Sandra Navidi’s skilful, illuminating account with both professional and personal insights into the Global financial system and the human networks that reinforces it. Super Hubs takes the lid off the financial barons, their elite networks and their human endeavour which rules our economic system and the society. In the last chapter, she explains the “monoculture”,…
Dava Sobel, the bestselling author of Longitude, explains elegantly the story of the female “computers” and their painstaking tabulation who worked on the classification of stars through the latter half of 19th and first half of the 20th century. Astronomer Dr Henry Draper, and his heiress wife Anna in 1882 have invited an eminent gathering…
Peter Stothard explains portraits of four courtiers of Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister. He talks about Seneca, the wealthy Roman writer, philosopher and adviser to Emperor Nero, in the first century AD. He had watched the destruction of the Wapping site where Times and the Times Literary Supplement had their most difficult period.…
Hong Kong resident David Bandurski went behind the billboard hoardings displaying “China Dream” and the luxurious lifestyles and reveals the corruption, village slums and deceit involved persuading the poor to give way to high-rises for the wealthy and the disappearance of Chinese culture and its ancient communities. With the advent of construction sites several cranes has…
The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are notorious for their technique of assessing candidates, professors, of course, tell just how smart you are. John Farndon’s book is a collection of 75 of the most drilling questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to all variety of question on histories, philosophies, sciences and arts. First of…
Mark Thompson, former director –general of the BBC, now chief executive of the New York Times Company and writes a compellingly, plodding argument free and less controversial in his “ What’s Gone Wrong With the Language of Politics?” until they reveal hidden flaws or virtues, and can be judged for their political correctness to be…
Samuel Bowles an economist at the Santa Fe Institute, makes the case that appeals made to our self-interest can undercut instinctive moral impulses, and that when these impulses are weakened , crucial institutions work sub-optimally and power of greed triumphs. Fifteen years ago the Boston Fire Department ended its policy of unlimited sick days,…
Dr Gary P Hamel 62, an American management expert, founder of “Strategos”, based in Chicago, one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Innovation eXchange. Hamel penned 17 articles for Harvard Business Review and…
Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel has spawned epic films in the past and this new one has ground-breaking excitement and awe-inspiring scenes hardly imaginable unless actually seen. Jack Huston stars as Judah Ben-Hur and Toby Kebbell as Messala, Morgan Freeman brings gravitas, aged wisdom, and a very well-known face, and all the actors have been…
“The Switch” argues Bill Gates and his fellow travellers are mistaken “It won’t take 15 years but the breakthrough that Gates anticipated has already occurred” according to the author Chris Goodall, a British clean-energy expert and investor. Existing technology have brought the world to the solar-power and electricity storage revolution that will over shadow today’s…