then her appetite, she falls into a … Continue reading Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa