The world’s largest book, a giant atlas weighing 150 kg, has been put on display at the Sydney State Library for one month. The atlas, Earth Platinum, only 31 copies in the world published by Millennium House in 2012, measures 1.8 metres by 2.7 metres. Over 100 international cartographers, geographers and photographers were involved in…
The Ancient Greeks invented philosophy, democracy, rational science, theatre and build the library of Alexandria and the Parthenon. Most Greeks does not live in what is now known as Greece, but in settlements in Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, France , Italy, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia. Edith Hall’s in depth introduction of Ancient Greeks, take you…
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra Harvard Business Review Press £20 /$30 This is a book not for faint hearted people with tunnel vision, but ideal for thinking big and outside the box. It is myth that you need to learn to act like a leader and think like a…
“Being Mortal” – Ageing, Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande, published by Profile Books & Wellcome Collection on 1st July 2015 – £8.99 available in Paperback and eBook. Find it in all good book stores. Gawande has penned two other books relevant to this – his latest one – “Better, Complications”…
Bollywood actress and International Fashion Icon, Sonam Kapoor 29, who made her red carpet appearance at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, launched four times Michelin starred Chef Vikas Khanna’s most awaited book ‘Utsav – A Culinary Epic’ at the French Riviera on 18th May 2015. Vikas Khanna is the first Indian chef to walk…
Review of The Perils of Pushy Parents – a ? childrens’ book illustrated and written by Boris Johnson (2007) £10. The nicest kids you ever saw Were Jim and Molly Albacore Who seldom made a naughty noise Or screamed for more expensive toys So opens the saga of the Albacore family We learn at…
IN MANCHURIA: A village called Wasteland and the transformation of rural China. By Michael Meyer , Bloomsbury £20 Michael Meyer’s In Manchuria explains the modernisation of Chinese community and cites a case of a rural farming village metamorphosing into agronomy business company town. He describes places and people including a man who claims to be…
Memories of a Yorkshire bobby (policeman) by Martyn Johnson A nostalgic look at the days of being a bobby on the beat, by Martyn Johnson. First Published by Wharncliffe Local History (2010), an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd. Republished by Sphere and reprinted in 2011. Eeh by gum, a glossary fer tha!:- please note…
The British Jewery top literary award “The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize” (Jewish Booker) named after the host Jewish Quarterly, recognises Jewish and non-Jewish writers from UK, British Commonwealth, Europe and Israel will be held on Monday 20th April 2015 at the JW3 Centre Finchley Road. Established in 1977 by late Harold Hyam Wingate the winner receives…
Finding real love is not easy—just being beautiful or attractive is not enough, but is it even mathematically likely? Mathematician Hannah Fry shows patterns in how we look for love, and gives her top three tips (verified by maths) for finding that special someone. Complicated love patterns can be discovered by Mathematics pattern. Mathematics is…