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West Asia in the age of Jihad

Journalist Patrick Cockburn provides an incisive & unsparing analysis of the region's conflict zones

Einstein's quantum leap back

This biography of Einstein is built around that quirk of intuition ossifying into dogmatism

Dissecting the Indian-American diaspora

The book is colossal in its effort to understand Indians in America beyond Rajat Gupta, Indira Nooyi, Neel Kashkari, Sundar Pichai and their ilk

A spy-eye view of Pakistan

The book is more than just a historiographical recounting of Pakistan's birth and subsequent journey

The US-China confrontation

A history of the complicated US-China relationship since 1776

Spielberg, a Jewish life

A book review by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Pitch perfect

S Giridhar and V J Raghunath's book makes you want to watch Test cricket again, says Dhruv Munjal

Anatomy of murder

Puja Changoiwala presents a behind-the-scenes reporter's view of the Arunkumar Tikku murder in 2012

Big men on big screen

Mr Duggal's style is pared down, journalistic, without even a single flourish or linguistic callisthenic

Religious pasts vs political presents

A volume on religion and modernity published in 2016 does not have a chapter on the Sangh Parivar

US foreign policy's hubris

Once in office American presidents are often 'susceptible to a utopian temptation'

Apollo's wheel of fortune

Onkar Singh Kanwar of Apollo Tyres is that rare breed of businessmen who shoot straight from the hip

I am a troll: Inside the secret world of BJP's digital army

Trolling is an organised political activity

Unsung son-in-law

Feroze Gandhi was a champion of press freedom and nemesis of crony capitalism and corruption

An epic reign

'Victoria the Queen' delves into her epic reign

An internal view of external relations

This book provides valuable insights into the complexities of foreign-policy-making

Israel's Egyptian 'saviour'

Marwan's story is a reminder of the Cold War era in West Asian politics

Alokananda Chakraborty: Managing without control

The far-reaching implications of digital technology and the way it impinges on strategy have not been discussed deeply

The fate of financial centres

Reading 'Crash, Bang, Wallop', the story of London's emergence as an international financial centre, an Indian can certainly wonder what didn't work in favour of Mumbai

An art of living

If work is our national religion, Mr Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves