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Book Extract | The Piano Player of Budapest by Roxanne de Bastion
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player — how it, along with him, survived
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Book Extract | How to Live - A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy: Discourses and The Enchiridion by Epictetus
Epictetus, a renowned ancient Greek philosopher, emerged as a prominent figure in Stoic philosophy during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
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The Art of War and Peace: The Changing Face of 21st Century Warfare by Dr David Kilcullen and Dr Greg Mills
This is thus a book about human dynamics and tactical action as much as the need for strategy.
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Book Extract | Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness by Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield
Since the late 1980s multibeam sonar has been providing highly detailed images of a large area of the sea floor.
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Book Extract | The Kargil War Surgeon's Testimony by Arup Ratan Basu
There were booming sounds and then a clattering like a hailstorm on the roofs of the mess and the hospital ward.
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Book Extract | Believer's Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu Right's Path to Power by Abhishek Choudhary
Mapping the evolution of the Sangh Parivar, this book reveals a deeper pattern in Vajpayee’s character: his reflexive loyalty to his ideological family in moments of crisis
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Book Extract | We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson
The first memoir by an indigenous tribal leader in the Amazon, who fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe's territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.
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Book Extract | The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life
Proteins also play a critical role in infectious diseases. Pathogens like bacteria and viruses often produce proteins to help them evade the immune system or to hijack host cells for their own reproduction
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Book Extract – The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
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Book Extract: The Hindi Heartland
The book excerpt that has been published here is taken from the opening pages of the chapter on economy.
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Book Extract | The New Rules of Investing: Essential Wealth Strategies for Turbulent Times by Mark Haefele and Richard C. Morais
By the end of this book, you will have digested real-world client studies drawn from all over the world and enough investment theory to emulate the practices we have demonstrated to work.
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Book Extract | Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback
The excerpt that has been published has been taken from the opening pages. But this book is truly worth reading.
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Book Extract | Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World by Lubaba Al-Azami
The threat to lives and livelihoods, combined with the allure of merchant vessels in the east bearing treasures of gold, silver, jewels, textiles and spices, made transferring an attractive proposition
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Book Extract | Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo
The industrialization of presses, the dangers inherent in the work, and the sense that the wages offered by press managers were insufficient for the cost of urban living meant that by the early twentieth century, printing was a trade known for management-labor conflicts and strikes
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Book Extract | Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple
Most explanations of the Naga revolt view Phizo’s movement through the lens of secessionism but it is perhaps more useful to see it as an attempt to undo the partition of India and Burma and reunite the Nagas on both sides
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Book Extract | The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought by by Arvind Panagariya
Removal of poverty as the objective and growth and redistribution as joint instruments to achieve it remained integral to Nehru’s thinking throughout his tenure as prime minister.
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Book Extract| The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle by Rana Preet Gill
Owing to lapses in planning and the presence of informers in their midst, the plan ultimately failed and the British came down very heavily on the conspirators.
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Book Extract | Mumbai's Most Wanted by Madhukar Zende and Jai Vijaya Madhukar Zende
If the driver got to Sobhraj and alerted him, there would be hell to pay. We could not preclude the possibility of Sobhraj and Hall pulling out a weapon, or even taking a hostage or two from the wedding party
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Book Extract | Our Future is Biotech by Andrew Craig
Biotech means that we can all live better, safer, healthier, wealthier, happier, and longer lives.
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Book Extract | Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp
Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing.
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Book Extract | Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child's Life
In September 2017, a photo of Max in his hospital bed dominated the front page of The Mirror once more.
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Book Extract | Rethinking Work: Seismic Changes in the Where, When, and Why by Rishad Tobaccowala
Because of AI and deepfake technology, it is possible to put words in the mouth of an individual or create a video that integrates the likeness of that person (without their permission)
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Book Extract | AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence by Gary Rivlin
Artificial Intelligence has been 'just around the corner' for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential
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Book Extract | Our Living Constitution: A Concise Introduction & Commentary by Shashi Tharoor
India is a country held together, in the words of Nehru, ‘by strong but invisible threads...a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive.’
