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                                       This Explains Everything                                         John Brockman Published by Perennial is a compilation of different articles written by various scientists, academicians and researchers having expertise in their areas. It is an attempt by the author to explain all major phenomena, especially related to science space human life in a single omnibus.  Now packing more than 125 articles in 400-page book is quite a task, both for the editor and the writer. On the one hand it gives benefit to the reader for getting knowledge, even if superficial, while on the other it devoids the depth of understanding for any topic discussed in the chapter. Nonetheless, having gone thr...

Trust Hernan Diaz Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.  This fiction is based in United States of America around early 1900 written by Hernan Diaz and published by Picador Books in 2022 and Booker Prized. The book is a story about business family which has migrated from Glasgow to United States of America. The book is in four parts which offers four different narrative. The unique format of the storytelling is USP, it has used both the descriptive format as well as the producing the first person account of the characters. It is a story of the couple Andrew Bevel and Mildred in New York.  In part one Bond, the description of the perspective by novelist Harold Vanner describes how money was made by Benjamin Rask (pseudonym) in trading. It is also the most popular version which was acceptable in New York. Rask was a trader and finance wizard with seldom any inclination for emotional aspects of life. When he got married to Helen, his life takes a sweet ...

  Shattered Land Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia    Sam Dalrymple / Harper Collins 2025 We all have studied history from different perspectives as presented by different historians to the ideology they have followed like left historians , sub-altern etc. The credit to Sam goes for the fact that he has presented this book as factually as possible without any tint of ideological bias. The book is divided into 15 chapter with detailed notes, epilogue, acknowledgement notes, maps and illustrations. The book starts with the introduction of the Simon Commission and it’s visit to Bombay wherein it held deliberations with Mohammed Ali Jinnah , Sarojini Naidu and Mahatma Gandhi . The relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah soured over certain misunderstanding. The chapter introduces the readers to the personal life of Jinnah, his wife Ruttie and daughter Dina . There is interesting map which shows places visited by Simon Commission, which starts from Ad...

CHAOS: The Amazing Science of The Unpredictable written by James Gleick , published by Vintage Books in 1998 is a popular science book which has been presented in a layman's language. The book takes an attempt to break the artificial boundaries that separate scientific disciplines because science is the global nature of systems and chaos has got together thinkers from various wheels that have been separate. Chaos poses problems that defy accepted ways of working science. James Gleick was science reporter and editor of New York Times. It is written after a long observation of scientific phenomenon and decades of reporting on different science verticals. The book is divided on the basis of different themes of chaos like in the chapter " The Butterfly Effect ", he discusses the story of Edward Lorenz , which talks about the famous Lorenz curve study of weather prediction . The story of how he discovered that the weather behaviour was dependent on the initial co...

Peter Theil, a technocrat, figures as one of the lead mentors in Silicon Valley for entrepreneurship. He has also taught at Stanford. Zero  to One :  Notes on start-ups or how to build the future is a book which he has written along with Blake Masters, published by Penguin Random House in 2014.  The book is presented in 14 chapters ranging from compilation of experiences on start-up , culture , entrepreneurship and business world, has a cult following. in this book, he tried to work on some of the concepts for new age business world and suggested new age founders. He writes that this book is about how to build companies that create new things. Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting fundamental capabilities to a higher level. He explains why it is easier to start a new technology in start-ups as he says it’s hard to develop new things in big organisations, and it’s even harder to do it by yourself. Bureaucratic hierarchy is more s...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a known name amongst the academics and practitioners alike. He is a Bond in the field who has written multi-book series Incerto which means uncertainity in Latin. So in the series he talks about the uncertainity as it plays out in our daily life. This book is one of the constituent in likes of The Black Swan, AntiFragile, Fooled by Randomness amongst others. The book is published by Penguin Randomhouse, UK in 2018.  The book is divided into 19 chapters. The basic premise of the book is to explain that whatever person gives advice he should have a skin in the game which roughly translates to that a person should not advise when he has nothing to lose about an investment and advisor should not advise if he have nothing to lose about. As he writes in the introduction that Skin in the Game is about four topics in one. Firstly it is about uncertainity and reliability of knowledge , secondly, symmetry in human affairs like justice, fairness, responsibility ...