The Inglorious Empire, is a book arising form a contentious Oxford Union debate in 2015, where Shashi Tharoor proposed the motion “Britain owes reparations to her former colonies” should keep the home fires burning, so to speak, both in India and in Britain. Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician, writer and former UN under-secretary-general, whose book…
Margarette Lincoln, former deputy director of the National Maritime Museum, brings detailed account of London life -the gardens, the coffee houses, the shopping and charts the impact of national events growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle and enterprise. When the Thames froze over and Mary Evelyn, wife of the diarist John, complained about…
Crossing Continents recounts Standard Chartered’s story not a critique of British imperialism, silver crises, and currency reforms but of men and British achievement in the East, with in depth details from one of the richest archives available to any commercial bank, by giving rare and compelling perspective on the evolution of international trade and finance,…
Over seven centuries, the Anglo-Saxon period has attracted a huge amount of mythmaking and a formative time for English society. Between fifth and 11th century , many things took shape start are still recognisable as those the Anglo-Saxons knew; the English language, the settlement of most of our towns and cities, the monarch, the national…
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, professor emerita of six separate disciplines at the University of Illinois, Chicago an Economic historian, in her latest book on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor -not just materially but spiritually, gives a intellectual and rigorous analysis with focus on human rather than the institutions. She asserts her vision…
Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1769-1821), the most celebrated general in history, has always attracted eminent male writers but only a few female writers have written his biography. Ruth Scurr, a lecturer in history and politics at Cambridge University, a keen Gardner herself, who knows her pelargonium from her amaryllis is one of the most eloquent and…
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman’s last masterpiece book, has demonstrated in a companion volume book Noise, aimed at most people care about rationality and good judgement. Multi-million copy bestselling author Daniel Kaneman teamed up with co-author of million copy bestseller Nudge, Cast Sunstein and the eminent professor and writer on strategic thinking Olivier Sibon,…
Bloomberg Journalist, Brad Stone, charts a revelatory and definitive portrait of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder’s journey to become the world’s richest man and Amazon’s expansion exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries. Its workforce quintupled in size ad its valuation has soared Lowell over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos who once…
Suzanne Simard, the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees and shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees and their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience. Professor Simard, raised in the forests of British Columbia, where her family lived for generations, did not set out to be…
Private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, is neither a Rothschild, a JP Morgan nor a Goldman Sachs. In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former Financial executive Zachary Karabell, offers the first full and frank look inside the institution against the backdrop of American history and explores Brown Brothers Harriman’s central role in the story…