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Saurabh's bookshelf: read en-US Wed, 07 May 2025 18:06:24 -0700 60 Saurabh's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Rebel: A Biography of Ram Jethmalani]]> 23607893 592 Susan Adelman 0670087920 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.10 2014

The Rebel: A Biography of Ram Jethmalani

author: Susan Adelman
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]]> <![CDATA[Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism]]> 223436601 An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.

Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to “lean in.��

Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us.]]> 382 Sarah Wynn-Williams 1250391237 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.28 2025 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

author: Sarah Wynn-Williams
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]]> <![CDATA[Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment]]> 1588530 Salman Akhtar 0876685386 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.33 1992

Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment

author: Salman Akhtar
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> Hitchcock/Truffaut 393601 Rear Window ("I was feeling very creative at the time, the batteries were well charged"), his technical insight into Psycho's shower scene ("the knife never touched the body; it was all done in the [editing]"), and his ruminations on flops such as Under Capricorn ("If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell 'Follow that car!'"). This is one of the most delightful film books in print. --Raphael Shargel]]> 368 François Truffaut 0671604295 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.51 1966 Hitchcock/Truffaut

author: François Truffaut
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average rating: 4.51
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]]> The Art of Joy 20151970 The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman

Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty years, Goliarda Sapienza’s masterpiece, The Art of Joy, survived a turbulent path to publication. It wasn’t until 2005, when it was released in France, that this novel received the recognition it deserves. At last, Sapienza’s remarkable book is��available in English, in a brilliant translation by��Anne Milano Appel and��with an illuminating��introduction by Angelo Pellegrino.
�� The Art of Joy centers on Modesta, a Sicilian woman born on January 1, 1900, whose strength and character are an affront to conventional morality. Impoverished as a child, Modesta believes she is destined for a better life.��She is able, through grace and intelligence, to secure marriage to an aristocrat—without compromising her own deeply felt values. Friend, mother, lover—Modesta revels in upsetting the rules of her fascist, patriarchal society.��
�� This is the history of the twentieth century, transfigured by the perspective of one extraordinary woman. Sapienza, an intriguing figure in her own right—her father homeschooled her so she wouldn’t be exposed to fascist influences—was a respected actress and writer who drew on her own struggles to craft this powerful epic. A fictionalized memoir, a book of romance and adventure, a feminist text, a bildungsroman—this novel is ultimately undefinable but deeply necessary; its genius will leave readers breathless.

]]> 705 Goliarda Sapienza 0374708940 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.88 1998 The Art of Joy

author: Goliarda Sapienza
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us]]> 17841838 403 Noson S. Yanofsky 0262019353 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.02 2013

The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us

author: Noson S. Yanofsky
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> Roses in December 15832211 Chagla distinguished himself not only as a lawyer and judge but stood out in a few other fields of public activity. Rightly, he chose to record his aspirations and achievements, ideals and convictions, thoughts and experiences, for the benefit of posterity (as he himself has said). The book turned out to be a casket of wisdom, not to speak of the racy style of writing that made it gripping.
Reading this book is like seeing personally Indian history of the past century, so vividly has M C Chagla described the events and happenings of those turbulent years. Interesting incidents have been mentioned, the joys and the sorrows, the tiffs and the anger with other leading personalities of India struggling for freedom. Chagla played a very important role during this crucial period and his agile pen has recorded all that happened in this book which has been a best seller.
Jayaprakash Narayan has written the foreword in which he has mentioned the role Chagla played during the emergency clamped by Indira Gandhi in June, 1975. The historic speech that Chagla delivered in Ahmedabad while inaugurating the All India Civil Liberties Conference in the wake of the emergency reads 'like Magna Carta' according to Jayaprakash Narayan. Chagla has discussed topics like Kashmir, the presidents, prime minsters and parliament of India.
Chief Justice Chagla had three abiding passions �� devotion to justice between man and man and between man and the State, adherence to nationalism, involving the integrations of all communities, and love of basic human freedom. His devotion to justice made him truly a great judge. Whether he believed in 'God or not, we are not sure. But, God believed in him, and endorsed him with the gift of grace, with nobility and intellectual humility. M. C. Chagla’s autobiography is not only the story of his life but the life of the times.
M C Chagla was a Jurist, judge, educationist, Central Cabinet Minister and Statesman. He was also the Vice Chancellor of Bombay University and also acting Governor of Bombay. He was India's ambassador to US and High Commissioner for India in UK.]]> M.C. Chagla Saurabh 0 to-read 4.17 2000 Roses in December

author: M.C. Chagla
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]]> <![CDATA[The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method]]> 6618 224 Allen Carr 1402718616 Saurabh 3 4.22 1985

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method

author: Allen Carr
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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Penguin publishers were like-- "You know it's gonna sell like hotcakes!"
]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine�� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.99 1932 Brave New World

author: Aldous Huxley
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]> 7588 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves.]]> 329 James Joyce 0142437344 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.64 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

author: James Joyce
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average rating: 3.64
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]]> <![CDATA[Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex]]> 52128695 An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an ace lens to see the world

What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about consent, about compromise, about the structures of society? This exceedingly accessible guide to asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships—are conflicts that all of us need to address as we move through the world.

Through interviews, cultural criticism, and memoir, ACE invites all readers to consider big-picture issues through the lens of asexuality, because every place that sexuality touches our world, asexuality does too.

Journalist Angela Chen uses her own journey of self-discovery as an asexual person to unpretentiously educate and vulnerably connect with readers, effortlessly weaving analysis of sexuality and societally imposed norms with interviews of ace people. Among those included are the woman who had blood tests done because she was convinced that "not wanting sex" was a sign of serious illness, and the man who grew up in an evangelical household and did everything "right," only to realize after marriage that his experience of sexuality had never been the same as that of others. Also represented are disabled aces, aces of color, non-gender-conforming aces questioning whether their asexuality is a reaction against stereotypes, and aces who don't want romantic relationships asking how our society can make room for them.]]> 210 Angela Chen 080701379X Saurabh 0 to-read 4.35 2020 Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

author: Angela Chen
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)]]> 12749 In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust’s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis’s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann’s Way.]]> 468 Marcel Proust 0142437964 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.12 1913 Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

author: Marcel Proust
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]]> Red Plenty 18634818 "Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London)Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.]]> 453 Francis Spufford Saurabh 0 to-read 4.08 2010 Red Plenty

author: Francis Spufford
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]]> <![CDATA[Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]]> 12617
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy�� versus “unworthy�� victims, “legitimizing�� and “meaningless�� Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.]]> 412 Edward S. Herman 0375714499 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.25 1988 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

author: Edward S. Herman
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations]]> 228331
How can you negotiate successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate customer, or a deceitful coworker?

In Getting Past No, William Ury of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation offers a proven breakthrough strategy for turning adversaries into negotiating partners. You’ll learn how to:

�� Stay in control under pressure
�� Defuse anger and hostility
�� Find out what the other side really wants
�� Counter dirty tricks
�� Use power to bring the other side back to the table
�� Reach agreements that satisfies both sides' needs

Getting Past No is the state-of-the-art book on negotiation for the twenty-first century. It will help you deal with tough times, tough people, and tough negotiations. You don’t have to get mad or get even. Instead, you can get what you want!]]> 208 William Ury 0553371312 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.97 1991 Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations

Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations

author: William Ury
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]]> <![CDATA[Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In]]> 313605 200 Roger Fisher 0140157352 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.95 1981

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

author: Roger Fisher
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.37 2021 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

author: John Green
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gulag Archipelago 1918��1956 (Abridged)]]> 70561 The Gulag Archipelago 1918��1956—a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle—has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.]]> 512 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0060007761 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.31 1973 The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present]]> 57402596 ��
It began with the Beatles�� “Helter Skelter.�� It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. This is the evolution of heavy music. The voyage is as varied as it is from the lysergic blunt trauma of Blue Cheer to the locked grooves of Funkadelic, the aural frightmares of Faust to the tectonic crush of Sleep, alighting on post-punk, industrial, grunge, stoner rock, and numerous other genres along the way. Ranging from household names to obscure cult heroes and heroines, Electric Wizards demonstrates how each successive phase of heavy music was forged by what came before, outlining a rich and eclectic lineage that extends far beyond the usual boundaries of heavy rock or heavy metal. It extols those who did things differently, who introduced something fresh and exciting into this elemental tradition, whether by design, accident, or sheer chance. In doing so, Electric Wizards weaves an entirely new tapestry of heavy music.]]> 480 J.R. Moores 1789144485 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.89 Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present

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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution]]> 56430767 Foucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politics

Part intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way we think about both Michel Foucault and modern progressive politics. One fateful day in May 1975, Foucault dropped acid in the southern California desert. In letters reproduced here, he described it as among the most important events of his life, one which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. That trip helped redirect Foucault’s thought and contributed to a tectonic shift in the intellectual life of the era. He came to reinterpret the social movements of May ��68 and reposition himself politically in France, embracing anti-totalitarian currents and becoming a critic of the welfare state.

Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora examine the full historical context of the turn in Foucault’s thought, which included studies of the Iranian revolution and French socialist politics, through which he would come to appreciate the possibilities of autonomy offered by a new force on the French political scene that was neither of the left nor the right: neoliberalism.]]> 256 Mitchell Dean 1839761393 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.69 2021 The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

author: Mitchell Dean
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]]> <![CDATA[Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies]]> 199774593
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors�� offspring. But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening? Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world—several in her own family—celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be “normal.��

In Father Time , Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers. They develop caring potential few realized men possessed. In her quest to explain how men came to nurture babies, Hrdy travels back through millions of years of human, primate, and mammalian evolution, then back further still to the earliest vertebrates—all while taking into account recent economic and social trends and technological innovations and incorporating new findings from neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and more. The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man—and what the implications might be for society and our species.]]> 432 Sarah Blaffer Hrdy 0691238774 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.87 Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

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]]> <![CDATA[The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution]]> 9704856
Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man��and one of our most��important political thinkers,��provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins��of Political Order��begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of��the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.

Drawing on a vast body of knowledge—history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics—Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents.]]> 585 Francis Fukuyama 0374227349 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.17 2011 The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

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]]> <![CDATA[Ressentiment (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)]]> 381217 172 Max Scheler 0874626021 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.07 1912

Ressentiment (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)

author: Max Scheler
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]]> A Short Stay in Hell 13456414
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.]]> 110 Steven L. Peck 098374842X Saurabh 0 to-read 4.17 2011 A Short Stay in Hell

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]]> <![CDATA[Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI]]> 198678736 **A New York Times Bestseller**

'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth

Consumer AI has arrived. And with it, inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs, lives and the future of humanity.

Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking and optimistic, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.]]> 243 Ethan Mollick 075356078X Saurabh 0 to-read 3.97 2024 Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

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]]> If You're Not Yet Like Me 9455819 55 Edan Lepucki Saurabh 3 2024 3.53 2010

author: Edan Lepucki
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average rating: 3.53
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]]> The Social Contract 12651
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ‘social contract��, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.]]> 168 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0143037498 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.80 1762 The Social Contract

author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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]]> The Bet 2895911 Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 48 Anton Chekhov 0895986841 Saurabh 4 4.14 1889 The Bet

author: Anton Chekhov
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average rating: 4.14
book published: 1889
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Fifteen years to get adolescent nihilism?
]]> <![CDATA[Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition]]> 50997649 The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling professor of psychology Angela Duckworth.

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Which should be feared more: snakes or french fries? Why do sumo wrestlers cheat? In this groundbreaking book, leading economist Steven Levitt—Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal for the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contribution to the discipline—reveals that the answers. Joined by acclaimed author and podcast host Stephen J. Dubner, Levitt presents a brilliant—and brilliantly entertaining—account of how incentives of the most hidden sort drive behavior in ways that turn conventional wisdom on its head.]]> 352 Steven D. Levitt 0063032376 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.05 2005 Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition

Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition

author: Steven D. Levitt
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2005
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]]> Night 1617 Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.]]> 120 Elie Wiesel 0374500010 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.38 1956 Night

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average rating: 4.38
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Saurabh 4 4.04 1942 The Stranger

author: Albert Camus
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1942
rating: 4
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The book kind of gives you a persona that you can use in your life("in a good way or not"-- to analyze this will destroy the core of that persona), the persona being that of the main character, though as I feel when asked to write or describe what this persona contains of--it will not be an easy job. The book contains philosophical ideas but not like those that you can give a day of your life to examine/verify/understand it. What took me by surprise was that in France public executions were being conducted till 1939.
]]> Ghachar Ghochar 30267604
Elegantly written and punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and humor, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings—and consequences—of financial gain in contemporary India.]]> 118 Vivek Shanbhag 014311168X Saurabh 5 Anyway had a great time!]]> 3.88 2013 Ghachar Ghochar

author: Vivek Shanbhag
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average rating: 3.88
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Loved every part of it, except for, maybe, the narrator's detest of noble acts. Even when he's narrating it in retrospect. Maybe, it is my shallow understanding of noble acts and their repercussions, or, the text-- might be suggesting the narrator's realization after the unsettling thoughts in the end, or, both.
Anyway had a great time!
]]> <![CDATA[Etiquette: the least you need to know]]> 43727802 146 Jamila Musayeva 0578447703 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.20

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]]> <![CDATA[ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood]]> 53231680 A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

"An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope."--Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain

World-renowned authors Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey literally "wrote the book" on ADD/ADHD more than two decades ago. Their bestseller, Driven to Distraction, largely introduced this diagnosis to the public and sold more than a million copies along the way.

Now, most people have heard of ADHD and know someone who may have it. But lost in the discussion of both childhood and adult diagnosis of ADHD is the potential upside: Many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute their achievements to ADHD. Also unknown to most are the recent research developments, including innovations that give a clearer understanding of the ADHD brain in action. In ADHD 2.0, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey, both of whom have this "variable attention trait," draw on the latest science to provide both parents and adults with ADHD a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age. They offer an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD, including

- Find the right kind of difficult. Use these behavior assessments to discover the work, activity, or creative outlet best suited to an individual's unique strengths.
- Reimagine environment. What specific elements to look for--at home, at school, or in the workplace--to enhance the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit inherent in the ADHD mind.
- Embrace innate neurological tendencies. Take advantage of new findings about the brain's default mode network and cerebellum, which confer major benefits for people with ADHD.
- Tap into the healing power of connection. Tips for establishing and maintaining positive connection "the other Vitamind C" and the best antidote to the negativity that plagues so many people with ADHD.
- Consider medication. Gets the facts about the underlying chemistry, side effects, and proven benefits of all the pharmaceutical options.

As inspiring as it is practical, 'ADHD 2.0' will help you tap into the power of this mercurial condition and find the key that unlocks potential.

RUNNING TIME => 7hrs.

©2021 Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey (P)2021 Random House Audio]]> 208 Edward M. Hallowell 0399178732 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.05 2021 ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

author: Edward M. Hallowell
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919��2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Saurabh 5
What do you think of this book 30 or 40 years old me?]]> 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye

author: J.D. Salinger
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1951
rating: 5
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If it's a red flag, then it's my pleasure having one.

What do you think of this book 30 or 40 years old me?
]]> <![CDATA[The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma]]> 18693771 A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.]]> 464 Bessel van der Kolk 0670785938 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.36 2014 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

author: Bessel van der Kolk
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2014
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]]> The Anatomy of Melancholy 557658 1392 Robert Burton 0940322668 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.17 1621

author: Robert Burton
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[About Law: An Introduction (Clarendon Law Series)]]> 1219697
Treating not just British law, but the whole western tradition of law, Professor Honoré guides the reader through eleven topics which straddle various branches of the law, including constitutional and criminal law, property, and contracts. He also explores moral and historical aspects of the law, including a discussion of justice and the difference between civil and common law systems. The law, Honoré argues, is mainly concerned with the question of obedience to authority, and establishing the situations in which obedience is required and those in which it may be waived ought to be the central concern of all legal theorists.

All these issues are examined broadly and simply, keeping technicalities at a minimum. The result is a book that offers as broad a picture of western law as possible, providing an accessible overview and a firm base for further study.]]> 128 Tony Honoré 0198763883 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.90 1996 About Law: An Introduction (Clarendon Law Series)

About Law: An Introduction (Clarendon Law Series)

author: Tony Honoré
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University]]> 2139878 277 Nicholas J. McBride 0582894255 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.12 2006

Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University

author: Nicholas J. McBride
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0]]> 44874
Code And Other Laws of Cyberspace is an exciting examination of how the core values of cyberspace as we know it—intellectual property, free speech, and privacy-—are being threatened and what we can do to protect them. Lessig shows how code—the architecture and law of cyberspace—can make a domain, site, or network free or restrictive; how technological architectures influence people's behavior and the values they adopt; and how changes in code can have damaging consequences for individual freedoms. Code is not just for lawyers and policymakers; it is a must-read for everyone concerned with survival of democratic values in the Information Age.

]]> 432 Lawrence Lessig 0465039146 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.93 1999 Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0

author: Lawrence Lessig
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.93
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]]> <![CDATA[If Research Were Romance and Other Implausible Conjectures]]> 17825094 Is the answer 42? Would Jane Eyre prefer Hamlet or Claudius? And is research really like romance?

You’ll find answers to all the above questions, and many more, in this book.]]> 240 Manny Rayner Saurabh 0 to-read 3.76 2013 If Research Were Romance and Other Implausible Conjectures

If Research Were Romance and Other Implausible Conjectures

author: Manny Rayner
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.76
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]]> <![CDATA[Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse]]> 1389596 91 Bhagat Singh 8178710609 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.44 1931

Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

author: Bhagat Singh
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.44
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]]> <![CDATA[Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity]]> 61153739 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER �� A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert

Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.

For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late to help, prolonging lifespan at the expense of healthspan, or quality of life. Dr. Attia believes we must replace this outdated framework with a personalized, proactive strategy for longevity, one where we take action now, rather than waiting.

This is not “biohacking,�� it’s science: a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive, and emotional health. Dr. Attia’s aim is less to tell you what to do and more to help you learn how to think about long-term health, in order to create the best plan for you as an individual. In Outlive, readers will discover:

�� Why the cholesterol test at your annual physical doesn’t tell you enough about your actual risk of dying from a heart attack.
�� That you may already suffer from an extremely common yet underdiagnosed liver condition that could be a precursor to the chronic diseases of aging.
�� Why exercise is the most potent pro-longevity “drug”—and how to begin training for the “Centenarian Decathlon.��
�� Why you should forget about diets, and focus instead on nutritional biochemistry, using technology and data to personalize your eating pattern.
�� Why striving for physical health and longevity, but ignoring emotional health, could be the ultimate curse of all.

Aging and longevity are far more malleable than we think; our fate is not set in stone. With the right roadmap, you can plot a different path for your life, one that lets you outlive your genes to make each decade better than the one before.]]> 496 Peter Attia 0593236599 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.33 2023 Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

author: Peter Attia
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work And In Life]]> 6125225
A young man lives unhappily in a valley. One day he meets an old man who lives on a mountain peak. At first the young man doesn’t realize that he is talking to one of the most peaceful and successful people in the world. But in the course of further encounters and conversations, the young man comes to understand that he can apply the old man’s remarkable principles and practical tools to his own life to change it for the better. Spencer Johnson knows how to tell a deceptively simple story that teaches deep lessons. The One Minute Manager (co-written with Ken Blanchard) sold 15 million copies and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for more than twenty years. Since it was published a decade ago, Who Moved My Cheese? has sold more than 25 million copies. In fact there are more than 46 million copies of Spencer Johnson’s books in print, in forty-seven languages—and with today’s economic uncertainty, his new book could not be more relevant. Pithy, wise, and empowering, Peaks and Valleys is clearly destined to becomeanother Spencer Johnson classic.]]> 112 Spencer Johnson 1439103259 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.05 2009 Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work And In Life

Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work And In Life

author: Spencer Johnson
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> Oops! I Resigned Again! 59824646
Who would be silly enough to resign a tournament game they were not losing? As Oops! I Resigned Again! shows, almost anyone �� including some of the world’s best players!

Learn the stories behind the most embarrassing moment any chessplayer can suffer, while trying to outmatch the poor, unfortunate player who resigned. Indeed, this is the only chess puzzle book where you cannot do worse than the player in the game! Pit your wits against legends such as Kramnik, Nunn, Tarrasch and Timman, knowing that they failed the test and that you can, perhaps, do better.

Australian Grandmaster Ian Rogers has assembled 100 extraordinary positions in themed sets of 5 puzzles designed to both baffle and delight the solver, in a format which makes it easy to sneak a look at the answer!

With a foreword written by US Olympian Sam Shankland �� baring his soul about his own silly resignation at a top level tournament �� Oops! I Resigned Again! is a rare treat for chessplayers of all strengths, who after finishing the book will fervently hope never to have to say... Oops!

About the Author

Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers is a journalist, author and commentator. He was Australia’s top-ranked player from 1984 until his retirement in 2007. He played 14 Olympiads for Australia and won more than 130 classical tournaments on four continents, including twice winning the Commonwealth Championship title. He resigned unnecessarily only once! This is his first book for Russell Enterprises.]]> 160 Ian Rogers 1949859436 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.00 Oops! I Resigned Again!

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]]> Gun Island 42436500 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07DNDDFLD

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.

A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey which will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood and about the world around him.

Gun Island is a beautifully realised novel which effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.

]]> 352 Amitav Ghosh Saurabh 0 to-read 3.61 2019 Gun Island

author: Amitav Ghosh
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.61
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)]]> 25499718
WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?]]> 608 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1447273281 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.29 2015 Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard]]> 60018587 "The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam Grant

Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion

When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to Australia. At the time, he did not speak English, and, unsurprisingly, struggled at school. But, then, in fifth grade, something happened to change his life: he discovered competitive debate. Immediately, he was hooked. It turned out, perhaps counterintuitively, that debating was the perfect activity for someone shy and unsure of himself. It became a way for Bo not only to find his voice, but to excel socially and academically. And he's not the only one. Far from it: presidents, Supreme Court justices, and CEOs are all disproportionally debaters. This is hardly a coincidence. By tracing his own journey from immigrant kid to world champion, Seo shows how the skills of debating--information gathering, truth finding, lucidity, organization, and persuasion--are often the cornerstone of successful careers and happy lives.

Drawing insights from its strategies, structure, and history, Seo teaches readers the skills of competitive debate, and in doing so shows how they can improve their communication with friends, family, and colleagues alike. He takes readers on a thrilling intellectual adventure into the eccentric and brilliant subculture of competitive debate, touching on everything from the radical politics of Malcom X to Artificial Intelligence. Seo proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that, far from being a source of conflict, good-faith debate can enrich our daily lives. Indeed, these good arguments are essential to a flourishing democracy, and are more important than ever at time when bad faith is all around, and our democracy seems so imperiled.]]> 352 Bo Seo 0593299515 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.63 Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

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]]> <![CDATA[Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical notes]]> 28095962
About Author:
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 �� 6 December 1956) (Father of Indian Constitution), popularly known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the Modern Buddhist Movement and campaigned against social discrimination against Untouchables (Dalits), women and labour. He was Independent India's first law minister and the principal architect of the Constitution of India.
Ambedkar was a prolific student, earning a law degree and various doctorates from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and gained a reputation as a scholar for his research in law, economics and political science. In his early career he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India's independence, publishing journals advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India. In 1956 he converted to Buddhism, initiating mass conversions of Dalits.
In 1990, the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, was posthumously conferred upon Ambedkar. Ambedkar's legacy includes numerous memorials and depictions in popular culture.]]> 25 B.R. Ambedkar Saurabh 4 2023 ---------------------------
One less star due to Ambedkar's casual writing.
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Also, can anyone tell me the reason behind the title, I didn't even find the word 'visa' in the text.]]> 4.57 1931 Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical notes

Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical notes

author: B.R. Ambedkar
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1931
rating: 4
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Shocking; realized more evidently that education in itself never made a good human being, unless, of course, you alter the definition of education.
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One less star due to Ambedkar's casual writing.
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Also, can anyone tell me the reason behind the title, I didn't even find the word 'visa' in the text.
]]> Unhappiness (Short Stories) 33518583 Franz Kafka Saurabh 3 2023 3.22 1912

author: Franz Kafka
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.22
book published: 1912
rating: 3
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Just tell me what it means, if possible-- before I die.
]]> Before the Law 36275000 Before the Law ��(German: Vor dem Gesetz) is a��parable��contained in the novel��The Trial��(German:��Der Prozess), by��Franz Kafka. Before the Law��was published in Kafka's lifetime, first in the 1915 New Year's edition of the independent Jewish weekly��Selbstwehr, then in 1919 as part of the collection��Ein Landarzt��(A Country Doctor).��The Trial, however, was not published until 1925, after Kafka's death.]]> 4 Franz Kafka Saurabh 4 2023 4.01 1915 Before the Law

author: Franz Kafka
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1915
rating: 4
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"Am I guilty before the law because I want to show that I want to know righteousness instead of me being righteous?"
]]> Once There Was a War 4800 The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible portrait of life in wartime.]]> 256 John Steinbeck Saurabh 4 2023 3.83 1958 Once There Was a War

author: John Steinbeck
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1958
rating: 4
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]]> A Farewell to Arms 10799 A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.]]> 293 Ernest Hemingway 0099910101 Saurabh 4 2023 3.83 1929

author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1929
rating: 4
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Peaceful; I mean, not the story, reading it was peaceful, until it wasn't.
]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Saurabh 5 2023 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis

author: Franz Kafka
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1915
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Judgment and other stories]]> 16244632 137 Franz Kafka Saurabh 5 read-again, 2023 3.81 1912

author: Franz Kafka
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1912
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/27
date added: 2023/03/11
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Short 7 pages with deep existential crisis.
]]> 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 10357575 The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.�� A world that bears a question.�� Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s �� 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.]]> 944 Haruki Murakami 0307593312 Saurabh 3 japan, 2023 Book 2: 3.5/5
Book 3: 3/5

Read only if you're not that much into denouements.]]> 3.94 2009 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

author: Haruki Murakami
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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Book 1: 4/5
Book 2: 3.5/5
Book 3: 3/5

Read only if you're not that much into denouements.
]]> Notes from Underground 49455 Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 067973452X Saurabh 5
Part 1- 5/5
Part 2- 4/5

Notes from Underground is divided in two parts, the first part is where the Underground man tells us about his philosophy, his world view, first he argues that if someone is always looking for something that is good, will make him feel better, is there any freedom in his choice, then he goes on to argue that despite the non-existence of free-will, men, even if they know, will always want to act with will no matter how good or bad their life is, such desperation to act with will is nothing else but a medium to fulfil his own self, not a statement that he/she acts with will, in the second part, however, at least I felt this way, he wanted to answer the readers who after reading the first part asked--"How do one with such philosophy live a REAL life.", he begins the second auto-biographical part with the intent,

"Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell
to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters
in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends,
but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other
things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and
every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.",

the reading makes one believe that he was successful in bringing the last type of things.

Certain random quotes that had my scrutiny:
Part 1
Chapter 2:
"I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a
real thorough-going illness. For man’s everyday needs, it
would have been quite enough to have the ordinary
human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the
amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man."

Chapter 4:
Can a man of perception respect
himself at all?

Chapter 5:
Of course, a minute or so later I would realize wrathfully that
it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this
penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform.

Chapter 8:
I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to
consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute
that he is a man and not a piano-key!

Chapter 9:
But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and
perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game,
not the end of it. And who knows (there is no saying with
certainty), perhaps the only goal on earth to which
mankind is striving lies in this incessant process of
attaining, in other words, in life itself, and not in the thing
to be attained, which must always be expressed as a
formula, as positive as twice two makes four, and such
positiveness is not life, gentlemen, but is the beginning of
death.

Chapter 11
You doubtlessly mean
to say something, but hide your last word through fear,
because you have not the resolution to utter it, and only
have a cowardly impudence. You boast of consciousness,
but you are not sure of your ground, for though your
mind works, yet your heart is darkened and corrupt, and
you cannot have a full, genuine consciousness without a
pure heart. And how intrusive you are, how you insist and
grimace! Lies, lies, lies!

Part 2
Chapter 10:
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an
idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted
sufferings? Well, which is better?

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more
independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our
activity, relax the control and we �� yes, I assure you ��
we should be begging to be under control again at once.]]> 4.21 1864 Notes from Underground

author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1864
rating: 5
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Part 1- 5/5
Part 2- 4/5

Notes from Underground is divided in two parts, the first part is where the Underground man tells us about his philosophy, his world view, first he argues that if someone is always looking for something that is good, will make him feel better, is there any freedom in his choice, then he goes on to argue that despite the non-existence of free-will, men, even if they know, will always want to act with will no matter how good or bad their life is, such desperation to act with will is nothing else but a medium to fulfil his own self, not a statement that he/she acts with will, in the second part, however, at least I felt this way, he wanted to answer the readers who after reading the first part asked--"How do one with such philosophy live a REAL life.", he begins the second auto-biographical part with the intent,

"Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell
to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters
in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends,
but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other
things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and
every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.",

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1902
rating: 4
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“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.��
]]> Notes on Grief 57032570 Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.

Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.]]> 86 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0593320808 Saurabh 3 2023 4.26 2021 Notes on Grief

author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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]]> Animal Farm 170448 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 141 George Orwell 0451526341 Saurabh 4 2023 4.07 1945 Animal Farm

author: George Orwell
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1945
rating: 4
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Humans in most places are so predictable.
]]> <![CDATA[A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History]]> 52381745 A Cat's Tale is a history of feline kind: its origins, the evolution of the relationship with their human companions, and the surprising ways in which feline history parallels that of humanity. From the prehistoric Felis (a large mammal from which all domestic cats have descended) to ancient Egyptian cat goddess, key cats of the Enlightenment to swashbuckling pirate felines and infamous American tabbies, the story of catkind is told here in its totality.]]> 288 Paul Koudounaris 1250217725 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.99 2020 A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History

A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History

author: Paul Koudounaris
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.99
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]]> Happening 399262 This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies.
In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.]]> 96 Annie Ernaux 1583222561 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.32 2000

author: Annie Ernaux
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.32
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]]> Franz Kafka: A Biography 219318
Franz Kafka gives us not only a more vivid and lifelike picture of Kafka than that painted by any of his contemporaries, but also a fascinating portrayal of the complicated interaction between two writers of different temperaments but similar backgrounds who together helped shape the future of twentieth-century literature.]]> 275 Max Brod 0306806703 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.95 1937 Franz Kafka: A Biography

author: Max Brod
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.95
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]]> Diaries, 1910-1923 17686 These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped, and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-13 translated from the German by Joseph Kresh
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-23 translated from the German by Martin Greenberg with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt]]> 521 Franz Kafka 0805209069 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.29 1949 Diaries, 1910-1923

author: Franz Kafka
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.29
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]]> All About Love: New Visions 17607 All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.

Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.

For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.]]> 240 bell hooks 0688168442 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.06 1999 All About Love: New Visions

author: bell hooks
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir]]> 42872088
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"—and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. After Obama was elected president, Power went from being an activist outsider to a government insider, navigating the halls of power while trying to put her ideals into practice. She served for four years as Obama’s human rights adviser, and in 2013, he named her US Ambassador to the United Nations, the youngest American to assume the role.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. The Education of an Idealist lays bare the battles and defining moments of her life and shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with the challenge of raising two young children. Along the way, she illuminates the intricacies of politics and geopolitics, reminding us how the United States can lead in the world, and why we each have the opportunity to advance the cause of human dignity.]]> 592 Samantha Power 0062820710 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.34 2019 The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

author: Samantha Power
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> <![CDATA[Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood]]> 108593 319 Edward M. Hallowell 0684801280 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.09 1992

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

author: Edward M. Hallowell
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)]]> 33385229
Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.]]> 389 Adam Silvera 0062457799 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.76 2017 They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)

They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)

author: Adam Silvera
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2017
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]]> I'll Give You the Sun 20820994
Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways... but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor. The early years are Noah's to tell; the later years are Jude's. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they'll have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant, award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

Printz Award Winner Stonewall Honor Book.]]> 371 Jandy Nelson 0803734964 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.14 2014 I'll Give You the Sun

author: Jandy Nelson
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Ethics: The Fundamentals (Fundamentals of Philosophy)]]> 302373 192 Julia Driver 1405111542 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.62 2006

Ethics: The Fundamentals (Fundamentals of Philosophy)

author: Julia Driver
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.62
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories]]> 41807452 New translation of the best stories by one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers

No one has captures the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost none of its force or relevance today. This essential collection, newly selected and translated by Alexander Starritt, casts fresh light on Kafka's genius.

Alongside brutal depictions of violence and justice are jokes and deceptively slight, mysterious fables. These unforgettable pieces reflect the brilliance at the core of Franz Kafka, arguably most fully expressed within his short stories. Together they showcase a writer of unmatched imaginative depth, capable of expressing the most profound reality with a wry smile.]]> 192 Franz Kafka 1782274391 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.82 The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories

The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories

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]]> <![CDATA[The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)]]> 11594337
Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.

Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.

Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.]]> 304 Katherine Applegate 0061992259 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.25 2012 The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)

The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)

author: Katherine Applegate
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods]]> 549384 264 Antonin Sertillanges 0813206464 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.38 1921

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

author: Antonin Sertillanges
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.38
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]]> Jurisprudence 4136080 366 John G. Riddall 0406900108 Saurabh 0 law 4.68 1991

author: John G. Riddall
name: Saurabh
average rating: 4.68
book published: 1991
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]]> The Sun Also Rises 3876 The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.]]> 189 Ernest Hemingway Saurabh 0 to-read 3.81 1926

author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.81
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]]> Nausea 298275 Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him.

His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."

Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.

The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.]]> 178 Jean-Paul Sartre 0811201880 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.96 1938 Nausea

author: Jean-Paul Sartre
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think]]> 19134 ]]> 471 George Lakoff 0226467716 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.00 1996

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think

author: George Lakoff
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being]]> 53337 511 George Lakoff 0465037712 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.97 2000

Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being

author: George Lakoff
name: Saurabh
average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Read Literature Like a Professor]]> 39933 While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper meanings interwoven in these literary texts...

How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codes—of the ultimate professional reader: the college professor.

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface �� a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character �� and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.

In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, How to Read Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying and fun.]]> 314 Thomas C. Foster 006000942X Saurabh 0 to-read 3.57 2003 How to Read Literature Like a Professor

author: Thomas C. Foster
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average rating: 3.57
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]]> The Pale Blue Eye 110076
At a loss for answers and desperate to avoid any negative publicity, the Academy calls on the services of a local civilian, Augustus Landor, a former police detective who acquired some renown during his years in New York City before retiring to the Hudson Highlands for his health. Now a widower, and restless in his seclusion, Landor agrees to take on the case. As he questions the dead man's acquaintances, he finds an eager assistant in a moody, intriguing young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. The cadet's name? Edgar Allan Poe.

Impressed with Poe's astute powers of observation, Landor is convinced that the poet may prove useful -- if he can stay sober long enough to put his keen reasoning skills to the task. Working in close contact, the two men -- separated by years but alike in intelligence -- develop a surprisingly deep rapport as their investigation takes them into a hidden world of secret societies, ritual sacrifices, and more bodies. Soon, however, the macabre murders and Landor's own buried secrets threaten to tear the two men and their newly formed friendship apart.]]> 432 Louis Bayard 0060733977 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.76 2006 The Pale Blue Eye

author: Louis Bayard
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]]> <![CDATA[The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love]]> 17601
In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that.

With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.]]> 208 bell hooks 0743456084 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.38 2003 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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]]> <![CDATA[Pleadings, Drafting & Conveyancing]]> 41095593 416 R.N.Chaturvedi 9386456494 Saurabh 0 law 3.00

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]]> Open Book: Not Quite a Memoir 61381479
From being an awkward teen in braces to becoming a sought-after master of ceremonies to successfully portraying the transgender Cuckoo on the hit Netflix series Sacred Games, Kubbra Sait has broken boundaries and made a name for herself. Her ordinary upbringing notwithstanding, Kubbra is an extraordinary woman who quickly learnt how to deal with the harsh ways of the world and shape her life successfully despite them. The bullying she encountered in school as a child helped her face nepotism in Bollywood, an industry known to favour its own, often at the cost of talented 'outsiders'.

Part memoir, part inspirational treatise, Open Book lays bare the struggles, achievements, joys and failures, and the many reinventions of a shy and anxious Bangalore girl who dreamt of making it in the competitive world of cinema.]]> 228 Kubbra Sait 935489447X Saurabh 0 to-read 3.63 Open Book: Not Quite a Memoir

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]]> <![CDATA[The Essentials of Hinduism: An Introduction to All the Sacred Texts]]> 63245490 In The Essentials of Hinduism, Trilochan Sastry unpacks all the ancient texts from the Vedas to the epics covering the entire range of scriptures and everything you need to know about them in an easy-to-read and accessible way making it of special interest to Hindus and those from other religions and nations, and even those who are agnostic or atheistic.]]> 237 Trilochan Sastry 9354927904 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.29 The Essentials of Hinduism: An Introduction to All the Sacred Texts

The Essentials of Hinduism: An Introduction to All the Sacred Texts

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]]> <![CDATA[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas]]> 92625 Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

The story 'Omelas" was first published in 'New Dimensions 3' (1973), a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.

The work was subsequently printed in Le Guin's short story collection 'The Wind's Twelve Quarters' (1975).

Ursula K Le Guin (1929��2018) was an American writer who published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry & four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, and more. She was known for her treatment of gender ('The Left Hand of Darkness' (1969), 'The Matter of Seggri' (1994)), political systems ('The Telling' (2000), 'The Dispossessed' (1974)) and difference/otherness in any other form.]]> 32 Ursula K. Le Guin 0886825016 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.38 1973 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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]]> Lolita 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]> 368 Vladimir Nabokov 0679723161 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.87 1955 Lolita

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]]> <![CDATA[King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership]]> 1903093
King of the Mountain presents the startling findings of Arnold M. Ludwig's eighteen-year investigation into why people want to rule. The answer may seem obvious―power, privilege, and perks―but any adequate answer also needs to explain why so many rulers cling to power even when they are miserable, trust nobody, feel besieged, and face almost certain death. Ludwig's results suggest that leaders of nations tend to act remarkably like monkeys and apes in the way they come to power, govern, and rule.

Profiling every ruler of a recognized country in the twentieth century―over 1,900 people in all―Ludwig establishes how rulers came to power, how they lost power, the dangers they faced, and the odds of their being assassinated, committing suicide, or dying a natural death. Then, concentrating on a smaller sub-set of 377 rulers for whom more extensive personal information was available, he compares six different kinds of leaders, examining their characteristics, their childhoods, and their mental stability or instability to identify the main predictors of later political success.

Ludwig's penetrating observations, though presented in a lighthearted and entertaining way, offer important insight into why humans have engaged in war throughout recorded history as well as suggesting how they might live together in peace.]]> 490 Arnold M. Ludwig 0813190681 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.17 2002 King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership

King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership

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]]> <![CDATA[The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood]]> 8701960 Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.

The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.

And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.]]> 527 James Gleick 0375423729 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.02 2011 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

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]]> Plagues and Peoples 46725
Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. "A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.]]> 368 William H. McNeill 0385121229 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.88 1976 Plagues and Peoples

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]]> The Trial 17690 The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.]]> 255 Franz Kafka Saurabh 0 to-read 4.00 1925

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name: Saurabh
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]]> <![CDATA[Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming]]> 7799004
Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly—some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.]]> 274 Naomi Oreskes 1596916109 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.16 2010 Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

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]]> To the Lighthouse 59716
As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.]]> 209 Virginia Woolf Saurabh 0 to-read 3.81 1927 To the Lighthouse

author: Virginia Woolf
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]]> <![CDATA[On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families]]> 781844 288 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 0684839385 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.17 1969

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

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]]> <![CDATA[Tegen de zon in kijken: doodsangst en hoe die te overwinnen (Dutch Edition)]]> 31701613 levenswerk, snijdt Irvin D. Yalom de
kwesties aan van sterfelijkheid en dood. Op
buitengewoon inspirerende en
bemoedigende wijze legt hij uit hoe we iets
wat voor ons allemaal even finaal als
onvermijdelijk is kunnen leren begrijpen en
accepteren.

Yalom laat zien hoe een bewustwordingservaring
als een droom, een verlies (ontslag,
scheiding, een gedwongen verhuizing), een
traumatische ervaring (een natuurramp, een
ongeluk), de dood van een dierbare, ziekte,
of gewoon de naderende ouderdom, een
keerpunt kan zijn op weg naar een zinvoller
leven. Als mensen er tenminste de inspiratie
aan ontlenen om hun prioriteiten te
verleggen, zich minder zorgen te maken
over onbelangrijke zaken, op te houden met
dingen doen die ze niet willen doen,
oprechter te communiceren met degenen
van wie ze houden, de schoonheid van het
leven bewuster te ervaren, en bereid te zijn
meer risico's te nemen voor een
bevredigender en liefdevoller leven.

In dit boek behandelt Yalom specifieke
methoden en technieken om met de meest
voorkomende vormen van doodsangst om
te gaan. Hij geeft adviezen over hoe je kunt
leren in het hier en nu te leven en te beseffen
dat de invloed die wij allemaal op anderen
hebben ook na ons eigen leven blijft
voortbestaan.

Een even
diepzinnig als
inspirerend
boek over het
overwinnen van
de universele
angst voor de
dood.]]> 222 Irvin D. Yalom 9460034926 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.90 2008 Tegen de zon in kijken: doodsangst en hoe die te overwinnen (Dutch Edition)

Tegen de zon in kijken: doodsangst en hoe die te overwinnen (Dutch Edition)

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]]> The Diary of a Young Girl 48855
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe�� of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
--back cover]]> 283 Anne Frank Saurabh 0 to-read 4.19 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl

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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857]]> 124429
Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, an accomplished poet and a skilled calligrapher. But while his Mughal ancestors had controlled most of India, the aged Zafar was king in name only. Deprived of real political power by the East India Company, he nevertheless succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and presided over one of the great cultural renaissances of Indian history.

Then, in 1857, Zafar gave his blessing to a rebellion among the Company’s own Indian troops, thereby transforming an army mutiny into the largest uprising any empire had to face in the entire course of the nineteenth century. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj’s one of the��most horrific events in the history of Empire, in which thousands on both sides died. And when the British took the city—securing their hold on the subcontinent for the next ninety years—tens of thousands more Indians were executed, including all��but two��of Zafar’s sixteen sons. By the end of the four-month siege, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and Zafar was sentenced to exile in Burma. There he died, the last Mughal ruler in a line that stretched back to the sixteenth century.

Award-winning historian and travel writer William Dalrymple shapes his powerful retelling of this fateful course of events from groundbreaking previously unexamined Urdu and Persian manuscripts that include Indian eyewitness accounts and records of the Delhi courts, police and administration during the siege. The Last Mughal is a revelatory work—the first to present the Indian perspective on the fall of Delhi—and has as its heart both the dazzling capital personified by Zafar and the stories of the individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history.]]> 534 William Dalrymple 1400043107 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.18 2006 The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

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]]> Freedom At Midnight 204123
Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen—but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war.

Freedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. The book was an international bestseller and achieved enormous acclaim in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France.

“There is no single passage in this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault. Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at most of the encounters, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.��
—James Cameron, The New York Sunday Times

“Freedom at Midnight is a panoramic spectacular of a book that reads more like sensational fiction than like history, even though it is all true��.. The narrative is as lively, as informative and as richly detailed as a maharaja’s palace.��
—Judson Hand, The New York Daily News

“Outrageously and endlessly fascinating is my awestruck reaction to Freedom at Midnight. The new sure-to-be bestseller by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. It is all here: maharajas and tigers, filth and squalor, extravagance and macabre sex, massacres, smells, starvation, cruelty and heroism. Collins and Lapierre have made human history breathtaking and heartbreaking.��
—Margaret Manning, The Boston Globe

“No subject, I thought, as I picked up Freedom at Midnight, could be of less interest to me than a story of how Independence came to India after three centuries of British rule. I opened the book and began to flip through the photographs: here was a picture of Gandhi dressed in his loincloth going to have tea with the King of England; there was a picture of a maharaja being measured against his weight in gold; and another of thousands of vultures devouring corpses in the street. I began to read, fascinated. Here was the whole chronicle illustrated with anecdotes and masterful character sketches of how the British had come to India, how they had ruled it and how, finally, compelled by the force of economics and history, they had been forced to leave it divided…�� Collins and Lapierre are such good writers that their books are so interesting that they are impossible to put down.��
—J.M. Sanchez, The Houston Chronicle]]> 629 Dominique Lapierre 8125904808 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.32 1975 Freedom At Midnight

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]]> India: A History 174501 578 John Keay 0802137970 Saurabh 0 to-read 3.92 2000

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]]> <![CDATA[India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy]]> 356824 India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities...]]> 912 Ramachandra Guha 0060198818 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.38 2007 India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

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]]> <![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 13496
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 835 George R.R. Martin 0553588486 Saurabh 0 to-read 4.44 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

author: George R.R. Martin
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average rating: 4.44
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