Quick look at a few books

BOOK PEEK

Contents of Book Peek – December 6, 2012

Reviews

1) ‘Breaking the Bow: Speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana’ Ed: Anil Menon, Vandana Singh

2) ‘Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the corruption of Britain’ by

Tom Watson, Martin Hickman

3) ‘Everyday Enlightenment: Walking the path to happiness in the modern

world’ by Gyalwang Drukpa

4) ‘Rammohun Roy: A critical biography’ by Amiya P. Sen

5) ‘The Etymologicon: A circular stroll through the hidden connections of

the English language’ by Mark Forsyth

6) ‘How to Live Forever: And 34 other really interesting uses of science’ by Alok Jha

Information

New arrivals – Jaico, Viva, Harper

Short snatches

1) ‘Lessons in Lean Management: 53 ideas to transform services’ by

Debashis Sarkar

2) ‘The Alchemy of Well-being’ by Indrajit Garai

3) ‘Paperclips Don’t Grow on Trees: Add value not cost to the bottomline’ by

Catherine Devrye

4) ‘Creating Personal Presence: Look, talk, think, and act like a leader’ by Dianna Booher

5) ‘Planet Ponzi: How the world got into this mess, what happens next, how to save yourself’ by Mitch Feierstein

6) ‘No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The untold story of one of history’s deadliest floods’ by Utpal Sandesara, Tom Wooten

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‘Let’s Talk: Negotiation & communication at the workplace’ by Mukta

Mahajani – Jaico

‘Talespin: Stories’ by Sanjay Chopra – Harper

‘Not Only the Things That Have Happened’ by Mridula Koshy – Harper

‘On Message - Precision communication for the digital age’ by Theo Theobald

- Viva

New arrivals

‘Adi Parva - Churning of

the ocean’ via Amruta Patil

– Harper

New arrival: Adi Parva

Short snatches

Published by: Shrinikethan, Chennai http://bit.ly/ShriMap

Edited by: D. Murali http://bit.ly/dMurali http://bit.ly/TopTalk

December 6, 2012