Category: Book review

Lead Like a Coach offers powerful practical advice, based on compelling evidence, on how to lift your game for the benefit of the people you lead. Phil Turnbull, Executive General Manager, RACV A delightful guide, full of important practical strategies for those of us who want to make a positive impact on stakeholders, our families and our…

From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to create new income streams and thrive in today’s turbulent economy. The nine-to-five is dead. This is Gonzo Capitalism. ‘A must-read guide to the new economy. This book will help you navigate emerging paths to prosperity that you didn’t…

Your happiness and your success depend on your working relationships The people you manage. How well you work with your boss. The way collaboration happens with colleagues and peers. How you connect with important prospects and key clients. But the hard truth is this: most of us leave the health and fate of these relationships…

Product description Review Important, timely, instructive and entertaining. What more could you ask for? — Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A wise, vivid and unforgettable combination of inspiring storytelling with decades of practical research and experience — Tim Harford, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up Having…

Stanford lecturer and host of the #1 business podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams, reveals the secrets to finding the right words when it counts. ‘Filled with practical, tactical advice, this book is indispensable’ – Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor Communication is crucial to success in life and business. However, it is not just big…

by Dimple Jangda Did you know your physical, mental and emotional well-being depends on your gut health? The healthier your gut, the better you are! With the gut as a central axis of vigour, health coach Dimple Jangda has helped people all over the world recover from chronic diseases through a powerful combination of ancient Ayurvedic…

Political Hinduism was once considered a sort of fringe ideology, shadowy and even misunderstood. Its ideas and narratives seemed, in popular discourse, to lack analytical rigour and were easily dismissed.But history shows that political Hinduism as an intellectual idea was a pioneering theme in India’s nationhood. In fact, it precedes the Indian republic and has…

Marathi Edition  by Gulzar (Author), Shanta Shelke (Author) Triveni’ a confluence of three rivers, these poems are unique in their style. No one has ever tried this form. Guljar is the first to do so. The first two lines of each of his poem meet each other giving complete meaning to the poem, but the third line? It secretly meets…

by Gurcharan Das (Author)  Another Sort of Freedom is a funny, moving and honest memoir of a man’s struggle to break free from expectations. Gurcharan Das was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, during World War II, when Hitler, Churchill and Hirohito were bashing everyone around. His mother noted in her diary, ‘This is a restless baby.’ By age two…

by Jhumpa Lahiri (Author, Translator), Todd Portnowitz The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories “A delectable, sun-washed treat . . . the…