JK Rowling is the highest-earning author in the world according to US business magazine Forbes. The Harry Potter writer amassed £170m ( $300m) last year after she wrote her first best-selling books about the boy wizard in 1997. She beat the literature’s next biggest earner, James Patterson, of Along Came A Spider fame by six…
Austerity vs Stimulus is a collection of new and old essays complied by economic historians seeking to provide alternative answers by clarifying and balancing the arguments from both sides. Germany is rock of stability and serenity compared to Italy’ stagnation, France’s morosity, Britain’s self-exclusion from European Union, Poland’s drift from the rule of law, in…
The story of the iconic feat of human engineering after his father who conceived the idea of Brooklyn Bridge died. In 1883, when the building of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the great feats of the 19th century civil engineering, a bridge that has stood for over 130 years and is now as much…
India’s economic resurgence is the focus point by Vijay Joshi, an emeritus fellow of Merton College, and Indian economist who has spent most of his professional life in the Oxford University gives revealing account of the past and present Indian economic development, as he casts a bright future on the prospects ahead. In his…
Renton, who was abused at prep school, did an extensive research and study of enduring culture of abuse at Britain’s elite schools. Alex Renton’s trenchant new book about boarding schools, narrating stories of institutionalised humiliation and rampant physical and psychological abuse are far worse than what an inmate might expect in jail. According to Renton…
Artificial Intelligence could beat human creativity, and in future years several people are bound to spend sleepless nights thinking about, what happens when machines make human creativity obsolete. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence where a machine capable of beating the human at this most cerebral game. Garry Kasparov, one…
The Sunday Times, before Murdoch bought it, was a world leader in investigative journalism, innovation and integrity, although the paper still commits good journalism. Sir Harold Evans the former editor of The Sunday Times, has a benign proprietor ( Roy Thompson) who exempted Evans’ domain from his robust views on profit. Evans always employed…
Peter Marshall’s generously written people’s history and a reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation, as his narrative avoids irregularities in the story and explains why Reformation was neither “just about religion” nor “ really about politics.” Protestantisation was adopted by English Monarchs as an established faith make enemies at home and abroad,…
The Golden era of adventurous travel has come to an end, is the two tales of a city, and its historical race to reach one of the world’s most mythologised places. Timbuktu is a tantalising paradise, where even the slaves wore gold. In the eighteenth century, a series of explorers in the name of discovery…
Alexis Jenni’s historical novel gives graphic explanation on the art of French art of warfare, the legacy of France’s violent colonial past and dramatises the 1990s Lyon : the occupied and liberated France of 1943 to 1945; the savage Indo-Chinese and Algerian insurgencies of the 1950s. Its English translation is done when France’s imperial…