The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Related products

• Sale!

  

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  No Filter: The Inside Story of how Instagram Transformed Business, Celebrity and our Culture

  Rs. 3,190.00 Original price was: Rs. 3,190.00.Rs. 2,390.00Current price is: Rs. 2,390.00.
  

  or 3 X Rs.796.67 with

  Sarah Frier

   

  • Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020
  • One of the best books of the year according to: The Times | Fortune | Financial Times | Inc. | Economist | Newsweek

   

  “Happily—this is a book about Silicon Valley. It is a record of a single app moving through the place. And in making that record, in hewing closely to Instagram and its founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, while giving new texture to the Valley’s major players, like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, Frier tells the story of how that place works….The book manages to be clear-eyed and objective about the founders and their many flaws, without sensationalizing or oversimplifying—a hard balance to strike in tech coverage right now….we need a book like this to explain what it is I’m tapping on all day. I spend hours staring at the screen, and now I have a better sense of who’s staring back.” —New York Times

   

  “No Filter is a vibrant play-by-play of how Instagram reached that level of influence through the business of manufacturing coolness….Frier’s version of that story is rich with details, based on hundreds of interviews including sit-downs with the app’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Armed with their perspective, Frier is able to draw a line between each decision the founders made and the cultural consequences….The irresistible drama of No Filter plays out between the founders and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.” —NPR

   

  “Deeply sourced….Frier delivers a compelling tale of jealousy…. The David-and-Goliath tussle is deftly interwoven by Frier with another tale: the transformation of Instagram itself, from the photo app known for its artsy filters to the creator of ‘creators.'” —Financial Times

   

  “If Aaron Sorkin wants to make a sequel to the movie The Social Network, he has his source material right here. Frier, a tech journalist, was given enviable access to Instagram’s founders and other key players. The result is an inside-the-room chronicle of one of Silicon Valley’s most fascinating and fraught acquisitions. A tale of luck, smarts, and strategy, No Filter also reminds us how much business depends on personal chemistry or—in the case of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom—the lack thereof. Just as intriguing is Frier’s clear-eyed commentary on what the rise of Instagram culture means.” —Inc, Top 10 New Business Books for 2020

   

  “Successful startups in Silicon Valley are sometimes described as being akin to building a spaceship in mid-flight. With No Filter, the intrepid Sarah Frier takes you inside the spaceship that became Instagram. A deeply reported and beautifully written account of a company that has changed society, fame, culture, business, and communication—sometimes for the better and, as Frier so adeptly shows, also for the worse.” —Nick Bilton, special correspondent for Vanity Fair and author of Hatching Twitter

   

  “With No Filter, Sarah Frier has delivered a brilliant exploration of the highs and lows of human nature. The book is part business drama—packed with tales of creativity, ambition, and intrigue—and part an anthropologist’s examination of modern life. Frier’s vivid reporting and electric storytelling provide the definitive account of how Instagram turned into a cultural phenomenon and what the app’s success says about all of us.” —Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

  or 3 X Rs. 796.67 with

  Read more
• 

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

  Rs. 2,990.00
  

  or 3 X Rs.996.67 with

  Malcolm Gladwell

   

  A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press

  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2019)

   

  I love this book . . . reading it will actually change not just how you see strangers, but how you look at yourself, the news – the world. Reading this book changed me. ― Oprah Winfrey

   

  Fascinating . . . you should read the book . . . He’s tackling the dark side of human nature – what do we ever know about other people? — Sathnam Sanghera ― The Times Magazine

   

  Now that practically everybody seems to be spoiling for a fight, I have found Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers invaluable . . . His moral – to approach new people with caution and humility – has become my motto. ― Evening Standard

   

  Taut, provocative, smart . . . Gladwell’s cool, playful intelligence has made him one of our leading public thinkers ― New Statesman

   

  A book examining the ways we misinterpret or fail to communicate with one another could not feel more necessary . . . the page-turning urgency of a thriller — Chris Barton ― Los Angeles Times

   

   

  Superb writing. Masterful . . . bears all the marks that have made Gladwell one of the most successful non-fiction authors of his generation. — Pilita Clark ― Financial Times

   

  A dazzling book . . . Gladwell is a rock star of nonfiction . . . ideas are slowly revealed until the reader arrives at a conclusion they didn’t expect. Gladwell is advancing ideas and, sure, they are all open to challenge . . . but they are stimulating and convincing – and you won’t regret a minute you spend mastering them ― The Times

   

   

  A wonderful provocation which Gladwell delivers like no other, an awakening to just one of the fascinations that lie in ordinary human experience . . . as ever, Gladwell’s genius is in the telling. ― Spectator

   

  Malcolm Gladwell made his name bringing intellectual sparkle to everyday subjects, and his new book – about how strangers talk to each other – is no exception. — Sean O’Hagan ― Observer

  or 3 X Rs. 996.67 with

  Read more
• Sale!

  

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  Turning Points : A Journey Through Challenges

  Rs. 1,390.00 Original price was: Rs. 1,390.00.Rs. 1,190.00Current price is: Rs. 1,190.00.
  

  or 3 X Rs.396.67 with

  A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

   

  The inspiring sequel to Wings of Fire. Over 3 lakh copies sold.‘It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. As I was returning to my room in the evening, the vice-chancellor, Prof. A. Kalanidhi, fell in step with me. Someone had been frantically trying to get in touch with me through the day, he said. Indeed, the phone was ringing when I entered the room. When I answered, a voice at the other end said, ‘The prime minister wants to talk with you.’ Some months earlier, I had left my post as Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India to return to teaching. Now, as I spoke to the PM, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, my life was set for an unexpected change.

   

  ‘Turning Points takes up the incredible Kalam story from where Wings of Fire left off. It brings together details from his career and presidency that are not generally known as he speaks out for the first time on certain points of controversy. It is a continuing saga, above all, of a journey – individual and collective – that will take India to 2020 and beyond as a developed nation.

  or 3 X Rs. 396.67 with

  Read more
• 

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  Capital (Das Capital)

  Rs. 4,490.00
  

  or 3 X Rs.1,496.67 with

  Karl Marx

   

  Capital is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy and how it is the precursor of the socialist mode of production. Karl Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of profit and surplus value. The employer can claim right to the profits (new output value), because he or she owns the productive capital assets (means of production), which are legally protected by the State through property rights. In producing capital (money) rather than commodities (goods and services), the workers continually reproduce the economic conditions by which they labour. Capital proposes an explanation of the “laws of motion” of the capitalist economic system, from its origins to its future, by describing the dynamics of the accumulation of capital, the growth of wage labour, the transformation of the workplace, the concentration of capital, commercial competition, the banking system, the decline of the profit rate and land-rents.

  or 3 X Rs. 1,496.67 with

  Read more
• Sale!

  

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  The Price of Inequality

  Rs. 3,690.00 Original price was: Rs. 3,690.00.Rs. 2,590.00Current price is: Rs. 2,590.00.
  

  or 3 X Rs.863.33 with

  Joseph Stiglitz

   

  A forceful argument against America’s vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.

   

  “A definitive examination of inequality’s effects not only on the economy, but on democracy and globalization.”
  ― The Daily Beast

   

  “Stiglitz’s ideas in this book will prompt wide discussion and debate.”
  ― Booklist

   

  “An impassioned argument backed by rigorous economic analysis.”
  ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

   

  “The single most comprehensive counterargument to both Democratic neoliberalism and Republican laissez-faire theories…Stiglitz’s contribution…to the public debate cannot be overestimated.”
  ― Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times Book Review

   

  “A model of clarity.”
  ― Jared Bernstein, Rolling Stone

  or 3 X Rs. 863.33 with

  Read more
• 

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement

  Rs. 2,990.00
  

  or 3 X Rs.996.67 with

  Christopher Simon Sykes

   

  At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.

   

  The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret pact drawn up in May 1916 between the French and the British, to divide the collapsing Ottoman Empire in the event of an allied victory in the First World War. Agreed without any Arab involvement, it negated an earlier guarantee of independence to the Arabs made by the British. Controversy has raged around it ever since.

   

  Sir Mark Sykes was not, however, a blimpish, ignorant Englishman. A passionate traveller, explorer and writer, his life was filled with adventure. From a difficult, lonely childhood in Yorkshire and an early life spent in Egypt, India, Mexico, the Arabian desert, all the while reading deeply and learning languages, Sykes published his first book about his travels through Turkey aged only twenty. After the Boer War, he returned to map areas of the Ottoman Empire no cartographer had yet visited. He was a talented cartoonist, excellent mimic and amateur actor, gifts that ensured that when elected to parliament a full House of Commons would assemble to listen to his speeches.

   

  During the First World War, Sykes was appointed to Kitchener’s staff, became Political Secretary to the War Cabinet and a member of the Committee set up to consider the future of Asiatic Turkey, where he was thirty years younger than any of the other members. This search would dominate the rest of his life. He was unrelenting in his pursuit of peace and worked himself to death to find it, a victim of both exhaustion and the Spanish Flu.

   

  Written largely based on the previously undisclosed family letters and illustrated with Sykes’ cartoons, this sad story of an experienced, knowledgeable, good-humoured and generous man once considered the ideal diplomat for finding a peaceful solution continues to reverberate across the world today.

  or 3 X Rs. 996.67 with

  Read more
• 

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

  Rs. 2,990.00
  

  or 3 X Rs.996.67 with

  Jared Diamond

   

  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1998)
  • Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (1998)
  • California Book Award for Nonfiction (Gold) (1997)
  • Puddly Award for History (2001)
  • Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1997)

   

  ‘A book of big questions, and big answers‘ Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

   

  “Artful, informative, and delightful…. There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has done.” ― William H. McNeil, New York Review of Books

   

  “An ambitious, highly important book.” ― James Shreeve, New York Times Book Review

   

  “A book of remarkable scope, a history of the world in less than 500 pages which succeeds admirably, where so many others have failed, in analyzing some of the basic workings of culture process…. One of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.” ― Colin Renfrew, Nature

   

  “The scope and the explanatory power of this book are astounding.”
  ― The New Yorker

   

  “No scientist brings more experience from the laboratory and field, none thinks more deeply about social issues or addresses them with greater clarity, than Jared Diamond as illustrated by Guns, Germs, and Steel. In this remarkably readable book he shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition.” ― Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University

   

  “Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs, and Steel] must be added to their select number. . . . Diamond meshes technological mastery with historical sweep, anecdotal delight with broad conceptual vision, and command of sources with creative leaps. No finer work of its kind has been published this year, or for many past.” ― Martin Sieff, Washington Times

   

  “[Diamond] is broadly erudite, writes in a style that pleasantly expresses scientific concepts in vernacular American English, and deals almost exclusively in questions that should interest everyone concerned about how humanity has developed. . . . [He] has done us all a great favor by supplying a rock-solid alternative to the racist answer. . . . A wonderfully interesting book.” ― Alfred W. Crosby, Los Angeles Times

   

  “An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority.” ― Thomas M. Disch, The New Leader

  or 3 X Rs. 996.67 with

  Read more
• 

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

  Rs. 3,590.00
  

  or 3 X Rs.1,196.67 with

  Yuval Noah Harari

   

  • Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize Nominee (2015)
  • **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN‘S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
  • **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**
  • #1 New York Times Bestseller
  •  J. A. Hollon palkinto (2017)
  • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

   

  “I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history… You’ll have a hard time putting it down” –Bill Gates

   

  Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth ― Barack Obama

   

  Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last… It may be the best book I’ve ever read ― Chris Evans

   

  Tackles the biggest questions of history and the modern world… Written in unforgettably vivid language ― Jared Diamond

   

  Startling… It changes the way you look at the world ― Simon Mayo

   

  One of the best books I’ve read recently… Gives an excellent overview of how our species has developed ― Lily Cole

   

  Sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain… Radiates power and clarity, making the world strange and new ― Sunday Times

   

  Sapiens is packed with heretical thinking and surprising facts. This riveting, myth-busting book cannot be summarised in any detail; you will simply have to read it — John Gray ― Financial Times

  or 3 X Rs. 1,196.67 with

  Read more
• Sale!

  

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

  Rs. 6,790.00 Original price was: Rs. 6,790.00.Rs. 5,990.00Current price is: Rs. 5,990.00.
  

  or 3 X Rs.1,996.67 with

  Daniel Yergin

   

  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.

   

  “Splendid and epic history of oil…. The story is brilliantly told…with its remarkable cast of characters.” — The Wall Street Journal

   

  “Impassioned and riveting…only in the great epics of Homer will readers regularly run into a comparable string of larger-than-life swashbucklers and statesmen, heroes and villains.” — San Francisco Examiner

   

  “A masterly narrative…The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies.” — James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and U.S. Secretary of Energy

   

  “Spellbinding…irresistible…monumental…must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history.” — The New York Times

  or 3 X Rs. 1,996.67 with

  Read more
• 

  Out of Stock

  Add to wishlist

  A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are

  Rs. 2,790.00
  

  or 3 X Rs.930.00 with

  Johannes Krause & Thomas Trappe

   

  A highly readable, personal guide to the twists and turns in unravelling ancient DNA: Krause and Trappe expertly unravel the story of ancient DNA to reveal how the new field of archaeogenetics has utterly transformed understanding of our deep past. ― Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art

   

  A Short History of Humanity is an eloquent and timely reminder that viruses and other pathogens of infectious disease are merely fellow-travellers in an epic journey that began when the first human migrants left Africa around 200,000 years ago. The solution to pandemics is not to close borders in the hope of keeping viruses out but to recognise that we are a fundamentally peripatetic species united in our shared genetic inheritance and common humanity. ― Mark Honigsbaum, author of A Pandemic Century

   

  A valuable contribution to our understanding of who we are and how we got here. ― Tim Marshall, bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography

   

  One of those books that stops you dead in your tracks and makes you say out loud – why didn’t I know that before? So easy to read. So logically argued. So satisfyingly sensible and thought-provoking. Read it, think about it, and then read it again. An absolute revelation. ― Professor Sue Black, bestselling author of All That Remains

   

  Extremely enriching. Rarely, have I been able to learn so much and get such radically new insights over 250 pages ― Süddeutsche Zeitung

  or 3 X Rs. 930.00 with

  Read more