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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Upon typing Insys Therapeutics in the Google search bar, the searcher is lead to a website that is couched in…
(Image Credit: http://www.ebookmela.co.in) More doling out pop psychology wisdom than fictionalizing the shadowy life of the most ineffectual (arguably) double agent in the…
(Image Credit: http://www.bookdepository.com) Sebastian Mallaby has this extraordinary ability to identify a random topic in the world of finance and expound on it…
(Image Credit: Dundurn Press) “Egg Island”, Sara Flemington’s debut novel, is a hodge-podge of dark humour and an adventure bereft of destination. Eighteen…
(Image Credit: Dundurn.com) Replete with operatic complexities and other nuances of musicology, “In the City Of Pigs” (the title itself being an imaginative…
(Image Credit: nwhgroup.co.uk) “Chase it down and read it” is American activist, writer and policy strategist, David Bollier’s verdict on John Thackara’ s…
Keen on wrestling with and besting a world characterised by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (“VUCA”)? Read the ‘terrific’ book, ‘Ten Years to…
An electrifying atmosphere pervades the whole of Japan as the nation gets ready to host the 2020 Olympics. Gaiety and euphoria envelop an…
(Image Credit: MacMillan Publishers) When Austrian writer Peter Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, the choice stirred a hornet’s nest. From…
(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) One part soothing, two parts elegiac, Esther Stories by Peter Orner is an amorphous palimpsest producing order from chaos and…